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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20magnana
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Clarkeulia magnana
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Clarkeulia magnana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Napo Province, Ecuador.
The wingspan is 38.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is light brownish, in the distal third more cream and spotted and suffused with brown. The markings are brown. The hindwings are brownish cream, densely spotted with brownish grey.
Etymology
The species name refers to the size of the species and is derived from Latin magna (meaning large).
References
Moths described in 2009
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanna%20Lakshminarayana
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Kanna Lakshminarayana
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Kanna Lakshminarayana, (born 13 August 1954) is an Indian Politician, ex President Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Andhra Pradesh and ex-Member of the Legislative Assembly for Guntur West constituency and ex-Cabinet Minister for Agriculture & Agriculture Technology Mission in Sri. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy's Cabinet. He joined it the Telugu Desam Party on 23rd February 2023 at Mangalagiri TDP's headquarters.
Biography
Early life
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana was born on 13 August 1954 in Nagaram Palem, Guntur District. He was the youngest child born to Kanna Rangaiah & Kanna Masthanamma.
A successful weightlifter, Kanna Lakshmi Narayana was attracted to politics from a very young age. Hailing from a political family of Guntur, Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has since had a political career of his own, now lasting about 40 years.
Getting on his bicycle during his junior college days, Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, a B. Com. graduate, used to invite all to join NSUI by writing on the walls and, this was his way of getting initiated into politics.
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has also competed in shooting, winning a gold medal.
Politics
In 2009 Kanna Lakshmi Narayana won the election to the State Assembly for the fifth term from Guntur West Assembly constituency; he won from Pedakurapadu Assembly constituency, the biggest constituency in Andhra Pradesh, for four straight terms, from 1989 to 2004, including the 1994 Assembly elections when only 26 Congressmen won the election.
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana was ex-President BJP party for the state of Andhra Pradesh & ex- Cabinet Minister for Agriculture & Agriculture Technology Mission, Minister for Housing in the cabinet of Hon'ble Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, and Minister of Major Industries, Food Processing, Commerce, & Export Promotion in the cabinet of Hon'ble Chief Minister Konijeti Rosaiah, having served as Transport Minister in the previous Cabinet of the late Hon’ble CM Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
In 2019, he contested for parliament from Narasaraopet and lost the deposit. He came 4th by receiving 1.08% of all the votes polled.
Policies
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has a progressive outlook. From the time he started his ministerial responsibilities in 1991 under N. Janardhan Reddy's cabinet till today, Narayana has worked to implement welfare and developmental programs for the weaker sections and backward classes.
Public services
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has worked to establish Junior colleges in Krosur and Thallur in his constituency, as well as Primary Health Center buildings.
Safe drinking water
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has also worked to resolve the health problems caused by the high fluoride content in drinking water in several villages. He secured Rs 3.50 crores of funds sanctioned for Community Protected Drinking Water Scheme for the surrounding villages of Bellamkonda and thus ensured that residents of 17 villages got protected drinking water. Apart from this he also got sanction for 300 bore wells in several villages and, protected drinking water schemes were implemented in many villages.
Infrastructure
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has worked towards providing electricity facility to over 150 weaker sections’ colonies belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. To resolve the problem of low voltage, new transformers and modernization of existing transformers in the villages was undertaken. Sub stations were provided to each Mandal. To speed up the development a good road network and efficient and effective transport system was essential, so Kanna Lakshmi Narayana sanctioned new roads and undertook the construction of bridges in several villages.
Some other major programs initiated have been housing schemes for weaker sections under Indiramma Phase I and II. In total 28,680 houses were sanctioned and have been completed till date.
Agriculture
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana has also introduced development programs for agriculture including providing several thousands of acres with irrigation facilities by getting funds to repair and modernize the canals. 18 big lift irrigation schemes were completed and it has helped in providing irrigation facilities to 40,525 acres.
In addition he worked to provide farmers with an adequate supply of seeds, fertilizers and financial assistance to purchase agricultural pump sets.
Narayana also started a new Agricultural Marketing Yard in Krosur. This provided infrastructure for Go Downs, platforms and administrative building and he got sufficient financial resources sanctioned for this developmental activity.
Political career
Kanna Lakshmi Narayana won the election to the State Assembly for the fifth term from Guntur (West) Assembly constituency in 2009.
He won from Pedakurapadu, the biggest constituency in Andhra Pradesh, for four straight terms, from 1989 to 2004. He joined the BJP on 27 October 2014 in Delhi in presence of Amit Shah, its national president. In 2023 February he quit BJP citing that he is unsatisfied with the BJP state unit leadership.
1972-1978 : President, District NSUI, Guntur.
1979-1985 : Worked as development officer, New India Assurance Company.
1986-1987 : President, City Youth Congress, Guntur.
1987-1988 : General Secretary, A.P. Youth Congress
1988-1990 : President, Guntur District Youth Congress & Labour Cell Chief Vice President INTUC District Organising Secretary, A.P. Sevadal
1996-1998 : General Secretary, Pradesh Congress Committee, Andhra Pradesh. Under the Stewardship of Late Dr. Mallikarjun, President.
2000-2003 : General Secretary, Pradesh Congress Committee, Andhra Pradesh. Under the Stewardship of Sri M. Satyanarayana Rao, President
1995 : Member, State Local Bodies Election Committee APCC
1995-1997 : Chairman, Public Accounts Committee
1999 : Member State Election Committee APCC
2004 : Member State Election Committee APCC
2009 : Member State Election Committee APCC
AS MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
1989-1994 : Elected from Pedakurapadu Assembly Constituency, Guntur District
1994-1999 : Elected from Pedakurapadu Assembly Constituency, Guntur District and as a WHIP of Congress Legislature Party
1999-2004 : Elected from Pedakurapadu Assembly Constituency, Guntur District
2004-2009 : Elected from Pedakurapadu Assembly Constituency, Guntur District
2009 : Elected from Guntur West Assembly Constituency
AS MINISTER
1991 - 1994 : Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Cabinet of Sri. Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy and Late Sri Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
2004 - 2009 : Cabinet Minister in Late Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy's Cabinet
2009 May : Cabinet Minister for Major Industries, Commerce & Export Promotion and Food Processing in Late Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy's Cabinet
2009 September : Cabinet Minister for Major Industries, Commerce & Export Promotion and Food Processing in Sri. K. Rosaiah's Cabinet
2010 December : Cabinet Minister for Housing in Sri. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's Cabinet
2012 February : Cabinet Minister for Agriculture & agriculture technology mission in Sri. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's Cabinet
2018 - 2020 : President BJP Party for the state of Andhra Pradesh
Personal life
Kanna Lakshminarayana is married to Kanna Vijaya Lakshmi. They have two sons, Kanna Naga Raju, who was the Ex-Mayor of Guntur cityand Kanna Phaneendra who looks after the family business and owns a polo team which is rated as one of the top three polo teams in Asia.
References
Telugu politicians
Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh
Living people
1955 births
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2009–2014
People from Guntur
National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2019 Indian general election
State Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20hamata
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Clarkeulia hamata
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Clarkeulia hamata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Peru.
The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is cream ferruginous with rust portions. The hindwings are grey, but cream towards the base.
Etymology
The species name refers to the shape of the saccular spines which are hooked apically and is derived from Latin hamata (meaning hooked).
References
Moths described in 2010
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20radicana
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Clarkeulia radicana
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Clarkeulia radicana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador (Pichincha Province) and Peru.
The wingspan is 17.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is cream ochreous, with brownish suffusions. The dots and strigulae (fine streaks) are brownish and there is a cream blotch at the base of the wing. The hindwings are cream, tinged with pale ferruginous, especially in the apical portion.
References
Moths described in 1877
Clarkeulia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam%20Gay
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Madam Gay
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Madam Gay (25 February 1978 – 1983) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed some promise as a two-year-old in 1980 before developing into a top-class middle distance performer in the following year. Her only victory in a thirteen race career came when she won the Prix de Diane in 1981, but she was placed in many important races including the Oaks Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Arlington Million and Prix Vermeille. Having been originally bought for 8,000 guineas she was eventually sold for a reported $1.4 million.
Background
Madam Gay was a dark-coated bay mare with a small white star and a white sock on her left hind leg, bred by the Worksop Manor Stud in Nottinghamshire. She was one of the best horses sired by Star Appeal, an Irish-bred, German-trained horse who won the Eclipse Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1975. Madam Gay's dam Saucy Flirt was a sprinter who won handicap races at York and Leicester.
As a yearling, the filly was sent to the Tattersalls sales at Newmarket in October and was bought for 8,000 guineas by Geoffrey Kaye. She was sent into training with Paul Kelleway a former National Hunt jockey at his Shalfleet stables on the Bury Road in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Racing career
1980: two-year-old season
Madam Gay finished unplaced in her first two races, including the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot. Despite these defeats she was moved up in class to contest the Group 3 Waterford Candelabra Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse. She finished strongly to take second place in a field of ten runners behind Fairy Footsteps. In their annual Racehorses of 1980, the independent Timeform organisation described her as being "sure to win, when her sights are lowered".
1981: three-year-old season
Kelleway showed no inclination to "lower the sights", running the filly against the best available opposition in Europe and North America in 1981. After finishing third in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes on her first appearance she contested the Classic 1000 Guineas over Newmarket's Rowley Mile course. Ridden by Tony Murray, she started a 50/1 outsider, but was beaten less than one and a half lengths as she finished fifth behind Fairy Footsteps. In the Musidora Stakes, a trial race for The Oaks, Madam Gay reversed the Newmarket form with Fairy Footsteps but was beaten four lengths into second place by the Irish filly Condessa.
On 6 June, Madam Gay was moved up in distance for the Oaks over one and a half miles at Epsom Downs Racecourse and started the 10/1 fifth choice in the betting. Ridden by John Reid she was one of very few runners able to stay in contention with the strong pace set by Leap Lively. She eventually finished second, seven lengths behind Blue Wind, but ten lengths clear of the other runners. Madam Gay was still without a win in seven starts when she was sent to France to contest the Group 1 Prix de Diane (French Oaks) over 2100 metres at Chantilly Racecourse eight days later. Ridden by Lester Piggott she started at odd of 9/1 in a field which included April Run, Val d'Erica ( winner of the Oaks d'Italia), Tootens (Prix Saint Alary) and Ukraine Girl (Poule d'Essai des Pouliches). Madam Gay was restrained by Piggott towards the back of the field before moving into contention in the straight. She sprinted past her opponents, went clear of the field and won by four lengths from Val d'Erica in a race record time of 2:06.5 despite being eased down in the closing stages. Madam Gay was then matched against colts and older horses in the Eclipse Stakes on 4 July over ten furlongs at Sandown Park Racecourse where she finished fifth of the eight runners behind Master Willie. Three weeks later, she contested Britain's most prestigious all-aged race, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot Racecourse. She was ridden by Greville Starkey and started a 40/1 outsider in a field which included Shergar (the 2/5 favourite), Master Willie, Light Cavalry and Pelerin (Hardwicke Stakes). Although she was no match for Shergar, Madam Gay stayed on strongly in the straight to finish second, four lengths behind the winner.
On 30 August, Madam Gay represented Britain in the inaugural running of the Arlington Million, then the world's most valuable horse race, after her owners paid a supplementary entry fee of $35,000. She was partnered by Piggott who was unable to ride at less than 117 pounds, meaning that Madam Gay had to carry four pounds more than weight-for-age. She was settled behind the leaders along the rail before moving up into third place approaching the final turn. The filly could make no further progress, but stayed on to finish third of the fourteen runners beaten a nose and two lengths by John Henry and The Bart. During her stay in the United States it was made known that the filly was available for sale at a price of $2,000,000, but there were no takers. She then returned to Europe for the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp Racecourse on 13 September. She was made the 7/4 favourite, but after being given a great deal of ground to make up in the straight she finished third to April Run and Leandra. Madam Gay was then bought for an undisclosed sum (later reported as $1.4 million) to Daniel Wildenstein in a private deal. On her final racecourse appearance, Madam Gay produced one of her few poor efforts as she finished tenth behind Vayrann in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket on 17 October.
At the end of the season, Madam Gay was exported to continue her racing career in the United States. Madam Gay died in 1983 and did not produce any registered offspring.
Assessment
In 1980, the independent Timeform organisation gave Madam Gay a rating of 107, seventeen pounds below their top-rated two-year-old filly Marwell. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the best two-year-olds to race in Britain, she was given a weight of 111 pounds, fifteen pounds below Marwell and twenty-one pounds below the top colt Storm Bird. In the following year, Madam Gay was rated 125 by Timeform, eight pounds below Marwell. She was rated the fifth-best three-year-old filly in Europe in the International Classification.
Pedigree
References
1978 racehorse births
1983 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Thoroughbred family 7-a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar%20Forn%C3%A9s
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Óscar Fornés
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Óscar Fornés López (born 2 March 1983) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Callosa Deportiva CF as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Born in Benicarló, Province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Fornés finished his youth career with local club Villarreal CF, and made his senior debut with amateurs UD San Mateo in the 2002–03 season. The following year, he joined CD Castellón B.
In the summer of 2004, Fornés signed with Elche CF, being initially assigned to the reserves in the Tercera División. On 17 June 2006 he played his only professional match, starting in a 2–2 Segunda División away draw against Real Valladolid.
Fornés competed in the Segunda División B but also in the fourth tier the following years, representing Villajoyosa CF, CF Gavà, Caravaca CF, Benidorm CF, CD Teruel and UE Olot. With the latter side, he achieved promotion to division three in 2013, appearing in 28 games and conceding only 21 goals during the campaign.
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Valencian Community
Men's association football goalkeepers
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Tercera Federación players
Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players
Elche CF Ilicitano footballers
Elche CF players
Villajoyosa CF footballers
CF Gavà players
Caravaca CF players
Benidorm CF footballers
CD Teruel footballers
UE Olot players
CD Torrevieja players
Crevillente Deportivo players
CF La Nucía players
Orihuela CF players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313%20Ekstraliga%20%28women%27s%20football%29
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2012–13 Ekstraliga (women's football)
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The 2012–13 Ekstraliga was the 38th edition of the women's football premier league in Poland. It ran from August 18, 2012, to June 12, 2013, with a mid-season break from November to March. KU AZS UJ Kraków, and KS Gosirki Piaseczno replaced relegated teams 1.FC Katowice and MUKS Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
Unia Racibórz won its fifth title in a row but with a smaller margin than in previous seasons, two points over Medyk Konin which also was the runner-up for the fourth straight time. Górnik Łęczna also repeated their third position. Pogoń Women Szczecin, which had defeated both Unia and Medyk, was disbanded during the mid-season break for financial reasons, leaving the competition one team short. Last-placed Bronowianka KU AZS UJ Kraków was thus the only relegated team.
Teams
League table
Results
Top scorers
References
Pol
women's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev.%20Robert%20Smith%20House
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Rev. Robert Smith House
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The Rev. Robert Smith House is a pre-Revolutionary house at 6 Glebe St., Charleston, South Carolina which is used as the official residence for the president of the College of Charleston. The present use is an odd twist of history; Rev. Robert Smith, whose name has been given to the house, was the first Episcopal bishop of South Carolina and was also himself the first president of the College of Charleston.
In 1698, Affra Coming donated 17 acres to the Anglican Church for use as glebe lands (i.e., lands used for rental income for a church). In 1770, streets were laid out through the lands, and a parsonage for St. Philip's Episcopal Church was planned for four acres. The house's property included the land all the way to Wentworth St. The house was built in about 1770. It is a large, two-story, double house of Carolina brick on a high foundation.
The house was restored by the College of Charleston in 1965 by Herbert DeCosta. The president of the college moved into the house in 1966. When College of Charleston president George Benson moved out of the house in August 2014, maintenance workers discovered water infiltration problems which would require approximately $100,000 in repairs; although Glenn McConnell was sworn in as the new president of the college, he has not begun occupying the house while awaiting the repairs.
References
Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Water%20Polo%20Cup
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Asian Water Polo Cup
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The Asian Water Polo Cup is an international water polo tournament, organized by Asia Swimming Federation (AASF).
Summaries
Men
Women
Participating nations
Men
Women
See also
Water polo at the Asian Games
Asian Swimming Championships
Asian Water Polo Championship
References
International water polo competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
Cup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Marcus%20%28zoologist%29
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Ernst Marcus (zoologist)
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Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (8 June 1893 – 30 June 1968) was a German zoologist, former occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo.
Life
Marcus was born in Berlin in a Jewish family, the son of Georg Marcus, a jurist, and Regina Schwartz. As a child, he lived near the Berlin Zoo, where he observed all kinds of animals, and collected beetles. He studied at the Kaiser Friedrich Gymnasium and later entered the Friedrich Wilhelm University to study zoology.
He began his doctoral studies in the Entomology Department at the Berlin Museum and, in 1914, he published his first zoological work. However, his studies were later delayed due to World War I, where he fought as a soldier, and his second work, a thesis on Coleoptera, was published only in 1919, when he received his doctorate. After graduation, he continued to work at the museum and was assigned to the Bryozoa collection. Without a resident specialist to teach him, he learned everything about the group on his own.
In 1923, Marcus obtained the 'Privat-Dozent', a credential that permitted him to teach at the university level. Thus, he became a professor at the Friedrich Wilhelm University. As an assistant to Karl Heider, Marcus became interested in Developmental Mechanics.
In 1924, aged 31, he married Eveline Du Bois-Reymond, granddaughter of Emil Du Bois-Reymond, and together they published several zoological works. In 1929, he was appointed Associate Professor at the Zoological Institute.
With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Marcus was dismissed as an assistant to Heider in 1935. In March 1936, he received a telegram from São Paulo offering him a professorship. This offer came due to the efforts of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, Ltd, a group that tried to find jobs for displaced Jewish scientist. Later that month, Marcus moved to Brazil with his wife, arriving on 1 April. He started to teach zoology at the University of São Paulo, occupying the chair that was vacant by the death of Professor Ernst Bresslau, and began studying the Brazilian bryozoan fauna.
With the start of World War II, Marcus was forbidden to go to the coast because of his German origins, making him turn his attention to freshwater bryozoans and other freshwater and terrestrial invertebrates, especially oligochaetes and turbellarians. In 1945, he became full professor of zoology and presented a large thesis about microturbellarians. After the war ended, Marcus was invited to go back to Germany, but he declined, saying that he was not willing to reconstruct his life a third time. Allowed to return to the coast, he continued to work on bryozoans, but focused more on turbellarians and later on opisthobranchs.
With Eveline, Marcus published 162 papers between 1936 and 1968, the first ones in Portuguese. Later works were published in English and focused on several invertebrate groups, such as flatworms, annelids, tardigrades, onychophorans, nemertines, phoronids, gastropods, and pycnogonids.
Marcus died in 1968, and his wife continued their research until her death.
Selected works
Species named in his honor
Several species have been named after Ernst Marcus, such as the land planarians Luteostriata ernesti and Imbira marcusi.
References
20th-century German zoologists
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
1893 births
1968 deaths
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Brazil
20th-century Brazilian zoologists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Ballet%20of%20Portugal
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National Ballet of Portugal
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Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB), the National Ballet Company of Portugal, was established in Lisbon in 1977 and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos was its home for the first two decades of its existence. CNB is the only state company in Portugal that has a dance season and is the only company with a permanent group of artists that currently ensure regular seasons at the Teatro Camões as well as touring the country (including the Madeira and Azores islands) and abroad.
Established through government initiative, the company has two aims that complement each other. One is the preservation and presentation of international ballet repertoire, performing classical ballet productions; the other is the permanent update of this art form, presenting modern and contemporary choreography by national and foreign authors. The result is an extremely eclectic repertoire which crosses centuries, styles and techniques while keeping a strong Portuguese and European identity.
CNB was the first ballet company in Portugal to produce full-length classical ballets such as La Fille Mal Gardée, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, La Sylphid, La Bayadère, Paquita, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. In addition, the company reviews and re-deciphers works from the ballet canon, commissioning new pieces by creators who reinterpret them with a contemporary outlook, often in dialogue with Portugal's history.
CNB performances include works by prominent international choreographers such as George Balanchine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Serge Lifar, Kurt Jooss, José Limón, Lar Lubovitch, Michael Corder, Hans van Manen, Robert North, Heinz Spöerli, Nacho Duato, Mauro Bigonzetti, Henri Oguike, Cayetano Soto, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Akram Khan, as well as Portuguese choreographers such as Armando Jorge, Fernando Lima, Carlos Trincheiras, Rui Lopes Graça, Olga Roriz, Vasco Wellenkamp, Paulo Ribeiro, Rui Horta, Clara Andermatt or Fernando Duarte.
Paulo Ribeiro is the artistic director of the company, succeeding Luísa Taveira (2010–2016 and 1999–2000), Vasco Wellenkamp (2007–2010), Mehmet Balkan (2002–2007), Marc Jonkers (2001–2002), Jorge Salavisa (1996–1999), Isabel Santa Rosa (1994–1996) and Armando Jorge (1978–1993). CNB is based at Rua Vítor Cordon, in Chiado, Lisbon.
References
Epping dancer Joshua Earl secures contract with National Ballet of Portugal
External links
Ballet
Ballet
Performing groups established in 1977
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20magnetism
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Human magnetism
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Human magnetism is a popular name for the supposed ability of some humans to attract various objects to their skin. People alleged to have such an ability are often called human magnets. Although metal objects are the most prevalent material of attraction, some "human magnets" are also able to stick other types of materials to their skin, such as glass, porcelain, wood or plastic as well as metals with no ferromagnetic properties, such as brass and aluminium. However, none of the recorded claims of human magnetism corresponds with the physics of magnetism.
Selected claimed human magnets
Aurel Răileanu from Romania, also known as "Mr. Magnet"; is said to be the strongest human magnet
Etibar Elchyev from Georgia, Guinness World Record holder for most spoons on a human body
Ivan Stoiljkovic, a boy from Croatia
Liew Thow Lin, known as Mr. Magnetic Man
Dalibor Jablanović from Serbia, Guinness World Record holder for most spoons on a human face
Arun Raikar from India, who could lift of metal upon his body
Agnė Kulitaitė from Lithuania is known to hold metal objects on her forehead or even cheeks.
Explanations
Many of the people who can adhere objects to their body can do so not only with metal but also other materials. That would suggest that the phenomenon cannot be explained by magnetism and uses a different kind of physical effect. Skeptic Benjamin Radford has used a compass to check the magnetic field of a person that claimed to be a human magnet. He concluded that person did not produce magnetic fields. He also noted that those people usually have smooth and hairless skin and lean back slightly while sticking objects, which would not be necessary if they possessed magnetic powers. Many scientists and proponents of science, including James Randi, have explained this ability by friction and sticky skin; to prove that, Randi has demonstrated that human magnets lose their powers when they are covered in talc.
