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6951737_0 | Vergeletto | Vergeletto is a former municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 10 April 2016 the former municipalities of Vergeletto, Gresso, Mosogno and Isorno merged into the municipality of Onsernone.
History
In the Middle Ages Vergeletto belonged to the Onsernone Vicinanza and to the squadra of Russo. In 1803 the municipality of Vergeletto also included the municipality of Gresso, both municipalities separated into independent municipalities in 1882. Vergeletto was part of the parish of Russo until 1757, when it became an autonomous parish.
Geography
Vergeletto valley
Vergeletto had an area, as of 1997, of 40.79 square kilometers (15.75 sq mi). Of this area, 0.21 km2 (0.081 sq mi) or 0.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17.5 km2 (6.8 sq mi) or 42.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.23 km2 (0.089 sq mi) or 0.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.99 km2 (0.38 sq mi) or 2.4% is either rivers or lakes and 15.44 km2 (5.96 sq mi) or 37.9% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.1%. Out of the forested land, 30.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.4% is used for growing crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 23.0% is unproductive vegetation and 14.9% is too rocky for vegetation.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality are taken from the Garbani, or Garban family for its French and Northern American branch, originating from the village and whose certain members illustrated themselves as magistrates and Swiss statesmen.
Demographics |
6951737_1 | Vergeletto | Demographics
Vergeletto had a population (as of 2014) of 60. As of 2008, 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks Italian (93.8%), with German being second most common (4.6%) and Spanish being third (1.5%).as of 2000), 3 speak German, 61 people speak Italian. The remainder (1 person) speaks another language.
As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 46.8% male and 53.2% female. The population was made up of 24 Swiss men (38.7% of the population), and 5 (8.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 33 Swiss women (53.2%), and no non-Swiss women.
In 2008 the total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 4 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 1 people. This represents a population growth rate of 8.3%.
The age distribution, as of 2009, in Vergeletto is; 1 child is between 0 and 9 years old and 1 teenager is between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 2 people or 3.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 3 people or 4.8% are between 30 and 39, 5 people or 8.1% are between 40 and 49, and 14 people or 22.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 12 people or 19.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 8 people or 12.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 16 people or 25.8% who are over 80.
As of 2000, there were 35 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.9 persons per household.In 2000 there were 74 single family homes (or 83.1% of the total) out of a total of 89 inhabited buildings. There were 9 two family buildings (10.1%) and 2 multi-family buildings (2.2%). There were also 4 buildings in the municipality that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose). |
6951737_2 | Vergeletto | The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2008, was 0.96%. In 2000 there were 104 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was the 3 room apartment of which there were 32. There were 10 single room apartments and 21 apartments with five or more rooms.As of 2007, the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following table:
year population
1850 456
1900 371
1950 255
1970 148
1990 82
2000 65
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 38.19% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (25.24%), the SP (19.74%) and the Ticino League (7.77%). In the federal election, a total of 39 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.2%.
In the 2007 Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 78 registered voters in Vergeletto, of which 47 or 60.3% voted. 1 blank ballot was cast, leaving 46 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 14 or 30.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the PPD+GenGiova (with 11 or 23.9%), the SSI (with 10 or 21.7%) and the PS (with 5 or 10.9%).
In the 2007 Consiglio di Stato election, 3 blank ballots were cast, leaving 44 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 14 or 31.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the PPD (with 13 or 29.5%), the SSI (with 6 or 13.6%) and the LEGA (with 5 or 11.4%).
Economy
As of 2007, Vergeletto had an unemployment rate of 1.67%. As of 2005, there were 2 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 2 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 2 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 1 business in this sector. |
6951737_3 | Vergeletto | In 2000, there were 7 workers who commuted into the municipality and 10 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.As of 2009, there were 0 hotels in Vergeletto.
Religion
From the 2000 census, 60 or 92.3% were Roman Catholic, while 4 or 6.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. and 1 individuals (or about 1.54% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Vergeletto about 55.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
In Vergeletto there were a total of 1 students (as of 2009). The Ticino education system provides up to three years of non-mandatory kindergarten and in Vergeletto there were children in kindergarten. The primary school program lasts for five years. In the village, students attended the standard primary schools. In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education. There were 1 student in the two-year middle school, while 0 students were in the four-year advanced program.
The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college. In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).
As of 2000, there were 2 students from Vergeletto who attended schools outside the municipality.
Tourism and sights
The Chiesa parrochiale Annunciazione di Maria Vergine was founded in 1610 by Pietro Terribilini. It contains a wooden statue representing the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel.
Casa Garbani is an elegant 18th century estate built by the Garbani family, located in the upper part of the village. |
6951737_4 | Vergeletto | Il mulino is an 18th-century mill located in the center of the village.
Il nucleo is located at the entrance of the valley bearing the same name. It is the starting point of magnificent trips to Alpin refuge such as Salei, Arena and Ribia.
The Zott-Salei Telepheric (aerial tramway): starting from Zott located at a few kilometers from the village it joins the mountain pasture of Salei.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vergeletto.
* Dictionnaire Historique & Biographique de la Suisse, Erard-Heggenzi, Neuchatel, 1926.
* Armoriale dei comuni Ticinesi- Gastone Cambin, Lugano, 1963.
* Le Tessin jardin ensoleillé de la Suisse- Max Pfister, 1979.
* Armoriale Ticinese, Stemmario di famiglie ascritte al patriziati della repubblica e cantone del Ticino- Alfredo Lienhard-Riva, 1945, Lausanne. |
8461492_0 | KAFF-FM | KAFF-FM is a commercial country music radio station in Flagstaff, Arizona, broadcasting to the Flagstaff-Prescott, Arizona, area on 92.9 FM.
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969571_0 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Kano is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. Debuting in the original 1992 game, he is the leader of the Black Dragon, a fictional criminal organization. Kano is distinguished by his cybernetic eye, which he uses as a laser weapon in later installments. As one of the series' recurring villains, he often aligns himself with the forces threatening Earthrealm. He is also the archenemy of Special Forces officer Sonya Blade, who seeks to bring him to justice.
The character has appeared in various media outside of the games, including the 1995 film adaptation and the 2021 film. Reception to the character has been mainly positive; his heart rip Fatality in the first game is regarded as one of the franchise's most iconic.
Character design
Vincent Proce's concept art featuring an alternative version of Kano for the original reboot game that was canceled in favor of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, in which Kano was a player character
Kano was the final fighter to be added to the first game, where his role was to serve as the enemy of the female character Sonya.Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in The Terminator.Mortal Kombat: Deception biography card, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon described how Kano's bionic eye in the first game was created by cutting out a piece of a plastic mask and painting it a silver color, then attaching it with spirit gum to actor Richard Divizio's face, with the infrared eye added digitally. For the first game he wore a simple gray tunic that was changed to red and black for MK3; Divizio said, "I thought, 'Good, get rid of that white karate outfit!'" and remarked that his versus-screen pose in the game represented his "mean Kano face".Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on which he insisted as a fan of Indiana Jones. |
969571_1 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Kano's MK1 costume was revived as his alternate design for Deadly Alliance and Armageddon, and his main costume in both titles has him shirtless with a black vest, while he wears a cord around his neck that has a tuft of Sonya's hair attached.bandolier worn across his chest that features a large glowing red implement; this has only been missing from his Deadly Alliance appearance. Mortal Kombat X modified it into a cybernetic heart into which Kano inserts a core that glows different colors based on his gameplay variation. For an intended series reboot tentatively titled Mortal Kombat 8, former Midway Games concept artist Vincent Proce "dramatically revamped" Kano from a Black Dragon criminal into a "half Japanese, half U.S. military badass", complete with a more detailed faceplate and a simple white gi and red sash, while he went barefoot with his ankles heavily taped.Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe developed in its stead, and Kano was included in the game with his Black Dragon origins left intact.
In all Mortal Kombat media from the first game to Armageddon, Kano had either had a receding hairline or been completely bald (since Divizio had been going bald himself while filming for the first game and had shaved his head prior to shooting MK3) and his facial hair had regularly consisted of nothing more than stubble. With MKvsDC and the 2011 reboot, Kano was given a full head of hair and beard, and a cosmetic addition in the reboot was two large solid-black dragon tattoos that started at his chest and snaked around his arms, while his outfits in both games were throwbacks to the two-dimensional titles. The character was originally depicted as an expediate American, until his nationality was retconned as Australian after English actor Trevor Goddard portrayed him in the first Mortal Kombat film with a Cockney accent that was mistaken as Australian.
Gameplay |
969571_2 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Gameplay
In the original Mortal Kombat, Kano's special moves were the Knife Throw, making him one of two characters in the game (besides Scorpion) whose projectile was a physical weapon, while his body-propel move, the Cannonball, saw him curl into a ball and launch himself at his opponent. Sega Visions called the Knife Throw "a strong distance weapon and easily thrown".Fatalities in the game, which involved him plunging his hand into his opponent's chest and ripping out their still-beating heart. In the censored SNES version, he instead fractures the opponent's sternum with a deadly punch. Boon claimed that Sub-Zero's "Spine Rip" Fatality from the same game stood out more, because Kano's finisher did not have a "mark left on the opponent's body".Game Gear version of Mortal Kombat due to memory constraints, while a still image of him wielding an automatic weapon in his arcade ending was removed from the Genesis version of the game.
Kano was not playable in Mortal Kombat II; according to series co-creator John Tobias in a 1994 interview with GamePro, in the first game, "Kano and Sonya were probably picked the least. We [Midway] still wanted to include them in the storyline, so we had them captured." He then confirmed that Kano and Sonya would return in a future installment.Mortal Kombat 3, where his moves from the first game were retained while he gained a new "Choke" maneuver where he lifted his opponents and then violently shook them. His Fatalities were far less graphic than in the first game, as he either exploded his opponent with a laser blast from his implant, or reached down their throat to pull out their entire skeleton and hold it aloft without any blood or gore present. The game featured the unplayable hidden character Noob Saibot, who was a silhouetted sprite of Kano before being switched to a traditional ninja palette swap in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and the 1996 compilation title Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the latter of which featured the original MK1 Kano as a selectable along with the then-current version. |
969571_3 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Kano was the only one of the original seven characters who was omitted from Mortal Kombat 4 (1997), with new character Jarek debuting in his place. His role in the game was as the last surviving member of the Black Dragon following Kano's apparent death, and was being pursued by Sonya and Jax for "crimes against humanity". Jarek copied Kano's special moves as well as his "Heart Rip" and "Eye Laser" Fatalities despite possessing no cybernetic enhancements. He was not as well-received as his predecessor, and has not featured as a playable in the series again with the exception of Armageddon.
His eye laser is available as a special move in Deadly Alliance, and he had a special with his knives called "Ear to Ear".aikido, which is a defensive martial art that protects the attacker from injury.
