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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorithia%20wellingana
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Dorithia wellingana
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Dorithia wellingana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Guatemala.
References
Moths described in 1991
Euliini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Sansores%20Sastr%C3%A9
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Antonio Sansores Sastré
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Antonio Sansores Sastré (born 7 January 1964) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tabasco.
References
1964 births
Living people
Politicians from Tabasco
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
People from Tenosique
Universidad Veracruzana alumni
Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Tabasco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorithia%20paraviridana
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Dorithia paraviridana
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Dorithia paraviridana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Guatemala.
References
Moths described in 1991
Euliini
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41069739
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorithia%20tototuana
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Dorithia tototuana
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Dorithia tototuana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Oaxaca, Mexico.
References
Moths described in 1991
Euliini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20Ethics
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Clinical Ethics
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Clinical Ethics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers medical ethics, clinical ethics, bioethics and medical law. The editor-in-chief is Jonathan Lewis (University of Manchester). It was established in 2006 and is published by SAGE Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed and Scopus.
References
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Bioethics journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jag%20tror%20p%C3%A5%20oss
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Jag tror på oss
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"Jag tror på oss" is a song written by Lars "Dille" Diedricson, Martin Hedström and Ingela "Pling" Forsman, and performed by the Swedish band Scotts at Melodifestivalen 2009. Through the semifinal in Gothenburg on 7 February 2009, the song went to Andra chansen where it failed to reach the finals.
The song peaked at 3rd place on the Swedish singles chart. The song was also tested for Svensktoppen on 12 April 2009 but failed to go through.
Later in 2009, the song was also added as a bonus track on the Scotts album Längtan.
After Dark was originally asked to participate with the song, but declined following scheduling problems.
Charts
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
2009 songs
2009 singles
Swedish-language songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 2009
Songs with lyrics by Ingela Forsman
Scotts (band) songs
Songs written by Lars Diedricson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitica
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Habitica
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Habitica, formerly HabitRPG, is an online task management application developed by HabitRPG, Inc. It was founded on January 30, 2013. The application uses the format of a role-playing game to organize tasks. Habitica is an open source project.
Concept
Habitica is a self-improvement web application that uses game mechanics to assist users in structuring their behavior.
The game is laid out in the form of an RPG in which the player collects items, such as gold and armor, and gains levels to become more powerful. Rewards are achieved through maintaining real-life goals in the form of Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos.
Gameplay
In Habitica, Habits are long-term goals that are utilized to change a person's habits. These Habits can be set to either 'positive', 'negative', or both.
For example:
A predefined Habit may be "1 hour of productive work". If a user records an hour of productive work on the Habitica app, they will gain experience and gold; this is a positive Habit.
A predefined Habit may be "Eat junk food". If a user records eating junk food on the Habitica app, they will lose health; this is a negative Habit.
A predefined Habit may be "Take the stairs". If a user records taking the stairs, they will gain experience and gold. If they record not taking the stairs, they will lose health; this is a positive and a negative Habit.
If a user completes a positive Habit often, it will turn green, signifying their ability to commit to their Habit. If a user performs a negative Habit often, it will start to turn red and do increasing damage to their health. When players accrue enough experience points, they gain a level, which restores their health.
Dailies are completed in a scheduled and repeatable fashion, as the player schedules these in advance. To-Dos are one-time tasks that can be added or deleted; when completed, they disappear. Unlike Habits and Dailies, these do not damage health.
Mobile application
An official mobile application named Habitica is available for the Android and iOS operating systems. These mobile applications are replacements for the deprecated mobile apps named HabitRPG, which were released as promised after the $25,000 Kickstarter fund goal was reached.
History
Tyler Renelle originally created HabitRPG to help with his own habits, having been inspired by the self-help books The Power of Habit and The Now Habit. The earliest version of HabitRPG was a Google Docs spreadsheet with color-coded cell formulae.
As the community of HabitRPG users grew, Renelle reached out to Siena Leslie and Vicky Hsu. Leslie and Hsu became co-founders of HabitRPG, Inc., which was formally incorporated as a company in 2014.
On July 31, 2015, the website and apps were renamed to Habitica, after the land where players’ adventures take place. The change was made because some users found the name HabitRPG confusing or difficult to remember. The company name remained HabitRPG, Inc.
In December of 2022, the moderators left after a disagreement with the staff. As a result, many recurring challenges ended. On August 8, 2023, Habitica removed the Tavern and guilds, which were their social spaces, forcing much of the community to instead use sites like Discord.
Community
Community volunteers contribute to Habitica in various ways, such as by creating pixel art, translating text, creating music and sound effects, writing blog posts to promote Habitica, editing the wiki, resolving bugs, implementing new features, and answering new users’ questions.
Kickstarter
Starting on January 11, 2013, Renelle started a campaign on the fund-raising site Kickstarter to improve the development of the application with a goal of $25,000. The goal was surpassed.
See also
Role-playing games
Gamification
Motivation
Task management software
Serious games
References
External links
on Fandom – A wiki actively maintained by the Habitica community that provides documentation on its features
Free software
Role-playing games
Task management software
American websites
Gamification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%E2%80%93Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20relations
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Democratic Republic of the Congo–Republic of the Congo relations
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The Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) share the basin of the Congo River (after which both nations are named). The two nations' capital cities, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, are the two closest capital cities on Earth after Rome and Vatican City (a micro-city state enclaved within the former), facing each other on both sides of the Congo River. As Francophone nations formerly ruled by France and Belgium, respectively, both Congos are member states of La Francophonie.
History
The two countries were involved in diplomatic controversy (LICOPA affair) in August of 1971 when DR Congo (then Zaire) declared the Republic of Congo's charge d'affaires to be a persona non grata. Despite the incident, relations between the two countries were not canceled and general Mobutu reiterated his commitment to brotherly relations in Central Africa. On 22 August that same year, DR Congo's court sentenced LICOPA member Ando Ibarra to three years in prison and 10 years of expulsion from the country due to "violation of external security and spread of fake news".
References
Congo, Republic of the
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Santa%20Maria%2C%20Bulacan
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Geography of Santa Maria, Bulacan
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Santa Maria is a landlocked municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines comprising 24 barangays with a total land area of 90.925 square kilometers (35.106 sq mi).
The geographic location of Santa Maria may be regarded favorable with respect to its relative distance from the National Capital Region (NCR) and the Provincial Capitol. Lying at the eastern portion of Bulacan, which is just 32 kilometers away from Manila. In terms of location relative to its neighboring towns, Santa Maria is bounded on the north by the municipalities of Angat and Pandi; portion of San Jose del Monte City on the south; Norzagaray and other portions of San Jose del Monte City on the east; and municipalities of Marilao and Bocaue on the western side.
Topography
The topography of Santa Maria is generally flat, however, it is hilly towards the north. This area covers the barangays of Silangan, Mag-asawang Sapa, Pulong Buhangin and some parts of Balasing with landscape ranging from 8 to 18 percent slope. The rest of the barangays have a slope range from level to undulating.
Network of small rivers can be found all throughout the municipal territory. Flowing downstream from the north, these tributaries converge into the Santa Maria River. This river plays a vital role in the physical configuration of Santa Maria and adjacent towns of Norzagaray and San Jose del Monte City as it drains water from these areas.
Climate
Santa Maria has a climate “first type” which is defined as having two pronounced seasons: Dry from November to April and wet during the rest of the year. During the dry months, precipitation is less because of the prevailing easterly wind blow to produce rainfall in its leeward side.
The Köppen climate system classifies Santa Maria climate as tropical monsoon (Am) due to its location and precipitation characteristics. This means that the municipality has two pronounced seasons: dry and wet seasons.
Santa Maria's most perceptible months start from May and may have its maximum in August, which gradually decreases until December. During these most months, thunderstorms and rain showers causes precipitation in May and June while the rest is primarily due to the southeast monsoon that prevails on this particular part of the year. Others which occur in November and December are caused by tropical cyclones that pass through the area.
Temperature
The annual mean temperature in the area is . The warmest month is May with mean temperature of while the coldest is January at .
Relative humidity
The mean annual relative humidity in the area is 77%, which is under a normal condition. The mean monthly relative humidity is lowest in March at 64% and highest in September at 84%.
Ground water
The source of potable water of Santa Maria is purely dependent from its aquifer underneath it. Although the town is not rich in surface water, its ground water resources has sufficiently provide Santa Maria with their present requirement. Ground water in Santa Maria is essentially under shallow well areas, which means that fresh water can be easily found at a depth of about 20 meters below the ground surface. However, at present, potable water is sourced at 100 meters above. On the contrary, this finite resource has been badly contaminated by infiltration of sewage in some shallow wells at barangays San Jose Patag, Catmon, Pulong Buhangin, Santa Clara and Bagbaguin.
Soil
Soil suitability
The soils in Santa Maria is classified under three (3) categories namely soils of the Alluvial Landscape, soils of the Piedmont Landscape and soils of the Hilly Landscape.
Alluvial landscape
Soils range from clayey to fine clayey somewhat poorly to poorly drained deep soils. These soils are principally grown to paddy rice and can be used for fishpond during rainy season. This landscape is composed of two (2) minor landform units as follows:
1. River terraces and levees – Narrow river terraces are topographic surfaces, which mark former valley floor levels and resulting from seasonal stream. The levels are elevated landforms slightly above the narrow river terraces. Some areas are subject to slight to moderate seasonal flooding in some years.
2. Low Alluvial terraces and depressions – It consists of the slightly dissected broad low alluvial terraces depressions and narrow alluvial valleys.
Moreover, soil series of the Alluvial Landscape consists of the Batia and Tagulod Series. Both series has low to adequate organic matter content and inherent fertility. However, Batia Series can be found on a relative steeper slopes covering the barangays of Lalakhan, Bagbaguin and Santa Clara. Tagulod Series on the other hand, covers the barangays of Manggahan, Caysio, Caypombo, Camangyanan, Tumana and Parada which is regarded to be generally utilized under rice production during wet season.
Piedmont landscape
It consists of gently undulating to rolling tuffaceous and sedimentary foot slopes slightly above and adjacent to the plain and free from local flooding hazard. This landscape, however, is composed of two soils series namely the Pulong Buhangin Series and Maysan Series. Pulong Buhangin Series has deficient organic matter content and high to moderate inherent fertility. This is principally utilized for paddy rice and built-up areas. Non-irrigated paddy rice constitutes the principal crop during wet season. These soils are left fallowed during dry season due to lack of irrigation and rainfall. These areas can be found in the central to upper portion of Santa Maria. Meanwhile, the Maysan series consists of very gently sloping to gently undulating shallow moderately drained soils that is formed on degraded tuffaceous sandstone footslopes. This series is mainly utilized for paddy ricefields during wet season and generally left idle during dry season
Hilly landscape
These soils are primarily in rolling sedimentary hills. The drainage is good with low to medium natural fertility. These areas can be found at barangays Pulong Buhangin, Mag-asawang Sapa, Balasing, Bulac, San Vicente and Guyong. These soils are primarily under pasture grass. Some cultivated areas are grown to diversified cropping.
Soil fertility
Soil pH
Soil pH measures the level of acidity of the soil – the lower the pH, the more acidic the soil. Most parts of Santa Maria are medium acidic ranging from 5.6 to 6.0 pH. Includes the barangays of Silangan, Mag-asawang Sapa, Caypombo, Caysio, Manggahan, Santa Cruz, Poblacion, Guyong, Balasing, Bulac, Catmon, San Gabriel, San Vicente, Camangyanan and Buenavista. The barangays of Pulong Buhangin, Santa Clara, Lalakhan, Tumana and Parada are strongly acidic ranging 5.1 to 5.5 pH and slightly acidic for the barangay of San Jose Patag ranging from 6.1 to 6.5 pH.
Available phosphorus
Most parts of Santa Maria are low in phosphorus ranging from 0 ppm to 9 ppm. It includes the barangays of Silangan, Mag-asawang Sapa, Caypombo, Caysio, Manggahan, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Lalakhan, Poblacion, Guyong, Balasing, Bulac, San Jose Patag, Tumana, San Gabriel, Parada and San Vicente. Other barangays such as Pulong Buhangin, Camangyanan and Buenavista are medium in phosphorus ranging from 9.0 ppm to 20.0 ppm.
Available potassium
Most parts of Santa Maria are sufficient in Potassium ranging from 100 ppm and above. It includes the barangays of Mag-asawang Sapa, Santa Clara, Poblacion, Guyong, Balasing, Bulac, San Jose Patag, Parada, San Vicente, Camangyanan and Buenavista. However, Silangan, Caypombo, Caysio, Manggahan, Santa Cruz, Tumana, San Gabriel and Pulong Buhangin are deficient in Potassium ranging from 0 ppm to 100 ppm.
Geology
Guadalupe Formation is the major underlying geological structure present in the territory of the municipality of Santa Maria. This is made up of two formations namely Alat Conglomerate and Diliman Tuff. Alat Conglomerate is characterized by its consolidated pebbles, gravel or boulder beds composition. While Diliman Tuff is generally made up of an almost flat-lying sequence of vitric tuffs and welded volcanic breccias with subordinate amounts of tuffaceous, fine- to medium-grained sandstone. Based on this makeup, the whole area of Santa Maria is regarded to be very suitable to hold structures necessary for urban development.
Ground shaking
The primary hazard or danger that can be brought by an earthquake is the effect of ground shaking. Buildings or properties can be damaged by the shaking itself or by the ground beneath them settling to a different level than it was before the earthquake. Santa Maria is fortunate to be free from fault lines. The nearest fault line is found at San Jose del Monte City which is just 17 kilometers away from its city proper. However, ground shaking can still be experienced by the town which can pose hazard to properties. Using the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (REDAS), the planning team was able to simulate the effect of ground shaking at Santa Maria if the nearest fault line located at San Jose del Monte City would move at magnitude 7 and 5 meter depth earthquake. The side effect is estimated to incur slight damage.
References
Santa Maria, Bulacan
Geography of Bulacan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%20Hentschel
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Tyler Hentschel
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Tyler Benjamin Hentschel (born December 16, 1982), sometimes known as Dr Folklore, or Rev Folklore is an American performer who is best known for his work as the lead singer, guitarist, and lyricist/composer of the group Insomniac Folklore. He has had a successful career as an artist and touring musician.
Life and career
Hentschel was born Tyler Benjamin Hentschel in Roseburg, Oregon's Douglas Community Hospital, He attended Umpqua Valley Christian School, during high school. Tyler got his first guitar freshman year and started playing in punk rock and hard core bands. During this time he was writing his own songs on acoustic guitar and looking for someone to sing them. When he couldn't find a singer he decided to fill the role himself. "I never considered myself a singer" Hentschel Says, "and when I first started, I wasn't! My junior year I played at a school assembly in front of a couple hundred people. I did three of my songs, and looking back, that was the boldest thing I have done up to that point because I was terrible!" Junior year he was playing as "The Tyler Hentschel Band" and soon changed the name to "Insomniac Folklore". He continued to play music locally and worked as a courtesy clerk at a grocery store and also as a janitor until his touring career began in 2003.
Tyler was married to Adrienne Michelle Curry in 2011.
He has also lived in Portland, OR and St Louis, MO.
Tyler has mentioned that he wished he sounded cooler on this Wikipedia page.
Insomniac Folklore
Insomniac Folklore is an American indie, folk, punk music group from Portland, Oregon. The group is currently made up of Rev Tyler Hentschel, Adrienne Michelle and Amanda Curry with other members joining them from time to time. Tyler is the projects only consistent member since he founded the group in 2001 as a folk-punk, solo act.
The projects name came from what Hentschel describes in an interview as, "a long running battle with insomnia." during this time he was writing songs, "This is when this project was born. It was just a name for my solo project. It was my stories and beliefs, or my 'folklore,' and I was an insomniac."
After his first tour in 2003, Hentschel decided that "this is really what I want to do with my life." Since then, Insomniac Folklore has released six, full-length studio albums, numerous other recordings and completed multiple tours of the continental United States.
Other work
Other than artwork for his own projects, Hentschel has done album art for acts like, Destroy Nate Allen and Kevin Schlereth.
Hentschel is credited with recording and producing an album called "Until My Ankle is Better" by Destroy Nate Allen.
Tyler has made a few small appearances on the 3rd and 4th seasons of the ABC network television show, Nashville.
In 2016 Hentschel worked stage crew for the thrash metal act, Slayer
and operated spot light for the shock rock pioneer, Alice Cooper.
Insomniac Folklore Discography
Studio albums
Despite It All (2001)
Consumer Appreciation (2003)
Smile or Die (2005)
Oh Well (2007)
LP (2010)
A Place Where Runaways Are Not Alone (2011)
Everything Will Burn (2017)
EPs
"Split EP w/ Nate Allen" (2005)
"Split EP w/ The Gray Fox" (2008)
EP (2010)
Folklore, Narcissism, Destruction (2011)
The Scariest Thing in The Dark (2012)
Kill a Tree for Jesus (2012)
B-side and demo albums
What a Mess Vol. 1 (2010)
Alone (2010)
Live albums
Live in Salem (2006)
Singles
"Listen to Your Parents (But Don't Trust the Government)" (2013)
Compilations
"Quiver Society Comp 1" (2006)
"Failing Records: A Compilation Of Portland Music Volume 4" (2007)
"Folk Family Union Volume 2" (2010)
References
1982 births
Living people
People from Roseburg, Oregon
Musicians from Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Fernanda%20Schroeder
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María Fernanda Schroeder
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María Fernanda Schroeder Verdugo (born 9 September 1958) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. As of 2013 she served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Baja California.
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Mexicali
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican women politicians
Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Baja California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna%20Datz
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Orna Datz
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Orna Datz ( ; born Orna Cohen born 10 May 1964) is an Israeli singer, actress and television presenter.
Biography
Orna Cohen was born in Holon, Israel. At age 17, she was elected "Miss Holon". In 1987 she married the singer Moshe Datz and they became known as the Duo Datz. In 2001 she began to host the fashion tv series Makeover (מהפך), and in 2006 she began hosting the Israeli version of The Swan. In 2005 and 2006 she presented the Miss Israel Beauty pageant .
References
20th-century Israeli women singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Israel
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1991
Israeli television presenters
Israeli beauty pageant winners
Beauty pageant hosts
1964 births
Living people
Israeli women television presenters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honobu%20Yonezawa
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Honobu Yonezawa
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is a Japanese writer, best known for his young adult mystery series Kotenbu, also known as the Classic Literature Club series.
Biography
Honobu Yonezawa was born in 1978 in the Gifu Prefecture.
From as young as he could remember, Yonezawa wanted to be a writer. At 11 years old, he wrote a sequel to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, and started writing original novels in the second year of junior high school. In his second year of Kanazawa University studying literature, he started publishing his works on his site Hanmuden (汎夢殿) (the website was temporarily shut down after his official debut and these works are currently unavailable). His early work were diverse in genre, but Yonezawa was struck when he read Kaoru Kitamura's Flying Horse (空飛ぶ馬) and Princess in Rokunomiya (六の宮の姫君) while in university, and decided to turn his attention to writing mysteries.
After graduating from university, Yonezawa convinced his parents to let him try and attain his dream of writing a novel for two years. He got a job as a bookstore clerk in Takayama while he continued writing on the side. In 2001, he officially debuted with the novel Hyōka, (氷菓) which received an honorable mention in the 5th Kadokawa Gakuen Novel Young Person Mystery and Horror Category Awards (角川学園小説大賞). His decision to submit was fueled by positive reception of Hyōka on his website Hanmuden, that he personally saw a future in the combination of light novels and mysteries, and because he was late for the deadline of another award. Hyōka became the first novel in a series dubbed the Classic Literature Club (古典部) series, to be distributed by the newly established Sneaker Mystery Club within the Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint. Hyōka was soon followed with Gusha no Endorōru (愚者のエンドロール) in 2002.
However, when Yonezawa had completed the draft for the third and what he intended to be the final book in the Classic Literature Club series, the label was going on hiatus due to changing trends in the market, so he could not get it published. Despite this, he was approached by Tokyo Sogensha who inquired what he was working on, thanks partly to recommendations from writers Kiyoshi Kasai and Kazuki Sakuraba. When he explained the situation to the publisher, they asked to see the draft and after a few days they requested rights to publish it. After discussions between Kadokawa, Tokyo Sogensha and Yonezawa, they agreed to have the novel published, and after changing details such as the characters and the setting, Sayonara Yōsei (さよなら妖精) was published in 2004. It was featured in the magazine Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! (このミステリーがすごい!) in 2005, ranking 20th in the domestic category.
In the same year, he published Shunki Gentei Ichigo Taruto Jiken (春期限定いちごタルト事件), the first novel of the Shōshimin (小市民) series.
Around the same time, he moved from Gifu to Tōkyō.
In 2008, when Yonezawa published Hakanai Hitsuji tachi no Shukuen (儚い羊たちの祝宴), he states that he started not only paying attention to the riddles present within his works, but also how they appeal to a wider audience. So when he published Oreta Ryūkotsu (折れた竜骨) in 2010, which incorporated some fantasy elements to an otherwise classical mystery story, it won the 64th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for the following year.
In 2012, Kyoto Animation aired an anime adaptation of the Classic Literature Club series under the name of the first novel, Hyōka.
Since 2013, he has been on the selection committee for the Mysteries! Rookie of the Year Award (ミステリーズ!新人賞).
In 2014, his short story collection Mangan (満願) was selected as one of the best mysteries in the Mystery ga Yomitai!, (ミステリーが読みたい!) Shūkan Bunshun Mystery Best 10, (週刊文春ミステリーベスト10) and Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! It was ranked the top in domestic rankings and became the first book in history to receive three simultaneous rankings from different publications. It also won the 27th Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize and the 151st Naoki Prize.
In 2016, he was selected by literary magazine Granta in their Japanese edition as one of the Granta Best of Young Japanese Novelists.
Awards and nominations
Hyōka (or Hyouka) [lit. Frozen Dessert] (Novel)
2001 – The Encouragement Prize in the 5th Kadokawa School Novel Prize (Kadokawa Gakuen Shōsetsu Taishō), YA Mystery/Horror category
"Kokoroatari no Aru Mono wa" [lit. "Anyone Who Knows"] (Short story)
2007 – Nominee for Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story
Inshite Miru [lit. Try Indulging] (Novel)
2008 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Novel
Tsuisō Godanshō [lit. Five morceaux of Reminiscence] (Novel)
2010 – Nominee for Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel
2010 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Novel
Oreta Ryūkotsu [lit. Broken Keel] (Novel)
2011 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel
2011 – The Best Japanese Mystery Fiction of the Year (2012 Honkaku Mystery Best 10)
2011 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Novel
2011 – Nominee for Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
Mangan (Novel)
2014 – Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
2014 – Nominee for Naoki Prize
Kokurōjō (Novel)
2021 – Yamada Fūtarō Prize
2021 – Naoki Prize
Bibliography
Hyōka series (Classic Literature Club series)
Novels
, 2001
, 2002
, 2005
, 2010
Short story collection
, 2007
, 2016
Shōshimin series
, 2004
, 2006
, 2009
, 2020
Standalone mystery novels
, 2004
, 2005
, 2006 (A Partial Translation of Bottleneck at Tufts Digital Library)
, 2007
, 2008
, 2009
, 2010
, 2009
, 2014
, 2018
, 2019
, 2021
Film adaptations
The Incite Mill (2010, directed by Hideo Nakata) (based on the novel Inshite Miru)
See also
Japanese detective fiction
Light novel
References
External links
Twitter
1978 births
Living people
20th-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese novelists
Japanese male short story writers
Japanese mystery writers
Light novelists
Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners
Naoki Prize winners
Writers of young adult literature
Writers from Gifu Prefecture
20th-century Japanese short story writers
21st-century Japanese short story writers
20th-century Japanese male writers
21st-century male writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ren%C3%A1n%20Sosa%20Altamira
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William Renán Sosa Altamira
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William Renán Sosa Altamira (born 21 April 1957) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Yucatán.
