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The Queens Campus or Old Queens Campus is a historic section of the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the United States.
The Queens Campus spans one city block on a hilltop overlooking the Raritan River. In 1807, the heirs of John Parker of Perth Amboy led by James Parker, Jr., a prominent local merchant and political figure, donated a six-acre apple orchard to the trustees of Queen's College and its grammar school. The college—which was renamed Rutgers College in 1825—built its first building, Old Queens, from 1809 to 1823. Old Queens was used for instruction, student chapel services, and housed members of the college's faculty. In the institution's early years, the building housed the college, its grammar school (until 1830), and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (until 1856).
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Queens Campus contained seven buildings designed by architects John McComb, Jr., Nicholas Wyckoff, Williard Smith, Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, and Van Campen Taylor. These buildings were erected to accommodate the small but expanding liberal arts college's classroom instruction, student activities, faculty offices, chapel, library, and housing into the middle of the twentieth century. Six buildings remain and are used to accommodate the university's core administrative offices, a geological museum, the college chapel, and a former astronomical observatory that is no longer used. The Queens Campus was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The oldest building, Old Queens, was designated as a national landmark in 1976.
History
The Queens Campus contains the historic core of the Rutgers University community and houses the offices of the university's president and key administrative posts. The campus is located on one city block adjacent to New Brunswick's commercial district. This block is bounded by Somerset Street, George Street, Hamilton Street, and College Avenue. The six building that occupy the campus are the university's oldest structures and represent a range of nineteenth-century architectural styles. Due to its architectural and historical significance, Queens Campus was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1973, and on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1973. Often evoked as a symbol of the university's heritage, Old Queens was listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976.
The hilltop on which Queens Campus was later erected was where Alexander Hamilton, then an artillery captain commanding sixty men of the New York Provincial Company of Artillery, placed his cannons to cover the retreat of George Washington's forces in late November 1776. After disastrous defeats at Long Island, Harlem Heights, and Fort Washington, Washington surrendered New York City to the British. British forces commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis under orders from Lieutenant General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe pursued Washington as far as New Brunswick, where he and his troops forded the Raritan River and passed through New Brunswick on their way south into Pennsylvania. Positioned on the hilltop above the Raritan, Hamilton's artillery slowed the British advance and afforded Washington sufficient time to escape. One American combatant, Captain Enoch Anderson, remarked that, "A severe cannonading took place on both sides, and several were killed and wounded on our side." The British forces occupied New Brunswick for the next seven months, and a battalion of Hessian troops were encamped on the site. A historic marker erected as a gift of the Class of 1899 is located next to the chapel marking the location of Hamilton's battery.
A few years after receiving its charter in 1766, Queen's College began holding classes in a local tavern and students boarded at houses in the city. The Rev. Ira Condict became the school's third president in 1795, but financial constraints forced the college to close for several years. Condict focused on operating the college's grammar school until sufficient funds were raised to support the college's reopening.
In 1807, Perth Amboy merchant John Parker bequeathed a six-acre apple orchard on a hill in New Brunswick to the trustees of Queen's College. Condict had been raising funds to reopen the school with the assistance of Andrew Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a trustee who taught at the grammar school in 1782. With a successful fundraising effort, obtaining the support of the Reformed Church's Synod of New York, and with Parker's donation of the six-acre apple orchard tract, Queen's College was reopened. The trustees decided to build a large building to house the college's instruction, and provide housing for the faculty, to house the grammar school. The building would also house a theological seminary, run by the Rev. John Henry Livingston, that the Synod decided to move from New York to New Brunswick. Condict laid the cornerstone of Old Queens in 1809. The following year, he resigned as president despite requests that he accept the post in full capacity. Condict elected to return to teaching and toward ministering to his congregation at the city's First Reformed Church, and he was succeeded by Livingston.
The college, grammar school, and theological seminary shared Old Queens for several years, although Queen's College would close again for a few years later after continued financial troubles in the wake of the War of 1812. In 1825, after an effort by Livingston to raise funds and a generous donation by Colonel Henry Rutgers, the college reopened. The trustees renamed it Rutgers College in honor of Rutgers' gift. In 1830, the grammar school moved to a building across College Avenue, built by Nicholas Wyckoff, now known as Alexander Johnston Hall. After student bodies of both the college and theological seminary expanded in the 1850s, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary built their own building, Hertzog Hall, on a hill one half-mile away in 1856. The grammar school would remain associated with the University until 1957. With the university fully transitioning from a private institution into a state university, the university and the school, now called Rutgers Preparatory School severed their ties. The preparatory school relocated to a new campus in Somerset.
In the 1860s, Rutgers began expanding with the addition of science, engineering, military, and agricultural education as New Jersey's sole land grant college, and with substantial financial support and donations. In the last four decades of the 19th century, Rutgers built its first astronomical observatory, a geological hall, a chapel and library, and its first dormitory on the Queens Campus tract, erecting a building to house the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (1889) across Hamilton Street from the campus, and by expanding its college farm to the east of the city.
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Rutgers expanded its student body, and built a larger campus in New Brunswick—starting with library (1903), gymanisum, and additional classroom buildings on the Voorhees Mall. The university would continue to expand in New Brunswick, Piscataway, and surrounding communities with the addition of land that is now the College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Cook, Douglass campuses. It has grown from a small liberal arts college offering instruction to a student body of a few hundred students to a major state university bestowing over 14,000 degrees a year. As of 2013, 65,000 undergraduate and graduate students study at Rutgers, instructed by more than 9,000 full-time and part-time faculty and supported by more than 15,000 full-time and part-time staff members. In Rutgers' 247 years, over 450,000 alumni from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 foreign countries have attended and received degrees from the university. Today, the buildings on the Queens Campus house the administrative offices for one of America's largest state university systems with campuses in three cities and programs statewide, the college chapel, an active geological museum, and a preserved nineteenth-century astronomical observatory.
Buildings and grounds
Old Queens (1809–23)
After a successful effort to raise funds to reopen Queen's College, the trustees hired New York architect John McComb, Jr. (1763–1853) to design and oversee the construction of a building to house the college. McComb was known for several landmarks in New York City and the surrounding region, including several lighthouses, Gracie Mansion (1799), Hamilton Grange (1802), New York City Hall (1803), and St. John's Chapel (1803, demolished 1918). McComb designed a three-story Federal-style edifice built from New Jersey brownstone.
The cornerstone for Old Queens was laid on April 27, 1809 by Queen's College's president, the Rev. Ira Condict, who did so "with his left hand, in consequence of suffering a temporary lameness in his right." Classes began within the completed portions of the building as early as 1811 for Queen's College (now Rutgers University), Queen's College Grammar School (now Rutgers Preparatory School), and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. The college was forced to close temporarily, not reopening until 1825. Henry Rutgers donated funds to reopen the school in the form of a $5,000 bond, and gave a bell that was placed in the cupola of Old Queens. The bell is rung on important events, including convocations, commencements, and key athletic victories. Today, Old Queens houses the offices of the university president and upper administrative staff.
President's House (1841–42)
The board of trustees appropriated $8,000 to build a residence for the college's president that was completed in 1842. The college's sixth president, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, was the first to take up residence in the house. His predecessor, Philip Milledoler lived in Old Queens and John Henry Livingston owned a home on an avenue that was renamed Livingston Avenue in his honor.
With the appointment of John Charles Van Dyke as art history professor in 1891, the "President's House" was used for classes and studio space for the college's Department of Fine Arts. During this period, it housed the college's art collections, including the Thomas L. Janeway Memorial Collection. Janeway, an 1863 alumnus of the college, provided a collection of casts, marble, lithographs, and photographs with a focus on classical archaeology that illustrated "the topography, art, life, and literature of Ancient Greece and Rome." In 1917, the Rutgers Club of New Brunswick renovated the building for the "social uses of the alumni and faculty." The building was razed after sustaining considerable damage during the Great Atlantic hurricane which made landfall in the New York City area in September 1944. The demolition took place from February to March 1954. Presently, The location of the former President's House is "Lot 1", a parking lot on the Queens Campus.
Van Nest Hall (1845)
In 1845, Rutgers College hired local builder and architect Nicholas Wyckoff to build a two-story brick building in the southwest corner of the college's small campus. The trustees named the new building after Abraham Van Nest (1777–1864), a New York City merchant and president of the Greenwich Savings Bank, who served as a trustee for over forty years, "in recognition of his services and gifts." The building featured two large rooms on its first floor which were used by the school's two literary societies, Peithessophian and Philoclean which were significant in campus life in the nineteenth century. The second floor contained the chemical laboratory of Professor Lewis Caleb Beck (1798–1853) who taught at Rutgers for 23 years.
In 1893, supported by donation from Van Nest's daughter, Ann Van Nest Bussing, the trustees expanded the building by adding a third floor and adding "an appropriate stone porch." The first floor at this time had been renovated to house the college's history faculty and a chapter of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). In 1893, the new third floor boasted a "large and well-lighted room for the uses of classes in draughting" and the second floor for work in graphics, while housing collections of the Engineering school. In 1917, Van Nest's second and third floors were occupied by the English and education department.
Daniel S. Schanck Observatory (1865)
The Daniel S. Schanck Observatory was designed by architect Willard Smith as a copy of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. The two-story Greek Revival octagonal brick astronomical observatory was built in 1865 soon after Rutgers College was selected as New Jersey's sole land grant college. Rutgers named the building after New York City businessman, Daniel S. Schanck, who donated a large portion of the funds to construct and equip the observatory. The cost of cost of construction and equipment amounted to US$6,166 (2013: US$86,845.07), of which US$2,400 (2013: US$33,802.82) was donated by Schanck (1812–1872). Rutgers equipped the observatory with "a 6.5-inch equatorial refracting telescope, a meridian circle with four-inch object glass for transit observations, a sidereal clock, a mean solar clock...chronograph, repeating circle, and other instruments."
The Schanck Observatory served as the university's first astronomical facility and was used to provide instruction to its students through the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is no longer in use.
Geology Hall (1872)
Geology Hall, formerly Geological Hall, was built in 1872 with funds raised by the college's president, William Henry Campbell for the purpose of facilitating the expansion of science and agriculture education. Rutgers expanded these programs after being named New Jersey's only land grant college. The design was the second of three projects for Rutgers College prepared by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. Hardenbergh's design called initially for a Gothic Revival style brick building, although it was revised to use brownstone, a cheaper alternative.
The building's first floor provided rooms for laboratory and lecture instruction for the college's physics, military science, and geology departments, as well as house the college's armory. The second floor was designed to accommodate a geological museum.
At present, the building houses administrative offices and the university's geological museum. The museum, which is among the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States, was founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook in 1872. It features exhibits on geology, paleontology, and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey, that include fluorescent zinc minerals from Franklin and Ogdensburg, a dinosaur trackway discovered in Towaco, a mastodon from Salem County, and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy.
Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873)
When Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick died in 1871, she left named Rutgers College as the residuary legatee of her estate. The college's trustees decided to appropriate most of the bequest to fund the construction of a chapel. The chapel was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh at the beginning his career, and in the third of three projects for the college. Hardenbergh employed the High Victorian Gothic Revival style—and in particular features common to fourteenth-century German and English Gothic churches—popular at the middle of the nineteenth century.
The exterior of Kirkpatrick Chapel was built from New Jersey brownstone, and has been described as "similar to an English country church." One author described the interior of the chapel as "exceedingly beautiful, having a roof of open timber, finished in black walnut and stained pine, resting for its center support on slender iron columns painted to correspond with the delicately tinted walls." According to the New Jersey Historic Trust, the chapel's stained glass windows feature "some of the first opalescent and multicolored sheet glass manufactured in America." Four of the chapels windows were created by the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
For its first 30 years, the chapel was used as a college library and for 50 years for daily student body chapel services. As the college's student body increased in size, student body chapel services became less frequent until Rutgers transitioned to become New Jersey's state university beginning in 1945. The chapel is available to students, alumni, and faculty of all faiths and a variety of services are held throughout the academic term. It is also used for university events including convocation, concerts, alumni and faculty weddings, funerals, and often as the site of lectures by prominent intellectuals and world leaders. Since 1876, graduating classes would have a stone on the exterior of the chapel carved with their class year.
Winants Hall (1890)
During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, students rented rooms from local boarding houses as the college did not offer dormitories or other student housing. In 1890, Garret E. Winants, a college trustee and wealthy philanthropist from Bayonne presented to the trustees a sketch of a proposed dormitory and a donation of $75,000 to build it. The building was designed by architect Van Campen Taylor, an 1867 graduate of Rutgers College, and Winants Hall was erected in 1890. Winants would serve as Rutgers College's sole dormitory until 1915 when Ford Hall was built on the Voorhees Mall along College Avenue. After World War II, Winants was converted to offices for faculty and academic departments, and for administrative staff.
In 1990, a century after its construction, Winants Hall underwent a $9.4 million restoration. The building currently houses the university's alumni relations and legal counsel offices, and the university's fundraising arm, the Rutgers University Foundation.
Grounds
The Queens Campus is a six-acre tract. During his ten-year tenure as Rutgers College's sixth president during the 1840s, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791–1879) began planting and caring for "many of the noble trees that now adorn the campus."
There are four gates on providing entrance to the campus:
The Class of 1883 Memorial Gateway (erected in 1904) is located at the northeast corner of George Street and Somerset Streets and is the main entrance for vehicle and foot traffic to the Queens Campus.
The Henry Rutgers Baldwin Gateway (erected 1901) located on the south side of the campus on College Avenue roughly half of the distance between Somerset and Hamilton Streets. It was named for Henry Rutgers Baldwin, an alumnus from the Rutgers College class of 1849. It provides an exit for vehicular traffic.
The Class of 1882 Gateway (erected 1907) at the southeast corner of Somerset Street and College Avenue.
The Class of 1902 Memorial Gateway (erected in 1904) is located on the western side of the campus on Hamilton Street half the distance between George Street and College Avenue. It features a wrought iron and brownstone entrance portal and brownstone stairway and provides access to foot traffic between the Queens Campus and Voorhees Mall sections of the College Avenue Campus. It is through this last gate that graduating seniors have walked in procession during Commencement exercises held in May in years past.
The campus contains several memorials, including trees planted in honour of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and other persons connected to the university. Located in front of Old Queens, the Class of 1877 Cannon commemorates both the Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War and several alumni who have served in the United States military. As a tradition during commencement, those graduating break clay pipes over the cannon as a symbol of breaking ties with their "pipe dreams" of youth and embarking into adulthood. In front of the cannon is a plaque given in 1949 by the Rutgers College class of 1924 in memory of three military servicemen who died in World War II.
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Notes
Citations
External links
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (official website)
Rutgers University buildings
Federal architecture in New Jersey
Greek Revival architecture in New Jersey
Gothic Revival architecture in New Jersey
Rutgers University Queens Campus
Queens Campus, Rutgers University
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Buildings and structures in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tourist attractions in New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Thai addressing system
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The Thai addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Thailand. It generally corresponds closely with the administrative divisions of Thailand.
Address parts
With the exception of the initial plot and house number, Thai addresses are mostly in the Western order, starting from the smallest unit and progressing to the largest. The general format, as codified by the Universal Postal Union, is:
Plot/House number, Village
Road
Subdistrict, District
Province Postal Code
THAILAND
Plot, house and village
Thai muban (หมู่บ้าน) correspond only loosely to actual settlements, which may well have separate names, but these are not used for addresses. They are divided into groups mu (หมู่), often transliterated moo or abbreviated "M", which are divided into numbered plots (บ้านเลขที่ ban lek ti), which may (or may not) contain multiple houses. All numbers are assigned in the order they were originally registered, and generally do not follow any geographical or logical sequence.
In cities, a large named building often plays the role of "village", which is then followed by the apartment number.
Road
Roads do not correspond with administrative divisions, and they are consequently the most complicated and non-standardized part of a Thai address.
Main thoroughfares are thanon (ถนน), often abbreviated "Th", glossed as "road" or "Rd" in English, or omitted entirely. Smaller streets are soi (ซอย), which are numbered in increasing order, although odd and even sois are on different sides of the street. New sois added between old ones may receive annexes: for example, soi 7/1 would be located between soi 7 and soi 9.
Large sois usually have names and are then also referred to as thanon, e.g. Thanon Ekkamai for Sukhumvit Soi 63, and these can have their own numbered sub-sois. Consequently Soi 4 off Soi 63 off Sukhumvit Rd can be referred to as any of Thanon Ekkamai Soi 4, Ekkamai Soi 4 or even Soi Ekkamai 4. For redundancy, both the name and the number of the large soi are sometimes added, as in Soi Ekkamai 4, Sukhumvit 63 Rd, where both Ekkamai and Sukhumvit 63 refer to the large soi.
District
Districts are called amphoe (อำเภอ), divided into subdistricts, tambon (ตำบล).
In Bangkok only, amphoe and tambon are replaced with khet (เขต) and khwaeng (แขวง) respectively.
Postal code
The postal code follows the province changwat (จังหวัด), or the special administrative region of Bangkok. Thai postal codes consist of five digits, where the first two digits identify the province, the third digit the district, and the remaining two the subdistrict. There are however several cases where more than one district shares the same third digit, or some muban have the postcode of a neighboring subdistrict. Nine-digit codes in the format NNNNN-NNNN are possible, but rarely used.
Examples
In practice, addresses in urban areas typically omit the village number, while rural addresses often have only the village number without a road. Often only one of town and district is used, since one or the other is usually sufficiently specific. For example, the address of the headquarters of Thailand Post is:
Thailand Post Co., Ltd.
111 Chaengwatthana Road
Laksi
Bangkok 10210-0299
Thailand
This corresponds to house number 111, Chaengwatthana Road, Thung Song Hong subdistrict (omitted), Laksi District, Bangkok Province.
A coworking space in a small street in central Bangkok has the following address:
19 Soi Ekkamai 4
Sukhumvit 63 Rd.
Phra Khanong Nuea
Watthana
Bangkok 10110
This corresponds to house number 19 in the fourth soi off Sukhumvit Soi 63 (Ekkamai), Phra Khanong Nuea subdistrict, Watthana district, Bangkok Province.
A typical address in Phuket might be:
7/22 M.5, Soi Ta-iat, Chaofa West Rd., T. Chalong
A. Phuket 83130 Thailand
This corresponds to house 22 on plot 7, Mu 5, Ta-iat lane, Chaofa West Road, Chalong Sub-district, Mueang Phuket District.
The address of a guesthouse in rural Thailand is:
144/4 M.5
Ban Tham
Chiang Dao
Chiang Mai 50170
Thailand
This corresponds to house 4 on plot 144, Mu 5, Muban Ban Tham, Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province.
See also
Address (geography)
House numbering
References
Communications in Thailand
Thai
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Jack Lynn (architect)
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Jack Lynn (30 October 1926 – 15 October 2013) was a British architect.
Born in North Seaton in Ashington, Lynn studied architecture at Durham University (at King's College, Newcastle – later the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), then worked for the East Anglia Health Board, followed by Coventry City Council. Gaining experience in the design of council housing, he became well known for designing the large Park Hill complex in Sheffield, with Ivor Smith.
When J. Lewis Womersley, the Sheffield City Architect, moved to Manchester in 1964 to join in private practice with Sir Hugh Wilson, Lynn moved to Manchester where he was principal architect in the office. He oversaw preparation of plans for the Higher Education Precinct, for the Arndale shopping centre and for the development of Hulme, where Park Hill's principles of design proved less readily transferable to a flat site. In the late 1960s Lynn returned to the North East of England, working on the development of Newcastle University's campus and forming Kendrick and Lynn Associates, designing various Roman Catholic churches.
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1926 births
2013 deaths
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People from Ashington
Alumni of King's College, Newcastle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Plates
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Government Plates
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Government Plates is the third studio album by experimental hip hop group Death Grips. It was released for free download on November 13, 2013. It was also uploaded by the band to multiple file sharing sites, and music videos for every song were uploaded to the band's YouTube page. On January 14, 2014, Government Plates was made available for purchase through iTunes. The album has sold 13,000 copies as of March 2015.
Background
On May 10, 2013, it was announced that Death Grips drummer Zach Hill was working on a third Death Grips studio album while writing, directing, and scoring a film. On July 8, it was announced that Death Grips had launched their own record label, Third Worlds. The label was created through "a unique relationship with Harvest/Capitol" with a deal to be distributed by Caroline Records. It was also revealed that the album would be released the following year. On August 21, the album's only single "Birds" was made available for free download. The song is notably built around a heavily edited sample of a guitar riff played by English actor Robert Pattinson, who used Hill's iPhone to record it.
Release
On November 13, 2013, Death Grips posted Government Plates on several websites for free download without any forewarning. Subsequently, they released music videos for all eleven tracks on YouTube and streamed the full album on SoundCloud. The album was released exactly 13 months, 13 days, and 13 hours after their previous album, No Love Deep Web. The album was released to iTunes and Spotify on January 14, 2014.
On November 28, 2014, 900 vinyl copies of Government Plates were released for Record Store Day Black Friday, containing new artwork and a physical replica of the license plate on the cover.
Critical reception
Upon its release, Government Plates was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic the album received an average score of 75, which indicates "generally favorable", based on 18 reviews. Ian Cohen of Pitchfork awarded the album "Best New Music", writing: "Government Plates loudly reestablishes Death Grips as a group freed by having no ideals whatsoever, making music without a past about a present with no future." Chase Woodruff of Slant Magazine gave the album a positive review, stating: "Government Plates doesn't budge an inch from the vulgar, militant nihilism of 2012's The Money Store or its follow-up, No Love Deep Web." Joe Price of This Is Fake DIY referred to the album as "a sloppy lobotomy of hip-hop focused on provoking fear and intrigue."
The album was placed at 43 on Spins 50 Best Albums of 2013 list.
However, some critics criticized "the lack of vocals" in the album. Consequence of Sound senior staff writer Dan Caffrey stated: "Although MC Ride’s presence is definitely felt, it’s more in repeated phrases and abstract vocalizations than the nasty stream-of-consciousness rhymes from other Death Grips releases."
In other media
"You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money but I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" was featured in a 2014 commercial for the Intersport shoe line.
Track listing
Personnel
Death Grips
MC Ride – vocals, production
Zach Hill – production, drums
Andy Morin – production, keyboards, programming
Additional musicians
Robert Pattinson – guitar on "Birds"
References
External links
2013 albums
Death Grips albums
Albums free for download by copyright owner
Harvest Records albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20V%C3%A1zquez%20Saut
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Regina Vázquez Saut
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Regina Vázquez Saut (born 11 September 1981) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. As of 2013 she served as Deputy of both the LIX and LXII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz.
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1981 births
Living people
Politicians from Veracruz
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 Veracruz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Wallaroo
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Electoral district of Wallaroo
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Wallaroo is a defunct electoral district that elected members to the House of Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It was established in 1875 and abolished in 1970.
Successful 1891 Wallaroo by-election candidate Richard Hooper was the first Labor member of the House of Assembly, but was not a member of the newly formed United Labor Party (ULP), instead serving as an Independent Labor member. The 1892 East Adelaide by-election saw ULP candidate John McPherson win the seat. It was the first time the ULP had won a seat in the House of Assembly, with electoral success to be followed at the 1893 colonial election, winning 10 of 54 seats and the balance of power, allowing the ULP to support the liberal opposition led by Charles Kingston in defeating the conservative government led by John Downer.
The town of Wallaroo is currently located in the safe Liberal seat of Goyder. The two current Wallaroo booths totaling 3,000 voters are both marginally Liberal.
Members
Election results
References
External links
The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle
Former electoral districts of South Australia
1875 establishments in Australia
1970 disestablishments in Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20New%20Jersey
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1984 United States presidential election in New Jersey
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The 1984 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ronald Reagan of California and incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush of Texas. Reagan and Bush defeated the Democratic nominees, former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota and his running mate Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro of New York.
Reagan carried New Jersey with 60.09% of the vote to Mondale’s 39.20%, a margin of 20.89%.
Reagan also swept nearly every county in the state. Mondale’s only county victory was Essex County, where he defeated Reagan 55.1%–43.5%. This remains the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won heavily Democratic Hudson County and Mercer County, both of which narrowly defected to Reagan in 1984 primarily due to the support of working-class Reagan Democrats. Reagan's 1.9 million votes is the most received by a Republican in a presidential election in the state's history.
New Jersey weighed in for this election as 2.7% more Republican than the national average.
Results
Results by county
See also
United States presidential elections in New Jersey
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
References
New Jersey
1984
1984 New Jersey elections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20E.%20Taylor
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Bertrand E. Taylor
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Bertrand E. Taylor (1856 – August, 1909) was an American architect who worked in Massachusetts. He designed the Watts Hospital (1895) and later hospital buildings at the same site.
Taylor partnered in firms with Henry H. Kendall and Edward F. Stevens.
His work includes the New Hampshire State Hospital for the Insane, Westboro State Hospital, Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics, Worcester Insane Asylum, Wrentham State School, Boston City Hospital, Corey Hill Hospital, Massachusetts Homeopathic HOspital, Newton Hospital, Anna Jaques Hospital at Newburryport, Hitchcock Hospital at Hanover, New Hampshire, Merritt Hospital at Oakland California, and buildings at Northfield for Dwiht L. Moody. He was a draughtsman for George D. Rand. He designed alterations of Hotel Vendome. Helped design parts of model village at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1905, fellow of the Boston Society of Architects and a charter member of the Boston Architectural Club.
He lived much of his life in Newton Centre and died there on August 23, 1909.
References
Further reading
Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)
Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects, October 1909, obituary pp. 224–25
Architects from Boston
1909 deaths
1856 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakash%20Kaur
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Prakash Kaur
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Prakash Kaur (19 September 1919 – (1982) was an Indian singer.
Early life
Kaur was born in Lahore, back then part of British India, into a Punjabi-Sikh family. She is the elder sister of Surinder Kaur, famous Punjabi singer-songwriter. Born on September 19, 1919, in the City of Lahore, in the year in which the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh took place in Amritsar. Kaur was the eldest daughter of a Sehajdhari Sikh Bishan Dass. The family lived in Mohalla Bhati Gate within the walled section of Lahore. Kaur used to hear the Rababi women sing during the weddings and festive occasions. At a very young age, she used to copy the established singers in every detail of the melody.
Career
Kaur was granted approval to sing on Indian radio around 1940. She made her professional debut with a live performance on 'Peshawar Radio' in 1941, and then on 31 August 1943, the two sisters performed their first duet, "maavan 'te dheean ral baithian", for the HMV label.
