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7846293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM%20Prison%20Hull | HM Prison Hull | HMP Hull is a Category B men's local prison located in Kingston upon Hull in England. The term 'local' means that this prison holds people on remand to the local courts. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
History
Hull Prison opened in 1870, and is of a typical Victorian design.
Ethel Major was the last person and only woman to be executed at Hull in 1934. She had been convicted of the murder of her husband. An exhibition "Within These Walls" follows the prison's history from 1299 to 1934.
The exhibition was designed and created by Officer Rob Nicholson and officially opened by Lawrence Major, Ethel's grandson.
In 1976 Hull prison was involved in a three-day riot by inmates of the prison. Over 100 prisoners were involved in a protest that erupted over staff brutality. The riot ended peacefully on 3 September 1976 but over two thirds of the prison was destroyed,
with an estimated repair cost of £3 – £4 million. The prison was closed for a year while repairs were carried out. Disciplinary proceedings following the riots led to a number of legal challenges.
The Prison was removed from the high-security estate in 1985 and became a local prison holding inmates remanded and sentenced by courts in the area.
In 2002 a major expansion was completed making the prison more modern rather than Victorian, which added four new wings, a new gymnasium, a new health care centre and a multi-faith centre.
In January 2013, the Ministry of Justice announced that older parts of Hull Prison will close, with a reduction of 282 places at the prison. In April 2014 the Ministry of Justice announced that these would be brought back into use as the "prison population is currently above published projections".
After rioting at Birmingham Prison in December 2016, some prisoners were transferred from Birmingham to Hull. Disturbances were reported at HMP Hull.
On 14 September 2018, Staff at HMP Hull, along with many other prisons across the country, walked out under protest due to health and safety conditions across the prison estate. The protest was amid fears of rising violence, wanting safety improvements and a reduction in violence and overcrowding.
In January 2019, it was announced that HMP Hull will be one of 10 prisons chosen for body scanners which aims to reduce drugs and violence, while improving standards, in the country's most challenging jails providing a template for the wider estate.
In January 2021, it was reported that HMP Hull had been dealing with a huge COVID-19 outbreak which saw around 80 prisoners and staff struck down by the virus.
The prison today
Hull is a local prison holding remand, sentenced and convicted males. Prisoners are employed in the workshops, kitchens, gardens and waste management departments. Education classes are also available to prisoners.
HMP Hull houses the Within These Walls exhibition which charts the history of Hull's prisons from 1299 through to the present day. The exhibition was created by officer Rob Nicholson and opened in 2011.
Notable inmates
Charles Bronson
Paul Sykes
Robert Maudsley
Tommy Robinson
References
External links
Ministry of Justice pages on Hull
Texts on the 1976 riot
HMP Hull – HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports
Prisons in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Buildings and structures in Kingston upon Hull
Prison uprisings in the United Kingdom
1870 establishments in England
Riots and civil disorder in England
1976 riots
Hull |
54244524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Letts | Charles Letts | Lionel Edgar Charles Letts BEM (15 August 1918 – 23 October 2013) was an English entrepreneur notable for a 75-year career in Southeast Asia during which he took a role on the boards of more than 90 listed companies, survived torture, multiple escape attempts and a death sentence as a Japanese Prisoner of War and acted as a spy on behalf of the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Personal life
Letts was born in the English village of Send two months before the end of World War I, the son of Frederick James Letts, a hairdresser, and Eva Catherine Watts. While a Staff Captain in the Army he married Cecilia Monro on 29 December 1945 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Military career
Letts fought with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and with the Free Thai Movement during World War II
Business career
Letts played a significant role in the sale of British owned assets in Southeast Asia during the period after World War II, in the process making deep connections with numerous individuals whose families would go on to accumulate huge wealth as the British Empire rolled back in Asia.
Diplomatic Roles
In later life Letts acted as Honorary Consul in Singapore for Brazil and Portugal.
Decorations
During his lifetime Letts was awarded the British Empire Medal, became a Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross and was made a Knight of the Norwegian Order of Merit.
Donation To T. T. Durai
Letts helped to save disgraced former Chief Executive Officer of the National Kidney Foundation Singapore, T. T. Durai, from bankruptcy, with a gift of $1 million.
References
1918 births
Recipients of the British Empire Medal
2013 deaths
World War II spies for the United Kingdom
British spies
World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
British World War II prisoners of war
20th-century British businesspeople
British expatriates in Singapore |
53792710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tori%20Freestone | Tori Freestone | Victoria ("Tori") Freestone is a British saxophonist, flautist, violinist and composer. She has performed British jazz since 2009 as a band leader and sidewoman, known for her robust tenor sound and melodic invention. Her "Trio" albums, released in 2014 and 2016, were awarded at least 4 stars. The Guardian critic John Fordham described her first album "In The Chop House" as "an imposingly original sound".
In 2017 Freestone was shortlisted for a Fellowship in Jazz Composition supported by PRS for Music Foundation, UK Arts Foundation. That year Freestone was also nominated in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2017 in the Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year category.
Career
Freestone started performing in folk clubs at the age of seven. She joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 17 and then went on to study jazz flute at Leeds College of Music, then progressed to the saxophone when she was 26. Freestone likes to compose for unusual instrumentation that challenges traditional composition and improvisational techniques, most notably in her trio she explores the avenues of composing for a group that is led without a harmony instrument. Freestone features in many UK bands such as the Andre Canniere Sextet and Ivo Neame Quintet, but her main focus is on three projects: The Tori Freestone Trio, the Tori Freestone/ Alcyona Mick Duo and the sextet 'Solstice'. She has appeared at a number of UK Jazz Festivals including Manchester Jazz Festival in 2015 with a project with trumpeter Neil Yates and her duo with pianist Alcyona Mick. More recently she appeared at The Barbican, London as part of a larger ensemble all-star band with Hermeto Pascoal. She also performs on tour with the Julian Siegel Big Band.
Recordings
Freestone's debut album with her Trio was In the Chop House, released in 2014 on Whirlwind Recordings. This album featured Freestone on tenor saxophone, Dave Manington on double bass and Tim Giles on drums. The Guardian gave the album 4 stars and said: "In being supported by only bass and drums (Dave Manington and Tim Giles), Freestone goes for one of a saxophonist's toughest options, but she is more than up to it."All About Jazz placed this album in their top 10 albums of 2014 and gave it four and a half stars.
Her second album, with the same trio, El Barranco, again released on Whirlwind Recordings, garnered similarly excellent 4-star reviews. John Fordham wrote "...fascinating once again for the ways in which an exceptional improviser can spin new yarns from the most deliberately restricted of resources – just an unbugged sax, bass and drums. Freestone has an arresting Coltrane-inflected sound..." In 2018 her duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick entitled Criss Cross received many 4 star reviews including one in All About Jazz "This is elegant, engaging and original music, played with magnificent panache."
In 2019, her third Trio album El Mar de Nubes received 4 stars from John Fordham "...this impressive trio shows formidable range, balancing free-jazz delicacy and bite".
Discography
As leader
2019: El Mar de Nubes (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
2016: El Barranco (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
2014: In The Chop House (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio
As co-leader
2018: Criss Cross (Whirlwind Recordings) with Alcyona Mick
As sideman
2016: Alimentation (Two Rivers Records) with Solstice
2016: The Darkening Blue (Whirlwind Recordings) with Andre Canniere
2015: Strata (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Quintet
2013: Ichthyology (Groove Laboratory Productions) with Jamil Sheriff Big Band
2013: Entertaining Tyrants (Jellymould Jazz) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2013: Clocca (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnetic
2012: Yatra (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Octet
2011: Things Will Be (Impossible Ark Records) with Riaan Visloo Examples of Twelves
2011: Twistic (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnestic
2010: Cash Cows (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2009: Empty Spaces (Loop Collective) with Fridge Magnetic
2008: Club Rouge (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
2007: Coup d'Etat (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship
2005: Sunday Morning (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
2004: Cool Day (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J
References
External links
Official website
British jazz saxophonists
British jazz flautists
Living people
21st-century saxophonists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century flautists
Whirlwind Recordings artists |
57259475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacama%20longirostris | Cacama longirostris | Cacama longirostris is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae. It is found in Central America.
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Insects described in 1881
Cryptotympanini |
4203182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grov%2C%20Troms | Grov, Troms | Grov or Grovfjord () is a village in Tjeldsund Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located east of the village of Tovik along the Grovfjorden at a very narrow point in the fjord. It is about southeast of the town of Harstad and about west of the town of Narvik. The Moelva and Gårdselva rivers flow through the village into the fjord. The village has a population (2017) of 400 which gives the village a population density of .
Grov is the location of the local primary and secondary schools, Astafjord Church, and a library. There are some local industries that mostly center on agriculture, fish farming, and boat building. Grov was the municipal center of the former municipality of Astafjord.
References
Villages in Troms
Skånland |
41191071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur%20Mohammad%20Kandi | Nur Mohammad Kandi | Nur Mohammad Kandi (, also Romanized as Nūr Moḩammad Kandī; also known as Nūr Moḩammad) is a village in Korani Rural District, Korani District, Bijar County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 167, in 43 families. The village is populated by Azerbaijanis.
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Towns and villages in Bijar County
Azerbaijani settlements in Kurdistan Province |
67274742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Algernon%20Gordon-Lennox | Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox | Colonel Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (19 September 1847 – 3 October 1921) was a British Army officer.
Life
Gordon-Lennox was educated at Eton. He served in the Royal Navy between 1862–65. In 1867, he joined 1st Life Guards and, in 1867, transferred to Grenadier Guards. He served with 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. He was the Aide-de-Camp to Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, 1883–95. He served in South Africa in 1900 as Military Secretary to Sir Alfred Milner, and latterly on the staff of Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard.
Family
Gordon-Lennox was born to Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond and Frances Harriett Greville, daughter of Algernon Greville.
He married Blanche Maynard, daughter of Charles Henry Maynard and Blanche ( Fitzroy) Maynard. Blanche's paternal grandfather was Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard. Blanche Maynard Gordon-Lennox would later be appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1919.
The couple had one child: Ivy.
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1847 births
1921 deaths
People educated at Eton College
British Life Guards officers
Grenadier Guards officers
Younger sons of dukes
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Algernon
Military personnel from Marylebone |
151070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgetop%2C%20Tennessee | Ridgetop, Tennessee | Ridgetop is a city in Davidson and Robertson counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The population was 1,874 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Ridgetop is located in Robertson County except for two small portions of the city that fall in Davidson County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
There is a small man-made lake built to draw in tourism in the early 1900s. Underneath the town is "Ridgetop Tunnel", a railroad tunnel bored in the early 1900s. When completed in 1905, it was the longest free-standing (i.e., with no columnar supports) tunnel in the world.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,155 people, 803 households, and 613 families residing in the city.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,083 people, 385 households, and 314 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 399 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.12% White, 1.48% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.55% Asian, 0.18% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.02% of the population.
There were 385 households, out of which 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.5% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.4% were non-families. 16.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.4% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $52,381, and the median income for a family was $57,589. Males had a median income of $40,813 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,610. About 4.3% of families and 4.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 15.5% of those age 65 or over.
Filming
Scenes for Hannah Montana: The Movie were filmed at the special events facility "Smiley Hollow". The movie was released April 10, 2009.
Notable residents
Grandpa Jones - American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer and member of the Grand Ole Opry
David "Stringbean" Akeman - American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He and his wife were neighbors of Grandpa Jones' and were both murdered at their home in 1973.
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Cities in Tennessee
Cities in Robertson County, Tennessee
Cities in Davidson County, Tennessee
Cities in Nashville metropolitan area |
36978557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20metro%20station | Franklin metro station | Franklin is a transfer station between the Line 2 and Line 6 of the Santiago Metro. Their namesake is the Franklin Neighborhood. The Line 2 station was opened on 31 March 1978 as the southern terminus of the inaugural section of the line, from Los Héroes. On 21 December 1978, the line was extended to Lo Ovalle. The Line 6 station was opened on 2 November 2017 as part of the inaugural section of the line, between Cerrillos and Los Leones.
The station has a central mezzanine on the first level down containing turnstiles and a ticket booth. Stairs at the two northernmost corners of the mezzanine provide access to the platform level, whereas at south end of the mezzanine, one stair per platform go up to it.
A passageway connects the mezzanine's east end to the only access to the station. The original entrance pavilion was replaced by the current more modest structure. It features two parallel escalators, one up and the other down, which are separated by a central unused space that is provisioned to accommodate two additional escalators. The escalators are flanked by two staircases.
Gallery
References
Santiago Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1978
Santiago Metro Line 2
Santiago Metro Line 6 |
52491105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacia%20fruhstorferi | Cacia fruhstorferi | Cacia fruhstorferi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1969. It is known from Java.
References
Cacia (beetle)
Beetles described in 1969 |
27727377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Dandy | Trevor Dandy | Trevor Dandy is a gospel and funk musician. Born in Jamaica, Dandy emigrated to Toronto in the 1960s. His 1970 album Don't Cry Little Tree was produced by Paul Zaza's custom label Zaza Productions. The song Is There Any Love from Don't Cry Little Tree. was re-issued as a single-sided single by Chicago record label The Numero Group in 2010 in a limited pressing of 200 copies. The song has been sampled by Kid Cudi ("Is There Any Love"), Monsters of Folk ("Dear God"), The Roots ("Dear God 2.0") Ghostface Killah ("Drama"), Common ("Kingdom"), and B. Dolan ("Marvin").
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
30520652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bentley | Phil Bentley | Phillip Keague Bentley (born 14 January 1959) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitie, and formerly the CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications. and the managing director of British Gas, the British retail arm of the energy company Centrica.
Early and personal life
Bentley was brought up in Bradford, and attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge. He holds a master's degree from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Bentley is married and has two children.
Career
Bentley joined BP's graduate recruitment scheme in 1982, training as a management accountant. He worked in China from 1983 to 1985, and then Egypt and the US, before returning to the UK as head of capital markets. He joined Grand Metropolitan in 1995, which became Diageo in 1997; from 1 July 1999 until 2000 he was finance director of UDV Guinness.
Centrica
Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007. and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006.
On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas, part of the Centrica group, taking over from Mark Clare from March 2007. Bentley's stewardship was often controversial, as the company raised residential energy prices several times during his reign; protests at company premises were not unusual. Bentley frequently appeared in the media defending the company's decisions. The controversy was fuelled by the rise in profits during Bentley's stewardship – profits from the residential energy division of British Gas increased by 24% in one year alone. Bentley repeatedly claimed that price rises were beyond the company's control, and that they were not increased to raise profits. Bentley said that the reason for the price increase was that average domestic gas consumption had increased by 12 per cent compared to the warmer previous year. Throughout his time at the company Bentley's salary (£681,000 in 2013) was the subject of frequent criticism.
As managing director for seven-years, Bentley did have commercial success at Centrica, increasing turnover by nearly £4 billion. He was credited with improving the company’s customer services and rolling out new technologies such as smart meters.
On 27 February 2013, Centrica announced that Bentley would step down from his role at British Gas, from the Centrica board on 30 June 2013, and leave the company's employment on 31 December 2013. Bentley was replaced by the managing director of Direct Energy (also part of the Centrica group) Chris Weston.
Cable and Wireless
On 17 October 2013 it was announced that Bentley would succeed Tony Rice as CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1 January 2014, coinciding with the relocation of the company headquarters from London to Miami, Florida. On 6 January 2014, C&WC announced that Bentley had purchased 4.3 million shares in the company, at a value of around 3 times his basic salary of £800,000. He demitted office after the acquisition of CWC by Liberty Global on 16 May 2016.
Mitie
In October 2016, it was announced that he would succeed Ruby McGregor-Smith as CEO of Mitie, which he duly did on 13 December 2016. Under Bentley’s leadership, Mitie has become the biggest FM operator in the UK, partly because of their acquisition of Interserve in late 2020. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Bentley has overseen Mitie’s work delivering a wide range of services, including running Covid-19 testing sites, cleaning offices and major transport services, and providing security for new quarantine hotels. He has also attempted to use the pandemic to redefine the traditional image of cleaning by introducing UVC robots and units. current basic salary of £900,000 – As the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MITIE Plc, the total compensation of Phil Bentley at MITIE Plc is £2,648,470. There are no executives at MITIE Plc getting paid more.
Other positions
Between 2002 and 2010 he was a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Kingfisher plc. On 1 October 2012 Bentley was apportioned non-executive director of global engineering group IMI, and also joined the audit committee and nominations committee.
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1959 births
Living people
British chief executives in the energy industry
Businesspeople from Bradford
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
INSEAD alumni
Centrica people |
63905873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafizul%20Islam%20Khan%20Kamal | Mafizul Islam Khan Kamal | Mafizul Islam Khan Kamal is a freedom fighter and politician. He is the former Member of Parliament of the then Dhaka-3 (Manikganj-3) constituency from Bangladesh Awami League.
He joined Awami League’s student wing (Chhatra League) as a student in 1957. In 1968 he became the Publicity Secretary of greater Dhaka District of Bangladesh Awami League. He fought as a freedom fighter during the liberation war in 1971. In 1973, he was elected as one of youngest MPs in independent Bangladesh’s first parliament. He also served on the Central Committee of Awami League from 1981-1992.
He was one of the founding leaders of Gano Forum in 1993 and served as its executive president. In October 2023, he became president of Gano Forum.
He is involved in a number social causes and is the founder of a number of educational institutions including Manikganj Mohila College.
He is the son-in-law of former minister and freedom fighter Capt Abdul Haleem Chowdhury.
References
Gano Forum politicians
Living people
1st Jatiya Sangsad members
Year of birth missing (living people) |
35155018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliabad-e%20Nazarali%20Khan | Aliabad-e Nazarali Khan | Aliabad-e Nazarali Khan (, also Romanized as ‘Alīābād-e Naz̧ar‘alī Khān; also known as ‘Alīābād-e Naz̧arkhānī) is a village in Jafarabad Rural District, Jafarabad District, Qom County, Qom Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 155, in 33 families.
References
Populated places in Qom Province |
63739215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus%20of%20Books%20%28film%29 | Circus of Books (film) | Circus of Books is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Rachel Mason, written by Rachel Mason and Kathryn Robson and starring Karen Mason, Barry Mason and Rachel Mason. The premise revolves around Circus of Books, a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California, and in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and was released on Netflix in the United States on April 22, 2020.