See also
Animal magnetism
Biomagnetism
Magnetoception
Sherri Tenpenny, who claimed the COVID-19 vaccine turns people into human magnets
References
Magnetism
Paranormal hoaxes
Parapsychology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%20Assets
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Joule Assets
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Joule Assets is a provider of energy reduction market analysis, tools and financing. Joule Assets creates Energy Reduction Assets by accessing value from reduction measures such as demand response, energy efficiency, and energy storage.
Joule Assets, Inc. develops energy reduction asset software and acts as a financing source for energy consumers, producers, and distributors, as well as energy reduction services, hardware, and software companies. It offers energy efficiency services that include energy efficiency auction products, which are built to fill market gaps to create contract opportunities for market players; and energy efficiency pro forma products, which allows licensees to intuitively estimate the value of environmental attributes, such as CERs, white certificates, and demand reduction for a project. The company also provides clean generation auction products and clean generation pro-forma worksheets products.
History
Joule Assets was founded in 2010 by Demand Response industry leaders Mike Gordon, CEO, and Dennis Quinn, COO. Gordon previously served as founder and CEO of Consumer Powerline (later CPower, a DR aggregator, later purchased by Constellation Energy Group.
Quinn, a founding member and previous CEO of Celerity Energy, was instrumental in developing the early demand response rules for participation in California. Celerity Energy was sold to EnerNoc in 2006.
Gordon and Quinn brought some of the first commercial and multifamily buildings into Demand Response markets, and signed 100,000 Service Classification 8 units in over 300 master-metered buildings in New York City.
Services
Joule Assets also offers an investment fund to allow businesses to install load controls or do retrofits that will, in turn, help them tap into additional market opportunities. Customers/partners include energy and curtailment service providers, grid operators, equipment companies, ESCOs, and software.
Joule Assets developed a web-based software platform designed to identify local and available demand response and energy reduction opportunities for commercial and industrial customers to turn energy savings into value streams.
The Energy Reduction Asset (ERA) platform is a searchable database tool for firms to easily engage in energy reduction programs through the local utility/independent systems operator for cost benefits. The ERA platform includes meter and benchmarked data for those needing guidance in fine tuning a facility’s curtailment capability as well as a critical peak pricing(CPP) tariff calculator that will help users understand whether CPP is right for them.
See also
ESCO
Demand Response
Energy efficient use
Energy efficiency implementation
Constellation Energy
EnerNOC
Energy Reduction Assets
Peak demand
Energy demand management
References
External links
http://www.energymanagertoday.com/joule-software-analyzes-demand-response-089195/
http://www.windpowerengineering.com/construction/projects/joule-assets-unveils-software-to-identify-energy-market-revenue-opportunities/
http://www.fierceenergy.com/story/joule-provides-enhanced-revenue-streams-energy-service-providers/2012-01-24
http://www.fierceenergy.com/press-releases/joule-assets-launches-new-demand-response-energy-efficiency-platform-enabli
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Organizations established in 2010
2010 establishments in New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans%27%20Compensation%20Cost-of-Living%20Adjustment%20Act%20of%202013
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Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013
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The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 () is a federal statute in the United States that increased the disability compensation rate for American veterans and their families. The rate increased by the same amount as the cost of living increase that was applied to Social Security. The bill passed the United States Senate and House during the 113th United States Congress, and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on November 21, 2013.
Background
A similar bill () was introduced in the House. There was no cost of living adjustment in 2010 or 2011.
Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 directed the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase, as of December 1, 2013, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
The bill required each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.
Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 24, 2013. This is a public domain source.
S. 893 increased the amounts paid to veterans for disability compensation and to their survivors for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) by the same cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) payable to Social Security recipients. The increase took effect on December 1, 2013.
The COLA that was authorized by this bill is assumed in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) baseline, consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. Because the COLA is assumed in the CBO’s baseline, the COLA provision had no budgetary effect relative to the baseline. Relative to current law, the CBO estimated that enacting this bill would increase spending for those programs by $0.9 million in fiscal year 2014. This estimate assumed that the COLA effective on December 1, 2013, would be 1.5 percent. (The annualized cost would be about $1.2 billion in subsequent years. The CBO previously estimated that the COLA change relative to current law would be about $2.6 billion on an annualized basis in contrast to that corrected figure of about $1.2 billion.)
Procedural history
The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 was introduced on May 8, 2013 by Sen. Bernard Sanders (I, VT). It was referred to the United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. It was released from the Committee alongside Senate Report 113-87. On October 28, 2013, the Senate voted by Unanimous consent to pass the bill.
The Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 was received in the United States House of Representatives. It was referred to the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. On November 8, 2013, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that H.R. 2871 would be considered under a suspension of the rules on the House floor on November 12, 2013. The bill was considered along with five other bills, starting after the House opened for the day at 2pm. The bill passed the House, and on November 21, 2013 it was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
Notes/References
External links
Library of Congress - Thomas S. 893
beta.congress.gov S. 893
GovTrack.us S. 893
WashingtonWatch.com S. 893
Congressional Budget Office's report on S. 893
Senate Report 113-87
Acts of the 113th United States Congress
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making%20ant
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Slave-making ant
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Slave-making ants or slaver ants are brood parasites that capture broods of other ant species to increase the worker force of their colony. After emerging in the slave-maker nest, slave workers work as if they were in their own colony, while parasite workers only concentrate on replenishing the labor force from neighboring host nests, a process called slave raiding.
The slave-making ants are specialized to parasitize a single species or a group of related species, and they are often close relatives to their hosts, which is typical for social parasites. The slave-makers may either be permanent social parasites (thus depending on enslaved ants throughout their whole lives) or facultative slave-makers. The behavior is unusual among ants but has evolved several times independently.
Terminology
Theft of brood for the purpose of employing the stolen individual's efforts in support of the thief is called dulosis (from Greek , "slave"), but the term "slave-making" is used in older literature and is still common. There is some controversy associated with using the term "slave" and "slave-maker" to describe the natural history of this species. Additionally, there are species commonly raided that are referred to as "negro ant" specifically because they are common victims of ant raids, although this is not endorsed by nomenclature societies. Using this terminology can cause discomfort and negativity such that it may discourage certain people from wanting to study these ant behaviors. Some have argued that using such non-inclusive metaphors in science is harmful to scientists and interferes with the unbiased scientific process. Suggestions to replace these terms with alternatives include replacing "slave-making ant" with "pirate ant" or "kidnapper ant" and replacing "slave" with "captive".
A related type of social parasitism is called inquilinism, in which a reproductive enters a host colony, lays eggs, and relies on the host colony to rear its offspring. Unlike brood parasitism, the inquiline remains within the nest and typically its brood does not outnumber the host's brood.
Obligate and facultative slave-makers
Slave-making ants may be permanent social parasites, thus depending on enslaved host ants throughout their whole lives and unable to function without them in which case they are termed obligate slave-makers. Alternatively, facultative slave-making ants, like those in the Formica sanguinea complex, represent an intermediate parasitic group, between free-living species and obligatory slave-making species. In laboratory tests, when captured workers were removed from colonies of Formica sanguinea and Polyergus rufescens, the behavior of F. sanguinea changed dramatically within 30 days of their removal, with workers becoming self-sufficient at feeding and brood care. Workers of Polyergus, in contrast, were unable to care for their brood, and experienced high mortality.
Raids
Parasitized nests need to replenish the host workers periodically. This is achieved by raiding other nests in a process called slave raiding. The parasite workers are specialized for conducting raids in a two-step process. First, scouts individually search for potential host nests. When successful, the scout returns to its nest and recruits nest-mates to initiate the raid, during which slave-maker ants seize a brood and bring it back home. A colony may capture 14,000 pupae in a single season. Most slave-raiders capture only the young, but Strongylognathus sp. also enslave adult workers.
In most parasite species, workers mark the way to their nest with pheromones and afterwards fellow slave-makers are attracted within a few seconds. They then go quickly to the targeted host nest, attack it, and carrying as many larvae and pupae as possible, return to their nest following the same trail marked by the pheromone. Rossomyrmex is the only reported slave-maker that exclusively uses adult transport and single recruitment chain instead of pheromones during raids, a behavior probably constrained by the arid habitat; raids take place in early summer when soil surface temperature can reach up to , a temperature in which pheromones would quickly evaporate.
Workers of the attacked nest can fight or flee. In the host species Proformica, the most common behavior is flee, probably because hosts almost always lose fights. Most studies on the raiding behavior of species in the F. sanguinea complex confirm that slave raiders usually rout their opponents, who typically flee in a state of panicked alarm, and that aggressive encounters, when they occur, are brief and do not result in the death of adult individuals from either species. However, when large colonies of slave species offer resistance during raids prolonged fighting is possible and many workers of both species can be killed.
Later, host workers emerging in the parasite nest will be imprinted on and integrated into the mixed colony where they will rear the parasite brood, feed and groom the parasite workers, defend the nest against aliens (e.g. other insects or spiders), and even participate in raids, including those against their original colony. Altruistic acts of slaves are thus directed toward unrelated individuals. One hypothesis suggests that slave deception is possible because slaves are captured as pupae and learn the slave-maker colony odor after emergence.
However, in some cases, the enslaved ants rebel against their slave-maker ants, killing a large number of the slave-maker ant offspring. This is because "slaves can gain indirect fitness benefits by reducing parasite pressure on nearby host colonies, because these are often closely related to the slaves". Thus, the slave ants protect their native colonies from further raids by slave-maker ants.
Parasite–host pairs
Rossomyrmex–Proformica
Polyergus–Formica
Formica–Formica
Leptothorax–Chalepoxenus
Leptothorax–Epimyrma
Leptothorax–Harpagoxenus
Leptothorax–Leptothorax
Leptothorax–Protomognathus
Myrmoxenus–Temnothorax
Strongylognathus–Tetramorium
Reproduction
The reproductive behavior of slave-making ants usually consists in synchronous emergence of sexuals followed by a nuptial flight and the invasion of a host nest, but also in some cases females display a mating call around the natal nest to attract males and immediately after mating search for a host nest to usurp.
Only one slave species is usually found in a single Polyergus nest. This is in contrast to related facultative slave-makers of the genus Formica belonging to the F. sanguinea species group, found in the same habitat, whose nests commonly contain two or more species serving as slaves. Choice of a host species can occur both through the colony-founding behavior of queens and through the choice of target nests for slave raids. The parasitic Polyergus queens found colonies either by adoption, where a queen invades the nest of a slave species, killing the resident queen and appropriating workers and brood present, or by "budding", in which a queen invades or is accepted into a host species nest accompanied by workers from her nest of origin.
Evolution
The first hypothesis concerning the origins of slave-making was Darwin's (1859) suggestion in On the Origin of Species that slavery developed as a by-product of brood predation among related species. Other hypotheses focus on territorial interactions with opportunistic brood predation or brood transport among polydomous colonies (consist of multiple nests) as the main pathway to slave-making. Slave-making behavior is unusual among ants but has evolved independently more than ten times in total including in the subfamilies Myrmicinae and Formicinae. Slave-makers and their hosts are often close phylogenetic relatives, which is typical for social parasites and their respective hosts (formalized as Emery's rule). This has major evolutionary implications since it may argue for sympatric speciation.
Raids can jeopardize host colony survival, therefore exerting a strong selection pressure upon the hosts. Reciprocally, there is some evidence that hosts also exert a selection pressure on their parasites in return, since resistance by host colonies might prevent enslavement. Coevolutionary processes between slave-making ant species and their hosts then can escalate to an evolutionary arms race.
See also
Host–parasite coevolution
Kleptoparasitism
Trophobiosis
References
Sources
Additional publications
Parasitism
Brood parasites
Parasitic Hymenoptera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%20%28fungus%29
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Pandora (fungus)
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Pandora is a genus of fungi within the order Entomophthorales of the Zygomycota. This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).
It was initially formed by Polish mycologist Andrzej Batko (1933-1997), as a subgenus of Zoophthora. Then American mycologist Richard A. Humber raised it to the genus level. The genus name of Pandora is derived from the Latin word pando which means “to become curved” or “to sag” and the generic suffix “ra” thus describing conidia, which are often with weakly outlined bilateral symmetry. They are on one side (abdominal) slightly flattened and on the opposite (dorsal) side, more convex, on the third (lateral) side, they are somewhat curved towards the abdominal side and slightly asymmetrical.
It has a cosmopolitan distribution.
It is best known by its representative Pandora neoaphidis, which acts as an obligate pathogen in various species of aphids. It is a widespread species that is often found to be the most common fungal insect pathogen on the local aphid community (e.g. in surveys from Argentina, Slovakia, and China.). It has therefore been the subject of study for biological control. Including usage on the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) which predates on spinach (Spinacea oleracea ) in Arkansas, America. Up to 95 species of the aphid (world-wide) have been found to be infected by the fungus. From places such as France (Rabasse et al. 1983), Mexico (Remaudiere and Hennebert, 1980), Portugal and Spain (Humber, 1986) and also Japan (Kobayashi et al.,1984). Panicum miliaceum or broomcorn millets were trialled in 2003 as a production base (within labs) for the fungus. However, difficulty with mass production of infectious spores in vitro and the viable formulation and storage into an easily applicable commercial product has halted their direct use as a biological control in 2012.
There is limited evidence that the ladybird Harmonia axyridis, which is invasive in America and Europe, has an advantage over native ladybird species because it feeds more on Pandora-infested aphid cadavers.
Pandora formicae is a rare example of the entomophthoralean fungus that has adapted to exclusively infect social insects, such as the wood ant Formica polyctena. The proportion of dead ant bodies with resting spores increased from late summer throughout autumn, which suggests that these fungal spores are the main overwintering fungal structures.
Pandora sp. nov. inedit. (ARSEF13372) is a recently isolated fungus species with high potential for usage in psyllid pest control. Experiments in biomass production are being studied for usefulness.
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;
Pandora aleurodis
Pandora bibionis
Pandora blunckii
Pandora borea
Pandora brahminae
Pandora bullata
Pandora dacnusae
Pandora delphacis
Pandora dipterigena
Pandora echinospora
Pandora formicae
Pandora gloeospora
Pandora guangdongensis
Pandora heteropterae
Pandora kondoiensis
Pandora lipae
Pandora longissima
Pandora minutispora
Pandora muscivora
Pandora myrmecophaga
Pandora neoaphidis
Pandora nouryi
Pandora phalangicida
Pandora philonthi
Pandora phyllobii
Pandora poloniae-majoris
Pandora psocopterae
Pandora sciarae
Pandora shaanxiensis
Pandora terrestris
Pandora uroleuconii
Former species;
P. americana = Furia americana, Entomophthoraceae
P. athaliae = Zoophthora athaliae, Entomophthoraceae
P. calliphorae = Entomophthora calliphorae, Entomophthoraceae
P. chironomi = Erynia chironomi, Entomophthoraceae
P. cicadellis = Erynia cicadellis, Entomophthoraceae
P. suturalis = Zoophthora suturalis, Entomophthoraceae
References
Entomophthorales
Zygomycota genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosserlough%20GFC
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Crosserlough GFC
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Crosserlough is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Kilnaleck, County Cavan in Ireland.
Honours
Men's football
Cavan Senior Football Championship (10)
1958, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 2020
Cavan Intermediate Football Championship (0)
Runners-up 2011
Cavan Junior Football Championship (1)
1967
Cavan Under-21 Football Championship (5)
1983, 1984, 1989, 1991, 2018
Cavan Minor Football Championship (7)
1954, 1955, 1963, 1964, 1986, 1989, 2016
Ladies' football
Cavan Senior Ladies' Football Championship (2)
2019, 2021
Cavan Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship (1)
2017
Cavan Junior Ladies' Football Championship (1)
2020
Notable players
Andy McCabe
References
External link
Crosserlough Official Website
Gaelic games clubs in County Cavan
Gaelic football clubs in County Cavan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201942%29
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Diogo (footballer, born 1942)
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Eletelba da Silva (born 21 October 1942), known as just Diogo, is a retired Brazilian professional soccer player.
Career
Born Eletelba da Silva, he began his career playing for Brazilian sides, America Futebol Clube (Rio de Janeiro), then Bonsucesso Futebol Clube (Rio de Janeiro) 1961. After playing on the development teams for each of these Rio de Janeiro clubs, he signed his first professional contract with Desportiva Ferroviaria (Cariacica, Espirito Santo) (1961-1966). He then went on to play for Prudentina, from (1966-1967) S.E. Palmeiras (1967-1968), Portuguesa and C.R. Flamengo (1968-1969), before continuing his career playing for then Mexico City side, Club de Futbol Atlante (1970-1971).
After playing for C.F. Atlante, he continued his playing career in the newly formed North American Soccer League. In 1972, he was contracted to play for the Miami Gatos. After, spending the 1973-1974 season with the Cincinnati Comets, he spend his final two seasons 1975-1976 playing with the Chicago Cats.
References
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Associação Desportiva Ferroviária Vale do Rio Doce players
CR Flamengo footballers
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players
Miami Toros players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
Cincinnati Comets players
Chicago Cats players
Men's association football midfielders
1942 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaudhary%20Sunil%20Singh
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Chaudhary Sunil Singh
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Chaudhary Sunil Singh is National President of Lok Dal, a political party which was founded by former Prime Minister of India late Charan Singh.
He is former member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
Early life & Political career
Ch. Sunil Singh was born on 1 January 1971 in Aligarh to Rajendra Singh who was former Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh and Saroj Singh. He is an engineering graduate and has done Masters in Business Management.
He has also been the Member of Legislative Council in the State of Uttar Pradesh State Assembly. He claims to be carrying on the political legacy of Charan Singh. The party's official electoral symbol is a "Khet Jotata hua Kisan" (a farmer ploughing a field); Singh is concerned about farmers and their wellbeing.
Support for Sh Mulayam Singh Yadav
Ch. Sunil Singh came forward to support Sh Mulayam Singh Yadav when later had a dispute with his son and then former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav in January 2017.
Movie Production - Game of Ayodhya
Ch. Sunil Singh produced a controversial film that portrays sequence of events that happened during Babri Mosque demolition in Ayodhya. During release he had to face heavy protests from Right wing.
References
See also
Election Commission of India
Lok Dal
1971 births
Living people
Politicians from Aligarh
Bharatiya Lok Dal politicians
Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20Dyfed%20County%20Council%20election
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1977 Dyfed County Council election
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The second election to Dyfed County Council was held in May 1977. It was preceded by the 1973 election and followed by the 1981 election. There were a number of unopposed returns, particularly in rural parts of the county.
Overview
Carmarthenshire
The main feature of the results in Carmarthenshire was a Plaid Cymru challenge to Labour in the more urban part of the county although they lost the one seat they held on the previous council.
Ward Results (Cardiganshire)
Aberaeron No.1
Aberaeron No. 2
Aberaeron No.3
Aberystwyth No.1
Aberystwyth No.2
Aberystwyth No. 3
Aberystwyth Rural No. 1
Aberystwyth Rural No.2
Aberystwyth Rural No.3
Cardigan
Lampeter
Teifiside No.1
Teifiside No.2
Teifiside No.3
Tregaron
Ward Results (Carmarthenshire)
Ammanford No. 1
Ammanford No.2
Berwick
Burry Port East
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Burry Port West
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Carmarthen No. 1
Anthony Earle was elected at a by-election in 1975 following the death of T. Idwal Jones
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Carmarthen No. 2
Carmarthen No. 3
Carmarthen Rural No.1
Carmarthen Rural No.2
Carmarthen Rural No. 3
Carmarthen Rural No. 4
Carmarthen Rural No. 5
Carmarthen Rural No. 6
Carmarthen Rural No. 7
Cwmamman
Felinfoel
Hengoed
Llandeilo No.1
Llandeilo No.2
Llandeilo No.3
Llandeilo No.4
Llandeilo No.5
Llandeilo No.6
Llanedi
Llanelli No.1
Llanelli No.2
Llanelli No. 3
Llanelli No.4
Llanelli No.5
Llanelli No. 6
Llanelli No.7
Llangennech
Llan-non
Newcastle Emlyn No.1
Newcastle Emlyn No.2
Pembrey
Pontyberem
Trimsaran
Westfa
Ward Results (Pembrokeshire)
Cemaes No. 1
Cemaes No. 2
Fishguard and Goodwick No. 1
Fishguard and Goodwick No. 2
Haverfordwest No.1
Haverfordwest No. 2
Haverfordwest Rural No. 1
Haverfordwest Rural No. 2
Haverfordwest Rural No. 3
Haverfordwest Rural No. 4
Haverfordwest Rural No. 5
Milford Haven No. 1
Milford Haven No. 2
Milford Haven No. 3
Narberth No. 1
Narberth No. 2
Narberth No. 3
Neyland and Llanstadwell
Pembroke No. 1
Pembroke No. 2
Pembroke No. 3
Pembroke Rural No. 1
Pembroke Rural No. 2
Tenby
References
1977
1977 Welsh local elections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%21%20%28Canadian%20TV%20system%29
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E! (Canadian TV system)
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The first incarnation of E!, also referred to as E! Entertainment Television, was a Canadian English language privately owned television system that existed from 2001 to 2009 under the ownership of Canwest. At its peak it consisted of eight local television stations located in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, including five stations owned and operated (O&O) by Canwest and three affiliates owned by Jim Pattison Group.
The system was launched in 2001 as CH Television or CH (derived from the call sign of flagship CHCH-TV in Hamilton), providing a secondary schedule parallel to Canwest's larger Global Television Network. It initially focused on airing programs from the U.S. broadcast networks that could not fit on Global's own schedule, in order to avail of simultaneous substitution opportunities. The system became "E!" in fall 2007, as a result of a deal with Comcast to carry programming from that company's U.S.-based E!: Entertainment Television, although it continued to air much of the same American network series in primetime and the afternoon.
Following corporate financial difficulties, which eventually led to the company filing for bankruptcy protection and the sale of their properties to Shaw Media, Canwest announced in early 2009 it would look to either sell or close its E! O&Os by that fall. Those stations saw varied fates as E! ceased operations on August 31, 2009: two stations (CHCH and CJNT-TV Montreal) were sold to Channel Zero; CHEK-TV Victoria was sold to a consortium of local investors and station employees; CHBC-TV Kelowna was converted to a Global O&O; and CHCA-TV Red Deer was shut down entirely. The three Pattison-owned affiliates subsequently joined Rogers Media's City network, as did CJNT several years later. This left CHCH and CHEK as the only independent former stations of this system to still exist.