Kaur was already an accredited artist of All India Radio Lahore. In 1943, Kaur took her thirteen-year-old sister Surinder Kaur along to the studios of All India Radio Lahore. To the surprise of everyone at the radio station, even Surinder Kaur passed the audition test. After August of 1943, Surinder Kaur al Kaur and Surinder Kaur with Deedar Singh Pardesiso started going to the radio station with Kaur and most of the time they sang duets, which became very popular. Budh Singh Taan, who was the assistant to the then head of the music section Jiwan Lal Mattoo at AIR Lahore, started coaching both sisters in light singing. But the road to light singing passed via classical music. This way Kaur got her first exposure to the intricacies of Hindustani classical music.
Both sisters recorded several duets in each other’s company under the music direction of music director Master Inayat Hussain. Even Kaur’s earliest duets with Surinder Kaur became very popular. Some of the earliest recorded duets had the following lyrics “Dhol sipahiya weh kithe gayon dil laake”, “Haaye naa vass oye na wass badla aje naa wass oye kaaliya” and “Maawan te dhiyan ral baithiyan ni maaye koyi kardiyan gallorian, ni Kankan nissriyan dhiyan kyon vissriyan maaye”. All these duets became instant hits. Kaur rendered several “Shabads” also at All India Radio Lahore. These “Shabads” became popular all over the listening area of All India Radio Lahore. During those days transcriptions of the programs were not made. That is why these numbers are not available even in the radio archives. Kaur briefly sang for films too. One or two such records are available with special category collectors.
On 15th of August 1947, India got independence from the British Colonial Rule. For most Indians it was an occasion for celebration, but for the Punjabis and the Bengalis it was a time of bloody clashes, arson and devastation. The scale of death and destruction brought about by senseless violence associated with ethnic cleansing exercise was unimaginable anywhere of the world. Since Lahore came into the share of Pakistan, the Hindus and the Sikhs of Lahore had to be forcibly shifted to East Punjab. Kaur and her family members survived the brutalities of the communal frenzy, but they were made to leave Lahore empty handed. Her younger sister Surinder Kaur moved initially to Ferozepore and subsequently to Bombay. Kaur and her husband made the right move. After staying for a short while in Amritsar, Kaur and her family settled in New Delhi. Incidentally Delhi became the city with the highest refugee Punjabi population, and it provided a readymade market for Punjabi music. Kaur had become the best-known Punjabi female singer in Northern India. From day one she was in great demand in metropolitan Delhi and the national capital region. In the adjoining state of Punjab also there was a great demand for Kaur’s music and live performances. She frequently performed live in all the major cities of Punjab, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ferozepore and Ambala. Once or twice a month, she used to perform at All India Radio Jalandhar too.
Kaur’s most popular songs between 1948 and 1952 happened to be “Gori diyan jhanjran bulaondiyan gayeeyan” and “Chan weh ki showkan mele di, pair dho ke jhanjran paondi meldi aondi ki shaonkan mele di”. Some others are “Kithe te laaniyan tahlian ve pattan waaliyan ve mera patla maahi, kithe te laawan shatoot besamajh jeenoo samaj naa aayee” and “Aap mahi ne chug laiyan ni meriyan dukhan kanaan diyan waaliyan”. Initially in Delhi, Kaur sang several duets with Trilok Kapur including “Ghut paani pilade ni sohniye gharha bharendiye naare, jaa hor kite jaa pi weh mundiya khooh wagende saare” and “Boohe te marangi jandre we peke laavan gi dera, we naukraa peke laawangi dera”.
When Surinder Kaur was rubbing shoulders with the elite of play back singers in Bombay, Kaur was training another of her younger sisters Narinder Kaur, who lived in New Delhi. Even Narinder Kaur got approval as a radio singer at All India Radio Delhi. Some of her gramophone records can be traced back to 1950. One was under the music direction of famous music directors Pandit Husan Lal Bhagat Ram. Most of Kaur and Narinder Kaur’s music makers were Pandit Amar Nath, Mujaddid Niazi, Kesar Singh Narula and K. Panna Lal.
In 1952, Surinder Kaur also returned from Bombay to the North and settled in New Delhi. This move reunited the two sisters and revived the memories of the good old days in Lahore. After that Punjabi music witnessed a flood of popular duets by these two singers. They will often sing together for “His Master’s Voice recording company” and All India Radio Delhi. Both sisters were approved as special class radio singers by All India Radio. This category is higher than the “A” class. Some of the most famous religious songs rendered by Kaur and Surinder Kaur included “Chum chum rakho ni eh kalgi jujhar di, phullan naal gundo larhi heeriyan de haar di”, “Kithe maata toriya Ajeet te Jujhar noo and “Maachhiwarhe wich baitha shehanshah jahan daa, hath wich khanda pichhe dhasna Kaman daa”. All the numbers became classics.
The two sisters churned out most popular duets one after the other from 1952 to 1982. Kaur must have recorded something like five hundred records in her entire life span. She was active in music business almost till the time of her death. Prior to her demise for quite some time she was not in good health. Kaur died on November 2, 1982, after a disability caused by a serious accident. Even in her ill health, before death, she was in great demand at All India Radio. During the post Mrs. Indira Gandhi Assassination riots, her house was torched in November 1984. Her son Jaspal Singh Suri escaped the violence and moved to America after 1984.
Kaur is not with us for decades, but thanks to her outstanding popularity, her music is alive for ever. Due to the fast-paced advances in science research and overall improvements in recording technology, Kaur’s voice will always remain alive with her millions of admirers and the unborn posterity. Our greatest tribute to her memory will be to keep her music in circulation for all times to come. Digitization has cleaned up old recordings. It has improved Kaur’s old recordings too.
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Parkash Kaur was a natural singer
1919 births
1982 deaths
Indian Sikhs
Punjabi people
Singers from Lahore
Punjabi-language singers
Indian women folk singers
20th-century Indian women singers
20th-century Indian singers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20Swanson
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Travis Swanson
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Travis Swanson (born January 30, 1991) is a former American football center. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas.
Early years
A native of Houston, Texas, Swanson attended Kingwood High School, where he played high school football. He was coached by Dougald McDougald. During his senior year, he graded out at 84% on the season. Swanson was named one of 10 finalists for the 2008 Greater Houston Area Offensive Player of the Year—eventually won by Russell Shepard—and was the only lineman among the finalists. He was also a first-team all-state selection by the writers and a second-team honoree by the coaches.
Regarded as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Swanson was ranked as the No. 73 offensive tackle prospect in the class of 2009, which was highlighted by D. J. Fluker and Mason Walters. Swanson chose Arkansas over offers from Arizona, Kansas, and Texas Tech.
College career
After being redshirted as a freshman in 2009, he took over as the Razorbacks starting center in 2010. The Razorbacks, who started the same offensive line every game, broke 24 game or season school records on offense in 2010. Quarterback Ryan Mallett set the Arkansas single-season passing yards record with 3,869 and running back Knile Davis posted the fourth-highest single-season rushing yards total in program history with 1,322 yards. Arkansas finished the season first in the SEC and fourth in the NCAA in passing (333.7), becoming just the third team since 1992 to lead the conference in passing in consecutive seasons. Swanson was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team.
As a sophomore, Swanson started every game at center for a Razorback offense that led the SEC in total offense, passing offense and scoring offense to become just the fifth different school, and first since 2001, to lead the conference in all three categories in a single season and became the sixth team in conference history, and second since 1992, to lead the SEC in passing offense for three straight seasons.
In his junior year, Swanson was named team captain and started all 12 games at center in an offensive line that allowed 1.0 or fewer sacks in eight games in 2012 and ranked third in the SEC with an average of just 1.58 sacks allowed per game.
Swanson was a second-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection, and a first-team All-American by USA Today, making him just the third center in program history to earn All-American honors, joining Jonathan Luigs in 2007 and Rodney Brand in 1969.
Professional career
Detroit Lions
Swanson was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round (76th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft.
On December 28, 2014, Swanson made his first career start at center against the Green Bay Packers. On January 2, 2016, Swanson was placed on injured reserve due to a shoulder injury.
In 2017, Swanson started 11 games before being placed on injured reserve on December 29, 2017 with a concussion.
New York Jets
On April 4, 2018, Swanson signed with the New York Jets. He was released on September 1, 2018.
Miami Dolphins
On September 3, 2018, Swanson was signed by the Miami Dolphins, but was released the next day. He was re-signed on September 11, 2018. He started 11 games at center after a season-ending injury to Daniel Kilgore in Week 4.
Retirement
Swanson announced his retirement from football on May 19, 2019.
References
External links
Detroit Lions bio
Arkansas Razorbacks bio
1991 births
Living people
American football centers
Arkansas Razorbacks football players
Detroit Lions players
Miami Dolphins players
New York Jets players
People from Concord, California
Players of American football from Contra Costa County, California
Players of American football from Houston
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuca%20korthalsii
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Madhuca korthalsii
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Madhuca korthalsii is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is named for the Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals.
Description
Madhuca korthalsii grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is brown. Inflorescences bear up to five white flowers.
Distribution and habitat
Madhuca korthalsii is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forest to altitude.
Conservation
Madhuca korthalsii has been assessed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List. The species is threatened by logging and conversion of land for palm oil plantations.
References
korthalsii
Trees of Sumatra
Trees of Malaya
Trees of Borneo
Plants described in 1885
Taxa named by William Burck
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isra%20al-Modallal
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Isra al-Modallal
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Isra al-Modallal (Arabic: إسراء المدلل) was the first female spokesperson in English for the Hamas government in Gaza between 2013–2014. She was born in Egypt and raised in Gaza. She attended high school in Bradford, England, and graduated from Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in media studies. She worked as a broadcast journalist before accepting the spokesperson role. Her appointment was part of a Hamas effort to change its public image.
Early life and career
Isra al-Modallal was born in Egypt to Palestinian refugees and spent her youth in Gaza. She attended Grange Technology College in Bradford, England while her father went to university. She developed a Yorkshire dialect while in England. She graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in media studies and later worked as a broadcast journalist. She has credited camera experience at a local station and English-language satellite news channel as formative career experiences.
Al-Modallal began her new role as the Hamas government's international spokesperson in November 2013. She was the first female to hold the position. Her appointment came as part of a Hamas effort change its public image under media head Ihab al-Ghussein, who opened a new government website, increased government social media use, and recruited younger staff. As a female figure in power, her role was expected to more closely connect Palestinian and Hamas concerns with the West and to empower Palestinian women. Al-Modallal has referred to herself as a Palestinian and not as a Hamas devotee. She said she would focus on human rights and humanitarian causes, would not speak with Israeli media, and would launch a social media campaign.
She is divorced, and has one daughter.
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Living people
Palestinian politicians
Palestinian Muslims
Year of birth missing (living people)
Islamic University of Gaza alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropyga%20glaesaria
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Acropyga glaesaria
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Acropyga glaesaria is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae known from a group of possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. A. glaesaria is the first species of the ant genus Acropyga to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is the one of several species of Acropyga found in the West Indies. As with other members of the genus, A. glaesaria was most likely trophobiotic.
History and classification
Acropyga glaesaria is known from six fossil insects which are inclusions in transparent chunks of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct Hymenaea protera, which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimens were collected from undetermined amber mines in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene, based on the associated fossil coccoliths. This age range is due to the host rock being secondary deposits for the amber, and the Miocene the age range is only the youngest that it might be.
The holotype amber specimen, number DR-16-603, entombs an alate queen associated with the only known Electromyrmococcus inclusus, and one paratype queen, in a separate amber specimen with the E. reginae holotype, are currently preserved in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A single specimen in the collections at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt, Germany preserves two more paratype queens and the two known paratype males, all in association with the holotype of E. abductus.
The fossils were first studied by entomologist John LaPolla of the Smithsonian Institution. LaPolla's 2005 type description of the new species was published in the journal Transactions of the American Entomological Society. The specific epithet glaesaria is derived from the Latin for "of amber" in reference to the preservation of the fossils.
Prior to the species formal description in 2005 the fossils had been attributed to the genus Brachymyrmex and in the 2001 description of Electromyrmococcus specimens of A. glaesaria were suggested to represent several different Acropyga species. The generic placement was stabilized with a review and clarification of the scope of Acropyga by LaPolla in 2004, while the suggestion of multiple species based on morphology was shown to be an artifact of distortion and preservation in the amber. The association of A. glaesaria and the Electromyrmococcus species is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis. Modern Acropyga are thought to be fully reliant on mealy bug species as their source of food and reproductive only emerge from the nest during the mating flight, each carrying a seed bug in their mandibles.
Description
The Acropyga glaesaria specimens are well preserved, though the specimens show some distortion from the amber moving after entombment. The specimens of queens have estimated body lengths between ,while the measured male shows a length of about . The overall coloration of the A. glaesaria queens is a light yellow tone, typical for members of the genus and the males are a slightly darker dusky yellow which is also typical. The antennae are thickened with nine total segments, the apical of which is a little longer than the next three segments combined. The mandibles have eight teeth overall, with the fourth and seventh from the mandible apex being the longest overall.
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Miocene insects of North America
Fossil taxa described in 2005
Fauna of Hispaniola
Insects of the Dominican Republic
Extinct animals of the Dominican Republic
Fossils of the Dominican Republic
Dominican amber
Formicinae
Fossil ant taxa
Prehistoric insects of the Caribbean
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAHS%20%28disambiguation%29
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WAHS (disambiguation)
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WAHS is a radio station licensed to Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States.
WAHS may refer to:
Schools
Warren Area High School, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States
West Albany High School, Albany, Oregon, United States
West Anchorage High School, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
West Aurora High School, Aurora, Illinois, United States
Western Alamance High School, Elon, North Carolina, United States
Western Albemarle High School, Crozet, Virginia, United States
William Allen High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Windber Area High School, Windber, Pennsylvania, United States
Würzburg American High School, a closed United States Department of Defense Dependent School System school in Würzburg, Germany
Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
Other
Jenderal Ahmad Yani International Airport (ICAO: WAHS)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray%20Ladd
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Westray Ladd
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Westray Ladd (December 8, 1863 – August 15, 1909) was an American architect.
Ladd was born in Hong Kong to American parents. His family came back to Bucksport, Maine, when he was one. He worked in the office of Wheelwright & Haven in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as with William Emerson and Peabody & Stearns. In November 1883, he moved to Philadelphia and ran his own office until 1902. He worked mostly on residences including homes in Overbrook, where he lived. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and of the T-Square Club.
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19th-century American architects
1909 deaths
1863 births
People from Bucksport, Maine
Expatriates in British Hong Kong
Peabody and Stearns people
American expatriates in the British Empire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento%20Kangamba
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Bento Kangamba
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Bento dos Santos Kangamba (Moxico, born July 6, 1965) is a businessman, politician and former general officer of Angolan Army and owner of the football team Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca. Born in Moxico in Angola, but was in the Lunda provinces that grew. He worked in the area of logistics and was one of the drivers of the sale so " orthodox " meat / chicken from the army on the black market. At the time, the street vendors aka " Quinguilas " led him to court after they complained of having given the money without which they received the goods. He was found guilty in court serving a two years prison. At the time the Central Committee of the MPLA, which was part, drove her to her case not spot the party After the incident Kangamba remade politically becoming one of the most publicized MPLA in urban Luanda (and in some areas of the country). It is currently the first secretary of CAP 114, the lever (card militant LA – 525291). He was readmitted in the party structures (Luanda Provincial Committee and Central Committee) and at the same time learned not have much confidence in their colleagues MPLA.
Early life and career
Bento dos Santos Kangamba (Moxico, June 6, 1965) is a businessman, politician and former general officer of Angolan Army and owner of the football team Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca. At 15 years old he joined the MPLA. His father was known as a supporter of this party that guerrillas roamed the area east of the country. The family was the owner of certain assets, including some trucks that have been burned by UNITA at the time of the armed conflict. Parents are in the East and the son is criticized for "wasting money in Luanda while the country are not very good in Luena." He served the armed wing of the regime and reached the rank of brigadier, whose reserve part. Your economic asset is considered complex, starting with the fact of not knowing his Cabinet. There is information that through the Ministry of Finance receives funds "impulse" of an "endless" old debt the state owes to him. Is associated with diamond mining area in the Lunda, having a partner, one of the dredges, Eduardo Kwangana, President of PRS. Founded in the 1990s a company, "Organizations Kabuscorp" whose heritage includes land in Samba, a fifth under construction in the areas of Futungo, to which he gave his name, "Thursday Kamgamba". It is connoted with a limited company representations, Rangol based in Workers Quarter. What gives you more visibility is a football team, the club Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca, who created in December 1994, becoming the first Angolan to have a football club in the country. Is intended to interfere with the work of the coach of his team. For more than 10 years he left to live in the neighborhood Palanca (Alvalade and now lived in an apartment in New Life T4), but within the party goes up by resident or chief of the district, as it is called and weekends visiting Palanca. It pays attention to philanthropy and supports entertainment initiatives (contests, concerts, etc.) so it has the reputation of "entrepreneur of youth." One of his biggest vices is gambling / casino. Has arrived to spend about $100,000 U.S. in one night.
His Football Team
Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca, known only by Kabuscorp, is a football club that has its headquarters in Luanda, capital of Angola. It was founded in December 1994. The Kabuscorp Palanca originated in Cazenga district where the weekends young residents in the neighborhoods of Palanca, Rangel and Cazenga games promoted inter municipal and communal level. In this sense, and after some time, formed a club whose members were young Cazenga and Palanca, who joined forces and started making games in the friendly province of Luanda. With deccorrer time, the club was organized, and it became official in the statutes governing their actions. The club was recognized the Provincial Delegation of Sports, and participates in provincial and national championships. The highest level reached in the sports side was ranking the 1st place in the National League Division 1 (in football) in this year's tournament Girabola.
Personal life
Avelina Escórcio Dos Santos, wife of Bento Kangamba married Bento Kangamba in 2011. Daughter of the elder brother of the Angolan president, businessman Avelino dos Santos, and sister of Catarino Santos, an influential and well-known figure of Luanda. The bride works as a secretary uncle, President José Eduardo dos Santos, and this marriage Benedict Kangamba Dos Santos became the presidential family. To patronize marriage Kangamba Benedict chose another great figure of the majority party, General Higino Carneiro, during marriage president of the republic Jose Eduardo Dos Santos be attended by uncle of the bride.
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1965 births
Living people
Angolan businesspeople
Kabuscorp S.C.P. non-playing staff
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDHS%20%28disambiguation%29
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WDHS (disambiguation)
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WDHS may refer to:
WDHS, a television station in Iron Mountain, Michigan
Wade Deacon High School, Widnes, Cheshire, England
Waterdown District High School, Waterdown, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Waterford District High School, Waterford, Ontario, Canada
Western Dubuque High School, Epworth, Iowa, United States
A defunct radio station in Gaston, Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambaroides%20dauricus
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Cambaroides dauricus
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Cambaroides dauricus is a species of crayfish endemic to north-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and neighbouring parts of Russia.
References
Cambaridae
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia
Crustaceans described in 1773
Taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912%20Ilkeston%20by-election
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1912 Ilkeston by-election
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The 1912 Ilkeston by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 1 July 1912. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
Vacancy
Jack Seely had been Liberal MP for the seat of Ilkeston since the 1910 Ilkeston by-election. In 1912, he was promoted to the Cabinet and appointed Secretary of State for War and required to seek re-election.
Electoral history
Candidates
Seely was elected Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight in 1900, as a Unionist. He crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party in 1904. He was returned as a Liberal for Liverpool Abercromby in 1906 but was defeated in January 1910. He was quickly found a new seat at Ilkeston shortly after. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under H. H. Asquith between 1908 and 1911, as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1911 to 1912, and became a member of the Privy Council in 1909.
William Marshall Freeman, who had contested the election here as Conservative candidate in December 1910 was re-adopted as Conservative candidate.
The Independent Labour Party considered running John Thomas White as candidate but the national Labour Party leadership did not wish to see Seely opposed.
Campaign
Polling Day was set for 1 July 1912.
Result
Despite the mid-term unpopularity of the Liberal Government, Seely was re-elected, albeit with a much reduced majority.
Aftermath
A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election.
Liberal: Jack Seely
Unionist: William Marshall Freeman
The Labour Party chose not to run a candidate when the National Union of Railwaymen chose to endorse Seely.
Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. When an election did finally take place after the war, Seely was again re-elected.
Seely was endorsed by the Coalition Government. The local Unionists felt obliged to support Seely, however at the following general election in 1922 Freeman was once more their candidate but he finished third.
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1912 elections in the United Kingdom
1912 in England
1910s in Derbyshire
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies
Ilkeston
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Carver
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Mary Carver
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Mary Carvellas (May 3, 1924 – October 18, 2013), better known as Mary Carver, was an American actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. She may be best known for her role as matriarch Cecilia Simon on the series Simon & Simon appearing in 153 episodes from 1981 to 1989 over eight seasons.
Early life
Carver was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of John and Carmen (née Delmar) Carvellas. Carver graduated from Hollywood High School and City College.
Career
Carver appeared in the Broadway production of Out West of Eighth in 1951. She appeared on Broadway in The Shadow Box in 1977 and in Fifth of July during the 1980s.
Her films included From Here to Eternity (1953), Pay or Die (1960), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Protocol (1984), Best Seller (1987), Arachnophobia (1990), and Safe (1995).
Her television roles included Simon & Simon, The Donna Reed Show, ER, The Guardian, Gunsmoke (1956 title character-“Anne” - in “Chester’s Mail Order Bride” - S1E34), Lou Grant, Lux Video Theatre, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mannix, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, McCloud, Quincy, M.E., The Rockford Files, Star Trek: Enterprise, and The Twilight Zone.
In addition to acting, Carver taught within the theater department of the University of Southern California.
Personal life
Carver married film director Joseph Sargent in 1952. They had two daughters, Athena Sargent and voice actress Lia Sargent, and divorced in 1968.
Death
Carver died on October 18, 2013, following a brief illness at her home in Woodland Hills, California. She was 89 years old. She was survived by her daughters.
Filmography
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1924 births
2013 deaths
American television actresses
American film actresses
American stage actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
University of Southern California faculty
People from Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American women academics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoo%20An-jin
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Yoo An-jin
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Yoo An-Jin (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea, or Hangul: 유안진) is a South Korean poet, essayist, and professor.
Life
Yoo An-Jin was born April 21, 1941, in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Yu graduated from Seoul National University Teacher's College's Department of Education and then received her graduate degree and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Florida. She has taught at Dankook University and Seoul National University. Her literary debut was in 1965.
Work
Yu first became famous for her essays, beginning with her contribution to the prose collection Dreaming of a Beautiful Friendship (Jiranjigyo leul ggum ggumyeo, 지란지교를 꿈꾸며, 1986). The book, which also included essays by Yi Hyang-a and Gim Dal-jin, met with great popular acclaim, and made her name practically a household word. The lyrical style of her essays won her the hearts of many sensitive middle and high school students. This led to Yu's expanding her talent to other literary genres including educational essays such as "Child Education in Traditional Korean Society."
Yu has carried out various aesthetic experiments in her attempts to establish a position and identity for contemporary woman. She attempts to casts a soft revelatory light on areas of society which have gone unnoticed. Her poetic voice, most often a mother, wife, sister or daughter-in-law, speak to the reader in a soft tone, while closely observing the world around them to seek salvation in their complex lives.
Yu spares little effort to discover the true self hidden in the small things in daily life. Her efforts to resolve tensions between self and world through the exploration of various modes of women's lives, is not a coarse chanting of slogans, but declarations of a poetic nature, communicated softly, like whispers. This only adds to their persuasiveness.
Yu has received many awards including the 1990 간행물윤리위원회 간행물 윤리상, the 1996 12회 펜문학상, the 1998 10th Jeong Ji-young Literature Prize, the 2000 35th Woltan Literature Prize (2003), and the 2012 44th Korean Poet's Association Prize.
Works in translation
春雨一袋子 (유안진 시선집-봄비 한 주머니)
Works in Korean (partial)
Poetry Collections
Beneath the Moon (Dalha)
Poems of Despair (Jeolmangsipyeon)
To the Water, to the Wind (Mullo balameuro)
Winged Vestments (Nalgaeot)
Christ, My Love of Old (Geuriseudo, yet aein)
Melody Drenched in Moonlight (Dalbiche jeonneun garak)
Everlasting Exclamation (Yeongwonhan neukkimpyo)
Personal Essays
Dreaming of a Good and Noble Friendship (Jiranjigyoreul kkumkkumyeo)
In Search of the Scars of My Soul (Nae yeonghonui sangcheoreul chajaseo)
Fragrance! O Fragrance of Love! (Hyanggiyeo sarangui hyanggiyeo).
Awards
1990 간행물윤리위원회 간행물 윤리상
1996 제12회 펜문학상
1998 10th Jeong Ji-young Literature Prize
2000 35th Woltan Literature Prize
2012 44th Korean Poet's Association Prize
References
1941 births
Korean writers
Living people
Society of Korean Poets Award winners
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20labelling%20in%20Canada
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Food labelling in Canada
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Federal responsibility for Canadian food labelling requirements is shared between two departments, Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). All labelling information that is provided on food labels or in advertisements, as required by legislation, must be accurate, truthful and not misleading. Ingredient lists must accurately reflect the contents and their relative proportions in a food. Nutrition facts tables must accurately reflect the amount of a nutrient present in a food. Net quantity declarations must accurately reflect the amount of food in the package. Certain claims, such as those relating to nutrient content, organic, kosher, halal and certain disease-risk reduction claims, are subject to specific regulatory requirements in addition to the prohibitions in the various acts. For claims that are not subject to specific regulatory requirements, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and/or Health Canada provide interpretive guidance that assist industry in compliance.
Primary functions
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, a food label serves three primary functions:
it provides basic product information (including common name, list of ingredients, net quantity, durable life date, grade/quality, country of origin and name and address of manufacturer, dealer or importer);
it provides health, safety, and nutrition information. This includes instructions for safe storage and handling, nutrition information such as the quantity of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals present per serving of stated size of the food (in the nutrition facts table), and specific information on products for special dietary use;
it acts as a vehicle for food marketing, promotion and advertising (via label vignettes, promotional information and label claims such as low fat, cholesterol-free, high source of fibre, product of Canada, natural, organic, no preservatives added, and so on).