Appearances
Mortal Kombat games
First depicted in the Mortal Kombat canon as a Japanese-American who was orphaned at a young age and fell into a life of crime,Kao, his eye plate came from a gunshot by escaping Sonya Blade in a scrapped Special Forces game.platform game Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, freeing fellow Black Dragon cohorts No Face, Tasia, Jarek, and Tremor from a Special Forces security facility under the pretense that they would reform the organization, though he really intended to use them as pawns to slow down any Special Forces agents who might pursue him. They kill an entire Special Forces unit during the prison break before Kano heads to Outworld, where he recovers the Eye of Chitian, an artifact through which he would acquire incredible power. While Special Forces Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs gets ahold of the object first and transports himself and Kano back to Earthrealm, the latter soon escapes custody. |
969571_4 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Kano enters the Mortal Kombat tournament in the original Mortal Kombat (1992) after hearing rumors that tournament host Shang Tsung's palace was filled with gold and other riches, with the intention of looting it for the Black Dragon. However, he is fervently pursued by U.S. Special Forces officer Sonya Blade, who holds a personal grudge against Kano that was left unspecified in the game's storyline. He evades capture by leaping onto Shang Tsung's junk bound for the tournament. When Sonya tracks him onto the private island, she is captured and forced to compete. She and Kano are among the competition's few survivors, and during the final battle between Shang Tsung and Shaolin monk Liu Kang, Sonya reluctantly teams up with Kano to fight off the Shokan Prince Goro. During their battle, the island immediately self-destructs following Shang Tsung's defeat, trapping Kano and Sonya in the otherworldly dimension Outworld. They are both captured and spend the events of Mortal Kombat II (1993) chained and on display in Outworld emperor Shao Kahn's arena. |
969571_5 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | In Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), Jax finds and rescues Sonya and Kano, enabling him to escape their clutches once again. Kano convinces Shao Kahn to spare his soul at the outset of the tyrant's invasion of Earth on the grounds that he can teach his armies how to use Earthrealm weaponry. While Sonya tosses Kano to his apparent death from the roof of a high-rise, he survives and is found by the centaur Motaro, who heals and imprisons him. Motaro is killed by the warrior Sheeva, who frees Kano from his prison. During the events of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002), he and Sheeva originally hatched a plan to assassinate Shao Kahn, but Kano turns on her by preventing the attack. As a reward, he is promoted to general of Outworld's rapidly shrinking army before the invasion is defeated. Even in the face of overwhelming odds, Kano stood his ground and eventually manages to repel Princess Kitana and her Edenian-Shokan army. He returns to Shao Kahn's palace just as the Deadly Alliance, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, launch their attack on the weakened emperor. After the battle, Kano declares his allegiance to the Deadly Alliance. The two have Kano oversee the enslavement of a small village, who construct a temple over Onaga's tomb to house a Soulnado. During its construction, Kano is assaulted by Li Mei, but Quan Chi intervenes, as the Alliance had made a deal with the Red Dragon leader Mavado to eliminate the swordsman Kenshi in exchange for the opportunity to fight and defeat Kano.
Kano returns in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006), in which the demigod Taven finds him being held prisoner by the Red Dragon Clan. Before escaping their facilities, Kano explains to Taven that the Red Dragon had been experimenting on him and their clansmen in an effort to create genetically engineered dragons and human-dragon hybrids.
Kano appears as one of eleven Mortal Kombat characters representing the franchise in the non-canonical crossover fighting game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (2008). |
969571_6 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | In the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, which retells the stories of the first three games, Kano is the Black Dragon's leader who tricked the Special Forces by acting as an informant and deliberately feeding them false intelligence that led to the deaths of many of Sonya and Jax's comrades, establishing their vendetta against him. During the events of the first Shaolin tournament, Kano fights Sonya following her fight with the pompous actor Johnny Cage, but he is defeated.Kabal, a former Black Dragon member turned SWAT officer, is severely burned by the warrior Kintaro, Kano takes him away to restore his health alongside Shang Tsung and outfit him with a respirator, mask, and hookswords even in spite of his former ally's defection. However, Kabal is mortified by his condition and furious at Kano for siding against Earthrealm, so he bests him in combat and forces him to take him to Shao Kahn before knocking Kano out. Kano later joins Goro and Kintaro in holding a group of soldiers hostage before being frozen by the cyborg Sub-Zero. However, Kano manages to free himself and informs his ally Noob Saibot that Sub-Zero broke free of his controller, Sektor.
Kano returned for the series' tenth installment, Mortal Kombat X (2015). His confirmation for the game was leaked by the German version of GamePro, before his appearance was officially announced.Kotal alongside the gunman Erron Black to capture Sonya and Jax's respective daughters, Cassie Cage and Jacqui Briggs. While they were successful, he and his fellow Black Dragons are ambushed by Mavado and the Red Dragon. Kano escapes after being injured in the fight, leaving Black for dead. Sometime after the comic book, and during the main game, Kano infiltrates the Shaolin Temple and steals the fallen Elder God Shinnok's amulet for Shao Kahn's daughter, Mileena, to assist in a civil war against Outworld's new ruler, Kotal Kahn. He attempts to distract the new Kahn while Mileena sets up an ambush, but Kotal realizes Kano is going to betray him and defeats the criminal. After he defeats Mileena, Kano retreats to Earthrealm. He infiltrates an Outworld refugee camp, but is caught by Kenshi and Sonya, who take him into custody. |
969571_7 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | As of Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), Kano escaped and aligned himself with the keeper of time Kronika. To assist her further by fixing and mass-producing Sektor, she also brought in a younger version of him.
Other games
He appears in the iOS game Batman: Arkham City Lockdown as an Easter egg fighting Batman in one of the levels.Punch Club, a fighter named Jax, who is designed after the Mortal Kombat 3 incarnation of Kano, makes an appearance in one of the game's gang turf war segments.
Other media
In Malibu Comics' Mortal Kombat series, Kano appeared with all of the characters from the first game (minus Reptile) in the 1994 "Blood & Thunder" miniseries, the first issue of which borrowed liberally from John Tobias' MK comic in detailing his evading of Sonya and the Special Forces and getting into an altercation with Johnny Cage onboard Shang Tsung's ship before Cage knocks him out.U.S. Special Forces, in which Kano was not featured, as the main villain therein was an original Black Dragon character named Rojack.Rayden & Kano, in which Raiden presents Kano with a magical sword called "Ebbonrule", in hopes that he would kill Shao Kahn with it in the name of personal redemption, but the opposite occurs as Kano gives the sword to Kahn instead in exchange for godlike powers. |
969571_8 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Kano was a featured character in the 1995 noncanonical Mortal Kombat novel written by Jeff Rovin, which is set before the events of the first game. He and several Black Dragon members (all originals exclusive to the book) are hired by Shang Tsung to locate a mystical amulet hidden somewhere in China. They come across a remote village in which Kung Lao resides, and Kano forces Kung Lao to accompany him on the journey. Unbeknownst to him, one of the Dragons is Sonya working undercover, as she has a personal interest in apprehending him after he had killed her fiancé several years earlier. However, Shang Tsung, Goro and Raiden interrupt the search, and Kano's Black Dragon cohorts are killed while Shang Tsung merges Kano with Kung Lao and sends the combined being to locate the amulet. After he and Kung Lao are returned to normal, Kano takes the amulet to Shang Tsung's palace, though he is assaulted by Goro after making physical contact with Shang Tsung. He then brawls with Sonya near the conclusion but the fight is inconclusive when he flees after she is momentarily distracted, thereby evading capture.
Trevor Goddard as Kano in Mortal Kombat (1995) |
969571_9 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Trevor Goddard as Kano in Mortal Kombat (1995)
In the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, Kano was played by English actor Trevor Goddard. The film expanded upon Kano's rivalry with Sonya from the games; she now sought vengeance against Kano for killing her (unnamed) partner. Shang Tsung hires Kano to lure Sonya into the Mortal Kombat tournament, promising to reward Kano's efforts after he presumably defeats Sonya, while demanding that she is "not to be harmed, only humiliated". Kano baits Sonya into boarding Shang Tsung's ship, and is later spotted by Cage, Sonya and Liu Kang conversing with Goro. When Sonya and Kano meet in battle, his earlier plan with Shang Tsung goes astray when he is defeated, and Shang Tsung goads Sonya into finishing him; she complies by breaking his neck. Kano is described as wearing a business suit during the dining scene in the movie novelization, which also features a detailed opening scene of an unsuccessful joint mission of arresting Black Dragon members by the Special Forces and an international task force, which culminates in Kano killing the task force's lieutenant, who is designated therein as Sonya's murdered partner.choker and combat boots when he fights Sonya. The companion book published by Prima Lifestyles prior to the film's release said in his character profile: "A strapping Australian talented in all forms of martial arts, he's particularly skilled with a knife. He seems to enjoy his cat-and-mouse game with Sonya, which began after he murdered her partner."
Kano was a main character in Mortal Kombat: Live Tour, and was portrayed by martial artists Joseph "Eddie" Acavedo and Mark Chemeleski. |
969571_10 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | The character appeared twice in the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and was voiced by Michael Des Barres. In the sixth episode ("Familiar Red"), he works with Shao Kahn in fooling the Earthrealm defenders into chasing phony dimensional rips across the globe, while a flashback scene (shown from Sonya's perspective and narrated by Jax) depicting Kano's offscreen killing of Sonya's Special Forces partner Wexler prior to the first tournament was shown; this segment included a continuity violation as Kano was shown with his MK3 design.eleventh episode ("Amends") since Kabal's defection from the Black Dragon and his turn to the side of good, and his consequential disfigurement at the hands of Kahn's forces. Kano's Black Dragon comrades received a generic design of shaved heads and facial tattoos, and were operating an underground generator used for opening portals. They are easily disposed of by the Earth warriors at the conclusion and Kabal detonates the machine with a bomb, but Kano manages to escape.
English actor and martial artist Darren Shahlavi portrayed Kano in three episodes of the 2011 first season of director Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series. He and the Black Dragon are shipping stolen robotics to an undisclosed location under the name "Cyber Initiative", and Kano takes Sonya hostage after she is caught infiltrating the large warehouse where the Dragons carry out their operations, and plans to kill her when the facility is raided by a SWAT team led by Jax and Stryker. During the assault, Kano engages Jax in combat but is defeated, taking a vicious punch to the temple from Jax in the process that dislodges his eye. He is later recovered by his henchmen and has his cybernetic eye surgically attached. Kano makes one last appearance in the ninth episode, which precedes the aforementioned events; the receiver of the robotics from the Black Dragon in the first episode was revealed to be the Lin Kuei headquarters.
English actor Robin Atkin Downes voices Kano in the 2020 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge.David Wenham voices Kano in the 2022 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind.
Australian actor Josh Lawson portrays Kano in the 2021 reboot film Mortal Kombat. |
969571_11 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Merchandise and promotion
Along with the original series characters, Kano was highlighted on an individual track from The Immortals' 1994 album Mortal Kombat: The Album. Titled "Use Your Might", it features a female vocalist singing the character's praises from a first-person perspective, citing him as "the strongest of them all" out of the other Mortal Kombat contestants.
Hasbro released a 4" Kano action figure in 1994, packaged with a "Kombat Cycle" vehicle.Jazwares released a Kano action figure that was part of their 2006 Shaolin Monks toyline (despite the figure sporting Kano's costume from Deadly Alliance),MK characters featured on 2.5" x 3.5" collectible magnets released by Ata-Boy Wholesale in 2011,Gil Hibben, were made available for purchase.
Kano makes a brief appearance in the 2012 animated film Wreck-It Ralph, voiced by Brian Kesinger. He performs the "Heart Rip" on House of the Dead zombie character Cyril while attending a "Bad-Anon" support group that featured villains from various classic video games. He is credited as Cyborg possibly since Mortal Kombat is an M-Rated franchise. The same goes with Cyril where he is credited as Zombie rather than Cyril.
Reception |
969571_12 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Reception
Kano placed 24th in UGO.com's 2012 selection of the series' top fifty characters,RoboCop and Star Trek character Seven of Nine.Den of Geek placed him seventeenth in their 2015 ranking of the series' characters, commenting that "Kano is a special kind of scum, and the series is better for him existing ... [but] he probably wouldn’t rank quite as high if not for Trevor Goddard’s rocking performance in the first movie."Mortal Kombat characterGame Revolution's Anthony Severino included in his 2011 "Top 10 Old School Mortal Kombat Characters" feature.MK team retconned everything about Kano to fit that portrayal",MK3 without explanation.Prima Games' official guide for the 2011 reboot game, Kano's "'flinch and you will be comboed' style can be frustrating to play against, but if you are a die-hard Kano user back from the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 days, you will find that Kano completely fits your style". The guide also determined him to not be overly formidable nor at a great disadvantage in matches against the other characters.Mortal Kombat X, as with all playable characters, Kano has three distinctive gameplay variations.