References
1957 births
Living people
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Yucatán
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20Jonny%20Eikefjord
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Ole Jonny Eikefjord
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Ole Jonny Eikefjord (born 21 September 1970 in Førde) is a Norwegian chef, cookbook author and restaurateur. Together with businessman Petter Stordalen he owns restaurants Restaurant Eik, Restaurant Eik Annen Etage, Restaurant Fjord, Bella Bambina, Rodins, Teatro and Teatro Terrasse. Eikefjord has also been a regular chef on TV2's popular program Sommertid, and made the wedding dinner for the Norwegian Crown Prince couple's wedding on 25 August 2001.
Career
Eikefjord comes from Førde in Sogn og Fjordane. He started his career as a chef at Sunnfjord hotel where he rose through the ranks from apprentice to head chef. He then became head chef at the Hotel Continental in Oslo where he was "discovered" by Petter Stordalen. Together they opened Restaurant Eik who has received an "bib gourmand» from the Michelin Guide nine times, 2013 included, and became the start of a range of restaurant ventures.
Restaurant ventures
Restaurant Eik - Located on the corner of Hotel Savoy, across the street from the National Gallery. Open kitchen and art on the walls. Recommended in the Michelin Guide's BibGourmand category for "very good food at moderate prices». Got a «one glass» rating for the quality and depth of its wine list by the Wine Spectator in 2013.
Restaurant Eik Annen Etage - Located in the historic Hotel Continental. Fine dining restaurant in plush, yet innovative surroundings with a bar area open to everyone. Got a «two glass» rating for the quality and depth of its wine list by the Wine Spectator in 2013.
Restaurant Fjord - Located on the corner of Hotel Savoy, across the street from the National Gallery. Offers varieties of fish in all forms according to seasonal availability. Got a «one glass» rating for the quality and depth of its wine list by the Wine Spectator in 2013.
Bella Bambina - Located at the Oslo Central Station. Italian restaurant, which makes their own pasta.
Rodins
Teatro
Teatro Terrasse
Corporate social responsibility
Eikefjord and investor Petter Stordalen attracted national attention when Restaurant Eik became Norway's first non-smoking restaurant in 2003 - eighteen months before a public smoking ban was introduced. Eikefjord has repeatedly publicly denouncing the use of foie gras.
When Justin Bieber visited Oslo in May 2012, the pop star ate a three course lunch followed by hamburger - at Eikefjord's Restaurant Eik Annen Etage.
Books and wines
In 2008 Eikefjord released the critically acclaimed cookbook "Gourmet For The People", which was nominated for Norwegian cookbook of the year. In 2011, he followed up with cookbook "Fisk og Skalldyr - Delikatesser fra mesterkokken». He received top ratings for his red wines, one of them named after himself: "Niepoort Douro OJ Eikefjord".
Bibliography
"Gourmet for folket" - Cookbook Det Norske Samlaget (2008)
"Fisk og skalldyr - Delikatesser fra mesterkokken" - Cookbook Aschehoug (2011)
References
External links
Official website of Restaurant Eik
Official website of Restaurant Eik Annen Etage
Official website of Restaurant Fjord
Official website of Restaurant Bella Bambina
Official website of Restaurant Rodins
Official website of Restaurant Teatro
Official website of Teatro Terrasse
1970 births
Living people
Norwegian chefs
Norwegian food writers
Norwegian restaurateurs
Norwegian television chefs
People from Førde
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20nigrivelata
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Ecnomiomorpha nigrivelata
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Ecnomiomorpha nigrivelata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Panama.
References
Moths described in 1914
Euliini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Armoured%20Division%20%28Syria%29
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3rd Armoured Division (Syria)
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The 3rd Armoured Division () is a formation of the Syrian Army responsible for securing the northern approach to Damascus. The division is based in a military complex near Qutayfah and has traditionally been seen as one of the Syrian Armed Force's most reliable conventional divisions.
Command structure
As of 2011 the division was under the command of Maj. Gen. Naim Jasem Suleiman. The 65th Brigade was under the command of Brig. Gen. Jihad Mohamed Sultan.
As of 2019, the 3rd Armored Division is part of the Syrian Army's 3rd Corps, and is composed of 65th Armoured Brigade, the 81st Armoured Brigade, the 21st Mechanized Brigade and 67th, 123rd Artillery Regiments.
Combat history
Islamic Uprising in Syria
The division, under General Shafiq Fayadh, played a key role in defeating the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the 1980s. During the conflict the entire Division was deployed to Aleppo in March 1980, and garrisoned the city for an entire year. Patrick Seale wrote on how the division had "a tank in almost every street.” Seale also wrote of an incident where General Fayadh stood on the turret of a tank and proclaimed that “he was prepared to kill a thousand men a day to rid the city of the vermin of the Muslim Brothers.”
The division was also used in the Government assault on Hama, with the division's 47th Armoured and 21st Mechanized Brigades providing the backbone of the assault.
Muslim Brotherhood reports following the uprising suggested that three quarters of the officers, and a third of the soldiers of these brigades were Alawites.
1984 coup attempt
The division, under Fayadh, also played a key role in blocking an attempted coup in 1984 by Rifaat al-Assad. The 3rd Division, along with Ali Haydar's Special Forces and the Republican Guard, engaged with Rifaat's Defence Companies in Damascus. While the Special Forces deployed anti-Tank platoons on the streets of Damascus to confront Rifaat's armoured columns and surrounded Rifaat's bases with snipers, Fayadh's armoured forces provided the armoured back-up and firepower to completely insulate Damascus from the outside, so that Defense Company units outside of Damascus ( in Lebanon and further north) could not come inside Damascus, and the 30,000 or so of Rifaat's forces within the environs of Damascus were effectively trapped.
Role in the civil war
Human Rights Watch accused the division of involvement in the suppression of protests at the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. Specifically, the division was alleged to have been involved in the violent suppression of protests in Douma and Daraa in April 2011. In Douma, the division was allegedly involved in arbitrary arrests, the looting of homes, and the shooting of unarmed protesters.
The 3rd Division played a central role in creating and supporting the pro-government Qalamoun Shield Forces, consisting of loyalist and reconciled rebels in the north Qalamoun area of Damascus in 2015. The division has been inactive since the mid-2018 offensives to clear the opposition pocket in East Ghouta, Damascus during the Rif Dimashq Governorate campaign and the ISIS pocket in north Suwayda. Since then, the bulk of the 3rd Division’s units have returned to their respective bases on the outskirts of Damascus. In December 2018, a process of rehabilitation and reorganization with Russian help began within the 3rd Armored Division.
References
Armoured divisions of Syria
Military units and formations established in 1971
Armoured Division 3
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Francisco%20Sotomayor
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Jorge Francisco Sotomayor
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Jorge Francisco Sotomayor Chávez (born 5 February 1980) is a Mexican independent politician formerly affiliated with the PAN. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District.
References
1980 births
Living people
Politicians from Mexico City
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Panamerican University alumni
Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Mexico City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidatus%20Legionella%20jeonii
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Candidatus Legionella jeonii
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{{Taxobox
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| name = Candidatus Legionella jeonii| domain = Bacteria
| phylum = Pseudomonadota
| classis = Gammaproteobacteria
| ordo = Legionellales
| familia = Legionellaceae
| genus = Legionella| species = 'Ca. L. jeonii| binomial = Candidatus Legionella jeonii
| binomial_authority = Park et al. 2004
| type_strain =
| synonyms =
}}Candidatus Legionella jeonii is a candidatus species of bacteria from the genus Legionella. Previously known as X-bacterium', Candidatus Legionella jeonii grows symbiotically in Amoeba proteus''. This endosymbiotic relationship was first noticed by Kwang Jeon and Joan Lorch in 1966.
A more recent reference dropped "Candidatus" from its name.
References
Legionellales
Bacteria described in 2004
Candidatus taxa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20John%20Paul%20II%20and%20Primate%20Wyszy%C5%84ski
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Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński
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The Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński () is a Roman Catholic cultural and educational institution affiliated with the Archdiocese of Warsaw, honoring two prominent Polish Catholic leaders: Saint John Paul II, the first Polish Pope, and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno and Primate of Poland. It was established by a decree of 18 May 2010 issued by Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz.
The museum is located at the Temple of Divine Providence, which constitutes its integral part. The museum’s exhibition space, which was under construction , is housed above ground in the area surrounding the dome of the Church.
Mission
The Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński recognizes their contribution to Polish culture and preserves the memory of their resistance against the Nazi and communist totalitarian systems, which in the 20th century had exterminated many Polish citizens and attempted to overrun Poland's cultural identity. The museum was also commissioned to commemorate the role of the Catholic Church in Polish culture and society in the 20th century.
The Narrative Museum will be a time vehicle. The use of multimedia, decorations and sound effects is intended to take the visitor through a course of events and invite them to co-participate in the men's history.
Project
The main exhibition covers the period from 1901, the year Stefan Wyszyński was born, to 2005, the year John Paul II died.
The main exhibition was designed by the Kłaput Project (Barbara and Jarosław Kłaputowie).
The main exhibition
The main exhibition will consist of ten zones to highlight specific historical events. Four events of the twentieth century symbolize moments of special unity between the Polish nation and the Catholic Church: the Millennium of the Baptism of Poland in 1966; the first papal Mass conducted at Victory Square in Warsaw in June 1979; the Solidarity (Polish trade union) of 1980; and the Great Jubilee of the year 2000.
The museum collections, audiovisual materials and other archival works will be used in the completed exhibition.
Key exhibits
Plac Zwycięstwa (Victory Square) (1979) - A place that has been changing, and the ite of historical events.
Powołanie (1901-1945 r.) - The period during which Wyszyński and Wojtyła were involved in activities to free Poland, including confrontation with two totalitarian systems during the Second World War.
“A Seed which Must Die” (1945-1956) - The imprisonment of Primate Wyszyński and persecution of the Church by the communist regime.
Millennium – National Confession of Faith (1956-1966)
Behind Iron Curtain (1966-1978) - The Polish contribution to the Second Vatican Council, with special emphasis on the role of Wojtyła and Wyszyński.
Gaude Mater Polonia [Rejoice Poland, the Mother] (1978-1981) - Karol Wojtyła elected pope. The experience of unity in Poland during the first papal travel to his homeland and the formation of the “Solidarity” movement.
Confrontation with the Evil Empire (1981-1989) - May 1981 was the date of the John Paul II assassination attempt and the death of Primate Wyszyński.
The Gift of Freedom (1989-2005)
The Church Founded on the Rock of Love. The pope leads the Church into the Third Millennium.
The Pope and Youth - relations between John Paul II and youth.
Educational activity
The museum offers educational projects for all-aged students both onsite and in schools. The workshops revolve around John Paul II's travels, his evangelizing message and Primate Wyszyński's attitudes about communism.
Special activities will occur on the anniversaries of the papal visits to Poland with conferences and temporary exhibitions. Conference proceedings are published every year.
Since 2012, on the anniversary of Wyszyński’s death, the museum has arranged sightseeing tours of the Residence of the Archbishops of Warsaw.
References
External links
Official website – Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński
Virtual Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński
Museums established in 2010
Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski
Religious museums in Poland
Museums in Warsaw
Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski
21st-century religious buildings and structures in Poland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20Veintimilla
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Dolores Veintimilla
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Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo (1829 in Quito – May 23, 1857, in Cuenca) was an Ecuadorian poet.
Her most well-known poem is "Quejas" (Complaints).
Veintemilla left few works, which were published posthumously in a collection by Celiano Monge in Quito.
Biography
Her parents were José Veintimilla and Jerónima Carrión y Antepara, who were from Loja, Ecuador.
On February 16, 1847, at the age of 18, she married Dr. Sixto Antonio Galindo y Oroña from Colombia. They had a son named Santiago, whose godmother was Rosa Ascázubi, the first lady of Ecuador (married to President Gabriel García Moreno). Veintimilla, her husband, and son moved to Guayaquil where they were accepted by high society with open arms.
A few years later, her husband left, moving to Central America to continue his studies, leaving Veintimilla alone. She occupied her time by pursuing literature and engaging with authors in the area.
After watching the shooting of a friend from the indigenous community in Guayaquil, Veintimilla wrote Necrologia, a work criticizing the death penalty and treatment of indigenous people at the time. The controversial opinions she espoused led members of the literary community like Fray Vicente Solano to disparage her, calling her immoral and anti-Christian for refusing to acknowledge the Christian God and instead citing a spirit she called El Gran Todo (The Great Everything).
As a result, her reputation was ruined to the point that she couldn’t leave the house, and she committed suicide on May 23, 1857, in Cuenca.
Literary works
Her notable prose includes “Fantasía” (Fantasy) and “Recuerdos” (Recollections), in which she dialogues with the past and blames time for giving an early death to her dreams. She best expressed her pain in her poetry, which includes “Aspiración” (Aspiration), “Desencanto” (Disenchantment), “Anhelo” (Yearning), “Sufrimiento” (Suffering), “La noche y mi dolor” (The Night and My Pain), “Quejas” (Complaints), “A mis enemigos” (To My Enemies), “A un Reloj” (To a Clock) and “A mi madre” (To My Mother). Her literary style is characterized by rhythmic and musical verse, and she hardly made use of metaphors or imagery in her poetry.
References
1829 births
1857 deaths
Ecuadorian poets
Writers from Quito
Ecuadorian women poets
19th-century poets
19th-century women writers
19th-century Ecuadorian people
Suicides in Ecuador
19th-century Ecuadorian women
19th-century Ecuadorian writers
19th-century Ecuadorian women writers
1850s suicides
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR%20Girls
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FAIR Girls
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FAIR Girls (formerly FAIR Fund) is an anti-human-trafficking organization, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The FAIR acronym stands for Free, Aware, Inspired, Restored. They operate in Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Russia, Uganda, and the United States. NASCAR driver Stanton Barrett is an executive board member and has prominently advertised for FAIR Girls through his cars.
FAIR Girls focuses on addressing sex trafficking and child prostitution. The organization received funding from the Office for Victims of Crime in 2019.
References
External links
2003 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Arbitrator%20%28Israeli%20TV%20series%29
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The Arbitrator (Israeli TV series)
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The Arbitrator (2007) (, Ha-Borer) is an Israeli crime drama series. It tells the story of Nadav Feldman, a social worker who discovers that he was adopted and his real father is the head of a crime family.
Plot
The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman, a young social worker , who discovers that he is adopted and finds himself in the depths of his biological father's family, Baruch Asulin, a leader of an organized crime syndicate in Israel known as "Ha-Borer"(The Arbitrator), due to his activities as an arbitrator in disputes in the underworld.
This series focuses on the combination of dramatic stretches, the conflict between the norms of society including crime, especially norms and codes of conduct of the underworld. Among other highlights of the series, in a satirical way, the contrast between certain behaviors of some of the heroes of the series (as a demonstration of piety) and other behaviors (such as the blatant disregard for human life).
Characters
Baruch "The Arbitrator" Asulin (Moshe Ivgy) - the head of a crime family.
Nadav Feldman (Yehuda Levi) - a social worker who finds out that Baruch is his biological father.
Avi "The Spleen" Asulin (Shlomi Koriat) - Baruch's trigger happy son, who serves as the series' comic relief.
Yigal "The Nazi" Mizrahi (Uri Gavriel) - Baruch's nemesis and formerly best friend.
Amram "Bulldog" Hashbian (Yossef Abu Varda) - Baruch's friend and personal bodyguard.
Gila Asulin (Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari) - Baruch's wife.
Naomi "Spoon" Asulin (Lirit Balaban) - Baruch's baalat teshuva daughter, who also serves as a comic relief.
Pavel and Nikola Kovlova (Michael Rozhetzky and Shalom Michaelshvili) - two henchmen who initially work for Baruch.
Irena Kovlova (Ania Bukstein) - Pavel and Nikola's sister, who gets romantically involved with Nadav.
Limor "Kuki" Goldman (Neta Garti) - Avi's mistress.
Ron "The Persian" Hashbian (Tzion Baruch) - one of Baruch's henchmen.
Menachem Madmoni (Uri Klausner) - a detective in charge of investigating Baruch's clan.
Yossi Asulin (Shaul Mizrahi) - Baruch's brother and former partner in heading the family, cast away after becoming a drug addict and longing to return to his former glory.
Oshrit Asulin (Dana Ivgy) - Yossi's daughter. (In real life, Dana is Moshe Ivgy's daughter.)
Amos Faruki (Yaakov Cohen) - a veteran associate of Baruch, Yossi and Yigal.
Itzik Sasa (Dror Geva) - Naomi's suitor and later husband.
Shimi Angel (Igal Adika) - an acquaintance of the Asulin family, who has ambitions to become a contract killer.
Idan Romi (Aviv Alush) - one of Baruch's henchmen.
Nir (Yon Tumarkin) - sniper elite unit.
See also
The Arbitrator (Vietnamese TV series)
References
External links
Israeli drama television series
Television series about organized crime
2007 Israeli television series debuts
2014 Israeli television series endings
2000s Israeli television series
Works about organized crime in Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordu%20%28disambiguation%29
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Ordu (disambiguation)
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Ordu may refer to:
Places
Ordu, a city at Black Sea coast in northern Turkey
Ordu-Baliq, an ancient city and the capital of the first Uyghur Khaganate
Ordu Province, a province with its central seat Ordu in Turkey
Yayladağı, historically known as Ordu, a town in southern Turkey
Other uses
Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language
Ja Ordu, a village in Qilab Rural District, Alvar-e Garmsiri District, Andimeshk County, Khuzestan
Eski Ordu Marsi, an Ottoman military march
Orduspor, a sport club in Ordu, Turkey
Ordu Boztepe Gondola, an aerial lift line in Ordu, Turkey
Ordu Giresun Airport, an airport under construction in Gülyalı town in Ordu Province, Turkey
Ordu Kabul F.C., a football team in Afghanistan
Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel, a highway tunnel in Ordu, Turkey
Ordu University, a university in Ordu, Turkey
See also
Orda (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Line%20%28Denmark%29
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South Line (Denmark)
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The South Line () is a government-owned railway line in Denmark. Technically, the line connects Ringsted with Nykøbing Falster, from which it branches to Gedser and Rødbyhavn. In practice, Ringsted is not the terminal station, so the line is often said to continue to Copenhagen.
The railway is part of the Vogelfluglinie from Copenhagen to Hamburg. On Sydbanen's southwestern end at Rødby, a Scandlines ferry line exists to the German coastal town of Puttgarden, from where the Lübeck–Puttgarden railway and Lübeck–Hamburg railway lead to Hamburg. The Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, to be completed in 2029, will replace the ferry service. From 2020 until 2028 trains go only to Nykøbing, with frequent closures due to rebuilding.
The line is being upgraded to ERTMS, (Køge-)Næstved-Nykøbing in 2021, and the rest in 2028. Furthermore, 55 km of new tracks are being laid, to smooth out curves, allowing for 200 km/h when done. These works are expected to finish in 2021. Afterwards, the line will be electrified, slated for partial introduction in 2024, and completion all the way in 2027 when a new Storstrøm Bridge will open. The railway Nykøbing–Rødby will be in operation only when the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel is opened around 2029.
Stations with passenger stops from Ringsted and southbound are:
, was closed for traffic 2021
, will open for traffic 2029
Between Copenhagen and Næstved there are four routes that trains can use:
over and
over and
over and (as of 2023 most used)
over and
References
Railway lines in Denmark
Rail transport in Region Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Hammonds%20Plains%2C%20Nova%20Scotia
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Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia
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Upper Hammonds Plains (2011 population: 1,840) is a Canadian suburban community located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.
The community is situated along Pockwock Road and is considered one of the most historic communities for Black Nova Scotians. There were 330 residents who identified themselves as having black ancestry in the 2006 census. The community is named after the Governor of Nova Scotia Sir Andrew Hamond, 1st Baronet.
Its border is defined by the Government of Nova Scotia and it is adjacent to Hammonds Plains in the east and south, Upper Tantallon in the south, Head of St. Margarets Bay and Mount Uniacke in the west, and Mount Uniacke and Upper Sackville in the north.
History
Upper Hammonds Plains was originally established in 1815 as a settlement area for Black Refugees from the War of 1812 when a group of 500 refugees moved to the area immediately north of the then 34-year-old logging and farming community Hammonds Plains.
"As with most Blacks forced to live on the outskirts of more thriving areas, they were faced with great hardships. In 1821, 95 of these Black settlers left for Trinidad. Most, however stayed under horrible living conditions and numerous obstacles, rising above their circumstances to carve out an honest living for themselves." By 1970, Upper Hammonds Plains was an almost exclusively Black community with a population of 500.
"Land and water expropriation has been a major issue in the community since municipal and provincial governments began looking to the Upper Hammonds Plains area for land around 1974. This resulted in the expropriation of Pockwock Lake to supply water for the city of Halifax, the town of Bedford, and Halifax County. The expropriated land would house the Halifax regional water commission’s water treatment plant. The community was offered $100,000 for the land – much less than what it was actually worth. Moreover, although the water main lines passed through the community’s backyards, there was no offer of water service made to the community. In 1987 Rev. Willard Clayton raised the issue of the need for water service and compensation, citing that the community lost use of its sustainable resource of fishing, as well as recreational swimming and Sunday morning baptisms, among other things. Hammonds Plains is now connected the city’s water system."
Community infrastructure
"Rev. John Burton (or 'Father Burton') was the first to provide pastoral services to the community. He established the Hammonds Plains Second Baptist Church in 1822. In 1832, the legendary Rev. Richard Preston (founder of the African United Baptist Association) established the Hammonds Plains Baptist Church. In 1839, the two churches joined - the unified church was referred to as Emmanuel Baptist Church." The current building housing Emmanuel Baptist Church was built in 1845 and has served the community continuously since that time, having undergone a significant expansion in 2005.