E! in the U.S. (now owned by NBCUniversal) later reached an agreement to bring the channel's brand and programming to Bell Media's entertainment specialty channel, previously known as Star!, effective late November 2010.
History
Purchase of WIC stations by Canwest
The CH/E! system had its roots in the television stations group owned by Western International Communications (WIC), which at one point owned ten stations, including three CTV affiliates, two CBC affiliates, three independent stations in Alberta that mostly carried programming from Global, Montreal multicultural station CJNT-TV, and independent station CHCH-TV Hamilton.
Aside from CHCH, many of WIC's stations were involved in various types of "twinsticks", or a set of two stations serving one market under a single owner – specifically in the British Columbia Lower Mainland, Alberta, Montreal, and Kelowna markets. The second stations were, respectively, CHEK-TV, CKRD-TV, CJNT-TV, and CHBC-TV.
WIC was an ownership group, and not a network unto itself; the company was rarely able to co-ordinate the programming of its first-string stations, much less the second-string outlets, due to the stations' different network affiliations. Even so, during the 1990s, WIC had been stepping up its acquisitions of American programming, eventually acquiring shows such as Everybody Loves Raymond, Will & Grace, Suddenly Susan, Just Shoot Me, and Touched by an Angel.
These programs were broadcast on CHCH (which was rebranded "ONtv" in 1997 in an effort to broaden the station into a province-wide outlet, a change that was not popular with the station's core Hamilton audience), and on its other stations when timeslots were available. For example, in the Vancouver area in the late 1990s, CTV network programming – i.e. the 40 hours per week not aired on VTV – would air in-pattern on BCTV, with some WIC programming airing in the remaining timeslots. On CHEK, the same CTV programs would generally air out-of-pattern, with additional WIC programming scheduled for the remaining timeslots when BCTV was airing network programs. This effectively gave WIC one "full" station to program itself in the Vancouver market. Similarly, in Alberta, Global or WIC programs that could not fit onto the schedules of WIC's Calgary or Edmonton stations would instead air on Red Deer CBC affiliate CKRD, available on cable in much of the province, in non-network timeslots.
Canwest reached an agreement to purchase WIC's conventional television arm in 1999. Its plan to keep all of the WIC stations, save CFCF-TV in Montreal, faced strong opposition from competitors and advocacy groups. However, Canwest convinced the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that such twinstick operations would allow the company to support the "underserved" communities these stations were originally intended to serve, arguing that no other company could provide the same level of support (CJNT would not be sustainable financially, while the other stations would turn their focus to larger neighbouring markets such as Toronto or Vancouver). For instance, Canwest promised to relaunch CHCH as a station with a renewed focus on Hamilton. As a result, Canwest was able to maintain the B.C. and Alberta twinsticks, re-align CJNT with CKMI-TV, and most importantly secure a new twinstick in the major market of Toronto with both its own CIII-TV and WIC's CHCH.
The launch of CH
In February 2001, CHCH dropped its "ONtv" branding, becoming the first to adopt the CH brand. It was followed by CHEK (newly disaffiliated from CTV) and multicultural station CJNT that September. The initial CH schedules largely consisted of the programming Canwest had inherited from WIC – indeed there were almost no programming changes initially at CHCH, since the branding change came mid-season. However, a handful of WIC programs would eventually be "cherry-picked" by Global. The stations also began to cross-promote heavily with the local Global stations. While CH briefly used the slogan "Closer to Home" when it launched, the letters "CH" were derived from the call sign of flagship CHCH. On the other hand, CJNT referred to the initials as Canal Horizon, or CH Horizon, until 2002.
CKRD joined in 2005 after disaffiliating from the CBC (having carried CH programming in non-CBC timeslots like it did during the WIC era prior to this), and reverted to its original call letters (CHCA) in the process. Kelowna's CHBC and Kamloops's CFJC, the latter owned by the Jim Pattison Group, also disaffiliated from the CBC in February 2006 and joined CH. Although CFJC was not owned by Canwest, its joint sales agreement with CHBC necessitated its affiliation switch. With a replacement brand for CH expected in the near future, both CHBC and CFJC maintained their own local identities for the remainder of the "CH" era.
Rebranding to E!
Published reports in early 2006 suggested that Canwest was looking to rebrand the CH stations. However, that brand remained in use for more than a year. In April 2007, Canwest finally announced that the CH stations would be relaunched as E! that fall; the changes took effect on September 7. E! (U.S.) owner Comcast licensed the brand name and programming, but it did not obtain ownership in the Canadian E! network.
The launch of E! in Canada marked the first adoption of a specialty channel-type schedule by an over-the-air system in Canada, essentially a loophole in a CRTC policy which permitted only one specialty channel per programming genre; this policy would be revoked in 2015. (Terrestrial stations have no restrictions on the genres of programming they can air, so long as they meet their Canadian content and local programming requirements.) Previously, E! programming had aired on Star!, which was launched in 1999 as the Canadian specialty channel with genre exclusivity for the entertainment / celebrity niche.
Pattison announced in September 2007 that its two remaining CBC affiliates, Prince George's CKPG-TV and Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV, would drop their current affiliation in favour of programming from Canwest effective fall 2008. CKPG affiliated with E! instead of Global due to the presence of a Global BC rebroadcaster in the market; CHAT joined E! as well, despite the absence of an over-the-air Global signal serving Medicine Hat.
Demise
Despite the rebranding and increased coverage, the system continued to trail in the ratings, and ultimately remained unprofitable. On February 5, 2009, amid rising debt and increasing pressure from creditors, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options", including possible sale or closure, for its E! O&Os, saying "a second conventional TV network is no longer key to the long-term success" of the company. The company later announced it would sell two of those stations, CHCH and CJNT, to Channel Zero, which said it would operate both as independent stations.
Canwest also made clear that it would not be running the remaining E! stations as of fall 2009, and in late July announced the rebranding of CHBC, and the closure of CHCA and CHEK, all effective September 1. However, as discussed below, the CHEK decision was later reversed, with an agreement to sell the station to a local consortium.
The transition for each station on Monday, August 31, 2009, was as follows:
Channel Zero took control of programming at CHCH as of midnight EDT Monday morning, and at CJNT as of 6:00 a.m. (although the latter station's new programming did not actually take air until mid-morning).
CHCA ended regular programming by 5:00 a.m. MDT. At that point it began airing a slide thanking viewers for their support, before leaving the air on September 1.
CHBC joined Global (by simulcasting CHAN-TV's morning news) at 5:30 a.m. PDT.
CHEK was scheduled to carry regular programming until 7:00 p.m., when it was to air an hour-long look back at the best of their newsmagazine show, Island 30 and a two-hour retrospective of its 53 years covering local news, before signing off permanently at 10:00 p.m. However, by late afternoon on the 31st, negotiations to sell the station had resumed, delaying the station's signoff indefinitely; nevertheless, CHEK no longer carried E! programming as of September 1. An agreement to sell the station to an employee-led group (pending approval from the CRTC) was finalized on September 4, thereby allowing CHEK to remain on the air.
Program schedules for the Pattison stations indicated that they would carry "regular" E! programming throughout the broadcast day, with the last Canwest-supplied program, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, concluding at approximately 1:38 a.m. PDT on September 1; however, it is not clear whether all of the primetime and late-night programming actually made air, since, by that point, it was not scheduled to air on any Canwest station. The Pattison stations began carrying national Citytv programming later that morning.
The rights to most of the system's non-E! primetime programs were acquired by other broadcasters, with most going to Citytv. Meanwhile, Canwest had been believed to retain the Canadian rights to E! (U.S.)'s original programming under its original long-term contract with Comcast. These programs were expected to move to the company's other channels such as Global or Slice, the latter having carried some E! programs in the past, or potentially even a new or rebranded E! cable channel (provided such a channel did not interfere with Star!'s exclusivity in the celebrity/entertainment genre). However, no such move occurred.
The closure of E! did not put an end to Canwest's financial troubles, and the company filed for creditor protection towards the end of 2009. Its broadcasting assets, including CHBC and the other Global O&Os, were eventually auctioned off to Shaw Communications, and became part of the new Shaw Media unit in late 2010. Shaw Media was in turn, acquired by Corus Entertainment on April 1, 2016.
In fall 2010, CTVglobemedia (later renamed Bell Media after its purchase by BCE Inc.) reached a new deal with Comcast to move E! programming back to Star!, which was renamed E! on November 29, 2010. The circumstances under which Canwest/Shaw Media's contract with E! programming ended – that is, whether the deal had expired, or had been cancelled by one or both sides – are unclear.
Subsequent connections
Following their respective sales, CHCH and CHEK both began airing a line-up consisting primarily of rolling news during the daytime hours, and a featured movie each evening. While it is likely that some of the same movies have been aired on both stations, there has been no apparent coordination between the stations in terms of either news coverage or scheduling – that is, the two stations would not typically air the same movie on the same night.
Since September 2010, CHCH, CJNT and CHEK have once again carried some of the same programming on the same date, having each acquired regional rights to various U.S. series, such as Smallville, Supernatural, Everybody Hates Chris, Chuck, Nightline, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 48 Hours Mystery, and selected NBA on ABC season and playoff games, most of which were shed by Sun TV as part of its transition to the Sun News Network. However, the stations retain their existing ownership and branding, and are expected to continue scheduling movies and selling advertising independently. As a result, this does not currently appear to be a revival of the former CH/E! system.
CJNT withdrew from this partnership as of June 4, 2012, due to its pending sale by Channel Zero to Rogers Media, and an associated interim affiliation agreement for CJNT with Rogers' Citytv television system.
Programming
E! aired a number of programs from the U.S. broadcast networks, sharing a library of programs with Global. Initially, it was not uncommon for Global, which was carried in more cities nationwide, to cherry-pick some of CH's hits and air them on the main network. Conversely, Global programs were sometimes sent "down" to CH if two programs aired by Global begin to air simultaneously on separate U.S. networks, so Canwest could maximize its simultaneous substitution opportunities. Following the start of E!, the practice was for the most part abandoned, although such series might be exchanged between the two systems from one season to the next.
Content from the American E! network started to air throughout the system's daytime, late night, and weekend schedule upon its re-branding on September 7, 2007; this was to include Canadian-produced series aired on E! channels internationally, although the extent of this was unclear. E! programming had previously aired on Star! until the launch of E! in Canada. As a result of this change, E! programming was not available in all areas where it could be seen previously, although E! stations were generally available on digital cable, as well as both of Canada's satellite providers. Primetime programming continued to be sourced primarily from the major U.S. broadcast networks.
As CH, local stations (except for CHBC and CFJC) used the "CH" brand throughout the day, titling their newscasts CH News as opposed to using their often well-known call signs. Similar network-based branding practices have been common at most local TV stations in Canada, including the O&Os of Canwest's primary Global network, since the late 1990s. Upon converting to E!, that brand became similarly predominant for most of the broadcast day.
For similar reasons, the E! branding was downplayed somewhat during sports programming such as PGA Tour coverage, when the system's bug was not seen. The bug was, however, used during some shows outside of the "entertainment" genre, such as lifestyle programming aired during the daytime schedule.
News
Local news coverage and other regional programming on the E! stations used the CH News brand. When CH became E!, it reverted to their local branding, such as "CHCH News" in Hamilton, and "CJNT Montreal" for multicultural programming on the Montreal station. Local branding was also used for most local community sponsorships. This decision was made at least partly to avoid confusion with the entertainment news show E! News, but it was likely also intended to ensure that local newscasts were not themselves perceived as celebrity-oriented.
Some E! stations also aired Global's national newscasts Global National though CHCH aired Live @ 5:30 talk show.
E! HD
On April 18, 2008, E! launched a high-definition simulcast of its Ontario station (CHCH). The channel was available on digital cable in many areas, and also via an aerial signal in the Hamilton-Toronto-Buffalo area on CHCH-DT Channel 18. CHCH retains this digital signal under its new ownership. In addition, CHBC, CHEK and CJNT have since converted to digital signals due to the 2011 analogue-to-digital conversion.
E! stations
Owned-and-operated
Note:
1) Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
Affiliates and secondary carriers
E!'s three affiliates were all owned by the Jim Pattison Group as ex-CBC Television affiliates. They nevertheless also adopted the on-air news look of the Canwest E! stations. All three began carrying Citytv programming on September 1, 2009. Many Global stations in markets not served by E!, however, plus other stations not owned by Canwest, also broadcast programs usually seen on the E! system. Those stations include, former private CBC affiliates such as CHEX and CKWS, then CTV affiliate CJBN and the Thunder Bay Television twinstick of CKPR and CHFD as well as Lloydminster twinstick of CKSA and CITL.
Slogans
As CH:
2001: Closer to Home
2001-2005: CH Has It All!
2001-2007: Closer to You!
As E!
2007-2009: Everything Entertainment
See also
2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment
References
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
2001 establishments in Canada
2009 disestablishments in Canada
Defunct television networks in Canada
Former Corus Entertainment networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wille%20and%20the%20Bandits
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Wille and the Bandits
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Wille and the Bandits are a British-based band who play a variety of different genres spanning across the blues, rock, Latin and folk styles. The band currently consists of Wille Edwards, Matthew Gallagher, Harry Mackaill and Tom Gilkes. To date, they have released five studio albums and one live album.
History
Forming in 2010, Wille and The Bandits are band from Cornwall, UK taking their inspiration from a variety of artists such as Pearl Jam, Ben Harper and Jimi Hendrix. Additionally, the band have played at festivals such as Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Greenman, Shambala and Greenbelt. The band was chosen as one of three top unsigned bands in the United Kingdom by the Daily Telegraph. Edwards is sponsored by Anderwood guitars and received his own signature Weissenborn from them.
The band were listed in the top ten must-see bands at Glastonbury 2014 by BBC Radio 1.
Both 2014 and 2015 saw Wille and The Bandits headline multiple shows in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Austria. The band were invited to perform on the German television show, Rockpalast.
Long serving members Matthew Brooks and Andrew Naumann both left the band at the end of 2019 for personal reasons.
Discography
Studio albums
Samsara (EP) 2007
New Breed 2010
Breakfree 2012
Grow 2013
Steal 2017
Paths 2019
When the World Stood Still 2022
Live albums
Live in Gouvy 2013
Members
Wille Edwards – Lead Vocals, Guitar, Weissenborn, Lap Steel, Dobro
Matthew Gallagher – Keyboards, Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Harry Mackaill – Bass
Tom Gilkes – Drums, Percussion
References
External links
Wille and the Bandits Official Site
English blues musical groups
English rock music groups
English folk musical groups
Latin pop music groups
Musicians from Cornwall
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saif%20bin%20Sultan%20II
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Saif bin Sultan II
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Saif bin Sultan II () (c. 1706 – 1743) was the sixth of the Yaruba dynasty of Imams of Oman, a member of the Ibadi sect. He held the position of Imam four times during a chaotic period of civil war and invasion by Persian forces.
Saif bin Sultan II inherited leadership of the country as a child, but was pushed aside in favor of his brother. His brother was deposed, and Saif was again proclaimed Imam, although power was held by a regent who later proclaimed himself Imam. The regent was deposed, Saif was proclaimed Imam again, and after a civil war was again deposed in 1724. Fighting continued, and in 1728 Saif became Imam for the fourth and last time. He was forced to share power with a rival Imam who controlled the interior. A civil war ensued in which the country was divided. Saif bin Sultan II twice called for help from Persia. The first time the Persians looted the towns and caused great destruction before leaving. The second time they set about conquering the country. Saif bin Sultan II was deposed in 1742 and died in 1743.
Puppet ruler
Saif bin Sultan II was aged about twelve when his father, the Imam Sultan bin Saif II, died in 1718.
Although he had been named as successor and was popular among the people, the ulama decided he was too young to hold office and favored his great-uncle Muhanna bin Sultan.
In 1719 Muhanna bin Sultan was brought into Rustaq Fort by stealth and proclaimed Imam.
Muhanna was unpopular, and in 1720 was deposed and killed by his cousin Ya'arub bin Bal'arab.
Ya'arub bin Bal'arab restored Saif bin Sultan II as the Imam and proclaimed himself Custodian.
In May 1722 Ya'Arab took the next step and proclaimed himself Imam.
This caused an uprising led by Bel'arab bin Nasir, a relative by marriage of the deposed Imam.
In 1723 Ya'arub bin Bal'arab was deposed and Bal'arab bin Nasir became the Custodian.
Soon after, Muhammad bin Nasir al Ghafiri led his Nizari tribes in a revolt.
He was opposed by a faction led by Khalf bin Mubarak of the Bani Hina tribe, and therefore called the Hinawi.
Muhammad bin Nasir al Ghafiri gained the upper hand, capturing Saif bin Sultan II and his uncle Bil'arab.
Muhammad bin Nasir was elected Imam in October 1724.
His rival, Khalf bin Mubarak, stirred up trouble among the northern tribes. In an engagement at Sohar in 1728 both Khalf bin Mubarak and Muhammad bin Nasir were killed.
The garrison of Sohar recognized Saif bin Sultan II as Imam, and he was re-installed at Nizwa.
Divided rule
Soon after Saif bin Sultan II had been installed, some of the inhabitants of Az Zahirah elected Saif's cousin Bal'arab bin Himyar as Imam.
From this time the country was divided between the Ghafiri (Sunni) and the Hinawi (Ibadi) factions.
After early clashes, the rival Imams remained armed but avoided hostilities for a few years. Bel'arab controlled most of the interior, and gradually gained the ascendancy on land.
Saif was only supported by the Beni Hina and a few allied tribes, but had the navy and the main seaports of Muscat, Burka and Sohar.
Saif adopted an extravagant lifestyle at his residence in Rustaq, developing a love of Shirazi wine.
With his power dwindling, Saif bin Sultan II eventually asked for help against his rival from Nader Shah of Persia.
A Persian force arrived in March 1737.
Saif bin Sultan joined the Persians. They marched to Az Zahirah where they met and routed the forces of Bal'arab bin Himyar.
The Persians advanced through the interior, capturing towns, killing, looting and taking slaves.
They then reembarked for Persia, taking their loot with them.
For a few years after this Saif bin Sultan II was undisputed ruler, but continued his a self-indulgent life, which turned the tribes against him.
Deposition and death
In February 1742 another member of the Yaruba family was proclaimed Imam, Sultan bin Murshid.
Sultan bin Murshid was installed at Nakhal and began to hound Saif bin Sultan, who again appealed to the Persians for help and promised to cede Sohar to them.
A Persian expedition arrived at Julfar around October 1742.
They besieged Sohar and sent forces to Muscat, but were unable to take either place.
In 1743 Saif was tricked into letting the Persians take Fort Al Jalali and Fort Al-Mirani, which guarded the harbor of Muscat.
He died soon after.
The Imam Sultan bin Murshid was mortally wounded under the walls of Sohar in mid-1743. Bal'arab bin Himyar was elected Imam in his place.
In 1744 Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, governor of the Sohar garrison, was elected as a rival Imam, founding the dynasty that continues to rule Oman.
In 1747 he succeeded in destroying the last Persian force in Oman.
Ahmad bin Said became undisputed ruler of Oman when Bal'arab bin Himyar died in 1749.
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Omani monarchy
Omani imams
Omani Ibadi Muslims
1710s births
1742 deaths
Yaruba dynasty
People from Al-Rustaq
18th-century Arab people
18th-century Omani people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhitsy
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Luzhitsy
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Luzhitsy () is the name of several rural localities in Russia.
Luzhitsy, Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Ust-Luzhskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Kingiseppsky District in Leningrad Oblast
Luzhitsy, Slantsevsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Novoselskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Slantsevsky District in Leningrad Oblast
Luzhitsy, Pskov Oblast, a village in Opochetsky District of Pskov Oblast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Springs%2C%20Colorado
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Iron Springs, Colorado
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Iron Springs, a neighborhood in Manitou Springs, Colorado, was an area named for one of Manitou Mineral Springs. The Manitou area had been frequented by Native Americans who considered it a sacred and healing place before European Americans settled in Manitou.
Iron Springs began to be visited in the 1870s, particularly the Ute Iron Springs. In 1880, a new Iron Springs Hotel was built. Attractions and businesses in Iron Springs included an electric trolley, mineral springs, the Manitou Incline, and the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, a cog railway. The incline was dismantled and is now a hiking trail. Neither the electric trolley or the Colorado Midland Railway are in Iron Springs now. The cog railway continues to operate. Iron Springs was annexed into Manitou Springs in several steps between 1887 and 1934.
Geography
The Iron Springs neighborhood is located in lower Englemann Canyon, along Ruxton Creek. It is the site of trailheads to higher elevations, including the Paul Intemann Memorial Nature Trail and the Barr Trail.
History
Mineral Springs
The Manitou Springs area has several mineral springs, called manitou for the "breath of the Great Spirit Manitou" believed to have created the bubbles, or "effervescence", in the spring water. The springs were considered sacred grounds where Native Americans drank and soaked in the mineral water to replenish and heal themselves. Ute, Arapaho, Cheyenne and other plains tribes came to the area, spent winters there, and "share[d] in the gifts of the waters without worry of conflict." There were 9 or 10 natural springs. As whites moved in there were "skirmishes" for access to the historical resort area until the Native Americans were removed from the area and placed on reservations.
Explorer Stephen Harriman Long made note of the water's healing properties in 1820. His expedition's botanist and geologist, Edwin James, noted the healing benefits of the water; He was also the first European man believed to have climbed Pikes Peak. George Frederick Ruxton wrote of the "boiling waters" in a book about his travels. Recognizing the extent to which Native Americans considered the site to be sacred, Ruxton wrote: "...the basin of the spring (at Manitou) was filled with beads and wampum, and pieces of red cloth and knives, while the surrounding trees were hung with strips of deer skin, cloth and moccosons (sic)."
In the 1870s, there was a pavilion over the Ute Iron Springs, which is thought to be one "strongest of tonics" due to its high iron content. In the early or mid 1880s, Iron Springs Company purchased the spring and built an Adirondack style wood pavilion over the spring. They sold the mineral water commercially until they sold the spring to Joseph G. Hiestand in 1887. In 1890, Joseph G. Heistand had the Ute Iron Springs pavilion torn down and rebuilt as a two-story structure, the second floor was a photographic gallery. The spring in the lower Englemann canyon was near the mouth of the canyon and the Iron Springs Hotel. The Ouray spring was found in 1895 and was established commercially that year.
In 1910, the Iron Geyser on Ruxton Avenue was drilled by Hiestand, to augment the operations of his Ute Iron spring. The springs were owned by Hiestand through his death on January 1, 1916. In the 1920s, William S. Crosby drilled two streams, which combined made a sweet tasting soda water, named Twin Springs.
