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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Naden
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Malcolm Naden
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Malcolm John Naden (born 5 November 1973) is an Australian former fugitive from the law. At the time of his capture and arrest in March 2012, Naden was reported as being one of Australia's most wanted men and his arrest attracted international media coverage. Naden was in hiding from June 2005 until March 2012, wanted over murder and indecent assault offences. He was the most wanted man in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Naden was charged with the January and June 2005 murders of two young women, aggravated indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl in 2004, and shooting with intent to murder a police officer in 2011, while he was on the run. Naden pleaded guilty to all 32 counts against him, and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 40 years without parole in June 2013.
Crimes
In June 2005, Kristy Scholes was found strangled to death in the West Dubbo home of her boyfriend's grandparents. A few days later, her boyfriend's cousin, Malcolm Naden, disappeared from that same home. Prior to Scholes' murder, Naden had been named as a suspect in the disappearance of another cousin, Lateesha Nolan, who had been reported missing in January 2005.
In December 2005, police closed Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo after Naden was sighted there. There was an additional confirmed sighting of Naden over the next month near Lightning Ridge. In March 2006, Naden avoided capture at an Aboriginal mission, near Condobolin. In January 2007, police placed an A$50,000 bounty on his capture. By January 2009, Naden was thought to be located near Kempsey, and by August 2010 he was believed to be living in dense bushland near Gloucester and Scone. By early 2011, the police doubled Naden's bounty to A$100,000, and increased it further again to A$250,000 in December.
On 7 December 2011, a police officer from the Tactical Operations Unit was shot by the fugitive during an unsuccessful operation to capture Naden in bushland near Nowendoc. Naden was subsequently charged with the attempted murder of the officer.
Capture
Naden was captured on 22 March 2012 in a run-down cabin approximately west of Gloucester by heavily armed officers from the Tactical Operations Unit in a night operation, and charged with the murder of Scholes. He faced court later that day and was refused bail.
On 14 April 2012, Naden was escorted from Goulburn Correctional Centre to Dubbo, where he assisted police by identifying a site at Butlers Falls, south of Dubbo. It was suspected that the remains of his cousin, Lateesha Nolan, are buried at that site, but no remains had been found at that time. Naden was later charged with the murder of Nolan and 14 counts each of burglary and theft committed while on the run.
In early December 2016 Police disclosed that remains were found at a location near the site investigated years earlier, which DNA testing confirmed belong to Ms Nolan.
Sentence
In 2013, Naden pleaded guilty to 18 offences including the murders of Scholes and Nolan. He received a minimum prison sentence of 21 years for Nolan's murder, but was given a life sentence for the murder of Scholes. Other charges included the attempted murder of the police officer in 2011, breaking and entering offences and the indecent assault of a 12-year-old girl.
Justice Derek Price said Naden had shown no remorse and there was a high risk he would reoffend because he has threatened to kill again, stating that "Life outside of prison is not an option for you". Naden said "thank you, your honour" after the sentence was handed down.
On 24 November 2013, while serving out his sentence, Naden was bashed by second cousin Dean Nolan, a relative of Lateesha Nolan, who was serving out a 24-year sentence at the time. Nolan, armed with a handle off a sandwich toaster, attacked Naden cracking several blows to Naden's head before being apprehended by prison staff. Nolan was later sentenced to an additional 12 months to his 24-year sentence for the attack on Naden, which he claimed was retribution for the heartache Naden had caused to his family.
Capture dramatised
A dramatised version of the capture of Naden was aired on television on the Seven Network on 11 September 2013. This special television event, an episode of The Force: Behind the Line, presents the full story of "Strike Force Durkin", providing an insight into the fugitive that previously the viewers were not aware of. It re-aired on 13 September 2013 and again on 21 June 2016.
References
1973 births
21st-century Australian criminals
Indigenous Australians in New South Wales
Australian people convicted of indecent assault
Australian people convicted of murder
Fugitives wanted by Australia
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyotaka%20Hayakawa
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Kiyotaka Hayakawa
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Kiyotaka Hayakawa (17 July 1946 – 29 March 2005) was a Japanese handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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1946 births
2005 deaths
Japanese male handball players
Olympic handball players for Japan
Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people
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Eliza Berkeley
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Eliza Berkeley (née Frinsham; 1734–1800) was an English author. She was connected to the Blue Stockings Society, and after bereavements in the 1790s began to edit family papers, and write on her own account.
Biography
She was born in 1734 at the vicarage of White Waltham in Windsor Forest. Her father, the vicar, was the Rev. Henry Frinsham, previously curate at Beaconsfield; her mother was a daughter of Francis Cherry of Shottesbrook House, Berkshire, who left a fortune, diminished by the South Sea Bubble, to Mrs. Frinsham and her sisters, known as Duke Cherry, Black Cherry, and Heart Cherry. Lord Bute rented Waltham Place to be near Henry Frinsham, and he frequently played cards at the vicarage. Here Eliza Berkeley passed her childhood, since her father would not accept preferment on condition of voting against his principles.
A tomboy at six, Eliza at 11 wrote two sermons. She and her sister Anne were placed at Mrs. Sheeles's school, Queen Square, London. for a year, until their father's death. She read Hickes's Preparatory Office for Death every Thursday, and attended prayers at church every afternoon.'
In 1754, Eliza being in her twentieth year, her mother died. She and her sister succeeded to her large fortune, and they took a house in Windsor. She was a little creature, and very short-sighted; she read Spanish, Hebrew, and French, always taking a Spanish prayer-book to church. She was intimate with Catherine Talbot, and she knew Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, and the rest of their set.
In 1761 Eliza married the Rev. George Berkeley. Her husband's livings during the first ten years of her married life were Bray, Acton, and Cookham. In 1763 at Bray, on 8 February, she gave birth to her son, George Monck Berkeley, having at this time ague, and being exposed to the danger of smallpox, which was then endemic. In 1766 she gave birth to her second son, George Robert, and after weaning him she was inoculated at Acton rectory by Mr. Sutton, and devoted herself to the education of these two sons.
In 1771 Dr. Berkeley became prebendary of Canterbury, and they then went to reside at The Oaks, the area at Canterbury Cathedral which had once been the monastery garden. Eliza, supported by her friend Susanna Duncombe, became a dominant figure in the group of wives of the chapter.
On 15 April 1775 her second son George Robert, nearly nine years old, died. After their son (George) Monck had been to Eton College, the family went to live in Scotland during the time he passed at the University of St Andrews. From 1780 Monck's health caused anxiety, and for ten years from this, Eliza Berkeley moved around England in a group with husband, sister, and her son; but in January 1793 Monck died. In January 1795 her husband died, and in January 1797 her sister died. She became markedly eccentric.
Eliza Berkeley dates from several places in the last three years of her life, Chertsey, Henley, Oxford, Sackville Street; she died at Kensington in 1800, aged 66. By her own desire her body, which was first to be taken to Oxford, was conveyed to Cheltenham and buried there in the same tomb with her son. She was charitable, and with other benevolent works she paid an annuity up to her death to Richard Brenan, who had been Jonathan Swift's servant at the end of his life.
Works
Eliza Berkeley edited a volume of the poetical works of her son, and sermons of her husband's (1799). She was also an opinionated contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine.
In 1797, her edition of her sons Poems was published, by John Nichols. The Preface of 630 pages, ostensibly a memoir of the poet, was personal and discursive, and at the time of publication was taken to be absurd. The poems cover 178 pages; there is also a postscript.
Family
In 1761, Eliza married the Rev. George Berkeley (1733–1795), son of Bishop George Berkeley. They had two sons:
George Monck Berkeley (1763–1793)
George Robert Berkeley (1766–1775)
References
Attribution
1734 births
1800 deaths
18th-century English writers
18th-century English women writers
People from White Waltham
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Lucky%20Day%20%28DoReDoS%20song%29
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My Lucky Day (DoReDoS song)
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"My Lucky Day" is a 2018 song performed by Moldovan group DoReDoS. The song was written by Russian music composer Philipp Kirkorov. The song would represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 after winning O melodie pentru Europa 2018, Moldova's national final for that year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Release
On 16 January 2018, DoReDoS would announce their bid for O melodie pentru Europa 2018 with their song "My Lucky Day".
On 28 February 2018, the band would announce that they had released a remix of "My Lucky Day" with German DJ Shantel.
On 24 April 2018, a Russian "My Lucky Day" cover was released by the band.
Composition
The song talks about two people making "music" together, with a metaphor for love being key for their relationship. Their passion for "music" and "rhythm" drives the pair to have fun. The song is reported to have borrowed elements from Moldovan folk music and dance.
Music video
The official music video for "My Lucky Day" was released on 12 March 2018. The video was filmed in Santorini, an island in the European nation of Greece.
Eurovision Song Contest
O melodie pentru Europa 2018
O melodie pentru Europa 2018 was the national final format developed by TRM in order to select Moldova's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The event took place at the TRM Studio 2 in Chișinău on 24 February 2018. Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries between 1 December 2017 and 15 January 2018. Artists could submit more than one song, and an international act was able to compete only if they were part of a duo or group where 50% of the lead vocalists were of Moldovan nationality.
A live audition round took place on 1 February 2020 at the Karaoke Concert Hall Atrium in Chișinău where 16 finalists were selected to advance.
In the final, sixteen songs competed and the winner was selected based on the combination of a public televote and the votes of an expert jury. At the end of the voting, "My Lucky Day" was selected as the winner of the contest, and as a result became the Moldovan song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
At Eurovision
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 29 January 2018, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Moldova was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 10 May 2018, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.
Before the show, DoReDoS performer Marina Djundiet would report that the Eurovision performance would be different than their national final and Eurovision pre-party performances, saying that "for sure we’re gonna be different. The show is gonna be unusual for Eurovision... very funny and interesting."
DoReDoS took part in technical rehearsals on 1 and 5 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 9 and 10 May. This included the jury show on 9 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.
The Moldovan performance featured the members of DoReDoS dressed in the colours of the Moldovan flag performing on stage with three backing vocalists/dancers, all of them with the same outfits. Sergiu Mîța was dressed in a blue suit, while Marina Djundyet was dressed in a yellow dress and Eugeniu Andrianov in a red suit. The stage featured a white box with small doors that were opened and closed to reveal the arms, legs, and faces of the performers, of which Mîța and Djundyet walked around at the beginning. The performance was concluded with all group members getting out of the box and joined by the backing performers. DoReDoS would later state that: "It's a song about the relationship between one woman and two men. The white structure is a house, and when the windows open you get to see a visual representation of what the singers at that moment are thinking."
The song competed in the second semi-final, held on 10 May 2018. Moldova was placed as the seventh performer, after Russia and before the Netherlands. The song was announced as one of the qualifiers in the semifinal, and progressed to the grand final, held on 12 May 2018. In the grand final, the song was performed nineteenth in the running order, following Bulgaria and before Sweden. 'My Lucky Day' placed tenth overall, scoring 209 points. It was then later revealed that Moldova placed third in the semi-final, receiving a total of 235 points, 153 points from the televoting and 82 points from the juries.
Track listing
Release history
References
Eurovision songs of 2018
Eurovision songs of Moldova
Songs written by John Ballard (record producer)
Songs written by Philipp Kirkorov
2018 songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannbacker
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Pannbacker
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Pannbacker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bill Pannbacker, American politician
Mary Pannbacker (died 2015), American speech-language pathologist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Mesnil-Adel%C3%A9e
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Le Mesnil-Adelée
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Le Mesnil-Adelée () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
See also
Communes of the Manche department
References
Mesniladelee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olovo%2C%20Kupres
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Olovo, Kupres
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Olovo () is a village in the municipality of Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 78, all Croats.
References
Populated places in Kupres
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Sullivan
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Greg Sullivan
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Greg Sullivan is a physicist at the University of Maryland, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a team member and spokesperson on the IceCube Experiment at Antarctica.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Adrets
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Les Adrets
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Les Adrets () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is situated northeast of Grenoble. It is one of the commune of the Les sept Laux winter sports resort.
Population
See also
Communes of the Isère department
References
Communes of Isère
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orvar%20Bergmark
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Orvar Bergmark
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Orvar Bergmark (16 November 1930 – 10 May 2004) was a Swedish football defender, manager and bandy player. He was the second Swedish national manager, and managed to qualify the Swedish national football team for the FIFA World Cup in Mexico 1970, after having beaten France (among others) in the qualifications. The 1970 World Cup was the first one for Sweden in 12 years, and it was also the first time in 20 years that Sweden had qualified for a World Cup. (Sweden hosted the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and hence did not need to qualify. Bergmark was a player for Sweden that year.) Sweden did not qualify for the World Cups in 1954, 1962 and 1966). In 1952 he took part in the Olympic Bandy tournament.
In Mexico, Sweden had to face the becoming runners-up, Italy, in their first game, and lost 0–1. The Italian squad included Roberto Boninsegna, Gianni Rivera, Luigi Riva, Giacinto Facchetti and Dino Zoff. In the second game, Israel did not seem too difficult to beat. But Sweden got a 1–1 draw. Then Sweden needed to beat Uruguay in the last group game with at least two goals. Orvar Bergmark's squad only scored a single goal (in the last minute), and it all was over. Some of Orvar Bergmark's key players were Ove Grahn, Ove Kindvall, Hasse Selander, Tommy Svensson (who 24 years later would keep Orvars Bergmark's office, and led Sweden to a surprising bronze medal in the 1994 World Cup in the United States), Bosse Larsson and Roland Grip.
During the tournament, Sweden had a goal-keeping problem. Bergmark used the young Ronnie Hellström in the opening game against Italy, and was displeased with Hellström's performance when Italy scored. The little less talented, but far more experienced Sven-Gunnar Larsson guarded the Swedish goal during the last two matches instead.
Orvar Bergmark left his office soon after the World Cup and was replaced by Georg "Åby" Ericson.
Bergmark was not only a football player who won silver medals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was also an international bandy player, and won silver medals at that sport's World Cup also. He played his bandy for Örebro SK.
In 1980, he organized the first international tournament for bandy ladies. In Örebro, Sweden met Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, and took the first prize.
Bergmark contracted Parkinson's disease around 1980, and died from it in 2004.
Honours
Player
Sweden
FIFA World Cup: runner-up 1958
Individual
Guldbollen: 1958
World Soccer World XI: 1960, 1961
References
External links
«Boken om 500 AIK:are» aik.se
Hall of Fame
1930 births
2004 deaths
People from Skellefteå Municipality
Allsvenskan players
Serie A players
Örebro SK players
AIK Fotboll players
AS Roma players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
1958 FIFA World Cup players
1970 FIFA World Cup managers
Sweden men's international footballers
Sweden national football team managers
Örebro SK managers
Swedish football managers
Swedish men's footballers
Swedish bandy players
Örebro SK Bandy players
Men's association football defenders
Winter Olympics competitors for Sweden
Bandy players at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Sportspeople from Västerbotten County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20Delaware
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1936 United States presidential election in Delaware
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77%, marking the first time since 1912 that the state voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and the first time since 1888 that a Democrat carried the state with an outright majority.
While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Kansas.
This election marked Delaware's transition into a bellwether state: for the rest of the 20th century, it would vote for a losing candidate only once (in 1948). Once the century rolled around, it came to be regarded as a solidly blue state.
Results
Results by county
See also
United States presidential elections in Delaware
References
Delaware
1936
1936 Delaware elections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Hennebert
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Sophie Hennebert
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Sophie Hennebert (born 1904, date of death unknown) was a Belgian diver. She competed in the women's 10 metre platform event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1904 births
Year of death missing
Belgian female divers
Olympic divers for Belgium
Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
20th-century Belgian women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayo%20Dottley
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Kayo Dottley
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John Albert "Kayo" Dottley (August 25, 1928 – November 17, 2018) was an American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Chicago Bears.
Biography
Dottley played high school football in McGehee, Arkansas. At Ole Miss, Dottley was the first running back in the school's history to record back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 1949-1950. He also holds the single season rushing record of 1312 yards in 1949.
In his autobiography, Hall of Famer Art Donovan paid Dottley this tribute: "They talk about Walter Payton making people pay for bringing him down, but Payton's nothing but a Fancy Dan compared to a halfback who used to play for the Bears named John Dottley, a tough big kid from Mississippi."
Honors
First-team All-America selection (1949)
Pro Bowl selection (1951)
Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame (1971)
Ole Miss Sports Hall of Fame (1987)
Ole Miss Team of the Century (1893–1992)
See also
List of college football yearly rushing leaders
References
1928 births
2018 deaths
Players of American football from Birmingham, Alabama
People from McGehee, Arkansas
Players of American football from Arkansas
American football fullbacks
Ole Miss Rebels football players
Chicago Bears players
Western Conference Pro Bowl players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estedt
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Estedt
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Estedt is a village and a former municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Gardelegen.
References
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Gardelegen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsize%20Soundlabs
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Kingsize Soundlabs
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Kingsize Soundlabs are three recording studios in Los Angeles County, California, run by record producer Dave Trumfio.
Background
Located in the Silverlake, Glassell Park, and Atwater Village areas of Los Angeles. The Glassell Park studio is in the "Rock Block". Kingsize Soundlabs has recorded bands such as American Standards, Jesus and Mary Chain, Built to Spill, Wilco, The Vines, American Music Club, Patrick Park, Moving Units, Rilo Kiley, The Sleepy Jackson, The Spinto Band, Imperial Teen, Eleni Mandell, Pela, Aggrolites, Slightly Stoopid, Los Abandoned, Lostprophets, Amateurs, Steve Reynolds, Kristin Mooney, E for Explosion, Booker T and Jolie Holland, Mavis Staples and Sierra Leone All Stars, Attack Attack, and Papa vs Pretty.
Studio B
Studio B is used by producer Rob Schnapf for his "MANT studio".
References
External links
Recording studios in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%20%28given%20name%29
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Lili (given name)
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Lili is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Lilí Álvarez (1905–1998), Spanish athlete, author, and journalist
Lili Bosse, mayor of Beverly Hills, California
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), French composer
Lili Chookasian (born 1921), American operatic contralto
Lili Damita (1904–1994), French actress
Lili Elbe (1882–1931), one of the first identifiable recipients of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, possibly intersex
Lili Estefan, Cuban-American television personality
Lili Haydn (born 1975), Canadian violinist, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and actress
Lili Ivanova (born 1939), Bulgarian singer
Lili Kraus (1903–1986), Hungarian-born British pianist
Li Lili (1915–2005), Chinese actress
Lili Massaferro (1926–2001), Argentine actress and militant
Lilibet "Lili" Mountbatten-Windsor (born 2021), daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Lili Novy (1885–1958), Slovenian poet and translator of poetry
Lili Päivärinta (born 1966), Swedish singer and artist
Lili Qiu (born 1975), Chinese computer scientist
Lili Reinhart (born 1996), American actress
LiLi Roquelin, French-born American trip-hop singer-songwriter and pianist
Lili Simmons, (born 1993), American actress
Lili St. Cyr (1918–1999), American burlesque stripper
Lili Tampi (born 1970), Indonesian retired badminton player
Lili Taylor (born 1967), American actress
See also
Lily (name)
Lilly (given name)
Lillie (name)
Feminine given names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorhinia
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Prorhinia
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Prorhinia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
References
Geometridae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimvand
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Berimvand
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Berimvand and Berimownd or Barimvand () may refer to:
Berimvand, Miyan Darband, Kermanshah County
Berimvand, Qarah Su, Kermanshah County
Berimvand, Sarpol-e Zahab
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chiari%20Institute
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The Chiari Institute
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The Chiari Institute is a medical institution that focuses on the treatment of Arnold–Chiari malformation and syringomyelia. It was established in 2001 by the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and is located in Great Neck, New York. The institute was founded by Thomas H. Milhorat, MD shortly after he was appointed the Chairman of Neurosurgery at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, and Paolo Bolognese, MD. It is now led by Raj Narayan, MD. Paolo Bolognese left TCI on September, 1st, 2014
The institute itself is used as a treatment facility for patients with Chiari malformations and related illnesses. Research projects are carried out at the Boas-Marks Research Center, located on the campus of North Shore University Hospital. While working with the Chiari Institute, Milhorat and Bolognese have published several articles related to the diagnosis and treatment of Chiari malformations.
Research
The Chiari Institute has been listed as a contributing facility to a number of published medical findings and reports. Most, if not all, have involved the work of Thomas Milhorat and Paolo Bolognese.
In 2003 a case report was published stating that, contrary to previously held belief, syringomyelia can present with a rapid progression of acute symptoms and requires the immediate placing of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. They also published the first description of a decompression surgery utilizing color Doppler sonography. This technique has been used by Bolognese since 1999, and at the time the article was published had been used in more than 300 surgeries. This technique is meant to improve surgical technique and monitor patient-specific variables.
In 2007 they established an association between type one Chiari malformations and hereditary disorders of connective tissue. Both conditions can cause hypermobility of the neck and cranial settling. While the conditions are often treated differently, the findings showed that 12.7% of patients with type one Chiari malformations also presented with hereditary disorders of connective tissue and/or Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
More recently, the doctors from the Chiari Institute published a paper saying that syncope is a potential symptom of Eagle syndrome, a condition in which the temporal bone of the skull is elongated and conflicts with other anatomy.
Lawsuits
The first lawsuit against the institute to receive media attention was that of Jennifer Ronca who, on April 10, 2009, was anesthetized and prepared for a brain surgery that did not happen. Bolognese, her scheduled surgeon, was in Florida at the time of the surgery and Milhorat, the surgeon on call who had previously operated on Ronca, refused to perform the operation in his stead. Ronca was falsely told that Bolognese had a family emergency and her surgery was rescheduled for three weeks later. Both doctors were suspended by the North Shore University Hospital, though Bolognese has been reinstated. Milhorat resigned from his position.
The media has reported on various pending lawsuits, including a class-action lawsuit. According to these lawsuits, patients were purposefully misdiagnosed and told that the procedure used for tethered spinal cord syndrome would alleviate the symptoms of their Chiari malformations. The lawsuits allege that informed consent was not acquired before these experimental procedures and that none of the required funding or approvals can be found for any such research with either the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
None of these suits have been resolved, and no trial dates are known.
References
Medical and health organizations based in New York (state)
Hospitals established in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachyarus
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Trachyarus
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Trachyarus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
Trachyarus anceps (Berthoumieu, 1906)
Trachyarus bacillatus Gokhman, 2007
References
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20Norwegian%20First%20Division
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1971 Norwegian First Division
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The 1971 1. divisjon was the 27th completed season of top division football in Norway.
Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Rosenborg BK won the championship, their third league title.
Only one team was relegated this season due to the league's extension to 12 teams ahead of the 1972 season.
Teams and locations
Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
League table
Results
Season statistics
Top scorer
Jan Fuglset, Fredrikstad – 17 goals
Attendances
References
Norway - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Norsk internasjonal fotballstatistikk (NIFS)
Eliteserien seasons
Norway
Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20District%20%28Bahmai%20County%29
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Central District (Bahmai County)
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The Central District of Bahmai County () is in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Likak.
At the National Census in 2006, its population was 22,193 in 4,085 households. The following census in 2011 counted 26,307 people in 6,011 households. At the latest census in 2016, the district had 28,324 inhabitants in 7,373 households.
References
Bahmai County
Districts of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Bahmai County
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Flowers on a Grave
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"Flowers on a Grave" is a song by British rock band Bush. It was released as the second single from their eighth album The Kingdom on 4 March 2020.
Content
Style
"Flowers on a Grave" was detailed by Blabbermouth to be a "hard-charging lead track". The song is based around electronic undercurrents and heavy guitar textures.
Lyrics
Gavin Rossdale explained to Louder Sound that "Flowers on a Grave" was "a song about getting to know yourself", and opined that the track "has really found a way to connect with people during this pandemic".
Reception
"Flowers on a Grave" was featured on Loudwire's list "66 Best Rock Songs of 2020".
Chart
References
2020 singles
2020 songs
Bush (British band) songs
Songs written by Gavin Rossdale
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Han Kwang-bok
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Han Kwang-bok (Korean: 한광복) is a North Korean politician who served as Vice Premier. She was born in the 1940s in the North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. She also served as the Minister for the Electronics Industry until she was replaced on 15 October 2012 by Kim Jae-seong.
See also
Government of North Korea
List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government
Premier of North Korea
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from North Hamgyong Province
21st-century North Korean women politicians
21st-century North Korean politicians
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Thomas J. Long
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Thomas J. Long (c. 1910 – 1993) was an American accountant and businessman who co-founded Longs Drugs with his brother Joseph.
Early life and education
He was born in Covelo, California in 1910. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a business degree in 1932. After graduating, he was hired as an accountant by a predecessor to Deloitte.
Career
In the 1930s, Mr. Long borrowed $25,000 ($376,000 in 2018) to open a drug store with his younger brother, Joseph in Oakland. That store would become the first of a 274-store chain which in 1996 had annual sales of $2.5 billion in five states as of the time of his death.
The New York Times quotes retail experts as saying part of the Longs' success was "an ability to have each store cater to the needs of its community."
Thomas Long retired as the company's chairman in 1975, but he remained a director until his death.
He tried to avoid publicity and shunned extravagance, though he was reported to hold more than $70 million of the company's stock.
He was the chief donor to the Thomas J. Long Foundation. Part of his estate was donated to the University of California, Berkeley. The Thomas J. Long Business Library at the Haas School of Business bears his name. The Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific is also named after him.
Death
Long died at his home in Walnut Creek, California in 1993.
References
1910s births
1996 deaths
American accountants
Deloitte people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
People from Mendocino County, California
People from Walnut Creek, California
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Tammann Peaks () are peaks on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) southeast of Orford Cliff, a like distance east of Lallemand Fjord and 5 km east of Klepalo Hill. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Gustav H.J.A. Tammann, German physical chemist who (1900–1935) made important studies of the physical properties of ice.
References
Tammann Peaks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Mountains of Graham Land
Loubet Coast
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Dmitry Bobyshev
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Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev (; born 11 April 1936, Mariupol) is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.
Biography
Dmitry Bobyshev was born on 11 April 1936 in Mariupol. From his childhood he lived in Leningrad. During the Siege of Leningrad, Bobyshev's father died, and after the war he was adopted by his stepfather. In 1959 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Technology. He worked for 10 years as an engineer for chemical equipment. Later, he became an editor on television.