The Pockwock Lake reservoir is the primary water supply for Halifax. A water treatment plant and pipeline in the community are operated by Halifax Water, a commission of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Madeline Symonds School is named after Upper Hammonds Plains resident Madeline Symonds, the first Black teacher to graduate from the Provincial Normal School in Truro.
Upper Hammonds Plains boasts the first all Black volunteer fire department in Canada.
Geography
Upper Hammonds Plains is defined by Pockwock Lake which is the primary reservoir for Halifax.
Schools
Schools which service residents of Upper Hammonds Plains include;
Madeline Symonds Middle School
Hammonds Plains Consolidated School
Charles P. Allen High School
References
Explore HRM
Communities in Halifax, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia
Black Canadian settlements
Black Canadian culture in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Gates
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Grace Gates
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The Grace Gates, officially the W. G. Grace Memorial Gates, are two pairs of gates on St John's Wood Road at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, England. They were erected in 1923 and the gates with their flanking walls and piers became a Grade II listed building in 1996.
Design
The Grace Gates were designed by architect Sir Herbert Baker as a tribute to English cricketer W. G. Grace, who had died in 1915. They replaced an earlier, less decorative, entrance to the ground. Baker also designed the old Lord's Grandstand, which was demolished in 1996.
The gates are made of cast iron and bear motifs of a cricket ball and the sun's rays, and the initials of the Marylebone Cricket Club. They are set within the south exterior wall of Lord's on St John's Wood Road, within a curved recess (or exedra) of Portland stone, which also contains a door to either side for pedestrian access. The two pairs of gates are separated from each other by a pillar made of Portland stone, topped by a stone carving of three stumps and urn, with a further pillar to either side, also topped by a stone urn. On the centre pillar is a carved wreath with the initials WGG, and the engraved inscription TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM GILBERT GRACE THE GREAT CRICKETER: 1848–1915: THESE GATES WERE ERECTED: THE MCC AND OTHER FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS.
The inscription was a matter of some debate, with various suggestions made in English, Latin and Greek. Sir Stanley Jackson suggested including "The Great Cricketer" in the design.
History
The Grace Gates were officially opened by Sir Stanley Jackson at a ceremony in 1923. They are located close to the west end of the Tavern Stand, and are the main entrance to Lord's for MCC members, who often queue outside the gates hours before Lord's opens on the day of a Test match to get a good seat in the Lord's Pavilion.
The "Toffs and Toughs" photograph, of two boys in Harrow School uniform and three others in the plain clothes of pre-war working class youths, was taken outside the Grace Gates in July 1937. A protest was held outside the Grace Gates in 1970, opposing the 1969–70 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland because of South Africa's apartheid policies. The Grace Gates were listed in 1996.
In 2013, as part of a revised redevelopment of Lord's, it was announced that a new entrance would be built into Lord's to supersede the Grace Gates as the entrance for MCC members. The gates themselves would be locked for three years while the pavilion end is redeveloped.
References
Gates in England
Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster
W. G. Grace
Lord's
Buildings and structures completed in 1923
Herbert Baker buildings and structures
Grade II listed monuments and memorials
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20aurosa
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Ecnomiomorpha aurosa
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Ecnomiomorpha aurosa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Federal District of Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20aurozodion
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Ecnomiomorpha aurozodion
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Ecnomiomorpha aurozodion is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Pará, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20James%20Reece
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Donald James Reece
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Donald James Reece (born 13 April 1934 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an Emeritus Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica.
Biography
Donald James Reece received on 3 January 1971 his priestly ordination and Pope John Paul II appointed him on 17 July 1981 bishop to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John's–Basseterre. His consecration was given by Samuel Emmanuel Carter, SJ, Archbishop of Kingston, Kelvin Edward Felix, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Castries and Joseph Oliver Bowers, SVD, former bishop of the Diocese of Saint John's-Basseterre on 8 October of the same year.
On 12 October 2007 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica. After the retirement of Lawrence Aloysius Burke, SJ, he followed him on 12 April 2008 by the Office of the Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica.
On 15 April 2011 Benedict XVI accepted his resignation as Archbishop of Kingston.
In 2012, he was honored for his contributions to education and religion with the Order of Jamaica, the fourth highest medal of Jamaica.
References
External links
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/breece.html
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Caribbean
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Caribbean
Jamaican Roman Catholic archbishops
1934 births
Living people
Members of the Order of Jamaica
Roman Catholic archbishops of Kingston in Jamaica
Roman Catholic bishops of Saint John's–Basseterre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20belemia
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Ecnomiomorpha belemia
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Ecnomiomorpha belemia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Pará, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20chrestodes
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Ecnomiomorpha chrestodes
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Ecnomiomorpha chrestodes is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Pará, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41069946
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20parae
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Ecnomiomorpha parae
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Ecnomiomorpha parae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Pará, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41069955
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20rondoniae
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Ecnomiomorpha rondoniae
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Ecnomiomorpha rondoniae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Rondônia, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41069958
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK%20Saliutas%20Vilnius
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FK Saliutas Vilnius
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Saliutas Vilnius was a Lithuanian football club from Vilnius.
History
The club, originally called Karininkų Namai, was founded in 1945 as military officers team. In 1951 it was renamed Saliutas, but in 1952 it became Karininkų Namai again. In that year, it won the Lithuanian SSR Top League and the Lithuanian Cup (Tiesa Cup). It also played in the Soviet Cup, where it beat Burevestnik Kisinev (0:0 and 1:0), Dinamo Frunze (walkover), and in eight-final lost to FC Dynamo Moscow (1:4). In 1956, The team's name changed to Raudonoji Žvaigždė. In 1959, many former Spartakas Vilnius players had joined. In 1962, it was re-given the name Saliutas. The club left the Lithuanian SSR Championship in the middle of 1968 season, replaced by Pažanga Vilnius.
Name history
1945 – Karininkų namai (KN Vilnius) (English: Officers' house)
1951 – Saliutas
1952 – Karininkų namai
1956 – Raudonoji žvaigždė (English: Red Star)
1962 – Saliutas
Achievements
Lithuanian SSR Top League
Winners (3): 1952, 1958–1959, 1967
Runners-up (3): 1958, 1959–1960, 1965
Third places (1): 1966
Lithuanian Cup (Tiesa Cup):
Winners (2): 1952, 1963
Runners-up (3): 1956, 1965, 1966
External links
Statistics – futbolinis.lt
Defunct football clubs in Lithuania
Football clubs in Vilnius
1945 establishments in Lithuania
1968 disestablishments in Lithuania
Association football clubs established in 1945
Association football clubs disestablished in 1968
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41069965
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20tubulifera
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Ecnomiomorpha tubulifera
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Ecnomiomorpha tubulifera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41069972
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20novaelimae
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Ecnomiomorpha novaelimae
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Ecnomiomorpha novaelimae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41069976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecnomiomorpha%20caracana
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Ecnomiomorpha caracana
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Ecnomiomorpha caracana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41070003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Flood%20of%201913
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Great Flood of 1913
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The Great Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several days of heavy rain. Related deaths and damage in the United States were widespread and extensive. While the exact number is not certain, flood-related deaths in Ohio, Indiana, and eleven other states are estimated at approximately 650. The official death toll range for Ohio falls between 422 and 470. Flood-related death estimates in Indiana range from 100 to 200. More than a quarter million people were left homeless. The death toll from the flood of 1913 places it second to the Johnstown Flood of 1889 as one of the deadliest floods in the United States. The flood remains Ohio's largest weather disaster. In the Midwestern United States, damage estimates exceeded a third of a billion dollars. Damage from the Great Dayton Flood at Dayton, Ohio, exceeded $73 million. Indiana's damages were estimated at $25 million (in 1913 dollars). Further south, along the Mississippi River, damages exceeded $200 million. Devastation from the flood of 1913 and later floods along the Mississippi River eventually changed the country's management of its waterways and increased federal support for comprehensive flood prevention and funding for flood control projects. The Ohio Conservancy Act, which was signed by the governor of Ohio in 1914, became a model for other states to follow. The act allowed for the establishment of conservancy districts with the authority to implement flood control projects.
The storm system that produced the flood in late March 1913 began with a typical winter storm pattern, but developed characteristics that promoted heavy precipitation. Strong Canadian winds stalled a high-pressure system off Bermuda and delayed the normal easterly flow of a low-pressure system. In the meantime, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico moved into the Midwestern United States through the Mississippi River valley as a second Canadian high-pressure system arrived from the west, creating a low-pressure trough that stretched from southern Illinois, across central Indiana, and into northern Ohio. At least two low-pressure systems moving along the trough caused heavy rain over the four-day period between March 23 and March 26. As the storm gained strength on Sunday, March 23, high winds, hail, sleet, and tornadoes arrived in the Great Plains, the Southern United States, and the Midwestern United States. Major tornadoes hit Omaha, Nebraska; Lone Peach, Arkansas; and Terre Haute, Indiana. On Monday and Tuesday, March 24 and 25, of rain fell in Ohio, Indiana, and southern Illinois. Major rivers in Indiana and Ohio experienced heavy runoff. Downstream, where the Ohio River enters the Mississippi River, the water level broke record highs to that time as the water flowed south to the Gulf of Mexico. By Tuesday, March 25, the Ohio River and its tributaries flooded cities such as Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Youngstown, and Columbus, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio, was particularly hard-hit. On Wednesday, March 26, the storm moved east into Pennsylvania and New York, while heavy rain continued in the Ohio River valley. The heaviest rainfall, or more, covered an area from southern Illinois into northwestern Pennsylvania. As the storm continued eastward, flooding began in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia. The Potomac River overflowed its banks in Maryland.
State and local communities handled much of their own disaster response and relief in 1913. The American Red Cross, a small organization at that time, focused its efforts in more than one hundred of Ohio's hardest-hit communities, including Dayton, and served six of Indiana's hardest-hit counties. Ohio governor James M. Cox called on the state legislature to appropriate $250,000 ($ in dollars) for emergency aid. Indiana governor Samuel M. Ralston appealed to Indiana cities and other states for relief assistance. Many communities cared for their own flood victims with Red Cross assistance, charitable donations, and contributions from local businesses, industries, and service organizations.
Affected areas
The storms that created the floods in 1913 continued over several days and produced record-breaking rain. It remains Ohio's "largest weather disaster" and triggered Indiana's worst flood on record. Storm-related flooding affected more than a dozen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. The same weather system caused major tornadoes in the Great Plains, the South, and the Midwest, most notably in Omaha, Nebraska; Lone Peach, Arkansas; and Terre Haute, Indiana.
Dayton, Ohio
Between March 23 and 25, heavy rains and rising waters from the Great Miami River burst levees on Dayton's south side and flooded of the city. Dayton's downtown streets experienced water deep. On March 26, as floodwaters reached their crest, Dayton's business district suffered more damage after an early morning fire and gas explosion. An estimated 123 people were killed in Dayton. Downstream in nearby Hamilton, Ohio, about 100 people died after water deep flowed into its residential neighborhoods.
Columbus, Ohio
In Columbus, the Near West Side and parts of downtown experienced severe floods. Approximately 93 people died in the flooding. The event was described by historian Ed Lentz as "the worst catastrophe in the history of Columbus".
Indianapolis, Indiana
Approximately of rain fell on Indianapolis over the period of March 23 through March 26, inundating nearly a area and causing five known deaths. On March 26, floodwaters estimated at above flood stage destroyed Indianapolis's Washington Street bridge, the main connection over the White River. High water forced 4,000 to flee their homes on the city's near west side when an earthen levee failed and a wall of water flooded an area nearly a wide around Kentucky Avenue and Morris Street. The city's transportation and water supply were disrupted for nearly four days in flooded areas and as many as 7,000 Indianapolis families lost their homes.
Contributing factors
Weather
The weather pattern that triggered heavy rains over the Midwest began after strong Canadian winds stalled a high-pressure system off Bermuda and delayed the normal easterly flow of a low-pressure system. As moist air from the Gulf of Mexico moved into the Midwest through the Mississippi River valley, a second Canadian high-pressure system arrived from the west and squeezed the low into a trough that stretched from southern Illinois, across central Indiana, and into northern Ohio. At least two low-pressure systems moving in quick succession along the trough dumped one rainstorm after another. The weather pattern changed little over the four-day period of March 23 through March 26 and caused heavy rain over the Ohio River valley. The heaviest rainfall, or more, covered an area from southern Illinois into northwestern Pennsylvania. Louisville, Kentucky, experienced the storm's heaviest recorded rainfall rate of in twenty-eight minutes on March 25.
Other factors contributing to the extensive flooding were the storm's size, its duration, and existing ground conditions. Rivers and streams affected by the flood were at near normal or below flood stage levels two days prior to the major flooding in Indiana and Ohio. Some experts argue that the ground may have become quickly saturated, resulting in runoff and flash flooding. Others have suggested that frozen ground in tributary watersheds contributed to the flooding along the rivers. Up to of snow followed the heavy rain in northern Indiana. In some areas thawed ground and a lack of snowpack may have minimized the destruction from runoff and flooding.
Watersheds
Rivers rose several feet above previous high-water marks in Ohio and Indiana after heavy rains at the headwaters of the region's rivers moved downstream. The area's rivers experienced heavy runoff, especially along the Muskingum, Scioto, Great Miami, and Wabash rivers. The Scioto River basin in central Ohio recorded a flood level of , which remains a record nearly higher than its other recorded floods. The Great Miami River and its tributaries, including the Whitewater River in Indiana, rose at least higher than previous flood levels in many locations. Downstream from Indiana and Ohio, where the Ohio River enters the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois, the water level reached and broke record highs to that time. High waters continued to flow south to the Gulf of Mexico, causing some levees to fail in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri. Water from flood-crested rivers flowing into the Mississippi River in April set new height records downriver and caused cities such as Memphis, Tennessee; Natchez, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; and elsewhere along the Mississippi to prepare for flooding.
Timeline
The storm system that produced the flood in late March began with a typical winter storm pattern, but soon developed special characteristics that promoted heavy precipitation.
Friday, March 21
A series of nine tornadoes associated with the same weather system that produced the flood sweeps through the Gulf States of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, leveling towns, killing 48 people, and injuring 150.
A blizzard hits twenty states and kills 21 people.
Temperatures drop below freezing in the Midwest, while hurricane-force winds move into Ontario, Canada. Record-setting winds reach in Indianapolis, Indiana; in Louisville, Kentucky; in Toledo, Ohio; in Detroit, Michigan; and in Buffalo, New York.
Saturday, March 22
Ice begins to melt and winds die down.
Sunday, March 23
The storm gains strength. High winds and sleet in the Midwest topple buildings, telephone and telegraph poles, and overhead wires, disrupting electric services and severely limiting communications within the Midwest and with areas west of the Mississippi River.
The storm keeps the U.S. Weather Bureau from collecting timely information about the weather system and communicating weather warnings in advance of the storm.
A high-pressure system moves northeast over New England and a low-pressure system is over Colorado. Southerly winds increase between the two systems as warm and moist air enters the Great Plains and the Ohio River valley.
Gusty winds produce a dust storm in Kansas, while Missouri is hit with hail and heavy rain, and a series of funnel clouds move across Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Indiana. The number of tornadoes range from six to twelve, but at least six strike the Midwest, killing approximately 221 people and injuring 761.
Major tornadoes hit Omaha, Nebraska. The event ranks as Nebraska's deadliest. A tornado hits Terre Haute, Indiana, that same evening.
The storm moves into Michigan.
Winds of , gusting up to , are reported in Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois.
Monday, March 24
The first low-pressure system from the storm weakens and moves northeast from the Great Lakes into eastern Canada and New England.
The system stalls over the Ohio River basin and triggers more rain and thunderstorms.
A second low-pressure system that developed in Colorado merges with a third low that forms over western Texas.
Overnight the first storm system moves eastward over Kentucky, while the second system enters southern Indiana and Illinois and merges with a stationary front over the Ohio River valley.
Rainfall totals from Sunday through Monday, March 23 and 24, measure in Ohio, Indiana, and southern Illinois, surpassing the normal monthly rainfall totals in less than forty-eight hours. Rain continues, averaging in southern Indiana and western Ohio.
Flooding moves into central Indiana. Waterways are at or near crest along the Wabash River from Logansport to Attica, the White River in the Indianapolis area, and the East Fork of the White River near Columbus and Seymour, Indiana. Eastern Indiana floods after the Maumee, Whitewater, and upper portions of the Wabash and White Rivers reach record high water levels.
Heavy rain falls at Dayton, where the Great Miami River reaches a high stage for the year and continues to rise.
Tuesday, March 25
The Ohio River and its tributaries flood cities such as Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, and Fort Wayne, Indiana also suffers from high water.
Rising water overflows and then bursts levees at Dayton, flooding its downtown business district, while water levels continue to rise.
Wednesday, March 26
The low-pressure center moves east over New York as rain continues in the Ohio River valley.
Floodwaters crest at Dayton; its downtown business district suffers further destruction from fires and a gas explosion.
Thursday, March 27
Flooding in south central and southwest Indiana damages or destroys areas near Bedford, Shoals, Terre Haute, Vincennes, and Washington, after the Wabash, White, and East Fork of the White Rivers crest.
Rainfall measures over Kentucky and Tennessee.
The storm trough moves eastward into Pennsylvania and New York and slowly ends the heavy rain over the Ohio River valley. In some areas snow replaces the rain. Up to of snow fell in central and northern Indiana.
Ohio governor James M. Cox appoints a Dayton Relief Commission.
Friday, March 28
A cold system produces frost into the Gulf States, while heavy rains over the northeast cause flooding in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia.
The Potomac River overflows its banks in Maryland, reaching a high of , and floods Hagerstown. Other communities such as Cumberland, Maryland, feel the effects of the floods, which cause damage but no deaths.
Relief efforts
In the immediate aftermath of the floods businesses and factories shut down, schools closed, government services were disrupted, and train travel was delayed or stopped throughout the Midwest. Newspapers in many communities were not published during the storm. Theaters around the country were showing pictures of the flood devastation in Dayton and other Ohio cities and tornado damage in Omaha, Nebraska, within weeks after the disaster.
In 1913, years before the federal government provided significant disaster relief, state and local communities handled their own disaster response and relief. Cleanup efforts were made even more difficult with increased fire and health risks, flood-damaged communications systems, disrupted transportation networks, debris-littered streets, and flooded utility systems.
The American Red Cross was still a small organization in March 1913, with a few full-time employees at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and about sixty volunteer chapters in the United States, when President Woodrow Wilson named it "the official disaster-relief agency for the federal government". Flood reports in the country's newspapers carried an appeal from the president to help victims with contributions to the Red Cross. Wilson also sent telegrams to the governors of Ohio and Indiana asking how the federal government might help. Indiana governor Samuel M. Ralston did not receive President Wilson's telegram offering federal support due to flood-damaged communications. Ohio governor James M. Cox replied to the president with a request for tents, rations, supplies, and physicians and sent a telegram to the Red Cross requesting its assistance in Dayton and surrounding communities. Red Cross agents and nurses focused their efforts in 112 of Ohio's hardest-hit communities, which included Dayton, primarily along Ohio's major rivers. The Red Cross had less of a presence in Indiana, where it established a temporary headquarters in Indianapolis and served the six hardest-hit Indiana counties. Red Cross disaster relief in other regions of the United States, with the exception of Omaha, Nebraska, and Lower Peach Tree, Alabama, was limited or nonexistent.
Governor Cox called on the Ohio legislature to appropriate $250,000 ($ in dollars) for emergency aid and declared a 10-day bank holiday. Cox, who was also the publisher of the Dayton Daily News, provided the press with daily briefings and appeals for donations. Governor Ralston appealed to Indiana cities and other states for relief assistance and donations of money and supplies. Ralson appointed a trustee to receive relief funds and arrange for distribution of supplies. Approximately one-half of Indiana's counties cared for their own flood victims. Railroads, most notably "the Big Four, the Pennsylvania Lines, and the Vandalia," put their equipment at the Indiana governor's disposal and had work crews rebuild the state's rail network.
The Chicago Association of Commerce wired $100,000 to the Red Cross on March 26, becoming one of many organizations that contributed funds for flood relief. Rotary clubs across the United States contributed more than $25,000 ($ in dollars) to a Rotary Relief Fund, which was established for flood relief in Indiana and Ohio. It was the organization's "first cooperative disaster relief effort". In some areas independent local organizations helped with relief efforts. The Rotary Club of Indianapolis, chartered just a few weeks before the flood, and the Rotary Club of Dayton, chartered six months earlier, assisted relief efforts within their communities by helping to provide medical support, transportation, and shelter. Other Rotary clubs in the United States and Canada donated funds, supplies, and medicine. In Colorado stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and fellow actor John Drew, Jr. gave a benefit performance that contributed $5,000 to a $41,000 relief fund already raised by Colorado residents for Indiana and Ohio flood victims.
Deaths
The exact death toll from the flood and its aftermath may never be known. One estimate of storm-related deaths from March 21 to March 28 is more than 900. Flood deaths in Ohio, Indiana, and eleven other states (Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) are estimated at approximately 650. This death toll places the flood of 1913 second to the Johnstown flood of 1889, when more than 2,200 people died, as one of the country's deadliest floods.
Official reports of flood deaths are inconsistent. The bodies of some of the victims were never found and not all fatalities were reported to agencies collecting flood statistics. Some disaster-related deaths from injuries or illness were not listed in official counts if they occurred after publication of official reports. An estimate of 467 flood deaths has been quoted for Ohio, with the official death toll range between 422 and 470. Dayton's official death toll was not certain, but Ohio's Bureau of Statistics listed eighty-two people, while one flood historian puts the number at ninety-eight. Others reported Dayton's death toll at nearly 300, but this figure may have included other neighborhoods and cities. Estimated deaths for flood victims in Indiana is 100 to 200. Flooding in the Great Miami River basin caused at least 260 deaths, more than in any other river basin. Approximately seventeen people died in flooding in the Whitewater River basin.
Disease related to the flood
Secondary to the flood itself, there were outbreaks of diphtheria and typhus in several flooded areas, such as the area in north-central Dayton, Ohio. It is likely that roughly 2000 additional hospitalizations were the result of these outbreaks, following the more directly physical damage of the flood. Although information for Indiana is not presently available, estimates are that an additional 1000 people were affected in that state.
Damage estimates
Damage from the flood was widespread and extensive. The storm destroyed hundreds of bridges and railroad trestles and 12,000 telegraph and telephone poles. Flooding stopped communications between Chicago and New York for a day and a half, disrupted road and rail transportation, and slowed mail delivery. More than 38,000 homes and other buildings, plus thousands of schools, businesses, utilities, and city streets were damaged or destroyed. More than a quarter million people were left homeless.
In the Midwest alone, damage estimates, which one flood historian suggests were understated, were more than "a third of a billion dollars." The Dayton Citizens' Relief Committee's report documented damage in Dayton in excess of $73 million. Damage in Indiana was estimated at $25 million in 1913 dollars. Cairo, Illinois, where its citizens had advance knowledge of the oncoming high water that arrived the week after the Dayton flood, reported no fatalities, but damage estimates there and in smaller communities such as Shawneetown, Illinois, and Caseyville, Kentucky, was in excess of $5 million. Along the Mississippi River damages exceeded $200 million.