The current Manitou Mineral Springs on Ruxton Avenue are Iron Spring and Twin Spring. Ute Iron Spring was capped when the Iron Springs Chateau Melodrama Dinner Theater was built in or before 1964.
Hotels
According to a June 1880 advertisement, the Iron Springs Hotel was located very near the Ute Iron Springs and has been entirely rebuilt and decorated with the "handsomest" furnishings. Charles A. Hubert was the proprietor of the hotel. It was burned in July 1882.
In 1884, the large Iron Springs Hotel was built by the Gillis Brothers for the Manitou Iron Springs Company. It was located on Ruxton Avenue at the site of the current Manitou Incline trailhead. The Gillis Brothers also had several cottages built on Ruxton that year. In 1885, the hotel began using a generator, installed by the Edison Incandescent Lighting Company. The power and lighting was tested at the hotel before working on the "lower part of Manitou". That year, the establishment could serve more than 200 people in its hotel and cottages, which had hot and cold running water and steam heat, in addition to electricity. H. T. Blake was the owner of the Iron Springs Hotel in 1887 and at least into 1888.
The hotel was purchased by Major John Hulbert, Jerome B. Wheeler, and M.A. Leddy by January 18, 1890 for about $150,000 ). Their plans include increasing the hotel plant to a building costing $300,000 ). Hiestand was the owner of the hotel by 1900 and at the time of his death in 1916.
The Eggleton offered furnished rooms near the Ute Iron Springs by 1903.
Railways
Construction of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad spur from Colorado Springs to Manitou began in 1880.
In 1886 or 1887, the Colorado Midland Railway operated along Ruxton Creek. The railway offered service between Manitou and Green Mountain Falls through Ute Pass. The route was extended to Leadville and Aspen. Colorado Midland Railway—founded by Irving Howbert, J. J. Hagerman, and Jerome B. Wheeler—helped to make resort communities in Ute Pass successful in the 1890s, but it did not realize great financial success.
In 1891, the Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway had been built along Ruxton Creek and transported passengers to the Pikes Peak summit. The depot was built by the Gillis Brothers. Aside from the addition of a lunchroom, the depot has not changed much from its original building.
In 1895, the Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway electric trolley line provided transportation from Manitou Avenue to the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway depot on Ruxton Avenue on a trolley called the "Dinky".
Historic buildings and attractions
In 1880, a candy and cigar store operated near the Ute Iron Spring. lt was purchased by the Iron Springs Company, who also bought the spring. Joseph G. Heistand collected and stored 40 tons of items, such as stones to be polished and petrified wood, for his store in 1890. The "avid collector of mineral specimens" operated a curio shop near the cog railway station. Days after his death in 1916, his stone collection was described as interesting and valuable. The Iron Springs Chateau Melodrama Theater was built over the capped Ute Iron Spring and began offering dinner theater entertainment in 1964 and continues to do so.
Hiestand and R.D. Weir leased the "new casino" near the Manitou and Pike's Peak Cog Railway depot and the Ute Iron Spring in 1895. They made extensive additions to the existing property, including adding a bowling alley, billiard rooms, dancing floor made of hard maple, and built an additional building. The two buildings were connected by an ornamental bridge on the second stories. It was extravagantly furnished.
A Hydro-Electric Plant was built in 1905 at 540 Ruxton Avenue. It has a formal, modern façade of red brick with two large arched windows with fanlights on the front of the building. The plant, now called the Manitou Hydroelectric plant, is one of two plants that generate electricity for the City of Colorado Springs from water that flows through the Ruxton Creek watershed. The other is the Ruxton Hydroelectric plant. After water has been processed by the hydroelectric plants, it flows to the Mesa water treatment plant.
The Manitou Incline was built in 1907 to support the Hydro-Electric Plant operations. Materials were transported uphill to build pipelines on Pikes Peak. When the construction project was completed, the trail was converted to a cable car attraction to take visitors to the top of Mount Manitou, where there was a picnic area and refreshment stand. In 1990, the track was damaged during a rock slide and the incline was closed and the rails removed. In 2013, it was opened as a one mile hiking trail, with a ascent.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, located at 218 Ruxton Avenue, was built in 1889. The church was destroyed in a fire in 1903, and rebuilt within three months. The church is now a small Gothic and Shingle style church, with a greenstone bridge that crosses over Ruxton Creek.
Annexation
The road up Ruxton Creek (Ruxton Avenue) was annexed to Iron Springs in September 1880. Portions of Iron Springs were annexed to Manitou in February 1887, August 1893, and May 1934.
Notes
References
External links
Rail junctions in the United States
Manitou Springs, Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20W.%20Whipple
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Charles W. Whipple
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Charles W. Whipple (1805, Fort Wayne, Indiana – January 1856) was an American attorney, politician who served as Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, and chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He was the secretary of the Michigan constitutional convention of 1835 and a delegate to the convention of 1850. Further, Whipple served as secretary of the second session of the Sixth Legislative Council.
Whipple's father, Major John Whipple, was an officer during the War of 1812 and served under Mad Anthony Wayne.
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1805 births
1856 deaths
Delegates to the 1850 Michigan Constitutional Convention
Speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Chief Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court
Politicians from Fort Wayne, Indiana
United States Military Academy alumni
Regents of the University of Michigan
19th-century American judges
19th-century American politicians
Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnlands%20Lebensraum
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Finnlands Lebensraum
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Finnlands Lebensraum is a 1941 Finnish propaganda book that was published to support the Greater Finland ideology. It was written by the geographer Väinö Auer, the historian Eino Jutikkala and the ethnographer Kustaa Vilkuna, who worked for the Finnish state propaganda and information department. Nazi ideas were later added to the script by Yrjö von Grönhagen, a Finnish military attaché in Berlin.
The idea of the book was to demonstrate scientifically that East Karelia and Ingermanland are natural parts of Finland by their geography, history and culture and to legitimise their integration into Finland after the German victory in the Second World War. The new eastern border of Finland was defined to begin from the Gulf of Finland and run via lakes Ladoga and Onega to Onega Bay in the White Sea. An unpublished adaptation of the book also featured the residential areas of Finnic Kvens in the Norwegian county of Finnmark.
The original title of Finnlands Lebensraum was Das geographische und geschichtliche Finnland ("The Geographic and Historic Finland"), but it was changed by the German publisher to fit more into Nazi ideology.
See also
Lebensraum
References
External links
Finnlands Lebensraum at the Finnish National Bibliography Fennica
1941 non-fiction books
Propaganda books and pamphlets
Finnish non-fiction books
Finland–Soviet Union relations
German-language works
Nazism
Finnish irredentism
Nazi propaganda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Rubin
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Sean Rubin
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Sean Rubin is an American illustrator and author of children's books.
Rubin is known for writing and illustrating the children's book Bolivar. He also illustrated some of the Redwall and Mouse Guard books.
Rubin was born in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Bolivar
Bolivar is about Bolivar the dinosaur and his young neighbour Sybil in New York City.
Rubin began work on Bolivar in 2003, commencing illustration work in 2011. Published by Archaia in 2017, Bolivar was named an NY Public Libraries Best Book of 2017, and was also nominated for an Eisner Award.
In April 2018 it was announced Bolivar was acquired by Fox, 21 Laps Entertainment and Boom! Studios to be adapted into a feature film.
This Very Tree
In 2021 Rubin wrote and illustrated This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth.
Published by Pan Macmillan, the book narrates the life of the Callery Pear nicknamed the "Survivor Tree", discovered at Ground Zero following the September 11 attacks in New York.
Awards
Rubin and author Susan Kusel won the Sydney Taylor Book Award in 2022 for their book The Passover Guest, a retelling of the I.L. Peretz story. It was published by Neal Porter Books in 2021.
References
External links
Sean Rubin's blog
American illustrators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock%20Matheson
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Brock Matheson
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Brock Matheson (born May 28, 1987) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
Born in Gananoque, Ontario, Matheson played junior hockey in Ottawa with the Kanata Stallions. Matheson then played with the Union College Dutchmen until 2011. At the end of the 2010–11 season, he made his professional debut with two games with the Binghamton Senators. The following season, Matheson played with the Stockton Thunder of the ECHL and a few games with the Rochester Americans. He then left North America to play for the Belfast Giants in the Elite Ice Hockey League. In 2013, he signed with the Friesland Flyers of Netherlands' Eredivisie league.
References
External links
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Belfast Giants players
Stockton Thunder players
Binghamton Senators players
1987 births
Living people
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the Netherlands
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Northern Ireland
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Ice hockey people from Ontario
People from Leeds and Grenville United Counties
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20A.%20Budson
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Victoria A. Budson
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Victoria A. Budson is the founding executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. WAPPP closes gender gaps in economic opportunity, political participation, health and education by creating knowledge, training leaders and informing public policy and organizational practices. Budson founded and chairs "From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: A Political Campaign Practicum", a non-partisan initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program that provides a group of Harvard graduate students with the training and support they need to ascend in the electoral process at the local, state and national levels.
Biography
Budson graduated magna cum laude and with Departmental Honors from Wellesley College with a joint degree in Sociology and Women's Studies. As a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration Program, she received the Lucius N. Littauer Fellow award for her distinction in academics at the Kennedy School, her contribution to the Kennedy School and the greater Harvard community, and her potential for continuing leadership excellence. For her work in closing gender gaps, Victoria was named one of CNN's "Ten Visionary Women" and a member of Boston Magazine's "Power Class".
Budson serves as chairwoman of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, to which she was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. The commission is an independent state agency created in 1998 to advance Massachusetts women to full equality in all areas of life and promote their rights and opportunities. The commission is made up of 19 members who are appointed by the governor, Senate president, speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Caucus of Women Legislators. Budson is an appointed member of the Boston Mayoral Women's Workforce Council, the first of its kind in the country, that makes recommendations on policy and workplace proposals to help women in the workforce. Budson is also a member of the Women in Public Service Project Institute Planning Committee. The Project, an initiative founded by the Seven Sisters Colleges Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, aims to educate a new generation of women committed to public service, create an infrastructure of support and mentoring, and help enable more women to enter public service and political leadership. Before coming to Harvard, Budson was the Political and Community Affairs Director for Steve Grossman. Budson has also worked extensively in Massachusetts’ politics, both as an activist and an elected official on the state and local levels.
Budson is a frequent commentator for news publications, television, and radio programs. Recently, she has participated in discussions on pay discrimination in the workplace at the Center for American Progress and the White House Working Families Summit. Her other appearances include: New York Times, USA Today, the Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, and National Public Radio.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Wellesley College alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaugondy%20Island
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Vaugondy Island
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Vaugondy Island (, ) is a mostly ice-covered island on the northeast side of Johannessen Harbour in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature extends 1.85 km in north-south direction and 1.68 km in east-west.
The island is named after the French cartographer Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786) who published a map of the south polar region in 1777.
Location
Vaugondy Island is located 2.78 km west-southwest of Trundle Island, 1.1 km northwest of Jingle Island, 2.08 km east of Animas Island and 3.4 km south of Ribnik Island. British mapping in 1971.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Vaugondy Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Vaugondy Island. Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs%C3%ADk%20%28disambiguation%29
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Csík (disambiguation)
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Csík may refer to:
Csík County, part of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1876 to 1918
and to several places in Harghita County, Romania, that have the prefix as part of their Hungarian-language name:
Bancu (Csíkbánkfalva), a village in Ciucsângeorgiu Commune
Bârzava (Csíkborzsova), a village in Frumoasa Commune
Ciceu (Csíkcsicsó), a commune
Şoimeni (Csíkcsomortán), a village in Păuleni-Ciuc Commune
Ciucani (Csíkcsekefalva), a village in Sânmartin Commune
Dănești (Csíkdánfalva), a commune
Delniţa (Csíkdelne), a village in Păuleni-Ciuc Commune
Ineu (Csíkjenőfalva), a village in Cârța Commune
Cârța (Csíkkarcfalva), a commune
Cozmeni (Csíkkozmás), a commune
Mădăraș (Csíkmadaras), a commune
Siculeni (Csíkmadéfalva until 1899), a commune
Armăşeni (Csíkménaság), a village in Ciucsângeorgiu Commune
Leliceni (Csíkszentlélek), a commune
Păuleni-Ciuc (Csíkpálfalva), a commune
Racu (Csíkrákos), a commune
Șumuleu Ciuc (Csíksomlyó), a neighborhood in Miercurea Ciuc city
Tomești (Csíkszenttamás), a commune
Ciucsângeorgiu (Csíkszentgyörgy), a commune
Sântimbru (Csíkszentimre), a commune
Sâncrăieni (Csíkszentkirály), a commune
Leliceni (Csíkszentlélek), a commune
Nicoleşti (Csíkszentmiklós), a village in Frumoasa Commune
Mihăileni (Csíkszentmihály), a commune
Sânmartin (Csíkszentmárton), a commune
Sânsimion (Csíkszentsimon), a commune
Tomești (Csíkszenttamás), a commune
Frumoasa (Csíkszépvíz), a commune
Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda), a city and the county seat
Vrabia (Csíkverebes), a village in Tușnad Commune
Jigodin (Csíkzsögöd), part of Jigodin-Băi village in Miercurea Ciuc city
(In the Kingdom of Hungary, these were all part of Csíkszék, a Székely "seat" or settlement merged into Csík County in 1876.)
and to:
Vărgata (Csíkfalva), a commune in Mureș County, Romania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy%20ON%20115
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Convoy ON 115
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Convoy ON 115 was a trade convoy of 43 merchant ships with 12 escort ships during the Second World War. The convoy departed Liverpool on 24 July 1942 and arrived at Boston on 8 August. Three ships were lost to U-boats during the crossing and two were damaged.
Name
It was the 115th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America.
Action
The ships departed Liverpool on 24 July 1942 and were joined on 25 July by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group C-3. They were found on 29 July by the seven U-boats of Wolfpack Wolf. Six U-boats formed Wolfpack Pirat on 1 August and reached the convoy on 2 August. Three ships were sunk before contact was lost in misty weather on 3 August. Surviving ships reached Boston on 8 August.
Ships in the convoy
References
Bibliography
External links
ON.115 at convoyweb
ON115
Naval battles of World War II involving Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zef%20Pllumi
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Zef Pllumi
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Zef Pllumi (28 August 1924 – 25 September 2007) was an Albanian Franciscan priest and memoirist. After 26 years in communist prisons he wrote the non-fiction works Live To Tell, A True Story of Religious Persecution in Albania (), also known as the Albanian gulag archipelago, The Great Franciscans (), The Book of Memories (1944–1951) ().
Life
Zef Pllumi was born as Prenka Pllumi on 28 August 1924, in the Mali i Rencit, Shëngjin, in a family of Shkreli origin. As he says in his autobiographical book My infancy saga, his mother Luke Mrija gave birth to him in a field.
In his early years, in Qafë of Tëthores (located in Bogë, on the Shkreli mountains), he met Gjergj Fishta and Anton Harapi, who would come to meet through his uncle Pashko Toma. In one of those meetings, Pashko told Harapi that the little boy wanted to become a friar. Father Harapi gave him a medallion of Saint Francis that he was wearing around his neck and told Pllumi to conserve it with a lot of care and present it one day at the Franciscan College of Scutari, where he would later pursue his studies as a young friar.
In 1929, five-year-old Pllumi became the pupil of Alfons Tracki (1896–1946), a German missionary in Velipojë. In 1931 he entered the Franciscan College of Shkodër, where the main teachers were personalities of Catholic Albania's religious and cultural life, such as Gjergj Fishta, Anton Harapi, Martin Gjoka, Marin Sirdani and Gjon Shllaku. Pllumi graduated in 1944 with a classical education. In 1943–4 Pllumi, still in school, was one of the collaborators of the Hylli i Dritës magazine, and the personal secretary of Anton Harapi, provincial of the Franciscans in Albania. During this time Pllumi assisted in the Franciscan Archives.
At age 22, on 14 December 1946, Pllumi was arrested by the communist regime and was condemned to three years of imprisonment, first at the Big Prison of Shkodër and then in the camps of Beden, located in the Myzeqe plain, and in Orman-Pojanit, located in Maliq. After three years he returned to his family in Shkodër. He was accused of being the personal secretary of Anton Harapi.
Pllumi returned in the Franciscan Convent and during 1949–1951 became a technician of nusmatics within the Museum of Shkodër. In 1956 he was ordained as a priest and served for the following 12 years as the priest of Shosh, Dukagjin.
In 1967 Pllumi was again arrested and had to serve jail for an additional 23 years in different prisons in Spaç, Reps, Skrofotinë of Vlorë, Ballsh, Zejmen-Shënkoll and Tiranë. In prison he met with notable political prisoners, such as Gjin Marku, Kasëm Trebeshina, Zef Mala, and Dashnor Mamaqi.
After release from prison
On 11 April 1989 he was released from prison and he served as a priest at the Church of Saint Anthony in Tirana until 1997.
He met with Mother Teresa when she went to Albania and, from 1993 until 1997, he started to republish the magazine Hylli i Dritës, which after a six-year pause was republished in 2003. During the 1990s he published the trilogy Rrno vetëm për me tregue, Françeskanët e mëdhenj, Frati i pashallarëve Bushatli, Erazmo Balneo, and Ut heri diçebamus-siç i thonim dje.
He found the relics of Father Gjergj Fishta and republished the works of the Franciscans of Albania.
Pllumi died on 25 September 2007 in the Gemelli hospital in Rome, Italy, and was buried on 30 September 2007 in Shkodër.
Recognition
In 2006 Alfred Moisiu, then president of Albania decorated Pllumi with the Order Nderi i Kombit. He also received the literary prize The Golden Pen from the Ministry of Education of Albania for his trilogy.
Works
Rrno vetëm për me tregue
Françeskanët e mëdhaj – memories on the e Padres rreth Etënve duke rreshtue 12 prej tyne, si apostujt.
Frati i pashallarëve Bushatli, Erazmo Balneo – shkruem mbi bazën e një ditari të 1802 që Át Zefi ka lexue kur punonte në Arkivin Françeskan.
Histori kurrë e shkrueme
Saga e fëmijnisë – work on his early childhood.
Ut heri diçebamus-siç i thonim dje
References
Prisoners and detainees of Albania
People from Lezhë
Malsorë
Albanian memoirists
Albanian Franciscans
Albanian dissidents
1924 births
2007 deaths
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20th-century memoirists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%20Smith%20%28baseball%29
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Carson Smith (baseball)
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Carson Donald Smith (born October 19, 1989) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox. Listed at and , he both bats and throws right-handed.
Amateur career
Smith attended Midland Christian High School in Midland, Texas. He then enrolled at Grayson County College, where he began his college baseball career. After Smith's freshman year, he transferred to Texas State University, where he played for the Texas State Bobcats baseball team. He was named Southland Conference Pitcher of the Year as a sophomore and a junior, and a second team All-American by Louisville Slugger as a junior.
Professional career
Minor League Baseball
The Seattle Mariners selected Smith in the eighth round of the 2011 MLB Draft, with the 243rd overall pick. Smith pitched for the High Desert Mavericks of the Class A-Advanced California League in 2012, and the Jackson Generals of the Double-A Southern League in 2013. After the 2013 season, the Mariners assigned Smith to the Arizona Fall League, and he was named to appear in the Fall Stars Game. In 2014, Smith pitched for the Tacoma Rainiers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League.
Seattle Mariners (2014–2015)
The Mariners promoted Smith to the major leagues on September 1, 2014. He faced one batter that day, retiring Josh Donaldson of the Oakland Athletics on a ground out. Smith made a total of nine appearances for the Mariners in September; he did not allow a run in innings pitched, while recording ten strikeouts and issuing three walks.
Pitching for Seattle in 2015, Smith did not allow a run in his first 11 appearances of the season. This set a Mariners' record of 20 pitching appearances without allowing a run to start an MLB career. Smith finally allowed a run on May 3, his 21st MLB appearance, giving up a solo home run to Evan Gattis of the Houston Astros. Smith became the Mariners' closer in June due to Fernando Rodney's struggles during the season. For the season, Smith appeared in 70 Mariners games, compiling a 2.31 earned run average (ERA) while recording 13 saves; in 70 innings pitched, he had 92 strikeouts and issued 22 walks.
Boston Red Sox (2016–2018)
On December 7, 2015, the Mariners traded Smith and Roenis Elías to the Boston Red Sox for Wade Miley and Jonathan Aro.
On March 22, 2016, while pitching in spring training against the Miami Marlins, Smith was removed from the game after throwing five pitches during the 7th inning due to tightness in his right forearm. He was diagnosed with a flexor mass muscle strain after undergoing an MRI scan. Smith made three appearances for the Red Sox during the regular season, pitching scoreless innings in May while striking out two and walking one before landing back on the disabled list on May 20 with an elbow injury. He then underwent Tommy John surgery, ending his season. His return was not expected until June 2017.
After more than a year recovering from surgery, Smith was sent on rehabilitation assignments in August 2017 with the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs and Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox. He was then activated from the 60-day disabled list on September 5, 2017. He appeared in eight regular season games for Boston during September, giving up one run in innings pitched (1.35 ERA) while striking out seven and walking two. On September 18, 2017, Smith picked up his only save as a member of the Red Sox during an extra inning victory over the Orioles.
Smith was included on Boston's postseason roster for the 2017 American League Division Series. He made two appearances during the series, pitching innings of scoreless relief, striking out one and walking two, as Boston lost to the eventual World Series champions, the Houston Astros.
Smith entered the 2018 season as a member of the Red Sox' bullpen. On May 15, he was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a right shoulder subluxation. The injury occurred when Smith, in reaction to allowing a home run to Khris Davis of the Oakland Athletics in the prior day's game, threw his glove in the dugout out of frustration. Prior to being placed on the disabled list, Smith had made 18 appearances with a 1–1 record and 3.77 ERA. On June 12, it was revealed that Smith would require surgery for his shoulder injury, likely putting him out of action for the remainder of the year. The procedure was performed on June 13. The Red Sox outrighted him to the minors on November 1, 2018, and he chose to become a free agent.
On December 30, 2018, Smith re-signed to a minor league deal with the Red Sox. He began with 2019 season on the injured list of Triple-A Pawtucket. Smith was released on June 18, 2019, without appearing in a game due to his ongoing recovery from shoulder surgery.
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External links
1989 births
Living people
Baseball players from Dallas
Major League Baseball pitchers
Seattle Mariners players
Boston Red Sox players
Grayson Vikings baseball players
Texas State Bobcats baseball players
High Desert Mavericks players
Jackson Generals (Southern League) players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Peoria Javelinas players
Portland Sea Dogs players
Sportspeople from Midland, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Carpet%20from%20Bagdad
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The Carpet from Bagdad
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The Carpet from Bagdad is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Colin Campbell and based on Harold MacGrath's 1911 eponymous novel. In the story, Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its Baghdad mosque. He sells the carpet to antique dealer George Jones (Wheeler Oakman) to fund the robbery scheme. But the theft places both men and Fortune Chedsoye (Kathlyn Williams), the innocent daughter of another conspirator, in danger from the carpet's guardian.