Bobyshev started to write poetry in the mid-1950s. His poems were published in samizdat (including Alexander Ginzburg's journal Syntax"). In the early 1960s, along with Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman, Yevgeny Rein, Bobyshev entered the inner circle of Anna Akhmatova. Bobyshev's first book of poems, Hiatus, was published in 1979 in Paris.
In 1979, Bobyshev emigrated to the United States, where he taught Russian language and literature. In 1983, he became a US citizen. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bobyshev is the author of six books of poetry, a number of poetry translations (modern American poetry) and volumes of prose memoir, I am here (2003).
Among the circle of Akhmatova, Bobyshev stands apart aesthetically. While, like Brodsky, he is rooted in a century and a half of Russian poetic tradition, Bobyshev chooses more radical manifestations of this tradition.
References
External links
Рецензия на роман-трилогию Дмитрия Бобышева "Человекотекст". "Новый Журнал №279, 2015
Новая литературная карта России
People from Mariupol
1936 births
Living people
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Soviet poets
Soviet male writers
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni
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1971 Iranian general election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 9 July 1971. The result was a victory for the New Iran Party, which won 230 of the 268 seats in the Majlis and 28 of the 30 elected seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was around 35%. The elections were boycotted by the Pan-Iranist Party, which complained that the government held a monopoly over campaign broadcasts on state radio and television, and also claimed that its newspaper had been censored. Its offshoot, Iranians' Party, won a seat by its secretary-general.
Following the elections, Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda formed a new government on 13 September.
The elections were "rigged and far from a legitimate process".
Results
Majlis
Senate
See also
1974 Shahsavar by-election
References
Iran
General
Iranian Senate elections
National Consultative Assembly elections
Lower house elections in Iran
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Orahovo, Foča
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Orahovo () is a village in the municipality of Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Villages in Republika Srpska
Populated places in Foča
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Charlotte Klonk
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Charlotte Klonk is a German art historian. Klonk is most notable for her work on English landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as for her work on museum interiors, particularly the white cube. She is currently a professor of art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Life
Klonk studied art history at the Universities of Hamburg and Cambridge. She was a Ph.D. student at Newnham College, University of Cambridge from 1989 to 1992. The title of her thesis was „Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the late 18th and early 19th centuries". From 1992 to 1993 she worked at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Ghent (Director: Jan Hoet). In 1993 she received a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, and from 1995 to 2005 she was a lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick. Since 2006 she has taught art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Awards, Grants, Prizes and Fellowships
From 1986 to 1990 Klonk received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and from 1989 to 1992 a Postgraduate Scholarship from the British Academy, the DAAD and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In April 1998 her book Science and the Perception was selected as „Influential Book" by the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. From 2001 to 2002 Charlotte Klonk was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and from 2005 to 2006 a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin. In 2009 she was chosen as a participant in the Berlin ProFil-Programme for university leaders.
In 2019 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Books
1996 Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, New Haven and London, Yale University Press (reviewed among other places in The Times Literary Supplement, Gazette de Beaux Arts and Art History 1997)
2006 (with Michael Hatt), Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods, Manchester, Manchester University Press (reviewed among other places in The Times Literary Supplement, 1 September 2006, and sehepunkte, 7 (2007), No. 3 [15 March 2007],http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/03/11116.html.)
2009 Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800–2000, New Haven and London, Yale University Press (reviewed among other places in Frieze, 1 November 2009)
2017 Terror: Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden, Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Verlag GmbH (reviewed among other places in Spiegel Online, 31 May 2017)
Edited books
2008 (with Conny Becker, Franziska Solte and Friederike Schäfer): Metropolitan Views: Die Kunstszenen in Berlin und London, München, Deutscher Kunstverlag (reviewed among other places in TAZ, 30 July 2008, Berliner Morgenpost, 13 August 2008, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 21 August 2008, 10:33)
Recent Interviews
▪ 2006 Interview with Ruth Fühner for ‘Doppelkopf’, Hessischer Rundfunk 2, 29 August
▪ 2006 Interview with Johan Schloemann for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18 Oktober
▪ 2007 Interview with Ivan Howlett for ‘The Tragical Adventure of Heinrich von Kleist’, BBC Radio 3, 7 January
▪ 2008 Interview with Jürgen Werth for ‘Zeig mir Dein Gesicht”, Radio Bremen, 5 Juli
▪ 2009 Interview with Heinz-Jörg Graf for "Die Gelehrtenrepublik", Deutschlandradio Kultur, 30 December
References
German art historians
Living people
University of Hamburg alumni
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Warwick
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
German women academics
Women art historians
German women historians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Vyazemsky Uyezd
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Vyazemsky Uyezd (Вяземский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Vyazma.
Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Vyazemsky Uyezd had a population of 105,502. Of these, 98.3% spoke Russian, 0.6% Polish, 0.5% Yiddish, 0.1% Latvian, 0.1% German, 0.1% Ukrainian and 0.1% Tatar as their native language.
References
Uezds of Smolensk Governorate
Smolensk Governorate
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Antonella Ponziani
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Antonella Ponziani (born 29 February 1964) is an Italian actress.
Born in Rome, she attended the academy Mimo Teatro Movimento, under the guidance of Lidia Biondi. She debuted in 1986, in Salvatore Samperi's La Bonne, and appeared in Federico Fellini's Intervista (1987) and as Donald Pleasence's daughter in Ruggero Deodato's 1988 giallo film Phantom of Death.
In 1992 Antonella Ponziani won a Silver Ribbon for Best Actress and a David di Donatello in the same category for the film Verso Sud. She appeared in the 1994 comedy Dear Goddamned Friends, and won a Ciak d'oro for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for her performance in Ferie d'Agosto by Paolo Virzì.
In 1999 she debuted as director and screenwriter with the comedy film L'ultimo Mundial, in which she also appeared as an actress.
References
External links
Italian film actresses
1964 births
Actresses from Rome
Italian television actresses
Living people
David di Donatello winners
Nastro d'Argento winners
Ciak d'oro winners
20th-century Italian actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
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Fiona O'Shaughnessy is an Irish film, stage, and television actress. She has appeared in Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999), Goldfish Memory (2003), Alexander (2004), Until Death & Nightwatching (2007), Malice in Wonderland (2009), Outcast (2010), Utopia (2013-2015), Nina Forever (2015), The Living and The Dead (2017), Gretel & Hansel (2020), and Halo in 2022.
Early life
O'Shaughnessy was born in Galway, Ireland, her father was an information technology consultant, and her mother is a seamstress. family moved to Reading, Berkshire, when she was 9. She returned to Galway a decade later where she pursued a career in theatre, and at the age of 24 she moved to Dublin. She dated Irish comedian David McSavage for a period of time in 2012.
Career
Stage
O'Shaughnessy's first notable stage role was playing Salome for the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Other stage work has included The Shaughraun for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which transferred to the West End's Albery Theatre in 2005. In 2006 she appeared in the UK premiere of Blackwater Angel by Jim Nolan at the Finborough Theatre, London. Other work for the Gate Theatre includes Arms and the Man, Oliver, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, Blythe Spirit, Present Laughter (which toured in Charleston, South Carolina), See You Next Tuesday, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She played Cate in the Irish debut of Sarah Kane's play Blasted. Other theatre work includes playing Hilde Wangle in Lady from the Sea and Petra Stockman in Enemy of the People at the Arcola Theatre, London, and Amy in 'The Night Alive' at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Film and television
Her film roles include Clara in Goldfish Memory, The Halo Effect, and The Stronger.
From 2013, she starred in a main role as Jessica Hyde in the television series Utopia (2013-2015), in a cast which included Adeel Akhtar, Neil Maskell, Alistair Petrie and James Fox.
In 2015, she starred alongside David Troughton in the comedy romantic horror film Nina Forever, for which she received a nomination for best supporting actress at the 2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.
In 2020, she played Mother in the witch horror Gretel & Hansel, and appeared as Maisy Joyce in the 2021 film The Forgiven, with Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Matt Smith.
In 2022, she starred as Laera in the fantasy sci-fi series Halo.
Filmography
Series
Film
Television
Audio
References
External links
Living people
1979 births
20th-century English people
20th-century English women
20th-century Irish actresses
21st-century English people
21st-century English women
21st-century Irish actresses
Actresses from Reading, Berkshire
Actresses from Galway (city)
Irish film actresses
Irish stage actresses
Irish television actresses
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The Pashupati seal (also Mahayogi seal, Proto-Śiva seal; the adjective "so-called" sometimes applied to "Pashupati"), is a steatite seal which was uncovered in Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, a major urban site of the Indus Valley civilisation ("IVC"), during excavations in 1928–29, when the region of Pakistan was under British rule. The excavations were carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India, the official body responsible for preservation and excavation. The seal depicts a seated figure that is possibly tricephalic (having three heads). The seated figure has been thought to be ithyphallic (having an erect penis), an interpretation that has been questioned by many, but was still held by the IVC specialist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer in a publication of 2003. The man has a horned headdress and is surrounded by animals. He may represent a horned deity.
It has one of the more complicated designs in the thousands of seals found from the Indus Valley civilization, and is unusual in having a human figure as the main and largest element; in most seals this is an animal. It had been claimed to be one of the earliest depictions of the Hindu god Shiva—"Pashupati" (Lord of animals) being one of his epithets, or a "proto-Shiva" deity.
Though the combination of elements in the Pashupati seal is unique, there are a group of other Indus seals that have some of them. One, also from Mohenjo-daro (find number DK 12050) and now in Islamabad, has a nude three-faced horned deity seated on a throne in a yogic position, wearing bangles on its arms. In this case no animals are depicted, and there is some dispute as to the gender of the figure, despite it seeming to have a beard.
The Pashupati seal is in the National Museum, New Delhi, having been moved there with the other Mohenjo-daro finds before independence. These were reserved for the future national museum, finally founded in 1949, and the seal was allocated to the Dominion of India at Partition in 1947.
Discovery and description
The seal was uncovered in 1928–29, in Block 1, Southern Portion of the DK-G Area of Mohenjo-daro, at a depth of 3.9 meters below the surface. Ernest J. H. Mackay, who directed the excavations at Mohenjo-daro, dated the seal to the Intermediate I Period (now considered to fall around 2350–2000 BCE) in his 1937–38 report in which the seal is numbered 420, giving it its alternate name.
The seal is carved in steatite and measures 3.56 cm by 3.53 cm, with a thickness of 0.76 cm. It has a human figure at the centre seated on a platform and facing forward. The legs of the figure are bent at the knees with the heels touching and the toes pointing downwards. The arms extend outwards and rest lightly on the knees, with the thumbs facing away from the body. Eight small and three large bangles cover the arms. The chest is covered with what appear to be necklaces, and a double band wraps around the waist. The figure wears a tall and elaborate headdress with a central fan-shaped structure flanked by two large striated horns. The human figure is surrounded by four wild animals: an elephant and a tiger to its one side, and a water buffalo (bubalus arnee) and an Indian rhinoceros on the other. Under the dais are two deer or ibexes looking backwards, so that their curved horns almost meet in the centre. At the top of the seal are seven Indus script symbols, with the last apparently displaced downwards for lack of horizontal space.
Post-excavation history
The finds from Mohenjo-daro were initially deposited in the Lahore Museum, but later moved to the ASI headquarters at New Delhi, where a new "Central Imperial Museum" was being planned for the new capital of the British Raj, in which at least a selection would be displayed. It became apparent that Indian independence was approaching, but the Partition of India was not anticipated until late in the process. The new Pakistani authorities requested the return of the Harappan pieces excavated on their territory, but the Indian authorities refused. Eventually an agreement was reached, whereby the finds, totalling some 12,000 objects (most sherds of pottery), were split equally between the countries; in some cases this was taken very literally, with some necklaces and girdles having their beads separated into two piles. In the case of the "two most celebrated sculpted figures", Pakistan asked for and received the so-called Priest-King figure, while India retained the much smaller Dancing Girl, and also the Pashupati seal.
Interpretations
Marshall's identification with proto-Shiva
The first description and analysis of the seal's iconography was that of the archaeologist John Marshall who had served as the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India and led the excavations of the Indus Valley sites. In addition to the general features of the seal described above, he also saw the central figure as a male deity; as three-faced, with a possible fourth face towards the back; and, as ithyphallic, while conceding that what appeared to be the exposed phallus could instead be a tassel hanging from the waistband. Most significantly he identified the seal as an early prototype of the Hindu god Shiva (or, his Vedic predecessor, Rudra), who also was known by the title Pashupati ('lord or father of all the animals') in historic times. In a 1928–29 publication, Marshall summarized his reasons for the identification as follows:
Later, in 1931, he expanded his reasons to include the fact that Shiva is associated with the phallus in the form of linga, and that in medieval art he is shown with deer or ibexes, as are seen below the throne on the seal. Marshall's analysis of the Indus Valley religion, and the Pashupati seal in particular, was very influential and widely accepted for at least the next two generations. Herbert Sullivan, who had significant disagreements with it, recognised in 1964 that Marshall's analysis "has been accepted almost universally and has greatly influenced scholarly understanding of the historical development of Hinduism".
Writing in 1976, Doris Srinivasan introduced an article otherwise critical of Marshall's interpretation by observing that "no matter what position is taken regarding the seal's iconography, it is always prefaced by Marshall's interpretation. On balance the proto- character of the seal has been accepted." Thomas McEvilley noted, in line with Marshall, that the central figure was in the yoga pose Mulabandhasana, quoting the Kalpa Sutras description "a squatting position with joined heels" used with meditation and fasting to attain infinite knowledge (kevala).
Alf Hiltebeitel noted in 2011 that, following Marshall's analysis, "nearly all efforts at interpreting the [Indus Valley] religion have centered discussion around [the Pashupati seal] figure". A lot of discussion has taken place about this seal. While Marshall's work has earned some support, many critics and even supporters have raised several objections.
Herbert Sullivan interpreted the figure as a female goddess on the grounds that the so-called erect phallus actually represents the dangling end of a waistband or girdle, a feature found on many undoubtedly female terracotta figurines, and ambiguous on some other seals, including DK 12050 (mentioned above). Marshall himself had admitted this was possible. In the terracottas, males are always nude; in addition, the jewellery worn on the Pashupati seal is characteristic of female rather than male terracottas.
Doris Srinivasan's reinterpretation
Doris Srinivasan, a professor of Indian studies, raised objections to Marshall's identification, and provided a interpretation for the figure, where she postulated the lateral projections were cow-like ears rather than faces, which had already been suggested by Sullivan and others. In 1975–76, she published a journal article titled 'The So-Called Proto-śiva Seal from Mohenjo-Daro: An Iconological Assessment' in the academic journal Archives of Asian Art. In 1997, she reiterated her views in a book titled Many Heads, Arms, and Eyes: Origin, Meaning, and Form of Multiplicity in Indian Art.
According to her, the two extra faces could be reinterpreted as possible ears, and the central face has predominant bovine features. She has drawn similarities between the central figure of seal 420, and other artefacts from the Indus Valley such as the horned mask from Mohenjo-Daro, the terracotta bull from Kalibangan, and the depiction of a horned deity on a water pitcher from the archaeological site of Kot Diji. She has also noted that the yogic posture of the figure is repeated on a number of other seals and sealings, some of which indicate that the figure receives worship. On the basis of these observations, she suggests that the figure of seal 420 could be a divine buffalo-man.
Dravidian Interpretations
Scholars who consider the Indus Valley civilisation to be associated with a Dravidian rather than Vedic context have offered other interpretations. Expanding on a mention by D. D. Kosambi in 1962, Alf Hiltebeitel thought the horned figure could be a prototype of Mahishasura, the buffalo demon enemy of the Hindu goddess Durga. He has also argued that the tiger depicted in the seal could relate to the goddess Durga who is often depicted as riding a tiger (or a lion) in the Hindu pantheon. He also suggested that the surrounding animals could represent the vahanas (vehicles, mounts) of deities for the four cardinal directions.
Where Marshall's description had "the head is crowned with the horns of a bull", Hiltebeitel is emphatic that the figure has the very different horns of a buffalo, and that IVC people familiar with both species would not have confused the two species: "One might imagine a "proto-Siva" with bull's horns as a prefiguration of Siva's connection with his vahana or riding vehicle Nandin. But a "proto-Siva" with buffalo's horns would take too much explaining to retain credibility".
The American archaeologist Walter Fairservis tried to translate what he considered to be a Dravidian inscription, and was of the view that the seal could be identified with Anil, the paramount chief of four clans represented by the animals. The Finnish Indologist, Asko Parpola has suggested that the yogic pose could be an imitation of the Proto-Elamite way of representing seated bulls. He attempted to translate the inscription which he considers to be an early form of Dravidian, and found that the figure represents a servant of an aquatic deity. He finds that the animals depicted on the seal best resemble those associated with the Hindu god Varuna who could be associated with the aquatic themes which are prominent in the Indus religion.
Vedic Interpretations
M.V.N. Krishna Rao identified the figure with the Hindu god Indra. He argued that the tiger could be ignored since it is much larger than the other animals, and the two deer could also be ignored since they were seated under the table. Then he combined the first phoneme of each of the animals, and the word 'nara' meaning man, and arrived at the term 'makhanasana' which is an epithet of Indra.
Not determinable
Some 21st-century scholars have urged caution in interpretation. The American Indologist Wendy Doniger wrote in 2011 that while "several generations of scholars" had taken up Marshall's suggestion, and while there was "a general resemblance" between the figure on the seal and later Hindu images of Shiva, and while the people of the Indus could have had "a symbolism of the divine phallus", all the same "we cannot know it, [and] it does not mean that the Indus images are the source of the Hindu images, or that they had the same meaning." The scholar of religious studies Geoffrey Samuel wrote that the multiple interpretations "certainly cannot all be right". Since, further, there was no obvious method for choosing between the interpretations, and little was known with certainty about Indus Valley religious practices, "the evidence for the yogic or 'Tantric' practices is so dependent on reading later practices into the material that it is of little or no use for constructing any kind of history of [such] practices".
See also
Gundestrup cauldron
Cernunnos
Gutasaga
References
Sources
Kenoyer, J.M., entry by, in: Matthiae, P; Lamberg-Karlovsky, Carl Clifford, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, p. 403, 2003, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), google books
Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand, Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture, 1962 (2005 reprint), Popular Prakashan, ISBN 9788171548705, 8171548709, google books
Singh, Kavita, "The Museum Is National", Chapter 4 in: Mathur, Saloni and Singh, Kavita (eds), No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia, 2015, Routledge, PDF on academia.edu
Singh, Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, 2008, Pearson Longman, ISBN 9788131716779
Further reading
Horned gods
Indus Valley civilisation
Bronze Age art
Seals (insignia)
Indian art
Elephants in art
Tigers in art
Individual hardstone carvings
National Museum, New Delhi
Pakistani sculpture
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John H. Batten Airport , also known as Batten International Airport, is a public use airport located northwest of the central business district of Racine, a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is privately owned by the Racine Commercial Airport Corporation. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027, in which it is categorized as an unclassified reliever general aviation facility.
History
The airport was founded in 1941 by Carlyle Godske on roughly of land purchased from local businessman J.A. Horlick. For most of its history, the airport was known as Racine-Horlick Field, but on September 5, 1989, the name was changed to John H. Batten Field. Batten was one of the airport's early founders and supporters as well as the longtime CEO of Racine's Twin Disc, Inc.
During World War II (ca 1941-1945), the newly established airport was used as a flight and ground school for the Army. Students were housed at Racine College on the south side of Racine. Ground school instruction was given at Horlick High School and the actual flight training took place at the airport. Today, the airport is used primarily by local aviation enthusiasts and by the corporate jets of large local companies such as S.C. Johnson & Son and Twin Disc, Inc.
On July 30, 2010, plans were announced to have a full-time aviation maintenance firm on the field, planned to have opened on September 1, 2010.
Facilities and aircraft
John H. Batten Airport covers an area of , including two paved runways:
4/22 with a 6,574 x 100 ft (2,004 x 30 m) with concrete surface
14/32 measuring 4,421 x 100 ft (1,348 x 30 m) with asphalt pavement
For the 12-month period ending June 15, 2021, the airport had 47,000 aircraft operations, an average of 129 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi.
In October 2023, there were 55 aircraft based at this airport: 45 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 2 jet, 2 helicopter and 1 ultra-light.
See also
List of airports in Wisconsin
References
External links
Batten Airport official website
John H. Batten Airport at Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Airports in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Racine, Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Racine County, Wisconsin
Airports in Racine County, Wisconsin
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The Grand Large is an artificial lake in Wallonia, not far from the city of Mons in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The lake is situated along the highway E19 between Paris and Brussels. Its marina can host 157 boats. The lake is linked to two canals: to the east, the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal, to the west the Canal du Centre.
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The City of Mons
Artificial lakes
Lakes of Hainaut (province)
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is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Fumiko Hayashi Literary Prize, and her work has been nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Biography
Haneko Takayama was born in 1975 in Toyama, Japan, and graduated from Tama Art University. She made her literary debut with her science fiction story , which received the first honorable mention at the inaugural Sogen SF Short Story Prize awards in 2010 and was then published in an anthology of the prize nominees. Udon, Kitsune-tsuki no was later reprinted as the title story of a 2014 collection of Takayama's short stories, which was a finalist for the 36th Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Two years later Takayama received the 2nd Fumiko Hayashi Literary Prize for , a story of a woman and a soldier during wartime told in a series of fictional diary entries and letters. In addition to ¥1 million in cash, the prize included publication of the story in the mid-April issue of Fujin Kōron.
In 2018 her short story collection , with a title story about a man visiting his hometown and dealing with his memories, was published by Asahi Shimbun. The collection also included the previously published story The Island on the Side of the Sun. Reviewer Tetsuo Machiguchi, writing in book review journal Dokushojin, praised Takayama as an "extraordinary writer" who "crosses genre boundaries". Objectum was subsequently named as a finalist for the 39th Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Later that year her story was published in Bungei, with critic Atsushi Sasaki of the Nishinippon Shimbun calling it an "unmistakable masterpiece". Ita basho was subsequently nominated for the 160th Akutagawa Prize. It survived the first round of selection committee voting, with committee members praising the atmosphere created in the book, but the committee ultimately concluded that some of the fantasy elements were unsatisfying, and awarded the prize to two other authors. Six months later, Takayama's story , published in the May issue of Subaru, was nominated for the 161st Akutagawa Prize.
Takayama won the 163rd Akutagawa Prize for her work , a novel inspired by her travels to Okinawa. Shuri no uma follows a museum archivist in Okinawa and her response to seeing a type of horse native to the island. The novel was also nominated for the Yukio Mishima Prize.
Recognition
2016: 2nd Fumiko Hayashi Literary Prize
2020: 163rd Akutagawa Prize
Selected works
, Tōkyō Sōgensha, 2014,
, Asahi Shimbun, 2018,
, Shinchosha, 2020,
References
Living people
1975 births
21st-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese women writers
Japanese women novelists
Japanese science fiction writers
Akutagawa Prize winners
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Sono Mirai wa Ima
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"Sono Mirai wa Ima" is a song and single by The Pillows. It was featured in the album Good Dreams. Sawao Yamanaka, The Pillows lead songwriter, wrote "Beehive" for the J-Pop artist Chihiro Yonekura, which is featured on her album "azure".
Track listing
"Beehive"
"Heavy Sun (With Baby Son)"
2004 singles
The Pillows songs
2004 songs
King Records (Japan) singles
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London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. (LOF) was an ocean-going merchant shipping company that for most of its history was based in the United Kingdom.
Counties Ship Management
In 1920 Manuel Kulukundis from the Aegean island of Kasos and his cousin Minas Rethymnis founded a shipbroking business in London, England. In 1934 Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd. (R&K) branched into shipowning, establishing a nominally separate company to own each ship. From 1934 they managed the ships under the name of Counties Ship Management Ltd (CSM). Some R&K companies grew to own more than one ship, all of which were under CSM management.
In the Second World War from 1940 onwards CSM was controlled by the Ministry of War Transport. CSM lost several ships in the war and others were damaged. In about 1946 CSM companies began replacing its losses by buying seven Liberty ships from the UK Government.
In 1948–49 ten ships from CSM companies were transferred to found a new R&K company, London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. However, in 1950 the CSM fleet was radically expanded with 34 Canadian "Fort and Park" ships.
In the 1950s LOF became the main R&K company and the CSM fleet was reduced in size. Its last ship was MV Port Campbell, which CSM took over in 1966 and renamed Kings Reach. CSM's history effectively ended with her sale in 1970.
Foundation of LOF
On 8 April 1948 the cousins founded a new company, London & Overseas Freighters Ltd, with the intention of owning tramp oil tankers. However, in 1949–50 LOF took over the dry cargo fleets of three R&K companies: Dorset Steamship Co Ltd, Putney Hill Steamships Co Ltd and Tower Steamship Co Ltd. In order to give the merged fleets a single "house" identity, LOF renamed all of its ships, giving each one a name beginning with "London".
Pentridge Hill, built in 1941 by Bartram & Sons for Dorset Steamships became London Dealer. The freighter Richmond Hill, built in 1940 by Bartram & Sons in Sunderland for Putney Hill Steamships became London Craftsman. The freighters Coombe Hill and Tower Hill, built by William Doxford & Sons in Sunderland for Putney Hill Steamships in 1942, became LOF's London Artisan and London Banker respectively.
A number of the CSM ships transferred to LOF were Empire ships, built to standard designs during the Second World War. Dorset Steamships' Castle Hill, previously called Lulworth Hill, became LOF's London Builder in 1950. She had been completed by the Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd. in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1942 as Empire Mandarin. Another Dorset Steamships' vessel, Charmouth Hill, which became LOF's London Mariner in 1950, had been completed in Hartlepool in 1943 as Empire Peak. Tower Steamships' Tower Grange, which became LOF's London Trader, had been completed by the Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd. in 1945 as Empire Morley. Another Putney Hill Steamships vessel, the Putney Hill (II) had been built in 1943 as . She was transferred to LOF in 1949 and at first renamed Forest Hill. In 1950 LOF renamed her again as London Statesman. In 1951 LOF sold her to Panamanian owners who renamed her Morella.