Impact
Devastation from the flood of 1913 and later floods along the Mississippi River in 1917, 1927, 1936, and 1937, eventually changed the country's management of its waterways and increased congressional support beyond emergency flood assistance to include national flood control measures.
Federal legislation
Following the flood of 1913, citizens and government officials took a greater interest in comprehensive flood prevention, managing flood-prone areas, and funding for flood control projects that would limit damage and save lives. Congress previously contended that floods were local events and flood control was the responsibility of state and local government. The Flood Control Act of 1917 was the first of several pieces of legislation that eventually led to the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program of 1968, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1979, and the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988. Federal funding for national flood control projects began slowly in 1917, with Congress authorizing funding for flood control studies in the Mississippi River as part of House Document 308. By 1925 it had been expanded to include other major rivers in the United States.
State and local programs
The Dayton Relief Committee began shortly after the flood of 1913 to raise $2 million to develop a comprehensive flood protection system that would prevent another flood disaster of the same magnitude. The committee hired Arthur Ernest Morgan and his Morgan Engineering Company from Tennessee to design a plan that used levees and dams. On March 17, 1914, the governor of Ohio signed the Ohio Conservancy Act, which allowed for the establishment of conservancy districts with the authority to implement flood control projects. Ohio's Upper Scioto Conservancy District was the first to form in February 1915. The Miami Conservancy District (MCD), which includes Dayton and surrounding communities, was the second, formed in June 1915. The MCD began construction of their flood control system in 1918. The project was completed in 1922 at a cost in excess of $32 million and has kept Dayton from flooding as severely as it did in 1913. The Ohio Conservancy Act became the model for other states, such as Indiana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
See also
March 1913 tornado outbreak sequence
Notes
References
External links
The Great Flood of 1913, 100 Years Later
'Our National Calamity': The Great Easter 1913 Flood
Recording Disasters: Floods of 1913
1913: The flood of the century
Great Flood of March 1913 - New Castle PA
1913 Flood books
20th-century floods in the United States
1910s floods
1913 in Indiana
1913 in Ohio
1913 natural disasters in the United States
March 1913 events
Floods in the United States
History of Indiana
Natural disasters in Indiana
History of Indianapolis
History of Ohio
Natural disasters in Ohio
History of Dayton, Ohio
Floods in Pennsylvania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala%2C%20Russia
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Bala, Russia
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Bala (; ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Arylakhsky Rural Okrug of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Batagay, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 543; down from 579 recorded in the 2002 Census.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Verkhoyansky District.
Rural localities in Verkhoyansky District
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41070006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriotortrix%20iresinephora
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Eriotortrix iresinephora
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Eriotortrix iresinephora is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.
References
Moths described in 1988
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41070009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriotortrix%20isipida
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Eriotortrix isipida
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Eriotortrix isipida is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.
References
Moths described in 1988
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41070014
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20emperor
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Turquoise emperor
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Turquoise emperor may refer to:
Apaturina erminea, an Old World butterfly
Doxocopa laurentia, a New World butterfly
Animal common name disambiguation pages
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41070028
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristparcula%20brunniuba
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Eristparcula brunniuba
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Eristparcula brunniuba is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Loja Province, Ecuador.
References
Moths described in 2001
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41070031
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristparcula%20ochriuba
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Eristparcula ochriuba
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Eristparcula ochriuba is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Loja Province, Ecuador.
References
Moths described in 2001
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41070036
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Milinkovi%C4%87
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Milan Milinković
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Milan Milinković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Милинковић; born 4 May 1992) is a former Serbian football defender.
Club career
Speedy right-back began in local club Budućnost Arilje, but was observed by Partizan scouts, and continued his football education in black-white jersey. As a youngster he played for Obilić, too. He started his professional career in Javor Ivanjica and after 3 season, he moved to Jagodina.
Statistics
International career
He played for Serbian youth team (U21) in the regional league game against the national team of Montenegro.
References
External links
Milan Milinković at jelenfootball.com
1992 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
Serbian men's footballers
FK Javor Ivanjica players
FK Jagodina players
FK Radnik Surdulica players
Serbian SuperLiga players
People from Arilje
Footballers from Zlatibor District
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41070039
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20Therapy
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Hand Therapy
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Hand Therapy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, especially physiotherapy and occupational therapy for the hand. The editor-in-chief is Christina Jerosch-Herold (University of East Anglia). It was established in 1991 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the British Association of Hand Therapists and the European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus.
References
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Rehabilitation medicine journals
Academic journals established in 1991
Quarterly journals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navielektro
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Navielektro
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Navielektro /nɑvielektro/ is a privately owned Finnish company specialized in development and maintenance of situational awareness, surveillance and communication systems for both civilian and military purposes. Navielektro develops, manufactures and provides maintenance for a range of various radar and related sensors and communication equipment.
History
Navielektro was founded by Asser Koivisto in 1987. The company originally began as a three person endeavor, selling and installing navigation systems onboard vessels. The operations eventually expanded to include installations of ship bridges. In the mid 1990s, the company branched out to surveillance sensors and software, as the focus shifted from providing on-board navigational systems to developing sensors, maritime surveillance systems and vessel traffic management systems for control centers. The first radar manufactured by Navielektro was developed in 1994, and the company has continued to produce their own line of antennas and sensors ever since.
In 1996, Navielektro signed a contract with the Finnish Maritime Administration (now the Finnish Transport Agency) to help establish a VTS system for the Archipelago Sea. From this point onwards, the company began to focus mainly on development, maintenance and delivery of situational awareness systems. By the early 2000s, the entire coast of Finland was covered by VTS delivered by Navielektro.
Navielektro co-operated with the main Swedish actors in the field of AIS system technology, resulting in the development of the first system in the world fusing AIS and radar tracks. Collaboration with the Finnish Maritime Administration, the Southwestern Maritime District and the Finnish Defense Forces made it possible to realize this innovation in Finland, making the Finnish VTS system the first in the world to incorporate AIS, providing interaction between the VTS system and vessels. Navielektro’s operations further expanded to include general situational awareness services and related software in the year 2000.
In May 2004, the Swedish Saab TransponderTech announced the company would be partnering with Navielektro to promote products for the VTS and coastal surveillance systems market. Navielektro and Saab TransponderTech teamed up to offer VTMS and Coastal Surveillance Systems for maritime administrations and port authorities worldwide for several years.
Since the year 2000 and onwards, Navielektro has provideded the Finnish Border Guard and the Finnish Navy with command, control, communications and surveillance platforms.
Deliveries
Navielektro is the leading supplier of VTS, Coastal Surveillance and Situational Awareness Systems for the Coast of Finland. The majority of the radars currently in operation along the Finnish coast have been provided by Navielektro, replacing FIKA-radars from the 1970s. All of the Finnish agencies engaging in coastal surveillance (such as the Finnish Transport Agency, the Finnish Border Guard and the Finnish Navy) utilize radars and situational awareness systems manufactured by Navielektro. The VTMS and Coastal Surveillance System that Navielektro designed and delivered for the Finnish trilateral METO agencies is one of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world.
In 2011, Navielektro and Eltel signed a contract with Ghana Maritime Authority to supply and install a Vessel Traffic Management Information System to ensure electronic surveillance and monitoring of the coast of Ghana. Navielektro provided the technology, while Eltel implemented telecommunication and homeland security solutions. The system was inaugurated on April 29, 2014, and integrates several sub-systems like radar control, automatic identification, radio data, CCTV and area control centers.
Navielektro actively participates in the development of situational awareness systems as part of joint operations with ITU, IALA and NATO.
Projects
Navielektro has actively participated in the following projects:
HELCOM (Helsinki Commission, First International AIS data-sharing tests in the late 1990s)
GOFREP (Gulf of Finland Tri National Reporting System)
METO (Finnish Maritime Tri Lateral Co-Operation)
SUCFIS (Sweden-Finland, Military Sea Surveillance Co-Operation)
SUCBAS (Baltic Sea Surveillance Co-Operation)
MARSUR (Maritime Surveillance)
ENSI (Enhanced Navigation Support Information) Service
Products and Services
Navielektro offers a wide range of different solutions for surveillance and communication for both civilian and military customers. The company provides naval and military tactical information systems as well as systems for maritime surveillance (integrating VTS and AIS information in the RMP), intelligent transport, voice communication and weather information. Navielektro also manufactures radar sensors and transceivers.
References
Electronics companies of Finland
Software companies of Finland
Electronics companies established in 1987
Software companies established in 1987
Radar manufacturers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Guerin
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Bruce Guerin
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Bruce Guerin (January 18, 1919 – June 27, 2012) was an American child actor known for his roles in silent films during the 1920s.
Biography
Guerin was born in Los Angeles to a family that worked in showbusiness. His mother was a vaudeville performer while his father worked for Mack Sennett. Bruce started acting at age 3 when he appeared in Raoul Walsh's 1922 film Kindred of the Dust. This was followed by 12 more movies, including Brass, Drifting, Revelation, The Parasite and The Salvation Hunters.
During these three years, Bruce Guerin achieved media coverage from newspapers such as The Davenport Democrat and Leader, Modesto Evening News, Hamilton Daily News, Picture Play Magazine and Pharos-Tribune.
After his acting career had ended, he became a pianist. During the Second World War, he appeared in shows in Hawaii alongside celebrities such as Bob Hope and Ray Bolger. After the war ended, he continued to perform in various places.
Bruce Guerin retired in 1996 and died 16 years later, on June 27, 2012. He was 93 years old.
Bruce had four children: Paul Guerin, Mark Wilson, Bruce James Guerin Jr., and Lisa Guerin-Smeltzer. He had three grandchildren: Nick Johnson, Taylor Smeltzer, and Victoria Smeltzer.
References
Bibliography
John Holmstrom, The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 90-91.
External links
1919 births
2012 deaths
Male actors from Los Angeles
American male child actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokers%20of%20Death%20arms%20case
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Brokers of Death arms case
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The 'Brokers of Death' arms case (officially United States v. Samuel Evans et al) was a US trial in the 1980s relating to the attempted shipment of $2.5bn worth of US-made arms to Iran; it was described by the Los Angeles Times in 1986 as "the largest arms conspiracy prosecution ever brought by the Justice Department". The case (with indictments in May 1986, following a four-month investigation) was dropped in January 1989 after the prosecution said it could not prove the defendants did not believe their dealings were officially sanctioned. The planned deals were being arranged at the same time as the White House was secretly seeking to arrange arms sales to Iran, in what became known as the Iran-Contra affair; some evidence indicated that defendants were aware of these efforts.
Overview
In December 1985, the case began when Iranian banker Cyrus Hashemi approached US Customs with a deal. Hashemi, described by Assistant Treasury Secretary John M. Walker, Jr. as a "major figure in international arms trafficking", had been indicted in July 1984 over arms dealing with Iran, and sought leniency in exchange for cooperation. The US agreed to drop the charges against Hashemi in exchange for his cooperation. Hashemi said he had been approached in late 1985 by Samuel Evans, an advisor to Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, leading to US Customs setting up a sting operation. The four-month investigation, costing over $100,000, led to arrests in April 1986 in New York and Bermuda, with the involvement of Special Agent Joseph F. King. Evans was recorded by US Customs saying that he had received assurances of "full and complete cooperation" from Israeli officials, and was expecting to discuss the matter with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin on his next trip.
In April 1986, 17 suspects were indicted in the case, accused of planning to use false end-user certificates to bypass the US arms embargo against Iran. Three suspects were named as retired Israeli general Avraham Bar-Am, William Northrop, and Samuel Evans. The deal was said to involve over 100 aircraft, as well as tanks and missiles. Tanks were promised by Bar-Am, who said they were Soviet tanks captured from the Syrian Army in 1973. Indictments were issued on 5 May 1986. According to Victor Ostrovsky's The Other Side of Deception, a contact at Mossad asked Ostrovsky to call Bar-Am on 8 April 1986 and tell him that the deal had been approved. Ostrovsky said he made the call, knowing that Bar-Am was walking into a trap - his contact had told him that Bar-Am's contact had been "turned" by the FBI.
Evans' lawyer later told the court that Evans had first been introduced to Hashemi by Roy Furmark, a close friend of Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey, in January 1985. Furmark was alleged to have repeatedly assured Evans that according to Casey the US approved of supplying arms to Iran. Northrop sought Casey's telephone logs, claiming to have spoken with Casey on a monthly basis since 1981 and that Casey knew of and approved of the deals. Testifying to Congress, Casey stated Furmark told him in October 1986 about the possible diversion of funds from arms sales to Iran. One of the defendants met with US Ambassador Maxwell M. Rabb in Rome, and was recorded telling Hashemi that he was waiting for Rabb to confirm official approval (Rabb later admitted the meeting but denied discussing the arms deal). An arms dealer with a diplomatic passport, John Delaroque, not indicted, assured Hashemi on 7 February 1986 that the matter had gone as far as the Vice President.
In November 1986 Iran-Contra affair revelations forced the Justice Department to launch a review of the case. After a Supreme Court decision in an unrelated case narrowed mail and wire fraud prosecutions, 46 of the 55 charges were dropped in mid-1988. The case against the 12 defendants was finally dropped in January 1989, with prosecutor Rudy Giuliani conceding that the prosecution was unable to prove that the defendants did not believe the planned deals "were officially sanctioned or that approval of the United States for such sales could be obtained". The planned deals were being arranged at the same time as the White House was secretly seeking to arrange arms sales to Iran (including suspending enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act in January 1986), in what became known as the Iran-Contra affair; some evidence indicated that defendants were aware of these efforts. Some defendants were close associates of Adnan Khashoggi, who became a middle-man in arms sales to Iran which were officially approved and carried out.
Books
Hermann Moll and Michael Leapman (1988), Broker of Death: An Insider's Story of the Iran Arms Deals Macmillan,
References
20th-century American trials
Iran–Contra affair
Arms trafficking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Coldwells
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Francis Coldwells
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Francis Moses Coldwells (1832 – 29 July 1895) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.
Born in Stoke Newington, he was educated in the British School there. At one time he occupied the office of harbourmaster at Brading, Isle of Wight before moving to Croydon in the southern suburbs of London where he established a tailoring business. Elected to Croydon Local Board, he was one of the main proponents of the incorporation of Croydon as a borough, and was one of the first members of the town council, elected an alderman, following the granting of a charter in 1883. He was subsequently a justice of the peace for the borough. He was also a member of Croydon School Board. He was also a temperance activist as a leading member of the Band of Hope.
At the 1892 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Lambeth North, with a majority over his Liberal Unionist opponent, Henry Morton Stanley, of 130 votes.
Coldwells was a director of the Liberator Building Society, established by Jabez Balfour, the first Mayor of Croydon. After the collapse of the company Coldwells was pursued through the courts for large sums of money by some of the society's shareholders. He described himself as being "slowly killed with worry", and did not defend his parliamentary seat at the next election in 1895. Shortly before his death it became clear he faced a criminal trial at the High Court.
He was found dead in a summer house in Bournemouth shortly after leaving parliament. At the inquest into his death it was found that he died from heart failure, possibly aggravated by stress.
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1832 births
1895 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1892–1895
People from Stoke Newington
People from Croydon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalipais%20bruniense
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Zalipais bruniense
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Zalipais bruniense is a species of microscopic sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.
Description
The height of the shell attains 0.5 mm, its diameter 0.9 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia, occurring off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and in the Bass Strait.
References
Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp.
bruniense
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1883
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starling%20Framework
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Starling Framework
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Starling is an open source game framework used to create 2D games that run both on mobile and desktop platforms. It recreates the traditional Flash display list architecture on top of accelerated graphics hardware. Several commercial games have been built with Starling, including Angry Birds Friends and Incredipede.
History
Starling was initiated in 2011 by Adobe shortly after introducing the Stage3D API in their AIR and Flash run-time systems. Stage3D allows utilizing the GPU inside the Flash Player via a low-level API; Starling should simplify the transition for developers by providing an accompanying high-level API built on top of Stage3D.
The framework has seen rapid adoption over the years, being utilized in many games from both independent and commercial developers. It is now a part of the Adobe Gaming SDK.
Library Ecosystem
Since Starling's introduction, several Open Source libraries were published by 3rd party developers that depend on Starling and extend its functionality.
Feathers allows the creation of light-weight user interfaces for both mobile and desktop games and applications.
Citrus Engine is a game engine that is most popular for its Platformer starter-kit.
Dragon Bones is a 2D skeletal animation solution, available as a plugin for Flash, exporting animations for Starling.
StarlingPunk is designed for developing 2D Flash games, inspired by the popular FlashPunk framework.
Flox is a Backend as a Service targeting especially Starling developers (and built by the same team).
GameBuilder Studio is an Open Source Game Engine and visual WYSIWYG tool for creating professional cross-platform 2D games. Optimized for mobile and web using the Starling rendering engine. [Ouya Target | Platformer plugin | Isometric | Multiplayer via Plugin.IO, etc.]
See also
Cairo
OpenFL
References
Further reading
Thibault Imbert: Introducing Starling, O'Reilly Media Inc., November 14, 2012,
Juwal Bose: Starling Game Development Essentials, Packt Publishing, December, 2013,
Tinic Uro (September 21, 2011) Why Starling (or any other 2D framework on top of Stage3D)?
External links
Official Website
Official Support Forum
Official Community Wiki
Source on GitHub
Starting with Starling video course (free)
Building Flash Games with Starling video course (commercial)
Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling video course (commercial)
How to learn Starling Framework, an extensive tutorial and overview
http://typedarray.org/introducing-starling-js/
ActionScript
Free game engines
Video game development software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Minories%2C%20Colchester
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The Minories, Colchester
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The Minories is a Grade II listed building and gardens situated at the east end of High Street in Colchester, Essex, England, near Hollytrees, Gate House and Colchester Castle. It currently houses The Minories Galleries which are no longer run by Colchester School of Art, part of Colchester Institute.
Early history
The house is believed to have been built in the Tudor period. In 1731 it was purchased by the baize manufacturer Isaac Boggis for £420. His son, Thomas Boggis, inherited the house, and employed an architect, probably John Alefounder (1732–1787) to remodel the building, turning parts of it into an elegant Georgian residence. The Boggis family lived in the house for almost 200 years. From 1821 to 1915 the building had several owners and tenants, one of whom was Dr. Becker, a general practitioner (GP) whose son, Harry Becker, lived there for a time while he learned his trade as a landscape painter and went on to become one of East Anglia's best known artists.
In 1915 Geoffrey Crawford Bensusan-Butt and his wife Dr. Ruth Crawford took over the lease, purchasing the property along with a portion of land that included the Gothic Folly, a summer house built in 1830. Crawford later had three exhibitions of his artwork shown at the Minories in 1962, 1964 and 1975. Dr. Ruth Crawford was the sister-in-law of the painter Lucien Pissarro, and was one of the first female GPs in Colchester. She used the front rooms of The Minories as her consulting rooms, and also opened Colchester's first infant nursery there. One of the Bensusan-Butt's three children was the English economist, David Bensusan-Butt.
The Victor Batte-Lay Trust
In 1956 Dr. Ruth, who had survived her husband, sold The Minories along with the garden to the Victor Batte-Lay Trust, named after the art collector who had been a hereditary freeman of the town. The trust was set up by Batte-Lay's window, Margaret, to purchase and endow a building in Colchester as a memorial to her husband. From 1963 to 1974 R. A. Bevan was chair of the Victor Batte-Lay Trust. The Minories was sold on the strict condition that it would continue to be used for artistic purposes.
The Victor Batte-Lay Trust has provided a public cultural and artistic centre for Colchester and North-East Essex. No. 73, the house next door to The Minories, was purchased and added in 1975 with funding from Eastern Arts and the support of local professionals. The Minories, run by the Trust as The Minories Art Gallery, presented work by Edward Bawden, Leon Underwood, Eric Ravilious, Harry Becker, John Bratby, John and Paul Nash, Lucien Pissarro, Cedric Morris, Christopher Wood, Bill Brandt, Maggi Hambling, Jacob Epstein and Mark Wallinger.
By the early 1990s the Trust's resources were significantly reduced, and the gallery closed in 1992, leading to a period of uncertainty. It reopened in 1994 when Firstsite took on the lease and continued to pay some of the Trust's obligations.
The Victor Batte-Lay Trust Collection
Upon her death in 1955, Margaret Batte-Lay bequeathed her husband's collection of art objects to "the people of Colchester … in particular those who shall take an interest in the artistic and antiquarian features of that town". The initial collection held works mainly by British artists, including still lives from the 17th century, regency portraiture, 18th century prints and drawings and 19th century oil paintings and samplers. This collection was first displayed on the ground floor of The Minories Gallery in an imitation of the original domestic setting together with new acquisitions which included antique clocks and chandeliers that highlighted Batte-Lay's discerning taste in art and antiques.
By the end of the decade, the Trustees had acquired new works through purchases, loans and gifts with the intention to expand the Permanent Collection.
By the 1960s, as the collection grew via purchases and the occasional gift, it also took on a more modern direction in order to attract new and younger audiences. Works acquired during this period varied in style but the strength of the collection lay in its possession of prints by several British modernists most notably, John Nash, Paul Nash and Blair Hughes-Stanton as well as 14 figure drawings by Camille Pissarro.
The acquisition and subsequent sale of Robert Bevan’s The Cab Yard in the 1970s paved the way for the purchase of the adjacent property as a new exhibiting space, which became known as The Girling Room. As a result, the Contemporary Art Society gifted generously to the collection with works such as Margaret Mellis' Lilac Yellow and Ian McKeever's Sand and Sea Series No. 8. The Victor Batte-Lay Trust then developed a policy of acquiring work by 20th century artists preferably with strong regional links.
In the early 1980s, the team at The Minories was the recipient of a sizeable amount of funding from charitable organisations and Friends of The Minories which led to the setting up of an official purchasing policy. The collection expanded again through new purchases, most significantly the team established a sculpture collection. During this period, there was also a Permanent Collection room that exhibited a selection of works on rotation. By the mid-1980s the collection faced a sudden change in funding circumstances. In order to stay afloat, several works were sold off and those acquired by Colchester Borough Council stayed in the local area.
At present, the Victor Batte Lay collection consists of 135 acquisitions by renowned British and international artists. They are not on permanent display but a selection of the Victor Batte-Lay art collection can be viewed in temporary exhibitions at Colchester's Firstsite and on loan in regional and national institutions. Images of the works are available online.
Current use
In early 2008 Firstsite left The Minories and moved into Crouch Street while their new building was developed, and in June 2008 Colchester Institute took on the lease for the Minories. The site then became home to The Minories Galleries, a contemporary art gallery run by Colchester School of Art which is open to the public and houses the Colchester School of Art's Postgraduate programmes and a café surrounded by a walled garden. The Minories is next door to Firstsite, Colchester's contemporary art space, in the centre of St Botolph's Quarter.