Requirements
Some of the core labelling requirements that are set out by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency include:
Common name
The common name of a product is the label that someone will see when they pick up a product. The name on the product must comply with three criteria set out by the Government of Canada.
What is listed in Canada's set of Food and Drug Regulations
The name prescribed by another federal regulation
The name by which the food is formally known (for example: orange juice)
The name of the product must also be displayed on the main label in both English and French with a minimum height of 1/16 of an inch (1.6 mm).
Exemptions from declaring a common name on the label:
Fresh fruits or vegetables that are packaged in a way that is visible and identifiable to the public. For example, mushrooms that are in clear packaging do not have to be labelled with the common name "mushrooms".
Pre-packaged fruits that have a variety of kinds do not require being universally labelled. For example, apples have numerous kinds (i.e. Red Delicious, Granny Smith); these apples can be labelled with their exact kind to benefit the purchaser.
When advertising a common name food, the food must be referred to by its common name. For example, lemon juice from concentrate must be advertised as 'from concentrate' and not just 'lemon juice', as this has the ability to confuse consumers. However, once the ad has referenced the common name at least once, it can be considered acceptable to refer to it from its brand name from then on.
Ingredient labelling requirements
Unless otherwise exempted, pre-packaged multi-ingredient foods require by law, an ingredient list. In Canada, the ingredients must be displayed in both English and French unless exempted. Ingredients and their components (ingredients of ingredients) also must be listed under their specific names; for example, whey protein must be listed as such, and not just as "protein", which would be ambiguous.
Exceptions to this requirement include "spices, seasonings and herbs (except salt), flavour enhancers, natural and artificial flavourings, food additives, and vitamin and mineral nutrients and derivatives or salts, which may be shown at the end of the ingredient list in any order". The Food and Drug Regulations Act also ensures that "ingredients appear on labels in decreasing order of proportion".
Allergens
Common allergens such as gluten, peanuts, and dairy must be called out below the ingredient list. On February 16, 2011, the Food and Drug Regulations Act was passed, requiring enhanced labelling requirements for food allergen, gluten sources, and sulphites, beginning on August 4, 2012.
When an allergen is not a listed ingredient but is processed in the same facility so that contamination with trace amounts is possible, a precautionary statement is often given near the ingredient list ("may contain traces of . . . "); this is not required, but Health Canada "considers the use of allergen precautionary statements to be a useful tool in mitigating adverse reactions to priority food allergens if the statements are used appropriately."
Nutrition labelling
By law, nearly all products have a nutrition label in Canada. The nutrition label gives you information about the product including, its serving size, calories, and its percentage of the 13 core nutrients that Canada deems necessary. These nutrients include fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, fibre, sugars, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron. All of these nutrients, except for vitamins and minerals, are recorded based on a reasonable daily intake percentage. Vitamins and minerals are based on a recommended daily intake (RDI). These differ in that one is based on what one is expected to eat in a day, while the other is based on what the government recommends one consume in a day. However, all nutrients are recorded onto the same label with the same guidelines that is prescribed by the Food and Drug Regulations. These guidelines determine that the nutrition label must be clearly and predominantly displayed on the package to the manufacturer as well as clearly visible to the consumer at the time of purchase.
According to the Canadian Government, the following foods are exempted from being required to have a food label:
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Raw meat and poultry
Raw seafood
Foods prepared or processed in store (i.e. bakery items, salads)
Foods that contain very few nutrients (i.e. tea, coffee)
Alcoholic beverages
What most Canadians use nutrition labels for:
Compare two food products
Be well informed in regards to nutrients so that the consumer has the ability to make a healthy choice should they want to
Have the ability to better manage special diets (i.e. low-carb diet)
Eat more or less of a nutrient
See how much of a daily nutrient one is taking
Units of measure
In Canada, food products are required to be labelled as to net quantity on the main display panel. The net quantity must be in metric units in English and French, in type that is at least 1.6 millimetres (1/16") high. (If international metric symbols such as "L" or "g" are used instead of words, these are considered bilingual.)
Optionally, Canadian (imperial) or U.S. customary units may be listed in addition to the metric units. In cases where a U.S. unit is used that is smaller than the same-named imperial unit, "U.S." must be designated. (This is not necessary when the U.S. unit is equal to or larger than the imperial unit.) Because these units are optional, they do not need to be stated bilingually, but may be given in English, French, or both.
Rules specify what kinds of food are to be labelled by volume (most liquids), weight (most non-liquids), or count.
Date markings
Packaging date: the date a food is placed into a package for the first time for resale to a consumer; or the date a prepackaged product is weighed by a retailer in a package in which it will be offered for sale.
Storage instructions: How a product should be stored. Can include temperature, humidity, and light conditions.
Durable life: The period between when a prepackaged package is packaged for resale and when it is good until; based on proper conditions. When the product expires, meaning that it is no longer fit for consumption, it is known as the expiry or best before date. An expiration date in one in which the manufacturer does not recommend the product be consumed (they can be located on any label panel).
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the following foods are exempted from having to have a durable life or packaging date:
Prepackaged fresh fruits and vegetables (including prepackaged, chopped or shredded fresh fruit and vegetables);
Prepackaged individual portions of food served by restaurants, airlines or other commercial enterprises with meals or snacks (e.g., milk, cheese packets - as they are intended for immediate consumption);
Prepackaged individual servings of food prepared by a commissary and sold in automatic vending machines or mobile canteens (e.g., sandwiches); and
Prepackaged donuts
It should be acknowledged that a durable life date is NOT an indicator of food safety. Once something is opened, depending on how it is stored, the shelf life can change. For example, an open box of crackers meant to expire in two weeks, will expire much faster should the seal be left open after each use.
Geographical indications
A product's geographical indications will tell where the product comes from. In Canada not everything can be locally produced, especially in the winter months in regards to fresh produce. This is why Canada often imports foods such as apples and oranges from places such as Florida and Fiji. Canada's climate only ensures that the citizens have the ability to eat local produce six months of the year. The rest of the year, people who wish to continue a well balanced diet, must purchase produce from grocery stores which buy their produce from other countries.
Although readily available in the warmer months, the following food products are imported when not able to be grown or raised in Canada due to its varying climate:
Dairy products
Seafood
Honey
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Meat and poultry products
Processed products (ex: fruit, vegetables, maple products)
Each one of these categories of imported goods have strict guidelines and a minimum standard that they must abide by under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in order to gain access to Canada. This is to ensure the safety and health of the public. For example, the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Regulations listed under the Canada Agricultural Products Act set out "packaging, labelling and grade requirements for fresh fruits and vegetables entering into interprovincial or import trade in Canada".
Advertising
All advertising for foods and alcoholic beverages is subject to review by the Food and Drugs Act, Food and Drug Regulations and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act and Regulations. Generally, "mandatory information or claims that are acceptable on a food label may also be used to advertise that food". Any type of advertisement that may create a false impression should be avoided as it will then be subject to review by the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act. In today's society there are many ways in which a company can advertise their products, including radio, television, print and internet; all of these methods have different ways in which they are regulated.
Radio and television advertisements are reviewed by the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations prior to being allowed to be broadcast. This is to ensure that the potential customers will receive the correct information about a product prior to purchase. It is listed under the Code of Ethics of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters that "no commercial message containing a claim or endorsement of a food or non-alcoholic beverage to which the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations apply may be broadcast unless the script for the commercial message or endorsement has been approved by the Food and Beverage Clearance Section of Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) and carries a current script clearance number"
There is currently no compulsory law regulating print advertisements. However, a company can voluntarily submit an advertisement for review to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Food and Labelling Information Service should the company see fit.
Internet advertising is subject to the same criteria as other advertising and is available to the entire Internet-connected world. Many companies utilize this, as it has the capability to reach a large number of people for a low cost and with little effort.
See also
Food additives
Food labeling regulations
Nutrition facts label
United Kingdom food labelling regulations
References
Food labelling
Retailing in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambaroides%20similis
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Cambaroides similis
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Cambaroides similis is a species of crayfish endemic to the Korean Peninsula and neighbouring parts of China.
References
Cambaridae
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia
Crustaceans described in 1892
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Foster%20Ober
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Joshua Foster Ober
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Joshua Foster Ober (1839-1896), usually known as J. Foster Ober, was an American architect. His work included the design of the Odd Fellows' Hall in Beverly, Massachusetts, and an 1881 expansion to the Hotel Vendome in Boston. He died on August 12, 1896.
Life and career
Joshua Foster Ober was born September 1, 1839, in Beverly, Massachusetts. His mother was Hephzibah P. Ober and his father Samuel Ober. He attended Brown University in Providence, graduating in 1864. Moving to Boston, he entered the firm of Snell & Gregerson as a student. He remained there until 1867, when he traveled in Europe. Upon his return to Boston, he was employed by the firm of Bryant & Rogers, and established his own practice in 1872. Outside of a partnership with George D. Rand from 1877 to 1881, Ober practiced alone until his death, which occurred August 12, 1896, at his home in West Newton.
Personal life
He was married to Lucie E. Doten in 1880.
Works
Parish of the Messiah church building Foster Ober was commissioned to draw up plans of a church building located to the North and West of the Chapel (built in 1881)
Kindergarten drawing for D. N. Skillings, Esq. at Rangely Place, Winchester, Massachusetts by J. F. Ober & G. D. Rand
Odd Fellows' Hall (Beverly, Massachusetts) at 188-194 Cabot St. in Beverly, Massachusetts, a gothic building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. First constructed about 1850 with involved architects including J. Foster Ober, Williams Brothers, and others.
Architectural rendering of house for S. J. Nowell at Winchester, Massachusetts, J. F. Ober and G. D. Rand
Bennett School building
Congregational Church, West Newton: remodel with new chapel and parlors
References
Further reading
Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects Los Angeles, New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970
Architects from Boston
People from Beverly, Massachusetts
Brown University alumni
1839 births
1896 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel%20Vendome
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Hotel Vendome
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Hotel Vendome may refer to:
Hotel Vendome in Arizona, a historic hotel on the National Register of Historic Places
Hotel Vendome in Boston, location of the 1972 Hotel Vendome fire
Hotel Vendome in California (see Timeline of San Jose, California)
Hôtel de Vendôme in Paris, location of the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Hôtel de Vendôme (place Vendôme, Paris), a hotel since 1858
Hotel Vendome (novel), a novel by Danielle Steel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s%20internal%20heat%20budget
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Earth's internal heat budget
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Earth's internal heat budget is fundamental to the thermal history of the Earth. The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts (TW) and comes from two main sources in roughly equal amounts: the radiogenic heat produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantle and crust, and the primordial heat left over from the formation of Earth.
Earth's internal heat travels along geothermal gradients and powers most geological processes. It drives mantle convection, plate tectonics, mountain building, rock metamorphism, and volcanism. Convective heat transfer within the planet's high-temperature metallic core is also theorized to sustain a geodynamo which generates Earth's magnetic field.
Despite its geological significance, Earth's interior heat contributes only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation. This external energy source powers most of the planet's atmospheric, oceanic, and biologic processes. Nevertheless on land and at the ocean floor, the sensible heat absorbed from non-reflected insolation flows inward only by means of thermal conduction, and thus penetrates only several tens of centimeters on the daily cycle and only several tens of meters on the annual cycle. This renders solar radiation minimally relevant for processes internal to Earth's crust.
Global data on heat-flow density are collected and compiled by the International Heat Flow Commission of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior.
Heat and early estimate of Earth's age
Based on calculations of Earth's cooling rate, which assumed constant conductivity in the Earth's interior, in 1862 William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, estimated the age of the Earth at 98 million years, which contrasts with the age of 4.5 billion years obtained in the 20th century by radiometric dating. As pointed out by John Perry in 1895 a variable conductivity in the Earth's interior could expand the computed age of the Earth to billions of years, as later confirmed by radiometric dating. Contrary to the usual representation of Thomson's argument, the observed thermal gradient of the Earth's crust would not be explained by the addition of radioactivity as a heat source. More significantly, mantle convection alters how heat is transported within the Earth, invalidating Thomson's assumption of purely conductive cooling.
Global internal heat flow
Estimates of the total heat flow from Earth's interior to surface span a range of 43 to 49 terawatts (TW) (a terawatt is 1012 watts). One recent estimate is 47 TW, equivalent to an average heat flux of 91.6 mW/m2, and is based on more than 38,000 measurements. The respective mean heat flows of continental and oceanic crust are 70.9 and 105.4 mW/m2.
While the total internal Earth heat flow to the surface is well constrained, the relative contribution of the two main sources of Earth's heat, radiogenic and primordial heat, are highly uncertain because their direct measurement is difficult. Chemical and physical models give estimated ranges of 15–41 TW and 12–30 TW for radiogenic heat and primordial heat, respectively.
The structure of Earth is a rigid outer crust that is composed of thicker continental crust and thinner oceanic crust, solid but plastically flowing mantle, a liquid outer core, and a solid inner core. The fluidity of a material is proportional to temperature; thus, the solid mantle can still flow on long time scales, as a function of its temperature and therefore as a function of the flow of Earth's internal heat. The mantle convects in response to heat escaping from Earth's interior, with hotter and more buoyant mantle rising and cooler, and therefore denser, mantle sinking. This convective flow of the mantle drives the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates; thus, an additional reservoir of heat in the lower mantle is critical for the operation of plate tectonics and one possible source is an enrichment of radioactive elements in the lower mantle.
Earth heat transport occurs by conduction, mantle convection, hydrothermal convection, and volcanic advection. Earth's internal heat flow to the surface is thought to be 80% due to mantle convection, with the remaining heat mostly originating in the Earth's crust, with about 1% due to volcanic activity, earthquakes, and mountain building. Thus, about 99% of Earth's internal heat loss at the surface is by conduction through the crust, and mantle convection is the dominant control on heat transport from deep within the Earth. Most of the heat flow from the thicker continental crust is attributed to internal radiogenic sources; in contrast the thinner oceanic crust has only 2% internal radiogenic heat. The remaining heat flow at the surface would be due to basal heating of the crust from mantle convection. Heat fluxes are negatively correlated with rock age, with the highest heat fluxes from the youngest rock at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers (zones of mantle upwelling), as observed in the global map of Earth heat flow.
Sources of heat
Radiogenic heat
The radioactive decay of elements in the Earth's mantle and crust results in production of daughter isotopes and release of geoneutrinos and heat energy, or radiogenic heat. About 50% of the Earth's internal heat originates from radioactive decay. Four radioactive isotopes are responsible for the majority of radiogenic heat because of their enrichment relative to other radioactive isotopes: uranium-238 (238U), uranium-235 (235U), thorium-232 (232Th), and potassium-40 (40K). Due to a lack of rock samples from below 200 km depth, it is difficult to determine precisely the radiogenic heat throughout the whole mantle, although some estimates are available.
For the Earth's core, geochemical studies indicate that it is unlikely to be a significant source of radiogenic heat due to an expected low concentration of radioactive elements partitioning into iron. Radiogenic heat production in the mantle is linked to the structure of mantle convection, a topic of much debate, and it is thought that the mantle may either have a layered structure with a higher concentration of radioactive heat-producing elements in the lower mantle, or small reservoirs enriched in radioactive elements dispersed throughout the whole mantle.
Geoneutrino detectors can detect the decay of 238U and 232Th and thus allow estimation of their contribution to the present radiogenic heat budget, while 235U and 40K are not thus detectable. Regardless, 40K is estimated to contribute 4 TW of heating. However, due to the short half-lives the decay of 235U and 40K contributed a large fraction of radiogenic heat flux to the early Earth, which was also much hotter than at present. Initial results from measuring the geoneutrino products of radioactive decay from within the Earth, a proxy for radiogenic heat, yielded a new estimate of half of the total Earth internal heat source being radiogenic, and this is consistent with previous estimates.
Primordial heat
Primordial heat is the heat lost by the Earth as it continues to cool from its original formation, and this is in contrast to its still actively-produced radiogenic heat. The Earth core's heat flow—heat leaving the core and flowing into the overlying mantle—is thought to be due to primordial heat, and is estimated at 5–15 TW. Estimates of mantle primordial heat loss range between 7 and 15 TW, which is calculated as the remainder of heat after removal of core heat flow and bulk-Earth radiogenic heat production from the observed surface heat flow.
The early formation of the Earth's dense core could have caused superheating and rapid heat loss, and the heat loss rate would slow once the mantle solidified. Heat flow from the core is necessary for maintaining the convecting outer core and the geodynamo and Earth's magnetic field; therefore primordial heat from the core enabled Earth's atmosphere and thus helped retain Earth's liquid water.
Heat flow and tectonic plates
Controversy over the exact nature of mantle convection makes the linked evolution of Earth's heat budget and the dynamics and structure of the mantle difficult to unravel. There is evidence that the processes of plate tectonics were not active in the Earth before 3.2 billion years ago, and that early Earth's internal heat loss could have been dominated by advection via heat-pipe volcanism. Terrestrial bodies with lower heat flows, such as the Moon and Mars, conduct their internal heat through a single lithospheric plate, and higher heat flows, such as on Jupiter's moon Io, result in advective heat transport via enhanced volcanism, while the active plate tectonics of Earth occur with an intermediate heat flow and a convecting mantle.
See also
Geothermal energy
Geothermal gradient
Planetary differentiation
Thermal history of the Earth
Anthropogenic heat
External links
References
Earth
Geodynamics
Plate tectonics
Heat transfer
Geothermal energy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKHS%20%28disambiguation%29
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WKHS (disambiguation)
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WKHS (90.5 FM) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to serve Worton, Maryland.
WKHS may also refer to:
Waterford Kettering High School, Waterford, Michigan, United States
White Knoll High School, Lexington, South Carolina, United States
Worthington Kilbourne High School, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS), an American manufacturing company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Graham%20%28actor%29
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Stuart Graham (actor)
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Stuart Graham (born 31 August 1967) is a Northern Irish film, television, and stage actor, born and brought up in Northern Ireland.
Life
Born in Belfast and educated at the University of Ulster, where he took a degree in media studies, Graham trained for an acting career at a drama school in London. In 1990 he played a minor part in a revival of Berenice at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth, and in 1991 appeared at the Dublin Theatre Festival in a production of Michael Collins Big Fella! by the Praxis Theatre Laboratory of Greenwich, playing the part of Eoin O'Duffy.
Most of Graham's stage work has been in Dublin and Belfast, while in film and television he has worked in both Irish and British productions, specializing in playing Irishmen. However, his leading roles have included the part of the Englishman Howard Carter in Egypt (2005).
In 2000, Graham directed the premiere of Gary Mitchell's new play, Marching On, at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In an interview in 2011, Graham commented
In April 2017, he appeared in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.
Filmography
Michael Collins (1996) – Thomas Cullen
The Informant (1997) – Det. Astley
One Man's Hero (1999) – Corporal Kenneally
Misery Harbour (1999) – John Wakefield
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) – Brother Whelan
Omagh (2004) – Victor Barker
Hunger (2008) – Raymond Lohan
The Whistleblower (2010) – McVeigh
Parked (2010) – George O'Regan
Christopher and His Kind (2011) – Passport officer
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) – Minister
Grabbers (2012) – Skipper
Shadow Dancer (2012) – Ian Gilmore
A Patch of Fog (2015) - Tom Breslin
Mary Shelley (2017) - Publisher
The Foreigner (2017) - Detective Inspector Donald Greig
Bad Day for the Cut (2017) - Trevor Ballantine
Selected television work
Shockers: Cyclops (Channel 4 television film, 2001) - Carl Gatliss
Silent Witness (BBC television series, S06 E03 & E04, Kith and Kill, 2002) - DS Tony Ashton
Egypt (BBC television series, 2005) – Howard Carter
Waterloo Road (BBC television series, 2007) – Russell Millen
Single-Handed (RTÉ Television series, 2007) – Johnny Mallon
The Fall (BBC television series, 2013–2016) – DCI Matt Eastwood
Our World War (BBC television series, 2014) – Father Brookes
Thirteen (BBC television series, 2016) – Angus Moxam
The Secret (ITV television series, 2016) – Dave Stewart
Vera (ITV television series, 2017) - Alan Marston
The Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime Video series, TBA) - Geofram Bornhald
On stage
Berenice (1990) at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lambeth (a Royal National Theatre production)
Michael Collins Big Fella! (1991) at the St George's Theatre, Dublin (Praxis Theatre Laboratory of Greenwich, at Dublin Theatre Festival, 1991)
The Silver Tassie (1994) at the Almeida Theatre, London
Alternative Future (1994) at the Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
In a Little World of Our Own (1997) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
As the Beast Sleeps (1997) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Carthaginians (1999) at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Force of Change (2000) at the Royal Court Theatre, Kensington
A Number (2007) at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin
Pump Girl (2008) at the Queen's Drama Studio, Belfast
The Painkiller (2011) at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The Ferryman (2017) at the Royal Court Theatre and Gielgud Theatre, London
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Alumni of Ulster University
Male film actors from Northern Ireland
Male actors from Belfast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikefjord%20Church
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Eikefjord Church
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Eikefjord Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Eikefjord. It is the church for the Eikefjord parish which is part of the Sunnfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in 1812 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. Originally, it was built in a long church design, but in 1874, the church was enlarged into a cruciform design. The church seats about 350 people.
History
Around 1810, the villagers of Eikefjord joined forces to get a church built in their community. Søren Agledal as the driving force among the residents. The first church in Eikefjord was built in 1812. It was a small long church with about 150-200 seats. The lead builder was Nils Olsen Kjørslevik. Originally, the church was privately owned, but it was sold to the parish in 1874 for 1000 Norwegian rigsdaler. Soon after the sale, the church was enlarged by adding a transept to the north and south sides of the nave to create a cruciform design. Each of the three cross-arms of the nave also had a 2nd floor seating gallery. The remodeling was led by the builder John J. Alver. In 1890, the Eikefjord area was separated from the rest of the Svanøy parish and it was established as its own parish. In 1936, a two-room sacristy was added to the east side of the church. In 1953, electric heating was installed in the church. During the 1970s, the church was modernized again. Running water, bathroom facilities, and electric lighting was all installed.
See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin
References
Kinn
Churches in Vestland
Cruciform churches in Norway
Wooden churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1812
1812 establishments in Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Branch
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Silver Branch
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The Silver Branch or Silver Bough () is a symbol found in Irish mythology and literature.
Featured in the Irish poem The Voyage of Bran and the narrative Cormac's Adventure in the Land of Promise, it represents entry into the Celtic Otherworld or Tír na nÓg.
Literary examples
Voyage of Bran
In Imram Brain ("Voyage of Bran"), the silver apple branch with white apple blossoms was brought to Bran mac Febail by a mysterious woman, who disclosed that the branch of white silver () was from Emain (or Emne), presumably the land where she hailed from. After singing verses describing her land as the place of delight (with poetic names such as the "Plain of White Silver"); thereafter she slipped away, and the branch sprang back to her, with Bran having no power to keep it in his grasp. Bran then mounted on a voyage and reached the Land of Women (Tír inna m-Ban), which is Emain, at least according to some commentators. Some other commentators venture the silver branch Bran saw originated in Emain Ablach, even though that extended form does not appear in the text of the Imram Brain.
The land of the branch turned out to be some sort of "Otherworld", for even though Bran and his crew believed they tarried at the Land of Women for a year, it turned out to be many years, even centuries, so that when they approached Ireland, they learned that they had become ancient history, and a member who tried to set foot on land turned into ashes.
Eleanor Hull wrote a paper drawing parallel between this silver branch and the golden bough of Roman legend which was required for entry into the Underworld (Pluto). In like manner, the branch (silver or otherwise) is an object given to a human invited by a denizen of the Otherworld to visit his/her realm, offering "a clue binding the desired one to enter". One of the paralleling examples was the branch seen by Bran.
Though not a genuine Celticist, to quote W. H. Evans-Wentz, "the silver branch of the sacred apple-tree bearing blossoms.. borne by the Fairy Woman is a passport to Tír n-aill (the Celtic Otherworld)".
Cormac's adventure
A magical silver branch with three golden apples belonged to the sea deity Manannán mac Lir and was given to the high king Cormac mac Airt in the narrative Echtra Cormaic or "Cormac's Adventure in the Land of Promise". The sea god initially visited Cormac's ramparts (at Tara) as an unidentified warrior from a land "wherein there is nought save truth, and there is neither age nor decay nor gloom", etc., later identified as the Land of Promise (Tír Tairngire). The branch created magical soporific music that assuaged those afflicted with injury or illness to sleep, including "women in child-bed".
In a variant text under the title "How Cormac mac Airt Got his Branch", the same object is not described as a silver branch, but rather a "glittering fairy branch with nine apples of red gold".
Here, the branch possessed the additional ability make people forget their woes. Cormac bargained his wife and children away to obtain the branch, and when the wife and daughter learn of this to their utter disheartening, Cormac jiggles the branch to cause their sorrows to depart. This ability is reminiscent of the grief-soothing lapdog Petit Crû and its jingling bell in Tristan and Isolde, as pointed out by Gertrude Schoepperle.
Dialogue of the Two Sages
Also, in Immacallam in dá Thuarad, or The Dialogue of the Two Sages, the mystic symbol used by gods, fairies, magicians, and by all initiates who know the mystery of life and death, is thus described as a Druid symbol:–'Neidhe' (a young bard who aspired to succeed his father as chief poet of Ulster), "made his journey with a silver branch over him. The Anradhs, or poets of the second order, carried a silver branch, but the Ollamhs, or chief poets, carried a branch of gold; all other poets bore a branch of bronze."
In popular culture
The Silver Bough is a work on Celtic folklore by Florence Marian McNeill, a Scottish folklorist.
The Silver Branch is the title of the second book in Rosemary Sutcliff's children's book series The Roman Britain Trilogy.
The Silver Bough is also the title of a 1948 novel by Scottish novelist Neil M. Gunn. He references frequently the Silver Bough song sung by the protagonist's landlady and the protagonist has a musical silver bough with gold apples crafted for the landlady's granddaughter
The Silver Branch documentary (Katrina Costello) is a celebration of the people and place of the mythical landscape of the Burren. The protagonist (Patrick McCormack) references the Silver Branch myth, in his search for unity, in being part of nature and letting nature work on us to find our place in the world.
Explanatory notes
References
Bibliography
MacKillop, James (1998) Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 21 "apple", 205 "Fand", 270 "Imram Brain", 322–3 "Manannán mac Lir", 346 "Niam (3)", 359–60 "Otherworld". .