CSM had seven Liberty ships, three of which were transferred to LOF. had been built in 1943 and CSM renamed her Primrose Hill in 1947. LOF renamed her London Vendor in 1949 and sold her in 1951. had been built in 1943 and CSM renamed her Mill Hill in 1947. She too was transferred to LOF in 1949 and sold in 1951. had been built in 1944 and CSM renamed her Bisham Hill in 1947. She was transferred to LOF in October 1951 and sold in January 1952 to Liberian owners wno renamed her Nausica.
Livery and personnel
LOF ships' hulls were red below the waterline and black above. The ships had white superstructures and carried the coat of arms of the City of London facing forward just below the bridge. The LOF funnel livery was buff, ringed by a white band above a blue band, with a five-pointed red star on the two bands. It was a variant of a livery that some CSM ships had used since the 1930s. The house flag was a pennant of white above blue bearing a red star. The white and blue referred to the Greek origins of the Kulukundis, Rethymnis and Mavroleon families. The red star made the funnel livery suggest that of a Soviet merchant fleet, which sometimes caused some confusion.
LOF ships always worked under charter. Under the terms of some charters, the ship's funnel would be repainted from LOF colours to those of the charterer.
LOF employed UK officers on salaries but used crew from India hired on contracts for limited periods. This allowed it to pay crew wages lower than those agreed between the General Council of British Shipping and the National Union of Seamen.
LOF's first tankers
LOF ordered new tanker ships, starting with the sister ships London Pride (I) and London Enterprise (I) built by Furness Shipbuilding at Stockton-on-Tees and completed in 1950. LOF became a public company on 20 March 1951.
In 1952 LOF took delivery of five new tankers. Sir James Laing and Sons Ltd on the River Wear in Sunderland, completed the trio London Glory (I), London Endurance and London Spirit, while Furness Shipobuilding completed the slightly larger pair London Victory (I) and London Majesty.
LOF had intended to operate a mixed fleet of tankers and dry cargo ships. However, the costs of buying new tankers rose considerably so by the end of 1953 LOF sold all of its dry cargo ships. Between 1953 and 1955 Furness completed four more tankers for LOF. London Loyalty (1954) and London Integrity (1955) were sisters of London Victory and London Majesty. London Splendour (I) (1953) London Prestige (1954) were a much larger pair: each. When LOF ordered London Splendour nearly three years earlier, some oil companies regarded this as being almost the maximum size of tanker that they could ever use.
In 1959 the Admiralty bareboat chartered London Loyalty and London Integrity for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, who renamed them RFA Brambleleaf and RFA Bayleaf respectively.
Subsidiaries and joint ventures
In 1956 LOF in association with Philip Hill, Higginson & Co Ltd founded a subsidiary, London & Overseas Tankers, in Bermuda. LOT took a 50% interest in another Bermudian company, London & Overseas Bulk Carriers. LOT ordered six tankers and LOBC ordered two bulk carriers.
In 1957 LOF led a consortium of three companies that took over the Austin & Pickersgill shipyard in Sunderland. In 1968 A&P took over another Wearside shipyard, Bartram & Sons Ltd. In 1970 LOF bought out its partners to take 100% ownership of A&P.
More and bigger tankers
LOF and LOT concentrated on ordering tankers as large as London Splendour and London Prestige. Splendour and Prestige, like LOF's smaller tankers, had Doxford marine diesel engines, but the ships that LOF and LOT ordered now followed the mid-1950s trend towards steam turbine engines for cargo ships. Furness Shipbuilding completed five turbine ships for the group: (1956), London Tradition (1957) and London Resolution (1957) for LOF, then Overseas Pioneer (1958) and Overseas Explorer (1959) for LOT. Each had a pair of Richardsons Westgarth turbines that developed a total of 8,200 shaft horsepower and double reduction-geared onto a single shaft to drive a single screw.
Koninklijke Maatschappij on the Scheldt in Flushing, Netherlands, completed two very dissimilar tankers for LOF: the London Harmony in 1959 and London Confidence in 1962. Uddevallavarvet AB of Uddevalla in Sweden completed three tankers: London Independence for LOF in 1961 and Overseas Ambassador and Overseas Discoverer for LOT in 1962. At more than each, the three sister ships from Uddevallavarvet set a new record for the largest ships in the LOF group's fleet.
Back to dry cargo ships
Rheinstahl Nordseewerke of Emden in Germany completed two bulk carriers for London & Overseas Bulk Carriers: Overseas Courier in 1960 and Overseas Adventurer in 1963.
LOF returned to dry cargo ships in 1963 with the sister ships London Craftsman, and London Tradesman all from Uddevallavarvet and London Banker (II) from Bijker's Aannemingsbedrijk of Gorinchem on the IJssel in the Netherlands. Koninklijke Maatschappij completed London Advocate in 1964. In December 1964, only a year after London Tradesman was completed, LOF sold her to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation, and in 1965 LOF replaced her with a sister ship from Uddevallavarvet, London Citizen.
LOF's shift of emphasis to dry cargo continued when Industria Navali Meccaniche Affini in La Spezia, Italy, converted seven large tankers to bulk carriers: London Resolution, London Splendour (I), London Prestige and London Valour in 1966, London Tradition and Overseas Explorer (transferred to LOF and renamed London Explorer) in 1967 and Overseas Pioneer (transferred to LOF and renamed London Pioneer) in 1968.
Mayfair Tankers
In the 1960s LOF created a subsidiary in Greece, Mayfair Tankers, to benefit from the lower taxes in that country. In 1965 LOF transferred at least three tankers to its subsidiary. London Endurance became Erato, London Glory became Giannina and London Spirit became Salamis. Erato and Giannina were scrapped in Spain in 1969 and Salamis was scrapped in Taiwan in 1970.
LOF transferred Mayfair Tankers to the flag of convenience of Liberia. The bulk carrier London Splendour (I) was registered in Liberia as Mayfair Splendour in 1970. In 1972 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) returned Brambleleaf (London Loyalty) to LOF, who transferred her to Mayfair Tankers and registered her in Liberia as Mayfair Loyalty. In 1973 the MoD returned Bayleaf (London Integrity) to LOF, who transferred her to Mayfair Tankers and registered her in Liberia as Mayfair Integrity.
Eventually LOF stopped operating ships via its Mayfair Tankers subsidiary. However, LOF continued transferring some ships to London & Overseas Tankers in order to pay less tax. These ships included Overseas Adventurer, Overseas Ambassador, Overseas Argonaut, Overseas Courier, Overseas Discoverer, Overseas Explorer and Overseas Pioneer.
The 1970s
In 1971 Kockums of Malmö in Sweden completed LOF's first supertanker, named London Pride (II) after the tanker of the same name launched in 1950. At she was a VLCC, larger than any other LOF ship before or since.
On 10 July 1972 London Statesman was unloading a cargo of rice at Nha Trang in South Vietnam when her engine room flooded and she sank by the stern. Sabotage by the Viet Cong was suspected. On 31 July she was refloated and towed to Singapore for repairs. She remained in the LOF fleet until 1979.
In 1973 the MoD bareboat chartered Overseas Adventurer as RFA Cherryleaf.
LOF modernised its dry cargo fleet with four new SD14 shelter deck ships built by its A&P subsidiary: London Cavalier, London Fusilier and London Grenadier in 1972 and the London Bombardier in 1973.
The tanker fleet was modernised with three ships built by Götaverken of Hisingen in Sweden. These were London Enterprise (II), completed in 1974 for LOF, London Glory (II), completed in 1975 for a LOF subsidiary called London Shipowning Co Ltd and Overseas Argonaut, completed in 1975 for a new company, Seagroup Bermuda, in which LOF held 50% of the shares.
LOF then modernised its bulk carrier fleet with three new B26 ships built by A&P: London Baron, London Earl and London Viscount, all completed in 1977.
Welsh Ore Carriers
LOF bought a 50% share in Welsh Ore Carriers in 1961 and a further 1% in 1969. Under LOF control WOC bought new ships from A&P and Bartram including Welsh Herald in 1963, the SD14 shelter deck cargo ships Welsh Trident in 1973 and Welsh Troubadour in 1974 and the B26 bulk carrier Welsh Voyager in 1977. WOC was renamed Welsh Overseas Freighters in 1977 and LOF bought the remaining 49% of shares from the West Wales Steamship Co in 1982. By then WOC had sold its SD14's, but Welsh Voyager joined the LOF fleet as London Voyager.
Adversity and restructuring
LOF's profitability was reduced by the 1973 oil crisis and the 1977 nationalisation of the UK's shipbuilding industry. LOF laid up a number of its ships in a bay near Piraeus in Greece, including the London Pride (II) in 1981. LOF sold London Pride (II) in 1982 and she was scrapped in the Far East in 1983.
LOF returned to smaller tankers with the Panamax-sized London Victory (II) and London Spirit (II) completed by Mitsui in Japan in 1982. These were joined by London Enterprise (III), completed by Mitsui in 1992. After about 1986 the business began to recover. In 1989 Chevron made a two-year charter for London Victory, later expanded into a five-year charter for both her and her sister ship London Spirit.
In 1992 LOF moved to Bermuda to restructure its debts. Mitsui completed three new Suezmax tankers for the fleet: London Pride (III) in 1993 for charter to Chevron and London Glory (III) and London Splendour (II) in 1995 for spot market tramp trading.
In June 1995 Chevron's charters of London Spirit and London Victory expired. Chevron closed two of its refineries that year and did not renew the charters.
Sale of the fleet
In 1997 a Swedish shipping company, Frontline Shipping AB, also moved its operations to Bermuda. Frontline took a 51% controlling share in LOF, ending its independent history 49 years after its incorporation.
Frontline renamed the Suezmax tankers London Pride (III), London Glory (III) and London Splendour (II) as Front Pride, Front Glory and Front Splendour respectively. The ships' actual owner was the Bermuda-registered Ship Finance Limited (SFL), for which Frontline is the ship management company.
In February 2013 SFL terminated Front Prides charter and sold her to new owners who renamed her simply Pride. As of April 2013 Splendour and Glory are still listed in the Frontline fleet.
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Further reading
Organizations established in 1948
Organizations disestablished in 1997
Ships of London and Overseas Freighters
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That Girl (Marques Houston song)
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"That Girl" is the debut solo single from R&B singer Marques Houston and the first taken from his debut album, MH in the U.S. In the UK, however, "Clubbin'" was the first single from the album there.
"That Girl" was originally for Ne-Yo, that co-wrote it, but after Columbia Records dropped him, the song was given to Houston. The song was his first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number sixty-three in the U.S.
The single was due to be the fourth single from MH in the UK, however, due to the underperformance of the third single there, "Because of You", the single was cancelled, despite the video being serviced to television music channels there. The remix features singer R. Kelly.
Music video
The video was shot in Los Angeles, California in February 2003. The video starts out with word "That Girl" then "starring Marques Houston". The lead in the music video starring opposite Marques Houston was long time principal dancer for B2K and IMx, Tanee McCall.
References
2002 singles
Marques Houston songs
Songs written by Ne-Yo
Songs written by Patrick "J. Que" Smith
2002 songs
The Ultimate Group singles
Songs written by Marques Houston
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Caspase-activated DNase (CAD) or DNA fragmentation factor subunit beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DFFB gene. It breaks up the DNA during apoptosis and promotes cell differentiation. It is usually an inactive monomer inhibited by ICAD. This is cleaved before dimerization.
Function
Apoptosis is a cell self-destruct process that removes toxic and/or useless cells during mammalian development and other life processes. The apoptotic process is accompanied by shrinkage and fragmentation of the cells and nuclei and degradation of the chromosomal DNA into nucleosomal units. DNA fragmentation factor (DFF) is a heterodimeric protein of 40-kD (DFFB) and 45-kD (DFFA) subunits. DFFA is the substrate for caspase-3 and triggers DNA fragmentation during apoptosis. DFF becomes activated when DFFA is cleaved by caspase-3. The cleaved fragments of DFFA dissociate from DFFB, the active component of DFF. DFFB has been found to trigger both DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation during apoptosis. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of some variants has not been determined.
Despite this gene being present in every cell, this protein is only expressed in different tissues and cell variety such as pancreas, heart, colon, leukocytes, prostate, ovary, placenta, kidney, spleen and thymus.
It is also known as caspase activated nuclease (CPAN), dna fragmentation factor 40 (DFF-40), DFF2 and DFFB. Besides, there are other nomenclatures as a result of combining the previous ones.
Structure
This heterodimer is an endonuclease with a high content of cysteine residues. It remains inactive in growing cells while it is associated with its inhibitor (ICAD, DNA fragmentation factor 45 kDa subunit, DFFA or DFF45) resulting into a complex ICAD-CAD. Their dissociation allows DFF40 to oligomerize to form a large functional complex which is by itself an active DNase.
DFF40 subunit or CAD
It weighs 40 kDa. Moreover, it contains three domains making up a CAD monomer: C1 or N-terminal CAD; C2 which conform three separate α chains and, at last, C3 which is the largest and functionally the most important. What is more, combining C3’s amino acids leads to 5 α helices, 4 β lamina and a loop at the catalytic C-terminal which interact with each other. Therefore, a cavity (active site) where DNA can fit is produced, even though there is another binding region responsible for stable DNA complex during its fragmentation.
DFF45 subunit or ICAD
DFFA is encoded by an alternatively encrypted mRNAs originating two distinct forms: short (ICAD-S) and long (ICAD-L), which act like a specific chaperone ensuring the correct CAD's folding Besides, it contains two aspartic acid residues (Asp117 and Asp224) where CAD is identified and, consequently, it stays bounded until Caspase-3 splits this union.
Activation process
Per usual in non-apoptotic growing cells caspase activated dnase is held in check inactivated in the cytoplasm thanks to the association with its inhibitor, inhibitor of caspase-activated DNase (ICAD) also known as DNA fragmentation factor 45 kDa (DFF45).
ICAD is encoded by alternatively spliced mRNAs which generate long (ICAD-L) and short (ICAD-S) forms of ICAD. Therefore, ICAD has a double function; it acts as a CAD inhibitor and also as a chaperone for CAD synthesis assisting the correct assembly of the protein.
ICAD has two caspase recognition sites at Asp117 and Asp224. CAD release from ICAD inhibition is achieved by cleavage of ICAD at these Asp residues by the caspase-3.
Caspase-3 is activated in the apoptotic cell. Caspase-3 activation is a cell requirement during early stages of the skeletal myoblast differentiation. Its catalytic site involves sulfohydryl group of Cys-285 and the imidazole ring of its His-237. The caspase-3 His-237 stabilizes the target Aspartate causing the break of the association of ICAD and CAD leaving the endonuclease CAD active allowing it to degrade chromosomal DNA.
Once the inhibitor is released and in order to properly function, two CAD monomers need to come together to form a functional dimer that has vertical symmetry.
Interactions
DFFB has been shown to interact with DFFA.
Cell differentiation
Caspase 3 is responsible for cellular differentiation, although it is unclear how this kind of protein can promote the cell apoptosis. Caspase signals resulting from the activation of nuclease CAD indicate that the cell differentiation is due to a CAD modification in chromatin structure.
CAD leads to the initiation of the DNA strand breakage, which occurs during terminal differentiation of some cell, such as skeletal muscle cell. Targeting of p21 promoter is responsible for inducing cell differentiation, which is promoted by modifying the DNA nuclear microenvironment.
The cell diversity is originated by cell differentiation, which has been attributed to the activation of specific transcription factors. It also depends on the activity of a protein or a common signal. The factor that seems to induce more cell differentiation is caspase-3 protease. This was identified as the penultimate stage of apoptosis pathways cell.
Some studies have shown that this differentiation is due to many CAD kinase substrates. Referring to the example of skeletal cells, their differentiation is associated to cleavage of the kinase MST1.
Moreover, it has been seen that CAD participates in the formation of genome whose DNA breaks during early stages of the cell differentiation. Besides, Caspase 3 induces DNA breaks in the promoter of the factor p21 and this strand breakup is related to p21 gene expression.
Cell apoptotic death
The protein caspase DNase is an endonuclease involved in the cell apoptotic process that facilitates the DNA breakup. Cell apoptotic death is a process executed by cysteine proteases that allows the animals to keep their homeostasis, also regulated by other mechanisms such as the growth and cell differentiation. This biological response is characterized by the chromosomal DNA’s degradation in tiny fragments within the nucleus of the cell. After many investigations and research, it was possible to ensure that Caspase-activated DNase is the main responsible of this destruction due to a long list of stimuli.
One of the experiments carried out by the investigators in order to prove that theory was based on the introduction of mutated form of this protein inside both TF-1 human cells and Jurkat cells, which had already reacted to the usual (not mutated) form of the endonuclease and they had dead of apoptosis. As a result, these cells died taking into account this genetic modification but they did not show DNA breakup. This was the key evidence to prove that the CAD form is implicated in this part of the process because without its contribution the fragmentation did not take place.
Later, it was found that the way how this protein induces the DNA breakup is explained by its forms CAD and ICAD, which facilitate both the entry and exit in the nucleus of the cell.
References
Further reading
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Apoptosis
EC 3.1
Nucleases
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Ahmed Tawfik (; born 1 October 1991), is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Pyramids, as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Early career
Ahmed Tawfik started his career at El Mansoura before moving to Zamalek in 2010.
In 2018, Ahmed Tawfik joined Pyramids FC.
International career
Ahmed Tawfik played for Egypt at U-20 level in 2010.
Personal life
His brothers Abdelaziz and Akram are also professional footballers.
Honours and achievements
Club
Zamalek SC
Egyptian Premier League: 2014–15
Egypt Cup: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
Egyptian Super Cup: 2016
References
1991 births
Living people
People from Sharqia Governorate
Egyptian men's footballers
Egypt men's youth international footballers
Egypt men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Egyptian Premier League players
El Mansoura SC players
Zamalek SC players
Pyramids FC players
Al Ittihad Alexandria Club players
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KUAP (89.7 FM, Hot 89.7) is a station broadcasting an urban contemporary music format. Licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, the station is owned by the board of trustees of the UA/UAPB and is based on the campus of University of Arkansas Pine Bluff.
References
External links
UAP
Radio stations established in 1983
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
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Wayne McIndoe
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Wayne Arthur McIndoe (born 27 August 1972 in Paraparaumu) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 1998 at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
International Senior tournaments
1998 – Commonwealth Games
1999 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
2000 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament
2002 – Commonwealth Games
2003 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
2003 – Champions Challenge
2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament
2004 – Summer Olympics
2004 – Champions Trophy
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
New Zealand male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
People from Paraparaumu
Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
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"All I Need to Know" is a song written by Steve Seskin and Mark Alan Springer, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in July 1995 as the second single and title track from his album of the same name. It peaked at number 8 in both the United States and Canada.
Content
The song is a positive ballad about the strength and security found in enduring love.
Critical reception
Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that "Chesney delivers a strong performance." She states that Cheney's "voice has a down to earth warmth that can make the listeners feel that [he] is relating to their own stories."
Music video
The music was directed by Chuck Kuhn, and premiered on CMT on July 22, 1995, when CMT named it a "Hot Shot". It was the last video where Chesney had a mullet.
Chart positions
"All I Need to Know" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 29, 1995.
Year-end charts
References
1995 singles
1995 songs
Kenny Chesney songs
Songs written by Steve Seskin
Songs written by Mark Alan Springer
Song recordings produced by Barry Beckett
BNA Records singles
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Miss Austria
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Miss Austria is a national Beauty pageant in Austria.
History
Began in 1929 the Miss Österreich managed by Illustriate Kronen Zeitug Agency. Since then the winner went to International Pageant of Pulchritude or famously called as Miss Universe. Lisl Goldarbeiter, Miss Austria 1929 of Vienna won the first International competition.
Started in 1929, Miss Austria franchised the Miss Europe license.
Started in 1953, Miss Austria franchised the Miss Universe license.
Started in 1955, Miss Austria franchised the Miss World license.
In 1956 Erich Reindl took over the brand of Miss Österreich or Miss Austria.
Started in 1960, Miss Austria franchised the Miss International license.
In 1992 Emil Bauer bought the Miss Austria Corporation.
In 2012 Silvia Schachermayer (formerly Silvia Hackl, Miss Austria 2004) handled the Miss Austria Corporation.
Started in 2016, Miss Austria franchised the Miss Earth license.
In 2018, Joerg Rigger made his debut to be the CEO of Miss Austria Corporation where later on Kerstin Rigger took over as CEO of Mission Austria.
The Miss Austria Organization has returned the Miss World and Miss Universe participation franchises. Therefore, Austria is not allowed to compete on both Miss World and Miss Universe pageants starting in 2018.
Note: In the pageant of Miss Austria, the first and second placed candidates of each federal state take part. So in the final there are 18 delegates from the 9 Bundesländer.
Franchise holders
The Miss Austria winner traditionally goes to Miss Universe and Miss World competitions, it sometimes could be allocated to Miss Europe. A Runner-up will take over if the winner does not qualify to represent Austria on World stage. In Schachermayer directorship between 2015 and 2017 the Miss Austria result divided into Top 3 classification winners. Before announcing the grand winner of Miss Austria, the Top 3 automatically awarded as Miss Earth Austria, Miss World Austria and lastly, Miss Universe Austria.
Titleholders
Gallery
Big Four pageants representatives
The following women have represented Austria in the Big Four international beauty pageants, the four major international beauty pageants for women. These are Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.
Miss Universe Austria
The Miss Austria competes at Miss Universe pageant. Between 2005-2012, Austria did not participate at the Miss Universe pageant due to lack sponsorship. In 2013, Miss Austria Organization regained the license to compete at the Miss Universe pageant. In 2018, the organization returned the local franchise to the MUO organization.
Miss World Austria
Miss Earth Austria
Began 2016 Miss Earth Austria becomes a major title of Miss Austria Organization. In 2018 the Miss Earth Austria moved to another franchise holder.
Different spelling of names:
http://www.vienna.at/valentina-schlager-ist-miss-austria-2010/news-20100328-08474196
See also
Miss Germany
Miss France
Miss Switzerland
External links
Miss Austria
Beauty pageants in Austria
1948 establishments in Austria
Austrian awards
Austria
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Clinton High School was a public school in Clinton serving students in grades 7 through 12. It was created in 1886 and then from the consolidation in 1961 of former high schools in southern Vermillion County, Indiana, Dana High School, Hillsdale High School, St. Bernice High School, and Blanford High School. Then in 1977 Clinton was replaced by a new building and renamed South Vermilion High School
Campus
The school was located in the center of Clinton just off Main St in the 300 Block of Blackman St. Their football field and baseball field was located at SportLand Park on the south west side of Clinton.
Consolidation
Athletics
Basketball
Clinton has an all-time record of (25) sectional Championships 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1968.
The Clinton Wildcats made it to the IHSAA Sweet Sixteen (8) times in its history and the Elite Eight (2) times in its history
Clinton also has won (4) Regional Championships 1928, 1943, 1947, 1950.
Football
The Clinton Wildcat are mostly known for their football team that has won 5 Indiana Big School Football Champions in 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1933.
Head coaches
Team Records
Conference championships
Clinton has won or shared a conference championship around nine occasions, including six Indiana High School Football Conference titles and three Western Indiana Conference titles.
State championships
Clinton has won or shared a State championship on five occasions, including three outright Indiana High School Football titles and two shared titles. In 1933 Clinton tied East Chicago Washington 6–6 in the arranged post-season North-South Mythical State Championship Game and was named Winner of Indianapolis Times & IHSAA ‘Most Outstanding Team in Indiana’
Record vs Rivals
All-State Players
A total of 19 Wildcats have been recognized as All-State by various media selectors.
Notable alumni
Emil Bildilli - Major League Baseball pitcher (1937-1941)
Chris Dal Dasso 1933 - All-State Tackle, Played at IU 1934–1936; team captain 1936, Athletic Director at Indiana University
Lawrence J. Giacoletto 1934 - Known for his work in the field of semi-conductor circuit technology.
Fred Vanzo 1934 - professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Detroit Lions and Chicago Cardinals.
John Magnabosco 1923 - Head Coach Ball State 1935-1952 Head Coach Clinton Wildcats 1931-1934 3X State Champs 31,32,33. Indiana Football Hall Of Fame
Tony Berto 1939 - Coached 39 years total - Otsego, Michigan, High School 1946–1948, Boonville HS 1948–1952, and Delphi HS 1952–1985; coached 3 sports for 24 years and 2 sports for 15 years (football, basketball, baseball, track, and golf); Delphi football record of 203 wins. Lettered at Purdue 1939–1943 in Football Basketball and Baseball. Indiana Football Hall Of Fame
Gerry Dick 1976 QB - American journalist and former news anchor at WRTV, a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana.He is best known as the current host of Inside INdiana Business, a television program owned by Grow Indiana Media Ventures.
References
Educational institutions established in 1920
Public high schools in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Vermillion County, Indiana
1920 establishments in Indiana
Education in Vermillion County, Indiana
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Pavle Kiš (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Киш; 8 July 1940 – 28 November 2018) was a Serbian footballer.
External links
Profile and photo at Hertha official site
1940 births
2018 deaths
Serbian men's footballers
Yugoslav men's footballers
FK Partizan players
Grazer AK players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Hertha BSC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
PSV Eindhoven players
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
Sportfreunde Siegen players
NK Maribor players
Men's association football forwards
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Marshall Island is an island and unorganized territory in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It lies where Penobscot Bay and Blue Hill Bay meet, between Swan's Island and Isle au Haut. Uninhabited, it is one of the largest undeveloped islands surrounding the contiguous United States.
History
Development of the island was explored in the 1980s, with wells drilled for 14 potential properties, but these plans fell through due to a weak real estate market. The island was purchased in three parcels by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust in 2003 and 2004 for a total cost of $6.3 million.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the unorganized territory has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.1 km2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) is land and 3.9 square miles (10.1 km2) is water (71%).
Covering 985 acres, Marshall Island is the 11th largest island in Maine. It is almost entirely forested, apart from a pair of discontinued runways. While it has a primarily rocky coast, it also has more than ten beaches, the largest of which is located on the southeastern side of the island in Sand Cove.
Activities
Maine Coast Heritage Trust has turned the island into Ed Woodsum Preserve, which is open to the public. The land trust has campsites available on the island, and maintains hiking trails that surround and cross the island. It also advertises the island as an ideal location for boating, birdwatching and swimming at its sandy beaches. The island is also open to hunting and fishing.