Since being run by Colchester School of Art and Colchester Institute, The Minories has presented exhibitions by artists and designers including Joseph Robinson, Abram Games, Romek Marber, Noel Myles, Keith Albarn (father of Blur frontman Damon) and Chris Meigh-Andrews.
In October 2015, the cafe and tearoom in the back of the venue was taken over by Wilkin & Sons and is now operated as the Batte-Lay Tearoom, whilst the gallery space remains under previous management.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Colchester Institute decided not to reopen. The Victor Batte-Lay Foundation took back control and created a subsidiary body, We are the Minories with support from Arts Council England and the Cultural Regeneration Fund.
The Friends of The Minories
The Friends of the Minories is an organisation which supports the gallery and assists in its funding. About four or five events occur each year, generally visits to local places of interest. The revenue from these fund-raising events goes into maintaining the garden and its 18th-century Gothic Folly. The garden and Folly are both registered with the Essex Gardens Trust.
References
External links
The Victor Batte-Lay Trust Collection
The Friends of The Minories
We Are the Minories
Essex Gardens Trust
Grade II listed buildings in Essex
History of Colchester
Art museums and galleries in Essex
Buildings and structures in Colchester (town)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Zouzounis
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Phyllis Zouzounis
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Phyllis Zouzounis is an American female winemaker based in Windsor, California, known for Zinfandel wine.
Biography
She is one of the first pioneering professional female winemakers, having begun her career at Dry Creek Vineyard in Sonoma County in 1980.
She started as a winemaker specialized in Zinfandels, and won recognition for wine production using that grape in California.
By 1987, she produced three distinctive Zins under the Deux Amis label (with co-proprietor and winemaking colleague Jim Pempraze) and five more as winemaker at Mazzocco Vineyards.
Wine Enthusiast stated in 1999 that "Phyllis Zouzounis has captured the essence of Zinfandel here", and her 2007 Sonoma County Zinfandel was particularly acclaimed by wine critics. She is also involved in Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc production at Raymond Burr Vineyards, Chardonnay at Bedarra Vineyards and Tre Ricci Wines in the Dry Creek Valley, and Viognier and Cabernet at Starlite Vineyards in the Alexander Valley.
References
American winemakers
American viticulturists
Living people
American female winemakers
Wine merchants
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201988%29
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Nico González (footballer, born 1988)
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Francisco José Nicolás "Nico" González (born 6 November 1988), commonly known as just Nico, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Racing Murcia FC as a winger.
Club career
Born in Molina de Segura, Murcia, Nico graduated from Villarreal CF's youth system, but made his senior debuts with Cádiz CF B in the 2007–08 season, in the Tercera División. One year later he joined Albacete Balompié, initially being assigned to the reserves in the same division; he played his first game as a professional on 26 October 2008, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–1 home draw against Celta de Vigo in the Segunda División.
In 2009, Nico first arrived in the Segunda División B, signing with Real Murcia Imperial. He continued competing in that level in the following years, with CD Guadalajara and CD Tenerife, contributing with four goals in 1,841 minutes of action to help the former club promote in 2011.
After Tenerife manager Antonio Calderón was sacked in January 2012, Nico was loaned to former side Guadalajara. On 3 March he scored his first professional goal, the last in a 2–0 win at FC Cartagena.
In June, Nico returned to Tenerife and division three and, despite being shown the door, he still managed to appear in 15 matches and net once during the season for the Canary Islands team, albeit in only one start. On 29 July 2013, his contract with the Blanquiazules was mutually terminated and he signed with Salamanca AC on 9 August. However, due to the club's juridical issues, he moved to Ontinyent CF instead.
On 8 July 2014, after suffering relegation with the Valencians, Nico moved to La Hoya Lorca CF also in the third division. Roughly a year later, he joined fellow league team Arandina CF.
On 13 July 2020, Nico joined Racing Murcia FC.
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Region of Murcia
Men's association football wingers
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Cádiz CF Mirandilla players
Atlético Albacete players
Albacete Balompié players
Real Murcia Imperial players
CD Guadalajara (Spain) footballers
CD Tenerife players
Ontinyent CF players
Lorca FC players
Arandina CF players
Orihuela CF players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalipais%20inscripta
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Zalipais inscripta
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Zalipais inscripta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.
Description
The height of the shell attains 1.2 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm. The minute, very fragile shell has a discoidal shape. It is diaphanous and widely umbilicated. The spire is flat, not rising above the plane of the last whorl. The four whorls are convex, with a gentle antesutural slope. The surface of the shell is smooth and shining, but incremental striae are visible under magnification. The aperture is roundly oval, a little wider than high. The peristome of the holotype is incomplete.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria.
References
Kershaw, R.C. 1955. A systematic list of the Mollusca of Tasmania, Australia. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 289-355
Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp.
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109
inscripta
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1899
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Ritchie
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Martin Ritchie
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James Martin Comrie Ritchie, FCMI, FRSA (29 May 1917 – 3 June 1993) was the chairman and chief executive of Bowater Paper Corporation from 1969 to 1972. At the time Bowater's was the world's largest newsprint producer.
Early life
James Martin Ritchie was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1934 he joined the family firm, Andrew Ritchie and Son Ltd, based in Glasgow, becoming a director in 1938. The company manufactured corrugated fiber containers. In 1938 he joined the Territorial Army as an officer.
During World War II Ritchie served with a British Army Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment and was promoted captain in 1941. In 1943 he passed staff college and from 1944-1945 served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General with Middle East Command.
Career
Following the completion of his military service, Ritchie rejoined the family firm, which had become part of the Eburite Organisation, becoming managing director in 1950. In 1956 the business merged with Bowater and was renamed Bowater-Eburite Ltd, with Ritchie as general manager. He was appointed a director of Bowater Paper Corporation Limited in 1959, managing director in 1964, deputy chairman and managing director in 1967 and chairman and chief executive from 1969 until his retirement in 1972.
Ritchie oversaw Bowater's purchase of Ralli International for £80 million in 1972. A deal designed to diversify Bowater's away from the paper trade and into other product areas.
Ritchie also served as chairman of British Enkalon Limited between 1975 and 1983, chairman of Haymills Holdings Limited from 1977 until 1983 and as a director of Sun Alliance and London Insurance Limited from 1970 to 1987.
Honours
Appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute in 1971.
Appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1971.
References
1917 births
1993 deaths
People educated at Strathallan School
British Army personnel of World War II
20th-century Scottish businesspeople
British corporate directors
British chairpersons of corporations
Royal Artillery officers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth%3A%20Shadow%20of%20Mordor
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a 2014 action-adventure video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. An original story based on the legendarium created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the game takes place between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings film trilogies. The player controls Talion, a Gondorian Ranger who bonds with the wraith of the Elf Lord Celebrimbor, as the two set out to avenge the deaths of their loved ones. Players can engage in melee combat, and use wraith abilities to fight and manipulate enemies. The game introduces the Nemesis System, which allows the artificial intelligence of non-playable characters to remember their prior actions against the game's protagonist and react accordingly.
The game's development began in 2011. In order to create an accurate environment and be consistent with Tolkien's books, the developers consulted many people from Warner Brothers, as well as Peter Jackson, director of the film trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. They also received assistance from Weta Workshop, who advised on the special effects. Christian Cantamessa served as the game's lead writer, while Dan Abnett was recruited to write dialogues for the orcs featured in the game. Monolith focused on the development of the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions, while the development of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions was outsourced to Behaviour Interactive.
The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in September 2014 and PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2014. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor received generally favorable reviews upon release. Most praise was directed at its combat, open-world design, and the Nemesis System. Some criticism was aimed at the game's story and boss battles. Shadow of Mordor marked the biggest launch for a game based upon Tolkien's universe, and would go on to win several awards from video gaming publications, including Game of the Year. The game was supported by downloadable content upon release. A sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, was released in October 2017.
Gameplay
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a third-person open world action-adventure video game, where the player controls a ranger by the name of Talion who seeks revenge on the forces of Sauron after his family, consisting of his wife and son, are killed by those that lead them. Players can travel across locations in the game through parkour, riding monsters, or accessing Forge Towers, which serve as fast travel points. Though Talion is mortally felled in the game's introduction, the wraith of the Elven Lord Celebrimbor is able to use his power to keep Talion alive, along with gifting him wraith-like abilities. Missions in the game feature main story missions that follow Talion's quest for revenge, side missions that involve following Gollum to find artifacts that are tied to Celebrimbor's past, missions to free the human slaves that have been captured by the Uruk armies and forced to work for Sauron, and additional quests to help forge new abilities for Talion's sword, bow, and dagger. The player also has the freedom to pursue side quests and roam around Mordor, with special activities to collect specific flora or to hunt certain creatures, or to find old artifacts or Elvish seals.
Completing quests earns the player a number of rewards: experience points that are used to unlock new abilities for both Talion's ranger and Celebrimbor's wraith skills, a Power value that allows the player to access more powerful abilities to unlock, and an in-game currency called "Mirian" that the player can use to improve Talion's health, wraith skill capacity, or forge new slots on his weapons to add additional runes.
In completing missions, the player can have Talion engage in melee, ranged combat, and stealth approaches, with some missions rewarding the player more for completing the mission in a specific manner. Talion's ranger abilities are enhanced through Celebrimbor, allowing the player to mix combat with special focus-based attacks; these latter attacks can be used to slow time down while aiming with the bow, drain focus out of an enemy foe, or, later in the game, brand the foe to become an ally of Talion. The combat system uses an attack-chain system that enables the player to perform special moves after building the chain to a large enough value, such as instantly draining a foe of focus or performing an area focus attack. With the combat system, they can also counter and dodge attacks. Stealth is a critical element in some missions; several areas are considered Strongholds and should Talion's presence be discovered, an alarm will sound and more Uruks will arrive to try to kill him.
Nemesis system
A core feature of Shadow of Mordor is the Nemesis system. The game can track any Uruk (a nastier orc, the general antagonists of the game) that the player comes into contact with. While there are "generic" Uruk for the player to fight en masse, and will be as cannon fodder as part of Sauron's armies, the game will begin tracking Uruk that perform any notable talents within the game, such as killing the player or surviving an encounter with the player. These Uruk will be promoted to captains. Defeating these leaders will help to weaken Sauron's army, and these leaders will drop a rune which the player can install on Talion's weapons to provide additional buffs in battle. Alternatively, being killed by a leader will cause the current mission to be cancelled and the player to return to a safe point to continue exploring, and the leader will gain additional power, making him more difficult to defeat in the next encounter. If the procedurally generated Orcs survive an encounter with Talion, they will also be promoted. Further, such deaths are tracked through online servers, and the player's friends on the various network services will be notified of this death and be offered the chance to accept a Vendetta mission and exact revenge on the Uruk. If the mission is successful, the game will give rewards to both the original player and the victorious friend.
The leader Uruk will have a range of strengths and weaknesses, the latter that can be exploited in combat to quickly weaken and defeat the leader. The player can gain knowledge of these through finding intelligence mostly by draining and interrogating specially marked Uruks. Being able to exploit such weaknesses will result in the player acquiring more experience points and better runes. Once the player gains the ability to brand Uruks, they can brand these leaders and convert portions of Sauron's army to their side. At this point, the player can use the Nemesis system to trigger infighting within the Uruk forces which they can then directly participate in, helping to weaken the army further. Uruks that survive their encounter with Talion will remember this when Talion combats them again; for example, an Uruk who was thrown into a fire by Talion might want revenge on him for being disfigured.
Synopsis
Setting
Shadow of Mordor is based on Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and Peter Jackson's movie franchise. The game takes place in the 60-year gap between the events of Jackson's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The family of Talion (voiced and motion captured by Troy Baker), a ranger of Gondor responsible for guarding the Black Gate of Mordor, is killed by the armies of Sauron, but Talion is revived with "wraith-like abilities" and heads into Mordor to exact his revenge. Mordor is not yet a barren wasteland in this story. The player will encounter Gollum (voiced by Liam O'Brien). Talion discovers that the wraith who revived him is Celebrimbor (voiced by Alastair Duncan), the greatest Elven smith master of the Second Age, who also seeks revenge against Sauron.
Plot
Talion is a captain of Gondor at the Black Gate of Mordor. His garrison is attacked by Sauron's Uruk forces led by three Black Númenórean captains; the Hammer of Sauron (John DiMaggio), the Tower of Sauron (JB Blanc), and their leader, the Black Hand of Sauron (Nolan North). Talion, his wife Ioreth, and his son, Dirhael, are captured and ritually sacrificed by the Black Hand in an attempt to summon the wraith of the Elf Lord Celebrimbor. However, Celebrimbor (who suffers from amnesia due to his status as a wraith) instead merges with Talion, preventing him from dying alongside his family. Talion and Celebrimbor then depart to uncover Celebrimbor's identity and avenge the death of Talion's family.
Over the course of their travels, Talion and Celebrimbor encounter Gollum multiple times. Gollum possesses the ability to see and speak with Celebrimbor due to his prior contact with the One Ring. Hoping that Celebrimbor might lead him to the One Ring, Gollum leads Celebrimbor to relics of his past, each of which restores parts of his lost memories. Celebrimbor gradually recalls how Sauron, disguised as Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, deceived him into forging the Rings of Power. Celebrimbor ultimately assisted Sauron in forging the One Ring but was able to steal it from him. Celebrimbor proclaimed himself the Bright Lord of Mordor and raised an army of Orcs against Sauron. However, the Ring ultimately betrayed Celebrimbor and returned to Sauron. Sauron then punished Celebrimbor by executing his wife and daughter and, finally, by killing him.
In his search for the Black Hand, Talion allies himself with Hirgon, a ranger deserter who leads a community of Gondorian outcasts choosing to settle in Mordor, and Ratbag the Coward, an Orc who offers to bring Talion closer to the Black Hand in exchange for his assistance in the military hierarchy. Talion helps Ratbag ascend the ranks to the level of warchief by killing each of his immediate superiors, and aids Hirgon in destroying a statue of Sauron. These actions draw out the Hammer of Sauron. After the Hammer decides to execute Ratbag for not killing Talion, Talion confronts and kills the Hammer in combat.
Talion is then sought out by the warrior Lithariel, the daughter of Queen Marwen, who claims to be able to assist Celebrimbor with his mission. Marwen is the ruler of Núrn, a kingdom of sea raiders located in the south of Mordor. She uses prophetic powers to guide Talion and Celebrimbor to another of Celebrimbor's relics. Later, she advises them to use Celebrimbor's powers to take control of an army of orcs and use them to lead an assault against Sauron. Talion eventually realizes that the wizard Saruman is possessing Marwen, and assists Lithariel in freeing her from his control. Talion, however, still carries out Saruman's plan, leading an army of mind-controlled orcs in an assault against the Black Hand's stronghold at Ered Glamhoth. However, rather than the Black Hand, Talion finds the Tower of Sauron waiting for him. The two battle and Talion emerges victorious after viciously stabbing the Tower to death with his son's sword.
Talion now travels to the Black Gate for a final confrontation with the Black Hand. The Black Hand quickly incapacitates him with a spell that also restores the last of Celebrimbor's memories. He then kills himself as part of a ritual that forces Celebrimbor to depart from Talion and merge with himself. This allows Sauron to possess the Black Hand's body and incarnate in physical form. However, Celebrimbor is able to briefly paralyze Sauron from within, allowing Talion to destroy Sauron's physical form. With the Black Hand dead, Celebrimbor wishes to depart for Valinor. Talion instead convinces him to stay and attempt to overthrow Sauron. Gazing at Mount Doom, Talion declares his intention to forge a new Ring of Power.
Development
Development of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which took about three years, began in late 2011. The game's lead developer was Monolith Productions, who had experience on a Middle-earth game with Guardians of Middle-earth (a multiplayer online battle arena game released in 2012). According to design director Michael de Plater, Shadow of Mordor was developed in parallel with Guardians of Middle-earth but handled by a separate team. It was published by Warner Bros., who had published the Batman: Arkham game series. The game was designed by de Plater, who had worked with Creative Assembly on Rome: Total War and Ubisoft on Tom Clancy's EndWar and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Shadow of Mordor was Monolith's first third-person open-world video game for the eighth generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and de Plater considered its development an educational experience for the studio. In Monolith's introduction to the genre, many core mechanics were built from scratch and the studio were inspired by successful video games such as the Batman: Arkham series created by Rocksteady Studios; those games inspired Shadow of Mordor stealth and free-flow combat mechanics. The studio considered Rocksteady's games good examples of how to handle a licensed title.
The game's signature feature is its Nemesis system. The Monolith team considered themselves experts in artificial intelligence, and wanted to push its boundaries. Allowing players to choose their story (a sandbox-game pillar) and "leverage the new generation hardware through innovation", the team wanted to create a system allowing non-playable characters to respond to player actions; this later became the Nemesis system. The system's idea was frameworked three months after development began, and to best present it everyone in the studio was involved. The developers hoped that with the system, orcs could be memorable for players. It was made more complex during the game's early development, incorporating personal relationships among orcs, but was later pared down when the studio considered it too complicated. The Nemesis system was also inspired by pen-and-paper role-playing games. Although most orcs are similar, some were designed with distinctive behavior patterns. These orcs have dialogue written by Dan Abnett, and the team hoped the special orcs would surprise players. The team also hoped that the system would provide tension and competition, similar to a multiplayer game. The studio was inspired by sports games, where the narrative continues when players lose a match. This can prevent immersion and narrative from breaking when players die in the game. According to Rob Roberts, the system is designed so players can emotionally attach to the protagonist through gameplay drama. They also hoped that through the system, players can create their own villain, leading to an organic story.
Shadow of Mordor bridges the gap between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with the team wanting to show iconic elements of the universe in an original way. The team had to draw notes on Tolkien's notes and appendices to ensure that their vision for the game would not change the franchise's timeline. Although the game's environment is inspired by the books and films, several places (such as Udûn and the Sea of Nurnen) were re-imagined. Art director Phil Straub considered consistency with the lore and presenting "something visually new" and realistic the most important elements of creating the game, and the team did not incorporate many fantasy elements in its world. To depict volcanic activity, the studio sent a team to Eastern Washington and the Columbia River plateau to photograph a volcano; to create other parts of the game environment, they studied photos of Iceland and New Zealand and yellow stone found worldwide. Since Shadow of Mordor is set before The Lord of the Rings, its landscape is less post-apocalyptic; environments also vary by weather, lighting and atmosphere.
The game has a standalone plot. Early in development, the team consulted Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, who advised them against a film tie-in. According to de Plater, the story is character-driven to be "authentic" relative to Tolkien's themes. The game was written by Christian Cantamessa, who was lead writer and lead designer for Rockstar San Diego's Red Dead Redemption. According to Roberts, the story is designed for accessibility by all players (regardless of their familiarity with the franchise) by creating natural interactions and believable relationships among the characters. Its protagonist is Talion, a half-human, half-wraith inspired by Boromir. Although Torvin was originally proposed as a playable character, the idea was scrapped, as the team wanted the game to have a single protagonist, like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The wraith is later revealed as Celebrimbor, creator of the Rings of Power. The development team picked Celebrimbor because they considered his backstory sufficiently interesting to expand the canon's authenticity, allowing the team to write a story around power (a major theme of the game). Another important component was Mordor tone. The team created a dark atmosphere with humor, reflected in dialogue and voice acting. This was handled by Dan Abnett, who previously worked on books related to Warhammer "dark and gritty" universe. The team hired David Salo, a linguist who worked on Tolkien's languages for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, to develop the Orcs' Black Speech. The game's narrative was also inspired by BioShock, which according to de Plater, has successfully incorporated systemic stories with players' choices. To prevent inaccuracies, Monolith consulted several Tolkien scholars from Warner Bros. and collaborated with Weta Workshop (Jackson's design company) on the game's special effects and scenery. To depict well-known characters the company partnered with Middle-earth Enterprises, the franchise-rights holder, to prevent misuse and contradiction between the game's story and Tolkien's.
Monolith focused on developing the game's PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, with development of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions outsourced to Behaviour Interactive. Although the game's core gameplay mechanics, story and narrative are unchanged in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ports, some features (such as the Nemesis system) are less complex than the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. According to the game's developer, the Nemesis system was too large for older consoles.
The music for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was composed by Garry Schyman and Nathan Grigg, and a soundtrack album was released digitally by WaterTower Music on September 30, 2014. In designing the game's music, the team used a number of sonic tools which synchronize with other aspects of the game (such as player actions and enemy movements); combat music included waterphones and spring drums.
Release
In August 2013 an artist mentioned that Monolith Productions was working on a AAA title separate from Guardians of Middle-earth, and on November 12 its title was announced. Although the game was originally scheduled for release on October 7, 2014, according to Warner Bros. its release was moved up to September 30 in North America and October 3 in the United Kingdom due to "fans' excitement". The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released on November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe.
On December 16, 2014, the downloadable content (DLC) Lord of the Hunt was released. Its storyline revolved around Torvin, and it included new runes, skins and bosses. Lord of the Hunt received mixed reviews from critics. The final DLC for Shadow of Mordor, titled The Bright Lord, is set 3,000 years before the main campaign and allows players to control Talion's companion, Celebrimbor. It adds a chapter to Shadow of Mordor in which players can complete ten more missions and fight Sauron. The content was released on February 24, 2015, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. A Game of the Year edition with DLC was announced on April 29, 2015, and released on May 5 for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. A special edition, with in-game items and a steelbook, was introduced on August 1.
Shadow of Mordor online servers were shuttered on January 12, 2021, and a final update for the game removed some features that were tied to this, including the game's Vendetta system and leaderboards. However, in-game achievements tied to these elements were modified to still be achievable or were awarded automatically to players after starting the game following the update.
Warner Bros. patented the Nemesis system with the United States Patent & Trademark Office granting the patent in February 2021.
Reception
Critical reception
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
The game's core feature, its Nemesis system, was praised. According to Lucas Sullivan of GamesRadar, the system elevated Shadow of Mordor to excellence by making its villains memorable and adding personality to its protagonist. Brad Shoemaker of Giant Bomb agreed, writing that the system created many distinctive characters and its side content extended the game's longevity. Joystiq's Alexander Sliwinski said that the system made each playthrough unique and made the game stand out from other action games. Chris Carter of Destructoid found the system gimmicky, since it failed to create unique villains; it added different appearances and weaknesses to villains without adding personality.
Shadow of Mordor combat was considered excellent by most critics. Shoemaker and Sliwinski compared it to the rhythm-based combat system of the Batman: Arkham game series; both found it engaging and fluid. Shoemaker praised the game's combat variety; the combination of the combat and nemesis systems created "a specific kind of chaotic, emergent nonsense" desirable in an open world game. According to Sliwinski and Shoemaker, even without the Nemesis system the combat system would make the game compelling. Although Matt Miller of Game Informer found the game's focus on killing made it repetitive, failing to capture the charm of its inspirations Assassin's Creed and Batman: Arkham, Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot called Shadow of Mordor combat an improvement of the Assassin's Creed formula.