External links
Internet Sacred Text Archive/Celtic Folklore/The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries/Section II, The Recorded Fairy-Faith
Temple of Manannan
Celtic Literature Collective and Jones's Celtic Encyclopedia
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
Celtic mythology
Early Irish literature
Irish mythology
Symbols
Golden apples
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Shinny (disambiguation)
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Shinny is an informal type of ice hockey.
Shinny may also refer to:
People
Shinny Bayaar (born 1977), Mongolian professional boxer
Tom Shinny (born 1899), an Irish hurler
Other uses
Shinney, a North American game played with a buffalo-hair ball
Moonshine, high-proof distilled spirits, generally produced illicitly
A variant of mini hockey played indoors on one's knees
See also
Andrew Shinnie, (born 1989), Scottish professional footballer
Shinty, a Scottish team game played with sticks and a ball
Pond hockey, a form of ice hockey
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Women's Network for Unity
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The Women's Network for Unity is a sex worker organization in Cambodia which was established in 2000 and currently has about 6,400 members. It works against the stigmatization of sex work and lobbies for legal and human rights of sex workers and for safer working conditions. Accordingly, the organization aims to amend the 2008 Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. The WNU was established by the Women's Agenda for Change Organisation that was founded by an Australian Aid Worker Rosanna Barbero. In 1999 several women's rights in Development NGO's came together to discuss sex worker rights with the aim of creating spaces and opportunities for sex workers to be at the forefront of the development Agenda. The WNU was sponsored, supported and received training from the WAC activist, both local and international staff.
See also
Prostitution in Cambodia
References
External links
WNU's website
Women's organizations based in Cambodia
Sex worker organizations
Prostitution in Cambodia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Taiwan%20Sport%20University
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National Taiwan Sport University
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The National Taiwan Sport University (NTSU; ) is a public university specialized in sports in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
NTSU offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, including bachelor's and master's degrees in fields such as sports science, physical education, leisure and recreation management, sports coaching, athletic training, and sports medicine. The university also offers doctoral programs in sports science and physical education.
History
NTSU was originally established as National College of Physical Education and Sports on 1 July 1987. On 1 February 2008, the college was renamed to National Taiwan Sport University.
Academics
NTSU has four colleges:
Notable alumni
Chen Kuei-ru, athlete
Transportation
The university is accessible within walking distance south of National Taiwan Sport University Station of Taoyuan Metro.
See also
NTSU Arena
List of universities in Taiwan
References
External links
1987 establishments in Taiwan
Educational institutions established in 1987
Sports universities and colleges
Universities and colleges in Taoyuan City
Universities and colleges in Taiwan
Technical universities and colleges in Taiwan
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One Warm Word
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One Warm Word () is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Han Hye-jin, Ji Jin-hee, Kim Ji-soo, and Lee Sang-woo. It aired on SBS from 2 December 2013 to 24 February 2014 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Plot
The drama explores the reality and complexities of married life. Eun-jin and Jae-hak, who are married to other people, find themselves attracted to each other. Their marriages become in danger of unraveling, as their affair disrupts the lives of family and friends around them.
Cast
Main characters
Han Hye-jin as Na Eun-jin
Ji Jin-hee as Yoo Jae-hak
Kim Ji-soo as Song Mi-kyung
Lee Sang-woo as Kim Sung-soo
Supporting characters
Eun-jin and Sung-soo's family
Yoon Joo-sang as Na Dae-ho, Eun-jin's father
Go Doo-shim as Kim Na-ra, Eun-jin's mother
Yoon Jong-hwa as Na Jin-chul, Eun-jin's younger brother
Yoon Joo-hee as Yoon Sun-ah, Jin-chul's wife
Han Groo as Na Eun-young, Eun-jin's younger sister
Lee Chae-mi as Kim Yoon-jung, Sung-soo and Eun-jin's daughter
Yang Ohn-yoo as Na Hoon, Jin-chul and Sun-ah's son
Jae-hak and Mi-kyung's family
Park Jung-soo as Mrs. Choo, Jae-hak's mother
Park Seo-joon as Song Min-soo, Mi-kyung's half brother
Kim Dae-sung as Yoo Hye-hwang, Jae-hak and Mi-kyung's eldest son
Jeon Jin-seo as Yoo Hye-joon, Jae-hak and Mi-kyung's second son
Extended cast
Choi Hwa-jung as Choi Anna, cooking class instructor
Son Hwa-ryung as Ji-hye, cooking class student/Eun-jin's friend
Kim Hye-na as Young-kyung, cooking class student/Eun-jin's senior
Ratings
In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
One Warm Word official SBS website
2013 South Korean television series debuts
2014 South Korean television series endings
Seoul Broadcasting System television dramas
Korean-language television shows
South Korean romance television series
Television series by HB Entertainment
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Chytridiaceae
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The Chytridiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Chytridiales. The family contains 33 genera and 238 species according to a 2008 estimate.
Genera
Chytridium
Cylindrochytrium
Dangeardia
Dangeardiana
Dendrochytridium
Irineochytrium
Loborhiza
Macrochytrium
Nowakowskia
Phlyctochytrium
Physorhizophidium
Polyphagus
Polyphlyctis
Pseudopileum
Rhopalophlyctis
Saccomyces
Scherffeliomyces
Scherffeliomycopsis
Septosperma
Solutoparies
Sparrowia
Sporophlyctidium
Sporophlyctis
Dinochytrium
Zygorhizidium
References
Chytridiomycota
Fungus families
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnay
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Donnay
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Donnay Sports is a sports equipment brand currently owned by Frasers Group. The company was founded in 1910 by Emile Donnay and was based in Couvin, Belgium. Donnay manufactured wooden tennis rackets from 1934, and by the 1970s was the largest manufacturer of tennis rackets in the world. However, the company failed to adapt to the new market for graphite rackets, and entered administration in 1988. After a succession of owners, the brand was eventually sold to Sports Direct International, who continue to license the use of the brand worldwide.
Nowadays Donnay commercialises tennis rackets, strings and bags. Donnay rackets were used professionally in Europe by Björn Borg from 1975 until his retirement in 1983. Other professionals included Andre Agassi, Rod Laver and Greg Rusedski.
History
The company was founded in 1910 by Emile Donnay (1885–1972) as a wooden tool handle manufacturing co-operative with six employees. Emile Donnay had little education and a modest background. The company began to diversify into other wooden products, including a bow for archers, which continues to be reflected in the Donnay bow-shaped logo. In 1924 Donnay built premises in Couvin.
The company manufactured its first tennis rackets in 1934. In the early 1950s the company won a valuable contract to produce tennis rackets for Wilson.
By 1969 Donnay was the world's largest manufacturer of tennis rackets. By the early 1970s, Donnay was producing 2 million rackets a year, 1.3 million of which were shipped to Wilson for distribution. Production suffered in 1973, when Wilson relocated its tennis racket production to Taiwan.
In 1981 Donnay produced 1.8 million rackets, almost all made from ash. The company failed to adapt to the changing market for the new lightweight graphite rackets. The company produced only 3,000 graphite rackets in 1980, instead concentrating on wood and aluminium rackets. The company continued to manufacture wooden rackets until 1984, by which time they were obsolete.
Buoyed by the success of signing up Björn Borg as a Donnay user, the company employed 600 people and manufactured around 1.5 million tennis rackets a year. In 1981 Donnay reported a turnover of 2.1 billion Belgian francs. Donnay's fortunes began to fade when Borg retired in 1983. Its success had been too closely aligned with Borg's success, and the company lost money for four years before entering administration in 1988 after amassing debts of $35 million. The company had apparently lacked the negotiation skills to attract another player of Borg's standing as a figurehead.
The Donnay family still controlled 55 percent of the company when it went bankrupt in 1988. The Walloon and Belgian governments held the remaining shares. The company was acquired by a group of investors, led by Bernard Tapie with a 51 percent stake, the Walloon government with 29 percent and Albert Frère with 20 percent. In 1991 Tapie sold his 58 percent stake in the company to the Walloon government for $16.2 million in order to finance the acquisition of Adidas shares. The government sold the factory to an Italian sports equipment manufacturer, Carbon Valley, and retained the brand rights. In December 1992 the Walloon government took ownership of the company in order to prevent it from entering administration again.
In 1996, Sports Direct International acquired the worldwide rights to the Donnay brand from the Walloon government for $3.9 million. At the time of the acquisition, production was based in Portugal, while 23 people remained employed at a distribution centre in Couvin. SportsDirect sells Donnay products as an in house brand and licences its production of Donnay branded products overseas. SportsDirect also separately licenses the brand to independent manufacturers and sellers of Donnay branded products, including tennis racquet production in the United States.
Sponsorships
Initially, Donnay sponsored Belgian tennis players, and due to the amateur nature of the sport at the time, was only allowed to provide rackets and balls, and a small fee. Its first foreign sponsorship was with the French tennis player Yvon Petra. Rod Laver, Margaret Court and Cliff Drysdale all played with Donnay rackets.
Donnay sponsored Björn Borg from 1975 to 1983, providing his racket. When Borg renewed the contract in 1979, it was worth $600,000 a year, plus royalties from Borg branded Donnay rackets.
Andre Agassi was signed to the Donnay brand between 1989 and 1992 for around $1 million a year. Henri Leconte and Greg Rusedski also used Donnay rackets.
Further reading
Michel Guilluy and Louis Maraite: Donnay, la légende d'une marque de tennis 1910 - 2013 (2013)
References
External links
Sporting goods brands
Belgian brands
Sporting goods manufacturers of Belgium
Manufacturing companies established in 1910
Tennis equipment manufacturers
Sportswear brands
1910 establishments in Belgium
Sports Direct
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Stuart Graham (disambiguation)
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Stuart Graham may refer to
Stuart Graham (born 1942), British motorcycle Grand Prix racer
Stuart Clarence Graham, Australian Army officer
Stuart Graham (actor) (born 1967), British actor
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Reyes del Show () is the season three of the 2013 edition of El Gran Show premiered on November 9, 2013.
This season the 11 golden palette returned. In addition, there was a change in the mechanics of elimination: two couples were sentenced and during the same gala the duel was held, the public had 10 minutes to vote, the less voted party was eliminated. There was also a change in the danceathon, being of immediate elimination, until there is only one winning couple.
On December 21, 2013, actress Carolina Cano and Eduardo Pastrana were crowned champions, model & reality TV star Gino Pesaressi and Jacqueline Alfaro finished second, while actress & model Emilia Drago and Sergio Lois finished third.
Cast
Couples
The participating couples of this season were made up of the first three places of the first and second season, being the season with the fewest couples so far. Arturo Chumbe and César "Chechi" Yáñez returned as coaches.
Previous seasons
Host and judges
Gisela Valcárcel, Aldo Díaz, Paco Bazán and Gachi Rivero returned as hosts, while Morella Petrozzi, Carlos Cacho, Phillip Butters, Pachi Valle Riestra and the VIP Jury returned as judges.
Scoring charts
Green numbers indicate the best steps for each week
the couple was sentenced and eliminated that week
the couple was sentenced and saved that week
the couple was sentenced and eliminated that week, but saved with a lifeguard
the winning couple
the runner-up couple
the third-place couple
Average score chart
This table only counts dances scored on a 40-point scale.
Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 40-point scale are as follows:
Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances
Scores are based upon a potential 40-point maximum.
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Morella Petrozzi, Carlos Cacho, Phillip Butters, Pachi Valle Riestra, VIP Jury.
Week 1: First Dances
The couples danced hip-hop, merengue or salsa, a team dance and the danceathon. In the duel, the elimination was canceled because the production only used it as a demonstration method.
Running order
Week 2: The Pop Stars
The couples danced pop and the danceathon. In the versus, the couples faced dancing different dance styles.
Due to an injury, Lindathay Valero was unable to perform, so Víctor Hugo Dávila danced with troupe member Julliana Villacorta instead.
Running order
Week 3: Salsa & Freestyle Night
The couples danced salsa, a freestyle performed in a rotating room and the danceathon.
Running order
Week 4: Reggaeton & Cumbia Night
The couples danced reggaeton and cumbia.
Running order
Week 5: Quarterfinals
The couples danced pachanga and trio strip dance involving another celebrity. In the little train, the participants faced dancing jazz.
Running order
Week 6: Semifinals
The couples danced salsa and trio tex-mex involving another celebrity. In the versus, the couples faced dancing different dance styles.
Running order
Week 7: Finals
On the first part, the couples danced cumbia and a mix trio dance (mambo/merengue/quebradita) involving another celebrity.
On the second part, the final three couples performed one unlearned dance.
Running order (Part 1)
Running order (Part 2)
Dance chart
The celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week:
Week 1: Hip-hop, merengue or salsa, team dances & the danceathon (First Dances)
Week 2: Pop, the danceathon & the versus (The Pop Stars)
Week 3: Salsa, freestyle & the danceathon (Salsa & Freestyle Night)
Week 4: Reggaeton & cumbia (Reggaeton & Cumbia Night)
Week 5: Pachanga, strip dance & the little train (Quarterfinals)
Week 6: Salsa, tex-mex & the versus (Semifinals)
Week 7: Cumbia, mix (mambo/merengue/quebradita) & one unlearned dance (Finals)
Highest scoring dance
Lowest scoring dance
Gained bonus points for winning this dance
Gained no bonus points for losing this dance
Notes
References
External links
El Gran Show
2013 Peruvian television seasons
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Thomas N. Heffron
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Thomas N. Heffron (June 13, 1872 – May 24, 1951) was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada, He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanhousr in 1911, eventually landing him a role with Paramount Pictures a few years later. He left the movie industry in 1922, making all his movies in the silent era.
Heffron directed films for Famous Players studio.
He died in 1951 at the age of 79 in San Francisco, California.
Partial filmography
The Brute (1914)
The Only Son (1914)
The Scales of Justice (1914)
The Man from Mexico (1914)
Aristocracy (1914)
Mrs. Black Is Back (1914)
The Million (1914)
Gretna Green (1915)
The House of a Thousand Candles (1915)
Are You a Mason? (1915)
The Planter (1917)
Mountain Dew (1917)
The Stainless Barrier (1917)
Tony America (1918)
A Man's Fight (1919)
Thou Art the Man (1920)
The City of Masks (1920)
The Little Clown (1921)
Her Sturdy Oak (1921)
A Kiss in Time (1921)
Sham (1921)
Her Face Value (1921)
The Love Charm (1921)
The Truant Husband (1921)
Bobbed Hair (1922)
Too Much Wife (1922)
The Truthful Liar (1922)
A Wife's Romance (1923)
References
External links
1872 births
American male silent film actors
American male screenwriters
1951 deaths
20th-century American male actors
Male actors from Nevada
Film directors from Nevada
People from Virginia City, Nevada
Screenwriters from Nevada
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycheilinus
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Oxycheilinus
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Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:
Oxycheilinus arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Speckled maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Two-spot maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker, 1853) (Celebes maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacépède, 1801) (Cheek-lined maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus lineatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003
Oxycheilinus mentalis (Rüppell, 1828) (Mental maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003 (Black-margin maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther, 1862) (Oriental maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus samurai Y. Fukui, Muto & Motomura, 2016
Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877) (Ringtail maori wrasse)
References
Labridae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
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Nordal Church
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Nordal Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the small village of Norddalsfjord, and it serves the northeastern part of the municipality. It is the church for the Nordal parish which is part of the Sunnfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1898 using plans drawn up by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 200 people.
History
The people of Norddalsfjorden had belonged to the parish of Bru for a long time, which meant they had an extremely long and strenuous way to get to church which was located on the island of Svanøya. From the upper parts of the Grøndalen valley down to the fjord it was a distance of which included crossing five lakes by boat. From the fjord to Bru Church, it was another across the sea, which took about four hours by row boat (if the weather was fine). They had to go all the way to the Svanøy Church, not only for ordinary worship services, but also for baptism ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.
A new cemetery was consecrated in the Norddalsfjorden area on 17 November 1869. This helped the local residents, but not long after this, they began to desire their own church. In 1887, the local residents formally requested their own church, and two years after that, the decision was made to get started on the project. Fundraising began in 1889. The people in the valley had raised , and the same sum was allocated by the Norwegian Parliament and the municipality of Kinn. The "Kinn Sparebank" (savings bank) also donated , so the total sum raised was which was enough to cover the construction costs. The building was constructed in 1898 by the builder Anders Korsvold. The new church was consecrated on 14 September 1898 by the local Dean Andreas D. Jespersen.
At first, the parish vicar was somewhat reluctant to have a new church building because this implied that he would have to travel more frequently. Furthermore, when the church was completed, he tried to confine the services to the summer months, but the parish council objected. In the first years, services were held five times a year, preferably in the winter. Nowadays services are held fourteen times a year. Electric heating was installed in the building in 1964, but it was not until 1994 that electric lighting was installed in the building. On 1 January 1998, the church was separated from Bru and formed its own parish within the municipality.
Media gallery
See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin
References
Kinn
Churches in Vestland
Long churches in Norway
Wooden churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1898
1898 establishments in Norway
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Cladochytriaceae
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The Cladochytriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cladochytriales.
Taxonomy
According to a 2008 estimate, the family contained 10 genera and 38 species. However, the 2022 taxonomy of fungi places only one genus, Cladochytrium, making the family monotypic.
Regarding the genera previously included, Amoebochytrium and Septochytrium were moved into their separate families, Saccopodium was moved into its separate order, and Megachytrium remains uncertain within the class Chytridiomycetes.
References
External links
Chytridiomycota
Fungus families
Taxa named by Joseph Schröter
Taxa described in 1892
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajyalakshmi
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Rajyalakshmi Chandu, better known by her stage name Sankarabharanam Rajyalakshmi (born 18 December 1964) is an Indian actress. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She was well noted for her performance in the Telugu movie Sankarabharanam in which she starred as the female lead alongside Chandra Mohan at the age of fifteen. Since her success from Sankarabharanam, Rajyalakshmi has acted as a heroine with many prominent actors from all corners of the Indian film industry including N. T. Rama Rao, Nageswara Rao, Rajinikanth, Balakrishna, Shankar, Mohanlal, Dilip, Jeetendra, Mammooty and Vishnuvardhan. Currently she is acting in Telugu and Tamil television shows with guest appearances in movies.
Family and personal life
Rajyalakshmi was born in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh on 18 December 1964. As a child she acted in small plays with her mother as part of an acting troupe where she was eventually discovered. In 1980 she was cast to play "Sarada" in Sankarabharanam to which she received critical acclaim.
She was married in the year 1990 to K. R. Krishnan and they have two children, Rohit Krishnan and Rahul Krishnan. She now resides in Chennai with her family.
Filmography
Tamil
Sujatha (1980)
Kodeeswaran Magal (1981)
Moondru Mugam (1982)
Adhisayappiravigal (1982)
Archanai Pookal (1982)
Garuda Saukiyama (1982)
Nalanthana (1982)
Bhagavathipuram Railway Gate (1983)
Imaigal (1983)
Kai Kodukkum Kai (1984)
Nanayam Illatha Nanayam (1984)
Sanga Natham (1984)
Then Koodu (1984)
Kadivalam (1985)
Perumai (1985)
Puthiya Theerpu (1985)
Meendum Pallavi (1986)
Manithanin Marupakkam (1986)
Anandha Kanneer (1986)
Thaaiku Oru Thaalaattu (1986)
Pookkal Vidum Thudhu (1987)
Poovizhi Vasalile (1987)
Shankar Guru (1987)
Soora Samhaaram (1988)
Kaadhal Geetham (1988)
Kai Veesamma Kai Veesu (1989)
Dravidan (1989)
En Arumai Manaivi (1989)
Nyayangal Jeyikkattum (1990)
Pudhu Padagan (1990)
Thalattu Padava (1990)
Parasuram (2003)
Dreams (2004) 2003
Priyasakhi (2005)
Thirupaachi (2005)
Varalaru (2006)
Em Magan (2006)
Thirupathi (2006)
Mudhal Kanave (2007)
Sadhu Miranda (2008)
Dhanam (2008)
Yaaradi Nee Mohini (2008)
Pirivom Santhippom (2008)
Kutty (2010)
Uthamaputhiran (2010)
Ariyaan (2012)
Saivam (2014)
Kaala Koothu (2018)
Iruvar Ullam (2021)
Malayalam
Shylock (2020) as Chinnamma
Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath (2013) as Kammath's mother
Puthumukhangal (2010) as Subhadra
Chess (2006) as Vijayakrishnan's mother
Police Diary (1992)
Superstar (1990) as Kanchana
Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989) as Kuttimani
Kaalalppada (1989) as Mercy Raveendranath
Ithente Neethi (1987)
Amrutham Gamaya (1987) as Sarada
Aayiram Kannukal (1986) as Suzy
Ilanjippookkal (1986)
Vannu Kandu Keezhadakki (1985) as Sridevi
Ivide Thudangunnu (1984) as Indu
Ankam (1983) as Treasa
Kodunkaattu (1983) as Jameela
Ahankaaram (1983) as Radhika
Pooviriyum Pulari (1982) as Nandhini
Ahimsa (1982)
Aakrosham (1982) as Nirmala
Aarambham (1982) as Rasiya
Thrishna (1981) as Sreedevi
Telugu
Sankarabharanam (1980) (Won National Award for Best Actress in Telugu)
Pelli Gola (1980) as Saroja
Rowdy Ramudu Konte Krishnudu (1980)
Ammayi Mogudu Mamaku Yamudu (1980)
Jagamondi (1981) as Lakshmi
Gopala Krishnudu (1982)
Trishulam (1982)
Justice Chowdary (1982) as Lata
Nelavanka (1983)
Abhilasha (1983)
Neti Bharatam (1983)
Adavallu Aligithe (1983)
Rustum (1984)
Janani Janmabhoomi (1984)
Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra (1984)
Rojulu Marayi (1984)
Ee Charitra Inkennallu (1984) as Uma
Pachani Kapuram (1985) as Jyothi
Donga (1985)
O Thandri Theerpu (1985)
Driver Babu (1986) as Chandini
Vikram (1986) as Seetha
Ashtalakshmi Vaibhavamu (1986)
Vijrumbhana (1986) as Dr. Geetha Anand
Jayam Manade (1986) as Jyothi
Aakrandana (1986)
Poojaku Panikiraani Puvvu (1986)
Dharmapeetam Daddarillindi (1986)
Chanakya Shapatham (1986)
Kashmora (1986) as Poornima
Pasivadi Pranam (1987)
Jaganmatha (1987)
Madana Gopaludu (1987)
Dharmapatni (1987)
Aadadhe Aadharam (1987)
President Gari Abbai (1987) as Satyavathi
Jhansi Rani (1988)
Bharya Bharthalu (1988)
Vivaha Bhojanambu (1988)
Chinababu (1988)
Nyayaniki Siksha (1988)
Abhinandana (1988)
Thodallullu (1988)
Neerajanam (1988)
August 15 Raatri (1988)
Samsaram (1988)
Agni Keratalu (1988) as Kavitha
Kaliyuga Karnudu (1988) as Seetha
Paila Pacheesu (1989)
Aakhari Kshanam (1989)
Yamapasam (1989)
Police Report (1989)
Idem Pellam Baboi (1990)
Inspector Rudra (1990)
Chevilo Puvvu (1990)
Police Bharya (1990)
Raktha Jwala (1990)
Bhargav (1990)
Kalachakram (1993)
Anji (2004)
Swarabhishekam (2004)
Malliswari (2004)
Athanokkade (2005)
Premikulu (2005)
Maa Iddari Madhya (2006)
Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule (2007)
Adhurs (2010)
Parama Veera Chakra (2011)
Nuvvekkadunte Nenakkadunta (2012)
Naruda Donoruda (2016)
Prati Roju Pandage(2020)
Naandhi (2021)
Kannada
Koodi Baalidare Swarga Sukha (1979)
Muniyana Madari (1981)
Sahasa Simha (1982)
Indina Bharatha (1984)
Thayi Thande (1985)
Usha (1986)
Manavararu (1987)
Television series
References
External links
Rajalakshmi at MSI
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Living people
1964 births
People from Tenali
Actresses from Andhra Pradesh
Indian television actresses
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Telugu television
Actresses in Tamil television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky%20Boots%20%28Broadway%20cast%20album%29
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Kinky Boots (Broadway cast album)
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A Broadway original cast album for the musical Kinky Boots was released on May 28, 2013, less than two months after the show opened on Broadway. It was produced by Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs, Stephen Oremus, the orchestrator and conductor, and William Wittman. On release it premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart, making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormons album was released two years earlier. Vocalists on the album include Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford, .
Before the album's release and the show's Chicago tryout beginning in October 2012, the song "Sex Is in the Heel" became the first Broadway song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard club charts in 25 years. "Land of Lola" was released as a dance remix by Wayne G. & LFB in June 2013.
Reception
The album received a favorable review in Playbill from Steven Suskin and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
References
External links
Cast recordings
2013 soundtrack albums
Cyndi Lauper
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endochytriaceae
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Endochytriaceae
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The Endochytriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cladochytridiales. The family contains 10 genera and 56 species according to a 2008 estimate. It was circumscribed by mycologist Donald J.S. Barr in 1980.
References
External links
Chytridiomycota
Fungus families
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenshaw%20Site
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Crenshaw Site
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The Crenshaw site (3MI6) is a multiple-mound Caddo ceremonial center located in the Great Bend Region of the Red River in Miller County, Arkansas. It is known for the presence of both "pre-Caddo" or Fourche Maline materials and later Caddo materials. It also has some characteristics that separate it from many other sites including a causeway between two of the mounds, a pile with over 2,000 deer antler, and deposits of human skulls and detached mandibles representing over 300 individuals.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Miller County, Arkansas
References
Miller County, Arkansas
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Miller County, Arkansas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Kang-baek
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Lee Kang-baek
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Lee Kang-Baek (born December 1, 1947) is a South Korean playwright.
Life
Lee Kang-Baek was born on December 1, 1947 in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea Lee recounts that as a youth he was shocked to discover from French nouveaux romans and Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot that literary works could have unclear plotlines and circular plot structures. His early love for such works highly influenced his own literary productions.
Work
Lee has published roughly thirty dramas, all in the anti-realist style. Lee writes dramas almost exclusively, and most of his work has been staged. This attests to the playwright’s professionalism and dedication to his craft.