Finishing moves |
969571_13 | Kano (Mortal Kombat) | Finishing moves
Kano's Fatalities are often well-received, although his toned-down finishers in the censored SNES version of the first game and the T-rated Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe are regarded among the worst. Russell Frushtick of UGO Networks rated the "Heart Rip" from the original Mortal Kombat second in his 2011 listing of the "Top 11 Mortal Kombat Fatalities", crediting it as singlehandedly "herald[ing] the birth of anti-video game violence advocates" and describing it as "ripping the beating heart out of an opponent's chest like he's some sort of Mola Ram".Prima Games ranked it runner-up to Sub-Zero's "Spine Rip" in their 2014 selection of the series' top Fatalities.GamePro in 2008 rated the doctored version of the finisher from the SNES port, in which Kano instead smashes the opponent's rib cage with a deadly punch, first in their list of the series' twelve "lamest" Fatalities.ScrewAttack ranked his "Skeleton Removal" from Mortal Kombat 3 sixth on the site's "Top 10 Mortal Kombat Fatalities",Game Informer included it among the most confusing MK finishers.Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has been particularly criticized for its tameness in a Mortal Kombat title negatively received for its toned-down violence. It led to his second appearance on GamePro's "Top 12 Lamest Fatalities" listing (fifth), with the magazine commenting that "absolutely no effort was put in [by the developers in] creating it."Game Informer rated it among the series' worst finishers,1UP.com listed it among his selection of the MK series' worst Fatalities (seventh).MKvsDC's finishers topping its 2011 list of the series' worst Fatalities.
We Got this Covered rated his "Heart Transplant" Fatality from the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot — in which Kano barehandedly decapitates his opponent and then rips out their heart before shoving their head into their chest cavity — among the series' top finishers, |
39469705_0 | 1907 in Scotland | Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
* Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair
Law officers
* Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure
Judiciary
* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
* 5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
* 24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
* 24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
* 18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland
* New Ayr Racecourse opens
* Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
* The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered
* Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified
* Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships
Births
* 2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
* 4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
* 28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
* 4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
* 16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
* 22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
* 13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
* 28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
* 2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)
* 7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
* 4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
* 5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
* 25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
* Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
* Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
* Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths |
39469705_1 | 1907 in Scotland | Deaths
* 21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
* 4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
* 13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
* 19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
* 30 August – James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
* 6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
* 4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
* 6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)
* 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
* Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)
* Timeline of Scottish history
* 1907 in the United Kingdom |
35647046_0 | Sahara Blue | Professional ratings
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Sahara Blue is a 1992 concept album produced by Hector Zazou.Arthur Rimbaud and included collaborative musical works by John Cale, Khaled, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tim Simenon, and David Sylvian.
Track listing
1. "I'll Strangle You" (Lyrics: Rimbaud, Music: Anneli Drecker, Bill Laswell, Hector Zazou, spoken word: Gérard Depardieu & Anneli Drecker)
2. "First Evening" (Lyrics: Rimbaud, Music: Kent Condon, John Cale, Hector Zazou)
3. Ophelie (Music: David Sylvian) (feat. Dominique Dalcan & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
4. Lines (feat. Barbara Gogan)
5. Youth (feat. Lisa Gerrard & Brendan Perry)
6. Hapolot Kenym (feat. Sussan Deyhim, Samy Birnbach & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
7. Hunger (feat. John Cale & Vincent Kenis)
8. Sahara Blue (feat. Barbara Gogan)
9. Amdyaz (feat. Khaled & Malka Spigel)
10. Black Stream (feat. Lisa Gerrard & Brendan Perry)
11. Harar et les Gallas (feat. Ketema Mekonn & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
12. Lettre Au Directeur Des Messageries Maritimes (feat. Richard Bohringer, Sussan Deyhim & Bill Laswell)
Personnel |
35647046_1 | Sahara Blue | Personnel
* Samy Birnbach - Vocals
* Richard Bohringer - Vocals, Voices
* John Cale - Vocals
* Kent Condon - Guitar
* Dominique Dalcan - Chant
* Gérard Depardieu - Vocals, Voices
* Sussan Deyhim - Vocals, Voices
* Anneli Marian Drecker - Vocals, Voices
* Yuka Fujii - Walkie Talkie
* Lisa Gerrard - Vocals, Yang Chin
* Barbara Gogan - Vocals
* Kerry Hopwood - MIDI, Programming
* Kenji Jammer - Guitar, Guitar Effects
* Vincent Kenis - Bass, Guitar
* Nabil Khalidi - Oud
* Bill Laswell - Bass, Beats, Effects
* Keith LeBlanc - Percussion
* Christian Lechevretel - Arranger, Clavier, Organ, Trombone, Trumpet
* Lightwave - Electronic Percussion, Special Effects, Synthesizer
* Daniel Manzanas - Guitar (Acoustic)
* Denis Moulin - Guitar, Percussion
* Mr. X - Guitar, Vocals, Walkie Talkie
* Brendan Perry - Bodhran, Darbouka, Engineer, Percussion, Synthesizer, Tin Whistle, Vocals
* Renaud Pion - Clarinet, Flute (Bass), Saxophone
* Ryuichi Sakamoto - Piano
* Steve Shehan - Percussion
* Guy Sigsworth - Keyboards
* Tim Simenon - Beats, Mixing, Producer, Sample Programming
* Malka Spigel - Vocals, Voices
* Matt Stein - Loops, Programming
* David Sylvian - Guitar, Vocals, Walkie Talkie
* Hector Zazou - Clavier, Electronics, Guitar, Keyboards, Mixing, Producer, Sampled Guitar, Sampling, Synthesizer |
27164289_0 | Amaicha del Valle | Amaicha del Valle is a settlement in Tucumán Province in northern Argentina. It is located in the Tafi del Valle department, in the northwestern province of Tucuman, Argentina, 164 km from the provincial capital, San Miguel de Tucumán and 57 km from the departmental capital, Tafi del Valle.
It communicates with the city of San Miguel de Tucuman by the Ruta Nacional 38 and Route 307. It lies east of the RN 40, from which it is accessed in two ways: on the north by RP 357 (14 km), or from the south via Route 307 from the town of Santa María, Catamarca (20 km).
Geography
It is located in the area corresponding to the province of Tucuman Valles Calchaquíes, at a height of 2000 m.
Climate |
27164289_1 | Amaicha del Valle | Climate
Climate data for Amaicha del Valle (1944–1976)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 31.2 29.9 29.2 27.9 25.8 25.5 24.7 26.7 28.9 30.6 31.0 31.1 28.5
(88.2) (85.8) (84.6) (82.2) (78.4) (77.9) (76.5) (80.1) (84.0) (87.1) (87.8) (88.0) (83.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) 20.2 19.7 18.4 14.9 12.9 10.2 8.9 11.4 14.1 17.5 19.0 20.0 15.6
(68.4) (67.5) (65.1) (58.8) (55.2) (50.4) (48.0) (52.5) (57.4) (63.5) (66.2) (68.0) (60.1)
Average low °C (°F) 12.3 12.0 10.0 7.0 3.6 1.0 0.0 2.1 4.0 7.1 11.0 12.0 6.8
(54.1) (53.6) (50.0) (44.6) (38.5) (33.8) (32.0) (35.8) (39.2) (44.8) (51.8) (53.6) (44.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 48.0 38.4 14.8 1.7 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.4 1.8 5.5 17.3 31.0 160.1
(1.89) (1.51) (0.58) (0.07) (0.02) (0.02) (0.01) (0.02) (0.07) (0.22) (0.68) (1.22) (6.30)
Average relative humidity (%) 66 67 67 65 53 48 45 44 46 51 54 64 56
Source: Secretaria de Mineria
Photo gallery |
27164289_2 | Amaicha del Valle | Photo gallery
* [Amaicha del Valle.]
Amaicha del Valle.
* [Village street.]
Village street.
* [Carved Virgin.]
Carved Virgin.
* [La Pachamama Cooperative.]
La Pachamama Cooperative.
* [Pachamama Museum.]
Pachamama Museum.
* [Town center at dusk.]
Town center at dusk.
26°36′S 65°55′W / 26.600°S 65.917°W |
30008502_0 | Frodsham Hodson | Frodsham Hodson, engraving by James Fittler, after Thomas Phillips.
Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822) was an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1809.
Life
He was the son of the Rev. George Hodson, and was born in Liverpool, England, on 7 June 1770. He entered Manchester Grammar School in January 1784, and left it in 1787 to go to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 14 January 1791, M.A. 10 October 1793, B.D. 1808, and D.D. 1809. In May 1791, he succeeded to a Hulmean exhibition, and was afterwards elected a Fellow of Brasenose College. In 1793, he gained the university prize for an essay in English prose on "The Influence of Education and Government on National Character".
In 1795, Hodson was chosen lecturer at St George's Church, Liverpool, and subsequently became chaplain there. His persistence in holding the chaplaincy, although he rarely in later years visited Liverpool, gave offence in the town. In 1803–4 and again in 1808-10, he filled the office of public examiner at Oxford. In 1808 he was appointed rector of St Mary's, Stratford-by-Bow.
In 1809, he vacated his benefice on being elected principal of Brasenose College. He presided over the college for thirteen years, and took a leading part in the affairs of Oxford University. He served the office of Vice-Chancellor in 1818, and was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, with the appurtenant canonry of Christ Church and rectory of Ewelme, in 1820.
It was believed that Lord Liverpool intended Hodson for a bishopric, but he died, after a short illness, on 18 January 1822, aged 51. He was buried in the ante-chapel of Brasenose College, where he was commemorated in a Latin inscription by Edward Cardwell.
Works |
30008502_1 | Frodsham Hodson | Works
Hodson edited Thomas Falconer's Chronological Tables, 1796. His probationary exercise as a fellow of Brasenose was published in the same year, entitled The Eternal Filiation of the Son of God asserted on the Evidence of the Sacred Scriptures, pp. 81. His only other works were three sermons published at Liverpool, and printed in 1797, 1799, and 1804.
Family
Hodson married, on 30 June 1808, Anne, daughter of John Dawson of Mossley Hill, Liverpool. He left four daughters and a son. His widow died on 23 April 1848.
* Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hodson, Frodsham". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. |
10139703_0 | 1805 in Ireland | 1805 Irish penny, bearing George III's portrait.
This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland
Events
* August – rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806.
* 21 October – Battle of Trafalgar: a British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland.
Publications
* Mary Tighe's poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love
Births
* 2 January – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892).
* 5 April – Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828).
* 4 August – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865). Full date unknown
+ Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850).
+ Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871).
+ William Thompson, naturalist (died 1852).
Deaths
* 27 April – William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, politician and statesman (born 1741).
* 7 May – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, British Whig statesman, Home Secretary in 1782 and Prime Minister 1782–1783 (born 1737).
* 18 June – Arthur Murphy, editor and writer (born 1727).
* 27 July – Brian Merriman, Irish language poet and teacher (b. c. 1749).
* August – John Talbot Dillon, traveller and historical writer (b. c. 1740).