Marketing for the film included a media tour of part of the set and an invitation-only screening sponsored by the publisher of MacGrath's book. The Carpet from Bagdad was released on May 3, 1915 to mostly positive reviews. Many praised the tinted desert scenes and realistic Middle East imagery, although some felt the scenery overshadowed the characters. The film is now mostly lost, although one badly damaged reel was salvaged from the RMS Lusitania in 1982.
Plot
Horace Wadsworth, disinherited brother of New York banker Arthur Wadsworth, joins a gang of international criminals. He plots to rob his brother's bank by constructing a tunnel from the nearby home of antique dealer George Jones, who is currently on a trip to Cairo to purchase antique rugs. Horace follows him there, and, learning of the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad, joins the caravan of its sworn guardian, Mohamed. Meanwhile, Horace's confederates Major Callahan and Mrs. Chedsoye arrive in Cairo along with Mrs. Chedsoye's daughter, Fortune, who is unaware of her mother's illicit activities.
When the criminals meet with Jones in Cairo, Jones becomes enamored of Fortune. Horace steals the Sacred Carpet from Mohamed's mosque and sells it to Jones to fund the robbery plan. Fortune, becoming suspicious of her mother and the surrounding events, steals the prayer rug from Jones and hides it in her mother's effects. Unable to locate the stolen carpet, Mohamed kidnaps Horace, Jones, and Fortune. Meanwhile, Mrs. Chedsoye and Major Callahan return to New York, where a fourth member of the conspiracy, Wallace, has acquired forged paperwork to gain access to the Jones residence.
The captives escape from Mohamed's planned torture and flee to Damascus. Horace immediately returns to New York to rejoin his compatriots. Fortune and Jones, who have fallen in love, also travel back to New York. Once there, Jones learns of the forgery, and returns home to confront the gang, who still have the Sacred Carpet and who have completed their tunnel into the vaults of Arthur Wadsworth's bank. Sympathetic to Horace after their shared experiences, Jones offers the robbers a two-hour lead before he notifies the police, but keeps the prayer rug. Meanwhile, Mohamed resigns himself to the loss of the carpet.
Cast
Kathlyn Williams as Fortune Chedsoye
Wheeler Oakman as George P.A. Jones
Guy Oliver as Horace Wadsworth
Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. Chedsoye
Frank Clark as Major Callahan
Charles Clary as Mohamed
Harry Lonsdale as Arthur Wadsworth
Fred Huntley as Wallace
Production and marketing
The Carpet from Bagdad is a film adaptation of Harold MacGrath's 1911 novel of the same name. MacGrath was a well-traveled, successful author of over a dozen novels. Stories with Asian settings were in vogue at the time, and both The Carpet from Bagdad and the Selig Polyscope Company's previous adaptation of MacGrath's work, the popular serial The Adventures of Kathlyn, are set in part in the Near East.
Director Colin Campbell was concerned with the film's realism. He had sets constructed to represent the streets of Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus, and used animals from the Selig Zoo. Scenes set in the Arabian and Sahara Deserts were filmed in the deserts of California. The Arab characters' clothing was genuine, and the actors portraying those roles were required to remain dressed in-character throughout the several days of desert filming to ensure they would appear more natural in the imported garments. Much of the film, including the desert scenes, was hand tinted. Production costs exceeded $35,000, the equivalent of over $ in present-day terms.
William Selig aggressively promoted his studio and its films. One such promotion, a March 1915 media tour of the unfinished Selig Zoo, allowed reporters a visit to The Carpet from Bagdad'''s bazaar set. This was the first film distributed by V-L-S-E, a conglomerate created by Vitagraph Studios, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Selig Polyscope Company, and Essanay Studios. The film was also screened in a special invitation-only showing at the art gallery of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, publisher of MacGrath's novel, an early example of a sponsored exhibition of a feature film in a location other than a theater.
ReceptionThe Carpet from Bagdad was released on May 3, 1915, to generally positive reviews. Variety described it as a more interesting film than its title might imply, with "perfect direction and faultless acting". Peter Milne of Motion Picture News approved of Campbell's attention to detail and realism. The Moving Picture World's James McQuade praised the film's acting and special effects. Although he believed an unfilmed Cairo scene made Mohamed's motivations easier to understand in the novel, he considered the film a "close second" to Campbell's 1914 The Spoilers. Clarence Caine's review in Motography also compared The Carpet from Bagdad favorably to The Spoilers, but he viewed the film's color as its best feature, especially the closing scene of a desert sunset. Several newspaper reviews also complimented the tinted desert scenes, with New Zealand's The Levin Chronicle describing the film as "a gem of the cinematographer's art" for its use of color. The Chicago Daily Tribune offered a more mixed opinion on the film; reviewer Kitty Kelly found it difficult to care about characters "overshadowed by environment", and considered the 35-year-old Williams unconvincing as an ingenue.
Despite the acclaim from many contemporary reviewers, modern scholars of the silent film era would not consider The Carpet from Bagdad a masterpiece, according to the British Film Institute's Clyde Jeavons.
Partial rediscovery
Like many films from the silent era, The Carpet from Bagdad was believed completely lost, but in 1982 an Oceaneering International diving expedition salvaged a number of artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Lusitania, including one reel of film. With the assistance of BBC technical advisor Laurie Ward, the BFI National Archive was able to recover images from several feet of the film, sufficient to identify the title, but not to restore any of the film to projectable condition. Although there was a theater on Lusitania, this print of The Carpet from Bagdad'' was probably being taken to London as a film distributor's preview, as was the case for several other films known to have been on board.
See also
List of incomplete or partially lost films
References
Bibliography
External links
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Colin Campbell
Lost American adventure films
1915 films
Selig Polyscope Company films
1915 adventure films
Silent American adventure films
Films set in the Middle East
1915 lost films
1910s American films
English-language adventure films
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National Taitung University
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The National Taitung University (NTTU; ) is a national university in Taitung City, Taitung County, Taiwan.
NTTU offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs in fields such as Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, and Tourism Management.
History
NTTU was originally established in 1948 as Taiwan Provincial Taitung Teachers’ School. In 1969, it was upgraded to Taiwan Provincial Taitung Teachers’ Junior College, to Taiwan Provincial Taitung Teachers’ College in 1987 then to National Taitung Teachers’ College in 1991. Finally in 2003 it was upgraded to National Taitung University.
Colleges
College of Humanities
Graduate Institute of Children's Literature
Department of Somatics and Sport Leisure Industry
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Department of Art Industry
Department of Music
English Department
Department of Public and Cultural Affairs
Language Center
Teachers' College
Department of Education
Department of Physical Education
Department of Early Childhood Education
Department of Special Education
Department of Education Industry and Digital Media
Department of Cultural Resources and Leisure Studies
Bachelor's Program for Athletic Performance
Special Education Center
Science Education Center
College of Science and Engineering
Department of Applied Science
Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Department of Information Science and Management Systems
Department of Life Science
Center for General Education
Center for Teacher Education and Professional Advancement
Center for Austronesian Culture
Library
The National Taitung University Library and Information Center is the current university library and was inaugurated on 8 December 2014.
Transportation
The main campus of the university is located north of the Zhiben Station of the Taiwan Railways. The Taitung City campus is located near the Taitung Station.
See also
List of universities in Taiwan
Huang Ching-ya,alumna
References
External links
Universities and colleges established in 1948
1948 establishments in Taiwan
Universities and colleges in Taitung County
Technical universities and colleges in Taiwan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidia%20Hospital
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Hamidia Hospital
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Hamidia Hospital is a multispeciality tertiary care teaching hospital in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It was earlier known as Prince of Wales King Edwards Memorial Hospital for Men. It is affiliated to Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, in the capital of Madhya Pradesh.
History
Before 1927, it was a small hospital with 25 beds in a building which now houses the city Kotwali. During the next 22 years the bed strength of this hospital was gradually increased. It was shifted to its present venue in the same period. In 1949, before the merger of the Bhopal State, the Hamidia Hospital had 175 beds. The year 1953 saw further extension in the Hamidia Hospital, when the present building inside the Fort Fatehgath was occupied. In 1956 a new three-storeyed surgical wing with two modern operation theatres and a new three-storeyed Medical Ward were added. Since the construction of these new hospitals the bed count was raised to 525.
Hamidia Hospital played a crucial role in emergency response and care after the Bhopal disaster.
Expansion Plans
The latest expansion plan for Hamidia aims to create a state-of-the-art multi-speciality "Smart Medi-City" with 2000 beds, a medical college with the intake of 250, and residential quarters for the staff. Designed as a LEED Platinum Green rated complex, Hamidia overlooks the magnificent Grand Lake and has been designed around several notable historical and religious buildings within this precinct, all of which are integral to the urban fabric of the area.
References
Hospitals in Madhya Pradesh
Buildings and structures in Bhopal
Year of establishment missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Texas%20League
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North Texas League
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The North Texas League was a Class D level minor baseball league that played during the 1905 and 1907 seasons. The league featured teams based in Arkansas and Texas.
History
The 1905 North Texas League consisted of four charter teams, initially all from Texas. They were the Paris Parasites, of Paris, the Greenville Midlands of Greenville, an un-nicknamed team from Clarksville and an un-nicknamed team from Texarkana. Partway through the year, the Paris club moved to Hope, Arkansas, making it the only non-Texas city to be represented in the league. Clarksville disbanded on July 21 after going 34–42, while Texarcana - with a 36–46 record - disbanded on August 2, forcing the league to disband on August 6, 1905. The Parasites finished first in the league with a 48–32 record, while the Midlands had a 41–40 record. Dode Criss and Clyde Milan played in the league that year.
The North Texas League did not play in 1906.
Reformed in 1907, the North Texas League featured the Corsicana Oilers/Desperados of Corsicana, Paris Athletics, Greenville Hunters and Terrell Red Stockings of Terrell. Corsicana finished first in the league with a 38–21 record, while Paris was 36–23, Greenville was 24–35 and Terrell was 18–38. Greenville folded on June 28, 1907, causing the league to cease operations on June 30, 1907. Notable players include Hippo Vaughn. and Bill Yohe.
Cities represented
Clarksville, TX: Clarksville 1905
Corsicana, TX: Corsicana Oilers / Corsicana Desperados 1907
Greenville, TX: Greenville Midlands 1905; Greenville Hunters 1907
Hope, AR: Hope 1905
Paris, TX: Paris Parisites 1905; Paris Athletics 1907
Terrell, TX: Terrell Red Stockings 1907
Texarkana, TX: Texarkana 1905
Standings & statistics
1905 North Texas League
Paris (5–2) in the second half, moved to Hope July 20;Clarksville disbanded July 31;Texarcana disbanded August 2, causing the league to disband August 6.
1907 North Texas League
schedule
Greenville disbanded June 28, causing the league to disband June 30.
References
Defunct minor baseball leagues in the United States
Baseball leagues in Texas
Sports leagues established in 1905
1905 establishments in Texas
1907 disestablishments in Texas
Sports leagues disestablished in 1907
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20%28high-speed%20camera%20brand%29
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Phantom (high-speed camera brand)
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Phantom is Vision Research's brand of high-speed video cameras.
The Phantom TMX 7510 is currently the company's fastest camera as of November 2022. It can record video at up to 76,000 frames per second (fps) at its max resolution of 1280x800, and can record at 1,750,000 frames per second at a resolution of 1280 x 32, or in binned mode with a resolution of 640 x 64.
The Phantom v2512, the company's fastest camera as of August 2018, can record video at over 25,000 at its full one megapixel resolution, and up to one million frames per second at a reduced resolution of 256 x 32 pixels. The Phantom v2640 records 6,600 fps at its full resolution of four megapixels, and 12,500 fps at full HD resolution.
Fox Network uses the Phantom cameras to provide slow-motion replays in live sports broadcasts.
See also
The Slow Mo Guys
References
External links
Phantom High Speed website
High-speed cameras
Digital movie cameras
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20management
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Media management
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Media management is a business administration discipline that identifies and describes strategic and operational phenomena and problems in the leadership of media enterprises. Media management contains the functions strategic management, procurement management, production management, organizational management and marketing of media enterprises.
A uniform definition of the term media management does not yet exist, and "the field of media management in its present form is neither clearly defined nor cohesive."
Notwithstanding this fact, among existing definitions there is a shared base concerning the business administrative character of media management and the functional understanding of management. In the following a number of definitions are provided.
"Media Management consists of (1) the ability to supervise and motivate employees and (2) the ability to operate facilities and resources in a cost-effective (profitable) manner."
"The core task of media management is to build a bridge between the general theoretical disciplines of management and the specifities of the media industry."
"Media and internet management covers all the goal-oriented activities of planning, organization and control within the framework of the creation and distribution processes for information or entertainment content in media enterprises."
Media enterprises and media markets
Media enterprises are strategically organized economic entities whose central work is generating and marketing of media. The generation of media is the bundling of internally and externally generated content and its transformation into a medium. The marketing is the direct or indirect distribution of media. The term media in this connection is restricted to one-to-many-communication with one sender and a large number of consumers. More precisely, the focus is on newspapers, magazines, books, music, television, films, internet and games. More details can be drawn from the graphic illustrating the definition of media enterprises.
In order to understand management in media enterprises it is crucial to build a larger picture of the media marketplace. The characteristics of media markets differ from markets of other economic sectors in several ways.
One characteristic of media markets is the multidimensional competition. Media enterprises operate in three different markets. They sell their services in form of content like information and entertainment, as well as in form of advertising space. These services are offered for different business markets. The content is offered to the consumer markets which differ depending on the type of media and the way it is used by consumers. The advertising spaces are traded on advertisement markets.
The third markets are procurement markets. They are needed as media enterprises generally do not produce all their offered content themselves but buy service packages of both, information and entertainment, from procurement markets. For example, authors and artists contracts or license and copyright deals can be acquired. But procurement markets can turn to business markets if, for example, complete rights to an event are purchased and then resold by a media enterprise in the form of secondary utilization rights. The described market structure is shown in the second image.
In fact, the three described media markets each media enterprise can be active in are strongly interdependent. But the intensity of their relationships differs. For example, there is a strong relationship between advertisement and consumer markets as the success among consumers drives advertising revenues. All possible inter-dependencies are pictured in the third graphic.
Furthermore, there are geographic media markets. Media enterprises operate in specific geographic markets. Some firms operate in a national market while other companies, for example, local radio stations operate in a regional area. So the marketplace of a media enterprise consists of the product media markets (consumer market, advertisement market and procurement market) and the geographic media market.
Value chain and core competencies
The value chain analysis by Michael Porter
can be adapted for the analysis of value creation in media enterprises. Although the media sector is very heterogeneous and has different branch-specific features, the presented value chain of the media industry form the basic principles.
As for business companies in general, for media enterprises their core assets and core competencies are decisive for the long-term success. Core competencies considerably contribute to the perceived customer benefit of a product and ensure the competitive advantage of an enterprise. Competencies which are crucial to successful media management can be classified as technical skills, human skills, conceptual skills, financial skills and marketing skills. Core competencies of media enterprises are, for example, an exceptional editorial ability or cross-media marketing competence. There are six subgroups of core competencies of media enterprises: content-sourcing competence, content-creation competence, product development competence, promotion competence, cross-media utilization competence and technology competence.
The content-sourcing competence means acquisition of high-quality information and/or entertainment content for content production. Especially the production of exclusive content leads to unique competitive advantage. Content-creation competence is one of the most important core competences in most media enterprises. Media enterprises with content-creation competences are, for example, especially good at realizing social trends and implementing them into their media products, making them highly attractive for the customers. The product development competence is the qualification for a product portfolio with a steady flow of revenues. In order to achieve this, media enterprises have to be able to develop promising media products and to assess their marketability. The promotion competence is specifically relevant for media products belonging to the film, book or music categories as these are individual products. Here a different promotion strategy than promotion of brand identity is needed. Achieving public attention and thus a better market position for media products constitutes the promotion competence. Media enterprises with cross-media utilization competences can provide content to the recipients in a timely manner, in the desired amount and via the right channel. Finally the technology competence refers to the employment of modern information and communication technology for the creation and marketing of content.
Core competences form the foundation for the strategy formation process in media enterprises. For their future success, the media enterprises have to analyze the current competence basis and compare them with the required, strategically important, core competences derived from an external market analysis. There is a range of different influences on the media management decisions and actions that have to be included in the external market analysis. The influences are "the licensee, competing media, the government, the labor force, the labor unions, the public, and advertisers, economic activity, the industry, social factor and technology." In case some strategically important core competencies are not yet acquired by the media enterprise, they have to be developed.
Business models
The concept of the business model is not used uniformly in the literature. Compared to the concept of the value chain, it is not limited to a physical production process. It also includes service processes. According to Timmers, "a business model is defined as the organization (or architecture) of product, service and information flows, and the sources of revenues and benefits for suppliers and customers." According to Wirtz, "a business model is a simplified and aggregated representation of the relevant activities of a company. It describes how marketable information, products and/or services are generated by means of a company's value-added component. In addition to the architecture of value creation, strategic as well as customer and market components are considered in order to realize the overriding objective of generating and preserving a competitive advantage." The business model as an integrated management tool consists of further partial models: the revenue model, the consumer model, the procurement model, the production of goods and services model, the service offer model and the distribution model. Because a business model can strongly vary depending on the type of business, it can best be described using a sample. In the following the business model of a book publishing house is presented.
Book publishers are companies that have two components to consider: profit-orientation and a cultural dimension. They usually publish titles which are produced by external authors. The sales of books in the receiver markets are the main part of the revenue model of a book publisher. Other revenues can be generated in the rights and licensing markets. Further sources for revenues are utilization rights generating revenue outside of the printing sector. For example, successful manuscripts are used for film, television, magazines and merchandising.
For book publishers, production and distribution are the main focuses of the economic activity. Here the cost structure of manufacturing is of high importance. The amount of first copy costs in relation to total revenue is around 41%. Marketing costs are about 12% and administrative costs average 14%, with a profit margin of approximately 5%.
The final product is delivered through existing distribution channels. With the rise of the internet, new distribution channels with direct delivery to book consumers have been developed. The business model of a book publishing house is shown in the graphic.
Citations
References
Albarran, A. B. (2010), Management of Electronic Media, 4th ed. (2010), Belmont.
Aris, A. and Bughin, J. (2009), Managing Media Companies: Harnessing Creative Value, 2nd ed., London 2009,
Küng, L. (2008), Strategic Management in the Media: Theory to Practice, Los Angeles 2008.
Porter, M. E. (2004), Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance, New York 2004.
Pringle, P. K. and Starr, M. F. (2006), Electronic Media Management, 5th ed., New York 2006.
Sherman, B. (1995), Telecommunications Management, Broadcasting / Cable and the New Technologie, 2nd ed., New York 1995.
Vogel, H. L. (2007), Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, 7th ed., Cambridge 2007.
Wirtz, B. W. (2011a), Media and Internet Management, Wiesbaden 2011.
Wirtz, B. W. (2011b), Business Model Management: Design, Instruments, Success Factors, Wiesbaden 2011.
Management
Management by type
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska%20vi%20plocka%20k%C3%B6rsb%C3%A4r%20i%20min%20tr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rd
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"Ska vi plocka körsbär i min trädgård" () is a song written by Börje Carlsson and Little Gerhard (pseudonym for Karl Gerhard Lundkvist) and originally performed by Ann-Christine Bärnsten at Melodifestivalen 1975.
The song received attention due to its lyrics, which contained a high degree of sexual innuendo.
The song was tested for Svensktoppen, where it stayed for nine weeks during the period of 13 April – 8 June 1975, ending up 5th.
In 2004 The Honeypies recorded the song. Black Jack recorded the song on the 2010 album Festival. The same year the song was recorded by Drifters on the album Stanna hos mig.
Ann-Christine Bärnsten also performed the song during a Melodifestivalen 2010 pause act.
The single is also one of the titles in the book Tusen svenska klassiker'' (2009).
References
1975 singles
Melodifestivalen songs of 1975
Swedish-language songs
Ann-Christine Bärnsten songs
Drifters (Swedish band) songs
1975 songs
Philips Records singles
Songs about plants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%20M.%20Nesbit
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Reed M. Nesbit
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Reed Miller Nesbit (October 8, 1898 – August 1, 1979) was an American urologist, surgeon, and professor. He was Head of the Urology Section of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1930–1967. Nesbit was a pioneer of transurethral resection of the prostate. He devised the Nesbit operation for treating Peyronie's disease, and he made prominent contributions to pediatric urology, most notably the Cabot-Nesbit style orchiopexy.
Life and career
Nesbit was born in Concord, California, and studied first at the University of California, Berkeley, then at Stanford University, where he earned his AB in 1921 and MD in 1924. He interned at the Fresno County Hospital in Fresno, California, before he was recruited to Michigan by Hugh Cabot, the Director of Surgery at the University of Michigan and a prominent genitourinary surgeon. During his first year in Michigan Nesbit shared a room with Charles Huggins, another Cabot recruit who later went on to win a Nobel prize for his work on hormonal control of prostate cancer.
In 1926, Nesbit became an Instructor in Surgery. In 1929 he was promoted to Assistant Professor, and a year later he became Chief of the Section of Urology. In 1943, he attained the rank of professor. He served as Head of the Urology Section of the Department of Surgery for 37 years. His work at Michigan brought him national and international fame. By the end of his tenure his advances in surgical procedures and techniques were recorded in over 150 articles. He was at the forefront of endoscopic surgery to treat prostatic disease, and his 1943 textbook, Transurethral Prostatectomy, became the standard textbook on this subject in the United States. He also published the textbook Fundamentals of Urology in 1942. Many surgeons throughout the United States and all over the world came to Ann Arbor to learn his innovative techniques. In 1957 he established a pioneering dialysis unit at the University of Michigan, unusual in that it was run by surgeons, not internists. Nesbit became President of the American College of Surgeons in 1967, the first urologist to hold that position. He trained over 80 residents, at least 18 of whom became chiefs of urology in medical schools in the United States and abroad.
After Nesbit retired in 1968 he moved to El Macero, California, where he served as lecturer of surgery and special assistant to the dean at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. In 1969 Nesbit became chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.
In 2007 the Reed Nesbit Professorship in Urology was established at the University of Michigan in his honor, with Edward J. McGuire serving as the first Nesbit Professor.