Cast
Karen Mason
Barry Mason
Rachel Mason
Josh Mason
Micah Mason
Alexei Romanoff
Billy Miller
Don Norman
Freddie Bercovitz
Paulo Morillo
Ellen Winer
Larry Flynt
David Gregory
Fernando Aguilar
Alaska Thunderfuck
Jeff Stryker
Release
The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. It went on to show at several film festivals, including the Frameline Film Festival, Outfest, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival. At the 2019 Sidewalk Film Festival, the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.
On April 22, 2020, the film was released on Netflix.
Reception
Circus of Books holds approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "Like the cheekily named store at this documentary's center, Circus of Books proves there are countless stories below the surface if we're only willing to look." The Guardian Peter Bradshaw rated the film 4 out of 5 stars.
Circus of Books was nominated for the 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.
References
External links
2019 films
2019 documentary films
2019 LGBT-related films
Documentary films about gay male pornography
Documentary films about Los Angeles
Netflix original documentary films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
American LGBT-related documentary films |
58204768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biafra%20Story | The Biafra Story | The Biafra Story is a 1969 non-fiction book by Frederick Forsyth about the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70) in which Biafra unsuccessfully attempted to secede from Nigeria. Reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the war from the Biafran perspective, a revised edition was published after the war in 1977.
Publication
The Biafra Story was written by journalist and author Frederick Forsyth, who claims in his book that he had originally been working as a correspondent for the BBC Africa Service in Enugu but quit and left for Biafra after becoming "so disgusted" with the BBC's "lies and distortions". Reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the war, the first edition of The Biafra Story was published in 1969 amid the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) and seven months before the secessionist army of Biafra surrendered. In the final few weeks of the war, Forsyth returned to Biafra and substantially expanded his original manuscript. The revised edition of the book was published in 1977 under the title The Making of an African Legend: The Biafra Story, and includes in its prologue and epilogue a history of post-Civil War Nigeria up to the year of publication.
Reception
In a review for The Spectator, Auberon Waugh praised the first edition of The Biafra Story as "probably the best we shall see on the war" and "by far the most complete account", while offering that its "greatest single weakness" was its presupposing "concern and a readiness for moral judgment", neither of which were justified in Waugh's view. Peter Mustell, in a review of the revised edition for The Journal of Modern African Studies, criticised the author's lack of impartiality in that he was "too complimentary to the Biafran leader". Mustell also noted several factual errors present in both editions, while echoing Forsyth's own disclaimer that the book was "not a detached account" of the war and should be "examined with a careful curiosity".
References
1969 non-fiction books
Works by Frederick Forsyth
Biafra
Nigerian Civil War
Books about war
Penguin Books books |
529760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook%20wind | Chinook wind | Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks. The coastal Chinooks are persistent seasonal, wet, southwesterly winds blowing in from the ocean. The interior Chinooks are occasional warm, dry föhn winds blowing down the eastern sides of interior mountain ranges. The coastal Chinooks were the original term, used along the northwest coast, and the term in the interior of North America is later and derives from the coastal term.
Along the Pacific Northwest coast, where the name is pronounced ('chin'+'uk'), the name refers to wet, warm winds off the ocean from the southwest; this is the original use of the term. The coastal Chinook winds deliver tremendous amounts of moisture both as rain along the coast and snow in the coastal mountains, that sustain the characteristic temperate rainforests and climate of the Pacific Northwest.
In North American western interior, the same name is used for föhn winds, generally, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains lie immediately east of various interior mountain ranges. There the name is pronounced ('shin'+'uk'). The same warm, wet coastal winds can also become the warm föhn winds on the eastern sides of mountain ranges, after having lost their moisture on the western sides; however, due to expanded use of the term in the interior for any föhn wind, interior Chinooks are not necessarily originally coastal Chinooks.
In the interior of North America, the Blackfoot people call these winds the "snow eater"; however, the more commonly used term "Chinook" originates from the name of the eponymous Chinook people, who lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River, where the term was first derived. The reference to "a Chinook" wind or weather system originally meant, to euro-American settlers along the Pacific Northwest coast, a warming wind from the ocean blowing into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of the North America.
A strong föhn wind can make snow one foot (30 cm) deep almost vanish in one day. The snow partly sublimates and partly melts and evaporates in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20 °C (−4°F) to as high as 10–20°C (50–68°F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels.
In the Pacific Northwest
"Chinook" is used for coastal Chinook winds in British Columbia, and is the original use of the term, being rooted in the lore of coastal natives and immigrants, and brought to Alberta by French-speaking fur-traders. Such winds are extremely wet and warm and arrive off the western coast of North America from the southwest.
These same winds have more recently been called the pineapple express, since they are of tropical origin, roughly from the area of the Pacific near Hawaii.
The air associated with a coastal Chinook is stable; this minimizes wind gusts and often keeps winds light in sheltered areas. In exposed areas, fresh gales are frequent during a Chinook, but strong gale- or storm-force winds are uncommon; most of the region's stormy winds come when a fast "westerly" jet stream lets air masses from temperate and subarctic latitudes clash.
When a coastal Chinook comes in when an Arctic air mass is holding steady over the coast, the tropical dampness brought in suddenly cools, penetrating the frozen air and coming down in volumes of powder snow, sometimes to sea level. Snowfalls and the cold spells that spawned them only last a few days during a Chinook; as the warm coastal Chinooks blow from the southwest, they push back east the cold Arctic air. The snow melts quickly and is gone within a week.
The effects on the Interior of British Columbia when a coastal Chinook is in effect are the reverse. In a rainy spell, most of the heavy moisture will be wrung out of the rising air as a consequence of crossing over the mountain ramparts before the air mass descends (and hence warms and dries) into the Fraser Canyon and the Thompson River-Okanagan area. The effects are similar to those of an Albertan interior Chinook, though not to the same extreme, partly because the Okanagan is relatively warmer than the Prairies, and partly because of the additional number of precipitation-catching mountain ranges between Kelowna and Calgary. When the coastal Chinook brings snow to the coast during a period of coastal cold, bright but chilly weather in the interior will give way to a slushy melting of snow, more due to the warm spell than because of rain.
Pronunciation in the Pacific Northwest
The word "Chinook" remains in common use among local fishermen and people in communities along the British Columbia Coast, and coastal Washington and Oregon, and in particular, the term is used in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Coastal "Chinook" is not pronounced shin-uk () as it is in the interior, east of the Cascades, but is in the original coastal pronunciation chin-uk ().
In British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest, the word Chinook was predominantly pronounced . However, the common pronunciation current throughout most of the inland Pacific Northwest, Alberta, and the rest of Canada, is , as in French. This difference may be because it was the Métis employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, who were familiar with the Chinook people and country, brought the name east of the Cascades and Rockies, along with their own ethnic pronunciation. Early records are clear that tshinook was the original pronunciation, before the word's transmission east of the Rockies.
First nations myth from British Columbia
Native legend of the Lil'wat subgroup of the St'at'imc tells of a girl named Chinook-Wind, who married Chinook Glacier, and moved to his country, which was in the area of today's Birkenhead River. She pined for her warm sea-home in the southwest, and sent a message to her people. They came to her in a vision in the form of snowflakes, and told her they were coming to get her. They came in great number and quarrelled with Glacier over her, but they overwhelmed him and in the end she went home with them.
Chinooks in Alberta and eastern British Columbia
Interior Chinooks are most prevalent over southern Alberta in Canada, especially in a belt from Pincher Creek and Crowsnest Pass through Lethbridge, which get 30–35 Chinook days per year, on average. Interior Chinooks become less frequent further south in the United States, and are not as common north of Red Deer, but they can and do occur annually as far north as High Level in northwestern Alberta and Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, and as far south as Las Vegas, Nevada, and occasionally to Carlsbad, in eastern New Mexico.
In Pincher Creek, the temperature rose by , from , in one hour on 6 January 1966. During the winter, driving can be treacherous, as the wind blows snow across roadways, sometimes causing roads to vanish and snowdrifts to pile up higher than a metre. Empty semitrailer trucks driving along Highway 3 and other routes in southern Alberta have been blown over by the high gusts of wind caused by interior Chinooks.
On 27 February 1992, Claresholm, Alberta, a town just south of Calgary, recorded a temperature of ; again, the next day was recorded.
Clashing with Arctic air mass
The interior Chinooks can seem to battle with Arctic air masses at times.
This clash of temperatures can remain stationary, or move back and forth, in the latter case causing such fluctuations as a warm morning, a bitterly cold afternoon, and a warm evening. A curtain of fog often accompanies the clash between warm to the west and cold to the east.
Chinook arch
Two common cloud patterns seen in the interior during this time are a chinook arch overhead, and a bank of clouds (also referred to as a cloud wall) obscuring the mountains to the west. The bank appears to be an approaching storm, but does not advance any further to the east.
One of its most striking features of the interior Chinook weather system is the Chinook arch, a föhn cloud in the form of a band of stationary stratus clouds, caused by air rippling over the mountains due to orographic lifting. To those unfamiliar with it, the Chinook arch may at times look like a threatening storm cloud, however, the arch clouds rarely produce rain or snow. They can also create stunning sunrises and sunsets.
A similar phenomenon, the Nor'west arch, also a föhn cloud, is seen in southern New Zealand.
The stunning colors seen in the Chinook arch are quite common. Typically, the colours will change throughout the day, starting with yellow, orange, red, and pink shades in the morning as the sun comes up, grey shades at midday changing to pink / red colours, and then orange / yellow hues just before the sun sets.
Cause of occurrence
The interior Chinook is a föhn wind, a rain shadow wind which results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes.
Sometimes the interior Chinooks are caused by the same air flow as the coastal Chinooks:
As moist winds from the Pacific (coastal Chinooks) are forced to rise over the mountains, the moisture in the air is condensed and falls out as precipitation, while the air cools at the moist adiabatic rate of The dried air then descends on the leeward side of the mountains, warming at the dry adiabatic rate of
The turbulence of the high winds also can prevent the usual nocturnal temperature inversion from forming on the lee side of the slope, allowing night-time temperatures to remain elevated.
Quite often, when the Pacific Northwest coast is being drenched by rain, the windward (western) side of the Rockies is being hammered by snow (robbing the air of its moisture), and the leeward (eastern) side of the Rockies in Alberta is basking in a föhn Chinook. The three different weather conditions are all caused by the same flow of air, hence the confusion over the use of the name "Chinook wind".
Interior Chinooks and gardening on Great Plains
The frequent midwinter thaws by interior Chinooks in Great Plains country are more of a bane than a blessing to gardeners. Plants can be visibly brought out of dormancy by persistent, warm interior Chinook winds, or have their hardiness reduced even if they appear to remain dormant. In either case, they become vulnerable to later cold waves.
Many plants which do well at Winnipeg – where constant cold maintains dormancy throughout the winter – are difficult to grow in the Alberta Chinook belt. Examples include basswood, some apple, raspberry, and juneberry varieties, and Amur maples. Native trees in the interior Chinook-affected areas of Alberta are known to be small, with much less growth than the same species growing in areas not affected by interior Chinook winds. This is once again caused by the "off-and-on" dormancy throughout winter.
Health
Interior Chinook winds are said to sometimes cause a sharp increase in the number of migraine headaches suffered by the locals. At least one study conducted by the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary supports that belief. They are popularly believed to increase irritability and sleeplessness.
In mid-winter over major centres such as Calgary, interior Chinooks can often override cold air in the city, trapping the pollutants in the cold air and causing inversion smog. At such times, it is possible for it to be cold at street level and much warmer at the tops of the skyscrapers and in higher terrain.
Chinooks and föhn winds in the inland United States
In the North American western interior, winds that are generally called föhn winds by meteorologists and climatologists are called "Chinooks". Regardless of the name, föhns can occur on the leeward side of any nearby mountain range. The föhns called "Chinook winds" are seen throughout most of inland western North America, particularly the Rocky Mountain region. Montana especially has a significant amount of föhn winds throughout much of the state during the winter months, but particularly coming off the Rocky Mountain Front in the northern and west-central areas of the state.
On rare occasions, Chinook winds generated on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains have reached as far east as Wisconsin.
Records
Loma, Montana has the world record for the most extreme temperature change in a 24-hour period. On January 15, 1972, the temperature increased from −54 °F to 49 °F (−48 °C to 9 °C), a 103 °F (58 °C) change in temperature.
Spearfish, South Dakota holds the world record for the fastest increase in temperature. On January 22, 1943, the temperature increased from −4 °F to 45 °F (−20 °C to 7 °C), a 49 °F (27 °C) change in temperature. This occurred in just 2 minutes.
Rapid City, South Dakota holds the world record for the fastest decrease in temperature. On January 10, 1911, the temperature decreased from 60 °F to 13 °F (16 °C to −11 °C), a 47 °F (26.1 °C) change in temperature.
Squamish winds, williwaws, and Chugach föhns
The resulting outflow wind is more or less the opposite of British Columbia / Pacific Northwest coastal Chinook. These are called a squamish in certain areas, rooted in the direction of such winds coming down out of Howe Sound, home to the Squamish people, and in Alaska are called a williwaw. They consist of cold airstreams from the continental air mass pouring out of the interior plateau via certain river valleys and canyons penetrating the Coast Mountains towards the coast.
A similar, local föhn wind regularly occurs in the Cook Inlet region in Alaska, as air moves over the Chugach Mountains between Prince William Sound and Portage Glacier. Anchorage residents often believe the warm winds which melt snow and leave their streets slushy and muddy are a midwinter gift from Hawaii, following a common mistake that the warm winds come from the same place as the similar winds near the coasts in southern British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
See also
Catabatic wind
Diablo wind
Föhn wind
Southeast Australian foehn
Nor'west arch
Pineapple express
Santa Ana winds
Sundowner winds
References
Climate of the Rocky Mountains
Winds
Natural history of Alberta
Western United States
Climate of Canada
Föhn effect
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22229751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batella%20muscosa | Batella muscosa | Batella muscosa is a species in the moth genus Batella in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by Ugo Dall'Asta in 1981, but the name is preoccupied by the crustacean genus Batella Holthuis, 1955. The species was first described by William Jacob Holland in 1893. It is found in western Africa.
References
Lymantriinae
Moths described in 1893 |
17368407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Mayer | Colin Mayer | Colin Peter Mayer was the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He was the Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School between 2006 and 2011. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is a professorial fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is an ordinary member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and was a member of the UK government Natural Capital Committee.
Over the last decade he has made the case against narrow shareholder value maximization by business firms and instead promoted the broader view of business purpose to promote economic and social well-being.
Current Activities
Colin Mayer has degrees in engineering science and economics (BA, First Class, 1974) and economics (BPhil, 1976; DPhil, 1981) from the University of Oxford. He is Academic Lead of the Future of the Corporation programme at the British Academy, board member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) in Brussels, and a director of the Finance Research Programme at the International Growth Centre, a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford. He researches in the fields of corporate finance, governance, regulation and taxation and has worked on international comparisons of financial systems and corporate governance and their effects on the financing and control of corporations.
Mayer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to business education and the administration of justice in the economic sphere.
Previous Activities
Colin Mayer has previously been chairman of the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets, co-director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research's Network in Financial Market and a member of the executive committee of the Royal Economic Society. He was until 2005 the director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. He was a lecturer in economics at St Anne's College, Oxford (1980–1986), professor of corporate finance at City University (now Cass) Business School (1987–1992), and professor of economics and finance at Warwick University (1992–1994). He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1979/80), a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England (1989) and the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2000 and 2001). He was a director of OXERA, an economics consultancy firm, from 1986 to 2010 and a governor of St Paul's School in London from 2002 until 2011.
Publications
New Issues in Corporate Finance, European Economic Review, 1988.
Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance and Economic Development, in G. Hubbard, Financial Systems, Corporate Finance and Economic Development, NBER 1990.
Ownership and Control of Germany Corporations, with J. Franks, Review of Financial Studies, 2001.
Finance, Investment and Growth, with W. Carlin, Journal of Financial Economics, 2003.
Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation is Failing Us and How to Restore Trust in It, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Oxford
Academics of Saïd Business School
Academics of Bayes Business School
Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the British Academy |
36570281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Peace%20and%20Progress | Radio Peace and Progress | Radio Peace and Progress (RPP; ) was a foreign broadcasting radio station of the Soviet Union besides Radio Moscow and the external services of the union republics.
History
The predecessor of RPP was Radio Peace (or Radio Peace and Freedom), transmitted from Szolnok, Hungary, from April 27, 1950. Programs were edited in Moscow in English, Arabic, Finnish, French, Greek, German, Italian, Serbian, Slovenian and Turkish. It became Radio Freedom and transmitted from Szolnok from January 10, 1954 on 1187 kHz.
RPP was established in 1964 as a Soviet answer to the American Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and ceased broadcasting in May 1991.
Tendency
RPP presented itself as ″the voice of the Soviet public opinion″. The ″public″ (as opposed to government or party) organizations which sponsored RPP broadcasts included three of the creative unions in the Soviet Union (journalists, writers, composers), Novosti news agency, the Union of Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the Znaniye Society (a lecture and public information organization), the Soviet Peace Committee, the Committee of Youth Organisations, and the Soviet Women's Committee.
Although the themes addressed were standard ones that followed the official line, RPP broadcasts were sometimes notably more tendentious and outspoken than those of Radio Moscow, purveying propaganda lines for which the Soviet government might wish to disclaim responsibility.
Languages
Languages offered by both RPP and Radio Moscow: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish.
Languages covered by RPP, but not by Radio Moscow: Azerbaijani, Creole, Guarani, Hebrew, Yiddish.
References
Radio stations established in 1964
Radio stations disestablished in 1991
International broadcasters
Radio stations in the Soviet Union
1964 establishments in the Soviet Union
1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Soviet brands
Mass media companies of the Soviet Union
Eastern Bloc mass media
Propaganda radio broadcasts
Soviet propaganda organizations |
21415678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Medicine%20Men | The Medicine Men | The Medicine Men (or Beats by the Pound) are a New Orleans, Louisiana-based American music production team made up of KLC, Mo B. Dick, Craig B, Carlos Stephens, DJ Daryl, and Odell.
The collective helped sell 30 million records for Master P's No Limit Records, from 1995 to 1999, as well the majority of releases from No Limit Records during the days it was distributed by Priority Records. They would later receive nomination for Producers of the Year and collectively be voted as one of Hip-Hop's "Thirty Most Powerful People" by The Source in 1999. From 1995 to 1999 many of The Medicine Men productions feature hooks from Mo B. Dick or Odell Vickers credited as a featured artist.