* 8 December – Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench. |
67483754_0 | On My Knees | On My Knees may refer to:
* "On My Knees" (The 411 song), 2004
* "On My Knees" (Charlie Rich song), 1978
* "On My Knees" (Jaci Velasquez song), 1997
* "On My Knees" (Rüfüs Du Sol song), 2021
* "On My Knees", a song by Middle Kids from Lost Friends, 2018
* "On My Knees", a song by Unkle featuring Michael Kiwanuka from the Roma film soundtrack, 2018
* Knee (disambiguation) |
55331523_0 | Hypostomus niceforoi | Hypostomus niceforoi is a species of suckermouth armored catfish. H. niceforoi reaches 13.5 cm (5.3 inches) SL and is believed to be a facultative air-breather.
Taxonomic history
This species was described by Henry Weed Fowler in 1943. The holotype was donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Brother Nicéforo Maríaspecific name is named. Its type locality is Florencia, Colombia, in the Orteguaza River. Fowler placed the species in the genus Hemiancistrus.Isaäc J. H. Isbrücker transferred this species to Hypostomus in 1980.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Japurá River basin in South America. A fish labeled Hypostomus cf. niceforoi has been found in Nicaragua; it is thought their introduction to Lake Nicaragua as an invasive species is due to the aquarium trade.H. cf. niceforoi have also been found in the San Marcos River, Texas.
* Reis, Roberto E.; Kullander, Sven O.; Ferraris, Jr., Carl J. (2003). Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. p. 360. ISBN 978-85-7430-361-1. |
59046669_0 | Mokhtar Meherzi | Mokhtar Meherzi was the Algerian minister for transport in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam. |
15311673_0 | Adolfo Nicolás | In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nicolás and the second or maternal family name is Pachón.
Adolfo Nicolás Pachón SJ (29 April 1936 – 20 May 2020) was a Spanish Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. He was the 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. Before being elected Superior General, he worked primarily in Japan; he taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and then headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. He led the Jesuits in Japan from 1993 to 1996 and, after four years of pastoral work in Tokyo, led the Jesuits in Asia from 2004 to 2008.
Though elected Superior General for life, Nicolás, like his predecessor Peter Hans Kolvenbach, resigned, as the Jesuit constitutions permit.
Early life and education
Adolfo Nicolás was born in Villamuriel de Cerrato, Palencia, and entered the Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the Jesuits, in the novitiate of Aranjuez in 1953.University of Alcalá, where he earned his licentiate in philosophy. He traveled to Japan in 1960 to familiarize himself with Japanese language and culture.priesthood at Sophia University in Tokyo in 1964, and was ordained to the priesthood on 17 March 1967.
Priestly ministry
From 1968 to 1971, he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he earned a doctorate in theology. Upon his return to Japan, Nicolás was made professor of systematic theology at his alma mater of Sophia University, teaching there for the next twenty years.
He was Director of the East Asian Pastoral Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University, in Quezon City, Philippines, from 1978 to 1984,rector of the theologate in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993, when he was appointed Provincial of the Jesuit Province of Japan. At the end of his six-year term as Provincial in 1999, he spent four years doing pastoral work among poor immigrants in Tokyo.
In 2004 he was named President of the Jesuit Conference of Provincials for Eastern Asia and Oceania, with his office in the Philippines.Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Micronesia, Myanmar, and East Timor.
In addition to his native Spanish, Nicolás spoke Catalan, English, Italian, French, and Japanese.
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15311673_1 | Adolfo Nicolás | Superior General of the Society of Jesus
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On the second ballot of the thirty-fifth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, Nicolás was elected as the Order’s thirtieth Superior General on 19 January 2008,Dutch Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach who resigned. His election was immediately relayed to Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed him in the post. Nicolás headed a congregation which then numbered 18,500 members.
Many have marked the similarities between Nicolás and former Superior General Pedro Arrupe. Father Arrupe, like his eventual successor, was a Spanish missionary in Japan. Nicolás described Arrupe, whom he had earlier had as Provincial Superior, as a "great missionary, a national hero, a man on fire."
General Curia restructuring
In March 2011, Nicolás forwarded a communiqué of revisions to the General Curia restructuring the secretariats, including the creation of new positions and a commission. This was in accord with a task given him by the previous General Congregation.
Resignation
Nicolás, after consulting with Pope Francis, determined to resign after his 80th birthday, and initiated the process of calling a Jesuit General Congregation to elect his successor. Until the resignation of his predecessor, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, it was not the norm for a Jesuit Superior General to resign; like the great majority of the Popes up until Benedict XVI, they generally served until death. However, the Jesuit constitutions include provision for a resignation.
On 2 October 2016, at General Congregation 36 which he convened in Rome, Nicolás announced his intention to resign at age 80. |
15311673_2 | Adolfo Nicolás | In October 2016 the thirty-sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus appointed his successor, Arturo Sosa from Venezuela.
Beliefs and values
Missionary work
Nicolás once stated, "Asia has a lot yet to offer the Church, to the whole Church, but we haven't done it yet. Maybe we have not been courageous enough, or we haven't taken the risks we should."
In the homily of the Mass celebrated after his election as Superior General, Nicolás emphasized service, based on the scriptural reading for that day, the words of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and Benedict XVI's teaching on God is love. He stated: "The more we become as servants, the more pleased God is." Delving further into the scriptural passage and after relating an anecdote of experiences with the poor in Asia, he related poverty with having God as the only source of strength, pointing out that the Jesuit's strength is not in externals (power, media, etc.) nor in internal fortitude (research). "The poor only have God in whom to find strength. For us only God is our strength."
Nicolas also developed the following ideas: the message of the Jesuits is "a message of salvation" and the challenge of discerning the type of salvation that people today are waiting for.
Obedience to Rome
After receiving a message from Pope Benedict asking the Society of Jesus to affirm its fidelity to the magisterium and the Holy See, the Congregation presided over by Nicolás responded, "The Society of Jesus was born within the Church, we live in the Church, we were approved by the Church and we serve the Church. This is our vocation... [Unity with the pope] is the symbol of our union with Christ. It also is the guarantee that our mission will not be a 'small mission', a project just of the Jesuits, but that our mission is the mission of the Church."
Liberation theology |
15311673_3 | Adolfo Nicolás | Liberation theology
In a November 2008 interview with El Periodico, Nicolás described liberation theology as a "courageous and creative response to an unbearable situation of injustice in Latin America."Pope John Paul IIPope Benedict XVI, when he was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.liberation theology needs years to mature. It's a shame that it has not been given a vote of confidence and that soon its wings will be cut before it learns to fly. It needs more time."sic: Christ's] poor. And that love changes everything."
Economic justice
In June 2016, Nicolás transmitted to all the Jesuits a document, Justice In The Global Economy, that suggested a greater commitment to the cause of world economic justice.redistribution of wealth, good governance of natural and mineral resources, stricter regulation of the economic and financial markets, combating corruption and for more developed nations to allocate 0.7% of their GDP for the development of poorer countries.
Death
Nicolás died on 20 May 2020 in Tokyo at the age of 84. He had been ill in the last years of his life, which he spent at the Loyola House in Kamishakujii. News of his death was first announced by the Jesuit Curia in Rome.
* Habemus Papam: Jesuits Go Ad Orientem – Whispers in the Loggia
* Spaniard Adolfo Nicolás elected new Superior General of the Jesuits – Catholic News Agency Archived 14 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
* What should GC35 do? Adolfo Nicolas:Six hopes for the General Congregation |
57980680_0 | Aroana cingalensis | Aroana cingalensis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866.Sri Lanka. |
65825424_0 | Dingxin Zhao | The native form of this personal name is Zhao Dingxin. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhao.
Dingxin Zhao (Chinese: 赵鼎新; born 1953) is a Chinese sociologist and the Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago.The Power of Tiananmen State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement, is widely considered the definitive work on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.entomology and sociology.political sociology and the sociology of social movements. |
65546704_0 | Hind Bensari | Hind Bensari (Arabic: هند بن ساري; born 1987), is a Moroccan filmmaker.475: Break the Silence and We Could Be Heroes.
Personal life
She was born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco. However at very young age, she moved to London.Edinburgh University. She also holds a certificate in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She is married to a Danish businessman and currently lives in Denmark.
Career
In 2014, she returned Morocco to make her maiden documentary short film was 475: Break the Silence.
On 2 May 2018, she released the film We Could Be Heroes which was premiered at 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. The film is based on a story of two disabled friends, Azzedine and Youssef, who dreams to break out of the prison and compete in Rio Paralympic Games.Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Toronto International Film Festival, becoming the first African filmmaker to receive the award.Tangier National Film Festival.
Filmography
Year Film Role Genre Ref.
2014 475: Break the Silence Director documentary short film
2018 We Could Be Heroes Director documentary film
* Hind Bensari at IMDb
* We Could Be Heroes |
51433979_0 | Iera Echebarría | In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echebarría and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.
Iera Echebarría Fernández (born 20 October 1992) is a Spanish rugby sevens player. She competed for Spain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.Spanish women's sevens squad.final Olympic spot for the Rio Olympics.
Echebarría competed at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.
* Iera Echebarría at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
* Iera Echebarría at Olympics.com
* Iera Echebarría at Olympedia
* Iera Echebarría Fernández at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) |
73451296_0 | 2023 Israel strikes in Syria | In April 2023, Israel launched three air strikes in Syria against outposts located in Homs province, resulting in the deaths of two Iranian military advisers and injuring five Syrian soldiers. The Israeli government has refrained from providing any official statements regarding these attacks, but intelligence sources from the Western world claim that the primary target of the strikes was to prevent the supply of weapons to the militias by Iran. According to these sources, Iran allegedly utilizes the T4 airbase and Al-Dabaa airport for this purpose. Iran has denounced the strikes as a violation of Syrian sovereignty and international law.
Background
Israel has a record of carrying out air strikes against targets with connections to Iran in Syria in recent years. Iranian forces have been able to expand their influence in the region due to the ongoing conflict in Syria. Iran provides military assistance to the militias fighting against rebel forces in Syria while also supporting the Syrian government. Israel considers the expanding Iranian presence in Syria to be a danger to its national security and has therefore taken steps to thwart the transfer of weapons to the militias that pose a direct threat to Israel. Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group situated in Lebanon, is known to receive military personnel and weapons from the T4 airbase and al-Dabaa airport. The recent air strikes by Israel are likely to raise tensions in the area and may lead to further retaliatory action by Iran or its allies.
* 2023 US strikes in Syria |
26953767_0 | Tyrophagus | Tyrophagus is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae.
Species
* Tyrophagus casei Oudemans, 1910
* Tyrophagus curvipenis Fain & Fauvel, 1993
* Tyrophagus debrivorus Chinniah & Mohanasundaram, 1996
* Tyrophagus glossinarum Fain, 1985
* Tyrophagus houstoni (Fain, 1986)
* Tyrophagus jingdezhenensis Jiang-Zhenta, 1993
* Tyrophagus lini Oudemans, 1924
* Tyrophagus longior (Gervais, 1844)
* Tyrophagus mimlongior Jiang, 1993
* Tyrophagus neiswanderi Johnson & Bruce, 1965
* Tyrophagus neotropicus (Oudemans, 1917)
* Tyrophagus palmarum Oudemans, 1924
* Tyrophagus perniciosus Zakhvatkin, 1941
* Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank, 1781)
* Tyrophagus robertsonae Lynch, 1989
* Tyrophagus savasi Lynch, 1989
* Tyrophagus similis Volgin, 1949
* Tyrophagus tropicus Robertson, 1959
* Cheese mite
Data related to Tyrophagus at Wikispecies |
1675495_0 | Ray Peterson | For the American football player, see Ray Peterson (American football). For the Wyoming politician, see R. Ray Peterson.
Ray Peterson (April 23, 1935 – January 25, 2005)pop singer who is best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her". He also scored numerous other hits, including "Corrine, Corrina" and "The Wonder of You".