The Reed M. Nesbit Urologic Society is the alumni organization of the Department of Urology at the University of Michigan and was constituted in 1972. The membership of the society includes residents who trained at Michigan, clinical fellows, faculty, and selected others. The society meets each year in Ann Arbor and also at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
References
1898 births
1979 deaths
American urologists
American surgeons
University of Michigan faculty
20th-century surgeons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCFB
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UCFB
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UCFB (University Campus of Football Business) is a higher education institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate university degrees and executive education in the football and wider sports industries. UCFB is a college of the University of East London.
UCFB became the world's first higher education institution with university degrees in the football and sports industry when it was opened at Burnley F.C.'s Turf Moor in 2011.
Campus locations
UCFB's first campus, UCFB Burnley, opened in 2011 at Burnley Football Club. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited UCFB Burnley during their tour of Turf Moor and Burnley F.C. as part of the Jubilee Celebrations.
In 2014, UCFB expanded and opened its second campus, UCFB Wembley, with Wembley Stadium at the heart of the campus.
UCFB opened a flagship campus based in and around the Etihad Stadium in 2016. UCFB Etihad Campus, which replaced UCFB Burnley, facilities included access to sporting facilities such as the Manchester Regional Arena and the National Basketball Performance Centre.
The Etihad Campus was the Manchester home of UCFB until the 2023-24 academic year, when the campus expanded across Greater Manchester, and was renamed 'UCFB Manchester Campus.' The expansion involved moving media students to MediaCityUK, and basing students on coaching courses at Curzon Ashton FC's Tameside Stadium, as well as new facilities in Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Tameside.
Global Institute of Sport
In July 2020, UCFB launched the Global Institute of Sport (GIS), furthering UCFB's educational breadth to postgraduate studies, as well as undergraduate degrees.
The institute offers Master's degree programmes, also relating to the football and wider sports industry, with campuses and global hubs in Toronto, New York City, Miami and Melbourne, as well as the two UK-based campuses.
Degree courses
UCFB offers undergraduate degree courses relating to the football and wider sports industry, including:
BA (Hons) Esports
BA (Hons) Football Business
BA (Hons) Football Business and Finance
BA (Hons) Football Business and Marketing
BA (Hons) Football Business and Media
BA (Hons) Football Coaching
BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Management
BA (Hons) International Football Business
BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Talent Development
BA (Hons) Multimedia Sports Journalism
BA (Hons) Physical Education
BSc (Hons) Sport Psychology
BA (Hons) Sports Business & Coaching
BA (Hons) Sports Business & Sports Broadcasting
BA (Hons) Sports Business & Sports Law
BSc Sports Coaching Science
BA (Hons) Sports Management
BA (Hons) Stadium & Events Management
Global Institute of Sport postgraduate courses
The Global Institute of Sport meanwhile, offers Master's degree courses, also within the sports industry, including:
MSc Football Business
MSc Football Coaching
MSc Football Coaching & Analysis
MSc Football Communications & Digital Marketing
MSc International Sport Management
MSc Performance Analysis in Football
MSc Player Care in Football
MSc Sports Coaching
MSc Sports Marketing & Media
Executive education and professional qualification courses
UCFB and GIS added executive education courses to their undergraduate and postgraduate studies, such as:
The Executive Athlete
CEO of a Sports Organisation
MSc Sports Directorship
In addition, the professional qualification courses the institution started offering includes:
The Inclusive Leadership in Football Award
The Certificate in Elite Player Care and Wellbeing
Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
Professional Media Training
The Certificate in the Business of Australian Football
Essentials of Soccer Business & Leadership
UCFB Level 1 Award in Assistant Coaching
UCFB Level 2 Award in Sport Coaching
UCFB academies
UCFB's elite football academies based at UCFB's campuses in Manchester and Wembley are tailored for elite-level footballers who have recently been released from professional football clubs, or for those that possess an ability to play at a higher level.
The academies allow students to combine working within a professional football environment, led by UEFA-qualified coaches, with a place on one of UCFB and GIS' unique degrees in football or sport.
UCFB Academy, Manchester is available to male students and is based at UCFB Etihad Campus, whilst UCFB Academy, Wembley is located at UCFB Wembley Campus.
In 2022, UCFB Wembley launched the Wembley Basketball Academy, in partnership with local team London Elite Basketball, which was designed for aspiring young basketball professionals in the UK to study alongside training, and as an effort to help grow the sport in the UK.
Programmes
The UCFB's Employability and Enrichment programme includes its Executive Guest Speaker Series and work experience opportunities.
Previous guest speakers to UCFB have included Gareth Southgate, Harry Redknapp, Guillem Balague, Gabby Logan, Chris Hughton, George Cohen, Mauricio Pochettino, Brendan Rodgers and Steve McClaren.
The UCFB Strategic Leadership and Management Programme, another aspect of the Employment & Enrichment programme, is led by Neil Doncaster, Chief Executive of the Scottish Professional Football League.
UCFB students also have the opportunity to work towards a number of internal and external additional qualifications relevant to the industry. These include FA Coaching certificates, STATS (formerly Prozone Performance Analysis) and foreign language qualifications.
References
Other references
Universities and colleges in the United Kingdom
2011 establishments in England
Educational institutions established in 2011
Education in Burnley
Burnley F.C.
Higher education colleges in London
Wembley Stadium
Education in Manchester
Manchester City F.C.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Changhua%20University%20of%20Education
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National Changhua University of Education
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The National Changhua University of Education (NCUE; ) is a normal university in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan.
The university offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in education, liberal arts, science, engineering, and management.
It also has a Center for Teacher Education and Professional Development, which is responsible for training and certifying future teachers.
History
NCUE was initially established in 1745 as Baisha Academy.
In August 1971, it was renamed to Taiwan Provincial College of Education. In 1980, it was renamed to National Taiwan College of Education. In August 1989, it was renamed again to become National Changhua University of Education.
Academic Rankings
Campus
NCUE has two campuses, Jin-De and Bao-Shan, both located in Changhua.
Organization
NCUE comprises seven colleges: Arts, Education, Engineering, Management, Science, Sports, and Technology and Vocational Education.
Transportation
The university is accessible east of Changhua Station of the Taiwan Railway Administration.
Gallery
See also
List of universities in Taiwan
Education in Taiwan
References
External links
1971 establishments in Taiwan
Changhua City
Universities and colleges established in 1971
Technical universities and colleges in Taiwan
Teachers colleges
Universities and colleges in Changhua County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADdac%20Lee
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Dídac Lee
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Dídac Lee i Hsing (李西洵) (born 15 January 1974) is a Spanish entrepreneur and Business Angel, co-founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.
Biography
Dídac Lee was born in Figueres, Spain to Taiwanese parents. At 21 years old and against the opinion of his family, Lee left his studies in Computer Engineering to start his first company. The beginnings were rough, he had limited resources and started his company with a bank loan of 18,000 Euros.
In 1998, he founded Scubastore.com, origin of the current group TradeInn, the first network of online stores specializing in sports equipment ecommerce and European leader in its sector, an online store specialized in sports equipment for diving, cycling, hiking, tennis and paddle tennis, swimming, bike, fishing and skiing. Today TradeInn is one of the top European outdoor e-commerce, with 17 individual stores, each one of them specialized in a different sport, counting 14 verticals and 300M in turnover in the last year alone.
Lee founded and co-founded several tech companies (among others: Inspirit, Fhios, OBS Threepoints, JV with Planeta, Safe365) of which he currently serves as board member and reference shareholder; jointly they currently account for 800 employees worldwide.
In 2015, Lee co-founded Galdana Ventures, a 1B USD fund invested in some of the Top Tier firms in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%).
Galdana Ventures is considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Funds of Funds globally, its funds invest in some of the best Venture Capital firms who are backing the game-changing companies of the future. Galdana's management team has more than 100 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors.
Lee is well known in the start-up world as Business Angel, he invested in some of the most successful start-ups in the Spanish ecosystem (Badi, Housfy, Exoticca, Paack, Glovo, LingoKids).
Entrepreneurship
Scubastore.com (TradeINN.com)
The Etailers
Fhios
Hotelerum (Travel Compositor)
Safe365
OBS Threepoints
Galdana Ventures
Dídac Lee and FC Barcelona
Lee is a former board member of FC Barcelona, he served on the board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370 million followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee's achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the club; his legacy is applauded by many.
Over the years, Didac has been nationally and internationally recognized by the press as one of the most knowledgeable expert in the Digital Sports sector. During his time at FCB, he was the official spokesman of the FC Barcelona Digital Area and he was regularly interviewed by the main sports media worldwide:
Sports Business (US): https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/lockdown-created-favourable-conditions-for-barcelonas-ott-launch-says-digital-chief/
Sports Pro (US): https://www.sportspromedia.com/analysis/fc-barcelona-barcatv-streaming-revenue-ott-strategy-rakuten
Off the Pitch (US): https://offthepitch.com/a/interview-barcelona-board-member-content-going-be-new-core-business-barca
Hashtag Sports (US): https://engage.hashtagsports.com/2020/02/24/fc-barcelona-fortnite-netflix-digital-strategy/
Forbes (US): https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomsanderson/2020/06/03/fc-barcelona-launch-bara-tv-and-culer-membership-program/#2c8cfbd54dd9
Sportico (US): https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2020/fc-barcelona-soccer-team-launches-digital-service-249/
Los Angeles Times (US): https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2020-06-04/antoine-griezmann-mls
Yutang Sports (China)
Bein Mena (Middle East)
Daily Mail (UK)
Dídac is often invited as Guest Speaker at Sport Conferences and Events globally, some of the recent ones are:
ISE 2020, Agora Event: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/1609125/barcas-new-digital-strategy-features-at-ise-2020-in-amsterdam
Sports Pro Live 2020: https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/barcelona-youtube-subscribers-video-streaming-platform-barca-studios
SoccerEx Connected: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/1839096/didac-lee-tells-soccerex-about-the-barca-tv-project
Honors & Personal Life
2005: Best Technology Entrepreneur of the University of Cambridge.
2006: Best Entrepreneur of the Year. Award granted by the AIJEC.
2006: Award "Gironí de l’Any".
2007: Ferrer Salat Award Entrepreneur of the Future, by Fomento del Trabajo.
2007: Best Entrepreneur Award Overseas, by the Taiwanese government.
2007: Award for Best Creative Young Entrepreneur Catalunya 2007, awarded by the Junior Chamber International Catalunya.
2008: Award Empordà County Council l'Alt Empordà.
2008: Internationalization Accesit in the National Young Entrepreneur Award, awarded by CEAJE.
2010: Chosen by IESE as one of 20 entrepreneurs from 40 years of the country's most influential.
2011: Finalist in the Entrepreneur Award for Entrepreneur Magazine.
2012: Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ideateca.
2013: Best European Mentor, awarded by Founder Institute.
2018: Doctor Honoris Causa from the 21st Century Business University
2019: Entrepreneur of the Year by PIMEC
2019: Best Business Angel by AEBAN
Lee is a proud Figuerenc (Figueres is a small town located 140 km North East of Barcelona). When he is not traveling between China and the Silicon Valley, he lives in Barcelona and Figueres; he loves practicing adventure sports like quad and buggy racing, scuba diving and skateboarding. Since Dídac is currently on the scientific committee of FEDAS (Spanish Federation of sub-aquatic activities).
His parents emigrated from Taiwan to Spain more than 50 years ago, he is fluent in 5 languages including Mandarin Chinese.
References
External links
LinkedIN:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DidacLee
Medium: https://medium.com/@ddaclee
1974 births
Spanish businesspeople
Living people
Spanish people of Taiwanese descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20Batch%20%28EP%29
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Small Batch (EP)
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Small Batch is a 2013 EP by Australian indie pop band the Cannanes.
Track listing
Bumper
Crawler
Basics
Molecule
Tiny Compartment
Zone
References
2013 EPs
The Cannanes albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balladen%20om%20det%20stora%20slagsm%C3%A5let%20p%C3%A5%20Tegelbacken
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Balladen om det stora slagsmålet på Tegelbacken is a song written by Olle Adolphson, and originally recorded by himself on with Hans Wahlgrens orkester on the EP record Resan hem, released in October 1963. The song lyrics describe early 20th century Stockholm gang activity.
Siw Malmkvist recorded the song on the EP record Tror du att jag förlorad är, released in July 1965. Her recording also entered Svensktoppen, entering 7th place on 4 September 1965, only to be knocked out the upcoming week. In 1968 the song was also included on her album Från Jazzbacillen till Balladen om det stora slagsmålet på Tegelbacken.
Svante Thuresson recorded the song on his 2011 album Regionala nyheter: Stockholmsdelen.
References
1963 songs
Siw Malmkvist songs
Swedish-language songs
Swedish songs
Songs about Stockholm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englemann%20Canyon
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Englemann Canyon
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Englemann Canyon (also spelled Engleman's Canon) is a valley along Ruxton Creek, in Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. It is one of three canyons in Manitou Springs, the others are Ute Pass and Williams Canyon.
Upper Englemann Canyon
In 1880, a trail was opened in Englemann Canyon to Pikes Peak. It was called the Manitou Trail in 1883. Zalmon Simmons surveyed the canyon for telegraph lines. The Civil War veteran and later inventor of the Simmons mattress decided that the canyon was suited for construction of a cog railway. The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, built by Simmons and completed in 1890, begins in Englemann Canyon and follows Ruxton Creek up into the Rocky Mountains for Pikes Peak. The railroad climbs at an average 16% grade through the canyon past "stately spruces and jagged rocks". The first third of the railway trip is through Englemann Canyon, alongside Ruxton Creek. Scenery includes large boulders, Ponderosa pine trees, Engelmann spruce, and Colorado blue spruce. Sights in the canyon include Artist's Glen, Minnehaha Falls, Son-of-a-Gun Hill, Hells Gate, the site of Halfway House, and Ruxton Park. The Halfway House was the 22-room bed and breakfast along Ruxton Creek. Some of its guests were delivered by burros via a Pikes Peak burro trail. The accommodations became less desirable when the cog railway was built about 30 feet from the house. The Halfway House was a rustic hotel that served tourists who took the railway. Minnehaha, named for its falls, was a hamlet with several cabins.
In 1891, the canyon was described in The Illustrated American as "a narrow valley, with a steep mountain rising on either side, and the clear, sparkling Ruxton Creek rushing parallel to the track, sometimes dashing over rocks hundreds of feet below the train, and sometimes pausing for a moment to form a deep, smooth pool, such as the speckled trout loves to haunt."
In 1925, a water utility power plant was built in Ruxton Park for $16,866 by the city of Colorado Springs. The stone hydroelectric plant generates electricity as Ruxton Creek flows into Manitou Springs from the mountain.
Lower Englemann Canyon
In the early 20th century, an electric trolley of the Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway from Colorado Springs terminated at Manitou Springs, and a trolley, called the "Dinky" carried passengers up lower Englemann Canyon (Ruxton Road) to the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway depot.
In 1891 the canyon had one spring, the Ute-Iron spring, Near the depot there were three mineral springs in 1913: Ute-Iron, Little Chief, and Ouray springs. near the Iron Springs Hotel. The current Manitou Mineral Springs on Ruxton Avenue are Iron Spring and Twin Spring.
Notes
References
External links
Englemann Canyon, topographic map
Canyons and gorges of Colorado
Landforms of El Paso County, Colorado
Manitou Springs, Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Colbert
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Will Colbert
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Will Colbert (born February 6, 1985 in Arnprior, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
For the 2013–14 season he was signed by the Tilburg Trappers of Netherlands' Eredivisie league. Previously he played for the Belfast Giants in the Elite Ice Hockey League.
For the 2013-14 season, he was named the best defenseman in the Eredivisie.
Career statistics
References
External links
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Belfast Giants players
Gwinnett Gladiators players
Worcester Sharks players
Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL) players
Ottawa Senators draft picks
San Jose Sharks draft picks
1985 births
Living people
People from Arnprior, Ontario
Sportspeople from Renfrew County
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Northern Ireland
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the Netherlands
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reda%20Kateb
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Reda Kateb
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Reda Kateb (; born 27 July 1977) is a French actor.
Life and career
Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, where he lived until 2011 before moving to Montreuil.
His short film Pitchoune was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
As actor
Film
Television series
As film director/screenwriter
Awards and nominations
See also
Maghrebian community of Paris
References
External links
1977 births
Living people
Male actors from Paris
French male film actors
French male television actors
French people of Algerian descent
French people of Czech descent
French people of Italian descent
People from Ivry-sur-Seine
21st-century French male actors
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Algerian people of Italian descent
Algerian people of Czech descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Tsing%20Hua%20University%20Nan%20Da%20Campus
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National Tsing Hua University Nan Da Campus
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National Tsing Hua University Nan-Da Campus (NTHU Nan-Da Campus; ) is a university campus in East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan of National Tsing Hua University.
History
The campus was originally established in April 1940 as a training institute for teachers of elementary, preschool and special education.
In August 2005, the institution was renamed the National Hsinchu University of Education.
On 1 November 2016, the university was merged with National Tsing Hua University and become the Nan Da Campus of it.
Faculties
College of Education
Department of Education and Learning Technology
Department of Physical Education
Department of Early Childhood Education
Department of Special Education
Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
Graduate Institute of Human Resource Development
Graduate Institute of e-Learning Technology
College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Department of Music
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Department of English Instruction
Department of Arts and Design
Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources
Graduate Institute of Taiwan Languages and Language Education
College of Science
Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Applied Science
Graduate Institute of Computer Science
Graduate Institute of Mathematics and Science Education
See also
List of universities in Taiwan
References
External links
1940 establishments in Taiwan
National Tsing Hua University
Teachers colleges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC%20ATK%20Praha
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HC ATK Praha
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HC ATK (Armádní tělovýchovný klub) Praha, founded in 1948, was an ice hockey team in Czechoslovakia. It won the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League title in the 1949–50 season and played in the league for a total of eight seasons. The club also celebrated second and third placed league finishes. The club changed its name to ÚDA (Ústřední dům armády) Praha ahead of the 1953/54 season and ceased operations in 1956.
Team success
Czechoslovak Extraliga
1st place (1950)
2nd place (1952)
3rd place (1949)
References
Ice hockey teams in Czechoslovakia
Military ice hockey teams
Ice Hockey
Ice hockey clubs established in 1948
1948 establishments in Czechoslovakia
1956 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1956
Sport in Prague
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obediah%20Shirley%20House
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Obediah Shirley House
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The Obediah Shirley House, sometimes referred to as the Obediah and Jennie Shirley Home is a historic farmhouse with a fieldstone foundation, located near Honea Path, South Carolina. Its construction was completed in several phases in order to accommodate the Shirley family as their family grew in number. The original, one-story log cabin was built in 1826 with the second-floor and two rooms to the north added before 1850. After 1850, a third room was added to the house, which increased the width. The front porch and kitchen were added in later in the 19th century.
The house was owned by descendants of Obediah Shirley until 1988, when the house and one acre of land was donated to the Obediah Shirley House Foundation. Structural restoration was completed after the donation, including leveling the foundation with boulders from an adjacent property, replacement of the porch roof framing, and a new roof. The house is currently open to tour by appointment.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1826
Houses in Anderson County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Anderson County, South Carolina
1826 establishments in South Carolina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20UK%20Championship
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2013 UK Championship
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The 2013 UK Championship (officially the 2013 williamhill.com UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 November–8 December 2013 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season.
Mark Selby made the 100th official maximum break during his semi-final match against Ricky Walden. This was Selby's second official 147 break and the third maximum break in the 2013/2014 season.
Neil Robertson won his ninth ranking title by defeating defending champion Selby 10–7 in the final, despite trailing 1–5 and 3–6 during the match. Robertson became the eighth player to win all Triple Crown events at least once, and the first overseas player to achieve this feat. Selby became the first defending champion to reach the final of the UK Championship since Mark Williams in 2000.
Prize fund
The total prize money of the event was raised to £700,000 from the previous year's £625,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £150,000
Runner-up: £70,000
Semi-final: £30,000
Quarter-final: £20,000
Last 16: £12,000
Last 32: £9,000
Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £4,000
Maximum break: £55,000
Total: £755,000
Main draw
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
Century breaks
147, 130, 129, 116, 109 Mark Selby
142, 112, 102 Stephen Maguire
142, 110, 106 Barry Hawkins
141, 132, 128, 123, 122, 119, 111, 107 Neil Robertson
139 Michael Leslie
137 Gary Wilson
137 Ricky Walden
136, 101 Dominic Dale
135, 128, 119 Ding Junhui
135, 127, 108, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan
135, 108 Alfie Burden
133, 104, 103, 102 Judd Trump
133 Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon
131, 131, 124, 107, 101 Stuart Bingham
131 Mark King
130, 128, 101 John Higgins
129 Nigel Bond
125, 106, 106 Xiao Guodong
122 Liam Highfield
120, 107 Liang Wenbo
119 Kyren Wilson
117 Alan McManus
117 Scott Donaldson
116, 103 Anthony McGill
116 Daniel Wells
113, 112 Mark Allen
113 Anthony Hamilton
112, 105 Jamie Burnett
110 Jamie O'Neill
110 Joe Perry
108 Noppon Saengkham
107, 104, 102 Graeme Dott
107 Mike Dunn
107 Jimmy White
105, 100 Robert Milkins
105 Michael White
105 Shaun Murphy
103, 100 Michael Holt
102 Yu Delu
102 Ali Carter
102 Fergal O'Brien
101 David Grace
101 Matthew Stevens
101 Liu Chuang
References
External links
2013 WilliamHill.com UK Championship – Pictures by World Snooker at Facebook
2013
UK Championship
Championship (snooker)
UK Championship
UK Championship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean-Mexican%20fusion
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Korean-Mexican fusion
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Korean–Mexican fusion is a type of fusion cuisine originally from Los Angeles that combines traditional elements of American-style Mexican and Korean foods. The earliest Korean-Mexican fusion featured Mexican or Tex-Mex dishes such as tacos or burritos filled with Korean-style barbecued meats and kimchi. Typical dishes include Korean tacos and bulgogi burritos. Food critics Jane and Michael Stern state that Korean–Mexican fusion is a growing food trend that has steadily gained in popularity since 2009.
Restaurants serving Korean tacos have existed in the United States at least since 1996, with a restaurant in Santa Monica, California called "2424 Pico" using the name for Korean fillings inside of a lettuce wrap. The proprietors of the Kogi Korean BBQ, a food truck in Los Angeles, California, used Twitter to announce their schedule and itinerary. In the following years, food trucks serving Korean–Mexican fusion opened in several cities across the U.S., including San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Seattle and Washington. after the first food truck serving Korean tacos, Kogi Korean BBQ, opened in Los Angeles in late 2008.