Singles produced
Other production
Members
Current members
KLC (1995–present)
Mo B. Dick (1995–present)
Craig B (1996–present)
O'Dell (1997–present)
Carlos Stephens (1995–present)
DJ Daryl (1996–present)
References
American hip hop groups
Southern hip hop groups
Tommy Boy Records artists
No Limit Records artists
American hip hop record producers
Record production teams |
4218499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Hutton | Matthew Hutton | Matthew Hutton may refer to:
Matthew Hutton (archbishop of York) (1529–1606), Archbishop of York
Matthew Hutton (MP) (1597–1666), English politician
Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury) (1693–1758), Archbishop of both York and later Canterbury |
68394383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kais%20al%20Saadi | Kais al Saadi | Kais al Saadi (born 6 November 1976) is a German field hockey coach of the German national team.
He managed the German team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics his contract was not extended.
References
External links
Tokyo 2020 profile
1976 births
Living people
German field hockey coaches
Olympic coaches for Germany |
43214036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori%20Ishii | Masanori Ishii | is a Japanese actor, comedian and narrator. In August 1994, he teamed up with Yoshiyuki Ishizuka to form the comedy duo "Ari to kirigirisu" or "Ant to the Grasshopper" . He has had roles in such works as The Incite Mill (2010), Suite Dreams (2006), Journey to the West (2006).
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Masanori Ishii (official blog)
Masanori Ishii (personal blog)
1973 births
Living people
Japanese male comedians
21st-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male television actors
People from Yokohama |
73505484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20the%20Dance%20Begin%20%28film%29 | Let the Dance Begin (film) | Let the Dance Begin () is a 2023 Argentine-Spanish road comedy-drama film directed by which stars Darío Grandinetti and Mercedes Morán alongside Jorge Marrale.
Plot
Margarita elaborates a ruse feigning her death so she has her former tango partner Carlos returned from Spain (where the latter has formed a family) to Argentina forty years later, thereby initiating a journey across Argentina together, jointly with a shared acquaintance.
Cast
Production
The film is an Argentine-Spanish co-production by Meridional Producciones, Oeste Films, Patagonik Film Group, El Gatoverde Producciones, Áralan Films, Empiza el baile película AIE; Habitación 1520 Producciones, Sur Films, and Reina de Pike Producciones. It also had the participation of RTVE, and the collaboration of the Madrid regional administration, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Ibermedia, INCAA, the Government of Mendoza, Consejo General de Inversiones Argentina and Bodega Santa Julia.
Release
The film was presented in the official selection of the 26th Málaga Film Festival on 14 March 2023. Distributed by Me lo Creo, it was released theatrically in Spain on 5 April 2023. Distributed by Star Distribution, the film was scheduled to open in Argentine theatres on 20 April 2023.
Reception
Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, assessing "Grandinetti, Morán and Marrale, [to be] a trio of unforgettable actors".
Elsa Fernández-Santos of El País deemed the film to be a "journey of return full of humor and pain thanks to a well-spun story through three wonderful performers".
Nando Salvà of El Periódico de Catalunya rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, pointing out that the efficiency of its sense of humor is based on the "overwhelming performances of three perfectly balanced and synchronized actors".
Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, pointing out that despite "fully assuming certain Argentine stereotypes", the film manages to achieve, "above all thanks to its three great performers", just the right tone of bittersweet and melancholic comedy.
Guillermo Courau of La Nación rated the film 3 out of 5 stars ('good'), describing it as a "film as tender as it is bitter, not without touches of black humor helping to soften its taciturn essence", which stands out for the performances from the leading trio.
Accolades
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See also
List of Argentine films of the 2020s
List of Spanish films of 2023
References
2023 films
2023 comedy-drama films
2020s road comedy-drama films
Argentine comedy-drama films
Spanish road comedy-drama films
Films set in Argentina
2020s Spanish-language films
2020s Spanish films
2020s Argentine films
Áralan Films films |
36154822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20%28hydrology%29 | Routing (hydrology) | In hydrology, routing is a technique used to predict the changes in shape of a hydrograph as water moves through a river channel or a reservoir. In flood forecasting, hydrologists may want to know how a short burst of intense rain in an area upstream of a city will change as it reaches the city. Routing can be used to determine whether the pulse of rain reaches the city as a deluge or a trickle.
Routing also can be used to predict the hydrograph shape (and thus lowland flooding potential) subsequent to multiple rainfall events in different sub-catchments of the watershed. Timing and duration of the rainfall events, as well as factors such as antecedent moisture conditions, overall watershed shape, along with subcatchment-area shapes, land slopes (topography/physiography), geology/hydrogeology (i.e. forests and aquifers can serve as giant sponges that absorb rainfall and slowly release it over subsequent weeks and months), and stream-reach lengths all play a role here. The result can be an additive effect (i.e. a large flood if each subcatchment's respective hydrograph peak arrives at the watershed mouth at the same point in time, thereby effectively causing a "stacking" of the hydrograph peaks), or a more distributed-in-time effect (i.e. a lengthy but relatively modest flood, effectively attenuated in time, as the individual subcatchment peaks arrive at the mouth of the main watershed channel in orderly succession).
Other uses of routing include reservoir and channel design, floodplain studies and watershed simulations.
If the water flow at a particular point, A, in a stream is measured over time with a flow gauge, this information can be used to create a hydrograph. A short period of intense rain, normally called a flood event, can cause a bulge in the graph, as the increased water travels down the river, reaches the flow gauge at A, and passes along it. If another flow gauge at B, downstream of A is set up, one would expect the graph's bulge (or floodwave) to have the same shape. However, the shape of the river and flow resistance within a river (from the river bed, for example) can affect the shape of the floodwave. Oftentimes, the floodwave will be attenuated (have a reduced peak flow).
Routing techniques can be broadly classified as hydraulic (or distributed) routing, hydrologic (or lumped) routing or semi-distributed routing. In general, based on the available field data and goals of the project, one of routing procedures is selected.
Hydraulic (or distributed) routing
Hydraulic routing is based on the solution of partial differential equations of unsteady open-channel flow. The equations used are the Saint-Venant equations or the associated dynamic wave equations.
The hydraulic models (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically.
Hydrologic (or lumped) routing
Hydrologic routing uses the continuity equation for hydrology. In its simplest form, inflow to the river reach is equal to the outflow of the river reach plus the change of storage:
, where
I is average inflow to the reach during
O is average outflow from the reach during ; and
S is the water currently in the reach (known as storage)
The hydrologic models (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation.
Semi-distributed routing
Semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristics such as channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions.
Flood routing
Flood routing is a procedure to determine the time and magnitude of flow (i.e., the flow hydrograph) at a point on a watercourse from known or assumed hydrographs at one or more points upstream. The procedure is specifically known as Flood routing, if the flow is a flood.
After Routing, the peak gets attenuated & a time lag is introduced. In order to determine the change in shape of a hydrograph of a flood as it travels through a natural river or artificial channel, different flood simulation techniques can be used. Traditionally, the hydraulic (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) and hydrologic (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) routing procedures that are well known as distributed and lumped ways to hydraulic and hydrologic practitioners, respectively, can be utilized. The hydrologic models need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation. On the other hand, hydraulic models require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically. However, semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristic consisting of channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions. In general, based on the available field data and goals of a project, one of these approaches is utilized for the simulation of flooding in rivers and channels.
Runoff Routing
Runoff routing is a procedure to calculate a surface runoff hydrograph from rainfall. Losses are removed from rainfall to determine the rainfall excess which is then converted to a hydrograph and routed through conceptual storages that represent the storage discharge behaviour of overland and channel flow.
See also
Hydrograph
One-dimensional Saint-Venant equations
References
Hydrology
Soil mechanics
Soil physics
Water |
65054954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Gross%20%28politician%29 | Al Gross (politician) | Alan Stuart Gross (born April 13, 1962) is an American politician, orthopedic surgeon and a commercial fisherman who, running as an independent candidate, was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska. He lost the race to incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.
Early life and education
Gross was born in Juneau in 1962. He is the son of former Alaska Attorney General Avrum and Shari Gross, the first Executive Director of the United Fishermen of Alaska, who also founded the League of Women Voters-Alaska. As a child, he was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska, and had the first bar mitzvah in Southeast Alaska. While attending Douglas High School in Juneau, Gross developed an interest in fishing, both sport and commercial. When he was 14, he bought his first commercial fishing boat with a bank loan. He commercially gillnet fished for salmon in the summer to pay his way through college and medical school.
Gross attended Douglas High School in Juneau before enrolling at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in neuroscience. He studied medicine at the University of Washington’s WWAMI Regional Medical Education Program, graduating in 1989.
Medical career
After graduating from medical school, Gross served as the president of the Bartlett Regional Hospital medical staff. In 2006, he founded and served as the president of the Juneau Bone and Joint Center. Gross retired from full-time orthopedic surgery in 2013, but continues to work part time for the Petersburg Medical Center, and volunteers at a training hospital in Cambodia every year.
Gross practiced as an orthopedic surgeon in Juneau, beginning in 1994. In 2013, Gross left his practice, along with his wife Monica Gross, to study health care economics, earning a master's of public health at University of California, Los Angeles. He has said that he grew uncomfortable with the high costs of healthcare, and pursued his MPH degree to study solutions.
Political career
After earning his MPH, Gross returned to Alaska and began his advocacy for healthcare reform. In 2017, he co-sponsored two ballot initiatives in Alaska. The Quality Health Insurance for Alaskans Act sought to add certain provisions from the Affordable Care Act into state law, including protection against discrimination based on preexisting conditions, mandatory coverage for prenatal and maternal care, and provisions that children could remain covered by their parents' insurance until age 26. The Healthcare for Alaskans Act would codify the Medicaid expansion, already in effect due to an executive order by Governor Bill Walker. Both initiatives were withdrawn from the ballot in December 2017. Supporters cited uncertainty in healthcare policy at the federal level as the reason for the withdrawal.
2020 U.S. Senate campaign
On July 2, 2019, Gross announced he would run as an independent in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alaska. He won the August Democratic primary against Democrat Edgar Blatchford and Independent Chris Cumings, gaining the nomination of the Alaska Democratic Party, which had endorsed him before the filing deadline.
Gross ran as an independent against Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. He had the support of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and The Lincoln Project.
Gross said, "I stepped up to do this because the Alaska economy has been failing, we’ve been losing Alaskans to the Lower 48 for the past few years, and despite that labor loss, we had the highest unemployment in the country."
The Daily Beast argued that Alaska "flirts with purple-state status" in part due to Gross's candidacy. There was speculation that the political fallout of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination could dampen support for incumbent Sullivan and benefit Gross's campaign.
More than a week after the election, Sullivan's reelection in what was expected to be a close race was affirmed.
In October 2021, Gross ran for Hospital Board in Petersburg, Alaska and finished fourth.
2022 U.S. House campaign
On March 28, 2022, Gross announced he would run as an independent candidate for Alaska's at-large congressional seat that was vacated upon the death of Congressman Don Young. Although he won third place and the opportunity to compete in the general election, he withdrew on June 20, 2022.
Political positions
Despite receiving the Alaska Democratic Party's endorsement, Gross is an independent politician and says he is closer to Republicans on "issues like guns and immigration".
Gross supports an overhaul of Medicare, including the addition of a public option. He also supports raising the minimum wage, defending collective bargaining rights for workers and unions, efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, and earlier tracking into trade schools. Citing his background in science, Gross supports policies that address climate change, including the growth of renewable energy and opposition to the Pebble Mine project. He also supports ending Citizens United and fixing political corruption.
Gross fully supports instant-runoff voting. He is neutral on Universal Basic Income (UBI), which resembles the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), saying, "The UBI check here in Alaska has been a great program, but any program like that, you have to be careful you don't disincentivize going back to the workforce."
Environmental and energy policy
Gross opposes the proposed Pebble Mine, which threatens to harm the ecosystem of Bristol Bay. His campaign could have benefited from reports of Sullivan's inconsistency on this issue, and secretly recorded tapes in which corporate executives indicate that Sullivan could switch his position on the mine after the election.
Gross accepts the scientific consensus on climate change and its impacts on Alaska. He supports diversification of Alaska's economy and its energy supply, including renewable energy. Like Sullivan, he supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Gross opposes the Green New Deal.
Foreign policy
Gross has said that Russian and Chinese interest in the Arctic must be counterbalanced by a strong U.S. military. He has said that he would be a "staunch defender" of Israel.
Gun policy
Gross has said that he is a "strong proponent of the Second Amendment" and "will vote against banning any guns." He has stated support for background checks on military assault weapons.
Health care
As a physician, Gross has supported initiatives to lower health care costs. His campaign endorsed a public health care option for individuals and small businesses.
In 2017, he wrote in support of single-payer, but he did not include single-payer as part of his senatorial campaign and his radio, social media and television ads initially opposed the idea. In 2020, he said he supports federal legalization of cannabis to help small businesses and others.
Social policy
Gross was endorsed by Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign.
Electoral history
2020
References
External links
Campaign website
1962 births
20th-century American physicians
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American physicians
21st-century American politicians
Alaska Independents
Amherst College alumni
Candidates in the 2020 United States Senate elections
Jewish American people in Alaska politics
Jewish physicians
Living people
Politicians from Juneau, Alaska
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Washington alumni
Candidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections |
4002546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Hearne | Walter Hearne | Walter Hearne (15 January 1864 - 2 April 1925) was an English professional cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club towards the end of the 19th century. He played primarily as a bowler but suffered from injuries and his career was cut short as a result. He was the elder brother of the great Middlesex bowler J. T. Hearne who played for England in Test cricket whilst his older brother, Herbert Hearne, also played for Kent. He was a member of the extended Hearne family.
Early life and family
Hearne was born at Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire in 1864, the son of William Hearne who was considered a good local cricketer. Part of the extended Hearne family, Hearne and his brothers played cricket – he and Herbert for Kent and Jack and oldest brother William for Middlesex, although William only played for the Second XI. Three cousins played Test cricket as did Jack.
Cricket career
Hearne was a medium-paced right-arm bowler who, similar to his brother Jack bowled with great accuracy and a pronounced off-break. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1887, playing six matches in what was described as a "trial" period and did not appear for the county against until 1890 before becoming a regular member of the Kent team only in 1892.
Most of Walter Hearne’s first-class cricket was played between 1892 and 1894, although a knee injury limited his appearances during 1893 to just six matches. He took 15 wickets against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1893 and in 1894 completed a hat-trick against the same side. During the 1894 season he took 116 first-class wickets, 99 of them in county matches, including a series of three matches in July when he took 13/61 against Gloucestershire, 12/72 against Nottinghamshire and 13/98 against Surrey – a total of 38 wickets for 231 runs. His 116 wickets were taken at an average of 13.29 and followed returns of 93 and 46 wickets in the previous two seasons.
At the beginning of the 1895 season Walter Hearne’s knee failed and he was unable to play a first-class match during the season – although he was able to play in few non-first-class matches for MCC. He seemed fit at the start of the 1896 season but in his third match against Yorkshire at Leeds his knee "gave way so badly" that he was forced to retire from cricket, surgery proving ineffective.
Later life
Hearne took on the role of official scorer for Kent after his retirement, retaining the post for the rest of his life. He scored in each Kent's four County Championship winning sides between 1906 and 1913 and resumed the role after the First World War. He died at Canterbury in Kent in 1925 aged 61, his cousin Alec Hearne taking over the role of scorer.
References
External links
1864 births
1925 deaths
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Cricketers from Buckinghamshire |
28232151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matailobau%20District | Matailobau District | Matailobau District is one of the districts of Naitasiri Province, Fiji. In the past the district consisted of the old tikina's (sub districts) of Nagonenicolo, Matailobau, Waima and Lutu until their separation due to Fijian administration restructure in the 1990s. The old tikina and present district of Matailobau consists of the villages of Nairukuruku, Navuniyasi, Taulevu, Delaitoga, Nabena and Matailobau.
References
Districts of Naitasiri Province |
13034129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20Kinloch | Hector Kinloch | Hector Gilchrist Lusk Mactaggart Kinloch (14 December 1927 – 6 August 1993) was an American-born Australian academic and politician.
Biography
He was born Boston, Massachusetts, in 1927.
He travelled to England, where he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with first class honours in history in 1949.
After graduating he served in the US Army for three years. In 1960, he moved to Australia and lectured in history at the University of Adelaide. From 1965-1968, he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of US History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He joined the Australian National University in Canberra in 1968 and remained there until 1988.
He helped establish the National Association for Gambling Studies and was a vociferous critic of the proposed Casino Canberra. Given his anti-gambling stance he was invited by Bernard Collaery of the Residents Rally to be a candidate in the inaugural ACT Legislative Assembly election. He was elected in 1989 and retired in 1992.
He died on .
Personal life and religious background
Hector Kinloch's childhood was difficult, with many family crises and periods living in Dr Barnado's Homes and foster care.
He was married twice to Anne Russell from 1955 to 1964 (divorce finalized in 1966), and to Lucy Maniam from December 1966 until his death. In 1993 Lucy was still working at Dickson College.
He was a life-long Christian, and joined the Canberra Regional Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in May 1971, where he held many active roles. He had a particular interest in the life of the early Quaker John Woolman, and delivered the 1980 Backhouse Lecture on the topic “Quaker Saints and Sinners”.
He travelled widely, including the US, Northern Ireland, England, Australia, and Singapore.
Legacy
Kinloch Circuit in the Canberra suburb of Bruce is named after him, as is the Kinloch UniLodge on the ANU campus, and the north tower of ANU Fenner Hall residence.
External links and references
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Photo of Hector Kinloch, National Archives of Australia
Death of Dr Kinloch, Condolence Debate, ACT Legislative Assembly 17 August 1993
Testimony to the Grace of God in the life of Hector Kinloch for the Canberra Regional Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia.
Scans of archive records show him:
being registered for the US draught (order no K-14455-X) on his 18th birthday (despite having emigrated to the UK more than 10 years earlier)
according to the 1950 US census, living at Fort Dix
departing New York for Southampton on
arriving at New York from Southampton on
with Anne arriving at Liverpool from New York on
Specific
1927 births
1993 deaths
Academic staff of the Australian National University
Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Anti-gambling advocates
Residents Rally members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
20th-century Australian politicians
American emigrants to Australia |
8139822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Crimp | Martin Crimp | Martin Andrew Crimp (born 14 February 1956 in Dartford, Kent) is a British playwright.