Life and career
Ray T. Peterson was born in Denton, Texas on April 23, 1935.polio.octave singing voice, Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was signed to a recording contract with RCA Victor in 1958.recorded several songs that were minor hits until "The Wonder of You" made it into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 15, 1959. The song also did well in Australia, stopping at #9 on its chart.Elvis Presley, with whom Peterson became friends. Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with the teenage tragedy song, "Tell Laura I Love Her".Decca Records made the decision not to release the latter recording on the grounds that it was "too tasteless and vulgar," and destroyed about twenty thousand copies that had already been pressed. A cover version by Ricky Valance, released by EMI on the Columbia label, was Number One on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.
In 1960, Peterson created his own record label with his manager Stan Shulman, called Dunes Records, and enlisted the help of record producer Phil SpectorCorrine, Corrina".ballad, "I Could Have Loved You So Well", written by Barry Mann and Gerry Goffindeath disc, "Give Us Your Blessing",the Shangri-Las five years later and became a Top 30 hit.)
His last charting US-Top-30 hit was "Missing You".concerts with Keith Allison. |
1675495_1 | Ray Peterson | His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of "The Wonder of You", as well as launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and by the 1970s when the hit records stopped coming, Peterson became a Baptist Church minister and occasionally played the classic hits music circuit. In 1981 he released a Christian folk rock album called Highest Flight, which was also released as My Father's Place.
Peterson was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Peterson died of colon cancer on January 25, 2005, in Smyrna, Tennessee, aged 69.widow, four sons, and three daughters.Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Discography
Singles
Year Single Chart Positions Label
US US UK AU
AC
1959 "The Wonder of You" 25 - 23 9 RCA Victor
"Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)" 64 - - 63 RCA Victor
"Come and Get It" - - - 96 RCA Victor
1960 "Tell Laura I Love Her" 7 - - 7 RCA Victor
"Answer Me" - - 47 - RCA Victor
"Corinna, Corinna" 9 - 41 10 Dunes
("Corrine, Corrina" in UK)
1961 "Sweet Little Kathy" 100 - - - Dunes
"Missing You" 29 7 - 16 Dunes
"I Could Have Loved You so Well" 57 - - 35 Dunes
1963 "Give Us Your Blessing" 70 - - - Dunes
1964 "The Wonder of You" 70 -- - - Dunes
1965 "Across The Street (Is a Million Miles Away)" 106 - - 16 M.G.M
1970 "Oklahoma City Times" 111 - - - UNI
* A ^ Charted as a double A-side in Australia, backed with "You Thrill Me".
* List of San Antonio, Texas people
* List of poliomyelitis survivors
* Rockabillyhall.com
* Lpintop.tripod.com
* Ray Peterson at Find a Grave |
31654952_0 | Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation | Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation is a heterogenous group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases, still under research, in which iron accumulates in the basal ganglia, either resulting in progressive dystonia, parkinsonism, spasticity, optic atrophy, retinal degeneration, neuropsychiatric, or diverse neurologic abnormalities.axonal spheroids in the central nervous system.
Iron accumulation can occur anywhere in the brain, with accumulation typically occurring in globus pallidus, substantia nigra, pars reticula, striatum and cerebellar dentate nuclei.coenzyme A biosynthesis, phospholipid metabolism, ceramide metabolism, lysosomal disorders, as well as mutations in genes with unknown functions.
There are currently no curative treatments for any of the NBIA disorders, though several medications have been subject to clinical trial including the iron chelator deferiprone.
Variants
Overview of monogenic NBIA disorders
NBIA variant Gene Inheritance
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN) PANK2 autosomal recessive
PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) PLA2G6 autosomal recessive
Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration (MPAN) C19orf12 autosomal recessive or dominant
Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) WDR45 X-linked dominant (mostly de novo mutations)
Fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration (FAHN) FA2H autosomal recessive
Kufor–Rakeb syndrome ATP13A2 autosomal recessive
Neuroferritinopathy FTL autosomal dominant
Aceruloplasminemia CP autosomal recessive
Woodhouse–Sakati syndrome DCAF17 autosomal recessive
COASY protein-associated neurodegeneration (CoPAN) COASY autosomal recessive
NBIA7 REPS1 autosomal recessive
NBIA8 CRAT autosomal recessive
Diagnosis
DaT scans, transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD), PET scans, and, in some cases, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (type of scans depending on the symptoms) |
31654952_1 | Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation | Treatments
Effective disease-modifying treatments have not yet been found for any of the NBIA disorders.Dystonia is a common debilitating symptom and can be managed with oral medications, and sometimes with deep-brain electrical stimulation, therapy support for walking, eating, and manual tasks is essential. Later, in many of the diseases, slowing and stopping of movement (known as parkinsonism) can become common. Removal of iron, using medications known as iron chelators, has been tested in clinical trial but was not definitively shown to be effective.
* "Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Information Page". National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. |
17253554_0 | Marcel Tremblay (ice hockey) | Marcel Bernard Tremblay (July 4, 1915 – March 20, 1980) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 10 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens in 1938-39. He was buried in Mobile, Alabama, having died on March 20, 1980.
Tremblay had played for several years with the senior Flin Flon Bombers, when he signed with the Montreal Canadiens organization in 1938. He was assigned to the New Haven Eagles, but played ten games for the Canadiens that season. He returned to New Haven and played with the team until 1942 when a fractured skull ended his season. Tremblay enlisted in the military and did not play professionally again.
* Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database |
74827579_0 | Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic | The office is located at 24 Drieňova Street in Bratislava
The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (PMÚ SR) is the central state administration body of the Slovak Republic for the protection and promotion of competition.
It is headed by a chairman who is appointed and dismissed by the President of the Slovak Republic on the proposal of the Government of the Slovak Republic for a term of five years.
The current chairman has been Juraj Beňa since March 2023.
* "Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky | Protimonopolný úrad SR". www.antimon.gov.sk. Retrieved 2023-09-15. |
20937593_0 | Norwegian Bandy Premier League 1992–93 | The 1992–93 season of the Norwegian Premier League, the highest bandy league for men in Norway.
Ten games were played, with 2 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Stabæk won the league. Ready was relegated, whereas Røa survived a relegation playoff.
League table
Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Stabæk 21 20 0 1 154 52 +102 40
2 Sarpsborg 21 13 2 6 121 74 +47 28
3 Mjøndalen 21 11 2 8 91 73 +18 24
4 Solberg 21 11 1 9 105 100 +5 23
5 Drafn 21 5 5 11 83 118 -35 13
6 Skeid 21 6 2 13 68 115 -47 14
7 Røa 21 5 3 13 83 118 -35 13
8 Ready 21 3 5 13 70 123 -53 11
League champion
Relegated to the First Division
* Eriksen, Arvid (ed.). Sportsboken 93–94. Oslo: Schibsted. p. 277. ISBN 82-516-1510-0. |
34480604_0 | Blood of My Blood (2011 film) | Blood of My Blood (Portuguese: Sangue do Meu Sangue) is a 2011 Portuguese drama film directed by João Canijo. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Miami International Film Festival, among others. It was the most commercially successful film of the year in Portugal.
The film was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
Cast
* Rafael Morais as Joca Fialho
* Rita Blanco as Márcia Fialho
* Cleia Almeida as Cláudia Filipa Fialho
* Anabela Moreira as Ivete Fialho
* Marcello Urgeghe as Dr. Alberto Vieira
* Francisco Tavares as César Chaves
* Fernando Luís as Hélder
* Nuno Lopes as Telmo Sobral
* Beatriz Batarda as Maria da Luz
Production
The final scene of Anabela Moreira and Nuno Lopes was particularly demanding for the actors given the physical, emotional and sexual violence. For the actress, it wasn't the nudity that bothered her, "but the scene was so vivid that Nuno Lopes hugged me, at the end, and apologized."
Film Festivals Around the World
Actress Anabela Moreira and director João Canijo for Blood of My Blood at the Miami Film Festival (2012) |
34480604_1 | Blood of My Blood (2011 film) | * Toronto International Film Festival... Canada
* Miami International Film Festival... USA
* Palm Springs International Film Festival... USA
* AFI Fest... USA
* Chicago International Film Festival... USA
* Austin Film Festival... USA
* Seattle International Film Festival... USA
* San Sebastian International Film Festival... Spain
* Busan Film Festival... South Korea
* Edinburgh Film Festival... UK
* Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival... Brazil
* Torino Film Festival... Italy
* Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema... Argentine
* La Rochelle... France
* Leeds Film Festival... UK
* Hamburg Film Festival... Germany
* Pau Film Festival... France
* Linz Film Festival... Austria
* Barcelona Film Festival... Spain
* Istanbul International Film Festival... Turkey
* Panama International Film Festival... Panama
* Transilvania International Film Festival... Romania
* Oaxaca Film Fest... Mexico
* Skopje Film Festival... Macedonia
* Berlin Film Festival... Germany
* List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
* Sangue do Meu Sangue at IMDb |
27285219_0 | Minuscule 708 | Minuscule 708 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε153 (von Soden),Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose.Scrivener labelled it as 607e.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 200 parchment leaves (size 19 cm by 15 cm),lacuna in text (Matthew 20:15-24:22).
The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, the lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before each Gospel.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), which numbers are given the left margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top; there is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains portraits of the Evangelists (Mark as eagle, John as lion).
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1 and textual family Kx in Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
History
Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century.INTF to the 11th century.
The manuscript was held n Constantinople, where was bought in 1882.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (607) and Gregory (708). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.
At present the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 3) in Oxford. |
27285219_1 | Minuscule 708 | * List of New Testament minuscules
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism
* Kurt Weitzmann & George Galavaris, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The illuminated Greek manuscripts, vol. I: From the ninth to the twelfth century, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 81 n. 2
* MSS. Auctarium at the Bodleian Library |
998413_0 | Puerto Plata Province | This article is about the Dominican province. For its capital, whose shortened form is also "Puerto Plata", see San Felipe de Puerto Plata.
Puerto Plata
Puerto Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [pweɾtoˈplata], Silver Port) is one of the northern provinces of the Dominican Republic. The area has become an increasingly popular tourist attraction since the late 1990s mainly due to its fine beaches. It borders the Septentrional mountain range to the north (which separates it from Laguna Salada).
Created from the Santiago Province in 1867 as a "maritime district", it became a province in 1907, when maritime districts were suppressed by a new Dominican constitution.
History
In 1493, La Isabela was founded by Christopher Columbus, being the first European town in the Americas. For its part, Puerto Plata was founded by Nicolás de Ovando at the beginning of the Hispanic colonization, around 1502. One of the first inhabitants in the years 1509 of the "Villa de Puerto de Plata" was Gaspar Briceño, a native of Arévalo del Reino from Castilla y León, who arrived on the island as a servant of Juan de Berlanga, treasurer of the Mayor's Office of the city of Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola. He held the position of "field bailiff" of the Villa de Santiago that belonged to the Villa de Concepción de la Vega and this corresponded to the Mayor's Office of the City of Santo Domingo. His name appears in the "Colón-Solís" trial, where the encomendero of the Villa de Santiago, Francisco de Solís, murdered two naborías Indians. The field bailiff was in charge of capturing the Indians or blacks who escaped from the parcels. It was one of the cities devastated in 1606 and was not repopulated until after 1736. The advent of republican times favored the development of the city, which over time became the main port of Cibao, especially for exporting the regional tobacco.
By Resolution of the National Congress dated July 6, 1847, Puerto Plata was elevated from common to Maritime District. It became a province in the year 1850. In 1879 it was the seat of the government of Gregorio Luperón and served as the internal capital of the Republic.