The reception of the game's storyline was mixed. Although Shoemaker and Sliwinski praised its "dark" tone, Shoemaker found some story elements (such as Gollum's introduction) forced and designed to appeal to a particular audience. According to Game Informer Matt Miller, Shadow of Mordor fails to successfully tie together all of its various plot threads in the game's conclusion. Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot also found the storyline erratic, dragged down by anticlimactic fights and scenes. Dan Stapleton of IGN wrote that the story introduced memorable characters but would not make sense to fans of the series, and his interest in the game waned towards its end. Destructoid Chris Carter was disappointed in a plot he considered generic ("Go here, kill this, draw out this big bad, then kill him for your family"); the game failed to add anything new to the universe, and its side missions were more interesting than the main campaign.
Other aspects of Shadow of Mordor were praised. Sullivan enjoyed its Lord of the Rings lore, and found the number of collectables in the game "staggering". Miller also admired Monolith's extensive use of lore in the game, and praised its soundtrack and voice-acting; Stapleton agreed, particularly about the voice acting. Elements of the game were criticized. Sullivan found some side missions repetitive, and Sliwinski was disappointed with some of the boss battles. Miller wrote that some Shadow of Mordor features are too complex and inaccessible for new players or those unwilling to use strategy. Critics disagreed about the Nemesis system. Miller wrote that the system fell flat in the game's final hours; according to VanOrd, the system was unappealing until the game's second half. Carter found the unskippable cutscenes after a player died annoying.
Unlike Shadow of Mordor current-generation versions, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions received mixed-to-negative reviews, and many technical problems were noted. According to Thomas Morgan of Eurogamer its frame rate was substandard, and Yannick LeJacq of Kotaku cited "many technical hiccups and glitches". Morgan believed that the game developers spent little effort on the port, and LeJacq questioned the need to release the game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at all.
Shadow of Mordor was well received by BioShock series creator Ken Levine, who called it the first open-world game with a non-linear story and narrative and said he would bring some of its elements to his upcoming science-fiction project, Judas.
Sales
Shadow of Mordor release was the most successful for a Lord of the Rings-based game. The game debuted at number two in the UK retail software sales chart in its first week (behind FIFA 15), and was the ninth-bestselling game in the United States in October 2014.
In February 2017, it was confirmed that the game has sold 2.88 million copies on PlayStation 4 alone. In October of the same year, the game had sold over 387,000 copies on Steam.
Controversy
When Shadow of Mordor was introduced, Monolith was accused by former Ubisoft employee Charles Randall of using assets (such as the protagonist-animation code) from Assassin's Creed II. Monolith responded that all their project's assets were developed from scratch; they had confidence in their originality.
In October 2014, after the usual video game review outlets were unable to obtain early access to Shadow of Mordor, John Bain (known as TotalBiscuit) said that YouTube video creators had been offered early access in exchange for agreeing to a contract requiring them to describe it positively. Jim Sterling of The Escapist obtained a copy of one of the contracts and analyzed it in detail. The Federal Trade Commission began an investigation and announced in July 2016 that Warner Brothers Home Entertainment had violated the Federal Trade Commission Act, and that the company must declare sponsored advertising in the future.
Awards
In addition to winning several awards at major events and ceremonies, the game was selected by GameSpot, Joystiq, and Giant Bomb as their Game of the Year for 2014.
Sequel
The game's sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, was announced in February 2017. The sequel was developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. It was released worldwide on October 10, 2017.
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Clockhammer
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Clockhammer was an alternative metal group from Nashville, Tennessee, active during the late 1980s through mid 1990s, once described as "a cross between Frank Sabbath and Black Sinatra."
History
Formation (1987-1992)
Originally the brain-child of Vanderbilt University undergrads, Christian Nagle and Matt Swanson, the 1987 line-up consisted of Byron Bailey (vocals, guitar), Nagle (vocals, guitar), Swanson (bass), and Ken Coomer (drums). Clockhammer soon gained a local following, opening for such bands as Firehose, DC3, and Meat Puppets. After an altercation between Nagle and Swanson in the summer of 1988, Nagle left to finish college and the band continued as a trio.
In the early 1990s the trio's music became popular in the college radio scene and many predicted Clockhammer would be a breakthrough success. Bailey's guitar playing reached a plateau by the time the debut album was recorded, evident in the intro to the song "Extra Crispy." The lyrics to songs like "Sun Goes Black" show an artistic edge over most jazz metal at the time. Bailey's guitar playing would draw large crowds at Nashville's Exit/In, which was "the place" for alternative music in the Music City. Infighting doomed the lineup in October of 1991 when Bailey left the band on the eve of a 22-day tour. As causes of the break-up, Bailey cited health problems that made small-van touring difficult but primarily "excruciatingly strained interrelationships in the band."
Re-formation (1992-1995)
Bailey and Nagle went on to re-form Clockhammer in 1993, with Mark Smoot (bass), and Chris Gallo (drums). Nagle and Smoot had played together in the short-lived project Chainsaw Jazz, and Smoot and Gallo in the group Jaws of Life. This last version of Clockhammer produced only one album, So Much For You on the German label Houses in Motion and it was never released in the US. The label-dictated list of songs was not entirely to the band's liking, and as family, money, management, and other concerns loomed, the group amicably disbanded in 1995.
Influences
Byron Bailey was reportedly influenced by the likes of King Crimson and Cream.
Post-Clockhammer projects
Ken Coomer recorded and was a member of Wilco and went on to produce several projects, including, Latin sensation Chetes, Son's Of Bill, Will Hoge and more. and Swanson with My Dad Is Dead and Lambchop. Nagle was a founding member of the Japanese band, Illuminati, and is now a teacher and author in Tokyo, Japan. Bailey played drums and bass for the short-lived Portland, Oregon band, Vista Bridge. He now teaches English in Poquoson, VA. Smoot continues to record and perform music in the Washington, D.C. area. Chris Gallo plays with Richmond, Virginia-based Hex Machine, a tour-opener for Clutch.
Albums
Clockhammer (debut album, 1991) (First Warning label)
Klinefelter (1992) (First Warning label)
Carrot (CD Single, 1992) (First Warning label)
So Much for You (final album, 1994) (Houses In Motion label)
Music style
Clockhammer combines metal, jazz, and funk with Byron Bailey's vocals. Bailey's vocal style has been described as that of a "pissed off angel."
References
External links
http://www.hippiecommune.com/clockhammer/clockframe.html
American alternative metal musical groups
Heavy metal musical groups from Tennessee
Musical groups from Nashville, Tennessee
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Algirdas Sysas
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Algirdas Sysas (born 5 March 1954 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian social democratic politician and trade unionist. He is the Deputy Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania since November 2012 and Deputy Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) since 2009. Prior to political activities, Sysas was the leader and initiator of the independent Lithuanian trade unions.
Education
Sysas first studied radio-electronics and graduated Vilnius Polytechnic College in 1973. After three years of compulsory service at the Soviet Navy (Military Maritime Fleet of the Soviet Union), he continued his studies at Faculty of Economics at Vilnius University. He graduated in 1982 receiving a diploma in Labour Economics.
Trade unions
Sysas started his professional career as a worker at a radio measurement device factory. In 1976 he joined a company producing magnetic tape recorders VILMA. From worker to head of shop, and subsequently deputy head of a major division, Sysas was elected chairman of the factory trade union in 1987. From 1989, he led the independent Lithuanian Metalworkers' Union as its elected Chairman, and a year later he organised and chaired Unification, the independent Lithuanian Trade Union. As the Soviet Union was crumbling and Lithuania was regaining political independence, the Unification was cooperating and supporting the independent Social Democratic Party. Finally, Sysas lead the consolidation of the Unification and another major national Trade Union Centre to become the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation.
Political career
In 1995 he was elected at Vilnius municipal elections as a trade union candidate listed on the Social Democratic Party list, and worked at the municipal Social Affairs Committee. In 1996 he was listed as a non-party member on the Social Democratic Party list and was elected for the first time to the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), where Social Democrats won 9 seats.
Sysas was re-elected in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 (five consecutive mandates). He joined the Social Democratic Party in 2006.
Political offices in the Seimas
1996–2000: Member of Committee on Social Affairs and Labour
2000–2001: Deputy Chair of Committee on Social Affairs and Labour
2001–2008: Chair of Committee on Social Affairs and Labour
2004–present: Member of the parliamentary Commission on Drugs and Alcoholism Prevention
2008–2012: Member of Committee on Social Affairs and Labour
2012–2013: Member of the parliamentary Audit Committee
2012–present: Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Member of Committee on Social Affairs and Labour,
As of 2013: Member of parliamentary groups of Child Welfare, Development Co-operation and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Sysas belongs to the inter-parliamentary relations groups with Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, North European countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), Poland and Romania.
Since 2012, Sysas is Chair of the Seimas Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as well as a Member in the Seimas Delegation in the Inter-Parliamentary Lithuanian–Polish Assembly.
Personal life and activities
Sysas is married and has two children and one granddaughter.
Sysas has been promoting healthy lifestyle and daily exercise. He has been adept at orienteering since the 1970s, participating in numerous local, national and international competitions. Sysas is President of local club Labirintas (Labyrinth) and was President of Lithuanian Orienteering Federation in 1999–2006. He is also a long-distance (including marathon and half-marathon) runner, participates in multichallenge (multisports, that include running or orienteering, cycling, water sports, etc.) competitions, practices skiing (cross-country and mountain), etc.
Political views and quotes
Social dialogue. A. Sysas has been promoting social dialogue, but it has not been among priorities of Lithuanian governments, even leftist.
On social insurance. 'If we want to have more people joining the national social insurance system, we have to guarantee higher social benefits from the fund. On the other hand, fixed ceiling is not acceptable'.
Effective tax rates. Sysas is the proponent of progressive tax system which would apply to all income and wealth. He argues that it has been a mistake of a number of Lithuanian governments and the non-existent progressive tax has damaged the idea of solidarity in the society, added to the divide and social exclusion as well as huge emigration to countries of progressive taxation (UK, Ireland, Norway, Germany, etc.). 'Progressive taxation characterises society where social justice is prevalent. Harsh criticism of progressive tax is the sign of envy. It is common in some societies which still live in culture of poverty (Dickensian), where people tend to be narrow-minded and of low social intelligence. Societies, where people fear that those living in poverty might be living better at some point'.
On Nuclear Power Station in Lithuania. 'I can only speak for myself - I do not want nuclear power plant. I support the majority who said „No to the power plant“ in the referendum. In case we decide to go against this decision, we need to hold referendum again. Judging from what is happening around, what the electricity needs are, what technologies exist, we have already incurred losses. Neighboring countries are building two nuclear power plants which implies that there will be enough electricity in the region and it will be possible to buy it on the market.
References
External links
Personal website
Biography on Lithuanian Parliament website
News portal Delfi
Politicians from Vilnius
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania politicians
Members of the Seimas
Vilnius University alumni
1954 births
Living people
Lithuanian orienteers
Male orienteers
21st-century Lithuanian politicians
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Mauda Super Thermal Power Station
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Mauda Super Thermal Power Station or NTPC Mauda is located at Mauda a Tehsil in Ramtek subdivision of Nagpur district in Nagpur revenue Division in the Berar region in the state of Maharashtra, India. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of National Thermal Power Corporation. 1000 MW Stage 1 was dedicated to nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 21 August 2014.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is the EPC contractor (EPCC) for the power project.
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Nagpur district
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Thorne%20%28naval%20officer%29
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Rear Admiral Edward Courtney "Ted" Thorne, (29 October 1923 – 23 October 2013) was a senior Royal New Zealand Navy officer. He rose to be Chief of Naval Staff and later served as the Commissioner of the New Zealand Fire Service.
Biography
Thorne was born in Seatoun, Wellington, on 29 October 1923 and was educated at Rongotai College from 1935 to 1938, followed by Nelson College from 1938 to 1941. After leaving school, he travelled to England, becoming a cadet at Dartmouth. His training included time in the cruiser Hawkins and during the war he served in vessels including the heavy cruiser Devonshire and the destroyer Lamerton.
Following the Second World War, Thorne spent time with the Royal Navy 2nd Minesweeping Squadron and returning to New Zealand he served in Taupo, Bellona and Kaniere. He was in command of the naval radio station at Waiouru on Christmas Eve 1953 when news of the nearby Tangiwai disaster came through, and he led naval personnel in the ensuing recovery operation. In 1972 he was promoted to rear admiral and was appointed New Zealand's Chief of Naval Staff. Following his retirement from the navy, he was appointed the first commissioner of the New Zealand Fire Service.
He died in Auckland on 23 October 2013.
Honours and decorations
In 1953, Thorne was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In the 1972 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Thorne was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.
References
External links
1992 biographical interview
1923 births
2013 deaths
New Zealand Companions of the Order of the Bath
New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
New Zealand military personnel of World War II
People educated at Nelson College
Royal New Zealand Navy admirals
Military personnel from Wellington
People educated at Rongotai College
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The Emma Abbott Memorial Chapel is a late Victorian church located at 52 Cooper St., Charleston, South Carolina. On October 4, 1890, the Citadel Square Baptist Church bought a parcel at the northwest corner of Cooper and America Streets for the construction of a mission church serving the Eastside. The land was marshy and had to be filled at a cost of $1500. In January 1891, Citadel Square Baptist Church learned that it had been named as one of several beneficiaries of the estate of Emma Abbott, a popular opera singer. She had attended church at Citadel Square Baptist Church during trips to Charleston in 1880, 1886, and February 1888.
Abbott left the church $5,000, but because of New York probate laws, the gift could not be released until January 1892. In the meantime, the church began foundation work for the new church. The church hired Richmond, Virginia architect S.H. Foulk to design their new mission. The work was performed by John Murphy for $4,000; he finished the work in December 1892. The cost of the building had been higher than expected, and the steeple was not built. A two-story entrance tower appears to have been a later addition.
The church was designed in the Romanesque Revival style and has broad gables with shingles, narrow weatherboard siding, and large round-topped openings. The interior is executed largely in wood.
Since 1977, the church has been occupied by the Mt. Sinai Holiness Church of Deliverance.
References
Churches in Charleston, South Carolina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20DiLullo
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Ralph DiLullo
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Ralph S. DiLullo (March 31, 1911 – August 9, 1999) was a professional baseball player, manager and scout whose career in the sport spanned 60 years.
DiLullo was a catcher in the minor leagues and later managed at that level in the Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers organizations for five seasons. He then worked for the Chicago Cubs as a scout and was responsible for the signing of pitchers Joe Niekro and Bruce Sutter. He joined the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau in 1975 and worked there until his 1993 retirement. He briefly re-joined the Cubs system in 1994, but soon retired once again.
Honors, awards and recognition
In 1986, he was named the East Coast Scout of the Year by the Scout of the Year Foundation. The Ralph DiLullo Award, handed out by the East Coast Scouts Association, and the Ralph DiLullo Memorial Award, handed out by the New York Professional Hot Stove League, are named in his honor. He was elected to the Professional Baseball Scout's Wall of Fame, located at Richmond County Bank Ballpark, in 2006. A book, Foresight 20/20: The Life of Baseball Scout Ralph DiLullo, was written about him. Upon his death in 1999, Grahame Jones of the Los Angeles Times called DiLullo, "baseball's premier scout."
Personal life
DiLullo was born in Capracotta, Italy and died in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. His son, Ralph DiLullo, Jr., was a multi-sport star at Wagner College who spent two years in the minor leagues.
References
External links
Ralph DiLullo at The Deadball Era
1911 births
1999 deaths
Chicago Cubs scouts
Italian emigrants to the United States
Minor league baseball managers
Minor league baseball players
Richmond Tigers players
Sportspeople from the Province of Isernia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%E2%80%9356%20Liga%20Bet
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1955–56 Liga Bet
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The 1955–56 Liga Bet season was the first in which Liga Bet was the third tier of Israeli football due to the formation of Liga Leumit.
Maccabi Hadera (North Division champions) and Maccabi Sha'arayim (South Division champions) qualified for the promotion/relegation play-offs against the 9th- and 10th-placed clubs in Liga Alef.
North Division
South Division
Promotion play-offs
A promotion-relegation play-off between the 9th and 10th-placed teams in Liga Alef, Ahva Notzrit Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem, and the winners of the regional divisions of Liga Bet, Maccabi Sha'arayim and Maccabi Hadera. Each team played the other three once.
Notes
References
1955-56 Bnei Yehuda
Beitar Jerusalem in top of the play-offs table Maariv, 26.8.56, Historical Jewish Press
Beitar Jerusalem 4-2 Maccabi Hadera Heruth, 2.9.56, Historical Jewish Press
In Sports Heruth, 6.4.56, Historical Jewish Press
Football (Page 19) M. Almog, Hapoel 1956, 1956, www.infocenters.co.il (Hapoel Archive)
Liga Bet seasons
Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metyaki
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Metyaki
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Metyaki (; , Meteki) is a rural locality (a selo) in Arylakhsky Rural Okrug of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Batagay, the administrative center of the district, and from Bala, the administrative center of the rural okrug. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 16; down from 32 recorded in the 2002 Census.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Verkhoyansky District.
Rural localities in Verkhoyansky District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Little%20Bit%20of%20Love%20%28Andreas%20Johnson%20song%29
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A Little Bit of Love (Andreas Johnson song)
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"A Little Bit of Love" is a song written by Andreas Johnson and Peter Kvint, and performed by Andreas Johnson at Melodifestivalen 2007. The song participated in the semifinale in Gävle on 24 February 2007, heading directly to the finals inside the Stockholm Globe Arena on 10 March 2007, finishing second. On 5 March 2007 the single was released. The single peaked at third position at the Swedish singles chart, and became a major radio hit both at Sveriges Radio and the commercial stadions.
The song also charted at Svensktoppen, entering the chart on 8 April 2007 on 2nd position. On 15 April 2007 the song topped the chart. On 19 August 2007 the song was at Svensktoppen for 20th and final time. before getting knocked out the upcoming week.
Single track listing
A Little Bit of Love
A Little Bit of Love (PJ Harmony Remix Version)
Charts
References
2007 singles
2007 songs
Andreas Johnson songs
English-language Swedish songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 2007
Songs written by Peter Kvint
Songs written by Andreas Johnson
Warner Music Group singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DyE
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DyE
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Juan de Guillebon, better known by his stage name DyE, is a French musician. He is most known for the music video for the single "Fantasy" from his first album Taki 183.
Debut album and success
Tigersushi:
Taki 183 was recorded using analogue equipment such as a Roland TR-606, Moog Source and a Korg Poly Six into Pro-Tools.
"Fantasy" was released together with an animated body horror themed music video to promote the single. This video became popular, attracting over 65 million views, 49 million of those within two years.
Discography
Albums
Taki 183 (2011)
Cocktail Citron (2014)
Inside Out (2018)
EPs
Imperator (2009)
Emo Machine (2017)
References
External links
DyE at Myspace
French musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una-class%20submarine
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Una-class submarine
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The Una-class submarine (also known as Type 911) was a class of six midget submarines built for the Yugoslav Navy at the Brodogradilište specijalnih objekata (English: Special objects shipyard) during the 1980s. They were designed with the purpose of laying small minefields and transporting naval special forces, with or without their submersibles, in shallow waters that were inaccessible for larger submarines. Due to their mission profile that called for a small design as well as the need to stay undetected, they lacked torpedo armament and a generator for battery recharging.
During the Croatian War of Independence and the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, five of the six boats were relocated to Boka Kotorska where they served with the SR Yugoslav Navy. One, Soča (P-914), was captured in drydock by Croatian forces. It was later modified and entered service with the Croatian Navy as . All of the boats have since been decommissioned.
Development
During the 1970s the Brodarski Institute (BI) from Zagreb started working on a new class of submarines for the Yugoslav Navy (JRM). The project, designated B-91 and led by Lieutenant Colonel Davorin Kajić, was tasked with developing a class of midget submarines capable of operating in the shallow waters of the northern Adriatic. Using their small dimensions, the submarines were to be able to maneuver in depths as shallow as ; such abilities were needed to conduct offensive minelaying near the enemy coastline, reconnaissance, and transporting naval special forces in hostile waters.
All six boats were completed from 1985 to 1989 at the Brodogradilište Specijalnih Objekata (BSO) in Split, SR Croatia and named after rivers in SFR Yugoslavia: Tisa (P-911), Una (P-912), Zeta (P-913), Soča (P-914), Kupa (P-915) and Vardar (P-916). Further planned improvements included the addition of a Stirling engine, either by refitting the existing boats or building a new, seventh one, but the imminent breakup of Yugoslavia happened before anything was realized.
Description
The Una class featured a single-hulled design, measuring in length with an average draught of . The boats displaced when surfaced and when submerged. Because deploying naval commandos was one of their main tasks, they were equipped with an underwater exit/re-entry chamber.
Propulsion consisted of two electric motors, mounted on a single shaft and powered by two battery groups with 128 cells each. The class lacked the ability to recharge during surface drive making them dependent on external power sources such as harbours and depot ships. Maximum achievable speed was underwater and surfaced. Traveling at a speed of they had a range of . Maximum diving depth was . The sensor suite included an active/passive Krupp Atlas sonar.
In accordance with their expected mission, the boats could transport up to six naval commandos armed with 6–12 M-66 or M-71 limpet mines. Also at their disposal were four large AIM-70/71 bottom mines mounted on the outside of the submarines. Four R-1 swimmer delivery vehicles could be carried in place of the AIM-70/71 mines. With a full crew of six members the boats had an underwater endurance of 160 hours which was reduced to 96 hours if the complement numbered ten personnel (four crew members and six naval commandos).
Boats
History
Service and decommissioning
All six boats were in service with the 88th submarine flotilla of the JRM with Lora Naval Base being their homeport. At the start of the Croatian War of Independence all boats except Soča were relocated to Montenegro without participating in combat operations. Croatian forces captured Soča in drydock at the BSO where it was undergoing an overhaul. Soča underwent a modification program that improved its autonomy by installing a diesel generator. It was recommissioned, now with the Croatian Navy, in 1996 as and remained in service until the early 2000s when it was declared redundant. The remaining boats entered service with the new SR Yugoslav Navy. The first ones to be decommissioned sometime between 1997 and 2001 were Tisa and Una. In 2003 a decision was made that the ongoing major overhaul of Kupa would stop; the boat was decommissioned and broken up in 2008. It appears that the last Una-class boats in service with the SR Yugoslav Navy were Zeta and Vardar, both of them being decommissioned in 2005.