Early life and career
The son of John Crimp, a British Rail signalling engineer, and his wife Jennie, Crimp's family moved in 1960 to Streatham where he attended a local primary school before winning a scholarship to Dulwich College. But when his father was transferred to York, he went to the nearby Pocklington School, where he showed an aptitude for languages, music, English literature, and theatre. He read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (1975–78), where his first play Clang was staged by fellow student Roger Michell. Before establishing himself as a playwright, he put together An Anatomy, a collection of short stories, and also wrote a novel Still Early Days. These remain unpublished.
His first six plays were performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. As he told Marsha Hanlon in an interview for the Orange Tree appeal brochure in 1991: "When the Orange Tree ran a workshop for local writers [in September 1981], I was invited to take part. The carrot was the chance of a lunchtime production, so I wrote Living Remains and the Orange Tree staged it – my first-ever produced play! I was so excited that I didn't think about the space where it was performed [then a room above a pub], but now I realise that the Orange Tree's intimacy and simplicity provided an extra layer of excitement."
Seven of his plays, and his second Ionesco translation have also been presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, where he became writer-in-residence in 1997.
Professional career
Playwright
Crimp’s play Attempts on Her Life, which premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1997, was described by critic Aleks Sierz as the "event that secured his reputation as the most innovative, most exciting, and most exportable playwright of his generation" [Sierz, Aleks, Aleks, (2013) p.48]. The play presents a unique structure, as none of the lines are assigned to specific characters, and Crimp does not specify the number of actors required to perform the piece. The play consists of seventeen seemingly unrelated scenes in which groups of people provide contradictory descriptions of an absent protagonist, a woman who is discussed as a terrorist, the daughter of grieving parents, an artist, and even a new car. Through its deliberate fragmentation, Attempts on Her Life challenges the audience to reconsider their understanding of what constitutes a "play" and raises questions about the existence of individuals beyond the constructs we create.
His other plays range from tragi-comic studies of suburban guilt and repression — Definitely the Bahamas (1987), Dealing with Clair (1989), The Country (2000) — via the satirical ‘entertainment’ In the Republic of Happiness (2012) — to powerful re-writings of Greek classics — Cruel & Tender (2004), The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema (2013). This unusual variety has led Vicky Angelaki to write:
Crimp's work has successfully received numerous productions abroad. In Germany, he is considered to be "one of the most respected British playwrights" and it was reported in 2013 that there has been "more than 60 German-language productions of his work in the past two decades."
In 2021, Crimp was recipient of Germany’s Nyssen-Bansemer theater prize in recognition of the importance of his body of work. [Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 March 2021] Writing about the prize in Theater heute magazine, Till Briegleb praises the way that “With great authority, Crimp sketches the most diverse victims of a bourgeois society that wants to ignore all connections between their tranquil existence and the violence that makes it possible. From the murderer to the child, everyone who appears is unique, their life-lies and fears individual.”
Martin Crimp is sometimes described as a practitioner of the "in-yer-face" school of contemporary British drama, although he rejects the label.
In 2022, he performed his play Not one of these people, which gave voice to 299 different characters. Supported with a live deepfake video generator, imagined by Quebec director Christian Lapointe, the playwright accepted Lapointe’s invitation to perform as an actor on stage for the first time.
Theatre translator
From 1997 onwards, Crimp has had a parallel career as theatre translator, making his first impact at the Royal Court Theatre with a translation of Ionesco’s The Chairs, a production that subsequently transferred to Broadway. His re-writings of Molière’s The Misanthrope (1996, revived 2009) and Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac (2019/22) were both commercially and critically successful, the latter transferring from London’s West End to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. These rewritings have led some critics to see them as new plays. Angelaki, for example, argues that "Crimp’s radical adaptations … depart substantially from the early versions of the texts that inspire them and as such belong to a discussion of Crimp’s playwriting canon, rather than of his translations or versions" [Angelaki, Vicky, Op. Cit. page 154]
Opera librettist
In 2006, Crimp began a collaboration with composer George Benjamin that has led to the creation of three operas: Into the Little Hill (2006), Written on Skin (2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (2018). Written on Skin in particular has garnered international acclaim since its premiere at the Festival d’Aix en Provence in 2012.
Works
Plays
Not One Of These People (Carrefour international de théâtre Théâtre La Bordée 2022 )
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: 12 Variations on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, ("provoked" by Richardson's Pamela, National Theatre, Dorfman, 2019)
Men Asleep (Deutsches Shauspielhaus 2018)
The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema (inspired by Euripides' Phoenician Women, Deutsches Shauspielhaus 2013)
In the Republic of Happiness (Royal Court Theatre 2012)
Play House (Orange Tree 2012, revived with Definitely the Bahamas and directed by the author)
The City (Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs 2008)
Fewer Emergencies (Royal Court, Theatre Upstairs 2005)
Cruel and Tender (Young Vic 2004)
Advice to Iraqi women (Royal Court 2003)
Face to the Wall (Royal Court 2002)
The Country (Royal Court 2000, revived at the Tabard Theatre May 2008)
Attempts on Her Life (Royal Court 1997; National Theatre, Lyttelton, March 2007)
The Treatment (Royal Court 1993; revived Almeida Theatre 2017)
Getting Attention (Royal Court, Theatre Upstairs 1991)
No One Sees the Video (Royal Court, Theatre Upstairs 1990)
Play with Repeats (Orange Tree 1989)
Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree 1988)
Definitely the Bahamas, "a group of three plays for consecutive performance" also including A Kind of Arden and The Spanish Girls (Orange Tree 1987)
A Variety of Death-Defying Acts (Orange Tree 1985)
Four Attempted Acts (Orange Tree 1984)
Living Remains (Orange Tree lunchtime, 9–25 July 1982)
Translations
Cyrano De Bergerac (Rostand) (Playhouse Theatre 2019, Harold Pinter Theatre 2022)
Big and Small (Gross und klein by Botho Strauß), a 2011 Sydney Theatre Company production, co-commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London 2012 Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Vienna Festival and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen; Cate Blanchett as Lotte.
Pains of Youth (Krankheit der Jugend by Ferdinand Bruckner) (National Theatre 2009)
Rhinoceros (Ionesco) (Royal Court 2007)
The Seagull (Chekhov) (National Theatre 2006)
The False Servant (Marivaux) (National Theatre 2004)
The Triumph of Love (Marivaux) (Almeida 1999)
The Maids (Genet) (Young Vic 1999)
Roberto Zucco (Bernard-Marie Koltès) (RSC The Other Place, Stratford 1997)
The Chairs (Ionesco) (Theatre Royal Bath 1997)
The Misanthrope (Molière) (Young Vic 1996, revived Comedy Theatre 2009)
Love Games (Jerzy Przezdziecki) (co-written with Howard Curtis, Orange Tree Theatre lunchtime, 9 April – 1 May 1982)
Opera libretti
Lessons in Love and Violence (2018, composer George Benjamin)
Written on Skin (2012, composer George Benjamin)
Into the Little Hill (2006, composer George Benjamin)
References
Theatre Record and its annual indexes
Sierz, Aleks The Theatre of Martin Crimp, Methuen (2007) .
Devine, Harriet Looking Back, Faber (2006) .
Edgar, David Each Scene for Itself, London Review of Books 4 March 1999
External links
Literary Encyclopedia page on Martin Crimp
1956 births
Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
Living people
People educated at Pocklington School
People from Dartford
English opera librettists
English male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century English male writers
20th-century English translators
21st-century English dramatists and playwrights
21st-century English male writers
21st-century British translators |
5604917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%20Grabbers | Bacon Grabbers | Bacon Grabbers is a 1929 silent comedy short starring Laurel and Hardy.
Plot
Laurel and Hardy are employed as repossession men for the local sheriff's office. They are given the challenging task of repossessing a radio owned by Collis P. Kennedy, described as a tough customer, who has not paid any installments since 1921. Kennedy first chases Laurel and Hardy off his property with a toy bulldog. Then he barricades himself in his home, thwarting all efforts by the repo men to enter and recover the radio. When a wayward rifle shot by Kennedy knocks the top off a nearby fire hydrant and soaks a policeman, the cop investigates. Laurel and Hardy, with the officer's assistance, are finally permitted to enter Kennedy's house and take the radio. It is abandoned in the street, however, while Kennedy and the repo men exchange kicks. A steamroller from a construction site comes along and flattens the unattended radio. Moments later, Mrs. Kennedy arrives and happily tells her husband that she has paid the outstanding debt. The radio—now in pieces—is theirs. As Laurel and Hardy both laugh at Kennedy's misfortune, the steamroller returns and flattens their car too.
Notes
Jean Harlow, who was given star billing, appears on the screen as Mrs. Kennedy for only about 30 seconds at the end of the movie.
The title Bacon Grabbers was 1920s slang for "repo men."
The movie was filmed at 2980 Haddington Drive and 10341 Bannockburn Drive in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles.
Cast
References
External links
1929 films
1929 comedy films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Short films directed by Lewis R. Foster
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker
1929 short films
American comedy short films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films |
73265322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Diallo | Philippe Diallo | Philippe Diallo (born 2 August 1963) is a French football administrator who is the president of the French Football Federation.
Career
In 2023, Diallo was appointed president of the French Football Federation.
References
External links
1963 births
French people of Senegalese descent
Living people
Presidents of the French Football Federation |
1409103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankev%20Shternberg | Yankev Shternberg | Yankev Shternberg (in English language texts occasionally referred to as Jacob Sternberg; ; ; 1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia, Russian Empire – 1973, Moscow, USSR) was a Yiddish theater director, teacher of theater, playwright, avant-garde poet and short-story writer, best known for his theater work in Romania between the two world wars.
Biography
Shternberg grew up in the northern Bessarabian shtetl of Lipkany (Yiddish: Lipkon, now Lipcani in Moldova), which was famously termed "Bessarabian Olympus" by Hebrew and Yiddish poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and which in the second half of the 19th century produced several major figures of the modern Yiddish and Hebrew belle-lettres, among them Yehuda Shteinberg and Eliezer Steinbarg. He attended a Russian secondary school in Kamenets-Podolsky, where he was a classmate and close friend of the future Yiddish writer Moyshe Altman.
Shternberg debuted in 1908 with a fairy tale in the newspaper Unzer Lebn (Odessa). He published poetry in Reizen's collections "Fraye Erd" (1910) and "Dos Naye Land" (1911). In the 1910s, he published poetry in the periodicals Hamer (Brăila), Frayhayt, Arbeter Tsaytung, and Dos Naye Lebm (all in Czernowitz), as well as Gut Morgn (Odessa), (Warsaw), and Tsayt (New York).
In 1914 Shternberg settled in Romania, at first in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), and later in Bucharest. He became associated with the short-lived Yiddish-language magazine Likht ("Light"), four issues of which were published in Iaşi between December 1914 and September 1915. Likht called for a "renaissance of the Jewish stages in Romania" and condemned the "poor foundation" of Yiddish theater as a commercial institution: "The Yiddish stage ought to be a place of education, of drawing Jews closer together through the Yiddish word… we will fight against this [commercial] state of things." Israil Bercovici counts the "literary-musical" gatherings sponsored by that magazine as "the beginning of modern Yiddish theater in Romania", and sees Shternberg as preparing the way for the Vilna Troupe, the Yiddish theater troupe that brought the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski to Romania. Nonetheless, Shternberg adopted as a slogan "Back to Goldfaden". Calling Abraham Goldfaden "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish Culture" when he founded professional Yiddish theater in 1876 (Iaşi), Shternberg wrote, "The only milieu that attracts the great Jewish masses is a traditional-cultural theater. Not even a literary theater… From that I created a social-political theater, a theater… [of current events]… which I think was, then, the first of its kind in Yiddish".
In 1917–18, Shternberg and Jacob Botoshansky together founded a Yiddish revue theater in Bucharest, for which they wrote and produced nine short plays (revues), including Tsimes (named after the traditional pureed vegetable dish tsimes), Bukaresht-Yerusholaim ("Bucharest-Jerusalem"), ("All of a sudden"), Grine bleter ("Green leaves"), Kukuriku, Sholem-Aleykhem ("Hello"), and Hershele Ostropoler ("Hershele of Ostropol"). In 1917, in response to antisemitic violence at that time in Romania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, he staged passages from Bialik. In 1920, he became the editor of "Der Veker", official organ of the Jewish section of the Romanian Socialist Party. In 1924–26, he was the director for the "Vilner trupe". The Romanian daily newspaper Adevărul wrote on August 23, 1924, shortly after the troupe's arrival in Bucharest, that "Such a demonstration of artistry, even on a small stage such as Jigniţa and even in a language like Yiddish ought to be seen by all who are interested in superior realization of drama."
In 1930 he created a hugely successful studio theater BITS ("Bukareshter Yidishe Teater-Studiye"), housed in Bucharest's Jewish quarter Văcărești, that played a prominent role in the development of modern trends in European theater. BITS staged works of Osip Dymov (Yashke-muzikant – "Yashka the Musician"), Jacob Gordin, I.L. Peretz (Banakht afn altn mark – "A night at the old market"), Sholem Aleichem (Oytser – "Treasure", and most famously Der farkishefter shnayder – "The enchanted tailor"), (Der Geler Shotn, 1935), Nikolai Gogol (Zhenit'ba – "The Marriage"), – mostly musical comedies with elements of grotesque, but also I.Y. Singer's Yoshe Kalb and his own play Teater in Flamen ("Theater in Flames") on the theme of the then-ongoing Spanish Civil War. Sidi Tal starred in many of these productions. The performances were popular with the Bucharest intelligentsia and Peretz's "Banakht Afn Altn Mark", for one, was played more than 150 times. During this time, Shternberg published his first collection of poetry, in Bucharest (1938). As antisemitic, pro-fascist tendencies gained power in Bucharest, the theater left for a prolonged tour of major European cities and eventually Shternberg moved to Czernowitz, where he continued his theatrical activities.
In 1939, Shternberg along with Moyshe Altman sneaked across the Dniester and became a Soviet citizen. A year later, when his native Bessarabia was annexed by the Soviet Union, he and most of his former troupe settled in Kishinev, where Shternberg became artistic director of the Yiddish-language Moldovan State Jewish Theater and staged, among other works, M. Daniel's Zyamke Kopatsh and Sholom-Aleichem's Motl Peysi Dem Khazns ("Motl Peysi, the cantor's son") with Sidi Tal in the boys' roles. During the war, he and his theatre evacuated to Uzbekistan, where he worked for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and was mobilized into a paramilitary construction unit. After the war, he returned to Kishinev and resumed his work at the Moldovan State Jewish Theater, where he staged his play Di Balade fun der Esesovke Brunhilde un ir hunt ("The ballad of the SS soldier Brunhilde and her dog") and published poetry in the almanac Heymland (1948). He was arrested at the height of the Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans" (Jews) in the spring of 1949 and was sent to labour camps for 7 years. On his early return and rehabilitation 5 years later, Shternberg settled in Moscow and worked as a translator of Romanian literary works into Russian. He began to publish literary essays and poetry in the newly founded Sovetish Heymland in 1961 and briefly became a member of its editorial board. Collections of his poetry were published in Bucharest and Paris, and in Hebrew translation by Shlionsky and Penn in Israel on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Shternberg died of a heart attack in 1973 on the very day he received a permission to leave for Israel. His wife, the composer Otiliya Likhtenshteyn, who set his poems and those of other Soviet Yiddish poets (first of all Leib Kvitko) to music, died the same year. A collection of Shternberg's literary essays on theatrical topics was published posthumously in Israel.
A committed socialist, Shternberg wrote that, in the wake of the October Revolution, "we satirized bourgeois assimilation, struggled with the [Jewish] clergy, fought for progressive Jewish culture, for the emancipation of the Jews, for the rights of citizenship… for progressive Jewish literature."
Books
Shtot in profil. Lid un grotesk ("City in Profile. Poetry and Grotesque", Bucharest, 1935)
Izbrannoe" ("Collected Poetry", in Russian, Moscow: Sovetskiy Pisatel', 1954)
Lid un balade af di karpatn ("Songs and Ballads of the Carpathians", Paris: Afsnay, 1968)
In krayz fun yorn (geklibene lider) ("At the Crossing of Years" (collected poems)", Bucharest: Kriterion, 1970)
Veygn literatur un teater ("On Literature and Theater" (critical essays), Tel Aviv, 1987)
Notes and references
Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România'' ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă. Editura Integral (an imprint of Editurile Universala), Bucharest (1998). . 116–119 and 148. Also, 125–143 is an extensive discussion of the Vilner Trupe's activities in Bucharest.
External links
1890 births
1973 deaths
People from Briceni District
People from Khotinsky Uyezd
Moldovan Jews
Bessarabian Jews
Yiddish-language poets
Yiddish theatre
Soviet writers
Moldovan writers
Moldovan male writers
Jewish Romanian writers
Jewish socialists
20th-century poets
20th-century Romanian male writers
Romanian Ashkenazi Jews |
16454615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen%20Harutyunyan | Armen Harutyunyan | Armen Harutyunyan (; born 1964) is the former ombudsman of Armenia and Regional Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Central Asia. He took office in February 2011. In 2015, he was elected Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and is a judge since 17 December 2015.
Armen Harutyunyan is the author of more than 70 scientific works. He is married and has two children.
Harutyunyan was born in 1964 in Yerevan. He holds law degrees from Yerevan State University, the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of USSR and the Academy of Public Administration of the Russian Federation.
In 1989-2002 he lectured in law at Yerevan State University;
From 1993 to 1997 studied Doctoral Studies at the Academy of Public Administration, adjunct to the President of Russian Federation and obtained the degree of Doctor of Law (equivalent to Senior Juris Doctor).
Starting from 1997 he continued his education at European universities Central European University, Paris 12 University, University of Nottingham (School of Law, Human Rights Law Center) as well as at the European Court of Human Rights with main focuses on Constitutional Law, European Law and Human Rights.
From 1989 till now Armen Harutyunyan has been lecturing at the Law Department of Yerevan State University. From 1997-2005 he was working as a legal advisor at the Constitutional Court of RA.
Also from 1997 he was legal advisor at the Constitutional Court, and in the constitutional reform of 2005 he was a representative of former President Robert Kocharian. In 2002-06 he was rector of the Public Administration Academy.
In 2000 he became a member of the Commission established to assess the compatibility of the Armenian Legislation with the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) during the process of Armenia's joining the Council of Europe.
From 2002 to present Armen Harutyunyan was the Deputy Representative of Armenia in the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission Member States of Venice Commission) Representative from Armenia is Gagik Harutyunyan.
He is a member of the Association of European Law of Armenia.