Most of Lee’s dramas are fables/allegories. The playwright is superbly talented in employing allegory to critically address social and political problems. While his works are anti-realistic in style, they clearly resonate with social realities. His works occupy a very special place in the Korean dramatic milieu which has generally set a high value on realism.
Many of his early plays use allegory to depict hapless individuals weighed down by the brutal authority of the then-military government, whose regime solidified its power by instilling fear of a North Korean attack into the citizens. As state oppression reached a peak in the late 1970s, Lee used "silent plays," dramas without words, to reflect the social and political climate of the time.
From the 1980s, Lee’s plays allegorized social conflicts between the "haves" and the "have nots," or criticized the social leadership’s remorseless greed. Lee’s more recent plays concern themselves less with external social phenomena than exposing the philosophical agony of human life, often explored by contrasting extremely serious characters with extremely easygoing ones.
Works in Translation
Allegory of survival : the theater of Lee Kang-Baek (이강백 희곡선)
Works in Korean (Partial)
The Watchman (Pasuggun) (1973)
The Doghorn (Gaebbul) (1979)
One Spring Day (Bomnal) (1984)
Head of the Blowfish (Bugeo daegari) (1993)
Diary of a Trip to Yeongweol (Yeongweol haeng ilgi) (1995)
A Feeling Like Nirvana (Neuggim, geugnak gat’eun) staged under the direction by Lee Yun-taek (1998)
Oh God! (O, mapsosa) (2000)
References
1947 births
Korean writers
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20%282013%20film%29
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Control (2013 film)
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Control () is a 2013 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Kenneth Bi and starring Daniel Wu, Yao Chen, Simon Yam, Leon Dai, Ady An and Shao Bing.
Cast
Daniel Wu as Mark
Yao Chen as Jessica
Simon Yam as Tiger
Leon Dai as Devil
Ady An as Mimi
Shao Bing as Sam
References
External links
Hong Kong crime thriller films
2013 films
Films directed by Kenneth Bi
Chinese crime thriller films
Chinese science fiction thriller films
2010s crime thriller films
2010s science fiction thriller films
2010s Hong Kong films
2010s Mandarin-language films
Hong Kong science fiction films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20at%20the%202005%20West%20Asian%20Games
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Bowling at the 2005 West Asian Games
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Bowling took place for the men's and women's individual, doubles, trios, and team events at the 2005 West Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 4 to December 9. All events were held at the Qatar Bowling Center.
Medalists
Men
Women
Medal table
References
Results at ABF Website
External links
Bowling Digital
2005 West Asian Games
West Asian Games
2005 West Asian Games
2005 West Asian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20MNC%20Cup
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2013 MNC Cup
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The 2013 MNC Cup was held from 21 November to 24 November 2013, hosted by Indonesia. This tournament is intended for players under the age of 23 years (maximum birth 1 January 1990), but each team can register three players aged over 23 years.
Participating teams
Source:
Venues
Table and results
All times are West Indonesian Time (WIB) – UTC+7.
Winner
Goalscorers
2 goals
Andik Vermansyah
Dendi Santoso
Yandi Sofyan
Khonesavanh Sihavong
Ali Fasir
1 goal
Alfin Tuasalamony
Bayu Gatra
Ramdani Lestaluhu
Roni Beroperay
Phouthone Innalay
Phoutthasay Khochalern
Vilayuth Sayyabounsou
Akram Abdul Ghanee
Ronald Conn
References
2013
2013 in Indonesian football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%20Pettyjohn
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Jade Pettyjohn
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Jade Pettyjohn (born November 8, 2000) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as McKenna Brooks in An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars, as Summer on the Nickelodeon television series School of Rock, as Lexie Richardson on the Hulu drama television miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, and as Grace Sullivan on the ABC series Big Sky.
Life and career
Pettyjohn was born in Los Angeles, California. Prior to her film and television career, she performed alongside a local children's song and dance troupe from the age of seven. Pettyjohn has also played various roles in several television series, such as in Revolution, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Grimm, The United States Of Tara, The Mentalist, and Pure Genius. She co-starred in the Nickelodeon Original Movie Rufus 2 which aired in January 2017.
In September 2017, Pettyjohn was cast as Laura Dern's daughter in the movie Trial by Fire. Additionally, she was added to the cast of the crime thriller film Destroyer, and appeared in the film Against All Enemies. In late 2018, Pettyjohn was cast in Deadwood: The Movie, playing the role of Caroline, a newcomer to the town of Deadwood. In 2019 she was cast in the Hulu television series Little Fires Everywhere playing Lexie Richardson, the daughter of Reese Witherspoon's character. In June 2020, it was announced that Pettyjohn had been cast in the ABC television drama series Big Sky, playing Grace Sullivan who is kidnapped along with her older sister Danielle (Natalie Alyn Lind).
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
World of Final Fantasy (2016), as Girl Who Forgot Her Name
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
American child actresses
American television actresses
American film actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
21st-century American actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northside%20Rollers
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Northside Rollers
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The Northside Rollers (NSR), sometimes known as the Melbourne Northside Rollers, is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2010, the league consists of two home teams, plus two travel teams which compete against teams from other leagues.
The league originated in May 2010 as a social skating group, its members officially forming the "Northside Rollers" in November. By April 2011, it had sixteen full members, and it played its first bout later in the year, against LaTrobe City Roller Derby. By mid-2013, it had grown further, to encompass a total of four teams.
In October 2013, Northside was accepted as a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Programme, and graduated to full membership in December 2014.
In November 2013, Northside's A Team, the Death Stars, placed fourth in the VIC/TAS tournament.
References
Roller derby leagues in Australia
Roller derby leagues established in 2010
Sport in the City of Darebin
Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Central%20Oklahoma%20Bronchos%20football%20team
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2010 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team
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The 2010 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team represented the University of Central Oklahoma in the 2010 NCAA Division II football season, the 105th season of Broncho football. The team was led by fourth year head coach Tracy Holland. They played their home games at Wantland Stadium in Edmond, Oklahoma. The Bronchos were playing this season in their final year of membership in the Lone Star Conference, because they were changing conference affiliation to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
The season began play began with loss to Pittsburg State at home on August 28, and ended with loss on the road to Angelo State on November 13. The Bronchos finished the season 2–9, with a conference record of 2–8 in conference play and 1–5 in the Lone Star North Division. The Lone Star Conference had a separate format for choosing conference champions and division champions.
Schedule
References
Central Oklahoma
Central Oklahoma Bronchos football seasons
Central Oklahoma Bronchos football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
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OpenWorm
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OpenWorm is an international open science project for the purpose of simulating the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans at the cellular level. Although the long-term goal is to model all 959 cells of the C. elegans, the first stage is to model the worm's locomotion by simulating the 302 neurons and 95 muscle cells. This bottom up simulation is being pursued by the OpenWorm community.
As of 2014, a physics engine called Sibernetic has been built for the project and models of the neural connectome and a muscle cell have been created in NeuroML format. A 3D model of the worm anatomy can be accessed through the web via the OpenWorm browser. The OpenWorm project is also contributing to develop Geppetto, a web-based multi-algorithm, multi-scale simulation platform engineered to support the simulation of the whole organism.
Background: C. elegans
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living, transparent nematode, about 1 mm in length, that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus.
C. elegans has one of the simplest nervous systems of any organism—its hermaphrodite type possesses only 302 neurons. Furthermore, the structural connectome of these neurons is fully worked out. There are fewer than one thousand cells in the whole body of a C. elegans worm, and because C. elegans is a model organism, each has a unique identifier and comprehensive supporting literature. Being a model organism, the genome is fully known, along with many well characterized mutants readily available, and a comprehensive literature of behavioural studies. With so few neurons and new 2-photon calcium microscopy techniques, it should soon be possible to record the complete neural activity of a living organism. The manipulation of neurons via optogenetic methods, in tandem with the foregoing technical capacities, has provided the project an unprecedented position—now able to fully characterize the neural dynamics of an entire organism.
The efforts to build an in silico model of C. elegans, although a relatively simple organism, have burgeoned the development of technologies that will make it easier to model progressively more complex organisms.
OpenWorm project
While the ultimate goal is to simulate all features of C. elegans''' behaviour, the OpenWorm community initially aimed to simulate a simple motor response: teaching the worm to crawl. To do so, the virtual worm is placed in a virtual environment. A full feedback loop is subsequently established: Environmental Stimulus > Sensory Transduction > Interneuron Firing > Motor Neuron Firing > Motor Output > Environmental Change > Sensory Transduction.
There are two main technical challenges here: modelling the neural/electrical properties of the brain as it processes the information, and modelling the mechanical properties of the body as it moves. The neural properties are being modeled by a Hodgkin-Huxley model, and the mechanical properties are being modeled by a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics algorithm.
The OpenWorm team built an engine called Geppetto which could integrate these algorithms and due to its modularity will be able to model other biological systems (like digestion) which the team will tackle at a later time.
The team also built an environment called NeuroConstruct which is able to output neural structures in NeuroML. Using NeuroConstruct the team reconstructed the full connectome of C. elegans.
Using NeuroML the team has also built a model of a muscle cell. Note that these models currently only model the relevant properties for the simple motor response: the neural/electrical and the mechanical properties discussed above.
The next step is to connect this muscle cell to the six neurons which synapse on it and approximate their effect.
The rough plan is to then both:
Approximate the synapses which synapse on those neurons
Repeat the process for other muscle cells
Progress
, the project is still awaiting peer review, and researchers involved in the project are reluctant to make bold claims about its current resemblance to biological behavior; project coordinator Stephen Larson estimates that they are "only 20 to 30 percent of the way towards where we need to get".
, a whole brain emulation has not yet been achieved.
Related projects
In 1998 Japanese researchers announced the Perfect C. elegans Project. A proposal was submitted, but the project appears to have been abandoned.
In 2004 a group from Hiroshima began the Virtual C. elegans Project. They released two papers which showed how their simulation would retract from virtual prodding.
In 2005 a Texas researcher described a simplified C. elegans'' simulator based on a 1-wire network incorporating a digital Parallax Basic Stamp processor, sensory inputs and motor outputs. Inputs employed 16-bit A/D converters attached to operational amplifier simulated neurons and a 1-wire temperature sensor. Motor outputs were controlled by 256-position digital potentiometers and 8-bit digital ports. Artificial muscle action was based on Nitinol actuators. It used a "sense-process-react" operating loop which recreated several instinctual behaviors.
These early attempts of simulation have been criticized for not being biologically realistic. Although we have the complete structural connectome, we do not know the synaptic weights at each of the known synapses. We do not even know whether the synapses are inhibitory or excitatory. To compensate for this the Hiroshima group used machine learning to find some weights of the synapses which would generate the desired behaviour. It is therefore no surprise that the model displayed the behaviour, and it may not represent true understanding of the system.
Open science
The OpenWorm community is committed to the ideals of open science. Generally this means that the team will try to publish in open access journals and include all data gathered (to avoid the file drawer problem). Indeed, all the biological data the team has gathered is publicly available, and the five publications the group has made so far are available for free on their website. All the software that OpenWorm has produced is completely free and open source.
OpenWorm is also trying a radically open model of scientific collaboration. The team consists of anyone who wishes to be a part of it. There are over one hundred "members" who are signed up for the high volume technical mailing list. Of the most active members who are named on a publication there are collaborators from Russia, Brazil, England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States. To coordinate this international effort, the team uses "virtual lab meetings" and other online tools that are detailed in the resources section.
References
External links
Homepage: OpenWorm
OpenWorm community
Milestones.
Sibernetic
Geppetto
Artificial life
Free biosimulation software
Open science
Software using the MIT license
Neuroinformatics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvPL
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AdvPL
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AdvPL (Advanced Protheus Language) is a proprietary programming language based on xBase. It was released in 1999 and is used for development of applications in the ERP Protheus made by TOTVS.
References
XBase programming language family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20and%20Glory%3A%20The%20Road%20to%20El%20Dorado
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Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado
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Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado is an adventure video game developed by Revolution Software. An adaptation of the film The Road to El Dorado, it was released on Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation.
Gameplay
Gold and Glory is a graphic adventure game that takes place from a third-person perspective.
Plot
The game's plot deviates from that of the film, but follows the same general outline.
Development
Revolution Software developed Gold and Glory on a modified version of the game engine from In Cold Blood. It experienced a rapid development cycle. Revolution described the game as "classically adventure orientated and aimed at a very broad market".
The PlayStation and Microsoft Windows version of the game is drastically different to the Game Boy Color version. The main difference between the two games is that the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows version is a 3D adventure game, while the Game Boy Color version is a more traditional 2D side-scrolling platformer.
Versions of the game were intended to be released for the PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast, but were eventually cancelled.
Reception
The PlayStation version received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Game Boy Color port
The Game Boy Color edition of the game was released in June 2000, and is an 8-bit, 2D, side-scrolling platformer. The player takes control of either Tulio or Miguel, exploring a multitude of different levels such as a Spanish town, ships, jungles, caves or the city of El Dorado. The main objective in the first portion of the game is to find nine separate map pieces that will eventually lead to the lost city of El Dorado. Throughout each level, there are many bags, coins, and pots that can be collected to increase score, increase lives, or replenish the "ammunition" count of the player. While traversing the different levels you must fight off animals, plants, human enemies, or evade natural dangers. Every three levels is followed by a boss fight or challenge, the completion of which awards the player with a 6 character password key that can be entered in at the title screen to return to the same point of progress in the game. After defeating the final boss, Cortés, the game is complete.
References
External links
2000 video games
Adventure games
Cancelled Dreamcast games
Cancelled PlayStation 2 games
Cultural depictions of Hernán Cortés
Mesoamerica in fiction
Planet Interactive Development games
PlayStation (console) games
Single-player video games
Ubisoft games
Video games based on animated films
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Mexico
Video games set in Spain
Video games set in the 16th century
Windows games
Revolution Software games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Auer
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Peter Auer
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Peter Auer (born 1954) is professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Auer graduated from the University of Constance in 1983. He worked at the University of Hamburg before going to Freiburg.
Auer has authored several monographs and edited numerous collections of scholarly research, including work on code-switching, contextualization, multilingualism, dialectology, and other areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. He served as the German science foundation's referee for general linguistics from 2000 to 2008.
Selected publications
References
Sociolinguists
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of the University of Hamburg
Living people
1954 births
University of Konstanz alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20Systems%20Research
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Retail Systems Research
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Retail Systems Research, or RSR is an American market intelligence company focused on the impact of technology on the retail industry.
RSR research has been mentioned by news institutions including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Public Radio, as well as in industry publications such as RetailWire, Retailers Magazine, and Chain Store Age.
RSR's partners, Nikki Baird, Paula Rosenblum, Steve Rowen, and Brian Kilcourse are considered influencers in the industry, contributing to Forbes.com and giving interviews as subject-matter experts.
Nikki Baird left the company in January 2018.
Their research is also cited in books and publications.
See also
Price intelligence
References
External links
Official Website
Predict & Impact Investing Trends
Market research companies of the United States
Business intelligence companies
Service companies to retailers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20Eastern%20Illinois%20Panthers%20men%27s%20basketball%20team
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2013–14 Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball team
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The 2013–14 Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball team represented Eastern Illinois University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by second year head coach Jay Spoonhour, played their home games at Lantz Arena and were members of the West Division of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 11–19, 7–9 in OVC play to finish in a tie for third place in the West Division. They lost in the first round of the Ohio Valley tournament to Southeast Missouri State.
Roster
Schedule
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References
Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball seasons
Eastern Illinois
Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball
Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Crisp%20English
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Ruth Crisp English
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Ruth Crisp English (31 Oct 1908-1978) was a Suffolk born British Liberal Party politician.
Background
She was the only child of Sir Thomas Crisp English and Annie Gaunt McLeod of Sudbury, Suffolk. Her father was a surgeon to Winston Churchill.
She was a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital during the 1939-45 war before going to the War Office Intelligence Department. She was one of the founders of the Heckford Society in Shadwell and Limehouse, and was a Governor of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Shadwell.
Political career
After the war she got active in the Liberal Party. She was the Hon. Secretary of the Westminster Liberal Party and an Executive Member of the London Liberal Party. On a number of occasions she tried to get elected to Westminster City Council by contesting the Grosvenor Ward, without success. In 1949 she was adopted as Liberal Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Lowestoft Division of Suffolk and she contested the 1950 General Election. It was not a promising seat for the Liberals, who had not won it since 1918 and had come third at the last election in 1945. In an election where many Liberal candidates lost their deposit, she managed to avoid that embarrassment;
Aubrey Herbert
Later in life, she married County Councillor Aubrey Herbert, son of Sir Jesse Herbert, a senior figure in the Liberal Party organisation before the First World War. Aubrey had been President of the Oxford Union and had himself stood for parliament for the Liberals at Chester in 1929 (missing out on election by 162 votes) and 1931, and Sudbury and Woodbridge in 1959. They had no children.
External links
Sir Crisp English: http://virtualmuseum.sudburysuffolk.co.uk/recent-research/the-surgeon-who-saved-churchill/
References
Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Murray%20%28ice%20hockey%20player%29
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Tim Murray (ice hockey player)
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Tim Murray (born November 14, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Career
Murray attended the University of New Hampshire where he played four seasons (1993–1997) of NCAA Division I men's ice hockey with the New Hampshire Wildcats of the Hockey East conference. He was recognized for his outstanding play when in his freshman year he was named to the 1993–94 Hockey East All-Rookie Team, and in his senior year was awarded with the Roger A. Leclerc Trophy as the team's MVP and named to the NCAA East All-American Second Team.
Immediately after graduation in 1997, Murray began his professional career with the Detroit Vipers of the International Hockey League (IHL). He went on to play three years of professional hockey, retiring after the 1999–2000 season having played 78 games in the IHL, 61 games in the American Hockey League, and 40 regular season games in the British Ice Hockey Superleague with the London Knights.
Career Statistics
Regular Season and Playoffs
Awards and honours
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Adirondack Red Wings players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Detroit Vipers players
London Knights (UK) players
New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey players
Portland Pirates players
Rochester Americans players
Ice hockey people from Calgary
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzeck
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Kreuzeck
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Kreuzeck may refer to:
Kreuzeck group, a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps
Kreuzeck (Allgäu Alps), a mountain in the Allgäu Alps of Bavaria, Germany
Kreuzeck (Wetterstein), a mountain in the Wetterstein range of Bavaria, Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Speaks
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Love Speaks
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Love Speaks () is a 2013 Chinese romance film directed by Li Zhi and starring Jaycee Chan and Amber Kuo.
Cast
Jaycee Chan as Zhou Tong
Amber Kuo as Wang Leqing
Archie Kao as Shao Dong
References
External links
Chinese romance films
2013 romance films
2013 films
2010s Mandarin-language films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Minnigerode%20Beckwith
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Charles Minnigerode Beckwith
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Charles Minnigerode Beckwith (June 2, 1851 – April 18, 1928) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama from 1902 till 1928.
Early life and education
Beckwith was born on June 2, 1851, in Petersburg, Virginia, son of Thomas Stanley Beckwith and Agnes Ruffin. He was educated at the University of Georgia from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1873. He was also a member of Phi Delta Theta. After graduation, he served as assistant professor of mathematics at the University of the South between 1874 and 1876 and later served as master of Sewanee Grammar School at the University of the South from 1876 till 1879. In 1879, he enrolled at the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut and graduated in 1881. He earned a Doctor of Divinity from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1902 and a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Berkeley in 1903.
Ordained ministry
He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1881 by his uncle, Bishop John W. Beckwith of Georgia. He served as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1884 to 1886. While rector he was elected Assistant Bishop of Texas but declined the appointment. Later, in 1886, he became rector of Christ Church in Houston, Texas, and in 1892 became rector of Trinity Church in Galveston, Texas, where he remained until 1902.
Bishop
Beckwith was elected Bishop of Alabama on October 8, 1902, during a special council which took place in St John's Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was then consecrated in St Paul's Church in Selma, Alabama on December 17, 1902, by Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley of Kentucky. He died in office on April 18, 1928, in Montgomery, Alabama.
References
Works
‘’The Trinity Course of Church Instruction’’ (New York, 1898)
‘’The Teacher's Companion to the Trinity Course’’ (New York, 1901)
‘’What Is the Matter with the Church?’’ (Montgomery: Paragon Press, 1926)
External links
1851 births
1928 deaths
People from Petersburg, Virginia
Episcopal bishops of Alabama
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John Hanson Twombly
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John Hanson Twombly (July 19, 1814 – January 1, 1893) was a Methodist minister and the fourth president of the University of Wisconsin. He was known as an advocate for co-education and women's education, which led to tensions with the university regents and, ultimately, his ouster.
Early life and career
John Hanson Twombly was born on July 19, 1814, in Rochester, New Hampshire. He was mostly self-educated and worked through his youth. In 1843, he graduated from Wesleyan University and became a Methodist minister. He taught at Wesleyan University from 1843 to 1845. Twombly married Betsy Dow, the daughter of a Vermont minister, on November 26, 1844. He worked at Massachusetts churches and became an overseer at Harvard College from 1855 to 1867. He also worked as the New England Education Society secretary from 1857 to 1871, the American Institute director from 1868 to 1870, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, public schools superintendent from 1866 to 1870.
Madison
Twombly was elected to the University of Wisconsin–Madison presidency by the UW regents on June 30, 1871, for a September start. He was the university's fourth president. Samuel Fallows, UW class of 1859 and a local Reformed Episcopal Church bishop, was Twombly's main advocate. The regents thought he would raise funds for the university. He was known as a powerful speaker and advocated for co-education against the interests of the regents. The regents withheld some of his executive power due to their doubt, and eventually asked him to resign in June 1873. He refused and their case was brought to the Wisconsin Legislature, who supported Twombly along with the public and students. He never found the favor of the faculty. Twombly resigned on January 21, 1874 in response to the regents' determination. His legacy includes his advocacy for women's education.
He became a minister again, and worked in Northeast churches. He died January 1, 1893, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts.
See also
List of presidents and chancellors of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
References
Sources
External links
1814 births
1893 deaths
People from Charlestown, Boston
People from Rochester, New Hampshire
People from Madison, Wisconsin
Wesleyan University alumni
Methodist ministers
Members of the Harvard Board of Overseers
Leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Kittredge
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Kit Kittredge
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Kit Kittredge is a fictional character in the American Girl series of books, written by Valerie Tripp. Kit serves as a protagonist and central character to her story arc, set during the Great Depression. Kit's core series of books was written by Valerie Tripp and illustrated by Walter Rane.
Concept and creation
Development of the character started in 1998, while series author Valerie Tripp was working on the Josefina books. Tripp cites Cincinnati's proximity to the Ohio River, along with the city's industries, works programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, and the Cincinnati Union Terminal, as the reasons for her choice of where the Kit Kittredge stories took place. The city's association with baseball, particularly the Cincinnati Reds and player Ernie Lombardi was also incorporated into the narrative. Tripp also stated that she drew inspiration from her mother's experiences during the Great Depression, and also from her daughter's tales of affluenza, which she used to teach children the importance of being grateful for what they have and helping those in need. Coinciding with the doll's release was a food drive and a fundraising program hosted by various charitable organizations.
In 2020, former child model and redditor Caitlin Waite–who lent her likeness to the character–uploaded behind-the-scenes photos of her and a few other models in an Imgur post, also revealing that the character's original meet outfit received a last-minute revision prior to release due to a batch of straw hats that came with the doll which broke easily; the books' illustrations had to be redone to account for the change in material, forcing Waite and the others to travel back to the Pleasant Company offices at Madison, Wisconsin for a reshoot.
The 2023 re-issue of Meet Kit released to coincide with the character's 100th birthday includes a foreword from Valerie Tripp, where she reveals that the Kit Kittredge character is in large part based on her own mother who was the same age as Kit in 1932.
Character overview
Kit was born as Margaret Mildred Kittredge on May 19, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a well-to-do family, and was named after her mother and her Aunt Millie. She, however, prefers to go by a nickname given to her by her family, which was taken from both her surname and the song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag". Kit's father, Jack, owned a car dealership business in Cincinnati and was a World War I veteran. Her father's business still seemed to do well during the onset of the Great Depression, but was eventually forced to close when Jack used up his savings to pay his employees, sending the Kittredges into poverty.
Kit is first seen in Meet Kit wearing a lavender-pink sweater and cardigan, a floral print pleated skirt and a pair of white canvas sandals. As her family suffered financially during the Great Depression, she was later seen wearing hand-me-downs or used clothing, and at one point during her birthday, her aunt Millie made her a dress from feed sacks, for which she was eventually grateful. Kit is the only historical American Girl to have short hair. To reflect her era, her hair is cut into a bob, although in some illustrations she is shown to be wearing it in short pigtails.
With the launch of American Girl's BeForever revamp, Kit's meet outfit was retconned to that of a bright blue-green sleeveless dress with a white Peter Pan collar, and a flared skirt with floral print. Kit's old meet outfit was still available for purchase as a separate item for a time before being discontinued.
Attributes
Unlike her best friend Ruthie, Kit is a tomboy who cares less about dresses, chores and things that she considers "flouncy". She is more inclined towards baseball (especially Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds), adventures such as Robin Hood, country life, and typing up her own news reports, as she dreams of becoming a reporter one day.
Kit hates change, even though at one point she did long for it to happen, and dislikes being dependent on charities, which spurs her fascination with Amelia Earhart. The books also depict her as being stubborn and somewhat fussy, as she finds chores around the house to be rather boring and tedious, though eventually she realizes her family's misfortunes and learns to be more supportive and helpful.
She has a strong sense of pride, but she eventually realizes that she is carried away by it and learns to be humble, and tackle her problems with thrift and cleverness. Kit also tends to be easily embarrassed and irritated, like in Kit Learns a Lesson where she is angered by one of her classmates who teased her for her family's sudden descent into poverty.
Kit is also shown to be close to her father, as depicted in the film, and in the aforementioned part where Kit pushed her classmate for his taunts against her father and family.