Several restaurants serving Korean–Mexican fusion exist in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China. Unlike in the United States, Korean-Mexican fusion exists in the casual dining segment, while street food trucks continue to dominate in the US.
Typical dishes include tacos or burritos prepared with Korean barbecue, such as kalbi or spicy chicken, and American foods such as french fries with kimchi.
See also
Korean taco
Chi'Lantro BBQ
Kogi Korean BBQ
References
American fusion cuisine
Korean fusion cuisine
Mexican fusion cuisine
Street food
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Virginia%20League
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West Virginia League
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The West Virginia League was a Class D level minor baseball league that played during the 1910 season. It featured four teams, all from West Virginia - the Clarksburg Bees of Clarksburg, the Fairmont Champions of Fairmont the Grafton team based in Grafton and the Mannington Drillers based in Mannington.
The league disbanded on July 5 after Grafton disbanded. In the shortened season, Fairmont finished first in the standings with a 37-18 record, while Mannington was second with a 33-21 mark, Grafton was third at 20-30 and Clarksburg was last with a 14-35 record. Future major leaguer Everett Scott played in the league.
Cities represented
Clarksburg, WV: Clarksburg Bees 1910
Fairmont, WV: Fairmont Champions 1910
Grafton, WV: Grafton 1910
Mannington, WV: Mannington Drillers 1910
Standings & statistics
1910 West Virginia League
schedule
The league disbanded July 5 after Grafton disbanded.
References
Defunct minor baseball leagues in the United States
Baseball leagues in West Virginia
Sports leagues established in 1910
1910 establishments in West Virginia
1910 disestablishments in West Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambusiomyces
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Bambusiomyces
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Bambusiomyces is a fungal genus in the family Ustilaginaceae. It was circumscribed in 2011 to contain the smut fungus formerly known as Ustilago shiraina, originally described by German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings from Japan in 1900. The fungus was originally found growing on wild Japanese bamboo, Bambusa veitchii, but has since been isolated from several plants belonging to tribe Bambuseae in the grass family Poaceae. In addition to Japan, it is also found in China and other locales in southeast Asia, and has been introduced to the United States.
References
External links
Fungi of Asia
Fungi of North America
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Monocot diseases
Ustilaginomycotina
Monotypic Basidiomycota genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Jude%20High%20School
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St. Jude High School
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St. Jude High School may refer to:
St Jude High School (Pune), school in Pune, Maharashtra, India
St. Jude Educational Institute, school in Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krivus%20Island
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Krivus Island
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Krivus Island (, ) is the mostly ice-covered island on the east side of Johannessen Harbour in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature extends 920 m in north-south direction and 1.06 km in east-west direction.
The island is named after the medieval fortress of Krivus in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Krivus Island is located at , 1.15 km south-southwest of Vaugondy Island, 1.23 km west of Jingle Island, 730 m west-northwest of Tambra Island, 910 m north of Weller Island and 2.05 km east of Snodgrass Island. British mapping in 1971.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Krivus Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Krivus Island. Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing%20Tail
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Chasing Tail
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Chasing Tail is an American television reality TV show airing on The History Channel. It follows pest control specialists in Connecticut trying to control deer populations. The first episodes aired in April 2013.
External links
History (American TV channel) original programming
2013 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series endings
Television shows set in Connecticut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Calthorpe%20of%20Cockthorpe
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James Calthorpe of Cockthorpe
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Sir James Calthorpe (c. 1558–1615) of Cockthorpe, Norfolk was Sheriff of Norfolk in 1614
Biography
James Calthorpe was the son of Christopher Calthorpe, a student in Lincoln's Inn, and Joan his wife (who survived him, and remarried Sir Jerome Bowes, of London).
Calthorpe was a knight on 23 July 1603 in the Royal Garden at Whitehall just before the Coronation of James I, and was Sheriff of Norfolk in 1614. He died on 15 June 1615.
Calthorpe was buried in All Saints Church Cockthorpe where there is a memorial table in at the east end of the south aisle with two coloured shields:
Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine, Calthorp.
Calthorp, impaling, Argent, on a fesse engrailed gules, between three escutcheons of the last, as many mullets of the first, Bacon of Hesset.
A crest: A boar's head couped.
Inscription:
Family
Calthorpe married Barbara daughter of Francis Bacon, of Hesset in Suffolk and died June 15, in the 12th of king James. Barbara his wife survived him, and they were both buried and had a monument in the church of Cockthorpe. They had at least three sons:
Christopher (died 14 March 1624), his son and heir. On 6 November 1602 he married Maud (1584–1624), daughter and co-heir of John Thurton, of Broome in Norfolk. They had five sons and three daughters James, Christopher, Edward, Charles and Oliver and three daughters.
Henry (1586–1637), their third son became a prominent lawyer.
Mary, married Hamond Ward, of Letheringsett, and was the mother of the mystic Jane Lead.
Notes
References
Further reading
1550s births
1614 deaths
People from North Norfolk (district)
High Sheriffs of Norfolk
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Doehring
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Bruno Doehring
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Bruno Doehring (February 3, 1879 – April 16, 1961) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. A preacher at the Berlin Cathedral from 1914 to 1960, Doehring was a popular figure in the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union in Berlin. He was a strict conservative and was active in the Weimar Republic as a politician.
Life and work
Early years
Doehring was born the son of a farmer. After attending elementary school in Mohrungen and the Royal Grammar School in Elbing, he studied theology at the universities of Halle, Berlin and Königsberg. In 1906 Doehring was a pastor in Tiefensee in East Prussia, where he started a family and his son Johannes was born, and in 1908 he was a pastor in Fischau in West Prussia. After receiving his doctorate in 1911, Doehring gained the attention of Georg zu Dohna (1852–1912) through his involvement with Arthur Drews. Dohna hired him as a pastor in Finckenstein Palace. The conservative politician Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau belonged to Doehring's parish, and they became friends. After Dohna's death Doehring took over the management of the seminary in Wittenburg. For unexplained reasons, Kaiser Wilhelm II asked Doehring to give a sample sermon on April 1, 1914, with an eye to filling the recently vacant position of fourth chaplain at the Berlin Cathedral. After the sermon, an enthusiastic Wilhelm gave Doehring the position over competing candidate F. K. Otto Dibelius.
Doehring was known to the general public thanks to an open-air church service he gave to an audience of tens of thousands of believers on the steps of the Reichstag building on August 2, 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War. His sermon was a call to stand firmly and fearlessly together under the leadership of the Kaiser, with loyalty and with faith in God, through all the suffering that was to come. It was widely reprinted.
As a preacher, Doehring combined eloquence with education and populism, and was not afraid of "kitsch sentimentalism". He saw preaching as "always concrete, never abstract" and wanted to be like Martin Luther and never shy away from the problems of his time. The texts of his sermons were available in printed form to his audience immediately after the service, and could be bought for ten pfennig. Beginning in 1923, Doehring took on the additional position of official lecturer in practical theology at the University of Berlin.
Doehring, who had discounted the growing discontent and longing for peace during the war, was taken completely aback by the people's revolutionary riots of 1918. In his condemnation of the January strikes, Doehring spoke of betrayal and may have been the first to evoke the stab-in-the-back legend, which held that Germany lost the First World War not for military reasons but due to unpatriotic elements at home. Doehring blamed the subsequent defeat in the war and the following November Revolution and claimed that these events were caused by the decline in Germany's Christian faith and values. For him, most of the blame lay with the Catholic Church and the socialist labor movement. He envisioned a reformation along the lines of Luther's as a solution for Germany.
Politics
The Cathedral parish, largely composed of members of the Prussian bureaucracy and related members of the court, together with the status of the Berlin Cathedral as one of the state's representative places of worship, afforded Doehring the opportunity to lend his opinions unmistakable prestige in the middle of the German capital. By December 1918 Doehring had already lent his support to the German National People's Party (DNVP) in a call to vote.
Doehring criticized the November Revolution and its aftermath as a "de-Christianization" and thus a "deadening" of the political system. His daily pointed sermons were repeatedly criticized both in the democratic press and in statements of displeasure by prominent personalities. Gustav Stresemann saw in them "not ... an expression of Christian charity, but ... an increasingly frenzied aversion to dissent" and in 1924 Karl Barth called Doehring a "miserable cream puff" and a "theological buffoon".
In 1924 Doehring took over the chairmanship of the Evangelical Alliance to Preserve German-Protestant Interests (EB). His appointment to this position was not unanimously approved by the alliance's members. His insistence on uncritical attachment to the abdicated Kaiser and his rigid hostility towards the Catholic Church contributed to the increasing isolation of the Protestant church in German society, and in particular in relationship to the proletariat and to bourgeois democracy. Doehring also refused increasingly urgent prospective interdenominational political cooperation with state-preserving Catholic forces, which had been drifting towards the Center Party and the DNVP since the end of 1926. Following the withdrawal of Adolf von Harnack and Otto Baumgarten, the conflict over the direction of the EB culminated in Doehring's resignation in February 1927.
Doehring then founded the Lutherring für aktives Christentum. Under his leadership, in January 1928, it developed into the German Reformation Party, in his words "to curb the hopeless fragmentation of national forces". Its consistently anti-modern, monarchical and nationalist party program resonated little among Protestants. The German Reformation Party took part in the 1928 general elections as part of the Völkisch National Bloc, but with only 266,000 votes (just 0.87%) it was denied entry to the Reichstag. That same year, Doehring came up with the idea and screenplay for the movie Luther. In the 1930 general election, Doehring affiliated himself with the DNVP in his capacity as chairman of the Lutherrings, and won a seat in the electoral district Chemnitz-Zwickau, which he held in the following three legislative sessions, until November 1933. Doehring remained loyal to the Kaiser, visiting him in Huis Doorn and preaching there, for the last time in 1939 on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
The Comforter of Berlin
In the emerging Nazi movement Doehring saw a reprehensible attempt to create a new religion. In his 1932 paper The miscarriage of the national movement by Adolf Hitler, he repudiated "the idolatry of racism, anti-Semitism, and the manipulation of the masses." Doehring, along with a minority of the Cathedral Council, voted against the holding of an SA memorial in the cathedral for SA leader Hans Maikowski and a police officer, both of whom were killed in a street battle during a parade celebrating Hitler's seizure of power. He personally denied the Nazi-affiliated German Christians use of the cathedral for their services. Nevertheless, he kept his distance from the anti-Nazi Confessing Church, preaching solitude.
Doehring's sermons were closely monitored by the Gestapo, who repeatedly questioned him about his public criticism of the Nazi regime. He did not mention Hitler in prayer, and in a May 1940 sermon which the regime had decreed should give thanks for victory he instead preached repentance. As the war progressed his sermons took on more and more of a comforting character, combining biblical criticism with thinly-veiled indictment of Hitler and his party comrades. Starting in 1940-41 their printing was prevented by the state and Doehring lost his teaching position. He considered the war and its suffering to be a result of the November Revolution, which in turn had made it possible for Hitler to rise to power and sit "on the throne of Satan."
Following a bombing on May 24, 1944, the Berlin Cathedral was no longer usable for worship. Doehring first preached in the Church of St. Sophia, and then in a large catacomb-like underground vault, created under the cathedral by the cathedral parish, which was capable of seating around one thousand two hundred worshipers. After an interruption caused by the war, Doehring returned to the pulpit on September 2, 1945 with a sermon on "the savior of the world and world peace".
Due to his criticism of the government during both the Weimar and Nazi eras, Doehring had been passed over three times for the position of head chaplain of the cathedral. In the post-war era of divided Berlin, this changed. He won and held this position in Berlin's eastern sector from 1945 until his retirement in 1960, and resumed his position as a university professor at Humboldt University from 1946 to 1953. The title of head chaplain no longer had any formal meaning at this point, as Dibelius had given himself the title of Bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg and made St. Mary's Church the seat of his diocese. Doehring's seat was no longer the center of Protestant worship in Germany, nor was it as prestigious a venue for events. The occupying Allied forces, and later the government of the GDR, discouraged worship, and multiple threats to the cathedral's continued existence were posed by the GDR's city planning. The cathedral, still damaged by the war, was not repaired. Doehring preached tirelessly every Sunday in his underground vault, in which he had installed a Schuke Organ in 1946, consistently drawing an audience of a thousand worshipers. He kept his reputation as the comforter of Berlin, which he had acquired during the bombing of the city, until his retirement in 1960. Four months after his death, the construction of the Berlin Wall split the Cathedral Parish, and in 1975, the demolition of his vault in the catacombs followed.
In the words of William Hüffmeier, Doehring was "in life really an individualist, a loner, unclassifiable", but with his sermons he reached more believers than any other minister in Berlin. As a gift for his 80th birthday, he was presented with a statistic showing that he had preached in front of about four million people over the course of his life.
His tomb is located in Domfriedhof II on Müllerstraße in Berlin-Wedding.
References
Published works
Gott, das Leben und der Tod [God, life and death], Berlin 1914.
Eine feste Burg [A Mighty Fortress], Berlin 1914-1915.
Die Religion des Schlachtfelds [The religion of the battlefield], Berlin 1916.
Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wäre [And if the world were full of devils], Berlin 1918.
Die deutsche Volkskirche [The German People's Church], Leipzig 1920.
Ernst von Dryander zum Gedächtnis [In memory of Ernst von Dryander], Berlin 1922.
Vom Leben, Tod und Einigkeit [Of life, death and unity], Berlin 1924.
Entscheidungskampf [Decisive battle], Berlin 1927.
Luther heute [Luther today], Dom Verlag, Berlin 1928,
Christus bei den Deutschen [Christ among the Germans], Berlin 1934.
Wehe dem Menschen! Gedanken zur Gegenwart auf Grund Matth. 26, 24. [Woe to the man! Thoughts on the present on the basis of Matt. 26, 24], Berlin circa 1935.
Gott mit uns! Gedanken zur Wiedereinführung der allgemeinen Wehrpflicht auf Grund Jesaias 36, 7. [God with us! Thoughts on the reintroduction of conscription due to Isaiah 36, 7], Berlin circa 1935.
Mein Lebensweg [My life], Gütersloh 1952.
Das Domkandidatenstift zu Berlin. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick zur Hundertjahrfeier. Mit einem Beitrag von Ulrich Seeger: Die Aufgaben des Predigerseminars heute [The Cathedral apprentices in Berlin. A historical retrospective to mark the centenary. With a contribution by Ulrich Seeger: The duties of the Seminary today], Verlag Die Kirche, Berlin 1954.
Further reading
Marcher Protestant Consistory at Berlin (ed.), Pfarralmanach für die Kirchenprovinz Mark Brandenburg [Parish Church Almanac for the Province of Brandenburg]. (As of 1 January 1937), Berlin: Trowitzsch, 1937, p 33 (biographical information)
Detlef Plöse (ed.): Der Berliner Dom. Geschichte und Gegenwart der Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin [The Berlin Cathedral. History and Status of the Upper Parish and Cathedral Church of Berlin], Jovis, Berlin 2001,
Stiftung Deutschlandhaus Berlin: Grosse Berliner aus dem Osten [Greater Berlin in the East], Berlin 1987, page 51
Christoph Weiling: Die "Christlich-deutsche Bewegung". Eine Studie zum konservativen Protestantismus in der Weimarer Republik (Arbeiten zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B, Bd. 28) [The "Christian German movement." A study of conservative Protestantism in the Weimar Republic (work on ecclesiastical History, Series B, Vol 28)], Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, , pp. 45–52
1879 births
1961 deaths
Politicians from Berlin
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
German Lutheran theologians
Weimar Republic politicians
20th-century German Protestant theologians
German male non-fiction writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiago
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Ahmadiago
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Ahmadiago is a fungal genus in the family Ustilaginaceae. It was circumscribed in 2004 to contain the smut fungus formerly known as Ustilago euphorbiae, found in India. The generic name honours Pakistani botanist and mycologist Sultan Ahmad.
References
External links
Fungi of Asia
Monotypic Basidiomycota genera
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Ustilaginomycotina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugbara%20totems
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Lugbara totems
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Each of the Lugbara clans in Uganda has a distinct totem to represent it based on a characteristic living thing found in the clan's area. Nevertheless, the O'du (Leopard) is the general emblem representing all Lugbara and Arua.
Symbols
See also
Lugbara cuisine
Lugbara language
West Nile sub-region
Lugbara
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rymy-Eetu
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Rymy-Eetu
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Rymy-Eetu was a Finnish comic strip drawn by Erkki Tanttu, from 1930 to 1973 The titular character Rymy-Eetu is a strong, heavily built man, who is capable of apparently superhuman actions both in wartime and in peacetime.
Characters
Rymy-Eetu was named after his strength and virility, although he was never much of a troublemaker. Sometimes he even seems to control the forces of nature. Sometimes his boisterous character gets him into trouble, but even in tight spots he always manages to keep smoking his pipe. Rymy-Eetu's frequent antagonist is his cousin Kalle Kuikkaneva, a short man wearing eyeglasses, who sometimes wins over Rymy-Eetu because of his cleverness.
Appearance
Rymy-Eetu first appeared in Nuori Voima in 1930. At that time the character didn't have a name. After this, the comic appeared in Kansan Kuvalehti, where Ilmari Turja invented a name for the new hero.
Rymy-Eetu appeared, with short breaks, for about four decades. Suomen Kuvalehti started re-publishing coloured Rymy-Eetu strips from Kansan Kuvalehti. In all, the strip appeared in the following magazines: Nuori Voima (1930 and 1935), Kansan Kuvalehti (1931-1935 and 1945-1954), Hakkapeliitta (1936-1944), Radiokuuntelija-Antenni (1955-1968), Käytännön Maamies (1970s) and Suomen Kuvalehti (2007).
Otava published Rymy-Eetu albums from 1938 to 1968. In the albums, Tauno Karilas added rhyming text to the comics, which wasn't present in the original strips. Tanttu seldom wrote any text to his comic, but instead let the images do the talking. Sometimes a speech bubble helped in the narrative.
In wartime, Rymy-Eetu was used in propaganda. Rymy-Eetu crushed his Russian enemies completely in the comics.
After the Moscow armistice, the Finnish publishing association sent a request to book stores to withdraw 288 works from display and sales. Along these works were the albums Rymy-Eetu ja Hymy-Freetu and Rymy-Eetun jymyvoitto. In 1999, Otava published a collection album called Rymy-Eetu ryssän kauhu, which included all four Rymy-Eetu albums published during wartime.
Named after Rymy-Eetu
In Helsinki, there is a Bavarian cuisine style restaurant called Rymy-Eetu (opened in January 2008), which has a varying exhibition about the character.
References
External links
Rymy-Eetun isä - Erkki Tantun haastattelu - Kansan Kuvalehti 1/1951
Legendaarinen Rymy-Eetu alkaa SK:ssa 10/2007
Finnish comic strips
Fictional Finnish people
1930 comics debuts
1973 comics endings
Gag-a-day comics
Superhero comics
Comics characters with superhuman strength
Comics characters introduced in 1930
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiverBrink%20Art%20Museum
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RiverBrink Art Museum
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RiverBrink Art Museum is located on the Niagara Parkway in the historic village of Queenston, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Open to the public since 1983, the museum is home to a unique collection of over 1,400 works by Canadian and international artists.
Museum
Along with paintings, prints, works on paper, and sculpture, the museum’s collection includes decorative art, archival material, and rare books, assembled by Samuel E. Weir. An Ontario-based lawyer and avid art collector throughout his lifetime, Weir acquired the majority of the works in the museum, which continues to collect through donations and purchases. The location of RiverBrink had a profound influence on the art patron, as there are many depictions of Niagara Falls and the Niagara peninsula in the collection.
In the RiverBrink collection are paintings by many of Canada’s most significant artists, including Tom Thomson, Homer Watson, Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Cornelius Krieghoff, Emily Carr, and members of the Group of Seven. The collection also contains artwork by well-known British, French, and American artists, such as Augustus John, Mary Cassatt, Armand Guillaumin, Grant Wood, and Edgar Degas, among others. The museum has a large collection of decorative arts, including English and Québec silver, clocks, antique furniture, Indian medals, coins, rugs and ceramics. In addition, RiverBrink’s library and archives hold over 4,000 books, personal correspondence, maps, auction house records, and individual files of several hundred artists.
Exhibitions are organized from the permanent collection as well as loans from both public institutions and private collectors. To search the RiverBrink collection, visit the Canadian Heritage Information Network’s Artefacts Canada: Humanities database.
History
Sam Weir was born in London, Ontario in 1898. He attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1920. His interest in fine art began with the purchase of a watercolour by English artist Dame Laura Knight in the early 1920s. Not long afterward, he encountered a painting by Homer Watson and purchased The Lothian Hills (1892) directly from the artist in installments, a practice he would follow in many transactions. Despite numerous subsequent acquisitions, the oil painting by Watson remained a lifelong favorite. Sam Weir died in 1981, leaving his collection and estate to the Weir Foundation, incorporated in 1962.
Architecture and design
Weir purchased land in Queenston in 1943 and began construction on the site in the late 1950s. The country residence and coach house were designed by English-born architect Arthur E. Nutter (1874–1967), a family friend and the first architect to practice in London, Ontario. Weir contributed significantly to the design, requesting details such as a fall-out shelter in the basement and a self-contained apartment over the coach house. For the main building, Nutter adapted a Georgian-style complete with mansard roof and gabled windows. The interior rooms retain their original wood paneling, installed by finish-carpenter Alexander Kiss, who used a variety of different woods, including maple, mahogany, oak, knotty pine, and walnut, with clear pine and birch ceilings. The home was completed in 1970 and converted into an art museum following Weir’s death. In 1996, a large porch on the east side of the building was replaced by additional exhibition space.
References
External links
Artefacts Canada: Humanities
Art museums and galleries in Ontario
Museums in the Regional Municipality of Niagara
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Lomonaco%20Jr.
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Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr.
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Samuel John Lomonaco, Jr. is an American academic and mathematician who is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Background
Lomonaco earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Saint Louis University and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University. Lomonaco specializes in quantum computation, topology, quantum information science, knot theory, and quantum algorithms.
References
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Topologists
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
Saint Louis University alumni
Princeton University alumni
1942 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambra%20Island
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Tambra Island
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Tambra Island (, ) is a mostly ice-covered island in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature is 1.17 km long in southwest-northeast direction and 700 m wide, and is separated from the adjacent Jingle Island to the northeast by a 60 m wide passage.