References
Islands of Hancock County, Maine
Unorganized territories in Maine
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The Player's Handbook (spelled Players Handbook in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)) is the name given to one of the core rulebooks in every edition of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). It does not contain the complete set of rules for the game, and only includes rules for use by players of the game. Additional rules, for use by Dungeon Masters (DMs), who referee the game, can be found in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Many optional rules, such as those governing extremely high-level players, and some of the more obscure spells, are found in other sources.
Since the first edition, the Player's Handbook has contained tables and rules for creating characters, lists of the abilities of the different character classes, the properties and costs of equipment, descriptions of spells that magic-using character classes (such as wizards or clerics) can cast, and numerous other rules governing gameplay. Both the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Player's Handbook give advice, tips, and suggestions for various styles of play. For most editions of D&D, The Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual make up the core rulebooks.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
The first Players Handbook was released in June 1978 as a 128-page hardcover. It was written by Gary Gygax and edited by Mike Carr, who also wrote the foreword. The original cover art was by D.A. Trampier, who also provided interior illustrations along with David C. Sutherland III. In this edition, the game rules were divided between the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide, which was printed later. Later editions of the game moved the bulk of the game rules to the Player's Handbook, leaving information needed chiefly by the DM in the Dungeon Master's Guide. The open-ended nature of the new rules mandated that for game campaigns to be run successfully they would now need a referee or Dungeon Master.
The Players Handbook contained the information that players needed for playing the standard character classes: cleric, druid, fighter, ranger, paladin, magic-user, illusionist, thief, assassin, and monk. The book also included information on non-human races, such as dwarves, elves, and halflings, as well as character abilities, equipment such as armor and weapons, descriptions of spells, and optional rules to add psionics to the game.
The original Players Handbook was reviewed by Don Turnbull in issue No. 10 of White Dwarf, who gave the book a rating of 10 out of 10. Turnbull noted, "I don't think I have ever seen a product sell so quickly as did the Handbook when it first appeared on the Games Workshop stand at Dragonmeet", a British role-playing game convention; after the convention, he studied the book and concluded that "whereas the original rules are ambiguous and muddled, the Handbook is a detailed and coherent game-system, and very sophisticated." Turnbull felt a bit of apprehension at the amount of time it would require to digest all the new material, but concluded by saying "I said of the Monster Manual that it was TSR's most impressive publication to date; that is no longer true—this accolade must belong to the Handbook which is nothing short of a triumph."
In 1983, TSR changed the cover art of the Players Handbook, although the interior contents remained the same. This printing featured cover art by Jeff Easley. Printings with this cover also bear an orange spine that fits in with other Advanced Dungeons & Dragons books.
Numerous foreign editions of the Players Handbook were published, including versions for the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Germany. Games Workshop (U.K.) published a softcover version also in 1978.
Dealers continued to place orders for the 1st edition Players Handbook even after 2nd edition was released, causing the final printing to be in July 1990, a year after the release of 2nd edition.
In 1999, a paperback reprint of the first edition was released.
In 2012, Wizards of the Coast released a new printing of the original book, billed as the "1st Edition Premium Player's Handbook", as part of a set of limited-edition reprints of the original 1st Edition core rulebooks: the Monster Manual, Player's Handbook, and Dungeon Master's Guide. These premium versions of the original AD&D rulebooks were reprinted with the original art and content, but feature a new cover design. Purchase of the reprinted Player's Handbook helped support the Gygax Memorial Fund—established to immortalize Gary Gygax with a memorial statue in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Scott Taylor for Black Gate in 2014 listed the 1st edition AD&D Player's Handbook by David Trampier as #1 in The Top 10 TSR Cover Paintings of All Time.
Reviews
Casus Belli (Issue 5 - Sep 1981)
Casus Belli #34 (Aug 1986)
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition
The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition Player's Handbook was a 256-page hardcover book written by David "Zeb" Cook and released in 1989. The original cover art is by Jeff Easley, and the book featured eight full-page illustrations in color, as well as other interior illustrations by Douglas Chaffee, Larry Elmore, Craig Farley, John and Laura Lakey, Erik Olson, Jack Pennington, Jeff Butler, Jeff Easley, Jean E. Martin, and Dave Sutherland.
The Player's Handbook for 2nd edition was designed to be compatible with 1st edition rules, but the information in the book was streamlined and clarified. The book contained the information on how to play the standard character classes organized in categories consisting of warriors (fighters, paladins, and rangers), wizards (mages and specialist wizards such as illusionists), priests (clerics, with guidelines for variance by mythos, including the druid as an example), and rogues (thieves and bards); while most character classes remained similar to their versions in the 1st edition rules, the bard was regularized to function more like the other classes, and the assassin and monk were removed. TSR, Inc. also removed some races from the game, such as half-orcs, although some of these were added back into the game in supplements, such as The Complete Book of Humanoids.
It was in the Player's Option - Spells & Magic book for the second edition that the artificier was first introduced, as a specialist choice for magic users specifically. A set of optional rules for proficiencies was added, to represent skills, and sections detailing role-playing, combat, magic, time and movement, equipment, and spell descriptions were all expanded from the original book. The book included major changes regarding character classes, races, and magic, and incorporated many new rules that had been published in supplements such as Unearthed Arcana and Dragonlance Adventures.
In 1995, a new version of the 2nd edition Player's Handbook was released as part of TSR's 25th anniversary. The book was revised, becoming sixty-four pages larger, mainly due to layout changes and new artwork. A new foreword in this edition specifically stated that the book was not Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition.
The 2nd edition Player's Handbook was reproduced as a premium reprint on May 21, 2013.
Reception
In the May 1989 edition of Games International, James Wallis called the 2nd edition "an improvement over the original", but concluded that it was "a step forward for the game, but a very small step." Wallis felt that the many improvements called for by the "archaic mechanics" and "hugely overly-complex" rules had not been addressed, and that the game still provided "a terrible introduction to role-playing." He concluded that the designer "lacked the vision to see what could have been done with the material", and gave the book a below-average rating of 2 out of 5, saying, "AD&D may be the biggest selling rolegame of all time, but like the IBM PC, that doesn't mean that it isn't thoroughly obsolete and to be avoided."
The 2nd edition Player's Handbook was an Origins and Gamer's Choice award winner. Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, called the book "a vast improvement" over the 1st edition book; he noted that the monk character class had been "banished to Oriental Adventures where it belongs", but commented that the spell descriptions "have positively bloated to over 100 pages".
Stephan Wieck reviewed the Player's Handbook within a broader review of the 2nd Edition rules in a 1989 issue of White Wolf. He saw the revised rules as a clear improvement. He noted that its "interior is laid out very well and is graphically attractive" with a helpful color scheme.
Reviews
Magia i Miecz #22 (October 1995) (Polish)
Jeux & Stratégie #58
Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition
The third edition, published August 10, 2000, (with the Player's Handbook debuting at that year's Gen Con, in August 2000) represented a major overhaul of the game, including the adoption of the d20 system. The third edition also dropped the word Advanced from the title, as the publisher decided to publish only one version of the game instead of both basic and advanced versions.
Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, and Skip Williams all contributed to the 3rd edition Players Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual, and then each designer wrote one of the books based on those contributions. Tweet is credited with the book's design. Cover art is by Henry Higginbotham, with interior art by Lars Grant-West, Scott Fischer, John Foster, Todd Lockwood, David Martin, Arnie Swekel, and Sam Wood. The 3rd edition Player's Handbook also saw the return of half-orcs and monks to the core rules set, along with some all-new classes.
The reviewer from Pyramid commented on the release of third edition, stating: "There's a lot to like about Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition as seen in the Player's Handbook. The new artwork is gorgeous and evocative, and in the 286 pages of the main rulebook there's a lot of well-written and tightly packed rules." Another reviewer wrote a response to the first review. A third reviewer felt that the design team "smoothed out the rough edges from Advanced Dungeons & Dragon 2nd Edition and added tons of new goodies to make D&D 3rd Edition the best combat-oriented RPG you can buy".
In July 2003, the rules were revised again to version 3.5 based on two years of player feedback. Revisions to the Player's Handbook included the classes becoming more balanced against each other. When asked about the changes from the prior Player's Handbook release, Skip Williams said "I think they range from the almost invisible (unless it affects your character directly) to the pretty radical," while Andy Collins replied "Well, I don't think I'd call any of the changes "radical." Even though some characters will undergo some significant changes, the aim is for the character to still feel like the same character, only with more interesting and balanced options." Andy Collins is credited for the Player's Handbook 3.5 revision. Cover art is by Henry Higginbotham, with interior art by Lars Grant-West, Scott Fischer, John Foster, Jeremy Jarvis, Todd Lockwood, David Martin, Wayne Reynolds, Arnie Swekel, and Sam Wood.
May 2006 saw the release of the Player's Handbook II, designed to follow up the standard Player's Handbook. This book was designed by David Noonan. It contains four new classes, along with new spells, feats, and new role-playing options. Its cover pays homage to the 1st edition Player's Handbook.
The 3.5 edition Player's Handbook was reproduced as a premium reprint on September 18, 2012.
Reviews
SF Site
Envoyer #53
Envoyer
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition
On June 6, 2008, the Fourth Edition Player's Handbook, subtitled Arcane, Divine and Martial Heroes, was released. It was originally announced that the 4th edition's three core rulebooks would be released over a three-month period, but the date changed after customer feedback revealed a majority preference among D&D customers to have all three core rulebooks released in the same month. The Fourth Edition Player's Handbook was designed by Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, and James Wyatt. The front cover illustration was by Wayne Reynolds and the back cover illustration was by Dan Scott, with interior illustrations by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai, Matt Cavotta, Eric Deschamps, Wayne England, David Griffith, Ralph Horsley, Howard Lyon, Raven Mimura, Lee Moyer, William O'Connor, Steve Prescott, Dan Scott, Anne Stokes, Franz Vohwinkel, and Eva Widermann.
The first Player's Handbook includes eight classes: cleric, fighter, paladin, ranger, rogue, warlock, warlord, and wizard, and eight races: dragonborn, dwarf, eladrin, elf, human, half-elf, halfling, and tiefling. The warlock and warlord classes, and the dragonborn and tiefling races, represented new additions to the core rules, while the book left out previous core elements such as the monk and bard classes and the gnome and half-orc races. Wizards of the Coast emphasized that those elements would be coming in subsequent Player's Handbooks and would be considered to be as central to the game as those in the first book.
The 4th edition Player's Handbook 2, subtitled Arcane, Divine and Primal Heroes, was released on March 17, 2009. The Player's Handbook 2 includes eight classes: the avenger, barbarian, bard, druid, invoker, shaman, sorcerer, and warden, and five races: the deva, gnome, goliath, half-orc, and shifter. The book reached No. 28 on USA Todays bestseller list the week of March 26, 2009 and No. 14 on the Wall Street Journals non-fiction bestseller list a week later.
A third book in the series, Player's Handbook 3, subtitled Psionic, Divine and Primal Heroes, was released on March 16, 2010. Retrieved on 2011-02-20. The book was designed by Mike Mearls, Bruce R. Cordell, and Robert J. Schwalb, and featured cover art by Michael Komarck and interior art by Ralph Beisner, Eric Belisle, Kerem Beyit, Wayne England, Jason A. Engle, Carl Frank, Randy Gallegos, Adam Gillespie, Ralph Horsley, Roberto Marchesi, Jake Masbruch, Jim Nelson, William O'Connor, Hector Ortiz, Shane Nitzche, Wayne Reynolds, Chris Seaman, John Stanko, Matias Tapia, Beth Trott, Francis Tsai, Eva Widermann, Sam Wood, Ben Wootten, and Kieran Yanner. It includes six classes: ardent, battlemind, monk, psion, runepriest, and seeker, along with four races: wilden, the minotaur, githzerai, and shardminds. The PHB3 also includes new multi-classing rules for hybrid characters.
Reviews
Pyramid, Steve Jackson Games
Pyramid, Steve Jackson Games
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition
The fifth edition Player's Handbook was released on August 19, 2014. The Player's Handbook contains the basic rules of the 5e system, the base classes and races, and character customization options.
Reception
In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending September 1, 2014", Player's Handbook was #1 in "Hardcover Nonfiction" and sold 22,090 units. It remained in the top 25 for four weeks. The Player's Handbook was the top selling book at Amazon on its release day.
The 5th edition Player's Handbook won the 2015 Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game and Fan Favorite Role Playing Game. The book won three 2015 gold ENnie Awards, "Best Game", "Best Rules", "Product of the Year", and one silver award for "Best Writing" by Jeremy Crawford, James Wyatt, Robert J. Schwalb, and Bruce R. Cordell.
Chuck Francisco of mania.com commented: "While it was an easily accessible system, 4e left a lukewarm feeling with my gaming group. There was something too generic and uninteresting about player characters which pervaded the system, especially in the wake of 3.5e (which some felt provided too many options so as to be confusing). In the process, 4e characters lost an indescribable crunchy feeling, but I'm pleased to say that it's been brought back for the newest installment of this venerated table top series."
Andrew Zimmerman Jones of Black Gate comments on the 5th edition Player's Handbook: "Their rules light approach make it a natural system for old fans to bring new players into the hobby, but even with this initial offering there are enough customization options to keep old school gamers happy playing with it."
See also
Editions of Dungeons & Dragons
List of alternate Dungeons & Dragons classes
References
Further reading
"Sage Advice", Dragon #148.
"Sage Advice", Dragon #149.
"Sage Advice", Dragon #157.
1978 books
1989 books
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2003 books
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2014 books
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Mohsen Yousefi (, born May 26, 1984) is a retired Iranian footballer who last played for Machine Sazi in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
Club career
Yousefi has played with Esteghlal from 2009 until 2012.
Club career statistics
Honours
Club
Iran's Premier Football League
Runner up: 1
2010/11 with Esteghlal
Hazfi Cup
Winner: 1
2011/12 with Esteghlal
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Iran men's international footballers
Iranian men's footballers
Shamoushak Noshahr F.C. players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Saba Qom F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
People from Nur, Iran
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Mazandaran province
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Carl Jacobsens Vej is a street in the Valby district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Sjælør Boulevard on the rear side of Vestre Cemetery in the east to Gammel Køge Landevej in the west. The street is lined by a mixture of converted industrial complexes from the beginning of the 20th century, building society developments and modern apartment buildings from the 2010s.
History
Carl Jacobsens Vej is the backbone of an industrial zone which developed along the north side of a freight railway line opened in 1909. Many of the factories had short railway arms providing them with direct access to the railway network.
There were plans to replace many of the industrial buildings with modern offices in the 1980s but the plans were given up after public opposition. The buildings were instead adapted for other use.
Carl Hacobsens Vej developed into a popular location for art galleries and creative businesses in the 2000s, but most of the art galleries moved closer to the city centre during the Financial Crisis in 2009. In the 2010, Carl Hacobsen has been subject to extensive redevelopment with many new apartment buildings.
Notable buildings and residents
On the north side of Carl Jacobsens Vej is a development of building society houses built by Frederiksberg Arbejders Boligforening (Frederiksberg Workers' Building Society) for blue and white collar workers at the nearby Carlsberg and Trekroner breweries in 1902-05. It consists of 26 houses located on Karensgade, Gerdasgade, Kløverbladsgade and Trekronergade. They were designed by Ejner Blytmann and originally contained a total of 104 dwellings which has been merged into half as many in connection with a renovation.
The large industrial complex which extends north along the west side of Kløverbladsgade is the former headquarters of Dansk Pressefabrik from 1923. The factory produced bottle tops both for the beer and dairy industry. Several creative businesses are now headquartered in the complex, including the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group. The building is owned by DADES.
The former premises of Københavns Sukkerfafinaderi (Mo. 25), a sugar refinery from 1913–14, are now known as Sukkertoppen. Its Gründerzeit buildings were designed by Arthur Wittmaack were adapted for use by Copenhagen Technical College by Kristian Isager in 1991. A four-story high, covered rambla connects the old and new buildings. The artist Henning Dangaard-Sørensen has created artworks for the complex.
No. 29-37 is the former premises of Scandinavian Henkel. Henkel's old Neo-Baroque main building with its large, rounded pediment was originally built for Skandinavisk Frøkompagni in 1918-19 to design by Ole Falkentorp and F. Freese. It is attached to a former warehouse from 1930 and an administration building from 1938. It has housed the Danish Maritime Authority. To the rear is a large, four-story factory building attached to a watertower to the northeast. It is still used by the Henkel subsidiary Ecolab is still using the factory buildings.
New buildings include an apartment building at No. 16 by Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects (2015).
Transport
Sjælør station is located just south of the beginning of the street. Ny Ellebjerg station is located a little to the south of the central part of the street.
References
External links
Streets in Valby
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Elliot Levine
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Elliot Brett Levine (born September 28, 1963) is an American pianist and keyboardist. He had two record releases on the Nashville-based Artifex records label between 1999 and 2004. His CD projects have been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal Online and the Washington Post. In March 2012 he was the first person to use an iPad Keytar, an iPad with a guitar strap, in a live performance posted to YouTube.
Levine has toured with Wilson Pickett and Heatwave (Always & Forever/Boogie Nights). He has opened for Brian McKnight, Freddie Jackson, McCoy Tyner, and Gerald Albright. He has had the #1 song on mp3.com, receiving over 1,000,000 downloads, which was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and CNN.
Levine has four internationally released CDs. He has headlined at Blues Alley and the Kennedy Center. His playing has been described by Jazz Times as "showing plenty of talent, though also criticized as having "feather-weight play against heavy-leaden R&B backdrops". In 2003, he scored the music to an Emmy nominated documentary, "Teens in Between". His music was also used on "Inside the NBA" on TBS (TV Channel) (2001), as well as an independent college movie, "Friends With Benefits" (2003). He is also featured on the worldwide Karvavena release "The Abduction of the Art of Noise". He currently tours in the United States as a member of Heatwave. During 2020/2021, he performed a series of streamed backyard performances which raised over $2,000 each for the Maryland Food Bank and Shepherd's Table during the COVID-19 pandemic
It was also reported that he is part owner of Authentic (racehorse), the horse that won the Kentucky Derby
Discography
As leader
Sugar Honey Iced Tea (2022) Tilley
347 Live! (2013) Tilley
Live +7 (2007) Tilley
The Funk, The Whole Funk, and Nothin' But the Funk (2004) Tilley
Live Bootleg (2001) MP3.COM
Live at Bayou Blues (2001) MP3.COM
Smash, with Ron Holloway (2000) Tilley
Urban Grooves (1997) Artifex Records
Urban Grooves EP (1997) Artifex Records
With Light Images (1993) Artifex Records
As sideman
Christian "Big New York" de Mesones You Only Live Twice (2023) Independent #50 Billboard Smooth Jazz
Keith Mason I Surrender All (2020) Independent
Christian "Big New York" de Mesones They Call me Big New York (2020) Independent
Christian "Big New York" de Mesones Latin Jive Redux (2017) Independent
Christian "Big New York" de Mesones Good Old Days (2016) Independent
Kenny Wright Experience Herbie Miles and Me (2010) Knee Deep Records
Tony Whitfield Pleasure Sensitive 2 (2004) OASA Records
Tony Whitfield New York Hustle, with Onaje Allan Gumbs, Hiram Bullock, and Jerry Hey (2003) OASA Records
Eddie Anderson Good Friends (2003) Independent
Eddie Anderson Christmas Album (2002) Independent
Tony Whitfield Pleasure Sensitive 2 (2000) OASA Records
Ski Johnson Ski Supreme (2000) Wide-A-Wake Records
Pete Marinovich Second Voice (1999)
Eddie Anderson Thick Funk (1999) Independent
Moose and the Bulletproof Blues Band Movin On' (1996) Blues Cancer Records
Ski Johnson in Your Eyes (1994) Wide-A-Wake Records
Ski Johnson Tell Me Something Good EP (1994) Wide-A-Wake Records
Ivan Smart Red Nights (1992) Smart-eye Productions
Compilations
The Abduction of the Art of Noise (2004) Karvavena Records
Walking on Pennsylvania Avenue (2001) Open Source Music
MP3.COM 103 of the best songs you've never heard, vol. 4 (2000) MP3.COM
The Best of Artifex Records (1997) Artifex Records
Artifex Records American Express Jazz Sampler (1994) Artifex Records
References
Jewish American musicians
Living people
1963 births
Musicians from Washington, D.C.
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
Musicians
Jewish jazz musicians
Heatwave (band) members
20th-century American pianists
21st-century American pianists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
21st-century American Jews
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1993–94 Sussex County Football League
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The 1993–94 Sussex County Football League season was the 69th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.
Division One
Division One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs, promoted from Division Two:
Crowborough Athletic
East Grinstead
Stamco
League table
Division Two
Division Two featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:
Midhurst & Easebourne, relegated from Division One
Steyning Town, joined from the Combined Counties League
Storrington, promoted from Division Three
Withdean, promoted from Division Three
League table
Division Three
Division Three featured eleven clubs which competed in the division last season, along with five new clubs:
Edwards Sports
Haywards Heath Town, relegated from Division Two
Lingfield, joined from the Mid-Sussex League
Seaford Town, relegated from Division Two
Sunallon
League table
References
1993-94
1993–94 in English football leagues
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Fives is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France, since 1858 part of Lille.
It gave its name to an engineering group founded in the nineteenth century, the Compagnie de Fives-Lille.
Heraldry
See also
Communes of the Nord department
SC Fives, a former French football club from Fives
Lille
Former communes of Nord (French department)
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Paolo Vergani (1750–1821) was an Italian Catholic political economist who wrote on the economy of the Papal States.
Biography
Born near Milan, as a student he devoted himself especially to ecclesiastical and civil law, and history. Having won distinction in theology, and been ordained priest, he went to Rome the better to prosecute his studies and soon became a Canon of St. John Lateran. It was then that he wrote the Trattato sulla pena di morte (2nd ed., Milan, 1780), the Discorso sulla giustizia criminale, and Dell'enormità del duello, which earned for him a distinguished position among the jurists of the eighteenth century and particularly contributed to the reform of the criminal law. It was also probably due to them that he was appointed assessor general of finances and commerce, and inspector of agriculture and he arts.
He wrote on the financial system of the Papal States as reformed by Pius VI (Rome, 1791), taking the position of an advocate of import duties for the protection of home industries, and maintaining that agriculture cannot be the only source of wealth in a state. He displays at the same time familiarity with the history of political economy, and also appeals to religion and the duty of Christian charity, asserting the necessity of protecting and fostering the home industries, which he argued provide occupation for a large number of people, while manufacturing and foreign importation give work to only a few. This literary activity was interrupted for some thirty years: the Lateran Chapter having been dispersed in 1811, Monsignor Vergani went to Paris, where he supported himself by giving lessons in Italian, and where he died. He also published La législation de Napoléon-le-Grand considéréé dans ses rapports avec l'agriculture (Paris, 1812), Essai historique sur le dernière persécution de l'Église (1814) and "Le idee liberali, ultimo rifugio dei nemici della regione e del trono." (1816)
Works
References
Franco Venturi, ‘Nota introduttiva’ to Paolo Vergani, Illuministi Italiani, vol. VII: Riformatori delle antiche repubbliche, dei ducati, dello stato pontificio e delle isole, eds. Giuseppe Giarrizzo, Gianfranco Torcellan, and Franco Venturi (Milan: Ricciardi, 1965), 629–644.
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Italian economists
1753 births
1820 deaths
18th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Economic history of the Holy See
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Italian counter-revolutionaries
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Nagarze
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Nagarze may refer to places in Tibet:
Nagarzê County, a county
Nagarzê, Tibet, a town
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Gowar
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Gowar may refer to:
Gowar Riding, a ward in the Shire of Maldon, Victoria, Australia.
Ghawar Field, a gigantic oil field in Saudi Arabia.
Goward
Ernest Goward, Indian cricketer
Pru Goward, Australian politician
Russell Goward, American politician
Ryan Goward, English footballer
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Latfi
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Latfi (, also Romanized as Laţfī) is a village in Margan Rural District, in the Central District of Hirmand County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 263, in 43 families.
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Populated places in Hirmand County
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Rockgiganten vs. Strassenköter
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Rockgiganten vs. Strassenköter (also Rockgiganten vs. Straßenköter; "Rock giants vs. street mutts") is a split EP by German bands Die Ärzte and Terrorgruppe. Both bands contribute two songs each. The first track "Mach die Augen zu" was later released on the Die Ärzte tribute album Götterdämmerung (1997).
Track listing
Terrorgruppe
1. "Mach die Augen zu" [Close the eyes] - 3:13
2. "Kopfüber in die Hölle" [Headfirst into hell] - 2:16
Die Ärzte
3. "Namen vergessen" [Name forgotten] - 3:19
4. "Rumhängen" [Hanging around] - 4:58
1997 singles
Split EPs
German-language albums
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Grand Forks (album)
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Grand Forks is a 2007 concept album by Tom Brosseau. It is about the devastating Red River Flood of 1997 that struck Brosseau's hometown of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Produced and recorded by Gregory Page, co-produced by John Doe. Liner notes penned by Pat Owens & Ed Schafer. In 2007, Brosseau was presented the Key to the City of Grand Forks, North Dakota by mayor Michael R. Brown.
Track listing
"I Fly Wherever I Go"
"Fork in the Road" (featuring John Doe and Hilary Hahn)
"There’s More Than One Way to Dance"
"Blue Part of the Windshield" (featuring Hilary Hahn)
"Down on Skidrow"
"Here Comes the Water Now"
"Plaid Lined Jacket"
"Dark and Shiny Gun"
"97 Flood"
Personnel
Tom Brosseau: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Gregory Page: Pump organ, additional guitars, backing vocals
John Doe: backing vocals on track 2
Hillary Hahn: Violin on tracks 2 and 4
Doug Meyer: Slide guitar on tracks 1, 3, and 6
Rob Thorsen: Upright bass on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7
2007 albums
Concept albums
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Music of North Dakota
Tom Brosseau albums
1997 Red River flood
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6k%C3%A9nyes
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Kökényes
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Kökényes (also Kuknis, or Quinquenus; died after 1150) was a Hungarian prelate in the 12th century, who served as Archbishop of Esztergom around 1150.