Appearances
Main book series
First to third books
Upon hearing about Mrs. Howard and her son Stirling moving into the Kittredge household while her husband was off to Chicago for work, Kit was excited to have a boy of her age to play with. Her hopes were dashed when she learns about Stirling's poor health, though both shared their enthusiasm for baseball. Excited, Kit rushes to her room and comes back bringing an article about Ernie Lombardi, only to hit Mrs. Howard causing Kit's mother's dishes to break as they flew off the tray. Margaret chastises Kit for her brash behavior. Angered and disappointed, Kit stormed to her room, blaming Stirling for her misfortune. As she was waiting for her father to come in so she could share her article, Charlie came in, explaining how Kit's situation was nothing compared to those who lost their jobs because of the Depression. Kit, while writing of ways for her to help save money, hoped for her Dad to get a job, but this proved futile as Jack often came home in vain. Kit's mother then comes up with taking in boarders, much to the surprise of Kit's ill-tempered Uncle Hendrick. Kit wasn't pleased with the idea either, more so as Stirling, whom she initially had a chagrined relationship with, will be staying in her old room, and she has to sleep in the attic. Ruthie assures her about the attic, likening it to Sara Crewe's room in A Little Princess. Kit tearfully relents, and makes the most of her new surroundings as she cleaned and fixed her room, to which her mother praised.
Kit and her family are still adjusting to the changes brought by taking up boarders in their household and the chores involved in it in Kit Learns a Lesson. She is hoping that her father would land a job some day, so much that in an altercation, she was incensed at her classmate Roger's remarks towards her father and her family's financial problems, spoiling the preparations for a Thanksgiving pageant. A trip to the local soup kitchen as part of their punishment made her realize the plight of those surrounding her besides her own family, even more so as her father was one of those in line for lunch.
With Kit's family facing financial problems, along with the threat of their house being foreclosed, Ruthie tries to come to Kit's aid in Kit's Surprise, cheering up her best friend with fairy-tale stories and helping her like paying for Kit's movie ticket; Kit feels embarrassed at being subjected to charity and is annoyed at Ruthie's fanciful, idealistic worldview, viewing it as unrealistic. Kit's sense of pride gets the better of her and this eventually led to an argument, begrudgingly parting ways with each other. Uncle Hendrick's spitefulness towards her family added to her problems, but Kit is grateful for the errands he gave as she earned more than enough to help her family. The heavy snow forced Kit to spend the night at Hendrick's house. Kit has to call Ruthie to ask her to inform her parents about her stay at her uncle's home—Kit apologizes to her best friend, and they both make amends.
Fourth to sixth books
Kit's Aunt Millie paid a visit from Kentucky to Cincinnati to help out her family, using the moniker "Use It Up, Wear It Down, Make It Due, or Do Without". Kit makes a "Waste-Not Want-Not Almanac", which includes the thrifty tips, and also adopts a dog and names it Grace. When Aunt Millie comes to her school and announces a Penny-Pinching party for her birthday, Kit's classmates now learn of her family's poverty; she loses her temper and lashes out at Aunt Millie, hurting the latter. However, she later feels guilty. Hearing that Aunt Millie is heading back to Kentucky, the family goes to convince her to come back. Kit, knowing that it's her fault, eventually apologizes for her behavior, and shows Aunt Millie the almanac she made, who forgives her. The party is a success.
Kit befriends a young hobo named Will Shepherd in Kit Saves The Day, spurring her fascination with life at the hobo jungle. Having been burned out by the endless chores and errands at home, and with her brother working with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Montana, Kit, with no other choice, decides to go on an adventure with Will, who shared his experiences as a runaway teen leaving his family behind and resorting to morally questionable means to survive such as petty theft and faking illness to gain sympathy. Will reluctantly takes her and Stirling to the dangerous act of "riding the rails"—hitchhiking aboard freight trains, a common practice by destitute people of the time to find work. This fell through when Kit is arrested and jailed for her antics. Feigning illness, Kit escapes, but Will and Stirling are left behind. Kit rushes home to explain the situation to her parents, and they went back to rescue the boys. Kit's experiences with the hobo camp gave her a sense of respect for the less fortunate.
As the Kittredge family adapts to the changes they experienced during the Great Depression, Uncle Hendrick comes to stay at the Kittredge boarding house for the winter. Kit is tasked by Hendrick to write letters to the editor on his behalf expressing his dissatisfaction with society and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs. His angry letters, some of which were scathing rants at the expense of the hobo community, concerned Kit, which led her to write an editorial in support of those in need, especially about the struggles less fortunate children had to endure. Kit's editorial is published, spurring people to donate goods to children at the soup kitchen.
Other books
In addition to being a supporting character in Really Truly Ruthie, a companion book which came bundled with the Ruthie Smithens doll, Kit also appeared in a number of mysteries set in the Kit Kittredge story arc, and a gamebook where the reader takes on the role of a person who found their way to the past and befriends Kit, where they embark on an adventure depending on the reader's choices.
Film rendition
In the film version, Kit, portrayed by Abigail Breslin, hasn't been radically changed from her original book portrayal; several minor details however were altered in the film, namely her brother Charlie and Aunt Millie as unseen characters and only mentioned in passing, and other changes to her and her relatives' backstory.
In other media
A feature film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl was released to theaters on July 2, 2008, starring Abigail Breslin in the title role. Breslin's performance in the film was praised by critics; Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote that she "carries the event-stuffed story with unflagging grace". Several new items were added to Kit's collection to coincide with the film.
Two video games based on her stories were also developed and published, namely Kit Mystery Challenge! for the Nintendo DS, and the point-and-click adventure game A Tree House of My Own for Microsoft Windows.
Kittredge also appears in an episode of the animated comedy show Mad, where she is portrayed as having a daughter who participates in a parody of Toddlers & Tiaras.
Reception
Nancy Davis Kho of Common Sense Media praised the character's portrayal and Valerie Tripp's depiction of the novels' early to mid 1930s setting, stating how she found Kit to be an "inherently likable character, upbeat and friendly but by no means perfect". Kho noted how despite the character's shortcomings and initially negative and callous attitude towards those surrounding her, Kit's approach towards adversity "is a good lesson for kids in any situation." Kho also drew parallels to the 2008 financial crisis (which coincided with the release of the film adaptation), and remarked how the stories were a cautionary tale on dealing with a declining economy; "Even so, the main character's pluckiness will have readers rooting for her to prevail." Jennifer Frey of The Washington Post also noted the film adaptation's relevance to the financial crisis, stating that it "highlights one effect of setting a fictional story in an all-too-real and relevant past: History lessons become current-event lessons."
See also
Hilde Lysiak, an American child writer notable for her newspaper story on a suspected murder
References
American Girl
Book series introduced in 2000
Characters in American novels of the 21st century
Characters in children's literature
Child characters in literature
Child characters in film
Child characters in video games
Female characters in literature
Fictional amateur detectives
Fictional characters from Cincinnati
Literary characters introduced in 2000
Fictional journalists and mass media people
Fictional prison escapees
Fictional prisoners and detainees in the United States
Fictional reporters
Novels adapted into video games
Toy characters
Novels about journalists
Works set during the Great Depression
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Albert%20G%C3%A4umann
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Ernst Albert Gäumann
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Ernst Albert Gäumann (6 October 1893 – 5 December 1963) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist. Born in Lyss, Canton of Bern, he obtained his early education in Biel, where he experienced both German and French languages and cultures. Studying with Eduard Fischer at the University of Bern, Gäumann received his PhD in 1917 for his research on Peronospora, a genus of water molds. After travels and study in Sweden, the United States, and the East Indies, Gäumann worked as a plant pathologist in Buitenzorg, Java, from 1919 to 1922, and then as a botanist in Zurich for several years. He held a position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology from 1927 until his death.
Gäumann had diverse research interests, including plant pathology, soil algae, rust fungi, and fungal evolution. When he was 33, he published his work Vergleichende Morphologie der Pilze, the English translation of which became a standard textbook for mycology. In 1946 Gaumann published PJlanzliche In Jektionslehre, the first modern book on plant pathology.
Other works that were well-received included his 1952 The Fungi–A Description of their Morphological Features and Evolutionary Development and his 1959 monograph Die Rostpilze Mitteleuropas (Rust Fungi of Middle Europe). Gäumann published over 200 scientific papers, and described at least 25 new species. He worked as an editor for the scientific journals Plant and Soil, Sydowia, and Phytopathologische Zeitschrift.
References
Swiss mycologists
1893 births
1963 deaths
University of Bern alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
People from Lyss
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willer%20Express
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Willer Express
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Willer Express (, stylized WILLER EXPRESS) is a major highway bus company operating in Japan since 2005 with routes spanning almost the entire country, from Aomori Prefecture at the northern tip of the main island Honshu to the southern island Kyushu. Annual sales are approximately $120 million/year, with both domestic passengers and foreigners served through direct sales, a website, as well as the "Japan Bus Pass" and a double-decker tour bus route. Pricing on routes depends on day/time of travel, with significant variation between peak and off-peak travel.
Overview
Willer Express is a subsidiary of the Willer Group, the company which owns Willer Alliance Inc. and Willer Express Japan Inc. As of December 2015, Willer Express employed a total of 64 people. The company's President is Shigetaka Murase. It has offices in Osaka and Tokyo.
The company began in 2006 as a major Tour Bus company in Japan. From December 2011 it also entered the intercities bus business.
Business offices
Osaka Main Office; at Umeda Sky Building
Tokyo Main Office; at Shinagawa Intercity Building
WILLER Express Cafe; at Umeda Sky Building
Main Highway bus routes
Tokyo - Kyoto, Osaka, Wakayama
Tokyo - Nagoya
Tokyo - Hiroshima
Tokyo - Okayama
Tokyo - Sendai
Tokyo - Niigata
Tokyo - Nagano
Tokyo - Toyama, Kanazawa, Fukui
Tokyo - Izumo, Shimane
Tokyo - Ise, Mie
Osaka - Nagoya
Osaka - Shizuoka
Osaka - Niigata
Osaka - Toyama
Osaka - Izumo, Shimane
Osaka - Hiroshima
Osaka - Matsuyama
Osaka - Hakata, Saga
Hiroshima - Hakata, Saga
References
External links
Official English website
Japanese companies established in 2005
Bus companies of Japan
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Transport companies established in 2005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Thorley
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Ken Thorley
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Ken Thorley is an actor who has portrayed various characters in television and film. One of his recurring roles was that of the fictional character "Mot", a Bolian barber on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation (who was also portrayed by Shelly Desai). He also played a seaman in another episode of ST:TNG.
Filmography
Television
See also
Star Trek: The Next Generation
References
External links
Ken Thorley at NowCasting.com
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20Murray%20State%20Racers%20men%27s%20basketball%20team
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2013–14 Murray State Racers men's basketball team
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The 2013–14 Murray State Racers men's basketball team represented Murray State University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Racers, led by third year head coach Steve Prohm, played their home games at the CFSB Center and were members of the West Division of the Ohio Valley Conference.
They finished the season 23–11, 13–3 In OVC play and were OVC West Division champions. They lost in semifinals of the OVC tournament to the eventual champion Eastern Kentucky Colonels.
The Racers were invited to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament where they defeated the Missouri State Bears on the road and the Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks, Towson Tigers, Pacific Tigers, and Yale Bulldogs at home to be crowned the 2014 CIT champions.
Roster
Honors
Cameron Payne was named to the First Team All-OVC and OVC Freshman of the Year; Jarvis Williams was named to the Second Team All-OVC; both were named to the OVC All-Newcomer Team.
As the Racers won the CIT post-season tournament, Cameron Payne and Jarvis Williams were named to the all-tournament first team, and Payne was named tournament MVP.
Cameron Payne was named to the CollegeInsider.com 2013–14 Kyle Macy Freshmen All-America team and a finalist for the Kyle Macy Award as Division I Freshman of the Year.
Schedule
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References
Murray State Racers men's basketball seasons
Murray State
Murray State
CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament championship seasons
Murray State Racers men's basketball
Murray State Racers men's basketball
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakoya
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Bakoya
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The Bakoya are pygmies, earlier known as Négrilles or Babinga, who inhabitant the rainforest between Cameroon and the Great Lake region of the Congo Basin in Central Africa. Since the 1930s, the Bakoya, in particular, have settled in Gabon in the Ogooue-Ivindo Province, in the northeastern region of the country.
Similar minority groups are the Babongo and the Baka pygmies. Before they adapted to the agricultural practices in the new settlements in Gabon along the flanks of the road, Bakoya were “semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers” like the other forest-dwelling pygmies; they resided in small huts. The word 'Pygmee' is a French coinage, adopted by the Gabonese. They are the earliest inhabitants of the forest and are nomadic hunter gatherers.
Location
Pygmies living in the Imbong village are specifically known as Bakoya. They are situated in the Ogooue-Ivindo Province, which is one of the nine provinces of Gabon. They are settled along the Mékambo to Mazingo (Canton Djoua) road and (Canton Djoua), and from Mékambo to Ekata (Canton Loué) road in the Zadié Department.
History
Following the many internecine wars among the tribal groups of the region, the Bakoya, who were living on the banks of the Ogooué River migrated along with the non-pygmy group of Bongom to an upstream region of the Ivindo and Zadié Rivers. According to the oral traditions of the Bakoya, during their travel through the forests they accompanied the Bongom, a non-pygmie tribe. While the Bongom moved out of the forests and established themselves on the Mékambo-Mazingo Road by setting up the villages of Ego, Grand Itumbi, Ngunangu and Ibea, the Bakoya had stayed back in the forest to harvest their crops of u.panda (Panda oleosa) and did not move to the Mékambo-Mazingo Road immediately. At this time the French who had colonized Gabon also created better living facilities.
The Bakoya, Baka and Babongo are three minorities groups of Gabon who are known as the “Pygmies of Gabon” (said to be the first people to inhabit the forests of Gabon) and they form a very small minority of a few thousand people only. All of them have left behind their hunter-gatherer vocation to more "sedentary" modern way of life. Their skills of hunting game with “bow and poisoned arrows, game traps and harpoons” are however much more skillful than the majority population of the Bantu community in the country. But their lot is subject to humiliation at the hands of the Bantus. However, in recent years there is an effort to project their history as a matter of tourism interest and their culture has been brought forth in the form of exhibitions, lectures and discussions. One such initiative was taken in 2002 when an exhibition was organized to project the history of pygmies and their culture.
The government of Gabon recognized the Minorités Autochtones Pygmées au Gabon (MINAPYGA; the Indigenous Pygmy Minorities of Gabon) organization of Bokayo in 1997, which is one of three such indigenous organizations in the country; the other two recognized groups are the Edzendgui and the Association pour le Developpement de la Culture des Peuples Pygmees du Gabon.
Notable people
Leonard Odambo is one of the few well educated Bokayo who is a qualified journalist and head of an NGO in Libreville.
References
Bibliography
African Pygmies
Ethnic groups in Gabon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undetectable%20Firearms%20Act
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Undetectable Firearms Act
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The United States Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. § 922(p)) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm that is not as detectable by walk-through metal detection as a security exemplar containing 3.7 oz (105 g) of steel, or any firearm with major components that do not generate an accurate image before standard airport imaging technology.
It was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 10, 1988.
Overview
The general effect of this legislation is a ban on the manufacture, possession and transfer of firearms with less than 3.7 oz (105 g) of metal content. The bill also requires handguns to be in the traditional shape of a handgun. The Act excepts from its prohibitions the federal government and its agencies, and may offer a safe harbor for licensed manufactures testing to determine if their firearms meet the Act's criteria.
History
What became the Undetectable Firearms Act began as an attempt to ban handguns like the Glock 17 in the mid-1980s. Pistols like the Glock had frames and grips made from lightweight polymer, and their novelty prompted public criticism that their relative lack of metal content meant they might be able to slip past airport metal detection and be suitable for use by terrorists.
Initial proposals to ban handguns with less than 8 oz of steel were opposed by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), and what resulted was a compromise that banned guns with less than half the metal content of the Glock. The NRA agreed not to oppose the Act because it did not affect any existing guns. Introduced by William J. Hughes (D-NJ), it passed overwhelmingly in October 1988.
The gun control lobby was eager to promote it as one of the first successes of groups like Handgun Control, Inc (later the Brady Campaign). The Act set the stage for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
Renewals
The original Act had a ten-year sunset clause, and would have expired on November 10, 1998. Congress subsequently renewed it in 1998 for five years, in 2003 for ten years, and in 2013 for another ten years.
Proposals to extend the scope of the law at the 2013 renewal were unsuccessful. At that time, the NRA continued to support the law but opposed any extension of its scope.
Application to 3D printing
With the advent of projects like the Wiki Weapon, 3D printing technologies have been noted for their abilities to help create largely polymer and ceramic firearms. Various groups of makers and tech enthusiasts have experimented with the technology in this capacity as well, leading to widespread speculation that traditional methods of gun control will become increasingly inoperable.
Proposed renewals and expansions of the current Undetectable Firearms Act include provisions to criminalize individual production of firearm receivers and magazines that is not detectable by a walk-through metal detector, measures outside the scope of the original UFA and not extended to cover commercial manufacture. The modernization proposals have been criticized as disingenuous attempts to suppress adoption of and experimentation with 3D printers in home gunsmithing.
See also
Gun control
Gun law in the United States
Gun politics in the United States
Improvised firearm
To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years (H.R. 3626; 113th Congress)
References
1988 in American law
100th United States Congress
United States federal criminal legislation
United States federal firearms legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratitude%20%28P-Money%20album%29
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Gratitude (P-Money album)
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Gratitude is the fourth studio album by New Zealand record producer P-Money. It was released on 17 May 2013 through Dawn Raid Entertainment, Dirty Records and Duck Down Music. It features guest appearances from Nicole Wray, Aaradhna, At Peace, Blaison Maven, Buckshot, Buff1, Fashawn, Freddie Gibbs, Havoc, Like, MiBBs, Monsta G, M.O.P., Roc Marciano, Skyzoo, STS and Talib Kweli.
The album peaked at number twenty-three on the Official New Zealand Music Chart dated 27 May 2013. The following week it moved to number thirty-seven, and then fell off the chart. It has been nominated for Best Urban/Hip Hop Album at the 2013 New Zealand Music Awards, but lost to Aaradhna's Treble & Reverb.
It was supported by the lone single "Welcome to America", which was released on 26 February 2013 via SoundCloud as free download.
Background and content
P-Money moved to New York City in June 2012 after signing a deal with American record label Duck Down Music. Working with a larger record label allowed him to select from wider range of guest vocalists for his tracks. On Gratitude, P-Money reverts to hip hop music, after the dance-oriented Everything (2010); he says it was inspired by the hip hop music he listened to growing up, and he was reminded of that music by Duck Down. Some tracks are R&B-influenced. The title was P-Money's "way of saying thank you to everyone who has ever offered a helping hand".
Gratitude features funk riffs and New York-influenced horn, keys and strings. A deluxe edition was later released, which includes a second disc with instrumental versions of all fifteen tracks.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
2013 albums
P-Money albums
Duck Down Music albums
Albums produced by P-Money
Dawn Raid Entertainment albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20M.%20Lumley
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Judith M. Lumley
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Judith Mary Lumley (15 February 1941 – 25 October 2018) had a career as an academic, author, public health advocate and perinatal researcher, retiring as Professor Emerita at La Trobe University in December 2008.
Early life and education
Lumley was born Judith Mary Casey in Cardiff, Wales in 1941. She graduated first from Cambridge University in 1962 and married Peter Lumley in 1964, emigrating to Australia a year later. She completed a medical degree at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She gained her PhD in fetal physiology working on fetal acidosis in labor at the Monash Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and became a Fellow of both the UK and Australian Faculties of Public Health Medicine and Professor at La Trobe University.
Career
Lumley worked in academic teaching and research in both pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology for several years, before establishing and directing the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection in 1982. In 1988, she chaired the Victorian Ministerial Review of Birthing Services. In 1991 she established a research centre at Monash University, which later moved to La Trobe University. Lumley was director of that Centre until 2008, with the exception of two years as Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University (1994-1995). Originally called the Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, it was later named Mother and Child Health Research, with the name changed to the Judith Lumley Centre in 2013. She retired after the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Judith Lumley published research in a variety of disciplines and methods, including epidemiology, evaluation of effectiveness and qualitative research. She was an early and longtime contributor to the development of the Cochrane Collaboration. Lumley had three sons. She died in October 2018.
Medical journal editorship
Lumley was co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health from 2000 to 2008, and also edited Australian Family Physician for several years.
Books
Birth Rites, Birth Rights: Childbirth alternatives for Australian parents - by Judith Lumley and Jill Astbury (1980).
Prepregnancy care: A manual for practice - edited by Geoffrey Chamberlain and Judith Lumley (1986).
Having a baby in Victoria: Final report of the Ministerial Review of Birthing Services in Victoria - Chaired by Judith Lumley (1990).
Missing voices: The experience of motherhood - by Stephanie Brown, Jill Astbury, Judith Lumley, Rhonda Small (1994).
Awards and honors
Lumley was a life member of the Public Health Association of Australia. Life membership is granted for "exemplary service to the Association."
In 2002, Lumley was awarded the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal, for "more than two decades of work dedicated to the promotion of public health and for her efforts in improving maternal care in Australia." This medal is the Public Health Association of Australia's pre-eminent prize for a person who has made a "notable contribution" to public health in Australia. It is competitive and awarded annually.
Lumley was awarded a position in the 'Smart 100' in 2003. This was a list of "the smartest, most innovative and most creative" people in a variety of fields in Australia organized by The Bulletin magazine.
Lumley was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia in 2005, cited "for service to promoting public health and improving maternity care in Australia."
The Faculty of Health Sciences of La Trobe University established the Judith Lumley Scholarship for high-achieving higher degree students in maternal and child health research.
In 2013, the name of Mother and Child Health Research at La Trobe University was formally changed to the Judith Lumley Centre.
References
1941 births
2018 deaths
Monash University alumni
Academic staff of Monash University
Academic staff of La Trobe University
Australian paediatricians
Women pediatricians
Australian gynaecologists
Honorary Members of the Order of Australia
Welsh emigrants to Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Johnson
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Pierce Johnson
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Pierce William Johnson (born May 10, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies and for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He was drafted by the Cubs in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft out of Missouri State University.
Amateur career
Johnson attended Faith Christian Academy in Arvada, Colorado, where he played baseball for three seasons on the varsity team. The Tampa Bay Rays selected him in the 15th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign and attended Missouri State University, where he played college baseball for the Missouri State Bears. He finished his first year at Missouri State with a 6–5 win–loss record and a 4.76 earned run average (ERA) in innings pitched. In 2010 and 2011, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Professional career
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs selected Johnson in the first round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. In 2013, he went 11–6 with a 2.74 ERA and 124 strikeouts in 118 innings pitched. Prior to the 2014 season, he was ranked by Baseball America as the 87th best prospect in baseball. The Cubs added him to their 40-man roster after the 2015 season.
Johnson spent 2014 with both the Kane County Cougars and the Tennessee Smokies where he posted a 5–5 record with a 2.54 ERA. Johnson stayed with the Smokies during the 2015 season, where he posted a 6–2 record with a 2.08 ERA, holding batters to a .223 batting average. After his success in Tennessee, Johnson was promoted to the Triple-A Iowa Cubs, where he posted a 4–6 record with a 6.14 ERA.
San Francisco Giants
On September 20, 2017, Johnson was claimed off waivers by the San Francisco Giants. He elected free agency on November 3, 2018.
Hanshin Tigers
On December 8, 2018, Johnson signed with the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
On December 2, 2019, he became a free agent.
San Diego Padres
On December 23, 2019, Johnson signed a two-year contract which includes a third-year club option with the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). In his first season with San Diego, Johnson recorded a 3-1 record and 2.70 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 20 innings. Johnson made 63 appearances for the Padres in 2021, logging a 3-4 record and 3.22 ERA with 77 strikeouts in innings pitched.
On May 9, 2022, Johnson was placed on the 60-day injured list with right elbow tendinitis. He was activated from the injured list on September 10.
Colorado Rockies
On December 13, 2022, Johnson signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Rockies. Johnson began the 2023 season as Colorado's primary closer, but struggled to a 7.50 ERA across 26 games. On June 9, 2023, the Rockies announced that Johnson would be removed from the closer role, with Justin Lawrence and Jake Bird named as candidates to fill the position.
Atlanta Braves
On July 23, 2023, Johnson was traded to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for minor league prospects Victor Vodnik and Tanner Gordon. In 24 appearances for Atlanta, he posted a stellar 0.76 ERA with 32 strikeouts in innings of work. On October 25, Johnson signed a two–year, $14.25 million contract extension with the Braves.
References
External links
Missouri State Bears bio
Prospect Watch: Pierce Johnson making Cubs take notice
1991 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Arizona Complex League Padres players
Arizona League Cubs players
Atlanta Braves players
Baseball players from Colorado
Boise Hawks players
Chicago Cubs players
Colorado Rockies players
Daytona Cubs players
Hanshin Tigers players
Harwich Mariners players
Iowa Cubs players
Kane County Cougars players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mesa Solar Sox players
Missouri State Bears baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
People from Arvada, Colorado
Sacramento River Cats players
San Diego Padres players
San Francisco Giants players
Tennessee Smokies players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilit%20Bleyan
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Lilit Bleyan
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Lilit Bleyan (; born 2 June 1978) is an Armenian songwriter, singer. She writes and performs songs in Armenian, Spanish and English. The first album “In another City” was presented in November 2011. A second album with songs mostly in Spanish was released in November 2013.
Biography
Born in Yerevan in 1978. First songs were written when she hardly started to talk. Graduated from the class of violin of a musical school.
At the age of 14 started singing in the chamber choir “Alan Hovhannes” in Yerevan. At the school age, attracted by some Spanish songs, started learning Spanish by herself. The passion for languages led her to the Yerevan State University and she graduated as a specialist of Spanish and English. During her university studies, in a duet with a friend she attended some musical events and shows. Still, the music and songwriting kept being just a hobby.
In parallel with the university Lilit graduated from TV journalism special courses and soon became one of the young faces of the independent TV A1plus in Yerevan. She started as a journalist becoming TV observer, editor of the news section and also making some individual projects on the TV.
In 2010 she released a single in Armenian called “Waiting Trains”. The song had immediate success and made her think of recording a full album. So in 2011 her first album consisting of 9 acoustic songs in Armenian and Spanish was released. Soon she decided to refuse from her career of a journalist and focus on songwriting and singing.
The release of her second album consisting of mainly Spanish and also some English songs is planned on 19 November 2013.