Ombudsman
On 17 February 2006, Harutyunyan was elected for a six-year term as the Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) of Armenia, with more than 3/5 of the votes of deputies in the National Assembly. He was the first elected holder of the post in accordance with 83.1 article of Constitution, succeeding Larisa Alaverdyan who had been appointed to the office by presidential decree in 2004.
In an extensive report in April 2008, Harutyunyan cast doubt on the credibility of the official (government) theory on the use of lethal force against thousands of supporters of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian who barricaded themselves outside the Yerevan mayor’s office hours after the break-up of their 10-day sit-in in the city’s Liberty Square on March 1.
On 7 July 2008, Harutyunyan asked the National Security Service (NSS) to assign armed bodyguards to him and members of his family. He was succeeded as ombudsman by Karen Andreasyan, who was elected by the National Assembly in March 2011.
In 2008, Armen Harutyunyan joined the Association of French-Speaking Ombudsmen and Mediators.
In 2009, he became a Board Member of the European Ombudsman Institute.
See also
Armenia in the Council of Europe
References
External links
Human Rights Defender of Armenia
1964 births
Armenian human rights activists
Ombudsmen in Armenia
Living people
Jurists from Yerevan
Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
Armenian judges
Armenian judges of international courts and tribunals |
14797633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKSK | WKSK | WKSK can refer to:
WKSK (AM), a radio station (580 AM) licensed to West Jefferson, North Carolina, United States
WKSK-FM, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to South Hill, Virginia, United States |
24689689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Doeringer | Eric Doeringer | Eric Doeringer (born July 1, 1974) is an artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a B.A. and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999.
"Bootleg" paintings
{{Quote box |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=center | align = left| width = 33% | quote =[Doeringer] has come under some opposition for his stance on [copying pictures] and has received more than one cease-and-desist order from galleries and artists, but has also received praise for his activities with purchases from a few of the artists he appropriated. Viewers seem to be split, calling him either a pirate or a virtuoso.| source = Reading Eagle, April 13, 2008}}
Eric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including Richard Prince and Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks using "collage, digital photography, paint and varnish". Doeringer can make between six and fifteen paintings each day and told The New York Times in a 2005 interview that his process is "like an assembly line". On Saturdays beginning in 2001, he set up a vending table in Chelsea, Manhattan on West 24th Street. Small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined the table. Paintings by the original artists (sold within a short walking distance from Doeringer's stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while Doeringer's copies sold for less than $100. His total profit in a day of selling paintings has sometimes reached $1500. Time Out stated that Doeringer is "famous for bootlegging art on the streets of New York".
According to Doeringer, the majority of the artists he copies do not mind, while others have sent him cease-and-desist letters. Richard Prince was a "fan" of his work, while Takashi Murakami put a stop to his copies. Doeringer states that his work is fair use because he "culled the pictures from the public domain of the Internet". In 2005, Chelsea art dealer Mike Weiss called the police to remove Doeringer's Bootleg stand from 24th Street. Weiss told The New York Times that "he did so for reasons that might be condemned in the art world but that made perfect sense for any businessman like himself who has to pay a huge rent" and claimed Doeringer was "an opportunist and that he just wants his 15 minutes".
In 2007, Doeringer sold his wares in the Geisai Art Fair in Miami. For the fair, he crafted 42-cent stamps decorated with pictures of celebrities. The stamps, which cost $1, were legally usable as postage and were decorated with photographs of eminent people in the art world. Over his booth, Doeringer placed orange and neon signs that proclaimed "Best Art Deals in Miami" and "Nothing Over $250!" The New York Sun deemed his decorations "a pitch-perfect metamockery of the art fair's commercialism".
Conceptual art recreations
In 2008, Doeringer began making larger, more faithful recreations of works of Conceptual art by artists like Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Edward Ruscha, and On Kawara. New York magazine called a 2009 exhibition of Doeringer's Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings "perfectly executed" and "a genuine aesthetic experience, not just a knowing scold."
In 2011, Doeringer exhibited his work at Another Year in L.A.; he titled his exhibition "Eastern Standard Time". In one piece, Doeringer copied Charles Ray's 1973 avant-garde photograph panorama All My Clothes. Titled All My Clothes (After Charles Ray), Doeringer's photographs each contain himself standing in front of a white background attired in various clothes. In an interview with the LA Weekly, he said he adapted Ray's general ideas for the artwork, adding that the key distinction between their works is the "East Coast-West Coast divide". Whereas Ray's figure is garbed in a single winter outfit, Doeringer's wears much toastier clothing. Other pieces Doeringer copied and showcased at the Los Angeles exhibition were John Baldessari's Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, On Kawara's I Went, Richard Prince's Cowboy photographs, and several of Edward Ruscha's books.
In 2012, The New York Times art critic Ken Johnson reviewed Doeringer's solo exhibition at the Mulherin + Pollard gallery titled "The Rematerialization of the Art Object". In the front room, Doeringer displayed "well-made simulations" of Damien Hirst's spot paintings and Richard Prince's Marlboro cowboy advertisements. In the back room, Doeringer presented imitations of three artists: Edward Ruscha (counterfeit books), Charles Ray (16 photographs of himself wearing various clothes in imitation of Ray's All My Clothes), and Andy Warhol (a film mimicking Warhol's Empire by recording the Empire State Building). Johnson wrote that Doeringer's "distinction is his focus not on canonical works of Modernism but on famous Conceptualist pieces that are themselves art about art". In 2013, the Toronto Stars Murray Whyte reviewed Doeringer's Survey'', "a series of his exacting knock-offs of the late 20th century's greatest art hits". In addition to containing imitations of works by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition also contained imitations of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and Lawrence Weiner's spray paintings. Art critic Murray Whyte wrote that Doeringer is "less heretic than prophet, putting the towering genius of a previous generation to its own test".
References
External links
Official website
1974 births
Living people
Artists from New York (state)
American conceptual artists
Brown University alumni
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
2193344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Central | London Central | London Central Bus Company Limited, trading as Go-Ahead London, is a bus company operating in South London. The London Central brand is a subsidiary of Go-Ahead London and operates services under contract to Transport for London.
History
London Central commenced operating on 1 April 1989 when London Buses was divided into 11 separate business units. In September 1994, it was sold to the Go-Ahead Group for £23.8 million. In August 2008, Go-Ahead's London bus operations all adopted the Go-Ahead London trading name, although the individual company names are still applied beneath the logo.
Garages
London Central operates five bus garages.
Bexleyheath (BX)
As at January 2023, Bexleyheath garage operated routes 51, 89, 132, 244, 321 (night service only on this 24-hour route), 486, 624, 625, 658, B11, B12, B13 and B16.
History
Built as a trolleybus depot by the London Passenger Transport Board, Bexleyheath was the only new garage built for trolleybuses. The depot is a large and imposing building, slightly set back from the main road to enable parking on the forecourt, which was used as a terminus for route 122. Bexleyheath closed in 1986, with work transferred to Catford, Plumstead and Sidcup garages.
In 1988 it re-opened under the guise of Bexleybus, a low-cost unit set up by London Buses under de-regulation, and had a large and varied allocation from Iveco/Robin Hoods and MCW Metroriders to Leyland Olympians and Daimler Fleetlines. The move to set up the new company to tender for routes backfired, and in the next round of tendering only route B16 was awarded to Bexleybus, whilst London Central won nine.
London Central took control of Bexleyheath garage and routes in 1990. Lately the garage has had a good utilisation figure, up to 139 in 2001 which necessitated parking in the rear yard and the forecourt. In January 2007, the garage received its first Alexander Dennis Enviro400s for use on route 486.
This garage also houses one of the companies iBus hubs, controlling routes for Bexleyheath, Morden Wharf, New Cross, and Peckham garages.
In 2022, Bexleyheath became the first bus garage in London to be equipped for 'opportunity charge' electric bus operation, whereby the bus is charged while terminating before starting its next journey. This was introduced on route 132 whose eastern terminus is at the garage. A gantry was installed at the garage connecting with a pantograph on the top of the bus. On 9 July 2022, a fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400EVs began to enter service on the route.
Camberwell (Q)
As at September 2023, Camberwell garage operated routes 1, 12, 35, 40, 42, 100, 108D, 176, 185, 355, 360, 484, N1, N15 (additional workings only) and SL6. On 30 April 2016, route 345 passed to Abellio London. On 2 May 2020, route P5 passed to Abellio London with new Caetano e.City Gold Buses.
History
Although built in 1914, Camberwell garage was not used as a bus garage until 1919 as it had been requisitioned for the war effort. Once it came into use it was one of London's largest garages and also carried out body overhauls in 1940/41. The garage was bombed during World War II in 1940 with four buses being destroyed and 13 seriously damaged.
During the early 1950s the garage underwent modernisation with the welfare and operational block reconstructed and the parking area extended. The new building also incorporated a new pit and workshop layout in a separate self-contained block which also undertook heavy maintenance for the adjacent Walworth garage, 350 buses in all.
The allocation at Camberwell decreased slightly over the years from 165 in 1952 until the closure of Walworth garage in 1985 increased the allocation to 142. Camberwell was also the home of three Leyland Titans fitted with electronic blinds which were used on night bus standby duties.
New Routemasters were introduced on routes 12 and 68 between 2015 and 2016, and new Alexander Dennis Enviro200EVs were introduced on route 484 on 20 March 2021.
On 18 March 2023, London Central commenced operating two additional journeys on route N15.
Route 188 was transferred from this garage back to Morden Wharf (MG) garage on 30 September 2023.
Route 1 was transferred to this garage from Morden Wharf (MG) garage on 30 September 2023.
Morden Wharf (MG)
As of September 2023, Morden Wharf garage operated routes 108, 178, 188, 225, 286, 291, 386 and 469.
History
On 29 July 2017, Morden Wharf garage opened in North Greenwich after London General's Mandela Way garage closed, initially operating routes 108, 129, and 286.
New Cross (NX)
As at September 2023, New Cross garage operated routes 21, 36, 129, 171, 172, 321 (daytime only), 343, 436, 453, N21, N89, N136, N171 and N343.
History
Said to be the largest of London's bus garages with space for over 300 buses, New Cross garage was originally a tram depot and opened in 1906. In 1952 with the trams withdrawn, the depot was converted into a bus garage. The garage has never been even close to its capacity due to the close proximity of other garages, but has at various times been used to store surplus vehicles.
The garage allocation has fluctuated over the years, from 191 in 1966 to 132 in 2001. The garage also houses some of the private hire fleet which is painted in the style of the former London General company. New Cross was also the garage for two special services, first in 1972 when it operated en ex Tilling ST on route 100 and LPG East Lancs Myllennium bodied DAF SB220s for Millennium Dome services M1 and M2. In 2003 the garage also began operating Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated buses on route 436. In January 2005 route 36 ceased to be operated by AEC Routemasters with one man operated double deckers taking over.
Peckham (PM)
As at September 2023, Peckham garage operated routes 37, 197, 363 and P12.
History
Peckham garage was converted from a local authority maintenance depot and opened in 1994 with a capacity for 75 buses. In 2000 the garage put London's first Alexander ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL low-floor vehicles into service on 63. Peckham won bus garage of the year in 2004, although this turned out to be a poisoned chalice for the garage, losing almost half of its work in the next year's tender awards.
Fleet
As at December 2019, London Central had a peak vehicle requirement of 676 buses.
References
External links
Company website
Go-Ahead Group London bus operators
1989 establishments in England |
11738475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perenniporia%20medulla-panis | Perenniporia medulla-panis | Perenniporia medulla-panis is a species of poroid fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a plant pathogen that infects stone fruit trees. The species was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1778. Marinus Anton Donk transferred it to the genus Perenniporia in 1967.
References
Fungi described in 1778
Fungi of Europe
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Stone fruit tree diseases
Perenniporia |
53036354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessio%20Hyseni | Alessio Hyseni | Alessio Hyseni (born 4 January 1997) is an Albanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Ovidiana Sulmona.
Club career
Early career
Hyseni started his youth career at A.C. Perugia. In 2014, he gained entry at primavera team and in the 2014–15 season he scored 4 goals in 14 games. On 25 August 2015 Perugia loaned him to Serie D side U.S. Gavorrano. He was planned to stay at Gavorrano until the end of the season but after 9 appearances and 1 goal, on 6 February 2016 he resolved his contract with club and returned to Perugia.
Flamurtari Vlorë
On 31 August 2016 Hyseni signed with Flamurtari Vlorë. He played initially with Flamurtari Vlorë B, where he debuted with "Red and blacks" on 14 December 2016 in the Albanian Third Division against Sopoti Librazhd B playing the full 90-minutes match.
In the first half of the 2018–19 season, Hyseni found more space to play under Ilir Daja, collecting 14 league appearances and also providing 4 assists, joint fourth highest in the league. However, on 4 January, the club announced that they have terminated the contract with the player, thus leaving him a free agent at the day of his 21st birthday.
Partizani Tirana
On 4 January 2019, on the same day, Hyseni was announced as the new player of Partizani Tirnana, penning an 18-month contract with an option to renew.
International career
Hyseni was initially part of Albania under-17 side where he was invited by coach Dzemal Mustedanagić to participate in the qualifying round of 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in October 2013. Hyseni played as a starter in the opening match of the Group 1 against Romania on 18 October 2013; he was substituted off in the 72nd minute for Arlind Demaj as the match was lost 1–0.
Then in the next two matches Hyseni played both as full 80-minutes as Albania defeated Belarus 2–1 and took a goalless draw against Finland, which were enough to clinch a spot into the elite round. He continued to be part of the team in the elite round in March 2014. In the first match against Italy on 26 March 2014, Hyseni played as a starter and was substituted off in the 63rd minute for Amarildo Gjoka as the team lost 2–1 despite scoring first with Keidi Bare in the 14th minute. Then he played two other matches as full 80-minutes as Albania U17 lost at both and got eliminated from tournament.
He advanced at the under-19 team as he was invited by coach Altin Lala to participate in the Friendly Tournament Roma Caput Mundi in Rome, Italy between 8–13 March 2015 against Malta, Wales and Italy. He was able to score in his debut against Italy on 12 March, netting the opener as the team won 2–0.
Career statistics
References
External links
1997 births
Living people
People from Castiglione del Lago
Italian people of Albanian descent
Albanian men's footballers
Albania men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Serie D players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria e Tretë players
US Gavorrano players
Flamurtari FC players
FK Partizani Tirana players
Footballers from the Province of Perugia |
46384125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopsis%20margaritifera | Scolopsis margaritifera | Scolopsis margaritifera, commonly known as pearly monocle bream, is a fish native to the western Pacific Ocean.
References
External links
Pearly Monocle Bream & Fishes of Australia
margaritifera
Marine fish of Southeast Asia
Marine fish of Northern Australia
Fish described in 1830 |
39218653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem%20Ki%20Duniya | Prem Ki Duniya | Prem Ki Duniya is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1946.
References
External links
1946 films
1940s Hindi-language films
Indian black-and-white films |
50581028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coridel%20Entertainment | Coridel Entertainment | Coridel Entertainment is a South Korean entertainment company established in 2015 by Tyler Kwon.
History
Coridel Entertainment was founded in 2015 by Tyler Kwon as a subsidiary of the Coridel Group, based in New York City, United States. It merged the same year with a record label called Clear Company, which managed the K-pop girl group Playback and Jeff Bernat's Korean concerts and releases.
On February 28, 2016, Jessica Jung signed with Coridel Entertainment following her split from Girls' Generation in 2014 and departure from her former agency SM Entertainment in 2015. On May 17, 2016, she released her solo debut album under the label titled With Love, J, with the lead single "Fly". On December 10, 2016 she released her second solo album under the label titled Wonderland, with her lead single "Wonderland".
In April 2017, Actor Ryu Tae-joon signed with Coridel Entertainment.
In September 2018, Singer Kevin Woo signed with Coridel Entertainment.
Artists
Groups
Playback
Soloists
Jessica
Ma Eun-jin
Jeff Bernat
Actor
Ryu Tae-joon
Yun Bok In
Kim Young Pil
Lee Kwan Hun
Jang Joon Woong
Cheong Ha Eun
Lee Hayoung
Former artists
Kevin Woo
Discography
References
External links
South Korean companies established in 2015
Companies based in Seoul
Electronic dance music record labels
Film production companies of South Korea
Hip hop record labels
Labels distributed by CJ E&M Music and Live
Labels distributed by Kakao M
Music publishing companies
K-pop record labels
Record labels established in 2015
Contemporary R&B record labels
Synth-pop record labels
South Korean brands
South Korean record labels
Talent agencies of South Korea
Privately held companies of South Korea |
39956007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELTA%201%20HD | ELTA 1 HD | ELTA 1 HD or ELTA TV is a Bosnian commercial television channel based in Banja Luka. ELTA TV has started broadcasting their own experimental program on 12 May 2010 under the name "Elta televizija". On the first anniversary of broadcasting (2011) the program is broadcast in High definition 24 hours a day in the Serbian language. ELTA 1 HD is available via cable systems throughout the Bosnia and Herzegovina.
ELTA 1 HD Line-up
This television channel broadcasts a variety of programs such as entertainment and mosaic magazines, movies (full HD) and documentaries.
FLAME - show bizz-entertainment magazine
COVER magazin - entertainment magazine
AQUANA TV - entertainment magazine
Kafa u 5 - TV show on current issues and events in the RS entity and BiH.
Trenutak za kulturni kutak - overview of cultural events in Banja Luka and the region.
Pod istragom - (Under investigation) - news magazine with various topics
Foreign series
References
External links
Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mass media in Banja Luka
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 2010 |
21889610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Eric%20Gustafsson | Nils-Eric Gustafsson | Nils-Eric Gustafsson (December 30, 1922 – 2017) was a Swedish politician and a member of the Centre Party.
References
Centre Party (Sweden) politicians
1922 births
2017 deaths |
10936981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airg%C3%ADalla | Airgíalla | Airgíalla (Modern Irish: Oirialla, English: Oriel, Latin: Ergallia) was a medieval Irish over-kingdom and the collective name for the confederation of tribes that formed it. The confederation consisted of nine minor kingdoms, all independent of each other but paying nominal suzerainty to an overking, usually from the most powerful dynasty. Airgíalla at its peak roughly matched the modern dioceses of Armagh and Clogher, spanning parts of counties Armagh, Monaghan, Louth, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. Its main towns were Armagh and Clogher. The name's usage survives as a cultural area of folk tradition in South East Ulster and adjoining areas of County Louth.