Life
Based on his name, Kökényes was presumably born into the gens (clan) Kökényesradnót of Hispanic or French origin. It is possible his nephew was Mikod, Bishop of Győr. Historian Gyula Pauler identified his person with that provost Quuchinus, who appears in an undated royal charter, when King Géza II confirmed his father's donations to the Csatár Abbey.
Only one reliable source, the Kievan Chronicle mentioned his primacy. According to its narrative, when Géza II led his army against Volodimirko of Halych in the autumn of 1150, he captured Sanok, but Volodimirko bribed the group of Hungarian noblemen, including Archbishop "Kuknis" (), who persuaded Géza to leave Halych before November. The narration reflects Kökényes' secular influence in the Hungarian royal court.
According to a non-authentic charter, which is allegedly dated to 1145, Kökényes (now "Quinquenus") was already serving as Archbishop of Esztergom in that year. However the document (a royal donation letter), which proved to be a 15th-century forgery, contains several anachronistic elements and its witness list reflects the 1148–50 political and archontological snapshot. Kökényes possibly died either in 1150 or 1151 after a brief episcopal activity, as Martyrius succeeded him in 1151.
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Sources
Archbishops of Esztergom
1150s deaths
12th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Hungary
Kökényesradnót (genus)
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Frank Wuco
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Frank Edward Wuco is a United States government official and former conservative talk radio host. He has served in multiple positions in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Wuco has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories, including through a fictional character who supposedly is a former jihadist who now exposes aspects of Islam-inspired terrorism.
Career
Wuco previously served in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer. Wuco completed Navy recruit training at the Naval Training Center San Diego in 1981. His postings included the USS Fox between 1987 and 1989. He reportedly retired from the Navy in 2004. He later worked at CENTCOM, where he served under future White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Wuco is the Founder and CEO of a security consultancy called Red Mind Solutions. He was the editor of a blog titled The Daily SITREP. He hosted the weekly Frank Wuco Radio Show on WFLA AM 970 in Tampa Bay from 2011 to 2013.
From 2017 to November 2019, Wuco served as a senior White House advisor to the United States Department of Homeland Security. As White House adviser to DHS, Wuco led a team tasked with enforcing President Donald Trump's executive orders, including the administration's travel ban policies. According to Politico, John F. Kelly and his staff were often at odds with Wuco, with one person close to Kelly commenting that Wuco "knows nothing about the mission" of the department and "serves little purpose or value."
In November 2019, Wuco was appointed a senior advisor in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance of the State Department. In August 2020, Wuco was hired by the U.S. Agency for Global Media. In 2020, the White House unsuccessfully sought to place Wuco in the Department of Defense.
Promotion of conspiracy theories
Prior to serving in the Trump Administration, Wuco hosted a talk radio show in Florida, where he promoted birtherism and criticized Islam. He commented, for instance, that "Obama knew nothing of the 'black American experience,' defended the initial speculation in the media that Muslim extremists were responsible for the mass killing in Norway, and said that gay people had hijacked the word 'gay' from happy people". He also created and played the part of a supposed former Muslim jidahist on his radio show, which he used to vent critiques of Islam and American policy.
Among the many conspiracy theories he promoted on his radio show was that Barack Obama's memoir was actually ghostwritten by former radical left militant Bill Ayers, that former CIA director John Brennan was a Muslim and that former attorney general Eric Holder had been a member of the Black Panthers.
In January 2010, Wuco created a fictional character called Faud Wasul. According to reporting by Mother Jones, Wasul is a "fictional terrorist whose 'model behavior' led him to be released from US custody so that he could tour the United States to talk about jihad". Wuco co-hosted or guest hosted role-playing as "Faud Wasul" sporting a keffiyeh scarf, faking an Arab accent, and impersonating a jihadist in multiple video blogs, on radio shows, and in live speeches.
In a September 2012 appearance on a right-wing radio program, Wuco claimed that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group, and that her parents were members of the organization.
In January 2013, Wuco attacked Colin Powell for his condemnation of racism in the Republican Party. In February 2013, he claimed that John Brennan, then the nominee to be the director of the CIA, had converted to Islam when he was stationed in Saudi Arabia. Wuco interviewed former FBI agent John Guandolo, who is the only source for the unsubstantiated claim. In a May 2013 episode of his radio show, Wuco falsely claimed that then-Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in the Black Panthers in the 1970s.
In January 2016, when speaking to The Dougherty Report, he was asked why the U.S. doesn't just turn Syria and Iran into "glass already". Wuco responded: "Um well, I — I mean, I know what you're getting at... I mean, it's, it's that our, I mean it's been our — I don't think it's been our policy really to just start nuking countries. I think if we were going to have done that, my preference would have been to have dropped a couple of low-yield tactical nuclear weapons over Afghanistan the day after 9/11 to send a definite message to the world that they had screwed up in a big way".
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American conspiracy theorists
American critics of Islam
American conservative talk radio hosts
United States Navy officers
Trump administration personnel
United States Department of Homeland Security officials
United States Department of State officials
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Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
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Metawin Opas-iamkajorn (; born 21 February 1999), widely known as Win () is a Thai actor of Chinese descent. He gained fame in 2020 with his acting debut and has since received recognition in both the entertainment and fashion industries. He currently serves as a brand ambassador for the renowned Italian luxury brand, Prada and has been honored in the distinguished Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia class of 2023.
Education and personal life
Metawin was born in Bangkok, Thailand and is the third among four siblings, with older sisters Mintra and Mesa and younger brother Metas. Metawin's family owns a female Chihuahua dog named Charlotte, and a pair of Shetland Sheepdogs named Bentley and Cartier.
He started his studies at Denla Kindergarten School, and went to Assumption College a private Catholic boys school in Bangkok for his primary education, and had a brief summer course at Assumption College Bangrak. He then went to Panyarat High School for secondary education.
In March and April of 2015, he participated in a 42-day summer program in Taiwan to study Mandarin language and experiencing cultural exchange.
In the 11th grade he went to Belmond–Klemme Community School District in Iowa, USA as an exchange student where he passed the General Education Development (GED).
Upon his return, Metawin bypassed the 12th grade and enrolled directly in the faculty of economics international program at Thammasat University, one of Thailand's highly competitive universities with rigorous entrance exams, until he graduated in 2020. His graduation ceremony which has been postponed for 2 years due to the covid-19 pandemic finally be held on May 27th 2022.
During his time as an exchange student Metawin actively participated in his school's extracurricular activities, he became a member of the school band's percussion choir where his group received a superior (Division I) rating. he also played American football and was part of his high school's soccer team. He used to play golf competitively during his childhood and won several tournaments but had to quit due to injury. He still continue playing golf recreationally as is often seen on his social media.
He is fluent in 3 languages: Thai, English and Chinese.
In June 2020, Metawin launched his own fashion brand "VELENCE" who committed to donate part of its revenue to orphanages. In December 2020, the brand donated 100,000 baht each to Baan Phra Phon Foundation, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health (Children's Hospital), The Orphanage of the Thai Red Cross Society, Thai Red Cross Society, and Mahamek Home for Children.
Later in the same year, he launched "SOURI" a confectionery business he co-owns with his sister, Mintra Opas-iamkajorn a Le Cordon Bleu alumni who also has Msc (master of science degree) in food quality and innovation from the University of Leeds.
He launched his third business "VELATO" a premium ice cream brand that started receiving their first order on September 9th 2021.
Career and influence
2019—2021: Early career and breakthrough debut
Metawin entered the entertainment industry as a trainee actor under ONE31 for about a year before moving to an actor contract under GMMTV in 2019. He is known for his acting debut and leading role in 2gether: The Series which brought him to international prominence. In the first year of his career, he is named as one of the 100 Influential People in the Fashion Industry of Thailand by Vogue Magazine. He also part of the HOWE Magazine "The 50 Influential People" alongside other influencers, businessmen, and executives who have achieved success in various fields.
Due to his widespread popularity and significant online following, he has gained recognition as a sought-after endorser by various local and international brands. Notably, he has successfully secured deals with renowned companies such as Shiseido, VIVO, Lazada, CP Brand, Bangkok Bank, also AIS, the largest network provider in Thailand, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications service provider in the Philippines. Additionally, his endorsement portfolio extends to several other brands, further highlighting his appeal and influence in the industry.
He officially named his fandom "snowball power". the announcement was made on his Twitter account on February 11, 2020. The following years, his fans celebrate the anniversary of the fandom on that day.
In July 2020, Metawin lent his voice to the "THE SOUND OF HAPPINESS" campaign, a joint initiative between UNICEF, the Department of Mental Health, and JOOX aimed at promoting mental health and empowering young people in Thailand. As a well-known actor, Metawin shared his own experiences of dealing with stress and pressure during his adolescence, encouraging young people to seek help when needed. He was among 12 famous artists and influencers who volunteered to share their personal stories to make the campaign more relatable and accessible to young people. Through his participation in this campaign, he played a vital role in raising awareness of mental health issues and promoting positive energy and resilience among young people in Thailand.
In September 2020, Metawin was announced as one of the F4 members in Thailand's adaptation of the iconic Japanese manga series, Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers). Originally written by Yoko Kamio, the manga gained immense popularity and has been adapted into various television dramas and films across different countries.
In February 2021, Metawin became the first Thai artist to be advertised in space after one of his Chinese fanclubs organized a birthday project for the actor to be greeted via the Ladybeetle-1 commercial satellite. The advertisement, dubbed Into the Galaxy-Special Mission, displayed a photo of Metawin as the satellite orbited the Earth on 17 February, his date of birth according to the Gregorian calendar. This project highlights the growth of his dedicated fan base and his rising international popularity.
He is achieved the highest growth in Instagram followers among Thai actors throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022.
At GMMTV's BORDERLESS event in November 2021, it was revealed that Metawin would be appearing in his third drama series called Devil Sister. The announcement confirmed that he would be sharing the screen with actress Peechaya Wattanamontree.
Metawin is well-known for his proactive approach to acquiring acting training beyond what is offered in production workshops. Notably, he is trained by Rossukon Kongkate, one of Thailand's most prominent acting coaches.
2022—present
Metawin is a regular presence on the covers of prestigious fashion magazines such as GQ, L'Officiel, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue both domestically and internationally. Additionally, he is often featured on the official pages of esteemed luxury brands including Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Dior, Gucci, Burberry, Prada, and Moschino. He is one of the Influencers who contribute the highest EMV (Earned Media Value) for Milan Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2022 with his partnership with Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana. Sitting in the front row at Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2022 Men's Spin-Off Show in Bangkok. Metawin is one of the most popular celebrities who can attract a high volume of social buzz and digital traffic at the time. According to Launchmetrics he ranked first as top voice, post and influencer in Milan Men's Fashion Week for his appearance in the front row of Prada Spring-Summer 2023 Runway Show. He generated $4.7M in MIV (Media Impact Value) across 257 placements where he generated $1.3M in MIV with only one post.
On January 6, 2023, Italian luxury fashion house Prada appointed Metawin Opas-Iamkajorn as their global brand ambassador. He reportedly contributed $9.8 million in EMV (Earned Media Value) to the brand in 2022, the highest amount of EMV for a Thailand-based celebrity that year. In a press statement, Prada also announced that Metawin will make an appearance at the Prada fall/winter 2023 men's show in Milan on January 15, 2023. According to data and technology company Launchmetrix, his attendance generated $3.8 million in MIV (Media Impact Value) for the brand.
Forbes announced on May 18, 2023, that Metawin Opas-iamkajorn has secured a place on the highly prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2023 list. This annual selection process involved evaluating more than 4,000 candidates, considering crucial factors such as revenue, social impact, scale, inventiveness, and potential. Notably, Metawin emerged as the sole Thai thespian to be included in this coveted list for the current year.
On July 26, 2023, WISESIGHT (Thailand) Limited, a provider of social media analytics and data analysis tools, conducted a survey of popular hashtags during the first half of the year 2566 (January 1 - June 30, 2023) from over 450 significant hashtags across all social media platforms in Thailand. The purpose was to rank the top 10 hashtags with the highest number of engagements. The hashtag #winmetawin came in 8th place with over 55 million engagements, standing out as the only actor featured in the list.
On July 31, 2023, Coca-Cola introduced Metawin as the first ASEAN brand ambassador for their latest brand campaign and marketing platform, "A Recipe for Magic," which aims to inspire people to create more meaningful meal moments together. Metawin will lead the campaign across Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Filmography
In production Upcoming
Film
Television series
Variety show
Music video appearance
Discography
Single
Soundtrack and tie-ins
Accolades
Listicles
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
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Šamorin Roman Catholic Church
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The Šamorin Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Šamorín in Slovakia.
Geography
The church is located in the middle of town near all significant buildings.
History
Roman - Catholic Church with Paulin's monastery was built in late-baroque style in 1778 by J. G. Altenburg. This church has got a single-nave hall with segmented breech of presbyter and barrel-vault with groins. Facade of the church is divided by pilasters. The portal with profiled chambranle has got thin pilasters with a volute on a sett. This sett is based on these pilasters and it is also finished by cut profiled cornice with a cross. The tower built into the pinnacle facade is hidden by a ball-shaped polygonal lantern. In the inside of the church are fresco paintings by Fr. Sigrist (1778). The interior is designed in late-baroque style and the interspace is solved in a particular way of uniformity. In the western side breech of sacrarium is stucco relief of Godfather.
The members of strictly catholic Palffy family, landlords of the town, were convinced to turn local Calvinists to the Catholic Church. The count in 1652 notified the city council, that he is about to build a monastery and that he would like to base the members of the friary of Saint Francis on his property in this area. The king Carl III. on 21 August 1720 accepted activities of Saint Francis' friary in Hungary, so it means the same for the Samorin town. Later on, these monks built, in 1778, their own monastery and church, which was the only church belonging to the Saint Frances' (Paulin's) friary in the Hungarian empire. In the school, which was based in the building of the monastery, German language was used for teaching in the second half of the 18th century.
References
External links
Official website
Churches in Trnava Region
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1778
18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Slovakia
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2009–10 Coppa Titano
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The 2009-10 Coppa Titano was the fiftieth season of San Marino's oldest football competition. It began on 12 September 2009 with the first games of the Group Stage and ended in 2010 with the Final held at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle. Juvenes/Dogana were the defending champions, having won their eighth cup final last season.
Tre Fiori defeated Tre Penne 2–1 in extra time in the final, thereby earning at least a place in the first qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. They have since been promoted to the second qualifying round because Atlético Madrid, winners of the 2009–10 Europa League, are also assured of qualifying domestically for the 2010–11 Europa League through the Copa del Rey. Tre Fiori can instead qualify for the first qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League by winning the 2009–10 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, in which they are currently in the semifinals.
Competition format
The competition consists of two stages, the Group Stage and the Elimination Rounds. The Group Stage consists of three groups with five teams each. Every team plays two games (once home and once away) against every other team of its group. The top two teams from each group, as well as the two best third-placed teams, qualify for the Elimination Rounds. The Elimination Rounds are a single-game elimination tournament. Games in the Elimination Rounds are decided by extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shootout.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Elimination rounds
Quarterfinals
These matches were played on 21 April 2010.
Semifinals
These matches were played on 24 April 2010.
Final
References
External links
Official website
Coppa Titano seasons
San Marino
Coppa
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Pauline Pirok
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Pauline Pirok [pier-ock] (October 18, 1926 – July 25, 2020) was an infielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 132 lb., Pirok batted and threw right-handed. She earned the nickname Pinky Pirok.
Biography
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Pirok entered the AAGPBL in 1943 with the Kenosha Comets, playing for them two and a half years before joining the South Bend Blue Sox (1945–1948). For six years, she divided her playing time at third base and shortstop, making a few appearances as an emergency pitcher. Her most productive season came in 1943, when she hit a career-best .234 average as a 17-year-old rookie. In that same season, Pirok helped Kenosha beat the Blue Sox in a game, 10–0, collecting four hits in five at-bats, including a double and a triple. In the following series against the Rockford Peaches, which the Comets swept, she kept up her hot hitting going 4-for-10, including four of the eight runs that her team scored in the series. During two consecutive years the Comets advanced to the playoffs, but were beaten in the first round. At the end of the season, she was selected to the All-Star Team.
At one point during the 1945 season she was leading the league with 20 runs batted in, but Kenosha traded her to South Bend along with Phyllis Koehn in return for Lois Florreich and Dorothy Schroeder. After that Pirok injured her ankle and lost the rest of the season. From 1946 to 1948, she was mostly used to fill at infield, outfield and pinch hit, helping South Bend to make the playoffs in these years, but unable to reach the league finals. She was also one of two hundred players to attend the first AAGPBL spring training outside the United States, which was held in 1947 in Cuba at the Gran Stadium de La Habana.
Following her playing career, Pirok worked as a physical education teacher for 36 years in the Chicago Public School system. After retiring, she became an avid golfer to stay active. Pirok latterly lived in Orland Park, Illinois and died in July 2020 at the age of 93.
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2020 deaths
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Baseball players from Chicago
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Elysa Ayala
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Elysa Ayala (1879–1956) was an Ecuadorian writer and painter.
Biography
Elysa Ayala was the first woman in Ecuador to write stories about the issues of montubios, poor and simple peasants from the Ecuadorian coast, in her writings, which went far beyond the customs of her time. Despite the sexist and conservative atmosphere in Ecuador during that period, Elysa's early work appeared in magazines of Argentina (Pink Clouds and Revista Argentina), Chile (Events and El Nacional), Uruguay (Forward), Cuba (Hero and Cosmos), United States (America) and Spain (Valencia Voice).
Publications
I count on you (Guayaquil, 1993)
Anthology of narrators Ecuador (Quito, 1997)
Basic story anthology Ecuador (Quito, 2001)
1879 births
1956 deaths
20th-century Ecuadorian women writers
20th-century Ecuadorian writers
20th-century Ecuadorian painters
20th-century women artists
Ecuadorian women writers
Ecuadorian women painters
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Julio Gómez (footballer, born 1954)
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Julio Gómez Rendón (born 28 October 1954) is a Guatemalan footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1954 births
Living people
Guatemalan men's footballers
Guatemala men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Guatemala
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Aurora F.C. players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football defenders
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Cathkin High School
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Cathkin High School is a state secondary school in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire (Greater Glasgow), Scotland.
History
The original school was built at a cost of £1.25million and opened in November 1970 (official duties being performed by politician Peggy Herbison), around the same time as the neighbouring housing scheme at Whitlawburn was completed. It replaced Gateside School in central Cambuslang (the campus of which was thereafter occupied by Trinity High School then by South Lanarkshire College, before being demolished in 2008).
In 2008, the school relocated to a new campus (also accommodating a nursery and a special school, Rutherglen High School) on a site previously used designated as the school's playing fields situated immediately north of its original buildings, which were subsequently demolished and redeveloped for housing (the Cathkin Rise estate by Barratt).
the school had 1004 pupils on the school roll and 88 Full-time equivalent staff.
In May 2018, the school won the Scottish Senior Boys Shield in football for the first time, after beating St Ninian's High School, Giffnock on penalties in the final.
Recently the school made local headlines due to the new managements decisions to not hold proper 'prelims'. Cathkin High pupils argued that the assessments that were being held did not accurately depict the exams that they would be sitting at the end of the year.
Due to Covid-19 teens all around the world haven't been allowed to sit proper exams, the pupils felt like they would be at a huge disadvantage compared to other schools which were holding December assessments in an 'exam style'.
Houses
Cathkin uses a house system. The school is split into five houses and they are:
Burns
Carnegie
Kelvin
Livingston
Telford
Feeder Schools
Cairns Primary (Halfway), Cathkin Primary (Cathkin/Fernhill), Hallside Primary (Drumsagard Village), Loch Primary (Whitlawburn / Springhall), West Coats Primary (Cambuslang / Kirkhill).
Notable former pupils and teachers
Notable former pupils include:
Darren Young, footballer (Aberdeen, Dunfermline Athletic, Scotland u21) and manager (Albion Rovers, Alloa Athletic)
Derek Young, footballer (also Aberdeen, Dunfermline and Scotland u21 plus Partick Thistle), brother of Darren
Duncan Weir, professional rugby union player (Glasgow Warriors, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Kenny McLean professional footballer (St Mirren, Aberdeen, Norwich City, Scotland)
References
External links
profile on Education Scotland's Parentzone
Secondary schools in South Lanarkshire
Buildings and structures in Cambuslang
Educational institutions established in 1970
1970 establishments in Scotland
School buildings completed in 2008
Buildings and structures demolished in 2009
Rutherglen
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Priolo Gargallo
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Priolo Gargallo (Sicilian: Priolu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (southern Italy). It is about southeast of Palermo and about northwest of Syracuse.
The name Priolo Gargallo comes from the nobleman Marquis Gargallo who owned land in this part of Sicily.
Priolo Gargallo borders the following municipalities: Melilli, Syracuse, Solarino, Sortino.
Economy
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Sicily
Municipalities of the Province of Syracuse
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Gladys Anderson
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Gladys Louise Anderson was a New Zealand artist, born in the 19th century.
Career
Gladys Anderson was known for woodcuts and linocuts, works include The Passing Stream (c. 1929).
Anderson was exhibited with The Group, an informal art association from Christchurch, New Zealand, formed to provide a freer alternative to the Canterbury Society of Arts. She contributed works to exhibitions in: 1933 and 1934. She also exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and Otago Art Society.
New Zealand Motor Caravan Association
Gladys Anderson and her husband Andy J Anderson had a passion for motor caravans, purchasing their first vintage passenger bus in 1955. Her husband formed the NZ Motor Caravan Association and Gladys is the author of The History of the First 21 Years of the N.Z.M.C.A. Inc., 1956–1977, published in 1977 by the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association.
References
Further reading
Artist files for Gladys Anderson are held at:
Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
19th-century births
20th-century New Zealand painters
New Zealand women painters
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
People associated with the Canterbury Society of Arts
Date of death missing
20th-century New Zealand women artists
People associated with The Group (New Zealand art)
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Lou de Palingboer
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Lou de Palingboer (19 February 1898 - 23 March 1968) was the founder and figurehead of a new religious movement in the Netherlands.
Information
Lou was born Louwrens Voorthuijzen in Breezand. He had a strong religious interest from an early age, probably under the influence of his devout father. He chose the profession of fisherman. After a failed marriage he met Mien Wiertz and began to believe under her influence that he must save the world from the devil.
Voorthuijzen sold his boat and took up employment as an eel vendor at the Dappermarkt in Amsterdam, where he became known as Lou de Palingboer (Lou the eel vendor). From his market stall, he preached to his customers that he was "the resurrected body of Jesus Christ". He would elaborate further in a nearby café. A circle of followers formed around him. In 1954, he began holding weekly meetings in the Frascati and De Brakke Grond theatres, where he captivated his audience with a mix of mystical language and down-to-earth humour.
In 1957, a rich supporter bought a large house in Muiderberg in the municipality Muiden. They called it the "White House", and lived in it communally. His followers believed him to be a God. According to Harry Mulisch's Voer voor psychologen (Fodder for Psychologists), he claimed to be the author of the Bible. Some members of his group rejected medicine in favour of his blessing as a cure for ailments. Lou himself claimed to be immortal.
Around this time, Dutch society began to see them as a cult. Tensions frequently arose when one partner of a couple was not "in Lou" and the other one was. This resulted in a number of divorces in which Lou was summoned to testify, which he disliked. Lou moved to Agimont in the French-speaking part of Belgium to avoid summons of this kind.
After his death in Belgium in 1968, the movement seems to have dissipated. Wiertz, who moved to Spain, continues to have faith in him and there are a few other elderly believers left.
See also
God complex
List of people who have claimed to be Jesus
References
External links
De God die Lou heette (Dutch language) "The God that was called Lou" VPRO TV programme
Louwrens Voorthuijzen (Dutch language) biographical dictionary
1898 births
1968 deaths
People from Anna Paulowna
Dutch fishers
Dutch religious leaders
Founders of new religious movements
Deified men
Religious controversies in the Netherlands
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Nicknames in religion
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Hassan Golestaneh
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Hassan Golestaneh (), born 21 March 1983, is a world champion and bodybuilding coach and the first world medalist in the field of fitness from Iran. He is considered the founder of fitness and bodybuilding in Iran.
Early life and amateur career
Golestaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983. He is the son of Enayatollah Golestaneh, the father of incident writing in Iranian newspapers, and a descendant of Seyyed Ali Akbar Golestaneh.
He became interested in football when he was ten years old. He trained professionally under Mohammad Panjali and Nasser Hejazi. He started bodybuilding at the age of fourteen. When he was nineteen, he retired from football after an accident left his ankle injured. He pursued jujitsu for seven years and won several medals.
Career
From 2009 to 2015, Golestaneh coached the Iranian team and took it to fitness competitions in several countries. As a result, he received the 2015 Best Coach Award.
In 2016, he decided to pursue fitness professionally because of his physique. He participated in physical fitness competitions, becoming a worldwide runner-up and the first Iranian fitness medalist. After this success, Iranian newspapers called him a history-maker for Iranian fitness.
After a travel ban that denied Iranians entry to the United States, Golestaneh was the first Iranian athlete to compete there and a top ten Arnold Classic model in 2017. Also in 2017, he won a gold medal at the World Fitness Championships in the United States.
Golestaneh became a fitness and bodybuilding championship referee, the first ever in Iran. He earned the rank of international professional referee from World Referees Committee for the UAE World Championships.
He was selected as Mr. Fitness Iran.
Professional affiliations
Official and exclusive representative of the International Fitness Federation in Iran and Armenia
President of the Fitness Association of the Deaf Federation of Iran
Chairman of Shemiranat and Lavasanat Fitness Committee of Iran
Secretary of the Sports Working Group of the Iranian Entrepreneurs Association
Senior Advisor to the Athletes' House (President of Iran)
Official member of the European Fitness Association
Chairman of Shemiranat Cross Training Committee
Advocacy
In an interview with the Iranian newspaper, Yektapress, Golestaneh spoke about the restrictions on Iranian women due to the Islamic Republic, noting that the sport of fitness places no restrictions on Iranian women.
Golestaneh gave a speech to the Islamic Council that was attended by Iranian Parliament members, the head of the physical fitness committee of the parliament, and Afshin Moulai who is the chairman of the Iranian Federation of Public Sports.