Discography
In Another City (2011)
Քաղաքից քաղաք – From Town to Town
Տրամադրություն - Mood
Սպասող գնացքներ – Waiting Trains
Երազելով ծովի մասին – Dreaming of the Sea
Մութ սենյակում – In a Dark Room
Սպասելով ամռանը – Waiting for the Summer
Հին հետքերով – Old Traces
Siempre tu' (իսպաներեն) - Siempre tu' (Spanish)
Սպասող գնացքներ (իսպաներեն) – Waiting Trains (Spanish version)
Paciencia (2013)
El corazón como prisión
Volverás
Por el Mediterráneo
Paciencia
Coloreando
Un Día
Una semana en Barcelona
Christmas Night
El Después
Castillo de arena
Falling
Siempre Tú (from the album “In another City”)
Christmas Night – Armenian version
References
1978 births
Living people
21st-century Armenian women singers
Musicians from Yerevan
Yerevan State University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Angell%20Wheeler
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Etta Angell Wheeler
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Etta Angell Wheeler (June 14, 1834 – December 5, 1921) was the rescuer and advocate of Mary Ellen Wilson, whose infamous abuse story led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Wheeler was also influential in the society's creation because she convinced future founder of the society, Henry Bergh, who at the time was founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to take on the issue and spearhead the case.
Background
Marietta Angell was born in Spencerport, New York, a suburb area of Rochester. She resided with her mother, Sally Angell, and sister Elizabeth Spencer, and it was here she met Charles Wheeler, whom she married. Charles Wheeler later inherited a moderate home from his deceased father in New York, New York.
Career
In New York City, Etta Wheeler was a Methodist missionary of St. Luke's Mission for the poor. Her work consisted of going to poor parishioners of her church and providing meals, supplies, and donations from the mission. She further added to her duties by checking in on individuals, conversing with them, and providing aid around their homes. She was assigned two routes; between West 38th Street and West 42nd Street and between 47th Street and 53rd Street. These areas that were later referred to as Hell's Kitchen. When able, Wheeler extended her care to those who were not part of the church.
Charles Wheeler was a reporter for the New York Daily News, a position which he held for more than 12 years. While her husband worked long hours at the paper, Etta was consumed with her work for the mission and she devoted her life to the church and taking care of the needy. Once married, the Wheelers decided against having any children because they believed there were already too many unloved children in the world. The Wheelers lived outside the slums.
Role as rescuer
It was on one of her rounds on 41st Street, in December 1873, that a tenant of a building approached Wheeler and spoke of a family, the Connollys, that once resided there. They apparently had with them a little daughter that was barely seen but her screams and the mother's, Mary Connolly, brutality, were often heard.
Within the week Wheeler paid the family a visit at their new location under the pretense that she wanted to speak to them about an ill neighbor adjacent them. All the while, Wheeler paid close attention to the child who was present in the back of the room washing dishes.
After her initial contact with the family, Wheeler spoke to Pastor Frank Jameson about how to intervene on the child's behalf, but was told that they could not interfere. In search of other options, she spent numerous months trying to locate an agency that would assist her in removing the child from the home, but of the dozens of children's charities she contacted she was told that they were not allowed to interfere in family matters. The most these agencies could do was donate clothing; they lacked the power to remove the child from guardian custody. The New York police told her that there was a law that prevented the removal of a child from their guardian without sufficient evidence.
Her niece informed her that she should be talking to Henry Bergh, the founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. On April 7, 1874 Wheeler met with Bergh and conveyed the story of the abused girl and asked for his assistance. Bergh reiterated the statements of the police, and said that if Wheeler provided evidence, she might have a case.
That day Etta Wheeler went to both buildings where the Connolly family lived in the past few months, collecting witnesses and documenting the incidents of suspected child abuse. The next day she had formulated a detailed letter to Bergh providing evidence and testimonies from numerous witnesses. Wheeler's thorough investigation provided sufficient evidence for Bergh to present to a Supreme Court Judge which not only granted them a case but also grounds to remove Mary Ellen Wilson and apprehend her mother.
Influences
The trial of Mary Ellen was very popular. It held continuous headlines in the media and drew much publicity. Wheeler's husband was a reporter for a newspaper and may have helped contribute to the media coverage of the case. Wheeler testified during the trial, attended every court proceeding, and was Mary Ellen Wilson's advocate.
On April 27, 1874, Mary Connolly was found guilty of one count of assault with intent to kill. Wheeler then asked Bergh about creation of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children. On December 15, 1874, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was established with co-founders Henry Bergh and Elbridge T Gerry, the prosecutor of Mary Ellen Wilson's case.
Directly after the trial, Wheeler fought to ensure the child was placed in an adequate home and appealed to the judge to have Mary Ellen placed with her family in upstate New York. Henry Bergh wrote a character reference letter to the Supreme Court judge. Mrs. Wheeler's younger sister and her husband were given permission to take the child in as their legal ward.
Legacy
Later in her life, at the age of 24, Mary Ellen married and had 2 daughters. The first she named Etta to honor the woman who rescued her.
In dedication to her heroic actions which provided services and hope to future abused children, on October 13-16th, 1913, Wheeler was invited to attend the 37th annual meeting of the American Humane Association's national conference in Rochester, New York. Wheeler was the guest speaker and presented her keynote address, The Story of Mary Ellen which was later published by the American Humane Association, called The Story of Mary Ellen: Which started the Child Saving Crusade.
Wheeler died December 5, 1921, in Coldwater, New York at the home of her niece, Miss Lille Thompson.
In preservation of her service and legacy, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children constructed a memorial that was placed in the Society's Heckscher Foundation for Children's building located, on Fifth Avenue, from 104th Street to 105th Street.
References
1834 births
1921 deaths
Child crime victim advocates
Activists from New York City
People from Spencerport, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Kyoung-ja
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Yi Kyoung-ja
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Yi Kyoung-ja (Hangul: 이경자) is a South Korean author whose work focuses on the position of women in Korean society.
Life
1948년 1월 28일 (강원도 양양) YI Kyoung-ja was born on January 28, 1948, in Yangyang, Gangwan-do, Korea. Yangyang is famous for its beautiful scenery and this gave Yi a strong attachment to nature from an early age. She graduated from Sorabol College of the Arts (Today Chung-Ang University) and began submitting her writing to annual spring literary contests at age 19, but not winning until 1973 when she won the Seoul Daily annual spring literary contest.
Lee's writing was intimately connected to her personal life and when she married a banker many people, including the author herself, worried if this would adversely affect her ability to write. Her marriage was a bit of a surprise as she had always planned to not get married and instead concentrate on writing. In the end, however, marriage and children did not affect Yi's ability to write and her strong dedication to writing helped to bring many contradictions in the state of Korean women to light.
Work
One of the salient features of Lee's works is the flowing style of her sentences, which makes her writing fast-paced and readable whether it's a short story or full-length novel. It is within internal character dialogue, however, where her lively prose really shines. Lee often uses such dialogue as a means of revealing characters' conflicts and anguish. In these internal conversations, she uses authentic and colloquial language without excessive embellishment. Her novels feel genuine to readers due to the reality effect created by her natural use of everyday language. Even during the 1980s, when ideological discourse dominated literature, author Lee Kyung-ja's prose offered a sentimental view of women's experiences. It is misguided, however, to focus on the mere fact that she is a female author writing about women.
It isn't easy to sum up her universe of published works including short story collections and full-length novels. Nevertheless, there are some keywords that can provide insight into her works. One of the most important themes Lee is interested in is the caged life of women, similar to that depicted by Guy de Maupassant in Une Vie. In her works concerned with female transformation, two major types can be identified.
One of her novels begins by introducing a married female protagonist who is fretting over the institution of marriage and her husband's indifference. The heroine ultimately ends her marriage after meeting another man, her true love. In Lee's works, most women domesticated under the institution of marriage but later reborn as 'warriors of love,' are originally middle-class housewives enjoying comfortable lives. Lee's full-length novel, [Waking up Alone in the Morning] (1993), is a work of this type.
Lee has also used the biographical format in her novels. In one of Lee's works, the reader is introduced to a heroine who had once been full of hope as a little girl, before being cast into tragedy and suffering after marriage, a transformation that Lee describes in minute detail. In the oral tradition that existed before the modern literary era, women verbally recounted their life stories. In the same fashion, narrators in Lee Kyung-ja's works tell us tales from long lives centered on marriage, birth, unfaithful husbands, family feuds, and other critical events. Lee's acclaimed and prize-winning works such as [Love and Hurt] (1998) and [Affection Never Withers] (1999) are good examples of the kind of work described above. Such stories present personal life history in a form that sheds light on modern Korean history magically interwoven with the individual.
Yi has won several awards including the 4th annual Han Mu-sook Literature prize in 1999, the 4th Goh-Jung-hee Literature Prize 2011, and in 2004 the Beautiful Writer's Prize which is awarded to older writers by younger ones.
Works in translation
Une Fille nommée Deuxième garçon (여성 단편선 <둘남이>)
Works in Korean (partial)
Story collections
Incident at Halmiso
Survival
Hunchback's Love
Serial novels
Half a Failure
Full-length novels
Castle of Betrayal
Waking Up Alone in the Morning
Rapturous Rebellion
Love and Hurt
Affection Never Withers
Who'll Untie the Knot?
Cassia Flower
Awards
4th annual Han Mu-sook Literature prize in 1999
Beautiful Writer's Prize 2004
4th Goh-Jung-hee Literature Prize 2011
References
1948 births
Korean writers
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Bruck
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Julie Bruck
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Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection Monkey Ranch. She has published two previous collections, The Woman Downstairs (1993) and The End of Travel (1999). The Woman Downstairs won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1994. She has also won two National Magazine Awards for poetry published in Canadian literary magazines. Bruck has also won a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award and has also been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a Catherine Boettcher Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.
Biography
Julie Bruck is originally from Montreal, Quebec.
Beside publishing books, Bruck has also published in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Walrus, The Malahat Review and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her poems have featured in numerous anthologies.
Bruck has had a long teaching career. She has taught at many colleges and universities in Canada. She is a former resident faculty member at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Since 2005, she has been teaching poetry workshops for The Writing Salon in San Francisco's Mission district. She also teaches at the University of San Francisco.
She is currently based in San Francisco, California. She is married to American writer Lewis Buzbee.
Bibliography
The Woman Downstairs (1993)
The End of Travel (1999)
Monkey Ranch (2012)
How to Avoid Huge Ships (2019)
Selected poems available online
References
External links
20th-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian women poets
Writers from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian expatriate writers in the United States
Living people
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livin%27%20for%20the%20Weekend%20%28Dina%20Carroll%20song%29
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Livin' for the Weekend (Dina Carroll song)
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"Livin' for the Weekend" is a song by English singer Dina Carroll, from her second studio album, Only Human (1996). It was co-produced by Nigel Lowis and David Morales. The record was a dance club hit in the UK.
Critical reception
The single received mixed reviews in Europe. Jon O'Brien from AllMusic described it as "Black Box-esque". Portugal's Manchete commented that Carroll failed to distinguish herself from Mariah Carey even in "Livin' for the Weekend". Vikki Tobak for Vibe wrote that the song and "Mind Body & Soul" are "dance-floor sure shots that complement Dina's smooth, textured vocals."
Charts
References
1996 songs
Songs written by David Morales
Dina Carroll songs
Mercury Records singles
Songs written by Nigel Lowis
Songs written by Dina Carroll
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuela%20Bosco
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Manuela Bosco
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Manuela Bosco (born 11 June 1982) is a Finnish actress and former hurdler.
Biography
Manuela Bosco, despite having dual citizenship (Italian and Finnish), chose to compete for Finland, She is the niece of the Finnish cross-country skier Harri Kirvesniemi.
In 2012, she debuted as an actress in the Finnish short movie Hankikanto, and in 2013, in the TV series Nymphs.
Bosco has two children with actor Kasimir Baltzar. She married musician Tuure Kilpeläinen in June 2018. They have a daughter born in February 2019.
Achievements
Filmography
Film
Television
Music video
See also
Finland at the 2000 Summer Olympics
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
People from Mikkeli
Finnish people of Italian descent
21st-century Finnish actresses
Finnish female hurdlers
Olympic athletes for Finland
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Finnish television actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Armando%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez
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Félix Armando Núñez
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Félix Armando Núñez (November 28, 1897 - May 16, 1972) was a Venezuelan poet, essayist, and critic who lived in Chile since 1914, where he worked as a professor.
He was born on November 28, 1897, in Boqueron, Maturín, Monagas State, Venezuela. He studied at the Federal School of Maturin and enrolled at the Teacher Training School of Caracas in 1913 and in 1914 he received a scholarship to study at the José Abelardo Núñez Teacher Training School in Santiago, Chile. In 1915 he graduated from the Teacher Training School, and in 1916, after graduating from high school, he began his studies at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile where in 1919 he obtained the title of Castilian professor. In 1921 he moved to Concepción, Chile to work as a high school teacher, a position he held for 19 years. From 1922 went on to work at the university, where he was appointed the General Secretariat in 1931, he was then elected Dean of the Faculty of Education and Member of the Governing Body of the magazine Ateneo. Between 1940-1941 he worked at the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas in the Departments of Philosophy and Pedagogy.
He returned to Chile where he continued his work as a teacher at the University of Concepción until 1947 when he moved to Santiago. In the period between 1951-1952 he obtained the National Prize for Literature and received the "Order of Merit Bernardo O'Higgins".
He died in Santiago, Chile on May 16, 1972.
Works
(1943) Canciones de Todos los Tiempos
(1922) El Corazón Abierto
(1954) Fastos del Espíritu
(1919) La Luna de otoño
(1945) Moradas Improvistas
(1953) Poema Filial
(1919) La Voz Intima
References
1897 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Venezuelan poets
Venezuelan essayists
Male essayists
Venezuelan critics
Venezuelan expatriates in Chile
People from Maturín
Academic staff of the University of Concepción
Venezuelan male poets
20th-century essayists
20th-century male writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoug%20Manougian
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Manoug Manougian
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Manoug Manougian is an Armenian scientist, professor, and considered the father of the Lebanese space program. Manougian was born on April 29, 1935, in Jerusalem. He came to the United States in 1956. His parents are Nishan and Sirpouhi Manougian.
Personal life and education
Manougian grew up in Jerusalem and was educated at St. George's School, Jerusalem.
Manougian won a scholarship to the University of Texas, and he graduated in 1960 with a major in math. Right away, Haigazian College in Beirut was glad to offer him a job teaching both math and physics. The college also made him the faculty advisor for the science club.
Manougian met his wife in Armenia when he became her tutor. They eloped shortly after to the United States. While his wife attended school in Ohio, Manougian attended the University of Texas (see above). After graduating, they moved to Beirut.
Career
Manougian married in 1960 and went to Lebanon to become a teacher at Haigazian College.
Lebanese space program
He founded the Haigazian College Rocket Society in November 1960. With a very limited budget, the society launched a series of rockets to increasing altitudes. It received funding from the Lebanese government and became the Lebanese Rocket Society. He and his students finally launched a suborbital rocket in 1963. The Cedar IV rocket, launched on Lebanese independence day, 21 November 1963 from Dbayeh north of Beirut, reached and was featured on Lebanese stamps.
Teaching
He returned to the United States in 1966. Manougian completed a master's degree and doctorate at the University of Texas and continued his academic career in the Department of Mathematics at the University of South Florida. He is currently still a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University. He also acts as an adviser for the University's Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry which is currently trying to launch to rocket above the kármán line.
Views and politics
As a member of the Armenian diaspora, he has been known to write editorials advocating awareness about the Armenian genocide. He is also a co-author and associate producer of a 4-hour documentary called The Genocide Factor: The Human Tragedy, that aired on PBS. In addition, he vehemently believes that rocketry and science should be pursued for solely peaceful means. Consequentially, he turned down multiple lucrative offers during his time in the Lebanese Rocket Society rather than let his work be used for military purposes.
References
External links
The Lebanese Rocket Society, The Daily Telegraph, October 9, 2013
It is rocket science: USF students build and launch 'em The Tampa Tribune, December 21, 2013
Lebanese scientists
People from Jericho Governorate
University of Texas alumni
University of Texas faculty
Academic staff of Haigazian University
Rocket scientists
American people of Armenian descent
Lebanese people of Armenian descent
Palestinian people of Armenian descent
1936 births
Living people
St. George's School, Jerusalem alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanashakti
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Vanashakti
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Vanashakti is a non-profit environmental NGO based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was formed in 2006, by Meenakshi Menon, Namita Roy Ghose, and Peter Armand Menon. Vanashakti aims to conserve the forests, wetlands, wildlife corridors, habitats, through education and litigation to achieve its objectives of creating awareness about environmental topics, protecting and reviving rivers and preventing opencast mining in areas that are well-endowed with biodiversity. It also directs its efforts in involving local forest-dwelling communities to protect the biodiversity of the region and provides sustainable livelihood options for forest dependent and coastal communities.
Vanashakti's thrust areas are forest, mangrove and wetland protection, environmental education for both urban and rural schools, livelihoods for forest based communities and scientific investigation into local environmental degradation.
Projects
Mangrove and Wetland Conservation
One of the major initiatives of Vanashakti is conservation of Wetlands, specifically mangroves in Mumbai metropolitan areas. Vanashakti conducts research on Mangroves through "photo documentation, regular visits, and archive databases". Over the years, Vanashakti has fought many court cases against activities that have harmful impact on the health of the wetlands in Maharashtra. Following are the examples of Vanashakti’s legal efforts to save the Mangroves:-
PIL filed to stop reclamation of coastal wetlands to construct SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in Important Bird Area, the Thane Creek. In response to the PIL, Bombay High Court ordered the project proponent to stop dumping of solid waste in Mulund-Thane SEZ.
PIL filed against Kanjurmarg dumping ground for destruction of mangroves and violation of waste management rules by BMC.Following the PIL, Bombay High Court ordered BMC to stop dumping waste in Kanjurmarg Landfill.
Complaints filed highlighting issues of degradation/destruction of mangroves and wetlands at all levels of government.
PIL filed by Vanashakti on the non-implementation of Wetland Rules led to High Court ruling that banned all construction on Wetlands.
Along with two other NGOs, Vanashakti filed a PIL against illegal reclamation and dumping on the CRZ-I. The PIL also asked for the creation of a governing body to keep the destruction of wetlands in check.
The state environment department directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to carry out an inspection at Sewri Bay in response to Dayanand's letter to the state government urging the protection of its wetlands and birds. The Mumbai High Court issued notices to port trust and Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority. Meanwhile, officials from the city collectorate confirmed that indeed there was destruction of mangroves at Sewri Bay.
Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary has more than one and a half lakh birds, many of which are migratory species and many of them critically endangered species. The state of Maharashtra had refused to take steps to protect it. In 2011, Vanashakti proposed to declare the area as Sanctuary and requested the State Government to protect the area. Finally, in 2016 the notification was issued where the Thane creek from Airoli bridge to Vashi bridge was declared the ‘Thane creek Flamingo Sanctuary’.
Restoration of Degraded Wetlands
Vanashakti was a part of a restoration programme launched by state of Maharashtra which involved plantation of mangroves over 60 hectares across the city of Mumbai. Vanashakti collected 300 kg of garbage from 200 acres of mangrove forests in Bhandup.
Forests and Wildlife Protection
PIL against construction of a dam on the perennial Dabhil River to protect its ecology and water security of the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg wildlife corridor.
Petition filed against felling of 3000 trees along the Shirsha Phata Ambadi Road in Thane for widening of roads.
Campaigns by Vanashakti helped in declaration of Sawantwadi-Dodamarg belt as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) by Bombay High Court.
Stalin and Vanashakti NGO filed a Public Interest Litigation with the Bombay High Court petitioning to identify and demarcate "Critical Wildlife Habitats" in wildlife sanctuaries in the state of Maharashtra.
The biodiversity rich forests of Tungareshwar have an endangered buffer zone, with human industry such as quarrying, construction of roads and religious structures, deforestation and hunting have continually violated the bulwark of the ecologically sensitive zone. the State Government had not declared the ESZ despite requests by Vanashakti since 2012. After a 6 year delay, Vanashakti moved the Honourable High Court of Bombay seeking the issuance of a directive to the State Government to finalize the ESZ. In 2019, The ministry of environment forests and climate change (MoEFCC) approved the final notification to create a protective, eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (TWLS) and Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary in Palghar and Thane districts of Maharashtra.
Save Aarey
Vanashakti had filed petition with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) demanding that Aarey Milk Colony be declared a No Development Zone.
The NGT prohibited any construction work in the Aarey Milk Colony until it decided on the dispute over the Metro III car shed.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Stalin had written a letter to Sanjay Gandhi National Park alleging hills in Dindoshi which were in the vicinity of SGNP were being flattened based on satellite images of the area and requested the authorities to take necessary steps to prevent further deforestation.
In 2015, in a petition filed by Vanashakti, it sought to demarcate “Critical Wildlife Areas” in order protect the various species from extinction inside forests and sanctuaries.
In January 2016, the Ministry of Environment and Forests in an affidavit in the National Green Tribunal that they were in the final stages of setting up an eco-sensitive zone around Sanjay Gandhi National Park. NGO Vanashakti had filed a petition seeking the declaration of Aarey Milk Colony as an Eco-Sensitive Zone.
Anti-Opencast Mining
Vanashakti was the first NGO to take up the issue of mining near Sindhudurg region in Maharashtra in 2010 following which the Union Minister of environment and forest Jairam Ramesh wrote a letter to then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ashok Chavan asking him to review all 49 mining leases in that region.
River Conservation and Restoration
Save Ulhas River Project under which independent research on the water quality of Ulhas River was conducted by Vanashakti. Results included increase in salinity and BOD levels, following which the complaint was filed.
Public Trust Doctrine for Rivers is a Regulation Policy for Rivers. Urban spaces established closer to river origins lead to detrimental effects on these rivers. Discharge of sewage into these rivers makes the water non-potable for up to 30 km downstream and also disturbs groundwater percolation and recharge. Vanashakti moved the High Court to enforce the Doctrine of Public Trust for rivers, by which the State as the custodian of natural resources must keep it from pollution and should allow unrestricted access to all citizens and animals.
The Mithi River is a seasonal river which has seen decades of abuse and encroachments on its floodplains and estuaries. Vanashakti challenged the Coastal Regulation Zone clearance granted for construction of retaining walls and service road along the banks of Mithi River by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. On August 16, 2017, the Supreme Court in its verdict ordered the immediate barring of any deepening, widening or blasting operations in the river. It further mandated the establishment of a panel to ensure pollution in the river reduces and its restoration begins soon.
Coastal Conservation
In 2019, Vanashakti held a Morjim-Sea Turtle Festival in collaboration with the Goa Forest Department where workshops were conducted among tourists and citizens to create awareness on Olive Ridleys turtles, their nesting habits and, the efforts of the Forest Department to preserve their nesting sites and patterns, the hatchlings and their zoological behaviour in surviving in the vast ocean, citizen dos and don'ts and the various threats to their survival in Morjim. The impact of the festival from awareness building, outreach, beach clean ups and applying the community-conservation model in Morjim were noticed.
The coastal road project was a reclamation project that proposed reclamation up to 95 hectares of the intertidal rocky shore from Princess Street to Worli. Vanashakti through its coastal division Sagarshakti conducted a biodiversity shorewalk at Worli and documented 36 species at the Worli 'to be reclaimed' intertidal shore. Vanashakti intervened on wildlife protection and biodiversity grounds and the High Court in April 2019 squashed the CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) clearance and stalled the project. The matter has now been listed in the Supreme Court for which the Honourable court has refused to lift the stay on the Coastal Road CRZ clearance. The CRZ clearance had several loopholes on biodiversity and livelihood grounds that had missing data on keystone species such as corals and gorgonians.
Tribal Community Based Conservation
Vanashakti works with tribal communities living in the Mangroves to prevent deforestation and illegal usage of forest resources. Alternative methods of livelihood like apiculture are encouraged to provide financial independence to these communities. Paper bags production from Woman Self Help groups in Wada Taluka, initiated by Vanashakti gives an opportunity to women to provide for their families and reduces the incoming waste in Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
Awareness Programmes
Vanashakti regularly holds activities like beach and mangrove cleanup, rallies, cleanliness drive, workshops, tree plantation, bird watching tours and educational programs and competition in schools to generate awareness about environment amongst students and general public alike. Vanashakti hosts tours of mangrove forests in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) to educate public on the importance of mangroves and are among the forerunners in raising awareness about conservation of coastal ecology. Vanashakti works to address all aspects of conservation like education, awareness, sustainable livelihoods, engage with government authorities and judicial battles as a last resort.
External links
Official Site
Youtube Channel
Introduction
Nature conservation organisations based in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Bindon%20%28Australian%20politician%29
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Samuel Bindon (Australian politician)
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Samuel Henry Bindon (1812 – 1 August 1879) was a judge and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.
Bindon was born in Limerick, Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1835. He was called to the Irish bar, and after practising for some years in Dublin, moved to Victoria in 1855; in May of that year, he was admitted to the bar there. He sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Castlemaine from 1864 to 1868, and was minister of justice in the Sir James McCulloch government from July 1866 to May 1868. In 1869 he was appointed a county court judge, and held that position, with the exception of a short interval in 1878, when he was one of the victims of the Black Wednesday dismissals, till his death on 1 August 1879 in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.
References
1812 births
1879 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Irish emigrants to colonial Australia
19th-century Australian politicians
Lawyers from Limerick (city)
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Ministers for Corrections (Victoria)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shneior%20Lifson
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Shneior Lifson
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Shneior Lifson (; 18 March 1914, in Tel Aviv – 22 January 2001, in Rehovot), was
an Israeli chemical physicist, scientific director of the Weizmann Institute of Science, a founder of the Open University of Israel, and laureate of the 1969 Israel Prize in the life sciences. Lifson is best known for his consistent force field method, one of the major theories behind 3-D computer modeling of large molecules.
In 2013, two scientists who early in their career had worked under his guidance at the Weizmann Institute – Arieh Warshel, who was his Ph.D. student, and Michael Levitt – won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That research focused on the development and applications of the consistent force field method to molecular dynamics of proteins.
Early years
Lifson was born in Tel Aviv in 1914, into a family of Russian immigrants. While studying at the Herzliya Hebrew High School, he became active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In 1932, after completing his studies, Lifson was among the founders of a new kibbutz, now called Nir David, in the Jezreel Valley, in which he served as a teacher in the natural sciences.
In 1942, he joined the Palmach underground army, but a year later was demobilized to pursue academic studies. After earning a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics, he returned to teaching, in a school of the kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek.