According to legend, Airgíalla was founded by the Three Collas, who are said to have conquered what is now central Ulster from the Ulaid. The decisive victory was the battle of Achadh Leithdheirg, said to have been fought around the year 331. However, this tale is thought to be mostly fiction, and the actual year and circumstances of how the Airgíalla confederation came about is unknown.
Originally thought to have been under the dominance of the neighbouring Ulaid to the east, the territory of the Airgíalla from the 6th century onwards was gradually eroded by the encroachment of their northern neighbours, the Cenél nEógain of the Northern Uí Néill, as well as the Southern Uí Néill to their south. From 735 they fell under the dominance of the Cenél nEógain, and by 827 had become their vassals. The kingdom of Airgíalla was at its peak in the 12th century, under king Donnchad Ua Cerbaill. The later constricted kingdom of Airgíalla survived in Monaghan—which was known as Oirghialla and Oriel after the Norman Invasion of Ireland—under the Mac Mathghamhna, until the end of the Gaelic order in Ireland.
Etymology
Airgíalla may mean "those who give hostages" or "the hostage givers", and refers to both the Irish over-kingdom of Airgíalla, and the confederation of tribes that formed it. It is commonly Anglicised as Oriel; however, archaic Angliciations include: Uriel, Orial, Orgialla, Orgiall, Oryallia, and Ergallia.
After the Anglo-Norman invasion, the Anglicisation "Uriel" became the name of the part of Airgíalla that had extended into modern-day County Louth. Similarly, the portion of Airgíalla that survived in modern-day County Monaghan, became known as Oirghialla, from which derives the Anglicisation "Oriel".
In early manuscripts the Bishop of Clogher was styled Bishop of Oirialla.
History
Origins
According to legend
In the beginning of the 4th century, three warlike brothers, known as the Three Collas, made a conquest of a great part of Ulster, which they wrested from the Ulaid. It was the after the battle of Achadh Leithdheirg, fought around 331, that they founded Airgíalla. In this battle the forces of the Three Collas defeated the forces of Fergus Foga, king of Ulster, who was slain, and the victors burned to the ground Emain Macha, the ancient capital of Ulaid.
However, in general it can be shown that the origin legend was written (or composed) in the second quarter of the 8th century to seal their alliance with the Northern Uí Néill.
Historical emergence
The earliest reference to the Airgíalla occurs in the Annals of Tigernach under the year 677, where the death of Dunchad mac Ultan, "Rí Oigriall", is noted. However, it is suspected of being a retrospective interpolation. On the other hand, the entry in the Annals of Ulster under the year 697 which lists Mael Fothataig mac Mael Dub as "Rex na nAirgialla" may indeed be genuine. Both Mael Fothatag and his son, Eochu Lemnae (died 704), are listed among the guarantors of the "Cáin Adomnáin" in 697. Thus it is believed that the Airgíalla were probably in existence as an entity by then, or certainly by the opening years of the 8th century.
8th–12th centuries
13th–16th centuries
Downfall of the Realm
The Kingdom of Airgíalla came to an end in 1585 when Rossa Boy MacMahon agreed to surrender and regrant his territories to the English Crown in Ireland, with his territory becoming County Monaghan in the Tudor Kingdom of Ireland. Rossa Buidhe had ascended to the Airgíalla kingship in 1579 and found himself geopolitically in an undesirable position; wedged between an expanding Tudor kingdom and Tír Eoghain under the O'Neill. Initially, Rossa Boy made moves which suggested an alliance with Tír Eoghain, as he married the daughter of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. However, evidently hoping to be left alone to run affairs locally, while pledging allegiance to a distant monarch in Elizabeth I, the MacMahon met with John Perrot, then Lord Deputy of Ireland (according to some, a natural son of Tudor monarch Henry VIII) and agreed to join their Kingdom of Ireland. Airgíalla, now known as Monaghan, was divided into five baronies under native Gaelic chiefs, mostly from the MacMahon themselves.
This was not the end of the matter, however. Fearing the encroachment of the English, moving in closer and closer to his own territories, Hugh O'Neill turned to Brian Mac Hugh Og MacMahon of Dartree and married off another daughter to him. Brian Mac Hugh Og was then the tanist to the chieftainship of his people according to the native Brehon laws and O'Neill was hoping to bring the "phantom" Airgíalla realm back into his camp on the death of Rossa Buidhe through this pact. For his part, Ross Buidhe was trying to engineer a pro-English succession through his brother Hugh Roe MacMahon. When the new Lord Deputy, William FitzWilliam began to pressure the acceptance of an English High Sheriff of Monaghan, O'Neill used his influence to exact opposition to it from clansmen in Monaghan (the same policy was promoted in Leitrim, Fermanagh and Donegal to encircle Tyrone). As a consequence, a military force led by Henry Bagenal was sent into the county in early 1589 to impose the sheriff and by the summer of that year, Rossa Boy was dead.
Dynastic groups
Airgíalla was composed of nine minor-kingdoms, each named after their ruling dynasty. These were:
Uí Tuirtri, also spelt as Uí Tuirtre, meaning "descendants of Tort". They were based east of the Sperrin Mountains in eastern County Londonderry and Tyrone. From 776, the Uí Thuirtri had moved east of the River Bann and into the over-kingdom of Ulaid, and by 919 they had lost all links to the Airgíalla.
Uí Maic Cairthinn, meaning "descendants of Cairthend". Based south of Lough Foyle in north-western County Londonderry.
Uí Fiachrach Arda Sratha, meaning "descendants of Fiachrach of Ard Straw". Based at Ardstraw in modern-day County Tyrone. They became subject to the Cenél nEógain by the 12th-century, and expanded southwards into Fir Luírg, in County Fermanagh.
Uí Cremthainn, based in what is now parts of modern-day County Fermanagh, Monaghan, and Tyrone.
Uí Méith, based in modern-day County Monaghan.
Airthir, meaning "Easterners". They were based around the city of Armagh, and held control of the offices of the church in Armagh, which had preeminence in Ireland.
Mugdorna, based in County Monaghan, however by the 12th-century had settled the territory of Bairrche, located in southern County Down, and named it after themselves. Their name lives on as "Mourne", the present-day name for the area and the Mourne Mountains.
Fir Chraíbe, also known as the Fir na Chraíbe, meaning "men of the branch". They were located west of the River Bann in north-eastern County Londonderry. By the 9th-century they were a subject-people of the Cenél nEógain.
Fir Lí, also known as the Fir Lee, meaning "people of Lí". They were located west of the River Bann in mid-eastern County Londonderry. By the 9th-century they were a subject-people of the Cenél nEógain.
Uí Moccu Úais
The Uí Tuirtri, Uí Maic Cairthinn, and Uí Fiachrach Arda Sratha, were collectively known as the Uí Moccu Úais as they claimed descent from Colla Uais. The pedigrees in the Book of Leinster states that Colla Uais had two sons, Erc and Fiachra Tort. From Fiachra Tort came the Uí Tuirtri. From Erc, came Cairthend and Fiachrach, who were respectively the ancestors of the Uí Maic Cairthinn and the Uí Fiachrach Arda Sratha. The Fir Lí are also claimed as being descended from Fiachra Tort, though other sources claim they descend from another son of Colla Uais called Faradach.
The Uí Moccu Uais were also found in counties Meath and Westmeath. They were known as Uí Moccu Uais Midi and Uí Moccu Uais Breg, meaning the Uí Moccu Uais of Meath and Brega, respectively.
List of kings
Colga mac Loite mac Cruinn, died 513
Cairpre Daim Argat, died 514
Daimine Daim Argat, died 565
Conall Derg mac Daimine
Bec mac Cuanu, died 594
Aed mac Colgan, died 606
Mael Odhar Macha, died 636
Dunchad mac Ultan, died 677?
Mael Fothartaig mac Mael Dubh, alive 697
Cu Masach mac Cathal, died 825
Gofraidh mac Fearghus, fl. 835
Foghartaigh mac Mael Breasal, died 850/852
Congalach mac Finnachta, died 874
Mael Padraig mac Mael Curarada, died 882
Maol Craoibh ua Duibh Sionach, died 917
Fogarthach mac Donnegan, died 947
Egneach mac Dalach, died 961
Donnacan mac Maelmuire, died 970
Mac Eiccnigh mac Dalagh, died 998
Mac Leiginn mac Cerbaill, died 1022
Cathalan Ua Crichain, died 1027
Gilla Coluim ua Eichnech, died 1048
Leathlobair Ua Laidhgnen, died 1053
Leathlobair Ua Laidhgnen, died 1078
Aodh Ua Baoigheallain, died 1093
Ua Ainbhigh, died 1094
Cu Caishil Ua Cerbaill, died 1101
Giolla Crist Ua hEiccnigh, died 1127
Donnchadh Ua Cearbaill, 1130–1168/1169
Murchard Ua Cerbaill, 1168–1189
Muirchertach, 1189–1194
?, died 1196
Ua Eichnigh, died 1201
Giolla Pádraig Ó hAnluain, 1201–1243
Mac Mathghamhna chiefs, 1243–1590
Eochaid mac Mathgahamna mac Neill, died 1273
Brian mac Eochada, 1283–1311
Ralph/Roolb mac Eochada, 1311–1314
Mael Sechlainn mac Eochada, 1314–?
Murchad Mór mac Briain, ?–1331
Seoan mac Maoilsheachlainn, 1331–1342
Aodh mac Roolb, 1342–1344
Murchadh Óg mac Murchada, 1344–1344
Maghnus mac Eochadha, 1344–1357
Pilib mac Rooilbh, 1357–1362
Brian Mór mac Aodh, 1362–1365
Niall mac Murchadha, 1365–1368
Brian Mór mac Aodh, 1368–1371
Pilib Ruadh mac Briain, 1371–1403
Ardghal mac Briain, 1403–February 1416
Brian mac Ardghail, 1416–1442
Ruaidhri mac Ardghail, 1442–1446
Aodh Ruadh mac Ruaidhri, 1446–31 March 1453
Feidhlimidh mac Briain, 1453–1466
Eochan mac Ruaidhri, 1466–1467
Reamonn mac Ruaidhri, 1467–November 1484
Aodh Óg mac Aodha Ruaidh, 1485–16 September 1496
Brian mac Reamoinn, 1496–1497
Rossa mac Maghnusa, 1497–1513
Reamonn mac Glaisne, 1513–c.1 April 1521
Glaisne Óg mac Reamoinn, 1521–1551?
Art Maol mac Reamoinn, 1551–1560
Aodh mac Briain, 1560–1562
Art Ruadh mac Briain, 1562–1578
Sir Rossa Buidhe mac Airt, 1579–August 1589
Hugh Roe McMahon (Irish: Aodh Ruadh mac Airt), 1589–September/October 1590.
See also
Ulaid
Ailech
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel
Bibliography
References
Bibliography
MacMahons of Oriel: Mac Mathghamna, Kings of Oirghialla to 1590, in A New History of Ireland, pp. 215–16, volume IX, ed. Byrne, Martin, Moody. Dublin, 1984.
The "Airgialla Charter Poem", Ailbhe Mac Shamhrain and Paul Byrne, in The Kingship and Landscape of Tara, Edel Bhreathnach, pp. 213–224, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005.
External links
Pronunciation of Airgíalla
The Kingship and Landscape of Tara, ed. Edel Bhreathnach, 2005;
"A Hidden Ulster" by Pádraigín Ní Ullacháin, 2003, Four Courts Press 1-85182-685-8 & 1-85182-738-2.
"Songs From A Hidden Ulster", broadcast by RTÉ Radio 1 in 2006, presented by Pádraigín Ní Ullacháin.
Early Modern Ireland
The Three Collas
Former federations
Kingdoms of medieval Ireland
Connachta
Gaels
Former kingdoms in Ireland |
18640984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokowe%2C%20Podlaskie%20Voivodeship | Bokowe, Podlaskie Voivodeship | Bokowe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately north-west of Narewka, north-east of Hajnówka, and south-east of the regional capital Białystok.
It is in one of five Polish/Belarusian bilingual Gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.
References
Bokowe |
18188339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891%E2%80%9392%20Irish%20League | 1891–92 Irish League | The 1891–92 Irish League was the 2nd edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Irish football.
The league comprised 10 teams, and Linfield won the championship.
League standings
Results
References
Northern Ireland - List of final tables (RSSSF)
External links
Irish Premier League Website
Irish Football Club Project
1891-92
1891–92 domestic association football leagues
1891–92 in Irish association football |
209532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED%20manifesto | QED manifesto | The QED manifesto was a proposal for a computer-based database of all mathematical knowledge, strictly formalized and with all proofs having been checked automatically. (Q.E.D. means in Latin, meaning "which was to be demonstrated.")
Overview
The idea for the project arose in 1993, mainly under the impetus of Robert Boyer. The goals of the project, tentatively named QED project or project QED, were outlined in the QED manifesto, a document first published in 1994, with input from several researchers. Explicit authorship was deliberately avoided. A dedicated mailing list was created, and two scientific conferences on QED took place, the first one in 1994 at Argonne National Laboratories and the second in 1995 in Warsaw organized by the Mizar group.
The project seems to have dissolved by 1996, never having produced more than discussions and plans. In a 2007 paper, Freek Wiedijk identifies two reasons for the failure of the project. In order of importance:
Very few people are working on formalization of mathematics. There is no compelling application for fully mechanized mathematics.
Formalized mathematics does not yet resemble real, traditional mathematics. This is partly due to the complexity of mathematical notation, and partly to the limitations of existing theorem provers and proof assistants; the paper finds that the major contenders, Mizar, HOL, and Coq, have serious shortcomings in their abilities to express mathematics.
Nonetheless, QED-style projects are regularly proposed. The Mizar Mathematical Library formalizes a large portion of undergraduate mathematics, and was considered the largest such library in 2007. Similar projects include the Metamath proof database and the mathlib library written in Lean.
In 2014 the Twenty years of the QED Manifesto workshop was organized as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic.
See also
Formalism (mathematics)
Mathematical knowledge management
POPLmark, a more modest project in programming language theory
References
Further reading
H. Barendregt & F. Wiedijk, The Challenge of Computer Mathematics, Transactions A of the Royal Society 363 no. 1835, 2351–2375, 2005
(open access issue)
Richard A. De Millo, Richard J. Lipton, Alan J. Perlis, Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs, Communications of the ACM, Volume 22, Issue 5 (May 1979), Pages: 271 - 280
John Harrison, Formalized Mathematics, Technical Report 36, Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS)
Ittay Weiss, The QED Manifesto after Two Decades Version 2.0, Journal of Software vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 803-815, 2016.
External links
Freek Wiedijk, Formalizing 100 Theorems A page keeping track of the progress in the formalization of 100 common theorems.
Freek Wiedijk, The Seventeen Provers of the World, a proof of the irrationality of the square root of two in seventeen different proof assistants.
Formalized Mathematics a journal in which Mizar proofs are presented.
The Archive of Formal Proofs a similar (refereed) repository of proofs in Isabelle/HOL.
A repository of proofs in Coq.
UniMath "Coq library aims to formalize a substantial body of mathematics using the univalent point of view"
Educational projects
Formal methods
Mathematics literature
Proof assistants |
19039030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%85kol%C3%B3wka | Kąkolówka | Kąkolówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Błażowa, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Błażowa and south of the regional capital Rzeszów.
References
External links
Villages in Rzeszów County |
28174479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Ostroumov | Nikolai Ostroumov | Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumov (; 1846–1930) was an imperial Russian orientalist, ethnographer and educationalist in Turkestan.
He studied under Nikolai Il'minskii at the Kazan Theological Seminary, where he studied Arabic and Turkic languages as well as Islam.
He was editor of Turkistan Wilayatining Gazeti from 1883 to 1917.
References
Russian educators
Turkestan
1846 births
1930 deaths |
69714074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTPI | CTPI | CTPI could refer to:
Centre for Theology and Public Issues, a research centre at the University of Edinburgh
Consorzio Trasporti Pubblici Insubria, a transport company in Italy |
44001511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma%20Karvikko | Irma Karvikko | Irma Helena Karvikko (29 September 1909, in Turku – 16 September 1994; surname until 1933 Blomqvist) was a Finnish journalist and politician. She was Deputy Minister for Social Affairs from 17 November 1953 to 4 May 1954 and Minister for Social Affairs from 27 May to 1 September 1957. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the National Progressive Party from 1948 to 1951, the People's Party of Finland from 1951 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1965 and the Liberal People's Party from 1965 to 1970.
References
1909 births
1994 deaths
People from Turku
People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
National Progressive Party (Finland) politicians
People's Party of Finland (1951) politicians
Liberals (Finland) politicians
Ministers of Social Affairs of Finland
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1948–1951)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1951–1954)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1954–1958)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1962–1966)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1966–1970)
Women government ministers of Finland
20th-century Finnish women writers
20th-century Finnish writers
20th-century Finnish women politicians
Women members of the Parliament of Finland
Finnish women journalists
20th-century Finnish journalists |
54047072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urszula%20Kozio%C5%82 | Urszula Kozioł | Urszula Kozioł (born 20 June 1931) is a Polish poet. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award.
Biography
Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland. She attended high school in Zamość and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953.
Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), is considered her breakthrough. Of her 1963 poem "Recipe for the Meat Course", translator Karen Kovacik writes that it "functions simultaneously as an ars poetica and an ironic riposte to those who believed a woman's place was in the kitchen" and "depict[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement."
Her novel Postoje pamięci ("Stations of Memory", 1965) focuses on Mirka, the daughter of a teacher, growing up in a small village during World War II. In his survey of Polish literature, Czesław Miłosz wrote that it was "One of the most authentic testimonies on the village".
She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968. She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children.
Bibliography
Poetry
Gumowe klocki (Związek Literatów Polskich, Oddział we Wrocławiu, 1957)
W rytmie korzeni (Ossolineum, 1963)
Smuga i promień (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1965)
Lista obecności (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1967)
Poezje wybrane (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1969)
W rytmie słońca (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974)
Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1976)
Poezje wybrane (II) (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1985; )
Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1986; )
Żalnik (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989; , )
Dziesięć lat przed końcem wieku (nakładem autorki; maszynopis powielany, brak daty i miejsca wydania; ok. 1990)
Postoje słowa (Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1994)
Wielka pauza (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996; )
W płynnym stanie (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1998; )
Wiersze niektóre (Bis, 1997, 1998; )
Stany nieoczywistości (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1999; )
Supliki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2005; )
Przelotem (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007; )
Horrendum (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2010; )
Fuga (1955-2010) (Biuro Literackie, 2011; )
Klangor (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2014; )
Ucieczki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2016; )
Prose
Postoje pamięci (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1964, 1973, 1977; Atut-Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe 2004, ).