References
External links
Living people
1983 births
Iranian bodybuilders
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Wola Palczewska
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Wola Palczewska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Warka, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Warka, south-east of Grójec, and south of Warsaw.
References
Wola Palczewska
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1965–66 Bahraini Premier League
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Statistics of Bahraini Premier League in the 1965–66 season.
Overview
Muharraq Club won the championship.
References
RSSSF
Bahraini Premier League seasons
Bah
1965–66 in Bahraini football
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The Brother/Sister Plays is a triptych of plays written by American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Overview
Over the course of three years, McCraney wrote the Brother/Sister Plays while studying at Yale. He describes them as a triptych rather than a trilogy, saying in an interview with Young Vic Theatre: "Each play began a different way – inspired by my brothers and sisters and all of them are dedicated to them. They are about interconnected relationships and the complexities of those." The triptych consists of In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet. Although McCraney actually wrote The Brothers Size first, it is the second installment.
Tarell Alvin McCraney was born in Liberty City, Florida, on 17 October 1980. He focused on the arts at a young age, studying at the New World School of the Arts High School where he was awarded both the Dean’s Award for Theatre and the Exemplary Artist Award. He went on to DePaul University, graduating with a BFA in Acting, and continuing to Yale School of Drama for an MFA in Playwriting.
Synopsis
A. In The Red and Brown Water
The main character of In The Red and Brown Water is Oya, a young woman who is a talented track runner. She sacrifices her ambition and a full ride scholarship to state university to stay home with her dying Mother. Oya’s life quickly becomes about relationships. An adoring young man and hard worker with a stutter, Ogun, is in love with Oya, but she is unable to resist the advances of the passionate “bad boy” Shango. Soon, Shango goes to war, and Oya moves in with Ogun. A long time friend, Elegba, visits Oya throughout her narrative and after learning he has fathered a child, Oya realizes that she is unable to have children. She pushes Ogun away at the same time that Shango returns, and shortly after, Oya learns he has impregnated a local girl, Shun. With no career and the inability to live up to societal expectations of being a mother, Oya spirals into madness to the point where she cuts off her ear in order to prove her love to Shango.
B. The Brothers Size
Set a few years later, we meet Ogun’s brother Oshoosi, who has recently been released from prison. Ogun is a hardworking man who does not want to see him go back to jail. He unsuccessfully tries to ground his free-spirited brother, whose only dream is buying a car and driving somewhere far away. While Ogun tries to get Oshoosi on the right track, Elegba, Oshoosi’s prison mate and occasional lover, just wants to have fun. He gifts Oshoosi with a car and the two go for a ride, but Elegba neglects to tell him that he is carrying cocaine in his duffel bag. A power hungry local sheriff discovers Elegba’s cocaine and instead of staying to face charges, Oshoosi runs home to Ogun. Ogun convinces his brother to run away, saying he will deny his brother’s existence when the police arrive. Oshoosi ends up fleeing to Mexico.
C. Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet is set several years in the future and introduces Elegba’s son, Marcus. Marcus is 16 and after having a dream in which Oshoosi comes to him, he seeks to discover what similarities he has with his recently deceased father. On the journey to learn more about his past, Marcus learns a surprising amount about himself as well. He meets Shua, a young man who has just moved into the area, who forces him to explore his own sexuality.
Influences
A. Yoruba
The Brother/Sister Plays have many Yoruba influences. These three plays are based on traditional Yoruba stories. This culture was brought to America during the slave trade, and later on by Nigerian immigrants and is said to be the largest existing religion to originate from Africa. A large part of this religion is based on the worship of deities, called Orisha. It is believed that the ancestor Oduduwa fell from the sky bringing Yoruba to Aye (the Earth). Within this religion, all humans have Ayanmo, or destiny, giving them the chance to become one with Oduduwa's father, the Almighty
Olodumare, which is the ultimate goal.
Many of the characters within the Brother/Sister Plays share names with different Orisha. In In the Red and Brown Water, Oya shares her name with the goddess of wind — representative of sudden change,
Elegba shares his name with the Orisha symbolizing cross roads and choices and Shun’s name comes from Orisha Oshun, the goddess of love. In The Brothers Size, another three characters share names with Yoruba Orishas: Ogun; the god of iron working, Oshoosi; the divine hunter associated with the human struggle for survival, and again, Elegba.
B. Louisiana
Much of the influence for this triptych also came from southern Louisiana. All three of the plays are set in the fictional town of San Pere, Louisiana; McCraney was raised in the Louisiana projects near the Bayou. One can see the mirroring of socio-political issues of the area in the Brother/Sister Plays like violence and crime, civil rights, racism, drag culture, etc.) Now while these are problems prevalent in the south, they are not invisible to the rest of the country. 35.2% of Louisiana’s population is African Americans, the second largest in the country; and while great strides have been made since the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, African Americans still face larger social and economic consequences than their White counterparts. 40% of African Americans under the age of 16 live in poverty, African-American men are seven times more likely to be murdered than Caucasian men, and 65% of African-American children grow up in single-parent homes. These issues are all reflected in McCraney’s plays with the absence of Oya’s father and Elegba’s son’s mother in In the Red and Brown Water, and the imprisonment of Elegba and Oshoosi for small scale crimes in The Brothers Size.
Productions
A. The Brother Sister Plays
B. In the Red and Brown Water
C. The Brothers Size
D. Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
See also
Yoruba Americans
Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Young Vic
The Public Theater
References
1. Billington, Michael. "Theatre Review: In the Red and Brown Water / Young Vic, London." The Guardian, 09 Oct. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
2. "The Brother/Sister Plays Audience Reaction.” YouTube. Public Theatre, 9 Nov. 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
3. Fisher, Philip. "Theatre Review: In the Red and Brown Water at Young Vic." Theatre Review: In the Red and Brown Water at Young Vic. British Theatre Guide, 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
4. Goldfield, David R. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990. Print.
5. Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of AfroCreole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. Print.
6. Love, Velma E. Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012. Print.
7. McCraney, Tarell Alvin. The Brother/Sister Plays. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2010. Print.
8. McCraney, Tarell Alvin. "Tarell Alvin McCraney: How to Endure Imposterphobia." Broadway Buzz.
Broadway.com, 30 Oct. 2007. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
9. Parrinder, Geoffrey. West African Religion: Illustrated from the Beliefs and Practices of the Yoruba, Ewe, Akan, and Kindred Peoples. London: Epworth, 1949. Print.
10. "Tarell Alvin McCraney." New Dramatists, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
External links
Words on Plays. ACT-SF.org. Web. 16 Apr. 2016.
The Brothers Size. seattlerep.org. Seattle Repertory Theatre. Web. 16 Apr. 2016.
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German submarine U-260
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German submarine U-260 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.
Her keel was laid down 7 May 1941 by Bremer Vulkan, of Bremen-Vegesack. She was commissioned 14 March 1942 with Kapitänleutnant Herbertus Purkhold in command.
Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-260 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two AEG GU 460/8–27 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-260 was fitted with five torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one SK C/35 naval gun, 220 rounds, and two twin C/30 anti-aircraft guns. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.
Service history
U-260 conducted nine patrols in total. On her second, U-260 was part of Spitz wolfpack which attacked Convoy ON-154, making contact with the convoy on 28 December 1942, and sinking the 4,893 GRT British freighter Empire Wagtail (lost with all hands – 43 dead). This was the only ship sunk by U-260.
Purkhold was relieved in April 1944 by Oberleutnant zur See Klaus Becker. Becker commanded the boat until March 1945.
On 12 March 1945, U-260 was scuttled south of neutral Ireland, in position , after sustaining mine damage. The minefield had been laid by , an .
After the sinking, a sealed container of papers floated to the surface. A British expert flew to Cork to examine them.
The crew of five officers and 48 crew were interned in Ireland for the remainder of the war. In her entire career, U-260 suffered no casualties to her crew.
Wolfpacks
U-260 took part in 16 wolfpacks, namely:
Blitz (22 – 26 September 1942)
Tiger (26 – 30 September 1942)
Luchs (1 – 6 October 1942)
Panther (6 – 11 October 1942)
Südwärts (24 – 26 October 1942)
Spitz (22 – 31 December 1942)
Seeteufel (21 – 30 March 1943)
Löwenherz (1 – 10 April 1943)
Lerche (10 – 15 April 1943)
Specht (21 April – 4 May 1943)
Fink (4 – 6 May 1943)
Leuthen (15 – 24 September 1943)
Rossbach (24 September – 7 October 1943)
Rügen 6 (28 December 1943 – 2 January 1944)
Rügen 5 (2 – 7 January 1944)
Rügen (7 – 11 January 1944)
Post war
The wreck site of U-260 was discovered in 1975 by local fisherman Colin Barnes after snagging nets, although it was presumed that the wreck of Counsellor (sunk due to a mine in 1917) was in the area. A friend of Mr Barnes, Joe Barry, dived on the noted position and discovered the U-boat rather than the expected cargo ship.
U-260 currently lies in about of water approximately seven kilometres south of Glandore, and is a popular scuba diving site from Baltimore, County Cork, and Union Hall.
There is recent speculation that U-260 did not actually strike a mine, but instead struck an underwater pinnacle (now known as '78 Rock' but which was uncharted at the time) leading to its damaged state.
On 2 July 2014, two experienced divers died whilst exploring the wreck. The divers had deviated from their dive plan by staying down too long, and ascended too quickly from the wreck. Both men were ruled to have died due to complications from the bends. The body of one diver was immediately recovered, and the body of the second diver was recovered later that afternoon.
Summary of raiding history
References
Bibliography
External links
Gordon Mumford's account of Convoy ONS-154
Silent Waters Running Deep - Irish Television production on U-260 (pages include copyright underwater pictures of the wreck)
Dive review and further history (appeared in Diver Magazine July 1997)
Irish Wrecks Online entry for U-260
U-260 dive review
German Type VIIC submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1942
U-boats scuttled in 1945
World War II submarines of Germany
1942 ships
Ships built in Bremen (state)
Ships sunk with no fatalities
U-boats sunk by mines
Maritime incidents in March 1945
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Walauwa or walawwa is the name given to a feudal/colonial manor house in Sri Lanka of a native headmen. It also refers to the feudal social systems that existed during the colonial era.
The term walauwa is derived from the Tamil word valavu, which denotes a compound or garden, and by implication, a large house with aristocratic connotations. The pinnacle of walauwas in the Sinhala social stratum is the wasala walauwa. Wasala is derived from the Tamil vaasal, which means an entrance. In the Sinhalese social hierarchy, a wasala walawa would typically be the ancestral residence of a mudaliyar.
Walauwas vary in style, elegance and uniqueness depending upon the financial resources of the individual families and in the village or area's social structure. Most walauwas tend to incorporate aspects of traditional pre-colonial Ceylonese architecture, as well as Dutch and later colonial influences. A walauwa usually consisted of a cluster of buildings linked by verandahs, with an internal courtyard (medamidula), which separated the private life of the family from the headman's public duties.
The walauwa were traditionally associated with the homes of the courtiers (radala), members of the royal court in Kandy. It was displaced by their colonial equivalents following the dissolution of the Kingdom of Kandy by the British.
Kandyan Walauwas
There were 20 main walauwas in the Kandyan Kingdom of Ceylon. These were (in alphabetical order):
Arapola Walauwa (demolished)
Dehigama Walauwa (demolished - Central Finance Building)
Dullewe Walauwa (part of Queen's Hotel)
Dunuwila Walauwa (currently Kandy Town Hall)
Ehelepola Walauwa (fmr Bogambara Remand Centre)
Allepola Walauwa
Eravwawala Walauwa
Galpotthawela Walauwa
Kapuwatte Walauwa
Mampitiya Walauwa (Royal Bar and Hotel)
Meegasthenna Walauwa
Moladanda Walauwa
Madugalle Walauwa (demolished)
Molligoda Walauwa (demolished)
Niyarepola Walauwa (Manor House)
Nugawela Walauwa (The Manor House)
Pilamathalawa Walauwa (President's House)
Ratwatte Walauwa (Chandra Silk House)
Nugegoda Walauwa
Angammana Walauwa
Galagoda Walauwa
Other Prominent Walauwas in Kandyan Kingdom
Aluth Walauwa, Katugastota
Angunawela Walauwa, Peradeniya
Deldeniya Walauwa, Yatinuwara
Elapatha Walauwa, Rathnapura
Maduwanwela Walawwa, Kolonne
Mahawelatenne Walauwa, Balangoda
Welivita waththe walauwa,Tumpane
Meeduma Walauwa, Rambukkana
Paranagama walauwa, Paranagama, wettewa , Galagedara
Ranwala Walauwa, Niyangoda
Elapatha Walauwa, Rathnapura
Amunugama Walauwa,Kobbekaduwa
Thambagamuwa Walauwa, Ata Kalan Koralaya, Ratnapura
Sathara Korale Walauwas (Kegalle District)
The Sathara Korale of Ceylon had 30 main walauwas, according to the Sathara Korale Viththi Grantha. They are listed alphabetically after each other.
Aludeniya Walauwa
Aluth Nuwara Walauwa
Araupala Walauwa
Asmadala Walauwa
Arrachchi Walauwa
Athurupana Walauwa
Baminiwaththa Walauwa
Dodamthale Walauwa
Edanduwawa Walauwa
Mapitigama Mahawaththa Walauwa, Meedeniya, Kegalle
Malpandeniya Walauwa
Halagiriya Walauwa
Handagama Walauwa
Harigala Walauwa
Kadigamuwa Walauwa
Kappagoda Walauwa
Kempitiya Walauwa
Keppetipola Walauwa
Kotagama Walauwa
Kumbal Oluwa Walauwa
Kumbaldiwela Walauwa
Leuke Walauwa
Madana Walauwa
Mahanthegama Walauwa
Makadawara Meddewatte Walauwa
Molligoda Walauwa
Nawa Uhangoda Walauwa
Polgasdeniya Walauwa
Rankothdiwela Walauwa
Udaththavan Walauwa
Valimanne Walauwa
Walgama Walauwa, Walgama, Rambukkana
Athurupane Walauwa Meepitiya Kegalle
Sath Korale Walauwas (Kurunegala District)
Bogollagama Walauwa
Kaudumunna Walauwa
Katupitiya Walauwa
Gopallawa Walauwa
Dangolle Walauwa, Boyagane
Palipana Walauwa
Balalla Walauwa
Moragollagama Walauwa
Rekawa Walauwa
Ralapanawa Walauwa
Moonemalle Walauwa
Sirigala Walauwa
Galabada Walauwa
Dodamkumbura Walauwa
Singhagiriya Walawa
Welagedara Walauwa
Weththewé Walauwa
Gajamadaara Walauwa
Peragasela Koralé Walauwa
Galwarama Walauwa
Mahagedara Walauwa
Ihala Walauwa (boyawalana)
Wele Walauwa (boyawalana)
Boyawalana Walauwa
Monnekulamé Walauwa
Kalalpitiyé Walauwa
Galgomuwé Walauwa
Madhurawé Walauwa
Rathmale Walauwa
Wewelwala Walauwa
Godawita Walauwa
Hunukumbure Walauwa
Udugama Walauwa
Athapaththuwe Walauwa
Gajamadaara Walauwa
Wedande Walauwa, Demataluwa
Maddegoda Walawwa ( Kansawaththa Mulla,Bogamuwa )
Prominent Low-Country Walauwas
There have been a number of other prominent, well known walauwas in the southern areas of Ceylon, outside the Kandyan Kingdom. These walauwas comprised a mix of Sri Lankan, Portuguese, Dutch and English architecture.
Wasala Walauwa, Tillekeratne Abeyesekere Walauwa, Colombo 9
Malwatte Walauwa, Gomis Abeysinghe Walauwa, Grandpass
Kotahena Walauwa
Nawala Walauwa
Ekala Walauwa
Amarasuriya Walauwa, Unawatuna
Atapattu Walawwa, Galle
Bagatale Walauwa, Colombo 3
Bethme Walawwa, Wehalla
Boralugoda Walawwa
Bothale Walawwa, Mirigama
Chevaliar Walauwa, Moratuwa
Closenberg Walauwa, Galle
Gandhara Walauwa
Horagolla Walauwa, Atthanagalla
Ihala Walauwa, Kotte
Jayasinghe Walauwa, Ekala
Kataluwa Atadahewatte, Obeyesekere Maha Walawwa
Kalutara Maha Walauwa
Kandawala Waluwa, Ratmalana
Kotalawala Walawwa
Maha Kappina Walauwa, Balapitiya
Mahawelatenne Walauwa, Balangoda
Mandiyagoda Rathnasinghe Walauwa, Beliatta
Moratuwa Walauwa
Matara Maha Walauwa
Nakulugamuwa Walawwa, Beliatta
Obeyesekere Walawa, Colombo 7
Pahala Walauwa, Barrack Street, Hambantota
Pattikara wasala walauwa, wadduwa
Punchi Kachcheriya walauwa, Pothupitiya
Ratnagiri Walawwa, Boralesgamuwa
Regina Walauwa, Colombo 7
Susew Walauwa Molligoda
Udaha Walauwa, Galkissa
Uda Waluwa, Barrack Street, Hambantota
Wasala Walauwa, Panadura
Wasala Walauwa, Terrace Street, Hambantota
Wickramasuriya Walauwa, Kathaluwa
Marambe Walauwa, Eheliyagoda
North Western Walauwa's
Maha Walauwa (Herat Senewiratne walauwa), Madampe
Galle Walauwa, Naththandiya
Corea Walauwa, Edirilla Gedera, Chilaw
Kopiwatte Walauwa, Galmuruwa
Decline and current states
The word "Walauwa" may not have a Sinhalese origin, it is unclear whether it was a Sinhalese word from the beginning, but this word may have been adapted from the Tamil word "Walaw". In Sinhalese, it gives a plural sound rather than the singular word "Walaw" which means "Mansion". The typical Sinhala term is 'Maha Gedhara'. The English word of "Walauwa" is, "Manor" or "Manor-House",and it's a large house with lands. The Walauwas and its owners were supported by the larger lands and estates they possessed. These were either land grants from Kings (since the beginning of the Sinhalese Kingdom until the Kandyan era) or government service (during the Colonial era) or acquired by successful enterprise and passed down though generations. Their owners were the landed elites of Ceylon, as such they gained a status of power and wealth. A notable feature of many of these walauwas, especially Kandyan walauwas was an interior open space/garden known as the 'medamidula'. There is another theory about Walauwas. "Walavum" means a place where a judgement is given. Those people who occupied the Walauwas had the authority to pass judgement over people with the authority provided by a Royal decree either Sinhala or English. The older walauwas were neither tiled (roof), very large or highly ornate as the king had placed certain restrictions and laws. Many of the walauwas beyond the jurisdiction of the king or after the fall of the Kandyan kingdom sprang up to be large and ornate, displaying architectural influences from beyond Sri Lanka and south India. Mansions replaced the walauwas in the urban areas towards the latter part of the nineteenth century. Though they were referred to as walauwas by the public, the owners usually referred to them with modern names. There are many large mansions of more recent origin which are not walauwas both in the Kandyan and the Low Country areas. This however has changed in the years after independence with the rise of a powerful middle class based on profession and enterprise. The elites held much power within the political cycles. The most significant change occurred in the 1970s with the socialist style land reforms that were bought into place. This limited private land ownership to fifty acres, and private home ownership to two houses. Most families sold off their lands or had them taken over by the government. They retained their Walauwas, yet over the years found it hard to maintain them, resulting in many falling into a dilapidated state, while some were razed to the ground such as the Maha Kappina Walauwa, and Ragama Walauwa which were constructed in the 16th century. Some were bought for state use or others have now been converted into hotels and Shopping complex such as the Ratwatte Walauwa, Rajamanthri Walauwa and the Nugawela Walauwa.
See also
Native headmen of Ceylon
Colonial era mansions of Colombo
Kastane
Sinhalese people
References
1. ^ Seneviratna, Anuradha; Polk, Benjiman (1992). Buddhist Monastic Architecture in Sri Lanka: The Woodland Shrine. Abhinav Publications. p. 110. .
Further reading
Sri Lanka Walauwa Directory by Dr Mirando Obeysekara (Samanthi Book Publishers)
Sinhalese social organization : The Kandyan Period by Ralph Pieris (Ceylon University Press 1956)
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies by Robert Knox; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14346
External links
All about Walavvas
Kingdom of Kandy
Houses in Sri Lanka
Manor houses in Sri Lanka
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Diabolik: The Original Sin is an adventure game developed by Italian studio Artematica Entertainment and published by Black Bean Games in 2009 for PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows, Nintendo DS, and PSP, based on the Italian comic book series Diabolik.
Production
The game was first announced on December 1, 2005 and the first screenshots were revealed on November 9, 2006.
Originally called Diabolik: Evil's Origin, it was later renamed to its current title.
Riccardo Cangini of Artematica said: "We are enthusiastic about being able to work on such a powerful character as Diabolik...we wish to carry out a game of profound impact and high quality". The creators wanted to "skillfully combine three-dimensional locations with the point & click interface, spatial models of characters and cartoon scenes".
Micro Application organised the game's distribution and localization in French on June 12. Akella had the rights to publish within Russia and other CIS countries. Black Bean Games and Koch Media published it into Spanish.
The PC release excluded Italian, French and Russian speaking territories.
In 2008, Black Bean acquired worldwide publishing rights to the console versions of the game.
Plot and gameplay
The video game is based on the Italian comic book character Diabolik. When his girlfriend is held captive he is forced to steal a valuable work of art.
The game has a standard point and click interface, with some action elements.
A proprietary engine driving the game and a system of dynamic dialogs was created.
Critical reception
Game Boomers felt that while the game was not award-worthy, it was enjoyable to see the character in a video game. Adventures Planet thought the stylistic point of view was one of the game's merits. Adventure Gamers gave praise to the suspenseful atmosphere. Adventure Classic Gaming felt that the game was competent without being particular impactful. Jeuxvideo thought that the game's plot was conventional, though still effective, that the game contained uninteresting puzzles and mini-games, and that the background music was pleasing.
Gamekult thought the game was too linear and scripted. Multiplayer.it felt it was a successful debut into the video gaming world for the character. Stop Game wrote that the plot, graphics, voice, puzzles were equally awful. Eurogamer felt that the game was ultimately unbalanced. 3D Juegos thought the game played as very slow. Vandal asserted that the game's character design emulated the comic book series. Igromania liked that the game copied the style of the work it was based on.
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Main page
Making of
2009 video games
Adventure games
Nintendo DS games
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PlayStation Portable games
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Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness is a documentary/art film released in June 2015 that takes audiences through farms and urban landscapes in Japan, South Korea, and the United States, interviewing leading practitioners in the natural farming movement. The film—inspired by the work of Masanobu Fukuoka, and his book The One Straw Revolution—came about when an environmental artist (Patrick M. Lydon) and an environmental book editor (Suhee Kang) had a chance meeting in Seoul, South Korea, and began conducting short interviews together with leaders in the ecology and social justice movements. During an interview with Korean farmer Seong Hyun Choi, the two were so impressed by his ecological mindset and way of working that they set out to produce a feature film about the wider natural farming movement in Japan and Korea. Lydon and Kang ended up quitting their jobs, giving away most of their possessions, and becoming voluntarily homeless for four years in order to afford producing the film.
The film is split into three sections 1) Modern Life, 2) Foundations and Mindset of Natural Farming, and 3) Natural Farming in Practice and Life. According to the filmmakers, as they began to understand more about how natural farming itself was not rooted in methods, but in a way of thinking, they chose to explore the life philosophies and ways of thinking of natural farming practitioners in a more free-flowing and artistic way, rather than an instructive one; the result is an unconventional documentary that features slow paced musical interludes alongside interviews.
Production
Lydon and Kang spent what they call a "meager" life savings to make the film, along with the volunteer efforts of farmers, translators, writers, musicians they had met during their journey. Although the film was filmed, written, and edited entirely by the two directors, they readily admit that the process of making the film was co-operative effort, with more than 200 volunteers directly involved in the process in some way. The soundtrack was recorded with professional musicians from each of the three countries where filming took place, all of whom donated their time to contribute to the film project. With the continued help of international volunteers, the film has been translated into five languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Turkish), and three more (Portuguese, French, Vietnamese) are in progress.
Tour
Frustrated by the lack of distribution and film festival options for low- and no-budget films, the filmmakers made the decision to manage distribution and touring in the same way they went about filming, through co-operative effort. With the help of volunteers, independent theater owners, and community organizers, they launched an extensive tour throughout Japan and South Korea from 2015-2016, eventually screening the film at over 130 venues.
Rather than simply screening the film, the filmmakers decided to transition their existing media production organization, SocieCity, into a vehicle for art and community engagement. They made a point of hosting interactive events along with their screenings and in several cases, stayed in communities for up to three months at a time to build natural gardens and host a project they call REALtimeFOOD, a grown-to-order restaurant which connects the ideas from the film with real-world practices in farming, food, and crafts. In most cases, these efforts were funded by grants from local philanthropic organizations and/or supported by the communities themselves.
Critical reception
The film received positive reviews, with New York Times bestselling author and musician Alicia Bay Laurel calling it "both art and documentary", and others calling it "meditative, and mindful", and "an inspiring call to action." Video Librarian, a longtime resource of film reviews for educational institutions, gave the film 4.5 stars for its "intriguing, inspiring" and "delicate" touches, while being an excellent "modern overview of one of the major causes of the climate crisis".
Interested in the unconventional way the film was being made and toured, multiple magazines and newspapers in Japan and Korea followed the directors during several parts of their journey, notably ESSEN, Bar and Dining, and Road magazines, and Shikoku Shinbun and Huffington Post newspapers.
During the tour, the film was eventually picked up by festivals including Tassie Eco Film Festival and Belleville Doc Fest.
The film was one of 25 chosen for the Global Environmental Justice Collection, an educational film collection supported by the International Documentary Association and curated by professors from Whittier, Yale, and New York University. The collection won the 2020 Buchanan Prize, which goes annually to "an outstanding pedagogical, instructional, or curriculum publication on Asia designed for K-12 and college."