Municipalities and municipal districts |
998413_1 | Puerto Plata Province | Municipalities and municipal districts
Tunnel in Altamira, Dominican Republic connecting the province of Puerto Plata to Santiago.
The province is divided into the following municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distrito municipal - D.M.) within them:
* San Felipe de Puerto Plata
+ Maimón (D.M.)
+ Yásica Arriba (D.M.)
* Altamira
+ Río Grande (D.M.)
* Guananico
* Imbert
* Los Hidalgos
+ Cerro de Navas (D.M.)
* Luperón
+ Los Bellosos (D.M.)
+ La Isabela (D.M.)
+ Los Conucos (D.M.)
* Sosúa
+ Cabarete (D.M.)
+ Sabaneta de Yásica (D.M.)
* Villa Isabela
+ Estero Hondo (D.M.)
+ La Jaiba (D.M.)
+ Gualete (D.M.)
* Villa Montellano
Municipalities of Puerto Plata Province
The following is a sortable table of the municipalities with population figures as of the 2012 census (the last national census). Urban population are those living in the seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts (Secciones literally sections) and neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside of them.
Name Total population Urban population Rural population
Altamira 26,056 7,889 18,167
Guananico 8,954 3,025 5,929
Imbert 30,514 14,589 15,925
Los Hidalgos 14,589 3,022 11,567
Luperón 20,259 4,989 15,270
San Felipe de Puerto Plata 286,558 247,569 38,989
Sosúa 69,885 19,338 50,547
Villa Isabela 14,889 1,058 13,831
Villa Montellano 19,029 9,009 10,020
Puerto Plata province 490,733 310,488 180,245
For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic. |
998413_2 | Puerto Plata Province | Notable People
* Huascar Ynoa (b. 1998), pitcher for the Atlanta Braves
* Gregorio Luperón International Airport
* (in Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic
* (in Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps with administrative division of the provinces of the Dominican Republic, downloadable in PDF format |
31512789_0 | Madge Adam | Madge Gertrude Adam (6 March 1912 – 25 August 2001) was an English solar astronomer who was the first postgraduate student in solar physics at the University of Oxford observatory.
Early life and education
Adam was born the youngest of three children near Highbury, North London, where her father was a teacher at Drayton Park School. With the start of World War I, he enlisted and was killed in action at YpresYorkshire to live with her mother's parents. She became ill at the age of nine and spent a year at the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital to treat her skeletal tuberculosis of an elbow and rickets.
On her release from hospital, Adam won a scholarship to Doncaster High School in South Yorkshire, where she gained a life-long passion for science and mathematics. In 1931, she enrolled in St Hugh's College, Oxford with a scholarship in physics, becoming "the first woman to achieve a first in physics at Oxford".Lady Margaret Hall.
Career
When a new director of the Oxford observatory, who had just installed the university's first solar telescope, announced his research program in solar physics, Adam (who had just earned a first in physics) knocked on his door and said, "How about me?" By joining the research team, she became the first postgraduate student and solar physicist at the university's observatory. Over the years, she became a key figure there for the remainder of her life, eventually becoming acting director during World War II after the director left to work on aircraft production. She became permanent assistant director thereafter and took over the observatory's financial accounts.
She was appointed an assistant tutor at St. Hugh's, and also "taught astronomy courses, with an emphasis on astronavigation, to Royal Navy and RAF cadets".
She was "internationally known for her work on the nature of sunspots and on their magnetic fields."University of Oxford in the Department of Astrophysics from 1937–1979, and was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 11 March 1938.
Selected publications |
31512789_1 | Madge Adam | Selected publications
* ADAM, Madge Gertrude. Interferometric Measurements of Solar Wave-Lengths and an Investigation of the Einstein Gravitational Displacement.(Reprinted from the Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society.). Taylor & Francis, 1948.
* Adam, Madge Gertrude. "A new determination of the centre to limb change in solar wave-lengths." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 119.5 (1959): 460-474.
* Adam, Madge G., and H. Bondi. "The observational tests of gravitation theory." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 270.1342 (1962): 297-305.
* Adam, Madge G. "Discussion of the results obtained by three tests of Einstein's relativity theory made on astronomical bodies from 1918 to 1960." PROCEEDINGS, SERIES A 270 (1962): 297-304.
* Adam, Madge Gertrude. "Line contours in sunspot regions." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 136.1 (1967): 71-90. |
61054120_0 | Iodanthus | Iodanthus pinnatifidus, commonly known as purplerocket,mustard family. It is monotypic, with no other species in the genus Iodanthus.
It is native to eastern North America, where its range is centered in the Midwest and Upper South regions of the United States.
Iodanthus pinnatifidus is an erect perennial herb. It produces a raceme of light purple flowers which fade to white. It blooms from late April to early July. |
68530699_0 | Lesley McMillan | Lesley McMillan, FRSE, professor of Criminology and Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), associate director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research,University of Edinburgh,gender-based violence and criminal justice systems. She influenced reforms in police training for best practice when dealing with traumatised rape or sexual violence survivors,Erase the Grey" which challenges traditional views on gender-based violence.
Career and research
McMillan became a member of the Young Academy, and is registered by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), as a counsellor, volunteering for the NHS.
Her work specialises in gendered and sexual violence and criminal justice, especially initial policing but also covering the whole system's responses to survivors, and also wider related areas like sexual victimising of university students.Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and leads its Public Protection Network, and is also an associate director of multiple partner Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, based at the University of Edinburgh.stalking; criminal justice policy.. on violence;.. initiatives on youth crime; legal defences to women who kill violent partners; rape as a war crime'.
McMillan also heads up the GCU Masters Programme in Research (Strategy) in the Graduate School.
McMillan has joined in public debate on what constitutes rape,anti-rape devices and apps, which she viewed as endorsing the misconception of 'stranger danger' and that rapists are mainly 'jumping out at night.'Police Scotland to a social media campaign, 'Erase the Grey' domestic abuse,
Following the murder of Sarah Everard by a member of the Metropolitan Police (the Met),
GCU Principal & Vice-Chancellor Pamela Gillies welcomed McMillan's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, saying "Her research expertise in the area of sexual violence has garnered international acclaim and has influenced professional practice by police, governmental agencies and the third sector."AdvanceHE National Teaching Excellence Award.
Research publications
McMillan's research and selected publications are on-line, |
68530699_1 | Lesley McMillan | McMillan's research and selected publications are on-line,
Books include her 2007 comparative account "Feminists organising against gendered violence" publisher Palgrave Macmillan,Northern Ireland's women's liberation movement. In 2012, a further study of Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation: Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe publisher Taylor & Francis,Violence against women."
* selected research publications: Research online
* publications on Google Scholar
* publications via JSTOR
* Erase the Grey Youtube video |
56368307_0 | Ashok Lavasa | Ashok Lavasa (IAST: Aśoka Lavāsā) (born 21 October 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
Education
Ashok Lavasa did his schooling from Belgaum Military School. Ashok Lavasa is a graduate (BA Honours) from Deshbandhu college and a postgraduate (MA) in English from University of Delhi,MBA degree from Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia.MPhil in defence and strategic studies.
Career
Before IAS
Before being appointed as an IAS officer, Lavasa taught literature in the Delhi University.State Bank of India as a probationary officer.
As an IAS officer
Lavasa calling on the Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu in February 2018
Lavasa has served in key positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Haryana, like as Principal Secretary and Financial Commissioner (Renewable Energy Sources), Principal Secretary and Financial Commissioner (Power), Chief Coordinator (Industries), resident commissioner of Haryana, managing director of Haryana State Federation of Co-operative Sugar Mills (HSFCOSML), director of Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIDC), managing director of Haryana Tourism Corporation (HTC), and as the deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Jind and Gurgaon districts in the Haryana government,Union Finance Secretary, Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary, Union Civil Aviation Secretary, special secretary in the Ministry of Power, joint secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and as a joint secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Finance in the Indian government.
Civil Aviation Secretary
Lavasa was appointed as the Union Civil Aviation Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in December 2013,Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary.
Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary
Lavasa was appointed as the Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in August 2014,Union Expenditure Secretary. |
56368307_1 | Ashok Lavasa | Expenditure Secretary
Lavasa was appointed as the Union Expenditure Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in April 2016,superannuated from service on 30 October 2017.
As the seniormost secretary in the Ministry of Finance after the retirement of Ratan Watal, Lavasa was designated as Finance Secretary in May 2016.
Post-retirement
Lavasa taking charge as one of the two Election Commissioners of India in February 2018
Election Commissioner of India
Post-retirement, Lavasa was appointed as one of the two Election Commissioners of India in January 2018.
Mr Lavasa made headlines in 2019 after a dissenting opinion on a panel's ruling of complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah during the Lok Sabha election campaign.
Six complaints were filed against PM Modi. Lavasa disagreed with his panel colleagues in some of these cases.
He soon stopped attending meetings, saying "minority decisions" were being "suppressed in a manner contrary to well-established conventions observed by multi-member statutory bodies".
In December 2019, Mr Lavasa in an article in The Indian Express wrote: "The honest, however, go on regardless, perhaps driven by an inner force that borders on recklessness. A society that creates hurdles which exhaust the honest or wound them paves the path for its own perdition".
This was two months after an income tax notice was sent to his wife, Novel S Lavasa, over alleged discrepancies in filings. Sources had said the information had been sought "related to foreign exchange". Mrs Lavasa said she had "paid all taxes due" and "disclosed all income" and that she was cooperating.
He served as Vice president of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from 31 August 2020 till 31 August 2023.
Work |
56368307_2 | Ashok Lavasa | Work
* Lavasa, Ashok; Sethi, Ravi Mohan (2010). An Uncivil Servant: The Success Story of a Bureaucrat Turned Businessman. New Delhi: Rupa Publications. ISBN 978-81-291-1704-5.
* Lavasa, Ashok (2021): An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation. Harper India ISBN 978-93-5422-317-4
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashok Lavasa.
* Executive record sheet as maintained by Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions of the Government of India
* Profile at Bloomberg |
1359446_0 | Hadria | Hadria may refer to:
* Hadria, an alternative spelling for the Etruscan city that is now Adria in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.
* Hadria, an alternative spelling for the city that is now Atri in the Abruzzo region of Central Italy. |
57981299_0 | Acontia marmoralis | Acontia marmoralis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794.Sri Lanka,India,JapanTaiwan.
Host plant is Sida rhombifolia,Sida alnifolia and cotton. |
66014279_0 | Ying Fuk-tsang | Ying Fuk-tsang (Chinese: 邢福增) is a Christian historian and Professor at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Biography
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ying attended Newman Catholic College for HKCEE (1982) and New Method College for A levels (1983). He received all of his tertiary education at the CUHK: Bachelor of Arts in History (1987), Master of Philosophy in Chinese church history (1989), and Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese church history (1995). His master thesis' topic is "The Adaptation of Religious Belief and Cultural Environment of Chinese Christians in the late Qing Dynasty (1860-1911)," supervised by Wang Erh Ming (Chinese: 王爾敏). His PhD topic is "Saving the Nations in Christianity: Xu Qian, Feng Yü-hsiang, and Zhang Zhijiang," supervised by Lau Yee-cheung and Leung Yuen-sang. Ying was baptized at Ward Methodist Church in 1987 and became a volunteer missionary with the Hong Kong Methodist Church
Ying was Assistant Professor and the Director of Christianity and Chinese Culture Research Centre (CCCRC) at Alliance Bible Seminary between 1993 and 2004. In 2004, he moved to the CUHK as Professor at the Culture and Religious Studies Department, Director of the Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture (CSCCRC) and Associate Director of Centre for Christian Studies. He was Director of Divinity School of Chung Chi College between 2014 and 2020, succeeded by Francis Ching-wah Yip in July 2020.