Aftermath
Ownership of the decommissioned boats passed on to Montenegro after the country declared independence in 2006, ending the state of Serbia and Montenegro and its joint armed forces. In 2009 the Ministry of Defence announced that it is willing to donate three Una-class submarines to former SFR Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. Although the "Submariner" society from Pula was interested in accepting the donation and exhibiting it in a museum, the Croatian MoD responded with a statement that accepting the donation is against national interests; since most of the fleet of the former Yugoslav Navy was relocated to Montenegro at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence, Croatia claims the military equipment of the former joint armed forces was stolen, and should be a subject of succession. The MoD further explains that the state interest is in compensation for that equipment, not returning "obsolete, damaged and corroded equipment which nowadays Serbia and Montenegro are unsuccessfully trying to sell".
Slovenia on the other hand reacted positively to the offer; in 2011 Zeta was loaded on a truck and transported to Bar, then across Adriatic to Bari, Italy and along Italian coast to Slovenia. Although longer and thus more expensive, sea routes and roads that included crossing the Croatian border were avoided in fear of Croatian authorities confiscating the submarine. P-913 was restored with the help of the "Slovenian Submariners Society" and the Slovenian Army, being officially placed on display at the Pivka Park of Military History on 17 September 2011.
In 2013, Una and a attack submarine, Heroj (P-821), were restored and opened to the public in the museum section of the Porto Montenegro marina. The project was initiated by the "Submariner" Society from Tivat and was, after approval by the Montenegro MoD, financed by Porto Montenegro. The donation of one of the submarines to Serbia was initiated by the "Submariner" society from Belgrade in 2009. However it wasn't until five years later in June 2014 that the Government of Montenegro officially accepted the proposal and agreed to cede Tisa (P-911) to Serbia. The submarine will be exhibited at the Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade.
Notes
References
Books
News reports
Other sources
Midget submarines
Ships of the Yugoslav Navy
Croatian Navy
Military of Serbia and Montenegro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Cooper
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Edwin Cooper
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Edwin Cooper may refer to:
Eddie Cooper (cricketer) (1915–1968), English cricketer
Edwin Cooper (architect) (1874–1942), English architect
Edwin Cooper (artist) (1785–1833), English artist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius%20lavinia
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Elysius lavinia
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Elysius lavinia is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1906. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1906
lavinia
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Conway%20%28swimmer%29
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Sean Conway (swimmer)
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Sean Conway (born 1981) is a Zimbabwean ultra endurance athlete, author of 6 books and motivational speaker. Sean famously broke the world record for completing 105 ironmans in 105 days. He was also was the first person to swim the length of Britain, is the only person to have completed a length of Britain triathlon, has completed the world's longest triathlon of 4200 miles and has the world record for the fastest self supported cycle across europe.
Early years
Conway was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 6 April 1981. He later attended Hilton College in South Africa. He lived in Cheltenham for a number of years before moving to the Lake District in 2016. In 2020 he moved to Wales with his wife Caroline and two boys.
He earns his living as an adventurer, author and public speaker.
Swimming
Starting on 30 June 2013, Conway set out to swim from Land's End in the south-west of Great Britain, to John o' Groats, in the north, travelling up the west coast of Great Britain and via the east coast of Ireland. He completed the swim on 11 November, the first person to do so, having swum , in 135 days, 90 of which were spent in the water, the others avoiding contrary tides, resting, and avoiding bad weather, sometimes ashore and sometimes on his support yacht. He grew a thick beard to help prevent jellyfish stinging his face.
He used the achievement to raise money for the charity War Child.
Triathlon
Sean Conway became the first person to complete an "ultimate triathlon" when he finished running from John O' Groats to Land's End, having already cycled and swum the entire way before. The run was made into a two-part documentary called Sean Conway:Running Britain for Discovery Channel UK. Sean Conway completed the "ultimate triathlon" unsupported, without the support of a team and lifeboats.
In 2016 Sean set the world record for the world's longest triathlon. A 4200 mile journey around the coast of Britain. This was made into a documentary now on Amazon Prime called Sean Conway on the Edge. This record has since been broken by Jonas Deichmann
In 2023 Sean Conway also broke the world record for the most ironmans completed in a row. He completed 105 ironmans in 105 days surpassing James Lawrences record of 101.
Cycling
Sean took the record for the fastest, unsupported crossing of Europe by bicycle in March 2018. Starting in Cabo de Roca on the west coast of Portugal, he successfully cycled nearly 4,000 miles, finishing at the Russian town of Ufa in 24 days, 18 hours and 39 minutes. The movie Europe or Bust covers this trip. It was later superseded by Leigh Timmis in a fully supported attempt the same year.
Sean has also cycled around the world in 2012 in an attempt to break the world record. Unfortunately his record attempt came to an abrupt end when he got run over in America. He continued after 3 weeks recovery to raise money for Solar Aid successfully returning to London 155 days later.
in 2008 Sean cycled Land's End to John O'Groat which took him 25 days. He wrote a book about his journey.
Running
Sean has run the length of Britain which took 44 days. It was made into a documentray for Discovery Channel called Sean Conway Running Britain.
Sean has run across Iceland which took 10 days. There is a short film on Youtube about his run.
Sean ran a marathon in each of the UK national parks consecutively. So that's 15 Marathons in 15 days.
Sean also once ran 280 miles from Conwy Castle in North Wales to Castle Conway on the west of Ireland.
The 496 Challenge
Sean came up with the now global challenge called The 496 Challenge. The concept is to run the day of the month in kilometres. So on the 1st of the month, you run 1 km, 2nd, 2 km and so on, ending the month with a 31 km run. Add that all together you land up running 496 km.
Books
2012 - Cycling Lands End to John O'Groats
2014 - Cycling The Earth
2015 - Running Britain
2016 - Hell or High Water
2018 - Big Mile Cycling
2019 - The Chronicles of William Wilder - Tempuras Treasure
Documentaries
Sean Conway Running Britain - Discovery Channel (Now on Amazon Prime)
Sean Conway On The Edge - Discovery Channel (Now on Amazon Prime)
Sean Conway Europe or Bust - Amazon Prime
The 496 Challenge - YouTube Short Film
National Park Marathons - YouTube Short Film
Running Across Iceland - YouTube Short Film
Public Speaking
Sean Conway does motivational speaking and has given a TEDx talk amongst many others.
Championing Youth Sport
Sean focuses his energies on trying to encourage youth sport through the work of the True Venture Foundation. Sean raised over £100,000 for True Venture during his 105 Ironmans world record attempt. Sean has also received a personal letter from Prince William about his efforts in youth sport.
References
Going Solo Adventures Q&A Session with Sean Conway Part 1
External links
1981 births
Living people
Male long-distance swimmers
Sportspeople from Harare
Sportspeople from Cheltenham
Ultra-distance cyclists
Cycling writers
Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRD
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WRD
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WRD may refer to:
Observances
World Rabies Day, on 28 September
World Radio Day, on 13 February
World Refrigeration Day, on 26 June
World Religion Day, in January
Organisations
Oregon Water Resources Department, Oregon, United States
Wasatch Roller Derby, Utah, United States
Woodstock Roller Derby, Ontario, Canada
Publications
World report on disability, by the World Health Organization
Worm Runner's Digest, a zoology journal
Other uses
WRD, a spurious ISO 639-3 language code
Watts Reflected Decimal, a binary code format
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201978%29
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Fernando Núñez (footballer, born 1978)
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Fernando Núñez Lázaro (born 28 June 1978), often known simply as Fernando, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Núñez graduated from RCD Espanyol's youth system, making his senior debuts with the reserves in the 1998–99 season, in Segunda División B. On 24 July 1999 he appeared in his first and only game as a professional, playing the last 34 minutes in a 1–2 away loss against Montpellier HSC for the UEFA Intertoto Cup.
In the following years, Núñez competed in his native region and the lower leagues, representing UE Figueres, CE Mataró, CE Europa and AE Prat.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Barcelona
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
RCD Espanyol B footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
UE Figueres footballers
CE Mataró players
CE Europa footballers
AE Prat players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6r%20kung%20och%20fosterland
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För kung och fosterland
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"För kung och fosterland" is a song written by Magnus Uggla and Anders Henriksson and performed by Uggla in Melodifestivalen 2007. The song participated in the semifinal in Gävle on 24 February 2007, and reached Andra chansen in Nyköping on 3 March 2007, but failed to reach the finals. The song lyrics criticise consumer society.
On 5 March 2007, the single was released, peaking at number 11 on the Swedish singles chart.
The song also charted at Svensktoppen, entering the chart on 1 April 2007, ending up at number 10. The following week, the song was knocked out of the chart.
During Melodifestivalen 2012, the song was appointed a "Tredje chansen" number.
Single track listing
För kung och fosterland (3:03)
Charts
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
2007 singles
2007 songs
Magnus Uggla songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 2007
Songs written by Magnus Uggla
Songs written by Anders Henriksson (record producer)
Swedish-language songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20High%20Court
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British High Court
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British High Court may refer to:
High Court of Justice (England and Wales)
High Court of Justiciary (Scotland)
High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland
High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I
High Court of Justice in Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20cascading
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Method cascading
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In object-oriented programming, method cascading is syntax which allows multiple methods to be called on the same object. This is particularly applied in fluent interfaces.
For example, in Dart, the cascade:
a..b()
..c();
is equivalent to the individual calls:
a.b();
a.c();
Method cascading is much less common than method chaining – it is found only in a handful of object-oriented languages, while chaining is very common. A form of cascading can be implemented using chaining, but this restricts the interface; see comparison with method chaining, below.
Application
Cascading is syntactic sugar that eliminates the need to list the object repeatedly. This is particularly used in fluent interfaces, which feature many method calls on a single object.
This is particularly useful if the object is the value of a lengthy expression, as it eliminates the need to either list the expression repeatedly or use a temporary variable. For example, instead of either listing an expression repeatedly:
a.b().c();
a.b().d();
or using a temporary variable:
n = a.b();
n.c();
n.d();
cascading allows the expression to be written once and used repeatedly:
a.b()..c()
..d();
Comparison with method chaining
Given a method call a.b(), after executing the call, method cascading evaluates this expression to the left object a (with its new value, if mutated), while method chaining evaluates this expression to the right object.
Chaining
The following chain (in C++):
a.b().c();
is equivalent to the simple form:
b = a.b();
b.c();
Cascading
The following cascade (in Dart):
a..b()
..c();
is equivalent to the simple form:
a.b();
a.c();
Cascading can be implemented in terms of chaining by having the methods return the target object (receiver, this, self). However, this requires that the method be implemented this way already – or the original object be wrapped in another object that does this – and that the method not return some other, potentially useful value (or nothing if that would be more appropriate, as in setters). In fluent interfaces this often means that setters return this instead of nothing.
Languages
Pascal
Within the component statement of the with statement, the components (fields) of the record variable specified by the with clause can be denoted by their field identifier only, i.e. without preceding them with the denotation of the entire record variable. The with clause effectively opens the scope containing the field identifiers of the specified record variable, so that the field identifiers may occur as variable identifiers. with date do
if month = 12 then
begin month := 1; year := year + 1 end
else month := month + 1
{ is equivalent to }
if date.month = 12 then
begin date.month := 1; date.year := date.year + 1 end
else date.month := date.month + 1
Smalltalk
Method chains and cascades were both introduced in Smalltalk; most subsequent object-oriented languages have implemented chains, but few have implemented cascades. In Smalltalk the semicolon operator can be used to send different messages to the same object:
self listPane parent
color: Color black;
height: 17;
width: 11
Compare with separate statements, terminated with a period, also using a variable for abbreviation:
|parent|
parent := self listPane parent.
parent color: Color black.
parent height: 17.
parent width: 11.
One subtlety is that the value of a method call ("message") in a cascade is still the ordinary value of the message, not the receiver. This is a problem when you do want the value of the receiver, for example when building up a complex value. This can be worked around by using the special yourself method that simply returns the receiver:
Object>>yourself
^self
For example, the "add an object to a collection" method (Collection>>add: anObject) returns the object that was added, not the collection. Thus to use this in a cascade in an assignment statement, the cascade must end with yourself, otherwise the value will just be the last element added, not the collection itself:
all := OrderedCollection new
add: 5;
add: 7;
yourself.
Visual Basic
Visual Basic uses the With statement to enable an arbitrary number of method calls or property accesses on the same object:
With ExpressionThatReturnsAnObject
.SomeFunction(42)
.Property = value
End With
With..End With blocks in Visual Basic can be nested:
With ExpressionThatReturnsAnObject
.SomeFunction(42)
.Property = value
With .SubObject
.SubProperty = otherValue
.AnotherMethod(42)
End With
End With
Dart
Among newer languages, Dart implements cascades, using a double-dot .. "cascaded method invocation operation". Unlike Smalltalk, in Dart the value of a cascaded method invocation is the receiver (base object), not the value of the (uncascaded) method invocation, and thus there is no need for yourself. Dart uses properties, and thus rather than using method syntax for getters and setters (foo.getBar(); foo.setBar(b);), it uses field value/assignment syntax (foo.bar; foo.bar = b;), and cascades work with assignments:
a..string = 'Hello world!'
..done = true;
is equivalent to:
a.string = 'Hello world!';
a.done = true;
References
External links
Dart
"Method Cascades in Dart", Gilad Bracha, February 17, 2012
Milestone 1 Language Changes, "Cascades", Bob Nystrom, July 2012 (updated March 2013)
Cascading
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madre%20Tierra%20Resort%20and%20Spa
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Madre Tierra Resort and Spa
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Madre Tierra Resort and Spa''' is an eco-resort and spa, located about 2 kilometers north of the town of Vilcabamba (meaning "Sacred Valley''") in 29 km from the center of Loja, Loja Province, in Southern Ecuador. Also, it's located in 34 km from Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport. It is noted for its meticulously decorated rooms while being located on a hillside with waterfalls and gardens.
In 2016, the resort received Tripadvisor's Certificate of Excellence.
References
External links
Resorts in Ecuador
Hotels in Ecuador
Buildings and structures in Loja Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Big%20South%20Conference%20men%27s%20soccer%20tournament
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2013 Big South Conference men's soccer tournament
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The 2013 Big South Conference men's soccer tournament will be the 30th edition of the tournament. Held from Nov. 14-17, it will determine the Big South Conference champion, and the automatic berth into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The Winthrop Eagles are the defending men's soccer champions.
Qualification
Bracket
Schedule
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Big South Championship
See also
Big South Conference
2013 Big South Conference men's soccer season
2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
References
2013
Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Vision%20BV
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Prime Vision BV
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Prime Vision BV is a Dutch company that specializes in computer vision systems and robotics for the recognition, identification and automation of sorting processes for the postal, logistics and e-commerce markets.
Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, Prime Vision operates globally.
The company's shareholders include PostNL - the national mail delivery company in the Netherlands - and First Dutch Innovations (FDI).
History
In 1956 what would become Prime Vision starts life as a research department of the PTT.
A few years later, in 1961, The High Yield Character Reader (HYCR), the core technology of Prime Vision, was invented. The HYCR has been developed for capturing hand written as well as machine printed text and has found a particular niche as the basis for secondary OCR engines. In this role, Prime Vision's HYCR-based systems complement other OCRs that have been principally designed for machine printed text. With the systems working in tandem the net read rate of letters, flats and parcels is boosted significantly. HYCR is now in use throughout the world and includes various language sets, including Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil.
In 2003 KPN Research (formerly known as PTT) was acquired by TNO Companies. Additional investments prepared the company for its first sales outside the Netherlands.
One year later, TNT (now known as PostNL) acquired 60% of the shares of Prime Vision from TNO. Additional investment led to an independent entity Prime Vision BV.
The majority of the TNO Companies shares are taken over in 2017 by First Dutch Innovations who became the new shareholder of Prime Vision.
Awards
Postal Technology International Award 2010 in category Automation Technology of the Year.
Postal Technology International Award 2015 in category Last Mile Delivery of the Year for Digital Mail Man.
Postal Technology International Award 2016 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for MMS Dynamic Mail Processing Solution.
Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for Projection Sorting.
Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Supplier of the Year.
Logistica Award 2017 for Autonomous Sorting.
References
Companies based in South Holland
Technology companies established in 1956
Postal system of the Netherlands
Optical character recognition
Automatic identification and data capture
1956 establishments in the Netherlands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius%20melanoplaga
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Elysius melanoplaga
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Elysius melanoplaga is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Subspecies
Elysius melanoplaga melanoplaga (Ecuador)
Elysius melanoplaga amarua Seitz, 1922 (Bolivia)
References
Moths described in 1901
melanoplaga
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoulder
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Smoulder
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Smouldering is a slow flameless form of combustion. It could also refer to one of the following:
Smoulder (band) - an Underground epic doom metal band
"Smoulder" (song) - a Song by King Adora
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo%20Raimondi
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Aldo Raimondi
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Aldo Raimondi (Rome, 1902 - Milan, 1997), was an Italian painter.
Biography
Born in Rome in 1902, Raimondi began his artistic career there in the studio of Giuseppe Signorini. He majored in architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 22. Between 1925 and 1926 he lived in Milan, where he served in the Italian military; while there, he painted a fresco for a barracks, and restored some of the rooms of the Palazzo Cusani, home of the Command of the Army Corps.
Raimondi moved to Parma in 1926, and began to teach in the local Art Institute: there he inserted himself into a difficult environment without much effort, and was quickly befriended by the natives for his extraordinary dedication to his craft and the eye-catching qualities of his character. In Parma, he was commissioned by the mayor to paint some watercolors of the view over the old city, still visible today in the Town Hall, which are proof of his skill as a landscape artist; Raimondi would receive other such commissions both in Italy and abroad later on. In Parma in 1930 he organized his first of many solo exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. From 1938-40 he replaced Achille Beltrame as the illustrator of "Domenica del Corriere," and later was called to illustrate "The People of Turin."
Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusive piece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors at the Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devote himself full-time to making films. Later he painted landscapes, animals, flowers and many portraits, including those of the Popes Pius XII, John XXIII (1958) and Pope Paul VI (1966). He also produced some windows for the Seminary of Monza, for the parish of Menaggio in Como, and the church of San Simpliciano in Milan.
Bibliography
Catalogo online Artgate della Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC-BY-SA.
F. Pestellini, Aldo Raimondi e il romanzo dell'acquarello, Florence, 1966.
A. Raimondi, La mia vita per l'acquarello, Rome, 1979.
S. e S. Minardi, I cinque grandi dell'acquarello, Milan, 1986.
Salvatore Minardi, Catalogo Generale Vol. 1, Milan, 1999.
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Academic staff of Brera Academy
Painters from Rome
Artists from Parma
1902 births
1997 deaths
20th-century Italian male artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Catalyst%20%28American%20newspaper%29
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The Catalyst (American newspaper)
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The Catalyst is an American weekly newspaper published by students of Colorado College Friday mornings of the school year in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Catalyst is the official and only student newspaper of Colorado College and has a print circulation of roughly 1,500 and is circulated on the college's campus and in downtown Colorado Springs.
The Catalyst consists of five sections: News, Sports, Active Life, Life, and Opinion.
The Catalyst has been in print since the 1890s, and has undergone dozens of transformations over the years. The newspaper was originally called "The Tiger."
The newspaper was instrumental in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's (FIRE) case on Colorado College's uniquely limited freedom of speech. FIRE had named Colorado College on its Red Alert list for several years over its treatment of two students who distributed a satirical flyer which parodied the college's Feminist and Gender Studies newsletter. Three articles in The Catalyst were cited by FIRE.
During the FAA's highly publicized investigation of a group of Colorado College students in 2012, the FAA, as well as several media outlets, including the Associated Press, cited The Catalyst's reporting on the investigation. The small weekly's editor at the time, Jesse Paul, broke the news of investigation.
References
External links
thecatalystnews.com -- The Catalyst Website
Student newspapers published in Colorado
Newspapers established in the 1890s
1890s establishments in Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia%20%28planet%29
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Theia (planet)
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Theia () is a hypothesized ancient planet in the early Solar System that, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, with some of the resulting ejected debris gathering to form the Moon.
Such a collision, with the two planets' cores and mantles fusing, could explain why Earth's core is larger than expected for a body its size. Theia is hypothesized to have been about the size of Mars, and may have formed in the outer Solar System and provided much of Earth's water.
Name
In Greek mythology, Theia was one of the Titans. She was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the Moon, a story that parallels the planet Theia's theorized role in creating the Moon. In modern Greek, it has the same origin as the words "θείος" (theios) and "θεία" (theia) ('uncle' and 'aunt', also meaning 'divine' in Ancient Greek).
Orbit
Theia is hypothesized to have orbited in the L4 or L5 configuration presented by the Earth–Sun system, where it would tend to remain. If this were the case it might have grown to a size comparable to Mars, with a diameter of about . Gravitational perturbations by Venus could have put it onto a collision course with the early Earth.
Collision
According to the giant impact hypothesis, Theia orbited the Sun, nearly along the orbit of the proto-Earth, by staying close to one or the other of the Sun-Earth system's two more stable Lagrangian points (i.e., either L4 or L5). Theia was eventually perturbed away from that relationship by the gravitational influence of Jupiter, Venus, or both, resulting in a collision between Theia and Earth.
Computer simulations suggest that Theia was traveling no faster than when it struck Earth at an estimated 45-degree angle.
Initially, the hypothesis supposed that Theia had struck Earth with a glancing blow and ejected many pieces of both the proto-Earth and Theia, those pieces either forming one body that became the Moon or forming two moons that eventually merged to form the Moon. Such accounts assumed that a head-on impact would have destroyed both planets, creating a short-lived second asteroid belt between the orbits of Venus and Mars.
In contrast, evidence published in January 2016 suggests that the impact was indeed a head-on collision and that Theia's remains are on Earth and the Moon.
Hypotheses
From the beginning of modern astronomy, there have been at least four hypotheses for the origin of the Moon:
A single body split into Earth and Moon
The Moon was captured by Earth's gravity (as most of the outer planets' smaller moons were captured)
The Earth and Moon formed at the same time when the protoplanetary disk accreted
The Theia-impact scenario described above
The lunar rock samples retrieved by Apollo astronauts were found to be very similar in composition to Earth's crust, and so were likely removed from Earth in some violent event.
By 2012, Matija Ćuk and Sarah Stewart theorized that Theia could explain why Earth's core is larger than expected for a body its size; Theia's core and mantle could have fused with those of Earth. It is also hypothesized that the large low-shear-velocity provinces detected deep in Earth's mantle may be fragments of Theia.
Evidence published in 2019 suggests that Theia might have formed in the outer Solar System, and that much of Earth's water originated on Theia.
See also
Disrupted planet
Nibiru cataclysm
Phaeton (hypothetical planet)
Synestia
References
Lunar science
Hypothetical impact events
Hypothetical bodies of the Solar System
Hypothetical planets
Possible dwarf planets
Water
Space
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Henry%20Ford
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George Henry Ford
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George Henry Ford aka G. H. Ford (20 May 1808 in London – July 1876 in London), was a South African natural history illustrator who joined the British Museum in 1837. He portrayed animals and produced the plates in Sir Andrew Smith's Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.