References
2015 films
2015 documentary films
American documentary films
South Korean documentary films
Documentary films about Japan
Documentary films about South Korea
Documentary films about Asia
Documentary films about agriculture in the United States
Documentary films about American politics
Documentary films about agriculture
Documentary films about environmental issues
Documentary films about nature
Documentary films about food and drink
Environmentalism in Asia
2010s Japanese-language films
2010s Korean-language films
2010s English-language films
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is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Shunya Itō.
Cast
Kenichi Hagiwara
Rumiko Koyanagi
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Fujita Okamoto
Kumiko Akiyoshi
Shin Takuma
Akira Nakao
Shiro Ito
Awards
6th Japan Academy Prize
Won: Best Supporting Actress - Rumiko Koyanagi
Won: Best Cinematographer - Shinsaku Himeda
Nominated: Best Film
Nominated: Best Director - Shunya Itō
Nominated: Best Screenplay - Hirō Matsuda
Nominated: Best Actor - Kenichi Hagiwara
Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Kumiko Akiyoshi
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External links
1982 films
Films directed by Shunya Itō
Films scored by Shunsuke Kikuchi
1980s Japanese films
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Jonathan Fernando Suárez Freitez (born 8 December 1982, in San Félix, Bolívar) is a Venezuelan professional BMX cyclist. Dubbed by his sporting fans as El Mosquito, Suarez has been highly considered a solid, all-around BMX rider in Latin America, and more importantly, one of the world's top cruisers in the sport. He won two men's cruiser medals, including his gold, at the UCI BMX World Championships, and later represented his nation Venezuela at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Suarez sought headlines on the international scene by edging out Filipino-American rider Daniel Caluag, who previously represented the United States, for a prestigious gold medal in men's cruiser at the 2007 UCI BMX World Championships in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He also collected a silver medal to his career hardware in men's BMX cycling at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro on that same year, trailing behind 33-year-old U.S. rider Jason Richardson by less than a second.
Suarez qualified for the Venezuelan squad, as the nation's sole rider, in men's BMX cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving an automatic berth from the Union Cycliste Internationale based on his top-ten performance from the BMX World Rankings. Suarez started his morning session by grabbing the eighth prelims seed in 36.325 seconds, but he could not match a more stellar ride in his quarterfinal heat with 17 positioning points and a fifth-place finish, narrowly missing out on the semifinals by a six-point deficit.
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1982 births
Living people
Venezuelan male cyclists
BMX riders
Olympic cyclists for Venezuela
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games silver medalists for Venezuela
Pan American Games medalists in cycling
Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games
Cyclists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
UCI BMX World Champions (elite men)
Sportspeople from Bolívar (state)
20th-century Venezuelan people
21st-century Venezuelan people
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The Summit at Snoqualmie
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The Summit at Snoqualmie is a recreation area in the northwest United States, located on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. It provides alpine skiing and snowboarding, Nordic skiing, mountain biking, winter tubing, and scenic lift rides. Owned and managed by Boyne Resorts, it is east of downtown Seattle on Interstate 90.
The Summit consists of four base areas that used to be individually owned and operated resorts. Alpental, Summit West (formerly Snoqualmie Summit), Summit Central (formerly Ski Acres), and Summit East (formerly Hyak and PacWest), border Lake Keechelus on the East and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness on the West/North. The Summit at Snoqualmie is the closest ski area to Seattle, about an hour away.
Ski Lifts, Inc., the operator of what became Summit West, acquired the other three resorts. Booth Creek Ski acquired the properties in 1997. Booth Creek sold The Summit to CNL Lifestyle in 2006, but continued to operate the resort under a lease. Booth Creek sold The Summit lease to Boyne Resorts in 2007. CNL Lifestyle sold Booth Creek in a batch of resorts to Och-Ziff Capital Management in 2016. Boyne purchased the ski resort in March 2018.
The vertical drop ranges from at Alpental, to at Summit West. Combined, the four base areas have 19 chairlifts and 6 surface lifts. The resort is open seven days and six nights per week.
Alpental
Of the four base areas, only Alpental is located north of I-90 and is known for its advanced and backcountry terrain, including some of the steepest runs in the state. It has 3 double lifts, 1 high-speed detachable-quad, and 1 surface lift.
History
The territory of Alpental ski area was first owned through mining claims by early prospectors of the valley. Bob Mickelson and some friends bought options on the mining claims around 1960 with plans to develop a ski area on Denny Mountain and a community in the lower area. To help out with their plan, they enlisted Warren Miller to produce a promotional video simply titled "Alpental". To gain access to the area, they had to reach agreement with the Sahalie Ski Club to allow a road through their property. Alpental ski area agreed to maintain this section of road at their cost for the Sahalie group in exchange for this access for 99 years.
The ski area opened for the 1967–68 season with 3 chairlifts, then called Eins (1), Zwei (2), Drei (3), and 5 rope tows, had night skiing from the beginning, and was closed on Mondays. In 1970, the beginner lift, St. Bernard, was installed along with a platter pull that can be accessed via the Drei lift. In 1979, the ski area was sold to Westours (an Alaska tour operator), who gave the lifts real names, Meister (Master), Edelweiss, and Sessel (chair), and named the rope tows by German numbers, similar to the chairlifts’ old names. Then, in 1984 Westours sold the resort to Ski Lifts, Inc..
In 1984, Debbie Armstrong, a local skier, won the Winter Olympics, which made the summit rename the Meister lift and the Sessel Piste (Chair Slope) Trail into Debbie's Gold. The Debbie's Gold lift was replaced with a high-speed quad called Armstrong Express in 1998.
Summit West
Summit West contains the most well-known learning terrain of the whole resort. Mainly a beginner/intermediate area, Summit West is home to the Summit Learning Center (SLC), which offers many varieties of lessons for the whole family. It has 2 double lifts, 1 triple lift, 2 quad lifts, and 3 surface lifts.
History
In 1933, the city of Seattle opened a city park called Municipal Park on the location which is now called Summit West. The city operated this area until 1937, when the townspeople decided Snoqualmie Pass was too far away to be run as a city park. Operations were turned over to Ski Lifts, Inc. co-owned by Jim Parker and Chauncey Griggs, who had been the concessionaire since 1937, the year they added rope tows to the park. Under the ownership of Ski Lifts, Inc. the area was renamed Snoqualmie Summit Ski Area because of its location at the top of the mountain pass. In 1942, Griggs and Parker sold Ski Lifts, Inc. to Rance Morris and Webb Moffett for $3,500. In 1955, the first double lift at what is now known as the Summit at Snoqualmie, Thunderbird, was installed. In 1963, 1966, and 1967, 3 new lifts were installed: Big Bill, 360, and Dodge Ridge, respectively. In 1969, the Beaver Lake rope tow was replaced with a double lift. In 1973, the last double chair at Snoqualmie Summit, Julie's Chair, was installed. The first two triple lifts, installed in 1974 and 1975, were Wild Side and Easy Rider. The first quad was installed in 1987, named Little Thunder, replacing three rope tows. Later Snoqualmie Summit was sold to Booth Creek, who renamed it to Summit West, and replaced the aging Big Bill lift with a quad lift called Pacific Crest, and removed the 360 Bowl and Beaver Lake lifts. In 2002, the Thunderbird lift was removed and in 2005, a pole was hauled down to the base. Then the Summit at Snoqualmie was sold to Boyne Mountain, a family owned corporation consisting of nine resorts located in the United States and Canada. In 2018, Boyne removed the Easy Rider chairlift.
Ski Lifts, Inc. acquired Ski Acres in 1980, Alpental in 1983, and Hyak in 1992, agreeing in December 1996 to sell the entire operation to Booth Creek Ski Holdings, Inc.
Summit Central
Summit Central provides a variety of terrain and is typically the most crowded of the slopes. It is also home to a large terrain park which hosts many events throughout the season. It has 3 double lifts, 1 triple lift, 1 quad lift, 2 high-speed detachable-quads, and 2 surface lifts.
History
In 1948, the "Ski Acres" ski area was opened by Ray Tanner. The following year in 1949, the first chairlift in Washington was built. In 1962, a new lift called Alpine was installed by Ray Tanner, servicing the Alpine Bowl, a now popular hill at the resort. In 1966, another lift adjacent to Alpine, called Bonanza, was installed, servicing Golden Nugget, Hog Wild, Outback and Bonanza. In 1967, the Intermediate Chair was installed replacing a Hall T-bar, followed by Condominium (which serviced lower Hog Wild) and then Edelweiss in 1970 and 1972, respectively. In 1975, the Holiday lift was installed running on the north end of Ski Acres. In 1980, Ski Lifts, Inc. acquired Ski Acres and combined the operation with adjacent Snoqualmie Summit. In 1983, the Single Chair, installed in 1949, was replaced with triple lift called Triple 60, and the Edelweiss chair was renamed Easy Street due to a name conflict with the Edelweiss chair of Alpental, and the Intermediate Chair was renamed Gallery. In 1986, new terrain was added on the south end called Silver Fir, and in 1988, a triple chairlift of the same name was installed in the area. After the purchase by Booth Creek in 1997 Ski Acres was renamed Summit Central and the Condominium and chair was renamed Reggie's. In 1998, a high-speed quad called Central Express replaced the Alpine and Bonanza doubles. In 2008 the Silver Fir triple chair was replaced with a high-speed detachable-quad called Silver Fir Express. In 2019 the Holiday Riblet double chair was replaced with a new Doppelmayr fixed grip quad with a loading carpet. Also in 2019, lighting for Silver Fir Express is installed.
Summit East
Summit East (also known as "Hyak") is the easternmost of the four base areas and is accessible via I-90 exit 54. A mix of intermediate and advanced runs, Summit East is where to go for glade skiing. Adjacent to the alpine ski area, the Hyak area has free cross-country skiing on groomed trails along Lake Keechelus on the Iron Horse Trail (maintained by the Washington State Parks). It has 2 triple lifts and 1 quad lift.
History
In 1959, a new ski area was developed on the north side of Hyak Mountain by three businessmen who formed the Hyak Ski Corporation. In 1965, the up-and-over Chair 1 was constructed, and then a beginner Chair 2 in 1968, originally planned to go up "New Cut". Then, the company made some bad financial moves. On December 30, 1971, at approximately 3 p.m., Chair 1 went out of control in reverse, leaving an 18-year-old skier with permanent damage. A backup lift, Chair 3, was installed in 1974. A subsequent lawsuit, along with a bad season sent the area into bankruptcy in 1977.
The area was purchased in 1980 by Pac West and expanded terrain to the north in 1986, but they too filed bankruptcy in 1988, when Chair 1 stopped working. Pac West was one of the few ski resorts to allow snowboarding, along with Mt. Baker ski area. Bob Barci helped set up the first snowboard competition in 1985 which was won by Craig Kelly.
In 1991 the area was purchased by Ski Lifts, Inc who now owned all 4 local Snoqualmie Pass ski areas. The name was then reverted to Hyak and the 3 chairs were given proper names: Chair 1 was Dinosaur, Chair 2 was Easy Gold, and Chair 3 was Keechelus. In 1998, Booth Creek purchased the areas from Ski Lifts, Inc, and Hyak then became Summit East.
On January 7, 2009, a large landslide destroyed the Keechelus ski lift, one house and damaged 3 others, which ended downhill skiing and snowboarding for the rest of the 2008–2009 season and the entire 2009–2010 season. Alpine operations returned for the 2010–2011 season with the installation of the used Silver Fir triple chair from Summit Central on the front side as well as reopening terrain in Hidden Valley re-using a combination of parts from the old Keechelus and Easy Gold double chairs.
On May 15, 2014, The Summit at Snoqualmie announced that the ski resort will start construction of a new chairlift in the spring. Rampart Chair was opened for the 2015/2016 winter season with construction starting in June 2014. The fixed-grip quad chair featuring an easy-load conveyor system was built and installed by SkyTrac, an American chairlift company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rampart chairlift was a long-awaited addition to Summit East and increased uphill capacity substantially while opening up a sizable portion of glade skiing in the area. The chairlift is located on the northern facing slopes of the Summit East ski area.
The new chair was constructed at Summit East in the summer of 2014 and is a fixed-grip quad. It was proposed to open for the 14-15 ski season, but due to lack of snow and storm damage, it was unable to be used. It opened on New Years Day 2016.
In April 2022, The Summit at Snoqualmie released its Summit 2030 Plan, and announced that a triple lift replacing the Hidden Valley double that summer. Hidden Valley opened on Dec 28, 2022.
Cross-Country Skiing
The Summit at Snoqualmie operates over 50 kilometers of Nordic ski trails. The Nordic center typically operates mid-December to early April. The Nordic center is located at Summit East. Trails feature two warming huts along the trail. The Jim Brooks warming hut is located over Windy Pass (on the west side). There is another hut located at Grand Junction.
In addition to the cross-country ski trails at the Summit at Snoqualmie, there are several miles of cross-country ski trails that are maintained by Washington State Parks and are accessible from the Sno-Park adjacent to the Summit East base area.
Other Activities
Summit Tubing Center
Across from Summit Central is the Summit Tubing Center. With thirteen machine groomed runs it is the largest west of the Mississippi. The runs are approximately five hundred feet long. The Summit Tubing Center was formerly run under the name Snow Flake Tubing Center until its purchase by Booth Creek. The tubing center is serviced by a new magic carpet to replace the two handle-tows (added Summer 2016).
Mountain Bike Park
In the summer, Silver Fir Express services 7 bike trails: Green Party, Bermy Lomax, Wapiti, Mid-Mountain Connector, Lost and Found, Black Forest, and Slab & Tickle. There is also a trail from Green Party to the Grand Junction warming hut. The park opened in 2022 and the Bermy Lomax trail will be finished by summer 2023. Easier green and blue trails are in the Silver Fir area, and harder black trails are located near Alpine Bowl, Bonanza Face, Golden Nugget, and the Sunrise ski trails in Summit Central.
Scenic Lift Rides
The Summit at Snoqualmie features scenic lift rides on the Pacific Crest chair not only for scenery, but also for summer hikes on the Pacific Crest Trail. It is used to access Lodge Lake and Beaver Lake and is located on the slopes of Summit West.
Summit 2030
In April 2022, the Summit at Snoqualmie released the Summit 2030 plan, and is the "Future of Your Home Mountain." They said that between 2022 and 2030, there will be many major improvements, "enhancing the experience from Summit East to the top of Alpental." The plan has 5 major projects: Summit Transformed, Summit Summers, ForeverProject, Alpental Aspect, and Easier Escapes.
Summit Transformed
Summit Transformed is arguably the largest and most important of the five projects. It includes lift upgrades, more snowmaking, and lodge upgrades.
The Alpental Aspect
Alpental is best known for its expert terrain in contrast with intermediate runs under the cliff, but its lifts are aging, and capacity is very low. They announced 3 new lifts to be built for the next 2 years, and construction began for Sessel and International, as well as adding new chairs to Armstrong Express.
Summit Summers
Originally, the Summit at Snoqualmie was a winter resort, but integrated some summer activities like music and scenic lift rides. The Summit continues to plan on opening new summer activities.
Chairlifts
References
Ski areas and resorts in Washington (state)
Cascade Range
Buildings and structures in King County, Washington
Buildings and structures in Kittitas County, Washington
Tourist attractions in King County, Washington
Tourist attractions in Kittitas County, Washington
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Universal Exposition of Wines and Spirits
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The Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux was a museum dedicated to alcoholic beverages on the island of Bendor. The island is in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in South Western France.
The museum is open in July and August, and admission is free of charge. It is closed on Wednesdays.
Mission
The collections shows the evolution of brands and drinks throughout time and the cultural influence of wines and spirits. The museum was created to keep a “complete and permanent encyclopaedia of wine and spirits”. At the opening of the museum Ricard pledged that "This is not a simple event, it is permanent, eternal, and its expansion will never stop".
History
The museum was opened on the 12 July 1958 by the owner of the Île de Bendor, industrialist Paul Ricard (1909-1997). Ricard was the eponymous founder of Ricard, a manufacturer of pastis. The museum has two directors, Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown.
In 2007 the museum underwent conservation, carried out by a team of experts and volunteers. The conservation process discovered more than 5000 wine and spirit labels and more than 1000 menus and drinks lists dating back to 1860. The 2007 conservation also discovered dissertations on viniculture and distillation, which had been presented at the EUVS during the 1960s. The papers had been presented before modern technological advancements in spirit production.
The museum possesses a collection of 8,000 bottles of wines and spirits from around the world. The museum also includes a collection of alcoholic ephemera dating from the 1860s including glassware, crystal, labels, restaurant menus and wine lists. The museum is also the site for conferences on wines and spirits.
The EUVS hosts a freely accessible online library with a database of rare bottles and searchable library of vintage menus, drinks lists, distillation books, and cocktail books.
Art
The entrance to the museum is guarded by statues of Bacchus and Vigne, which were carved by the Provençale artist Louis Botinelly. The exterior ceramics were executed by Mirielle Ginard and Henri Couve. Frescos inside the museum depicting the history of the wines and spirits were created by artists and art students.
George Potier painted “The Secret of Making Anise” and also created the initial logo for the museum. “The Warriors’ Wine" was executed by the Milanese artist Gianni Bursamolino. With Ricard, Bursamolino launched a competition that invited art students to create the other frescos in the museum.
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External links
Official site and database
Île de Bendor - The EUVS Museum of Wines and Spirits
1958 establishments in France
Food museums in France
Museums in Var (department)
Wine museums
Drink-related museums
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Clay Gould Ballpark
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Clay Gould Ballpark (formerly Allan Saxe Stadium and Arlington Athletic Center), the home field of the UT Arlington Mavericks, is located on the campus of The University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington). The stadium has a seat capacity of 1,600. Clay Gould Ballpark is located at the intersection of West Park Row Drive and Fielder Road.
Features
Undergoing constant renovation, the stadium features are steadily changing and growing to increase the fan and player amenities. Fans enter the stadium through a brick entrance way behind home plate. Just to the west of the entrance is a three-booth ticket window.
Clay Gould is composed of three grandstands: the main section behind home plate, which is composed entirely of chair-back seats with partial cover from a metal awning, and two aluminum bleachers, one on the first-base line and the other on the third-base side. There is a small section of ground-level, chair-back seating in front of the main grandstands, directly behind home plate. Underneath the center section is a concession stand while the men's restroom is behind the first-base stands and the women's is behind the third-base seating.
Above the center seats is a press box that contains space for print media and two broadcast booths. The entrance to the press box is just to the left as one enters the stadium, via either a stairway or elevator.
On the first base side is the Mavericks' clubhouse, which includes a combination locker room-lounge for the players, coach offices and locker rooms, sports training facility, equipment and laundry rooms, mud room and a welcome lobby.
The clubhouse is adjacent to the Justin D. Wilson batting facility, a indoor practice space. It contains batting cages, pitching mounds and the ability to allow for an open practice when needed.
The Mavericks' bullpen is between the clubhouse and playing field and is located just past first base. The visitor's bullpen is located down from the visitor's bullpen at third base in left field, at the edge of the stadium.
There are four light poles in the outfield and two on each foul line, for a total of eight light poles.
Out front of the stadium is an L-shaped, 318-space parking lot, shared with nearby Allan Saxe Field and the UTA intramural fields.
History
When UT Arlington first fielded a baseball program in 1969, they played their home games at two different venues. Turnpike Stadium, a minor league stadium first owned by Tarrant County and then the City of Arlington with an initial seating capacity of 10,000, Was their home for the 1969, '70 and '73 seasons while a local civic park, Randoll Mill Park, was home for the 1971 and '72 seasons (two rescheduled games in 1973 were played at Randoll Mill Park). During that time, the Mavericks amassed a home record of 23-28 at Turnpike Stadium while sporting a 35-26 mark at Randoll Mill Park.
UT Arlington athletic officials knew the Washington Senators were on the verge of relocating from Washington, D.C. They began preparations for an on-campus venue to avoid the scheduling conflicts that would emerge from a college team sharing a major league team's stadium, particularly later in the season after the professional season began. The relocation caused the team to go to Randoll Mill Park for two seasons. The Texas Rangers had a clause that allowed them to control events at the now renamed Arlington Stadium 24 hours before and after their games. The teams shared Arlington Stadium for the 1973 season.
Originally named the Arlington Athletic Center, the stadium was built in conjunction with the softball venue, now known as Allan Saxe Field, on the southwestern most corner of the University campus. The Center was a joint venture with the City of Arlington.
The stadium stayed as completed until the field was replaced in 1986.
Renaming and renovations
Change has been a constant at the home of the Mavericks as UTA fans and visitors to the facility would be hard-pressed to go to Clay Gould Ballpark consistently in any five-year period without noticing a major upgrade or renovation.
After the conclusion of the 1986 season, the playing surfaced was completely upgraded, which entailed an entire regrading of the field, re-sodding of the grass-playing surface, new irrigation system, infield dirt mixture and the addition of a warning track.
In the summer of 1992, following two conference titles in three years, box seats were added directly behind home plate, a new backstop, minor renovations to the press box and minor field upgrades.
Prior to the 1994 season, the Arlington Athletic Center was renamed to Allan Saxe Field after popular Professor Allan Saxe's gifts made renovations possible, which included a new press box, replacing the previous open-air facility, a rebuilt grandstand, a shaded canopy over a portion of the seats, and a new lighting system. Capacity was expanded from 1,000 to 1,200. Professor Saxe also contributed to renovations for UT Arlington softball field.
The baseball stadium was renamed to Allan Saxe Stadium in 1995, while the softball venue kept the Allan Saxe Field moniker.
In the winter of 1998, a new three-foot high was added that spanned from dugout to dugout, adding one of the first aesthetically-appealing additions to the Stadium, as well as replacing the net backstop.
Allan Saxe Stadium was once again renamed a few years later after Clay Gould, a UT Arlington player from 1989 to 1993, an assistant coach from 1997 to 1999 and named the program's fourth head coach following the '99 season. Gould died of Colon Cancer on June 23, 2001. The renaming was urged by Professor Saxe and coincided with a fundraiser to further enhance the stadium, with a new exterior and entryway, press box improvements, replacement of a chain link outfield fence with wooden fencing and a batters eye, expanded seating capacity and a new state-of-the-art lighting system, replacing the inadequate existing lights to allow the stadium to play night games for the first time.
Clay Gould's memorial plaque was unveiled at the main entryway during the dedication of the newly renamed stadium on April 26, 2003, prior to a conference game with Louisiana-Monroe.
A Daktronics Prostar LED Display video board replaced the older, outdated scoreboard in left center field in 2009. Additionally, the fan experience was upgraded as well by adding new seats to replace worn, older seating in the center grandstand.
The following year, a "brag board" was added immediately next to the scoreboard in left center field that lists the UT Arlington players who have made the Major League Baseball level as well as the retired numbers of the UT Arlington Mavericks baseball program. There are currently 11 Major League Mavericks and three retired numbers, two of which are former coaches.
Construction of an indoor practice facility was started and completed during the offseason prior to the 2013 season. The $1.95 million venue was built in conjunction with an indoor practice space at the softball field, allowing practices to occur during inclement weather. The Justin D. Wilson batting facility was funded with a large portion of previously approved bond proceeds, but also included philanthropic support. Among those supporters is alumnus Roy D. Wilson and his wife Patti, who have been Maverick baseball supporter for many years. Wilson's son was a frequent participant in UT Arlington baseball summer camps before he died in 2010 at age 13.
The UT System board of regents approved $5.5 million to continue renovations at the stadium in August 2013. The funds financed work that included the construction of a clubhouse on stadium grounds near the first base side, next to the indoor practice facility. In addition to a clubhouse for Allan Saxe Field, the renovation provided upgrades and improvements with a new home dugout, new outfield fencing, a picnic area for fans between the visitors dugout and bullpen, a new public address system and stadium branding. Work began following the completion of the 2014 season and was completed just after the start 2015 season. Previously, Maverick baseball players had to dress out of Maverick Stadium, across and down West Mitchell Street, and drive the half-mile to Clay Gould Ballpark, then return to shower after games or practices.
Amidst the 2019 season, the Mocek Patio, debuted and allowed rental of an outdoor picnic area. The new feature was named after John Mocek and his wife Pattye. John was a former player and assistant coach with the program before moving to the overall Athletic Department, serving in various capacities. He also currently serves as the color commentator for the ESPN broadcasts of UTA baseball games. John Mocek's fifty years within the Athletic Department was honored in the 2023 season. The Mocek Patio is set to receive future additions, including an outdoor kitchen and upgraded furniture.
A renovated turf warning track and drainage system was installed prior to the 2020 seasons first pitch.
Despite a new scoreboard in 2009, an additional renovation of the scoreboard and installation of a new video board was completed in 2021.
Further renovations are in the planning phase.
Program history
The Mavericks have maintained a winning record of 909–554 on their home field, for a winning percentage of .621 (as of the end of the 2023 season). During that time, UT Arlington has averaged over 20 home wins a season.
Clay Gould Ballpark routinely hosts major opponents, including the Big XII's Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech, the Pac-12's Utah, the SEC's Alabama, Arkansas and Texas A&M and the Big Ten's Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.
For the 2023 season, notable home games scheduled at Clay Gould Ballpark are TCU, Oklahoma and Dallas Baptist as well as five three-game series' against Sun Belt conference opponents, including in-state rival Texas State.
The Mavericks have played TCU at Clay Gould a record 81 times, more than any other team, followed by former Southland Conference foes McNeese State and Lamar with 62 and 57 respectively. Baylor fourth with 56, while Louisiana Tech rounds out the top five with 54 trips to The Gould. Texas State, the three-time conference opponent, is right behind at 53.
Clay Gould Ballpark was home to the 1990 and 1992 Southland Conference regular season champions, the 2001, 2006 and 2012 Southland Conference tournament champions, the 2013 Western Athletic Conference regular season co-champions and the 2017 Sun Belt West Division champions.
Other uses
A short film directed, written and produced by Clay's wife Julie Gould, and starring their child Logan Soul Gould, debuted at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, was shot on the UT Arlington campus and Clay Gould Ballpark. This film, "8", took home the 2011 Texas Shorts Jury Prize Award.
Besides UT Arlington baseball, the diamond has played host to the Texas State Junior College Tournament, the state American Amateur Baseball Congress Connie Mack and American Legion Tournaments and numerous high school playoff games. It also served as the venue for Major League tryout camps.
Nolan Ryan, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, Ozzie Smith and Ian Kinsler have made appearances at the Ballpark for individual workouts, commercials,
camps and clinics.