He was a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award (2010–11). |
65729915_0 | Magnus Grankvist | Magnus Grankvist (born 3 April 1964) is a Swedish professional golfer and golf coach. He won the 1986 Europcar Cup, a "special event" on the European Tour, and the 1989 SM Match on the Challenge Tour.
Career
Grankvist was part of the National Team as an amateur. He won the bronze at the 1984 European Youths' Team Championship at Hermitage GC, Ireland with a team that included Jesper Parnevik, Fredrik Lindgren and Johan Ryström.Swedish Golf Tour, where he won four tournaments, including the SM Match in 1986 and 1989. In 1989, the tournament was part of the Satellite Tour, which soon was renamed the Challenge Tour.Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit, behind Per-Arne Brostedt and Magnus Persson Atlevi.
In 1986, he was part of the winning Swedish team at the Europcar Cup together with Anders Forsbrand, Per-Arne Brostedt and Magnus Sunesson.
Coaching career
Grankvist started working for the Swedish Golf Federation after retiring from tour.European Boys' Team Championship at Amber Baltic GC in Poland and silver the following year at Reykjavik GC in Iceland. Both teams included Jonas Blixt, Steven Jeppesen and Niklas Lemke.
In 2003 he coached the Swedish team to a bronze finish behind Spain and England at the European Amateur Team Championship held at Royal Hague GCC, Netherlands. The team consisted of Kalle Edberg, Steven Jeppesen, Niklas Lemke, Per Nilsson, Alex Norén and Wilhelm Schauman.
He also coached the European team in the 2005 Palmer Cup, a match the Americans won 14 to 10.
Professional wins (7)
Challenge Tour wins (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of Runner-up
victory
1 30 Jul 1989 Svenska Mästerskapet Match Play 2 and 1 [Sweden] Yngve Nilsson
Swedish Golf Tour wins (3) |
65729915_1 | Magnus Grankvist | Swedish Golf Tour wins (3)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of Runner-up
victory
1 18 Aug 1985 Gevalia Open −2 (73-71-71-71=286) 2 strokes [Sweden] Gunnar Mueller
2 27 Jul 1986 SM Match Trygg-Hansa Cup 3 and 2 [Sweden] John Lindberg
3 14 Sep 1986 Kentab Open −1 (69-69-68=206) Playoff [Sweden] Mats Hallberg
Sources:
Other wins (3)
* 2011 (2) Forsgården Open, Göteborg District Championship
* 2012 (1) Sportlife Open
Team appearances
Amateur
* European Youths' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 1984
Professional
* Europcar Cup (representing Sweden): 1986 (winners)
Source:
* Magnus Grankvist at the European Tour official site
* Magnus Grankvist at the Golfdata official site (in Swedish) |
49396858_0 | Zhao Zhenkui | Zhao Zhenkui (Chinese: 赵振魁) was a Chinese diplomat who served as the first Chinese Ambassador to Angola. |
2427650_0 | Islord | Rodney Stevenson (born January 31, 1974) better known by his stage name Islord is a rapper and a member of the hip hop group Killarmy. Although named Rodney Stevenson at birth,he, as all members of Killarmy, is a Five Percenter, and, thus, changed his name legally to Islord. The first three letters of his name: I, S, L, are also the first three letters of "Islam"; in the Five Percent way of life, "Islam" does not represent the religion but "I.S.L.A.M." which is often represented as "I Self Lord And Master."Bobby Digital in Stereo and the song "Holy Water" from Dom Pachino's Unreleased solo album.
Discography
Discography with Killarmy
Album Title Album Info
* Released: August 5, 1997
* Billboard 200 chart position: #34
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars * R&B/Hip Hop chart position: #10
* Singles: "Swinging Swords," "Camouflage Ninjas"/"Wake Up,"
"Wu-Renegades"/"Clash of the Titans"
* Released: August 11, 1998
Dirty Weaponry * Billboard 200 chart position: #40
* R&B/Hip Hop chart position: #13
* Singles: "Red Dawn"/"Where I Rest At," "The Shoot-Out"
* Released: September 11, 2001
* Billboard 200 chart position: #122
Fear, Love & War * R&B/Hip Hop chart positions: #34
* Singles: "Street Monopoly"/"Monster," "Feel It"/"Militant,"
"Nonchalantly"
Greatest Hits * Released: May, 2011
* Released: April 10, 2020
Full Metal Jackets * Billboard 200 chart position: TBA
* R&B/Hip Hop chart positions: TBA
* Singles: "Musical Terrorist", "The Shoot-Out Pt. II"
Videography |
2427650_1 | Islord | Videography
Artist(s) Album Info Video Title(s) Release Date
Swinging Swords
Killarmy Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars Wake Up (featuring Hell Razah, Prodigal Sunn and various Wu-Tang Clan cameos) 1997 Loud/Priority/Wu-Tang Records
Wu-Renegades (featuring various Wu-Tang Clan cameos)
Killarmy Dirty Weaponry The Shoot-Out (featuring Rza) 1998 Wu-Tang Records
Killarmy Fear, Love & War Feel It 2001 |
67885977_0 | Nordiidae | Nordiidae is a family of nematodes belonging to the order Dorylaimida.
Genera
Genera:
* Actinolaimoides Meyl, 1957
* Acunemella Andrássy, 2002
* Cephalodorylaimus Jairajpuri, 1967
* Dorydorella Andrássy, 1987
* Ecanema Ahmad & Shaheen, 2005
* Echinodorus Siddiqi, 1995
* Enchodeloides Elshishka, Lazarova, Radoslavov, Hristov & Peneva, 2017
* Enchodelus Ahmad & Jairajpuri, 1980
* Enchodelus Thorne, 1939
* Enchodorus Vinciguerra, 1976
* Kochinema Heyns, 1963
* Lanzavecchia Zullini, 1988
* Lenonchium Siddiqi, 1965
* Longidorella Thorne, 1939
* Malekus Thorne, 1974
* Oonaguntus Thorne, 1974
* Oriverutoides Ahmad & Sturhan, 2002
* Papuadorus Andrássy, 2009
* Pungentella Andrássy, 2009
* Pungentus Thorne & Swanger, 1936
* Rhyssocolpus Andrássy, 1971
* Saevadorella Siddiqi, 1982
* Stenodorylaimus Álvarez-Ortega & Peña-Santiago, 2011
* Thornedia Husain & Khan, 1965 |
41288775_0 | Detention center (cell biology) | For other uses, see Detention center.
Cells without (left) and with (right) Detention Centers
A nucleolar detention center (DC) is a region of the cell in which certain proteins are temporarily detained in periods of cellular stress.nucleoli and therefore disrupt the normal organization of these organelles. The structural remodeling that ensues leaves nucleoli unable to sustain their primary function, ribosomal biogenesis. Therefore, the formation of DCs is thought to convert nucleoli from “ribosome factories” to “prisons for proteins”.
Detention center formation is thought to be controlled by the varying expression of intergenic spacer long noncoding RNA (IGS lncRNA).nucleolus into the detention center.homeostasis decreases IGS lncRNA transcription, causing the nucleolus to relinquish detained proteins, return to its original structural confirmation, and resume the production of ribosomes.
The IGS lncRNA sequences produced in response to cellular stress differ depending on the type of stress-inducing stimulus. IGS lncRNA produced in response to heat shock is transcribed from a different region than IGS lncRNA produced in response to acidosis. |
3691108_0 | Five by Five (disambiguation) | Look up five-by-five in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A five by five is the best-possible radio signal report in the modern signal strength and readability report system.
Five by Five may also refer to:
Sports
* Five-by-five (basketball), an individual basketball performance in which a player has five in five categories
* Professor's Cube, the 5x5x5 version of the Rubik's Cube
Media
* "Five by Five" (Angel), an episode of television series Angel
* Five by Five (band), a 1960s–1970s Arkansas-based band
Music albums
* Five by Five (Pizzicato Five EP)
* Five by Five (The Rolling Stones EP)
* Five by Five (The Verve EP)
* VxV or Five by Five, an album by Wolves at the Gate
* 5 by 5 (Dave Clark Five album), 1967
* [[Five by Five (The Hooters EP)|Five by Five (The Hooters EP), 2010
Songs
* "Five By Five", by The Dave Clark Five 1970
* "Mr. Five by Five", a 1942 song by Freddie Slack and His Orchestra
+ Jimmy Rushing, known as "Mr. Five by Five" and the subject of the above song |
1327411_0 | Honda NH series | The NH series of Honda scooters was sold worldwide beginning in 1983, in 50, 80, 90, 100 and 125cc versions. All models have an air-cooled two-stroke engine with CDI ignition. All models except the Lead 50 have leading link front suspension, electric and kick start, and a fuel gauge. The Lead 50 has a traditional telescopic fork front suspension and only electric start. All models have drum brakes and CVT transmission.
Models
* Aero (USA, 1983–85)
* Lead (Outside USA, 1983–87)
* Vision (Outside USA, 1987–94)
* Mascot (Canada)
American regulations in 1986 required any motorcycle over 50cc to be four stroke to combat air pollution.
* Kinetic (DX, ZX, Y2K Etc..) (India, 1984–2007)
* Dio (India, 2001–present)
Engine sizes
* NH 50 (49cc)
* NH 80 (79cc)
* NH 90 (89cc)
* NH 100 (96cc)
* NH 125 (124cc)
* NH 150 (149cc)
There is also a more modern Lead in 100cc, 110cc and 125cc versions.
Regional variations
There were other regional variations as well as going by a different name in the USA. Most notably, the headlights were different on the early European models. The front handlebar moulding was later changed to be common across all models, allowing the same headlights to be used. Although the specific light arrangements still vary because of the regulations in different countries. Stickers, badges and mirrors are also different across regional versions.
Honda Dio
Manufactured by Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, Honda Dio is a 110cc scooter introduced in 2001 in India and exported with the same brand name to 11 countries including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mexico and Columbia.India Today magazine named Honda Dio as the 4th most selling Scooter in June 2021.
Other manufacturers |
1327411_1 | Honda NH series | Other manufacturers
During the 1980s, Honda invested in non-Japanese motorcycle manufacturing – most notably they bought a large percentage of French company Peugeot, which resulted in Peugeot Motocycles. Elsewhere, the Kinetic Motor Company from India, which resulted in Kinetic Honda. Both of these joint ventures saw the NH series given various degrees of cosmetic overhaul and released as a number of different models. Peugeot released the SC series (SC 50, SC 50L, SC 80L and SX 80L) whilst Kinetic Honda released the EX, DX, ZX (100cc, 2-stroke), the ZX Zoom (110cc, 2-stroke) and the 4S model (113.5cc, 4-stroke).
Sources
* Coggins, Frank W. (September 1984), "Slick Scooters for Two-Wheel Transport", Popular Mechanics, vol. 161, no. 9, pp. 74–75, 137–138, ISSN 0032-4558
* Davis, Ted (12 September 1987), "Honda, Yamaha have scooters, but must build market Makers concentrating on 50 cc range", Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario, p. K.7
* Koblenz, Jay (August 1984), "Sleek scooters", Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, vol. 225, no. 2, pp. 96–98, ISSN 0161-7370
* Shattuck, Colin; Peterson, Eric (2005), Scooters: Red Eyes, Whitewalls and Blue Smoke, Speck Press, p. 39, ISBN 0-9725776-3-7
* Media related to Honda NH series at Wikimedia Commons |
22183787_0 | Micraeschus | Micraeschus is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Description
Palpi very slender and obliquely upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae with fasciculated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Legs naked, with normal spurs. Forewing with veins 7 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with stalked 3 and 4. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.