Ptaki dla myśli (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza 1971; wyd. 2 poprawione i rozszerzone: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1984, )
Noli me tangere (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 1984; )
Essays
Z poczekalni oraz Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1978)
Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Okis, 1997; Biblioteka Wrocławskiego Oddziału Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich; )
Drama
Gonitwy (Prapremiera: Zespół Teatralny przy Wyższej Szkole Inżynieryjskiej, Rzeszów 1972)
Kobieta niezależna („Scena” 12/1976)
Biało i duszno (układ dramatyczny) („Scena” 10/1977)
Król malowany (na motywach baśni J. Ch. Andersena pt. Nowe szaty króla 1978; druk: Zjednoczone Przedsiębiorstwa Rozrywkowe, Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur”, 1986)
Narada familijna („Teatr Polskiego Radia” 2/1978)
Przerwany wykład („Scena” 12/1978)
Weekend ("Opole" nr 1/1981 i nr 2/1981)
Spartolino, czyli jak Rzempoła ze szwagrem Pitołą stracha przydybali (Prapremiera: Wrocławski Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur” 1982)
Trzy Światy (Czytelnik, 1982; )
Podwórkowcy (Prapremiera: Teatr Dramatyczny im. J. Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych 1983; spektakl TV 1984)
Psujony ("Scena" 1/1985)
Magiczne imię (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1985; )
References
Living people
Writers from Wrocław
Polish women poets
University of Wrocław alumni
Polish women dramatists and playwrights
Polish women editors
Polish essayists
Polish women essayists
Polish women novelists
1931 births
20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Polish novelists
20th-century Polish non-fiction writers
21st-century Polish dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Polish novelists
21st-century Polish poets
21st-century Polish women writers
20th-century Polish women writers |
27936192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trooper%20%28Romanian%20band%29 | Trooper (Romanian band) | Trooper is a Romanian heavy metal music band.
It was formed on 25 October 1995, by brothers Alin and Aurelian Dincă and Ionuţ Rădulescu being influenced by bands like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest.
The band used to be called Megarock, then White Wolf. Once with the arrival of Ionuţ "Negative" Fleancu the band was renamed to Trooper.
Poll conducted by the specialized Heavy Metal Magazine in 2001 placed Trooper first in the category Best young band.
The group appeared on MTV, MCM, Atomic, TVR1, TVR2, B1 TV, Antena 1, Romania International, Prima TV, Pro TV.
Throughout their career, Trooper have shared their stage with bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Manowar, Sepultura, Kreator and Evergrey.
Discography
2001 - Trooper (demo)
2002 - Trooper I (full-length)
2004 - EP (EP)
2005 - Desant (full-length)
2006 - Gloria (tribute to Iris)
2006 - Electric (full-length)
2007 - 12 Ani - Amintiri (boxset)
2008 - Rock'N'Roll Pozitiv (full-length)
2009 - Vlad Ţepeş - Poemele Valahiei (full-length)
2010 - 15 (live album)
2011 - Voodoo (full-length)
2013 - Atmosfera (full-length)
2016 - În ziua (full-length)
2018 - Stefan cel Mare - Poemele Moldovei (full length)
2019 - Strigat Best Of 2002 - 2019 (boxset)
Members
Alin "Coiotu" Dincă - vocals (1995–present)
Aurelian "Balaur" Dincă - Lead/rhythm guitar (1995–present)
Cristian Oftez - Lead/rhythm guitar (2014 - present)
Ionuţ "Oscar" Rădulescu - Bass guitar (1995–present)
Ionuţ "John" Covalciuc - Drums (1999–present)
Past members
Ionuț "Negative" Fleancu – drums (1996–1999)
Ispas Gabriel – guitar (1996–1997)
Radu "Schijă" Pites – guitar (1997–1999, died in 2009)
Laurențiu Popa – guitar (1999–2019)
References
External links
Interviu cu Alin Dincă (Coiot') Trooper rockul.info
Formaţia Trooper sărbătoreşte 12 ani de heavy-metal printr-un turneu naţional (musicmix.rol.ro)
Formaţia Trooper salvează Delta Dunării prin muzică (HotNews.ro)
Rock’s not dead (Time Out Bucuresti)
Lauren Harris şi Trooper, în deschidere la Iron Maiden (Ziare.com)
mediafax.ro
muzica.ro
primatv.ro
Romanian heavy metal musical groups
Romanian rock music groups |
6807680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Maldonado | Orlando Maldonado | Orlando Maldonado (born May 21, 1959, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1984, challenging for the WBC super flyweight title in 1983. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight (– 48 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the second medal ever for Puerto Rico, after boxer Juan Evangelista Venegas captured the bronze medal in 1948.
Amateur career
Maldonado was the 1977 National Golden Gloves Flyweight champion, while boxing out of Miami, Florida.
Olympic Results
Defeated Lucky Mutale (Zambia) walk-over
Defeated Brendan Dunne (Ireland) KO 1
Defeated Héctor Patri (Argentina) 5-0
Lost to Jorge Hernández (Cuba) 0-5
Professional career
Maldonado turned professional in 1977 and in 1983 challenged Rafael Orono for the WBC super flyweight title but lost via TKO. Maldonado also lost once to International Boxing Hall of Fame member Miguel Canto and to Ramon Nery. Maldonado retired in 1984 with a record of 26-5-2 with 13 KO's.
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Puerto Rico
Olympic bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
Sportspeople from Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Olympic medalists in boxing
Puerto Rican male boxers
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
20th-century Puerto Rican people |
18918675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachen%2C%20Nagorno-Karabakh | Khachen, Nagorno-Karabakh | Khachen () or Seyidbeyli () is a village that is, de facto, in the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh; de jure, it is in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.
Toponymy
The village was known as Seyidishen () during the Soviet period.
History
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Historical heritage sites
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 12th/13th-century Kachaghakaberd Fortress in the mountains to the west, a 12th/13th-century khachkar, the 13th-century St. Stephen's Church (), the 13th/14th-century monastery of Ptkes Berk (), an 18th-century village, and the 19th-century St. John's Church ().
Economy and culture
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, a kindergarten and a medical centre. The community of Khachen includes the village of Urakhach.
Demographics
The village had 369 inhabitants in 2005, and 332 inhabitants in 2015.
Gallery
References
External links
Populated places in Askeran Province
Populated places in Khojaly District |
65483375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis%20Amatuzio | Janis Amatuzio | Janis Carol Amatuzio (born 1950) is an American forensic pathology specialist. She has authored books and has practiced forensic science for 20 years. Amatuzio is known as the "compassionate coroner".
Early life
Amatuzio was born in Minnesota and is Italian American. Her father was Donald Amatuzio, a physician who died in 2006.
Career
Amatuzio trained at the University of Minnesota and the Hennepin County Medical Center before founding Midwest Forensic Pathology in Minneapolis. She was the Medical Examiner in Anoka County and served as coroner in a number of counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin until 2009.
A protégée of Amatuzio, Dr. A. Quinn Strobl, performed the autopsy of the famous singer Prince in 2016.
Other work
Amatuzio has appeared on the crime TV series Deadly Women and Forensic Files.
Personal life
Amatuzio lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
Books
Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist, 2007
Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist, 2008
See also
List of Italian Americans
List of people from Minnesota
References
Further reading
Dr. Janis Amatuzio’s First Encounter With Life After Death at WordPress
External links
Official website
1950 births
21st-century American women scientists
American forensic pathologists
American people of Italian descent
American writers
Living people
People from Anoka County, Minnesota
People from Coon Rapids, Minnesota
People from Hennepin County, Minnesota
Scientists from Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Medical School alumni |
25790833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Arthur%20Sea%20Hawks | Port Arthur Sea Hawks | The Port Arthur Sea Hawks were a Gulf Coast League (1950–1953), Evangeline League (1940–1942, 1954) and Big State League (1955–1956) baseball team based in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. In 1953, they were affiliated with the Dallas Eagles, and in 1954 they were affiliated with the Tyler Tigers.
The Sea Hawks played in Seahawk stadium, a new baseball field that was built in 1950 that could seat up to 4,800 fans. The stadium was built in the hopes that professional baseball teams would continue playing in Port Arthur, but the stadium was only used for 8 years before it was torn down.
They won one league championship in their history, in their final season - 1956, under managers Lloyd Gearhart and Al Barillari. Among the players who played for them was Al Silvera.
References
Evangeline Baseball League teams
Baseball teams established in 1950
Defunct minor league baseball teams
Baseball teams disestablished in 1956
1950 establishments in Texas
1956 disestablishments in Texas
Evangeline Baseball League
Defunct Florida Complex League teams
Defunct Big State League teams
Defunct baseball teams in Texas
Port Arthur, Texas |
403043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum%20shot | Cum shot | A cum shot is the depiction of human ejaculation, especially onto another person. The term is usually applied to depictions occurring in pornographic films, photographs, and magazines. Unlike ejaculation in non-pornographic sex, cum shots typically involve ejeculation outside the receiver's body, allowing the viewer to see the ejaculation in progress. Facial cum shots (or "facials") are regularly portrayed in pornographic films and videos, often as a way to close a scene. Cum shots may also depict ejaculation onto another performer's body, such as on the genitals, buttocks, chest or tongue.
The term is typically used by the cinematographer within the narrative framework of a pornographic film, and, since the 1970s, it has become a leitmotif of the hardcore genre. Two exceptions are softcore pornography, in which penetration is not explicitly shown, and "couples erotica", which may involve penetration but is typically filmed in a more discreet manner intended to be romantic or educational rather than graphic. Softcore pornography that does not contain ejaculation sequences is produced both to respond to a demand by some consumers for less-explicit pornographic material and to comply with government regulations or cable company rules that may disallow depictions of ejaculation. Cum shots typically do not appear in "girl-girl" scenes (female ejaculation scenes exist, but are relatively rare); orgasm is instead implied by utterances, cinematic conventions, or body movement.
Cum shots have become the object of fetish genres like bukkake, in which the cum shot replaces the sex act completely.
Terminology
A cum shot may also be called a cumshot, come shot, cum blast, pop shot or money shot.
Originally, in general film-making usage the term money shot was a reference to the scene that cost the most money to produce; in addition, the inclusion of this expensive special effect sequence is being counted on to become a selling point for the film. For example, in an action thriller, an expensive special effects sequence of an explosion might be called the "money shot" of the film. The use of money shot to denote the ejaculation scene in pornographic films is attributed to producers paying the male actors extra for it. The meaning of the term money shot has sometimes been borrowed back from pornography by the film and TV industry with a meaning closer to that used in pornographic films. For example, in TV talk shows, the term, borrowed from pornography, denotes a highly emotional scene, expressed in visible bodily terms.
Origin and features
Although earlier pornographic films occasionally contained footage of ejaculation, it was not until the advent of hard-core pornography in the 1970s that the stereotypical cum shot scene became a standard feature—displaying ejaculation with maximum visibility. The 1972 film Behind the Green Door featured a seven-minute-long sequence described by Linda Williams, professor of film studies, as "optically printed, psychedelically colored doublings of the ejaculating penis". Steven Ziplow's The Film Maker's Guide to Pornography (1977) states:
Cum shot scenes may involve the female actor calling for the shot to be directed at some specific part of her body. Cultural analysis researcher Murat Aydemir considers this one of the three quintessential aspects of the cum shot scene, alongside the emphasis on visible ejaculation and the timing of the cum shot, which usually concludes a hard-core scene.
As a possible alternative explanation for the rise of the cum shot in hardcore pornography, Joseph Slade, professor at Ohio University and author of Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide notes that pornography actresses in the 1960s and 1970s did not trust birth control methods, and that more than one actress of the period told him that ejaculation inside her body was deemed inconsiderate if not rude.
Health risks
Transmission of disease
Any sexual activity that involves contact with the bodily fluids of another person contains the risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Semen is in itself generally harmless on the skin or if swallowed. However, semen can be the vehicle for many sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV and hepatitis. The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration categorizes semen as "other potentially infectious material" or OPIM.
Aside from other sexual activity that may have occurred prior to performing a facial, the risks incurred by the giving and receiving partner are drastically different. For the ejaculating partner, there is almost no risk of contracting an STD. For the receiving partner, the risk is higher. Since potentially infected semen could come into contact with broken skin or sensitive mucous membranes (eyes, lips, mouth), there is a risk of contracting an infectious disease.
Allergic reactions
In rare cases, people have been known to experience allergic reactions to seminal fluids, known as human seminal plasma hypersensitivity. Symptoms can be either localized or systemic, and may include itching, redness, swelling, or blisters within 30 minutes of contact. They may also include hives and even difficulty breathing.
Options for prevention of semen allergy include avoiding exposure to seminal fluid by use of condoms and attempting desensitization. Treatment options include diphenhydramine and/or an injection of epinephrine.
Criticisms and responses
One critic of "cum shot" scenes in heterosexual pornography was the US porn star–turned–writer, director and producer Candida Royalle. She produced pornography films aimed at women and their partners that avoid the "misogynous predictability" and depiction of sex in "...as grotesque and graphic [a way] as possible." Royalle also criticizes the male-centredness of the typical pornography film, in which scenes end when the male actor ejaculates.
Women's activist Beatrice Faust argued, "since ejaculating into blank space is not much fun, ejaculating over a person who responds with enjoyment sustains a lighthearted mood as well as a degree of realism. This occurs in both homosexual and pornography so that ejaculation cannot be interpreted as an expression of contempt for women only."
She goes on to say "Logically, if sex is natural and wholesome and semen is as healthy as sweat, there is no reason to interpret ejaculation as a hostile gesture."
Sexologist Peter Sándor Gardos argues that his research suggests that "... the men who get most turned on by watching cum shots are the ones who have positive attitudes toward women" (at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1992). Later, at the World Pornography Conference in 1998, he reported a similar conclusion, namely that "no pornographic image is interpretable outside of its historical and social context. Harm or degradation does not reside in the image itself."
Cindy Patton, activist and scholar on human sexuality, argues that, in western culture, male sexual fulfillment is synonymous with orgasm and that the male orgasm is an essential punctuation of the sexual narrative. No orgasm, no sexual pleasure. No cum shot, no narrative closure. The cum shot is the period at the end of the sentence.
In her essay "Visualizing Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide", Patton reached the conclusion that critics have devoted too little space to discovering the meaning that viewers attach to specific acts such as cum shots.
See also
Notes
Pornography terminology
Ejaculation
Sexual acts |
5357924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath%20of%20Allegiance%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Oath of Allegiance (New Zealand) | The New Zealand Oath of Allegiance is defined by the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957. All Oaths can be taken in either Māori or English form. It is possible to take an affirmation, which has the same legal effect as an Oath.
Oath
The Oath, in its present form, is:
In Māori, this is:
A modified version, with the added phrase "and I will obey the laws of New Zealand and fulfil my duties as a New Zealand citizen" is used as New Zealand's Oath of Citizenship.
Affirmation
An affirmation begins with "I, [name], solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm", and continues with the words of the oath prescribed by law, omitting any reference to God.
Other New Zealand Oaths
The chief justice administers the following oaths of office at the swearing-in of various government officials. For simplification, the oaths set out below take the form they would have if used today in English.
Governor-General's Oath
Executive Council Oath
House of Representatives Oath
The Constitution Act 1986 requires that, before being permitted to sit or vote in the House of Representatives, members of Parliament must take the Oath of Allegiance.
Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Oath
Judicial Oath
Armed forces Oath
Police Oath
Alteration and augmentation of oaths
In May 2004, the Minister of Justice, Phil Goff, announced a review of New Zealand's oaths and affirmations stating that "This review also offers a chance for people to express a view on whether our oaths accurately reflect the values and beliefs that are important to New Zealanders in the 21st century". The Ministry of Justice reported in a discussion paper on oaths and affirmations that many were either out of date (such as the teachers' oath or the Queen's Counsel oath) or used arcane language. The review suggested that New Zealand could follow the experience of Australia by removing references to the Queen from the oaths. The Monarchist League called the change "republicanism by stealth" and commented that "[a] declaration of allegiance to New Zealand, or to the Prime Minister, would be a poor substitute [for the Queen]".
In response, the Republican Movement argued that removing references to the Queen was not "republicanism by stealth" but simply reflected the contemporary values of New Zealanders.
The Republican Movement also submitted that "[t]he Australians have already updated their oath of citizenship so that there is no mention of the Queen, while maintaining the exact same constitutional monarchy as New Zealand".
To this day the oath remains, with relevant personnel (e.g. military) swearing allegiance to the King, either in a traditional oath or a non-religious affirmation.
Oaths Modernisation Bill
One year after the review was announced, Phil Goff released the new forms the oaths were to take. The references to the Queen were retained, and the Oaths Modernisation Bill was introduced in Parliament.
The Bill would have made the following changes:
It amends the parliamentary oath to include loyalty to New Zealand and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people;
It amends the citizenship oath to include loyalty to New Zealand, and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people;
It provides a Māori version of each oath. The Act provides that using a Māori equivalent of any of the oaths set out in that Act shall have full legal effect;
It amends the Act to prescribe a Māori language version of the words with which an affirmation must begin.
The Monarchist League was pleased with this outcome, stating, "While it may be questioned what 'loyalty to New Zealand', and 'respect for its democratic values' actually mean, it is heartening that no attempt was made to remove the oath of allegiance to the Queen." The Republican Movement stated that "[t]he best thing about the new oaths is that they can easily be changed when we become a republic".
After passing the first reading and going to the Government Administration Committee, the Bill had its second reading discharged on 1 June 2010, meaning it will not proceed.
Hone Harawira amendment
In 2007, then Māori Party MP Hone Harawira put up an amendment (in the form of a supplementary order paper) to the Oaths Modernisation Bill inserting references to the oaths and affirmations to "uphold the Treaty of Waitangi".
Harawira eventually split from the Māori Party and resigned from parliament to re-contest his seat as leader of the Mana Party. He won the subsequent by-election. On 14 July 2011, Harawira was removed from the chamber by the Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith, for not pledging the oath of allegiance as required by law.
See also
Republicanism in New Zealand
Oath of Allegiance
Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom)
Oath of Allegiance (Australia)
Oath of Allegiance (Canada)
References
External links
Oaths and Declarations Act 1957
Oaths Modernisation Bill
New Zealand
Government of New Zealand
Monarchy in New Zealand |
67108504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C4%9Furk%C3%B6y%2C%20%C4%B0li%C3%A7 | Uğurköy, İliç | Uğurköy is a village in the İliç District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. Its population is 60 (2022).