See also
List of NCAA Division I baseball venues
References
Baseball venues in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
UT Arlington Mavericks sports venues
UT Arlington Mavericks baseball
Baseball venues in Texas
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Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse
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The Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse is located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Wauwatosa Woman's Club
The Wauwatosa Woman's Club was founded in 1894. It was incorporated in 1907. The stated purpose of the club was “The social and intellectual development of women through a free interchange of thought, by a course of careful study, essays and discussions.” In 1914 Emerson D. Hoyt donated the lot on 1626 Wauwatosa Avenue for a clubhouse, with the provision that the structure also be used as a museum to preserve the early history of Wauwatosa. Hoyt also stipulated that the woman's club members would need to raise $10,000 within two years' time. The project faltered with onset of World War I, but the women were given an extension and ultimately raise the required amount. The clubhouse become a social center for the women of Wauwatosa. The club remains active.
Building
The Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse was designed by Kirchhoff & Rose in the Colonial Revival style and completed in 1925. The building is two stories, with a hip and deck roof. The walls are clad in red brick with white trim. The front entrance is sheltered by a portico supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters. Behind it, the center bay is framed in brick quoins. Many windows are topped with a keystone design and framed in a shallow brick arch. The eaves are trimmed with a modillioned cornice and a large pediment tops the center bay. The clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
References
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Colonial Revival architecture in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures completed in 1925
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
History of women in Wisconsin
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Allan Vainola
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Allan Vainola (also known as Al Vainola, birth name Allan Annus; born 11 March 1965, in Tartu) is an Estonian singer, guitarist and composer. He is best known as the lead singer in such bands as Sõpruse Puiestee; Metro Luminal; Alumiinium, Sinu Sädelev Sõber; and as a guitarist in Vennaskond.
Vainola has also written music for several stageplays (e.g. "Ronja", "Huck", "Daamide õnn" and "Mort, surma õpilane"), and songs (e.g. "Riia mu arm", "Insener Garini hüperboloid", "Elagu Proudhon!", "Pille-Riin", "Subatlantiline kohtumine", "Eleegia", "1905" and "Kaks meest").
Allan Vainola is married to Estonian poet Kätlin Vainola who has also written songs for Sõpruse Puiestee and Vennaskond.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
20th-century Estonian composers
21st-century Estonian composers
Anarcho-punk musicians
Punk rock musicians
Musicians from Tartu
21st-century Estonian male singers
Estonian rock guitarists
20th-century Estonian male singers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien%20Van%20Haaster
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Maximilien Van Haaster
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Maximilien Van Haaster (born June 19, 1992) is a male foil fencer from Canada. He won the bronze medal at the 2013 Pan American Fencing Championships in Cartagena, and later competed at the 2015 Pan American Games, in Toronto, Ontario.
Career
Van Haaster qualified to represent his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics, by being ranked in the top two in the Americas. At the games, Van Haaster finished in 31st place. Van Haaster competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's individual and team events.
See also
List of Canadian sports personalities
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
Canadian male foil fencers
Fencers from Montreal
Fencers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for Canada
Fencers at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in fencing
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 2023 Pan American Games
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Saidu Baba
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Akhūnd Abdul Ghaffūr (1794–1876; also known as Saidū Bābā and the Akhund of Swat) was a prominent religious saint and founder of the state of Swat. The city of Saidu Sharif, that serves as the administrative capital of Swat District, is named after him.
Early life
He was born in 1794 in Jabri village of Shamizai area in the Upper Swat region. He belonged to a non-Pashtun Gujjar or Safi family in the upper Swat Valley. After completing the initial stages of education, he left home and studied from Maulana Abdul Hakeem in Gujjar Garhi, Mardan District. He then moved to the Chamkani area of Peshawar and then to the Ziarat Kaka Sahib area of Nowshera. Further, he stayed with Hazrat Ji Sahib in Peshawar and finally spent some time in the service of Maulana Muhammad Shoaib in Tor Dheri, District Mardan. He returned to his Swat in September, 1835 at the age of twenty four. At first, he stayed in a mosque in Maloch area of Swat. From there, he moved to Rangela. Then he stayed at the shrine of Ghazi Baba (Pir Khushal) near the historic village of Odigram in Swat and later took the path to the beautiful valley of Murghazar. From there, he settled in a village named Spalbandi near Murghazar. He got married there and in 1845 left this place and settled permanently in Saidu Sharif.
Battles
In 1831, when the Muslim reformist Syed Ahmad Barelvi died fighting in the battle of Balakot against the Sikh Empire along with hundreds of Mujahideen, many of his followers came to Buner to stay under the protection of Saidu Baba. They started a new uprising against the British Raj under Saidu Baba's leadership in 1862. In 1834, Saidu Baba cooperated with the Afghan emir Dost Mohammad Barakzai in the battle against the Sikh Empire and brought a number of Ghazis and Talibs in the battle of Peshawar. In return, the Afghan Emir recognized Saidu Baba as ruler of Swat, Lundkhwar and Mardan. Afterwards, Saidu Baba became the most prominent spiritual leader among the eastern Pashtuns. Eventually, when Saidu Baba was about 43 years old, he permanently settled in Saidu Sharif and turned it into a thriving city.
In 1863, Saidu Baba led the Yusufzai and other groups in a battle at the Ambela Pass against the British forces, inflicting a decisive defeat upon them in Swat.
Establishment of the state of Swat
In 1849, Saidu Baba nominated Sayyid Akbar Shah, a descendant of Pir Baba, as emir of the state of Swat. After Akbar Shah's death in 1857, Saidu Baba assumed control of the state himself till his own death in 1876.
Death
When Saidu Baba died in 1876, the London newspapers published a brief note mentioning his death. The general public of London did not know anything about him or Swat, and this unfamiliarity prompted the poet Edward Lear to write a nonsensical poem titled "Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of Swat?", highlighting the "otherness" of the region to the English people.
Literary allusions
Edward Lear's "The Akond of Swat"
George T. Lanigan (1846–1886) wrote "The Ahkoond of Swat" on hearing of Saidu Baba's death in 1878.
Ken Nordine's rendition of the Lear piece in his 'Word Jazz' radio show.
See also
Pir Roshan
Pir Baba
Mirzali Khan
Umra Khan
Shah Mir
Sartor Faqir
References
External links
Anon, "The (British Raj) Indian Frontier", The Times, Issue 29100, (15 November 1877); p. 4; col D.
Our own Correspondent, "India", (Article contains the text: "The death of the Akhoond of Swat is announced"), The Times, No.29157, (Monday 21 January 1878), p. 5; col A.
1794 births
1877 deaths
People from Swat District
History of Pakistan
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Marek Jurek
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Marek Jurek (; 28 June 1960 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a right-wing politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically, he is most known for being a Marshal of the Sejm in the years 2005–2007.
Biography
He is a graduate in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the 1980s he was an activist in the anti-communist movement in Poland. After the fall of the communism in 1989, he was one of the founders of the now defunct political party Christian National Union. He was a deputy in the Contract Sejm and later in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1993.
From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the National Broadcasting Council.
In 2001, he was elected a deputy of the Sejm again, this time as a member of the Law and Justice party. On 26 October 2005 he was elected a Sejm marshal (parliament speaker) nominated by Law and Justice with 265 votes (133 votes were given to Bronisław Komorowski from Civic Platform). On 13 April 2007 he resigned from the post, following the Sejm's failure to amend the Constitution to protect prenatal life. On the following day, he left Law and Justice to found his own party, now known as the Right of the Republic. His resignation was accepted on 27 April 2007.
In the parliamentary election in 2007 his party did not win any seats in the Parliament as it found itself below the election threshold. On 22 June 2008 Marek Jurek took part in a by-election to the Senate, held in Krosno-constituency following the death of Senator Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. With 10 751 votes, he gained the third place after the winner Stanisław Zając (Law and Justice) and Maciej Lewicki (Civic Platform). As there was only one seat available in the Senate, Marek Jurek remains outside the Parliament.
On 27 September 2009, Jurek was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding contribution to the independence of Polish Republic, for activities on behalf of democratic change, for achievements in undertaken for the benefit of the country and social work.
He was one of the candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election, but received only 1.06% of votes and failed to get into the second round.
Political positions
Marek Jurek declared full support for the teaching of the Catholic Church as he opposes abortion, euthanasia, same sex unions and in vitro. He supports the traditional family model. He supports the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. Jurek is in favor of bringing the future back to the Polish and European traditions, cultivating a Christian civilization and Latin culture. He is a supporter of the "Tridentine Rite".
References
External links
Sejm Marshal
1960 births
Living people
People from Gorzów Wielkopolski
Polish traditionalist Catholics
Solidarity Citizens' Committee politicians
Christian National Union politicians
Law and Justice politicians
Right Wing of the Republic politicians
Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic
Members of the Contract Sejm
Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
MEPs for Poland 2014–2019
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikyo
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Saikyo may refer to:
Saikyō Line, a Japanese railway line in the Tokyo metropolitan area
Saikyō Maru, a Japanese ship involved in the Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
Western Capital (disambiguation) (), several topics
People with the surname Saikyo include:
Haruma Saikyo (born 1998), Japanese kickboxer
Yuma Saikyo (born 2000), Japanese kickboxer
See also
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Vexillum croceostoma
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Vexillum croceostoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Description
The length of the shell attains 38 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off North West Australia
References
croceostoma
Gastropods described in 2015
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Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium
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Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC), is a consortium of 4 international companies which agreed in 2018 with the government of Uganda, to invest in, construct, operate and co-own the Uganda Oil Refinery on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert.It consists of General Electric of the United States, Yaatra Ventures LLC of the United States, Intracontinent Asset Holdings Limited of Mauritius and Saipem SPA of Italy.
Overview
Ugandan government geologists estimate Uganda’s oil reserves at 6.5 billion barrels, of which approximately 1.7 billion are considered recoverable. In 2016, the selected lead investor in the refinery project, RT Global Resources of Russia, pulled out of negotiations. Negotiations with the alternative investor, a consortium led by SK Engineering of South Korea also broke down.
In 2018, new bids for a lead investor in the refinery attracted over 40 applicants. The second round of selection, identified the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium as the entity offering the best terms for construction of the Uganda Oil Refinery, estimated at US$4.27 billion.
Composition
As of 2018 the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium included the following 4 companies:
Agreement
On 10 April 2018, the Consortium signed a definitive agreement with the government of Uganda, committing to design, develop, finance, construct, operate and maintain the planned 60,000-barrel-per-day Uganda Oil Refinery in Kabaale, Buseruka sub-county, Hoima District, on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert in the Western Region Uganda. The signing of this Project Framework Agreement, allows the consortium to begin the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED), Project Capital and Investment Costs Estimation (PCE) and environmental impact assessment and social impact assessment. Uganda has ambitions to produce first oil by 2025.
See also
Petroleum Authority of Uganda
Uganda National Oil Company
References
External links
Uganda shortlists four firms for oil refinery project As of 1 May 2017.
Uganda chooses multi-country consortium to build new oil refinery As of 7 August 2017.
Government Signs Agreement for Development of Oil Refinery in Kabaale As of 10 April 2018.
Energy infrastructure in Uganda
Oil and gas companies of Uganda
2017 establishments in Uganda
Energy companies established in 2017
Non-renewable resource companies established in 2017
Energy companies of Uganda
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The 1978–79 Bundesliga was the 16th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1978 and ended on 9 June 1979. 1. FC Köln were the defending champions.
Competition modus
Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the three teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective 2. Bundesliga divisions.
Team changes to 1978–79
TSV 1860 Munich, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC St. Pauli were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last three places during 1977–78. They were replaced by Arminia Bielefeld, winners of the 2. Bundesliga Northern Division, SV Darmstadt 98, winners of the Southern Division and 1. FC Nürnberg, who won a two-legged promotion play-off against Rot-Weiss Essen.
Season overview
Team overview
League table
Results
Top goalscorers
22 goals
Klaus Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf)
21 goals
Klaus Fischer (FC Schalke 04)
18 goals
Rüdiger Abramczik (FC Schalke 04)
17 goals
Kevin Keegan (Hamburger SV)
Klaus Toppmöller (1. FC Kaiserslautern)
16 goals
Dieter Hoeneß (VfB Stuttgart)
Harald Nickel (Eintracht Braunschweig)
15 goals
Manfred Burgsmüller (Borussia Dortmund)
14 goals
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (FC Bayern Munich)
Georg Volkert (VfB Stuttgart)
Champion squad
See also
1978–79 DFB-Pokal
References
External links
DFB Bundesliga archive 1978/1979
Bundesliga seasons
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Eois plana
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Eois plana is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Panama.
References
Moths described in 1918
Eois
Moths of Central America
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Edna Garrido Ramírez (19 June 1913 – 11 April 2010), also known as Edna Garrido de Boggs, was a Dominican educator, researcher and folklorist. She is considered a pioneer in the studies of Dominican folklore, for her field research on dances, sayings, riddles, oral tales, popular songs, children's games and other manifestations of folklore and ethnomusicology. She founded the first Dominican Folklore Society in 1946 in Santo Domingo.
Early life
Garrido was born in 1913 in Azua de Compostela, into a family of writers, growing up for most of her childhood in San Juan de la Maguana. She was the daughter of writer, journalist, and historian Víctor Garrido Puello, and Tijides Ramírez Lasala, the daughter of General Wenceslao Ramírez.
She completed her basic studies in a local school in San Juan de la Maguana. After ten years, she moved with her family to the capital, Santo Domingo. She graduated as a teacher in 1934 from the Instituto de Señoritas Salomé Ureña and worked as a teacher from 1934 to 1946. Garrido was also a close friend of Hilma Contreras, the 2002 National Literature Prize winner. Following the suggestion of a colleague, she attended a Folklore course in 1944 by the American professor Ralph Boggs at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). This introductions course began a life-long dedication to folkloric studies. Her travels around the country led her to research the south’s baile de palo and La Cofradía del Espíritu Santo; to the Cibao region where she recorded songs of popular folk musician, Ñico Lora; and to the eastern region of the country, where she collected versions of the legend of La Ciguapa. Eventually, Garrido went to study on a scholarship at the University of North Carolina, in the United States. Upon her return to the country, she founded the first Dominican Folkloric Society and ran the first specialized editions of the Dominican Folkloric Bulletin.
On June 24, 1948, she married Dr. Ralph Boggs, later moving to Miami, United States. From there she continued her work of research, dissemination and promotion of folklore. In 1981, she taught a Folklore Course with her husband at the Museum of the Dominican Man, in Santo Domingo.
Career
For many years, she spread her investigations of Dominican folklore through monographs, conferences and press articles. In 1952, she won first prize in the folklore section of a literary contest in Santo Domingo. She founded the first Folklore Society in Santo Domingo in 1947, establishing the Bulletin of Dominican folklore, which ran from 1947 to 1948. In 1969, the government of the Dominican Republic granted Garrido the Heraldic Order of Juan Pablo Duarte, in the degree of Commander, for her work in ethnomusicology.
She retained memories as far back as 1918 when her parents moved from one house to another in Azua. She narrated the end of World War I and the smallpox epidemic that soon followed. She died on April 11, 2010, at age 96 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Work
Her work is published in articles, bulletins, books, conferences, and dissertations, and is a mandatory reference for anthropologists, sociologists, and academics who want to know about Dominican folklore.
Books
Versiones Dominicanas de Romances Españoles (English: "Dominican Versions of Spanish Romances"), published in Santo Domingo in 1946.
Folklore Infantil de Santo Domingo, (English: "Childish Folklore of Santo Domingo"), published in Madridin 1956.
Panorama del Folklore Dominicano, (English: "Panorama of Dominican Folklore"), published in 1961.
Reseña Histórica del Folklore Dominicano, (English: "Historical Review of Folklore"), published in 2006.
Perlas de la pluma de los Garrido, Santo Domingo 2003.
Articles
«Las Lomas Dos Hermanos», Boletín del Folklore Dominicano, 1947, I, no. 1.
«El aguinaldo», Boletín del Folklore Dominicano, 1948, II, no., I.
In collaboration with R.S. Boggs, «Unas categorías de adivinanzas ilustradas con ejemplos dominicanos, homenaje Luis de Hoyos Sainz», Madrid 1949, I; and «Supervivencias de Refranes Españoles en Santo Domingo», Folklore Americano, XV/XVI, no. 15.
«El Dominicano visto a Través de sus Juegos», EME, 1975, III, no. 17.
«Lo Folklórico y lo Popular», Revista Actualidad, August 16, 1947, IV.
References
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People from Azua Province
Ethnomusicologists
Dominican Republic educators
Dominican Republic music educators
Dominican Republic women music educators
Dominican folklorists
20th-century Dominican Republic historians
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Grewia bulot
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Grewia bulot (Vietnamese ) is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Vietnam. It is an indicator species of the Highland Floodplain community, along with Michelia floribunda, Polyalthia cerasoides, Nephelium lappaceum and Machilus odoratissima.
References
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Endemic flora of Vietnam
Plants described in 1943
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Hiroya (born 6 January 1992) is a Japanese kickboxer.
Career
He made his K-1 debut at the K-1 World MAX 2007 Japan Tournament in one of the opening fights as the youngest contestant at the age of 15 on February 5, 2007.
On February 25, 2012, he lost to Naoki via split decision at Big Bang 8 in Tokyo.
He moved up to 65 kg and stopped Chonden Chuwattana with low kicks just thirty seconds into round two at Big Bang 11 on December 2, 2012.
He beat Keiji Ozaki by majority decision in a non-tournament bout at Krush Grand Prix 2013 ~67kg Tournament First Round~ on January 14, 2013 in Tokyo.
Hiroya had his rubber match with Masaaki Noiri in the quarter-finals of the Road to Glory Japan -65kg Slam on March 10, 2013. He lost the close fight by majority decision due to a point deduction for low blows.
He lost to NOMAN is an extension round split decision at Krush.29 in Tokyo on June 16, 2013.
He beat Sapanpetch Sit-Itisukato by decision at MAX Muay Thai 4 in Sendai, Japan on October 6, 2013.
He knocked out Igor Liubchenko with a second round high kick at MAX Muay Thai 5: The Final Chapter in Khon Kaen, Thailand on December 10, 2013.
Titles and accomplishments
Professional
Krush
2014 Krush -65Kg Champion
Amateur
2008 K-1 Koshien Champion
2007 K-1 Koshien Runner-up
2006 AFK Asian Championships Junior Low Kick -54 kg Champion
2006 WMF World Championships Junior -54 kg
2005 WMF World Championships Junior -45 kg
Fight record
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2019-10-12|| Loss||align=left| Takuma Konishi || Rizin 19 - Osaka|| Osaka, Japan || KO (Left Knee to the Head) || 1||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2018-11-17|| Win ||align=left| Yojiro Uchimura || RISE 129|| Tokyo, Japan || KO (Left Hook) || 2|| 0:15
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2018-06-17|| Win ||align=left| Hiroyuki Takaya || RISE 129|| Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right Hook) || 3|| 0:59
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2017-09-29|| Loss ||align=left| Singmanee Kaewsamrit || EM Legend 23|| China || Decision (Unanimous) || 3|| 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2017-04-22 || Loss||align=left| Tetsuya Yamato || K-1 World GP 2017 Super Bantamweight Championship Tournament||Tokyo, Japan|| KO (Left hook) || 2 || 1:06
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2016-11-26 || Win||align=left| Wang Yuanlei || Faith Fight Championship|| China || KO (Right Cross) || 1 || 2:59
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2016-09-23 || Win ||align=left| Rasul Kachakaev|| EM Legend|| China|| TKO (Body shots)|| 3|| 1:55
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2016-06-24 || Loss || align=left| Kaew Fairtex || K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Left hook) || 1 || 0:36
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2016-03-04 || Loss ||align=left| Masaaki Noiri || K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament, Semi Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2016-03-04 || Win ||align=left| Naoki Terasaki || K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || KO (High Kick) || 1 || 2:19
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2015-12-29 || Win ||align=left| Wicky Nishiura || Rizin World Grand Prix 2015: Part 1 - Saraba || Saitama, Japan || KO (Punches) || 3 || 1:20
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2015-04-19|| Loss|| align=left| Minoru Kimura || K-1 World GP 2015 -55kg Championship Tournament || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (3 Knockdowns) || 1 || 2:45
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2014-11-03|| Loss||align=left| Yasuomi Soda ||K-1 World GP 2014 -65kg Championship Tournament, Semi Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2014-11-03|| Win||align=left| Michael Thompson ||K-1 World GP 2014 -65kg Championship Tournament, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2014-07-13 || Loss ||align=left| Naoki Terasaki || Krush 43 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right Cross) || 1 || 1:29
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2014-03-08 || Win ||align=left| TaCa || Krush 39, Super Lightweight Championship Tournament Final || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Low Kick) || 2 || 1:37
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2014-03-08 || Win ||align=left| NOMAN || Krush 39, Super Lightweight Championship Tournament Semi Final || Tokyo, Japan || KO (High Kick) || 2 || 1:21
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2014-01-04 || Win ||align=left| Kohei Nishikawa || Krush 37 || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (3 Knockdowns) || 2 || 2:46
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2013-12-10 || Win ||align=left| Igor Liubchenko|| MAX Muay Thai 5: The Final Chapter || Khon Kaen, Thailand || KO (High Kick) || 2 ||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2013-10-06 || Win ||align=left| Sapanpetch Sit Itiskat|| MAX Muay Thai 4 || Sendai, Japan || Decision || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2013-09-21 || Win ||align=left| Atsushi Ogata || Krush 33 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2013-06-16 || Loss||align=left| NOMAN || Krush 29 || Tokyo, Japan || Ext.R Decision (Split) || 4 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2013-03-10 || Loss ||align=left| Masaaki Noiri || Road to Glory Japan 65 kg Tournament, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2013-01-14 || Win ||align=left| Keiji Ozaki|| Krush Grand Prix 2013 ~67 kg Tournament First Round~ ||Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2012-12-02 || Win ||align=left| Chondern Chuwattana|| Bigbang 11 || Tokyo, Japan ||TKO (Low Kicks) || 2 || 0:30
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2012-09-09 || Loss|| align=left| Hisaki Higashimoto || Krush 2012 Youth GP -63 kg Tournament, First Round ||Tokyo, Japan|| KO (Left Hook)|| 1|| 1:01
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2012-07-21|| Win || align=left| Daizo Sasaki || Krush.20 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Low Kick)|| 3 || 2:43
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2012-05-03 || Loss|| align=left| Ryuji Kajiwara || Krush.18||Tokyo, Japan|| Decision (Unanimous)|| 3|| 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2012-02-25 || Loss ||align=left| Naoki || Bigbang 8 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Split) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2011-12-09 || Loss ||align=left| Masaaki Noiri || Krush.14, YOUTH GP 2011 Semi Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2011-10-10|| Win || align=left| Sho Ogawa|| Krush YOUTH GP 2011 Opening, Quarter Finals || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 ||3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2011-10-10|| Win || align=left| Daiki Hoshikawa || Krush YOUTH GP 2011 Opening, First Round|| Tokyo, Japan || KO (Low Kick) || 1 ||1:35
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2011-06-25 || Loss||align=left| Tetsuya Yamato || K-1 World MAX 2011 -63kg Japan Tournament Final, Quarter final || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2011-05-15|| Win || align=left| Akihiro Kuroda || Bigbang 5 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2011-03-26|| Win || align=left| Tomas Nakamura || SNKA MAGNUM 25 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2010-11-08 ||Loss ||align=left| Yuta Kubo || K-1 World MAX 2010 -70kg World Championship Tournament Final || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2009-07-13|| Win || align=left| Federico Lopez ||K-1 World MAX 2009 World Championship Tournament Final 8|| Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2009-02-23|| Win || align=left| Kiazemon Saiga || K-1 World MAX 2009 Japan Tournament|| Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2008-11-17 || Win ||align=left| Taweesaklek Sor.Wongthong|| Petchaophraya, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand ||KO (Body Punches) || 3 ||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2008-07-27 || Win ||align=left| Kungthong HangthongYaowarat || Chujaroen + True Visions 62, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand ||KO (Left Hook) || 1 || 1:30
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2008-06-29 || Win ||align=left| || Chujaroen + True Visions 62, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand ||KO || 2 ||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2008-05-22 || Loss ||align=left| Sakkasem Kiatyongyut || Kiatyongyut, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2008-04-09|| Win || align=left| Tsukasa Fuji || K-1 World MAX 2008 World Championship Tournament FINAL 16|| Hiroshima, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2008-02-02 || Win ||align=left| Robbie Hageman|| K-1 World MAX 2008 Japan Tournament || Tokyo, Japan ||KO (Left Hook) || 2 ||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2007-10-03 || Win ||align=left| Kwon Min Seok || K-1 World MAX 2007 World Championship Final || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2007-06-23 || Win ||align=left| Sakdar Lukromkrao|| Bigbang 11 || Tokyo, Japan ||TKO (Referee Stoppage) || 2 ||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2007-06-23|| Win || align=left| Roy Tan || K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 in Amsterdam || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 2007-04-04|| Win || align=left| Noritaka Nishimura || K-1 World MAX 2007 World Elite Showcase|| Yokohama, Japan || TKO || 1 || 2:47
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:
Legend:
Mixed rules record
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| align=center| 0–1
| Shibatar
| Submission (armbar)
| Rizin 26
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| align=center|2
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| Saitama, Japan
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See also
List of male kickboxers
List of K-1 events
References
External links
Hiroya's Official Site
1992 births
Living people
Japanese male kickboxers
Lightweight kickboxers
Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Chanjo%20Lunji
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Martha Chanjo Lunji
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Martha Chanjo Lunji was a Malawian Democratic Progressive Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkhotakota North East from 2014 until her death in 2021. She was Chief Whip of the DPP in opposition and had served as Minister of Labour, Skills and Innovation in Peter Mutharika's government.
Personal life
Lunji held a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. She died of COVID-19-related complications on the night of 13 July 2021 at Kamuzu Central Hospital.
See also
Politics of Malawi
References
20th-century births
2021 deaths
21st-century Malawian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi
Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi) politicians
Malawian women in politics
Members of the National Assembly (Malawi)
Women government ministers of Malawi
Year of birth missing
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