When the 1948 Arab–Israeli War broke out in 1948, Lifson was drafted into the science corps of the Israel Defense Forces, Hemed, serving under the command of Aharon Katzir, who was then Head of the Department of Polymers at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Career
In 1949, Lifson joined Katzir’s department at the Weizmann Institute, while at the same time pursuing doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under Katzir’s guidance. He earned his Ph.D. in 1954, focusing in his thesis on polyelectrolyte solutions.
The research he conducted on this topic in the 1950s still serves as a cornerstone for understanding the behavior of charged macromolecules, biological and synthetic, in water solutions. The activity of such biological macromolecules as DNA, RNA, enzymes, and other proteins is altered by temperature, salinity, and other external conditions. Lifson used the methods of statistical mechanics to investigate the structural changes of these molecules in solution.
Later in his career, Lifson was the principal collaborator in formulating the theory of the helix-coil transition in biological macromolecules, a process whose clarification is essential for understanding structural changes related to protein folding. Lifson then developed a method for calculating the interactions among the forces that various molecular components exert upon one another. Known as the consistent force field method, it makes it possible to characterize molecules in mathematical and physical terms, as well as to predict and calculate the energy of interaction among their components.
The ability to compute the forces operating among various atoms with the help of Lifson’s method has facilitated a basic clarification of the structure and dynamics of biological molecules and eventually led to a breakthrough in understanding protein folding and diseases caused by defective folding. Today, numerous studies of protein folding are designed on the basis of predictions obtained through such computations. The consistent force field method also enables the precise planning of chemical reactions and the study of the function of various molecules in biological systems, among them the interactions between different proteins, the binding of ions to biomolecules, and the redesign of proteins. This method lies at the basis of theoretical computational approaches in modern structural biology. In industry, building molecular models using this method has enhanced the development of drugs, food additives, pesticides, and numerous other chemicals.
Honors and Appointments
Lifson held numerous leading positions in research and education in Israel. He served as Scientific Director of the Weizmann Institute (1963–1967) and Dean of its Faculty of Chemistry (1972–1978). He founded the Institute’s Department of Chemical Physics and served as its Head (1963–1979).
In 1970, education minister Yigal Allon appointed Lifson to head a committee examining the need for an open university in Israel. The committee recommended that one be created on the model of institutions existing in the United Kingdom. Upon the establishment of the Open University of Israel, Lifson served as its first rector (1974–1975). He was also editor-in-chief of the Children’s Britannica in Hebrew, published starting in 1977.
Lifson's honors included the Weizmann Prize (1958), the Israel Prize (1969), and election to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1999). He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Open University of Israel (1991), received an honorary Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2000) and was named Yakir Rehovot – “Distinguished Resident of Rehovot” (2000). He served on the board of trustees of Tel Aviv’s Cameri Theater and on the board of governors of Israeli Educational Television.
External links
Prof. Shneior Lifson at the Weizmann Institute website
Prof. Lifson’s CV
List of Prof. Lifson’s major publications
1914 births
2001 deaths
Israeli physical chemists
Scientists from Tel Aviv
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Israel Prize in life sciences recipients
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triathlon%20at%20the%202013%20Bolivarian%20Games
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Triathlon at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
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Triathlon (Spanish:Triatlón), for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place on 25 November and 27 November 2013. The two individual races for these Games are officially the sprint distance ones.
Medal table
Medalists
References
Events at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
2013 in triathlon
2013 Bolivarian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon%20Wong
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Sheldon Wong
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Sheldon Wong (born 13 July 1960) is a Jamaican chess player who now resides in Orlando, Florida. He holds the National Master titles of both Jamaica and the United States.
Chess
In 1976, the 16-year-old Wong won the Jamaican Chess Championship and became the country's youngest National Master. That same year he represented Jamaica at the World Student Team Championship in Caracas, scoring 3½/8. In late 1976 and early 1977 he played for Jamaica at the World Junior Chess Championship in Groningen, where he was awarded a brilliancy prize for his win against the Israeli junior champion Nir Grinberg. After winning his first three games to co-lead the tournament, he suffered five consecutive losses, eventually finishing with 5½/13. He won the Jamaican championship again in 1977, and represented Jamaica at both the World Student Team Championship in Mexico City, where he scored 7/13, and the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires, where he scored 7½/14.
He later moved to the United States, where he gained the National Master title in 1992; however, he has played no rated tournaments since 1997.
External links
Wong–Grinberg game, annotated by John Tobisch
Sheldon Wong at 365chess.com
References
Jamaican chess players
1960 births
Jamaican people of Chinese descent
Living people
Sportspeople from Spanish Town
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20State%20Route%2036
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Tennessee State Route 36
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State Route 36 (SR 36) is a state highway, broken in two segments. In Unicoi County, it serves as the hidden concurrency of U.S. Route 19W; in Washington and Sullivan counties, it serves as a stand-alone secondary road connecting the cities of Johnson City and Kingsport.
Route description
Segment 1
SR 36 begins in Unicoi County as the unsigned companion route of US 19W at the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. US 19W/SR 36 goes west as a narrow 2-lane highway through rural mountainous areas before curving to the north and having a y-intersection with SR 352 (Old US 23). The highway winds its way north to Temple Hill, where they interchange with I-26/US 23 (Exit 43). Here, US 19W becomes concurrent with I-26/US 23 while SR 36 comes to an end.
Segment 2
Washington County
SR 36 begins in Washington County in Johnson City at a y-intersection with US 11E/US 19W/SR 34. SR 36 then heads northwest as an undivided 4-lane highway and has an interchange with SR 381 before leaving Johnson City and continuing northwest. It passes through Boones Creek, where it has an intersection with SR 354, before passing through Oak Grove and Spurgeon, where it has an intersection with SR 75 which provides access to Gray to southwest and the Tri-Cities Regional Airport and Blountville in the northeast. SR 36 then narrows to 2-lanes before crossing into Sullivan County.
Sullivan County
SR 36 then continues northeast, paralleling the South Fork Holston River to Colonial Heights, where it has an interchange with Interstate 81 (exit 59). SR 36 then widens to 4-lanes again and enters Kingsport and has an interchange with SR 93. SR 36 then passes through a major business district, where it becomes concurrent with SR 126, before passing through several neighborhoods and curving to the west. SR 126 then splits off just west of downtown before SR 36 passes straight through downtown Kingsport. SR 36 then has an intersection with SR 355, where the highway turns north again and has an interchange with US 11W/SR 1. SR 36 then continues north through several neighborhoods before coming to an end at an intersection with SR 346 at the interchange with US 23/SR 137, less than a mile from the Tennessee-Virginia state line.
History
US 23 was established in 1930 with a complete concurrency with SR 36, from the North Carolina state line to the Virginia state line; going through Erwin, Unicoi, Johnson City and Kingsport. In 1952, US 23 was rerouted southwest of Ernestville, along SR 81 through Flag Pond and Sam's Gap into North Carolina; its old alignment remained part of US 19W/SR 36.
In 1970, The first segment of a four-lane freeway, designated SR 137, was opened between Johnson City and Kingsport. Over the following decade, SR 137 continued being extended at both ends until in 1982, when AASHTO approved US 23 relocation onto the freeway, leaving behind its old alignment to SR 36 from north of Johnson City to near the Virginia state line. In December 1985, I-181 was established, truncated SR 137 north of US 11W, while SR 36 replaced as new concurrency south of US 11E; all signs and exit numbers were based on US 23 designation. In 1988, AASHTO approved an extension of I-26 from North Carolina to I-81, on contingent upon the completion and certification of interstate standards in North Carolina, which happened in August 2003. Following the new designation, both SR 36 and SR 81 was removed of their concurrencies with US 23. In March 2007, the remaining spur of I-181, from I-81 to US 11W, was switched to I-26.
Major intersections
References
External links
036
Transportation in Unicoi County, Tennessee
Transportation in Washington County, Tennessee
Transportation in Sullivan County, Tennessee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Used%20to%20Vacation
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We Used to Vacation
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We Used to Vacation is the fourth EP by the American indie rock band Cold War Kids. It was released by V2 on November 27, 2006 on compact disc and vinyl. The title track (which is also the opening track of Robbers & Cowards) is told from the perspective of an alcoholic family man, telling of his struggle against his alcoholism in order to be responsible to his family. The line "I give a check to tax deductible charity organizations" is from the Bob Dylan track "Ballad of a Thin Man", from his Highway 61 Revisited album.
Critical reception
NME were impressed by the track, praising the production and vocals and saying that the band had "enough flair, taste and soul for any educated heart in Britain."
Track listing
References
2006 EPs
Cold War Kids EPs
V2 Records EPs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Chin-Yi%20University%20of%20Technology
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National Chin-Yi University of Technology
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National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT; ) is a public university located in Taiping District, Taichung, Taiwan.
Some of the most popular programs at NCYU include Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Management, Environmental Engineering, and Finance. The university also offers programs in fields such as Applied English, Digital Media Design, and Industrial Design.
History
NCUT was initially established as Chin-Yi Technical Vocational Junior College in 1971 as a private school. In 1973, it was renamed Chin-Yi Institute of Technology. In 1992, the school was nationalized. On 1 July 1999, it was designated as National Chin-Yi Institute of Technology. On 1 February 2007, it was officially designated as the National Chin-Yi University of Technology.
Faculties
NCUT comprises five colleges: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering, General Education, Humanities and Creativity, and Management.
See also
List of universities in Taiwan
References
External links
1971 establishments in Taiwan
Universities and colleges in Taichung
Universities and colleges established in 1971
Scientific organizations based in Taiwan
Universities and colleges in Taiwan
Technical universities and colleges in Taiwan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudiya%20Nritya
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Gaudiya Nritya
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Gaudiya Nritya () or Gour̤īyo Nrityo, is an ancient Bengali classical dance tradition. It originates from Gauda, also known as Gaur, in Bengal.
It has been reconstructed by Mahua Mukherjee. It is recognised as an Indian classical dance by Ministry of Culture, also recognized by Sangeet Natak Akademi ,but study of it is eligible for scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of India. Scholarly reception of the reconstruction ranges from caution to skepticism.
References
External links
www.gaudiyanritya.org
Video of Gaudiya Nritya performance
Bengali culture
Dances of India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IObit%20Uninstaller
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IObit Uninstaller
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IObit Uninstaller is an uninstaller developed for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by IObit Inc.
Features
IObit Uninstaller is used to completely uninstall applications and all files related to that application. It enables users to view content in which deletion is recommended, then select which items they wish to proceed with.
References
Iobit Channel From Telegram By TheA2MGroup
Windows-only freeware
Uninstallers for Windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille%20Eug%C3%A8ne%20Finet
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Achille Eugène Finet
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Achille Eugène Finet (1863, Argenteuil – 1913, París) was a French botanist best known for his study of orchids native to Japan and China.
Within the family Orchidaceae, he was the taxonomic authority of the genera Arethusantha, Hemihabenaria, Monixus and Pseudoliparis as well as of numerous orchid species. With François Gagnepain, he circumscribed a number of plant species from the family Annonaceae.
In 1925 Hu Xiansu named the orchid genus Neofinetia in his honor.
Selected works
Orchidées nouvelles de la Chine, 1897 - New orchids native to China.
Sur le genre Oreorchis Lindley, 1897 - On the genus Oreorchis Lindl..
Orchidées recueillies au Yunnan et au Laos, 1898 - Orchids collected in Yunnan and Laos.
Les orchidées du Japon, principalement d'après les collections de l'herbier du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, 1900 - Orchids of Japan, principally from herbarium collections at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Paris.
Les orchidées de l'Asie orientale, 1901 - Orchids of eastern Asia.
Contributions à la flore de l'Asie orientale, 1907 (with François Gagnepain) - Contributions to the flora of eastern Asia.
References
19th-century French botanists
Orchidologists
1863 births
1913 deaths
People from Argenteuil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20Janicaud
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Dominique Janicaud
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Dominique Janicaud (; 14 November 1937 – 18 August 2002) was a French philosopher, known for his critical approach to the philosophy of Heidegger. He was the director of its Center for the History of Ideas at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis until 1998, when he was succeeded by André Tosel.
Bibliography
Une Généalogie du spiritualisme français. Aux sources du bergsonisme : Ravaisson et la métaphysique, La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1969. Archives internationales d'histoire des idées. 30. Bibliogr. pp. 220–235. Index. Réédition : Ravaisson et la métaphysique : une généalogie du spiritualisme français, Paris, J. Vrin, 1997.
Hegel et le destin de la Grèce, Paris, J. Vrin, 1975. Bibliogr. p. 343-366. Index. Thèse de lettres, université de Paris IV, 1973.
Avec Jean-François Mattéi, La Métaphysique à la limite : cinq études sur Heidegger, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1983. Collection Épiméthée.
La Puissance du rationnel, Paris, Gallimard, 1985.
L'Ombre de cette pensée : Heidegger et la question politique, Grenoble, J. Millon, 1990.
À nouveau la philosophie, Paris, A. Michel, 1991.
Le Tournant théologique de la phénoménologie française, Combas, Éd. de l'Éclat, 1991.
Chronos : pour l'intelligence du partage temporel, Paris, B. Grasset, 1997.
La Phénoménologie éclatée, Paris, Éd. de l'Eclat, 1998.
Heidegger en France, Paris, A. Michel, 2001. Collection : Bibliothèque Albin Michel. Idées, ISSN 1158-4572. Vol. 1, Récit ; Vol. 2, Entretiens. Note(s) : Bibliogr. vol. 1, p. 543-572. Index. (vol. 1). - (vol. 2).
L'Homme va-t-il dépasser l'humain ?, Paris, Bayard, 2002.
Aristote aux Champs-Élysées : promenades et libres essais philosophiques, La Versanne, Encre Marine, 2003.
Les Bonheurs de Sophie : une initiation à la philosophie en 30 mini-leçons, La Versanne, Encre Marine, 2003.
References
Further reading
Françoise Dastur, (éd.), Dominique Janicaud, L'intelligence du partage, Paris, Belin, L’Extrême contemporain, 2006.
20th-century French philosophers
Phenomenologists
Daseinsanalysis
Philosophy academics
1937 births
Heidegger scholars
2002 deaths
French male writers
Academic staff of Côte d'Azur University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callipodida
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Callipodida
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Callipodida is an order of millipedes containing around 130 species, many characterized by crests or ridges.
Description
Callipodida are long and narrow millipedes, up to in length with 40-60 body segments. A dorsal groove is present running down the mid-line of the body, and many species are ornamented with longitudinal crests or ridges. Sexually mature males possess a single pair of gonopods, consisting of the modified anterior leg pair of the 7th body segment, and carried concealed within a pouch.
Distribution
Callipodida occurs in North America, Europe, west Asia, southern China and Southeast Asia.
Classification
The living (extant) Callipodida are classified into three suborders, seven families, and approximately 130 species. The genus Sinocallipus, which constitutes the suborder Sinocallipodidea, is thought to be the most primitive, and a sister group to all
other callipodans. A fourth, extinct, suborder was described in 2019 to accommodate Burmanopetalum inexpectatum, a 99 million-year-old specimen found in Burmese amber.
Suborder Callipodidea
Callipodidae
Suborder Schizopetalidea
Abacionidae
Caspiopetalidae
Dorypetalidae
Paracortinidae
Schizopetalidae
Suborder Sinocallipodidea
Sinocallipodidae
Suborder Burmanopetalidea
Burmanopetalidae
References
External links
Millipede orders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdmanns%20Cave
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Erdmanns Cave
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The Erdmannshöhle is a stalactite or flowstone cave in the village Hasel between Schopfheim and Wehr, 20 km east of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Name
The word Erdmannshöhle is comparable to earth man's hole and composed of the three German nouns Erde (earth), Mann (man) and Höhle (cave). Erdmann is also a German forename and a surname. As a forename it was often given to show the connection with the earth.
In the Baroque the Republic of Venice sent mineralogical prospectors to the countries north of the Alps to look for the raw materials which were necessary for glassmaking. These prospectors were called "Venetians" everywhere else and only in the Black Forest they were called "Stumm-Männle" (meaning "dumb little men", because they did not speak with the local people) were mostly very small, wore an ankle-long tunic with a hood like the cowl of a monk and carefully avoided contact. These mysterious migrants who worked underground, entered with an empty sack which was filled when they came out of the mountain are obviously the prototype of what the legend turned into the "little men of the earth" who were seeking or hiding treasures in the dark galleries of the mountains.
Legend
In the present case there is a legend which speaks of Erdmännlein: this is the diminutive of Erdmann. Männlein can be translated as manikin or little man (dwarf). Erdmännlein - or its variant Erdmännchen - is also the German word for meerkat, a cute little animal that can resemble a tiny man.
According to the legend the "little men of the earth" who gave their name to the Erdmannshöhle were small men which were hardworking and kind and above all helpful.
Description
Caves are seldom in the Black Forest, because in the predominant rock types, which are granite and buntsandstein, its formation is rare. Very different is the situation in the mountain massif of the Dinkelberg between High Rhine, Wiese valley and Wehra valley where muschelkalk predominates which allows the formation of holes by erosion processes.
The Erdmannshöhle in Hasel is one of the oldest caves of its type in Germany. The measured total length of the cave is 2185 meters, the part of the cave open to sightseeing is 360 meters long.
The largest stalactite in the cave, which is mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records, has a height of more than 4 meters and is 2 meters thick at the bottom. Its estimated age is about 135000 years.
External links
Welcome to the realm of the little men of the earth! German
erdmann-cave on www.black-forest-travel.com; English
English video
Erdmannshoehle-Hasel-stalactite-cave on www.blackforest-tourism.com; English
Opening hours; German
Entrance fees; German
References
Caves of Germany
Show caves in Germany
Black Forest
Geography of the Black Forest
Landforms of Baden-Württemberg
Lörrach (district)
Baden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Taipei%20University%20of%20Nursing%20and%20Health%20Science
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National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science
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The National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences () is a public Medical School located in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.
History
Founded in 1954 as Taiwan Provincial Junior College of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS) has undergone various transformations in its history. In 1963, the college consolidated with Taipei Senior Vocational School of Medicine, and was renamed Taiwan Provincial Vocational School of Nursing and Midwifery, a five-year junior college. Reformed again from a state-run institution in 1994, the school changed its name to National Taipei College of Nursing. This title continued until August 2010, when the School was formally renamed National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. Since 1994, NTUNHS has established the Department of Medical & Nursing Management and the Department of Infant & Child Care. In 1999, NTUNHS started its master's program in Nursing and Health Care Management, Long-Term care, Nursing-Midwifery, Health Allied Education, and Speech & Hearing Disorders and Sciences. In 2002, NTUNHS further established the Department of Exercise & Health Science and Department of Information Management. Upon approval by the Ministry of Education in 2005, NTUNHS established a doctoral program in nursing; this was the first doctoral nursing program in the nation provided by a technological and vocational school. In 2007, the Department of Nursing began recruiting international students to its master's program, inaugurating its English-based international nursing program at the school. In August 2010, NTUNHS was formally renamed the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, comprising the College of Nursing, College of Healthcare Administration and Management, College of Human Development and Health, and Center of General Education. At present, NTUNHS is made up of three colleges, including five departments, twelve graduate programs, and one center.
Campus
Main Campus
Address: No. 365, Ming-te Road, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan Zipcode 112303
Downtown Campus
Address: No. 89, Neijiang Street, Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan
School
College of Nursing
College of Health Technology
College of Human Development and Health
Bachelor's Degree
Under the College of Nursing
Nursing
Gerontologist Health Care
Nurse-Midwifery and Women Health
Allied Health Education and Digital Learning
Under the College of Health Technology
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Health Care Management
Information Management
Long-Term Care
Healthcare Management
Leisure Industry and Health Promotion
Under the College of Human Development and Health
Thanatology and Health Counseling
Infant and Child Care
Exercise and Health Science
Partmer University
Africa
：Ecole Nacionale De Sante Publique of Burkina Faso
North America
: University of Southern California
: San Diego State University
: University of Maryland, College Park
: University of the Incarnate Word
: University of Washington
: Southern California University of Health Sciences
: University of Miami
: University of Michigan–Flint
: Oklahoma City University
: Eastern Michigan University
Asia
: National University of Singapore
: Seoul Women's College of Nursing
: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
: The Global Leadership University
: Govi-Altai school of Health Sciences University of Mongolia
: Otoch Manramba University
: College of Asian Scholars
: Chiang Mai University
: Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy
: Tra Vinh University
: Aisyiyah Health Sciences College of Indonesia
: Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta
: Muhammadiyah Midwifery Academy of Cirebon
: University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto
: University Muhammadiyah of Jakarta
: Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang
: Muhammadiyah University of West Sumatra
: Muhammadiyah Health Sciences Institute of Gombong
: University of Muhammadiyah of Tangerang
: Aisyiyah Midwifery Academy of Banten
: Aisyiyah Health Sciences College of Surakarta
: Aisyiyah Midwifery Academy of Pontianak
: Prima Nusantara Health College, Bukit Tinggi
: Dehasen Health Sciences College, Bengkulu, Sumatera
: Health Sciences College of Indonesia, Padang, Sumatera
: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland–Medical University of Bahrain
Europe
: Ulster University
: Queen's University Belfast
: University of Bedfordshire
: University of Ostrava
Oceania
: University of Canberra
: Queensland University of Technology
: Griffith University
: Deakin University
: Manukau Institute of Technology
: University of Auckland
See also
List of universities in Taiwan
References
External links
1954 establishments in Taiwan
Universities and colleges established in 1954
Universities and colleges in Taipei
Nursing schools in Taiwan
Scientific organizations based in Taiwan
Universities and colleges in Taiwan
Technical universities and colleges in Taiwan
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Hönne Valley Railway
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The Hönne Valley Railway () is a 22 km long, single-track and non-electrified branch line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, running from Menden (Sauerland) to Neuenrade through the Hönne valley. It is operated as timetable route 437 from Unna via Fröndenberg, Menden (Sauerland) and Balve to Neuenrade.
The line runs through two tunnels and across seven bridges made of natural stone through the Hönne valley, which was already praised for its beauty during the period of German romanticism when it was built.
History
The Menden–Neuenrade railway was inaugurated on 1 April 1912, with construction beginning in 1909.
At its opening there were stations at Neuenrade, Garbeck, Balve, Sanssouci, Binolen and Lendringsen and halts () at Küntrop, Volkringhausen, Klusenstein, Oberrödinghausen and Menden-Süd. Horlecke station was located between Lendringsen and Menden-Süd, but was no longer classified as a station by 1967.
The railway was primarily used for the industry of the Hönne valley. Because of the new traffic, limestone bridges were built along the railway in Binolen, Sanssouci, Balve and Garbeck. The economic growth was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, which brought a restriction on passenger traffic. In the “turnip winter” (Steckrübenwinter) of 1917/18, this line also supplied potatoes and grain to the starving population of the Ruhr. After 1925, the operation of excursion passenger trains increased again.
Before the Second World War, there were so many visitors to the valley that "car-free” Sundays were introduced to provide guests with rest and relaxation. In the period after the First World War trains from the Ruhr on Sundays carried up to 1000 people travelling to the valley's numerous restaurants. Between the two wars the narrow valley discouraged the development of an Emden–Hönne valley–Frankfurt railway as a north-south link protected against enemy (French) action.
The line was disrupted during the war by the destruction of the Ruhr bridge at Fröndenberg as a result of the floodwave caused by the air raid on the Mohne Dam (Operation Chastise) on 17 May 1943. After the construction of a temporary bridge rail traffic resumed and was also used to supply the labour camp for Schwalbe I (an underground factory built to avoid air raids) at Öberrödinghausen. Two years later, the railway was closed again by the blowing up of the railway bridge in Sanssouci. In June 1945, traffic was resumed after the construction of a temporary bridge, which was used until 1952.
In the mid-1950s, it was the most profitable branch line of the Bundesbahndirektion (railway division of) Wuppertal. In the following years there were a series of rationalisation measures. Despite the rationalisation, traffic increased steadily in the following years. In recent years, the line has been threatened with closure several times.
There were plans to extend the Hönne Valley Railway from Neuenrade to Werdohl or build a branch from Sanssouci towards Plettenberg, connecting to the existing Ruhr–Sieg railway. These plans were abandoned.
Operations
Passengers
The Hönne Valley Railway is served by Regionalbahn service RB 54 (Hönnetal-Bahn).
Services run hourly in both directions between Unna and Neuenrade on weekdays with trains crossing in Binolen on the hour. Fewer services run on weekends. Trains run at least every two hours to and from Neuenrade.
Services on the Hönne Valley Railway are operated by DB Regio NRW, using Alstom Coradia LINT 41 (class 648) diesel railcars, which by supplemented by LINT 27 (class 640) diesel railcars. The LINT 41 railcars can be operated either singly or doubly, as required, while the LINT 27 railcars are usually operated in double traction. In addition trains made up of a LINT 41 and two LINT 27 sets are a common sight for school services. Operations on the Hönne Valley Railway, along with the lines from Dortmund to Winterberg, Iserlohn and Lüdenscheid, were awarded in 2004 as a tender package called the Sauerland Net to DB Regionalbahn Westfalen, which has now been absorbed into DB Regio NRW.
Before the use of DMUs of class 624 and 628 from about 1994, the line was operated for many years by locomotive-hauled trains usually formed as a push-pull service of Silberling carriages and class 212 diesel locomotives.
Freight
The freight is limited now to operations to the Rheinkalk lime works in Oberrödinghausen Lendringsen and an industrial siding in Menden.
Notes
References
Railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia
Railway lines opened in 1912
1912 establishments in Germany
Balve
Buildings and structures in Märkischer Kreis
Menden (Sauerland)
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Krajišnik (surname)
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Krajišnik is Serbian surname. The name is derived from the Serbian language term krajina or krajište () that had originally served as an administrative unit of the Serbian Empire or Despotate to designate border regions where the emperor or despot had not established solid and firm control due to raids from hostile neighboring provinces. The Albanian variant of the surname is Kreshnik.
Notable people with Krajišnik surname include:
Damjan Krajišnik
Momčilo Krajišnik
Munever Krajišnik
See also
Krajišnik (disambiguation)
Bosanska Krajina
Bosansko Krajište
Krajišnik (Gradiška)
NK Krajišnik Velika Kladuša
References
Surnames of Serbian origin
Toponymic surnames
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