References
Villages in İliç District |
40378851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Dutronc%20%281968%20album%29 | Jacques Dutronc (1968 album) | Jacques Dutronc is the second studio album by the French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1968. Since Dutronc's first seven albums are all self-titled, the album is commonly referred to by the title Il est cinq heures, after one of its singles. It is also sometimes referred to as Comment elles dorment, after its opening track. Jean-Marie Périer was credited for the front cover photography.
The single "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" was number one on the French charts for one week, from 23 March 1968.
Covers
Garage rock band Black Lips covered "Hippie Hippie Hourrah" on their third LP, Let It Bloom, released in 2005.
Track listing
Words by Jacques Lanzmann and Anne Ségalen. Music by Jacques Dutronc.
References
1968 albums
Jacques Dutronc albums |
123777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph%2C%20Nebraska | Randolph, Nebraska | Randolph is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 881 at the 2020 census. It refers to itself as "The Honey Capital of the Nation" due to the per-capita number of bee keeping families.
History
Randolph got its start in the year 1886, following construction of the railroad through the territory. It was named for Lord Randolph Churchill, a British statesman. Randolph was incorporated on May 7, 1889.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
U.S. Route 20 serves the community, and U.S. Route 81 passes just west of the city.
Demographics
2010 census
At the 2010 census there were 944 people in 402 households, including 258 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 453 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.4% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 1.7% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.2%.
Of the 402 households 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.8% were non-families. 33.1% of households were one person and 18.4% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.84.
The median age was 47.5 years. 22.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.4% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 28.2% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female.
2000 census
At the 2000 census there were 955 people in 409 households, including 265 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 447 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.95% White, 0.10% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.21% from other races, and 0.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.21%.
Of the 409 households 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.5% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.0% were non-families. 33.0% of households were one person and 21.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.83.
The age distribution was 22.7% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 31.1% 65 or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males.
The median household income was $30,486, and the median family income was $40,000. Males had a median income of $28,125 versus $13,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,343. About 4.9% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Randolph Public Schools are part of the Randolph Public School District. The district includes an elementary school and high school. Students attend Randolph High School.
References
External links
Randolph Nebraska Website
Randolph Public Schools
City-Data.com
Cities in Cedar County, Nebraska
Cities in Nebraska |
44094614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Orb%C3%A1n%20Government | Third Orbán Government | The third government of Viktor Orbán was the Government of Hungary between 6 June 2014 and 18 May 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán formed his third cabinet after his party-alliance, Fidesz and its coalition partner, Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) altogether won a qualified majority in the 2014 parliamentary election.
Policy
Immigration
During the 2015 European migrant crisis the government initiated the erection of the Hungary-Serbia barrier to block entry of illegal immigrants. Just like the other Visegrád Group leaders, the government was against any compulsory EU long-term quota on redistribution of migrants.
On 24 February 2016 the prime minister announced that the government would hold a Referendum on whether to accept the European Union's proposed mandatory quotas for relocating migrants. He also said it is "no secret that the Hungarian government refuses migrant quotas" and that they will be campaigning for "no" votes. Orbán argued that the quota system would "redraw Hungary's and Europe's ethnic, cultural and religious identity, which no EU organ has the right to do". On 5 May, after examining the legal challenges, the Supreme Court (Kúria) allowed the holding of the referendum.
In the autumn of that year the no vote won with 3,362,224 votes or 98.36% of the total number of votes.
Free Sunday
Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) has supported the restriction on Sunday shopping ("free Sunday", as they called) for a long time, citing Christian values. Parliament voted on the issue on December 14, 2014 and the law came into effect on March 15, 2015 (a Sunday on which shops would have been closed anyway, the day being a public holiday in Hungary). Public opinion was predominantly against the decision. Three polls done in the spring of 2015 registered an opposition of 64% (Szonda Ipsos), 62% (Medián) 59% (Tárki). By the end of May, according to a poll by Medián, 72% of those polled disliked the new law, even the majority of Fidesz-KDNP voters were against it. Opposition parties and private persons tried to start a public referendum several times. By November 2015 there were 16 such attempts, but none of them were approved, for various bureaucratic reasons, until in early 2016 one of these attempts, initiated by the Hungarian Socialist Party, was finally successful. The government, rather than being forced to hold the referendum (which could have been interpreted as a huge success for the opposition party, even though the law was opposed by the majority of Fidesz voters too) lifted the ban in April 2016.
NGO Law
On 13 June 2017, The Hungarian Parliament Passed a Law Targeting Foreign-Funded NGOs. The law requires civil groups receiving foreign donations above a certain threshold to register as organizations funded from abroad. The law was passed 130 to 44, with 25 abstaining.
Party breakdown
Beginning of term
Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the beginning of term:
End of term
Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the end of term:
Members of the Cabinet
Composition
Following the 2014 parliamentary election, Fidesz–KDNP gained 133 seats in the National Assembly. The government majority of the parliament elected Viktor Orbán as a fully-fledged prime minister on 10 May, but his third cabinet formed only 6 June.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, while the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice were renamed to Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Justice, respectively. On 17 October 2015, the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office was established. Two ministers without portfolio were appointed in May 2017 and October 2017.
References
General
2014 establishments in Hungary
2018 disestablishments in Hungary
Cabinets established in 2014
Cabinets disestablished in 2018
Hungarian governments
Government 3 |
62104623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20Fairbanks | Governor Fairbanks | Governor Fairbanks may refer to:
Erastus Fairbanks (1792–1864), 21st Governor of Vermont
Horace Fairbanks (1820–1888), 36th Governor of Vermont |
3643169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20General%20%281998%20film%29 | The General (1998 film) | The General is an Irish crime film written and directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who undertook several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny.
Plot
The story of Dubliner Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies but came into conflict with members of his gang and attracted attention from the police and the IRA, and whose dealings with the UVF ultimately led to his downfall.
Cast
Brendan Gleeson as Martin Cahill
Adrian Dunbar as Noel Curley
Sean McGinley as Gary
Maria Doyle Kennedy as Frances
Angeline Ball as Tina
Jon Voight as Inspector Ned Kenny
Eanna MacLiam as Jimmy
Tom Murphy as Willie Byrne
Paul Hickey as Anthony
Tommy O'Neill as Paddy
John O'Toole as Shea
Ciarán Fitzgerald as Tommy
Ned Dennehy as Gay
Vinny Murphy as Harry (as Vinnie Murphy)
Roxanna Williams as Orla
Production
The film is based on the book of the same name by Irish journalist Paul Williams, who is "Special Correspondent" for the Irish Independent. The director, John Boorman was one of Cahill's burglary victims. This event is dramatised in a scene in which Cahill breaks into a home, stealing a gold record and pilfering a watch from the wrist of a sleeping woman. The gold record, which Cahill later breaks in disgust after discovering it is not made of gold, was awarded for the score of Deliverance, Boorman's best-known film.
Filming was at various locations around Dublin, including South Lotts and Ranelagh. Although shot in colour, the theatrical release of the film was presented in black-and-white for artistic reasons, while an alternate version of the desaturated original colour print was subsequently made available for television broadcast and home video. Asked why he chose to depict Cahill's life in black-and-white, Boorman said
I love black-and-white, and since I was making the film independently — I borrowed the money from the bank — there was no one to tell me I couldn't. If I had made [The General] for a studio, they wouldn't let me do that. The other reason, the main reason, was because it was about recent events and people who were still alive. I wanted to give it a little distance. Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious. I wanted it to have this mythic level because I felt this character was an archetype. All throughout history, you find this rebel, this violent, funny, brilliant kind of character. I wanted to make that kind of connection, and black-and-white film helps. Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
Reception
The General holds an approval rating of 82% based on 49 reviews on website Rotten Tomatoes.
The film grossed £1.6 million in the UK and Ireland, the second highest-grossing Irish film of the year, behind The Butcher Boy. In the United States and Canada it grossed $1.2 million for a worldwide estimated total of $3.8 million.
The film garnered multiple awards for Gleeson's performance and Boorman's directing, with some critics speculating the former would earn an Academy Award nomination. Boorman won the award for Best Director at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Though Gleeson was not nominated for an Oscar, his performance was awarded by the Boston Society of Film Critics, the London Film Critics' Circle, and the Irish Film and Television Academy.
Awards and nominations
See also
List of films featuring diabetes
References
External links
1998 films
1998 crime drama films
1990s heist films
Irish crime drama films
Irish heist films
British crime drama films
British heist films
English-language Irish films
Biographical films about criminals
Biographical films about gangsters
Films about The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
Films about the Irish Republican Army
Films about organised crime in Ireland
Films based on biographies
Films set in Dublin (city)
Films shot in Dublin (city)
Films directed by John Boorman
Sony Pictures Classics films
1998 independent films
1990s English-language films
1990s British films |
1944952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ferguson | Michael Ferguson | Michael Ferguson or Mike Ferguson may refer to:
Michael Ferguson (Irish politician) (1953–2006), Irish Sinn Féin politician who represented Belfast West
Michael Ferguson (Australian politician) (born 1974), Australian politician
Michael Ferguson (director) (1937–2021), British television director who worked on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who
Michael Ferguson, Canadian policeman convicted for the manslaughter of Darren Varley
Michael Ferguson (Auditor General) (1958–2019), Auditor General of Canada
Michael Ferguson (Connecticut politician), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Mick Ferguson (born 1954), former footballer from Newcastle, England
Mike Ferguson (footballer) (1943–2019), footballer from Lancashire, England
Mike Ferguson (politician) (born 1970), United States politician from New Jersey
Michael Ferguson (biochemist) (born 1957), British biochemist, University of Dundee
Mike Ferguson (golfer) (born 1952), Australian golfer |
52719450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vada%2C%20Missouri | Vada, Missouri | Vada is an unincorporated community in northern Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route 32, approximately three miles northeast of Success.
History
A post office called Vada was established in 1917, and remained in operation until 1929. An early postmaster named the community after his daughter, Nevada "Vada" Jackson.
References
Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri |
18544211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Wolverton | Terry Wolverton | Terry Wolverton (born 1954) is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the "Best Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times, and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her novel-in-poems Embers was a finalist for the PEN USA Litfest Poetry Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
Early years
Born August 23, 1954, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, Wolverton grew up in Detroit, Michigan.
Her grandmother, Elsba Mae Miller, a former English teacher, would often read and recite poetry to her, and Wolverton credits this for inspiring her love of language. Even as a child Wolverton was interested in the arts, especially writing, music, and drama; she graduated from the Performing Arts curriculum of Cass Technical High School in 1972.
Education
Wolverton graduated from the Performing Arts curriculum of Cass Technical High School in 1972, after which she attended the University of Detroit as a student in its Bachelor of Fine Arts Theatre program. In 1973, she transferred to the University of Toronto, majoring in Theatre, Psychology, and Women's Studies. In 1975, Wolverton participated in Sagaris, an independent institute for the study of feminist political theory. She ultimately received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Creative Writing and Theater from Thomas Jefferson College, an experimental school based at Grand Valley State Colleges in Western Michigan, where she participated in its feminist Women, World, and Wonder program.
Wolverton also received a certificate from the Feminist Studio Workshop in Los Angeles and is a certified Kundalini yoga and meditation instructor.
Career
Wolverton moved to Los Angeles in 1976, enrolling in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building. She spent the next thirteen years at the Woman's Building where, in addition to writing and performing, she was also instrumental in the Lesbian Art Project, the Incest Awareness Project, the Great American Lesbian Art Show (GALAS), a year-long performance project called "An Oral Herstory of Lesbianism", and a White Women's Anti-Racism Consciousness-Raising Group. From 1987 to 1988, she served as the nonprofit organization's Executive Director.
Wolverton has taught performance skills and creative writing since 1977. In 1986, she developed the Visions and Revisions Writing Program at Connexxus Women's Center/Centro de Mujeres. In 1988, she launched the Perspectives Writing Program at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, where she taught until 1997. One notable writer that attended these workshops was Gil Cuadros, a Mexican American poet who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987. Cuadros started attending her writing workshops for people with HIV. As a result of his participation, Cuadros published his collection of poetry and fiction, City of God(1994).
In 1997, Wolverton founded Writers at Work, a creative writing center where she continues to teach fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and to provide creative consultations to writers.
In 2007, Wolverton co-founded The Future of Publishing Think Tank, which convened writers, publishers, booksellers and publicists to consider new models for reaching readers. The Think Tank held discussions, offered workshops, conducted reader surveys, and compiled an online directory of literary resources in Los Angeles County.
The same year, she became an affiliate faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts writing program at Antioch University, where she currently works.
Awards
Bibliography
Author
Black Slip, Clothespin Fever Press, 1992, (poetry)
Bailey's Beads, Faber & Faber, 1996, (novel)
Mystery Bruise, Red Hen Press, 1999, (poetry)
Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, City Lights Books, 2002. (memoir)
Terry Wolverton Greatest Hits., Pudding House Publications, 2002, (poetry)
Embers: A Novel in Poems, Red Hen Press, 2003,
Shadow and Praise, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2007, (poetry)
The Labrys Reunion, Spinters Ink, 2009, (novel)
Breath and other stories, Silverton Books, 2012, (novel)
Stealing Angel, Spinsters Ink, 2009, (novel)
Wounded World: lyric essays about our spiritual disquiet, with photographs by Yvonne M. Estrada, Create Space Independent Publishing, 2013 (essays)
Ruin Porn, Finishing Line Press, 2017, (poetry)
Blue Hunger, Finishing Line Press, 2018, (poetry)
Editor
Blood Whispers: L. A. Writers on AIDS, Silverton Books (vol 1, 1991, ; vol 2, 1994, )
Catena: poem series by member of the Women's Poetry Project, Silverton Books, 2003, (poetry)
Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies, Red Hen Press, 2004, (poetry)
Bird Float, Tree Song: disarticulated poems by Los Angeles poets, Silverton Books, 2017, (poetry)
Edited with Benjamin Weissman
Harbinger, Los Angeles Festival and Beyond Baroque, 1991, (poetry and fiction)
Edited with Robert Drake
Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers Plume Books 1991,
Hers: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers Faber & Faber Incorporated, 1995,
His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers Faber & Faber Incorporated, 1995,
Hers 2 and His 2 Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1997,
Hers 3 and His 3 Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1999,
Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium Alyson Books, 2000,
Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millennium Alyson Books 2000,
Edited with Sondra Hale
From Site to Vision: the Woman's Building in Contemporary Culture, Otis College of Art and Design, 2011,
Scripts and Performance Art Texts
Embers, theatrical adaptation of novel-in-poems, concert reading, Grand Performances, Los Angeles, CA. 2011
Embers, theatrical adaptation of novel-in-poems, workshop production, Los Angeles Central Library, 2009
"Cover Story," collaboration with choreographer Heidi Duckler/Collage Dance Theater, 2002
"After Eden," collaboration with choreographer Heidi Duckler/Collage Dance Theater, 2001
"Under Eden," collaboration with choreographer Heidi Duckler/Collage Dance Theater, 2001
"Sub Versions," collaboration with choreographer Heidi Duckler/Collage Dance Theater, 2000
Treatment for Rapunzel, animated feature film, Walt Disney Company, 1997
Poetry segments for Destination Anywhere, a short film/music video directed by Mark Pellington, starring Jon Bon Jovi and Demi Moore, Mercury Records, First broadcast on MTV, June 17, 1997.
Treatment for The Snow Queen, animated feature film, Walt Disney Company, 1993.
Treatment for Anna, animated feature film, Walt Disney Company. 1993.
Green, full-length feature film, not produced. 1990.
"Meditations," text for "Broken," dance performance choreographed by Rose Polsky, premiered Los Angeles Theater Center. 1990.
A Merry Little Christmas, three-act play, staged reading produced at Celebration Theater. 1987.
dis-a-buse: to free from a misconception or delusion, performance text co-written with Catherine Stifter, produced at the Woman's Building. 1986.
Familiar, performance text produced at the Social & Public Art Resource Center, 1984.
Me and My Shadow, performance text, produced at ABC No Rio; Sushi Gallery, UCLA, the Woman's Building. 1984.
Medium: Memory/Muse, performance text, produced at Long Beach Museum of Art. 1983.
"Ya Got Class, Real Class," performance text co-written with Vicki Stolsen, produced at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1980.
"In Silence Secrets Turn to Lies/Secrets Shared Become Sacred Truth," performance text, produced at the Woman's Building as part of the Incest Awareness Project. 1979.
References
External links
Terry Wolverton, biographical entry, in glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, & queer culture
Talking with Terry Wolverton (1996 interview)
Technodyke Terry Wolverton interview
Susan Silton, "Terry Wolverton" in Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers, 1993)
Dead Air Book Review: The Labrys Reunion by Terry Wolverton
The Woman's Building, a Brief History, Feminist Studio Workshop External Link
Pacifica Radio Archives, Sagaris and the August 7th Survival Community
1954 births
Living people
American feminist writers
American lesbian writers
American performance artists
American women performance artists
Lambda Literary Award winners
American LGBT poets
American women poets
Lesbian memoirists
21st-century American women writers
Antioch University faculty
Grand Valley State University alumni |
52374863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Gallatin%20Blakey%20House | Albert Gallatin Blakey House | Albert Gallatin Blakey House is a historic home located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1900, and is a -story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It has a two-story, rectangular brick addition with flat, parapeted roof and a two-story frame porch added about 1910.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Queen Anne architecture in Missouri
Houses completed in 1900
Houses in Cooper County, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Cooper County, Missouri
1900 establishments in Missouri
Boonville, Missouri |
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This is a sampled version of the wikimedia/wikipedia dataset. This repository provides scripts to generate the 100, 1k, 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k samples of the dataset, based on the "20231101.en" version.
Usage
There are two possible splits: full, which loads the entire article, or partial, which is a version that only contains the first 200 words of each article. It is recommended to use partial if you are performing retrieval and are only interested in the first paragraphs of the Wikipedia dataset.
Now, to run:
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the 100-sample, full version of the dataset:
data = load_dataset('xhluca/mini_wiki', name="100", split="full")
print(data)
# Load partial version with 1k, 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k samples
data = load_dataset('xhluca/mini_wiki', name="1k", split="partial")
data = load_dataset('xhluca/mini_wiki', name="5k", split="partial")
data = load_dataset('xhluca/mini_wiki', name="10k", split="partial")
data = load_dataset('xhluca/mini_wiki', name="50k", split="partial")
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