The island is named after Tambra Hill in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Tambra Island is located at , 700 m northeast of Weller Island and 730 m east-southeast of Krivus Island. British mapping in 1971.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Tambra Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Tambra Island. Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Kodra%20Foundation
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Ibrahim Kodra Foundation
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The Ibrahim Kodra Foundation, officially the Ibrahim Kodra Swiss Foundation (), is a Swiss art Foundation to protect, archive and promote an artist Ibrahim Kodra, but is also a charitable organization headquartered in Paradiso in the Canton of Ticino. Its purpose is to foster the growth of cultural relations between Switzerland, the Canton of Ticino and other countries of the world though artistic, educational, and humanitarian activity.
History
The foundation was originally established in Lugano in 1993 under the name Fondazione per i bambini del Sakha with Behgjet Pacolli as its founding president. Its original scope was to provide humanitarian and medical aid to the children of the Sakha Republic. In 1993 the foundation changed its name to Fondazione per i ragazzi del mondo di Ibrahim Kodra (Foundation of Ibrahim Kodra for the Children of the world) and moved to Paradiso. Under the new name, the foundation took on an international focus and added artistic and cultural activities to its humanitarian ones. Following the death of Ibrahim Kodra in 2006, it increasingly worked to preserve his artistic legacy. In 2010, the organization's official name was changed to Fondazione Svizzera Ibrahim Kodra.
Art exhibitions
Ibrahim Kodra, Ibrahim Kodra Foundation, Elena Pontiggia (curator), Milan, Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, Palazzo della Permanente, 2017
References
External links
Organizations established in 1993
Cultural organisations based in Switzerland
1993 establishments in Switzerland
Foundations based in Switzerland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hela%20v%C3%A4rlden%20f%C3%B6r%20mig
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Hela världen för mig
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Hela världen för mig is a 2003 single by Sanna Nielsen and written by Thomas G:son.
Release
"Hela världen för mig" peaked at #35 in the Swedish singles chart and continued to appear for 35 weeks. It was the fourth most successful song of 2003 in the Svensktoppen charts. Nielsen shared that the song described her feelings as a student. It was entered into Melodifestivalen 2003 and reached the semifinals in Gothenburg on 22 February 2003 before being sent directly to the Stockholm Globe Arena for the finals. The song ranked fifth in the competition.
Single track listing
Hela världen för mig – 3:01
All That It Takes – 3:02
Charts
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
2003 singles
2003 songs
Sanna Nielsen songs
Songs written by Thomas G:son
Melodifestivalen songs of 2003
Swedish-language songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katepensaurus
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Katepensaurus
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Katepensaurus ("hole lizard") is an extinct genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of south-central Chubut Province of central Patagonia, Argentina. It contains a single species, Katepensaurus goicoecheai.
Fossil record
The holotype and only known specimen of Katepensaurus goicoecheai is UNPSJB-PV 1007, a partial skeleton from the Lower Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The specimen preserves one skull bone (a frontal), three cervical vertebrae, six dorsal vertebrae, five caudal vertebrae, and several difficult-to-identify fragments, which probably include portions of additional vertebrae as well as possible fragments of some limb bones (a metacarpal or metatarsal and an astragalus). It represents an individual that was at least seven years old and had not finished growing when it died. The Lower Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation is considered to date to the Cenomanian or Turonian age of the early Late Cretaceous. Additional rebbachisaurid specimens from the Bajo Barreal Formation have been described, including a cervical vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 1005), an isolated caudal vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 580), and a partial tail consisting of four incomplete caudal vertebrae and two chevrons (UNPSJB-PV 1004). It is possible that these specimens also belong to Katepensaurus, although the available evidence is insufficient to determine their affinities more precisely than Rebbachisauridae. Remains of a rebbachisaurid taxon distinct from Katepensaurus have been found in the Bajo Barreal Formation, and it is possible that these specimens belong to this other unnamed species.
Discovery and naming
The only known specimen of Katepensaurus goicoecheai was collected from the "2005 Quarry" at Estancia Laguna Palacios, a ranch owner at which the National University of the Patagonia San Juan Bosco regularly conducted field work. In 2013, Lucio M. Ibiricu, Gabriel A. Casal, Rubén Dario Martínez, Matthew C. Lamanna, Marcelo Luna and Leonardo Salgado described this specimen as representing a new genus and species, which they named Katepensaurus goicoecheai. The generic name is derived from Tehuelche katepenk, "hole", referring to a distinctive opening in the transverse processes of the dorsal vertebrae. The specific name honours Alejandro Goicoechea, the owner of the Estancia Laguna Palacios. At the time the species was named, only three cervical vertebrae, three dorsal vertebrae, and two caudal vertebrae had been excavated and identified, but subsequent excavations conducted at the quarry uncovered additional bones from the same skeleton.
Description
Katepensaurus is distinguished from other rebbachisaurids primarily by various details of its dorsal vertebrae. As in other sauropods, the vertebrae of Katepensaurus were highly pneumatized, with openings in the bone, such as the lateral pneumatic fossae, that would have been filled by air sacs in life. In Katepensaurus, the lateral pneumatic fossae of the dorsal vertebrae were divided in two by a ridge of bone, which is an uncommon trait among sauropods not known in other rebbachisaurids but present in the more distantly related Supersaurus. Katepensaurus is unique among sauropods in exhibiting an additional set of pneumatic openings, termed laterodiapophyseal fenestrae, through which air sacs would have filled the transverse processes of the dorsal vertebrae. It is these openings that give Katepensaurus its name. The arrangement of the vertebral laminae, a complex arrangement of bony ridges that are characteristic of sauropod vertebrae, is generally similar between Katepensaurus and other rebbachisaurids. However, Katepensaurus shows a unique pair of laminae, termed the dorsal parapophyseal centrodiapophyseal fossa lamina and the ventral parapophyseal centrodiapophyseal fossa lamina, that have not been seen in any other rebbachisaurid. Other unique traits that have been documented in the dorsal vertebrae of Katepensaurus include vertical ridges on the junction between the neural arch and centrum, well-defined, rounded fossae on the lateral aspect of the postzygapophyses, and a teardrop-shaped profile of the posterior articular surface of the centrum.
Classification
Katepensaurus exhibits a combination of traits characteristic of nigersaurines/rebbachisaurines and traits characteristic of limaysaurines, and its phylogenetic affinities are not certain. An analysis by Ibiricu and colleagues in 2015 recovered Katepensaurus as a limaysaurine; in contrast, analyses by Fanti and colleagues in 2015 and Canudo and colleagues in 2018 recovered Katepensaurus as the basalmost rebbachisaurine. Analyses by Mannion and colleagues in 2019 could not resolve the affinities of Katepensaurus precisely, and found differing results depending on their analysis protocol. In one of their analyses, Katepensaurus was recovered as a limaysaurine, but in the other, it was recovered outside Khebbashia, as a basal rebbachisaurid.
Footnotes
References
Rebbachisaurids
Cenomanian life
Turonian life
Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
Cretaceous Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Bajo Barreal Formation
Fossil taxa described in 2013
Taxa named by Matt Lamanna
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabkhus%20Pahlu
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Shabkhus Pahlu
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Shabkhus Pahlu (, also Romanized as Shabkhūs Pahlū) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 213, in 56 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisharestan
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Shisharestan
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Shisharestan (, also Romanized as Shīshārestān; also known as Shesh Ārestān) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 619, in 174 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siah%20Marz-e%20Gavabar
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Siah Marz-e Gavabar
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Siah Marz-e Gavabar (, also Romanized as Sīāh Marz-e Gavābar) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 81, in 24 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%20Darreh%2C%20Gilan
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Shir Darreh, Gilan
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Shir Darreh (, also Romanized as Shīr Darreh and Shīrdarreh) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 11 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelisheh
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Shelisheh
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Shelisheh (, also Romanized as Shelīsheh) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 113, in 31 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandar-e%20Balnageh
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Shandar-e Balnageh
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Shandar-e Balnageh (, also Romanized as Shandar-e Bālangeh; also known as Shandar) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 94, in 29 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabestan%20Neshin
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Tabestan Neshin
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Tabestan Neshin (, also Romanized as Tābestān Neshīn) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 267, in 78 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazehabad-e%20Narakeh
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Tazehabad-e Narakeh
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Tazehabad-e Narakeh (, also Romanized as Tāzehābād-e Narakeh; also known as Narakeh) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 104, in 29 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahmas%20Gavabar
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Tahmas Gavabar
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Tahmas Gavabar (, also Romanized as Ţahmās Gavābar; also known as Tamās Gavābar) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 69, in 23 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusheh%20Mian
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Tusheh Mian
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Tusheh Mian (, also Romanized as Tūsheh Mīān; also known as Tūshmīyān) is a village in Amlash-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 118, in 30 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshkiyet
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Eshkiyet
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Eshkiyet (, also Romanized as Eshkīyet) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 115, in 35 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkar%20Meydan
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Ashkar Meydan
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Ashkar Meydan (, also Romanized as Ashkar Meydān) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 219, in 69 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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41061105
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chahar%20Deh%2C%20Gilan
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Chahar Deh, Gilan
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Chahar Deh (, also Romanized as Chahār Deh) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 449, in 129 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalaras
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Chalaras
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Chalaras (, also Romanized as Chalāras; also known as Chalāras-e Bālā) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 414, in 111 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomaqestan%2C%20Amlash
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Chomaqestan, Amlash
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Chomaqestan (, also Romanized as Chomāqestān) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 712, in 227 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siah%20Marz
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Siah Marz
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Siah Marz () may refer to:
Siah Marz-e Gavabar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimund%20Berens
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Raimund Berens
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Raimund Berens is a film producer of German origin. He is based in London, United Kingdom and is Co-founder / Producer at Ostara Pictures. Graduating from the London Film School in 2005, Berens joined Focus Films as a runner, and later became Head of Production. After co- & executive producing three features, he joined Iron Box Films in early 2010, serving as CEO from 2013 to 2020. There he produced the company's first feature film Betsy & Leonard; the film won several awards including Best Feature and Best Film at the 2013 Tenerife International Film Festival.
Films
Siege on Liperti Street 2019 (directed by Stavros Pamballis and featuring Daphne Alexander and Konstantinos Markoulakis)
Ravers 2012 (directed by Bernhard Pucher and featuring Georgia Hirst and Natasha Henstridge)
Betsy & Leonard 2012 (directed by Bernhard Pucher and featuring Ryan Davenport (actor) and Sharea Samuels)
Master Harold...and the Boys 2008 (directed by Lonny Price and featuring Ving Rhames and Freddie Highmore)
Surviving Evil 2008 (directed by Terence Daw and features Billy Zane, Christina Cole and Natalie Mendoza)
Chemical Wedding 2007 (directed by Julian Doyle and starring Simon Callow, Kal Webber, Jud Charlton and Lucy Cudden)
References
Sources
Screendaily Article on Iron Box Films
Hollywood Reporter Article on Iron Box Films
External links
Company Website
Living people
British film producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the London Film School
German emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Wesel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%20plc
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Clarkson plc
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Clarkson PLC, often referred to simply as Clarksons, is a provider of shipping services, and is headquartered in London. In 2011, Lloyd's List described the company's shipbroking service as the "undisputed heavyweight of the shipbroking market". It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
The company was founded by Horace Anderton Clarkson in London in 1852. The son of a prosperous lawyer, he invited Leon Benham, a former colleague, to join him in partnership. Benham's son Henry soon joined the business. In the 1850s the business involved sailing ships, but by the 1860s the company was chartering steam ships. In 1872 Clarksons became shipowners with the acquisition of three schooners. The company became the world's largest tanker broker in 1929 when Esso appointed Clarksons as its exclusive shipbroker.
The first overseas office opened in New York City in 1954. Offices soon followed in France, Australia and Germany, and in the 1960s, South Africa and Greece. Expansion in the Far East began in the 1990s when companies were established in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.
Carron Greig became joint managing director in 1962, served as chairman of the shipbroking division from 1972 to 1985, and as chairman of the whole group, then known as Horace Clarkson, until his retirement in 1993. He was credited with transforming the group into a world leader in its field. The company became a global force and Greig increased its business, especially with Esso, bringing in Brazil, Norway and the Far East to its portfolio. He also fought off Russian and English corporate raiders in the 1970s.
The company spun off various diversified assets as Shipping Industrial Holdings in 1974. Michael Wade, a prominent insurance executive, sat on the board from 1984 to 1993 and Peter Parker, a leading industrial executive, sat on the board from 1971 until 1993.
Richard Fulford-Smith became chief executive of the company in 2004. According to Robert Wright of the Financial Times, he was central to Clarkson's emergence as the world's largest sale and purchase shipbroker. Fulford-Smith was ousted from the board in 2008 after Russian litigation claims emerged against the company.
Until March 2012, Martin Stopford, a prominent economist, sat on the board and was head of the research arm of the company. In 2013, Clarkson acquired Gibb Tools, a North Sea oil engineering tools supplier, for £12.7 million. In 2015, Clarkson acquired RS Platou AS, a Norwegian headed shipbroking and investment banking group.
Operations
Clarkson operations are divided into four areas: broking, financial, support and research. The company brokers vessels for some of the world's largest producers and traders of natural resources. Clarkson Research Services focuses primarily on the collection, validation, analysis and management of data about the merchant shipping and offshore markets. The chief executive since 2008 has been Andi Case. William (Bill) Thomas was appointed as Chair on 13 February 2019. The company has its headquarters at Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London.
References
Shipping companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Shipbroking companies
British companies established in 1852
1852 establishments in England
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Transport companies established in 1852
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kozelek%20%26%20Desertshore
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Mark Kozelek & Desertshore
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Mark Kozelek & Desertshore is a collaborative studio album by American singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek and indie rock band Desertshore, released on August 20, 2013 on Caldo Verde Records. The album was Kozelek's third studio album of 2013.
In 2015, the American metal band Cult Leader covered the track "You Are Not of My Blood" for their Useless Animal EP.
Reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album has received a metascore of 78, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Track listing
References
2013 albums
Caldo Verde Records albums
Mark Kozelek albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Baker%20%28dean%20of%20Antigua%29
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George Baker (dean of Antigua)
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George Stanley Baker was the Dean of Antigua from 1943 until 1970.
Baker was educated at Codrington College and ordained in 1926. His first post was a curacy at St. John's Cathedral Antigua after which he held incumbencies in Anguilla and St Kitts. He then served the rest of his career at the Cathedral: from 1937 until 1943 as Sub Dean and from then until retirement as Dean.
References
Alumni of Codrington College
Deans of Antigua
20th-century Barbadian people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola%20women%27s%20national%20youth%20handball%20team
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Angola women's national youth handball team
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The Angola women's national handball team Under-17 represents Angola in international handball competitions and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Andebol. At continental level, it competes at the African Women's Youth Handball Championship which qualifies for the IHF Women's Youth World Championship. Angola has been a member of the IHF since 1979.
Youth Olympic Games record
World Championship record
African Women's Championship record
Current squad
The following is the roster for the 2018 World Championship held in Kielce, Poland from 7–19 August 2018.
Technical team
José Chuma – Head coach
Danilo Júnior – Assistant coach
Imaculada Vilola – Physio
Janina Sousa – Manager
Players
2011–2018
A = African championship; = African championship winner;W = World cup;O = Olympic tournament
2006–2010
AC = African championship; = African championship winner;WC = World cup;OT = Olympic tournament
Head coach positions
José Chuma – 2018
Luís Chaves – 2017
Alfredo Alvarez – 2016
Luís Chaves – 2014, 2015
Quinteiro Teresa – 2013
Alex Fernandes – 2010, 2011, 2012
João Ricardo – 2008, 2009
See also
Angola women's national handball team
Angola women's junior national handball team
Angola women's youth basketball team
References
External links
Team roster 2012 Youth World Championship
Women's national youth handball teams
Youth national team
Handball
Youth sport in Angola
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lee%20%28surgeon%29
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Richard Lee (surgeon)
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Richard Lee is a cardiac surgeon in St. Louis, Missouri, who helped pioneer a staged Hybrid Maze, a procedure for atrial fibrillation or AFIB. combining surgery and catheter based approaches.
He was the vice chair of surgery at Saint Louis University and co-director of the Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care at Saint Louis University Hospital.
Education
Lee received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1988. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1993 with his M.D. degree. Lee completed his internship at the Medical College of Wisconsin and his residencies at Rush University Medical Center and Washington University School of Medicine. He finished a fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in Adult Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation in 2003. During his surgical training, he spent two years in the research lab of James L. Cox, MD. There he developed a technique to re-create the Cox maze procedure on a beating heart.
Lee has an MBA from the John M. Olin School of Business, also known as the Olin Business School, at Washington University in St. Louis.
Career
From 2003 to 2007, Lee was Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Division at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. During that time he served as surgical director for heart transplantation as well as Director of the Coronary artery bypass surgery Outcomes Program.
In 2007, Lee moved to Northwestern University and the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois as Assistant Professor of Surgery. During this time, he was Surgical Director of the Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It was there his research into surgical options for atrial fibrillation were honed, finding "Patients undergoing surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation had survival similar to that of patients without a history of atrial fibrillation."
He returned to St. Louis in 2012, to become vice chair of surgery at Saint Louis University and co-director of the Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care at Saint Louis University Hospital, where they invested $5 million to create the Center and recruit Lee back from Chicago to help run it.
Lee increased the volume of surgeries at Saint Louis University Hospital, working with co-director Michael Lim, MD, to combine division of cardiology with division of cardiac surgery in a single program.
In 2018 he became the new chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
He serves as an associate editor of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
References
American cardiac surgeons
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Olin Business School (Washington University) alumni
Northwestern University alumni
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Alphonsi
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Maggie Alphonsi
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Margaret Alphonsi (born 20 December 1983) is an English former rugby union player who played as a flanker for Saracens W.R.F.C. and England before retiring in 2014. She was Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year in 2010, and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in November 2016 during the opening ceremonies for the Hall's first physical location in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Alphonsi was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to rugby.
Life
Alphonsi was born in Lewisham, south London to a single-parent family. She was born with a club foot, which she had to overcome in order to play rugby.
Alphonsi was named in the 2014 World Cup Dream Team. She retired shortly after England won the 2014 World Cup in France and now coaches and promotes female participation and coaching in sport.
She was a Rugby World Cup 2015 Ambassador and is an ambassador of several not-for-profits and charities including Peace One Day, Wooden Spoon, Sporting Equals and SKRUM which aims to give the youth of Africa hope for the future through rugby.
She has played in two Rugby World Cups and in 2012 shared in a record seventh successive Six Nations title and a sixth Grand Slam in seven years. She won the Pat Marshall award from the Rugby Union Writers’ Club, where she pipped New Zealand captain, Richie McCaw, to become the first woman to claim the prize in its 50-year history. She joined Gareth Malone and other celebrities in making the 2014 Children in Need official single.
Alphonsi attempted to qualify to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the shot put.
In 2019, she was on the voting panel for the World Rugby Men's 15 Player of the Year award, the World Rugby Team of the Year award, and World Rugby Coach of the Year award.
Alphonsi holds an MSc in Sports & Exercise from Roehampton University, a BSc in Sports & Exercise from De Montfort University, and a BTEC National Diploma in Leisure Studies from Hertford Regional College. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts by the University of Bedfordshire.
Alphonsi and her wife Marcia Collins have two children.
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1983 births
Living people
England women's international rugby union players
English female rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Black British sportswomen
Sportspeople from Lewisham
Rugby union players from the London Borough of Lewisham
English sportspeople of Nigerian descent
World Rugby Hall of Fame inductees
The Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year winners
England international women's rugby sevens players
English rugby sevens players
Female rugby sevens players
Saracens Women rugby players
Lesbian sportswomen
LGBT rugby union players
British LGBT rugby union players
Alumni of De Montfort University
Alumni of the University of Roehampton
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostad%20Kolayeh
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Ostad Kolayeh
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Ostad Kolayeh (, also Romanized as Ostād Kolāyeh) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 521, in 158 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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41061200
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Jaar
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Ricardo Jaar
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Ricardo Jorge Jaar is a Honduran academic and businessman, known for his contributions in higher education and corporate social responsibility. He was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Personal data
His parents are Mr. Jorge E. Jaar Q.D.D.G., and Mrs. Elena J Larach de Jaar. He has two sisters and three brothers.
Higher education
In February 1991, Jaar received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Systems Analysis and Engineering from The George Washington University, Washington, DC, and in May 1993, he received a Master of Arts Degree in Applied Economics at The American University, Washington, DC.
Academic career
In 1994 after graduating from The American University, Washington DC., Ricardo J. Jaar returned to his home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and became a professor at the local university, Universidad de San Pedro Sula in 1995. His teaching responsibilities included a wide range of subjects from economics to operations research. He became a member of the Board of Directors of this institution and today, eventually becoming the Director of that Board, Executive President of the university, and President of Campus Television, the first HD TV station in the country;. In 2004, Ricardo J. Jaar founded Fundacion Educar, a non-profit organization that provides refurbished computers free of charge to public schools and to less fortunate communities in Honduras www.fundaeducar.org with the support of Computadores Para Educar from Colombia.
Jaar was part of the organization committee of the XXVII Model OAS General Assembly (MOAS) celebrated in San Pedro Sula, Honduras 27–30 April 2009 and has successfully organized presidential debates in Honduras for the past 2 presidential elections ., and has organized for several years, along with the US Embassy in Honduras and Fundacion Covelo, the program " Sueño Hondureño" to encourage students from public schools to form their own micro-enterprises and provides real-world business experience
Awards and honors
Dean's Commendation List at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Ricardo J. Jaar has also received numerous awards for his efforts in the education field, among them: Galardón La Concordia, given by The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and COHEP the Honduran National Business Council, for best practices in Social responsibility. in 2008 Consejo Iberoamericano en Honor a la Calidad Educativa awarded Mr. Jaar the Title Honoris Causa de Iberoamerica and the Honorific Title of Master en Gestión Educativa de Iberoamérica
Other activity
Other positions held by Mr. Jaar in the Honduran community are: Member of the Board of Directors of INTERLEASE S.A. de C.V. (Commercial Vehicles Dealership and leasing company) and Counselor to the Board of Directors of Fundación Hondureña de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (FUNDAHRSE).
References
1968 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of San Pedro Sula
Honduran businesspeople
American University alumni
George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
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41061201
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomaqestan
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Chomaqestan
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Chomaqestan () may refer to:
Chomaqestan, Amlash
Chomaqestan, Rudsar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khomeyr%20Mahalleh%2C%20Amlash
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Khomeyr Mahalleh, Amlash
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Khomeyr Mahalleh (, also Romanized as Khomeyr Maḩalleh) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 68, in 19 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoseynabad%2C%20Amlash
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Hoseynabad, Amlash
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Hoseynabad (, also Romanized as Ḩoseynābād) is a village in Amlash-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 207, in 56 families.
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Populated places in Amlash County
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