Ford was the son of an English farmer in the Cape, James Edward Ford, who was himself a talented miniaturist. Capt. James Edward Ford, one of the 1820 Settlers, was born in England in 1770, and emigrated to South Africa, landing at Port Elizabeth in April 1820. The area allocated to the party lay midway between Bathurst and the Great Fish River mouth and was named Cuylerville after Col. Jacob Cuyler. Ford, his wife Frances Stransham, and their seven children were amongst 256 Settlers on the ship Chapman. The children were Frances Jane Ford 14, James Samuel Ford 13, George Henry Ford 11, Edward Stransham Ford 9, Adelaide Elizabeth Ford 8, Jane Murray Ford 6, and John Henry Ford 3.
Andrew Smith made the acquaintance of the Ford family in 1821 when he was visiting farmers, urging them to provide him with specimens of interest. Young George Ford was suffering from a broken hip inflicted by a cow, an injury which left him permanently crippled, prompting Smith to take him back to Cape Town. While convalescing there he was encouraged to paint and draw Smith's specimens. He proved to be so proficient that in 1825 Smith recommended him to the newly founded South African Museum in Cape Town, and later seconded him to the 1834–36 "Expedition for Exploring Central Africa". A report on this expedition was Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa, consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836.
When Smith returned to England in 1837, Ford accompanied him and soon found recognition for the quality of his work. He was employed at the British Museum and worked there with Smith who was finally driven away by the discomfort of the Bloomsbury semi-basement. Ford continued working under John Edward Gray, assistant to the Keeper of Zoology. Because of chronic backache, Ford eventually worked from the Surbiton home of Albert Günther who was to succeed Gray in 1875.
George Viner Ellis (1812-1900) succeeded to the Chair of Anatomy at University College London in 1850, and became one of the foremost anatomists of his time. This institution, in its first thirty-five years of existence, published a large number of anatomical atlases. Ellis and Ford used the relatively new technique of chromolithography for their imperial folio atlas of fifty-eight plates, Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life. The plates were done between 1863 and 1867, with from four to seven completed each year. These plates are considered clear and accurate, with an aesthetic depiction of the cadavers, printed by the Mintern Bros., and published by James Walton.
Ford is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Hispaniolan snake, Chilabothrus fordii (Ford's boa).
References
External links
1808 births
1876 deaths
Natural history illustrators
Artists from London
19th-century South African painters
19th-century male artists
South African male painters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%20Day
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Ivy Day
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Ivy Day (Ireland), October 6 in memory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell
Ivy Day (United States), ceremonial occasion at older colleges when a class memorial stone is unveiled
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Lavelle
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Gregory Lavelle
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Gregory F. Lavelle is an American far-right politician who was a Republican member of the Delaware General Assembly from 2001 to 2019, serving in both the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. In the 2018 midterm elections, he lost his seat in the general election to Democrat Laura Sturgeon.
Lavelle was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives in 2000 to replace Republican Catherine Cloutier, who had won a seat in the Delaware Senate. He served as the minority leader in the House from 2011 to 2013, during which time he was a leading opponent to marriage equality in Delaware.
In 2012, Lavelle resigned his House seat to challenge incumbent Democrat Michael Katz in the Senate's 4th district, which he won in a three-way general election. He served as the minority whip when he was ousted from his seat in 2018 in a major upset that was one of several losses for prominent Republicans in Delaware. His loss came after a contentious election where Lavelle and the Democratic Party of Delaware traded accusations of misconduct and campaign violations, as well as the focus on Lavelle's anti-gay voting record.
Lavelle earned his BS in business administration from the University of Delaware and his MS in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
Political positions
Lavelle was a large proponent against LGBT rights during his time in the Delaware General Assembly. He voted against adding sexual orientation to Delaware anti-discrimination laws in 2009, and voted against adding gender identity to anti-discrimination laws in 2013. In 2011, Lavelle voted against legalizing same-sex civil unions and voted against legalizing same-sex marriage in 2013.
Lavelle voted against repealing the death penalty in Delaware in 2013. The death penalty was ultimately abolished in Delaware in 2016.
In 2011, Lavelle voted against legalizing medical marijuana in Delaware and against decriminalizing recreational marijuana in 2015. However, Lavelle voted in favor of legalizing medical marijuana to treat anxiety in 2015 and for reducing punishments for drug possession in 2011.
Electoral history
In 2000, Lavelle won the three-way Republican primary for the House District 11 seat with 1,132 votes (50.7%). He went on to win the general election with 6,090 votes (64.3%) against Democratic nominee Steven Biener.
In 2002, Lavelle won the general election with 4,961 votes (65.7%) against Democratic nominee Michael Paul.
In 2004, Lavelle was unopposed in the general election, winning 7,702 votes.
In 2006, Lavelle won the general election with 4,635 votes (58.0%) against Democratic nominee Eric Levin.
In 2008, Lavelle won the general election with 6,731 votes (63.3%) against Democratic nominee Charles Old.
In 2010, Lavelle won the general election with 5,198 votes (61.0%) against Democratic nominee Joshua Schoenberg.
In 2012, resigned from the House and won the three-way general election for the Senate District 4 seat with 11,970 votes (50.8%) against incumbent Democrat Michael Katz and Libertarian nominee Marcia Davinci Groff.
In 2014, Lavelle won the general election with 8,983 votes (61.9%) against Democratic nominee Sarah Buttner.
In 2018, Lavelle lost his seat to Democratic challenger Laura Sturgeon, who received 11,251 votes (53.13%) to defeat Lavelle.
References
External links
Official page at the Delaware General Assembly
Former campaign site
1963 births
Republican Party Delaware state senators
Living people
Republican Party members of the Delaware House of Representatives
Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware
University of Delaware alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
21st-century American politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Thompson%20and%20Son%27s%20Feed%20and%20Seed%20Company
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Al Thompson and Son's Feed and Seed Company
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Al Thompson and Son's Feed and Seed Company, also known as Tobler's Feed and Fuel or Farmers Feed and Seed and currently used as the Oregon Trail Agriculture Museum, is a building located in Nyssa, Oregon in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Malheur County, Oregon
References
External links
Oregon Trail Agriculture Museum - Travel Oregon
1938 establishments in Oregon
Agriculture museums in the United States
Museums established in 1938
History museums in Oregon
Museums in Malheur County, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Malheur County, Oregon
Nyssa, Oregon
1930s architecture in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boronuk
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Boronuk
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Boronuk (; ) is a rural locality (a selo), the administrative center of, and one of two settlements in addition to Machakh in Babushinsky Rural Okrug of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Batagay, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 307; down from 364 recorded in the 2002 Census.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Verkhoyansky District.
Rural localities in Verkhoyansky District
Yana basin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee%20Club%20%28TV%20series%29
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Glee Club (TV series)
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Sport/Comic Relief Does Glee Club is a British television programme aired on BBC One and CBBC. Presented by Sam & Mark and Naomi Wilkinson, the first contest aired between 14 and 18 March 2011, and was won by Soulmates. The second series was aired between 12 and 23 March 2012, and was won by The Real Deal. The third series aired between 4 and 15 March 2013 and was won by Resonate. The fourth series was aired between 10 and 21 March 2014 and was won by Musicality.
Format
Series 1
In the first series, the glee clubs had to perform songs in different categories. There were three heats, a semi-final and a final.
Series 2
In the second series there were eight heats. In the first round the three groups took turns to perform part of the same song as an ensemble (but all on the stage at the same time) with points being deducted for any featured vocals. The second round featured the groups taking it in turns to perform a song of their choice, but this time allowing solo/featured vocals with points being awarded. The final round saw the glee clubs taking to the stage individually and performing their "survival song".
Series 3–
The third series onwards carried largely the same format as the first two series. There were five heats as opposed to eight, and there were only two rounds (with the second round featured in the second round scrapped). The third series onwards showed the selection process for the heats. Guest judges were also featured in this segment.
Throughout the heats, the judges score the clubs on vocal ability, creativity and performance and their combined score all together determined who wins the heat. The top 5 ranked groups out of all the heats were chosen to go to the live semifinals - whether or not the groups won the heat. The heat winners are awarded with medals. Promotional clips for Sport/Comic Relief are often shown in between each segment as the judges are verifying the scores. In earlier series (series 1 and 2), the total is out of 270, 90 points awarded for each round. Since the third series, a total of 240 points are up for grabs, 120 per round.
The live semifinals featured a phone vote, allowing viewers to vote for their favorite group; however, the judges still scored the glee clubs in the event of a tiebreak. The semi finals consisted of one performance from the glee clubs. The top three groups were put through to the final, where the same rules applied. It usually consisted of a guest performance.
The show is filmed at the BBC Scotland studios. Initial auditions take place in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol and Newcastle in front of vocal coach John Modi. These initial auditions are often featured but not fully televised. The top 24 glee clubs are picked by Modi to progress in the competition.
Judges and presenters
Carrie Grant, David Grant, and Sisco Gomez served as judges for the first two series. The judges' auditions in the third series featured Carrie and David Grant, vocal coach John Modi (who also took part in the heats from the third series) and guest judges Dionne Bromfield, Stacey Solomon, and Joe McElderry. Gomez did not feature in the judges' auditions for the third series, but joined the Grants and Modi from the heats onwards. The fourth series featured Bromfield, Kerry Ellis and Erin Boag as guest judges for the judges auditions.
The show was presented solely by Sam & Mark for the first two series. Naomi Wilkinson presented the judges' auditions for the third series and served as backstage presenter for the studio shows while Sam & Mark presented the main show.
Comic Relief Does Glee Club (series 1 - 2011)
Reception
Sport Relief Does Glee Club (series 2 - 2012)
Reception
Comic Relief Does Glee Club (Series 3 - 2013)
Judges' auditions
The guest judges for the judges' auditions were Dionne Bromfield, Joe McElderry, and Stacey Solomon.
Show 1
Show 2
Show 3
Studio Heats
Heat one
Heat two
Heat three
Heat four
Heat five
Semi-final
Performance: Nina Nesbitt – "Stay Out"
Final
Performance: Alexandra Burke – "Elephant"
Reception
Sport Relief Does Glee Club (Series 4 - 2014)
Judges' auditions
The guest judges for the judges' auditions were Dionne Bromfield, Kerry Ellis and Erin Boag.
Show one
Show two
Show three
Tenacity were unable to progress to the heats, so Unity 7 took their place.
Studio Heats
Heat one
Heat two
Heat three
Heat four
Heat five
Score after round 1.
Semi-final
Performance: Foxes – "Let Go for Tonight"
Final
Performance: Neon Jungle – "Welcome to the Jungle"
Footnotes
References
2011 British television series debuts
2014 British television series endings
BBC Television shows
Charity fundraisers
Comic Relief
English-language television shows
Sport Relief
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%27s%20Crossing
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Jade's Crossing
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Jade's Crossing is a footbridge in Detling, Kent, England. The footbridge crosses the A249, a major road which runs between Maidstone and Sheerness. The crossing is named after Jade Hobbs, who was killed attempting to cross the road in December 2000 aged eight. Her mother, Caroline, subsequently campaigned for the crossing to be built, and won a Special Award at the 2003 Pride of Britain Awards for her efforts.
Background
The A249 is a major dual carriageway, connecting the M20 and M2 motorways in Kent. It was improved in the 1960s to be an important link between these two roads, with the expectation that traffic would increase greatly along it.
The location of the crossing lies on the Pilgrim's Way, a historic track from Winchester to Canterbury, to the west of Detling village itself. The road junction was built in 1961 as part of the Detling Bypass, which took the A249 away from the village centre. It opened to traffic in the summer of 1962. By 2000, an estimated 30,000 vehicles were using the road daily.
Jade Hobbs
In 2000, Jade Hobbs was eight years old, and lived with her parents Paul and Caroline and four siblings. They had been complaining about the traffic for some time, and had led a campaign to persuade Kent County Council to install a footbridge.
On 16 December, Jade was walking with her grandmother, Margaret Kuwertz, to do some Christmas shopping. Kuwertz had looked across the road, and decided it was safe, but just before they managed to cross the other side, she was hit by an oncoming vehicle. Jade attempted to pull her grandmother to safety, but was also killed by the impact. Caroline Hobbs later recalled "Mum must've thought they could get across, and hadn't seen the other car. And they were actually nearly across when the car hit them."
Crossing
After the accident, Caroline Hobbs insisted that not only did the crossing impact safety, it also affected quality of life as it prevented children from being able to walk to the local school or village hall unaccompanied. Kent County Council installed two speed cameras at the junction in 2001 but refused to build a footbridge on cost grounds.
The Hobbs family set up a charity for donations, raising £75,000 towards constructing the footbridge. In March 2001, the council announced that the crossing would be built. It was officially opened by Caroline and Paul Hobbs in August 2002. The crossing includes a ballerina silhouette, based on one of Jade's favourite hobbies. A plaque near the crossing commemorates Jade and other fatal casualties at accidents on the A249. The Hobbs' campaigning towards building the crossing resulted in Caroline winning the Special Award at the 2003 Pride of Britain Awards.
Caroline Hobbs continued to run the Jade Charity. In 2007, it donated road safety play equipment to local schools. The charity relies on the goodwill of visitors, principally walkers travelling along the Pilgrim's Way, to leave a donation to help fund the upkeep of the crossing. In 2010 the Hobbs family left the area and moved abroad.
In February 2011, the crossing was defaced with anti-Muslim graffiti.
References
External links
Jade's Crossing – East Kent Cycle Campaign
Pedestrian bridges in England
Bridges completed in 2002
Pedestrian safety
2002 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Girls%20Z
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Robot Girls Z
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is an anime television series produced by Dynamic Planning and animated by Toei Animation. The series is a comedic parody of various mecha series produced by Toei, anthropomorphizing robots from those series into magical girls. The series aired on the Toei Channel between January 4, 2014 and March 2, 2014 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. A preview was streamed on YouTube on October 18, 2013. The opening theme is by Kikai♡Shoujotai (Mariko Honda, Inori Minase, Kazusa Aranami, Maaya Uchida, and Minami Tsuda), whilst the ending theme is by Robot Girls Team Z (Honda, Minase, and Aranami).
Characters
Robot Girls
Team Z
The leader of Team Z. Z-chan is hotblooded and impulsive usually destroying city blocks while paying no mind to the destruction she causes. She is often called a kid with strong athletic abilities by Gre-chan due to this. However Z-chan likes to fight evil, while causing a bit more mayhem than her enemies do and having little interest in justice.
The youngest member of the team. Compared to her teammates, she speaks very little and is rather cynical, quite often judging others for their flaws, including Z-chan who she calls a "kid" despite Z-chan being a little older than her. She always says she dislikes athletic girls, particularly Z-chan. Despite the harsh treatment she gives Z-chan, Gre-chan appears to actually like her as she expressed some concern when Minerva X appeared to be around Z-chan and started to cry when Z-chan said she hated her. She is often seen holding something in her hands such as a digital camera or a portable gaming system.
Grenda-san is the more sophisticated member of her team and is generally friendly and unfussy. However, she has a sadistic side where she has thoughts of punishing people in embarrassing ways. Grenda-san is a big fan Rhine X especially of Rhine X1 and did everything she could to avoid listening to the singing of Belgas V5 out of personal preference.
Team G
Team T
Has a personality similar to Z-Chan's.
Acts like a bratty little girl
A shy and caring girl
Underground Empire
Leader of the Underground Empire and creator of the Mechanical Beasts Girls, who only appears as a pair of eyes on a screen.
Ashura is a loyal member of the Underground Empire, serving Dr. Hell in his quest for world domination and following his command to get what they need in order to achieve that goal. She acts similar to an older sister to the Mechanical Beast Girls and looks out for them, once even ignoring a message from Dr. Hell to look after Doublas M2. . Her appearance is split, one side male, the other side female.
Doublas has the speech and mannerisms of a shy little girl that gets scared when defeated badly. While capable of speaking in a regular fashion, Doublas prefers to speak through her handpuppets and becomes insecure without them.
Garada is a tomboy who likes to fight, but she has a weak spirit as shown when she and Doublas break down after their humiliating defeat at the hand of the Robot Girls.
Gromazen R9 is a hardworking and peppy young girl, yet gets down on herself hard when she fails miserably at something as she considered suicide after a branch of failures against the Robot Girls.
Gaia has the mannerisms of an overly detailed nerd when speaking about her magnetic abilities. She is able to make a comeback after a misunderstanding but gets down on herself rather easily after her own abilities turn on her.
Kingdan is very shy and panics rather easily in a manner similar to stage fright. She is also very apologetic for her weakness.
Baranga is a ditzy masochist who received sexual pleasure when she got hurt or was bound. She first appears as a giant sea urchin.
Glossam has a snobbish attitude with a short-temper and verbally abuses others whether ally or enemy, calling Baron Ashura 'granny' for example.
Poses first appears as a giant seahorse and is loyal to her creator and his ideals for world domination, she dislikes being ignored which happens quite a lot. She tends to end her sentences with '-kro'.
An Underground Empire spy who is actually a crossdressing boy. Minerva has a crush on Z-chan and strives to get her attention. When it comes to others however such as the other members of team Z, he badmouths them and considers them unworthy of Z-chan's attention especially Gre-chan.
Belgas has a good singing voice that can entrance others and make them experience mood swings. But when this fails, she sings in a destructive sound.
Others
A former idol singer and member of Rhine X, who now runs a Resort. Yoko is a good natured person, who is generally friendly and polite, but can be merciless when she needs to be, especially when someone is threatening her resort. Her voice causes destructive sound waves.
Episodes
Robot Girls Z (2014)
Robot Girls Z Specials (2014)
Unaired special episodes 3.5, 6.5, and 9.5 included with the Blu-ray/DVD releases.
Robot Girls Z Plus (2015)
Media
Games
A browser-based multiplayer PC game titled Robot Girls Z Online has been announced. Robot Girls Z will also have cameo appearances within the PlayStation Vita game ''Ar Nosurge Plus.
References
External links
2010s animated comedy television series
Comedy anime and manga
Mecha anime and manga
Slice of life anime and manga
Moe anthropomorphism
Toei Animation television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20at%20the%202010%20Asian%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles
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Bowling at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's singles
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The men's singles competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou was held on 15 November 2010 at Tianhe Bowling Hall.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
Results
References
Results at ABF Website
Bowling Digital
External links
Bowling Site of 2010 Asian Games
Men's singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronaldsway%20culture
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Ronaldsway culture
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The Ronaldsway Culture was the way of life of a Stone Age people on the Isle of Man. Sometimes referred to as Manx Ronaldsway, it dates from the later Neolithic and from the third millennium BC, but more precise dating is a matter of debate.
The culture, known only from the Isle of Man, is named after the archaeological remains of a settlement excavated at Ronaldsway Airport (now the Isle of Man Airport) in 1939 during a Second World War expansion, where a large quantity of material was found. These remains were later dated to between 2,200 and 1,900 BC.
The culture is characterized by deep jars called Ronaldsway-style pots, stone axes with butts which have been roughened, and unusual flint tools; where it meets other cultures there have been finds of shared monuments, including stone circles, passage and entrance graves, and henges. It also has structures entirely of its own. The culture's typical polished axe has been met with nowhere else and shows an especially marked insularity.
It has been suggested that the distinctive characteristics of the Ronaldsway culture mean that during at least part of the late Neolithic age the people of the Isle of Man developed independently from those in Britain and Ireland.
See also
History of the Isle of Man
Notes
Further reading
J. R. Bruce, E. M. Megaw, B. R. S. Megaw, 'A Neolithic site at Ronaldsway, Isle of Man' in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 13 (1947), pp. 139–60
Gerhard Bersu, 'A Cemetery of the Ronaldsway Culture at Ballateare, Jurby, Isle of Man', in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (1947)
B. R. S. Megaw, The Culture Represented at Ronaldsway (1947)
S. Burrow, The Neolithic culture of the Isle of Man. A study of the sites and pottery (BAR British Series 263) (Oxford: Archaeopress, 1997)
External links
Ronaldsway culture at archaetis.com
Neolithic cultures of Europe
Archaeological cultures of Europe
Archaeological cultures in England
History of the Isle of Man
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20doping%20cases%20in%20sport%20%28A%29
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List of doping cases in sport (A)
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This is a sub-list from List of doping cases in sport representing a full list of surnames starting with A.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20Fuel%20Payment
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Winter Fuel Payment
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The Winter Fuel Payment is a state benefit paid once per year in the United Kingdom to people old enough to have been born before a specific date. It is intended to cover the additional costs of heating over the winter months. It was first introduced by the Labour government in 1997, and was first announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in his Pre-Budget Statement of that year.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the benefit in a particular year, a person must have been born before a specific qualifying date (e.g. 5 April 1954 for payments for the winter 2019–2020), and have lived in the UK for at least one day during the week of 16 to 22 September 2019 - this is called the ‘qualifying week’. Certain categories of people are excluded groups (prisoners, people receiving long-term free hospital care, those with certain immigration issues, and those living in care homes and receiving income-related benefits such as pension credit). Thus for the winter of 2019-2020 the benefit was available to those aged 65 by 5 April 2019. The benefit may also be applicable to those living in Switzerland or the EEA.
Amount
The amount paid is greater for those aged eighty years and older and is set so that a person living alone (or with people ineligible for the payment) is paid twice as much as a person in a household where more than one person receives the payment. In the winter 2020-2021 the amount paid was £100 to £300 depending on circumstances. If the weather is particularly cold, a cold weather payment may also be made.
Administration
In Great Britain, the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000 govern the system, under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. In Northern Ireland the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 govern the system.
In the winter of 2011–12, the benefit cost the UK Government £2,100,000,000 and was paid out to 12,700,000 people. It was criticised by Paul Burstow (former care services minister) in 2013 for its lack of targeting, Burstow saying that "80% of older people do not require [the benefit]" and proposing that it be only given to pensioners on pension credit which he said would save £1.5 bn a year. He suggested that the savings be used to help implement the findings of the Dilnot Commission into social care. However, in 2013 about 1 million of 3 million eligible people did not claim pension credit.
References
External links
Welfare in the United Kingdom
Winter in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borivoj%20Vukov
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Borivoj Vukov
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Borivoje Vukov (July 8, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was a Serbian wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Senta and died in Belgrade
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1929 births
2010 deaths
Serbian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Yugoslavia
Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Yugoslav male sport wrestlers
Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Senta
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
Competitors at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20weather%20payment
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Cold weather payment
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Cold weather payments are paid by the United Kingdom government to recipients of certain state benefits in the event of particularly cold weather in the winter.
The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 govern the system under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.
Each time the local temperature is less than 0 °C (32 °F) for seven consecutive days between 1 November and 31 March then a payment of £25 is made. This is in addition to the Winter Fuel Payment.
From 1 November 2022 Social Security Scotland has run a separate scheme, Winter Heating Payment to replace the Cold Weather Payment in Scotland. This is a £50 flat payment for those eligible, unconnected with the weather.
References
Social security in the United Kingdom
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