Species
* Micraeschus elataria Walker, 1861
* Micraeschus rufipallens Warren, 1913
* Savela, Markku. "Micraeschus Butler, 1878". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. |
39478767_0 | 1905 in Scotland | Events from the year 1905 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
* Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Andrew Murray until 2 February; then The Marquess of Linlithgow until 4 December; then John Sinclair
Law officers
* Lord Advocate – Charles Dickson until December; then Thomas Shaw
* Solicitor General for Scotland – David Dundas; then Edward Theodore Salvesen; then James Avon Clyde; then Alexander Ure
Judiciary
* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour until 22 January; then from 4 February Lord Dunedin
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
* January – Strathaven Academy opens.
* 28 September – Talla Reservoir officially opened to serve the Edinburgh district after 10 years of construction (supply begins May).
* 31 October – Perth Corporation Tramways commence electric operation.
* 18 November – First rugby match between New Zealand and Scotland, played at Murrayfield.
* 19 November – 39 men are killed in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street, Glasgow.
* St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, raised to cathedral status in the Episcopal Church.
* David Couper Thomson sets up the Dundee publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
* Scottish Motor Traction is set up in Edinburgh as a motor bus operator.
* Victoria Bridge, Mar Lodge Estate, erected.
* Approximate date – the earliest Rolls-Royce 10 hp car to survive into the 21st century is acquired by Kenneth Gillies of Tain; it remains in Scotland until the time of World War I.
Births |
39478767_1 | 1905 in Scotland | Births
* 6 April – Johnny Ramensky, career criminal, employed as a commando for his safe-cracking abilities (died 1972)
* 19 April – Jim Mollison, aviator (died 1959)
* 12 May – Alex Jackson, international footballer (died 1946)
* 12 July – John Maxwell, landscape painter (died 1962)
* 19 July – Robert Hurd, influential conservation architect (died 1963)
* 20 August – Duncan Macrae, actor (died 1967)
* 6 September – William McEwan Younger, brewer and Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
* 4 October – Leslie Mitchell, announcer (died 1985 in London)
* 9 December – Janet Adam Smith, writer and mountaineer (died 1999)
* Norman Cameron, poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
* Fred Hartley, light music composer and conductor (died 1980)
Deaths
* 21 January – Robert Brough, painter, died in a railway disaster (born 1872)
* 5 August – Alexander Asher, Liberal politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (born 1834)
* 16 August – Jamie Anderson, golfer (born 1842)
* 22 August – David Binning Monro, Homeric scholar (born 1836)
* 18 September – George MacDonald, author, poet and Christian minister (born 1844)
* 8 October – Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born 1859)
* 27 October – Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
* 7 November – Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist (born 1855)
* 12 December – William Sharp, poet and literary biographer (born 1855)
The arts
* 16 January – Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
* Harry Lauder writes the popular song "I Love a Lassie".
* Timeline of Scottish history
* 1905 in the United Kingdom |
54093328_0 | Valeri F. Venda | This page was translated from the Russian version of the article
Valerii Fedorovich Venda (born August 2, 1937 in Semferopol, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian psychologist, engineer, and designer. His main research areas are perception (or apperception) and cognition, the connection (attachment) between anatomical (structural) perceptual information and complex thoughts, which includes, problem solving; the process of mutual adaptation and transitions in general systems theory, the psychology
Biography
In 1954 Venda graduated with honors from Men's High School Number 14 in Semferopol, in Crimea. In 1960 he graduated from The Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in Automation of Production Processes. From 1960 onward, as an employee of the Central Research Institute of Complex Automation, he designed and created a mnemonic scheme
In early 1963, at the age of 25, Venda was appointed head of the Department of Ergonomics at the All-Russian Institute of Technical Aesthetics.
From 1975 to 1980, Venda directed three sections of "Avant-Garde", the USSR's national program on military ergonomics. He was a member of the executive committee of the Psychological Society of the USSR (1975–1980) as well as a professor at the V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy (1975–1987).
In 1990 Venda became a professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland where he taught ergonomics and introduction to personal computers. Beginning in 1991, he directed the First program in Canada program for ergonomics and labor safety at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2000 he served as the senior advisor for engineering psychology and usability at the USWeb company in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2001 he served as the senior advisor for ergonomics and usability at DST Systems in Kansas.
From 1992 to 2002, Venda was a member of the editorial board of the International Journal Human–Computer Interaction (US). From 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (Poland).
Venda is a laureate of The Distinguished International Colleague Award for outstanding contribution to the human factors field (US, 1996) |
54093328_1 | Valeri F. Venda | M.D. Vacin, the science writer for the newspaper "Pravda" has long worked to popularize Venda's works.
Scientific activity
Processes of mutual adaptation
In his works, Venda introduced the concept of mutual adaptation. He formulated the laws of mutual adaptation and transformation of system structures. In his opinion, these laws are common for all types of systems
(No 1) The law of mutual adaptation for any system :The development of any system includes the process of mutual adaptation between the internal components of the system and between the system as a whole and the environment. Venda believed that each developing system involves the process of mutual adaptation. He suggested that the development of people, society, any living system, differs from the development of inanimate systems in that it represents a process of mutual advanced multilevel adaptation of cells, of human internal organs, among themselves and of man as a whole with the environment. He analyzed the relationship between the material processes of mutual adaptation and dialectics, between the material world and its ideal reflection by humans.
(No 2) The law of maximum efficiency: The effectiveness of the system with a certain structure is optimal if the value of the controlled factor of mutual adaptation is also optimal. Consequently, the dependence of the efficiency criterion on any factor of mutual adaptation has a bell-shaped distribution (Figure 1). Venda conducted experimental studies into the influence of various factors of mutual adaptation on the effectiveness of systems, including human activities. He revealed that as a factor of mutual adaptation, any mental function, any parameter of the means or the means of activity.
(No. 3) The law of multistructural systems (Figure 2): A system can have a number of structures, each of which corresponds to a special bell-shaped distribution of the dependence of system efficiency on the chosen factor of mutual adaptation of the system to the environment. The structure of the system can be a discrete series with distinct differences in the values of the optimal factors of mutual adaptation. These maximized efficiencies for different structures are called strategies. |
54093328_2 | Valeri F. Venda | (No. 4) The law of transformation: The structures of the system are transformed into each other through a common state within the system. The state of the system, common to the two structures, is reflected as the point of intersection of their bell-shaped curves (Figure 3). Venda believed that studying the development in any field, analyzing both single-structure uniform models and multistructural transformational models, was fundamental in describing the dynamics of any complex systems as a wave-like process with an obligatory intermediate decline in system efficiency.
Venda presented a new type of graphical nomograms, quadrangles with four quadrants that allow the representation of any experimental polycyclic processes, including mutual adaptation processes, and subsequently substantiated the possibility of their application in psychology, physiology, mathematics and other sciences. The variant of the quadrigram structure is shown in Fig. 4. The places of particular models in quadrants and the direction of transitions can vary depending on the research tasks, the features of the environment, and the system. An example of constructing the dynamics of a medium system on a quadrigram is shown in Fig. 5.
He introduced the concepts of system strategy or structure, a discrete series of structural system strategies: characteristic strategy curve, invariance of integral system efficiency: congruent structural strategy, basic divergent structural strategy: structure association, and reversible transformation.
Transformation learning theory and system dynamics
Venda tried to revise the traditional psychological view of learning processing. Unlike Herman Ebbinghaus's unified exponential theory of teaching (1890), Venda proposed a transformational learning theory (based on his transformational laws). He presented this as a wave-shaped learning curve with periods of decline in the transition from one activity structure to the next. His transformational learning theory greatly expands the possibilities of analyzing regularities and predicting individual development and systemic progress. |
54093328_3 | Valeri F. Venda | He introduced the concepts of transformational theory of systems dynamics, transformations (the emergence of wave-like transformational processes in the economy, energy, science, etc.), and co-adaptation (the process of mutual adaptation in living, inanimate and complex systems, in particular ecosystems and man-machine-environment systems). In 1995 he published the book "Dynamics in ergonomics, psychology, and decisions: Introduction to Ergodynamics", which is an introduction to ergodynamics (the process of mutual adaptation between a trained worker and structurally progressing instruments of labor).
He proposed graphic models of predicting the dynamics of system efficiency and developed new methods of statistical processing of experimental data on learning processes.
Venda suggested that all systems involved in the evolutionary process are encompassed by a continuous comprehensive process of mutual adaptation with periodic transformations of structures, generating new species, inventions, discoveries and wave-like dynamics of development.
Hybrid intelligence systems
Venda formulated the principles of synthesis and functioning of natural, evolutionarily developed, and artificial, human-machine and socio-technical, hybrid intelligent systems. He developed fundamentally new forms of intellectual activity in science, design, management, and technology – the theory of hybrid intelligence systems, including natural (biological and social), artificial (technical) and combined (human-machine, socio-technical). This theory was based on the laws of mutual adaptation and transformation. He considered the system of hybrid intelligence as a group system of collective thinking, using information technology, adapted to each individual participant and to the whole group.
He singled out the main principles of hybrid intelligence, such as evolution, a correspondence to the deep interests and structures of man, animals, and biospheres; democracy as an expression of equality, common interests and responsibilities of participants, flexible composition and flexible hierarchy, in which everyone is the leader at the time when he is the most competent, useful, and far-sighted; mutual adaptation of all participants and components; the transformation of strategies as a path to the creative generation of new strategies; and the intensification of communication processes. At the same time, he represented thinking strategies of hidden participants in hybrid intelligence using computer programs. Fig 6 shows an example of the structure of a hybrid intelligence system for the collective solution of complex problems of operational control, design, planning, and training on the basis of adaptive information technology. |
54093328_4 | Valeri F. Venda | Engineering psychology, ergonomics and usability
Venda experimentally investigated the problem of functional adaptation of the informational system structure for any specific human activity. He proposed a multi-level adaptation of technical facilities and external conditions for the operator in order to maximize the use of specific human capabilities in a management system. These adaptation levels include total, contingent, functional, group, individual, and individually-operative adaptation. Venda examined the engineering and psychological problems with the synthesis of information display tools from the position of structural and psychological concepts, whose essence can be reduced to the fact that the structure of the information display system statistically determines the strategies and complexity of human decision making. On the other hand, the goal of the optimal synthesis of information display systems was specified as the closest approximation of the real values of the psychological factors on the complexity of solving problems to their optimal values.
Venda developed theoretical, methodological, and practical recommendations on occupational guidance and on the selection and training of specialists. Based on the developed psychological principles of choosing multicomponent means of information display structures, he considered engineering, psychological, and ergonomic questions of artistic design for information tools and proposed heuristics for designers. He paid particular attention to the artistic, compositional, and analytical methods of implementing the formulated principles in order to select a structure for information display facilities.
He attempted to unify parallel notions of information models (complex information display tools) and mental models (ontogenetic, generalized reflection of objects, corrected on the basis of the real results of solving problems) and to bring these notions into terminological correspondence.
He studied the psychological factors of the complexity of solving mental problems and their quantitative measures, depending on the structure of the visual information represented and concluded that if a problem is optimally presented, it loses a significant part of its complexity and becomes trivial. |
54093328_5 | Valeri F. Venda | He studied theoretical ergonomics and engineering psychology, using the laws of mutual adaptation and transformation, and investigated the mutual adaptation between the structure of the perceived display and the thought process. Venda collaborated with A. F. Dyakov and K. V. Frolov and together they experimentally investigated the dynamics, efficiency, and safety for the operators of power assets and systems. Venda gave psychological and ergonomic recommendations for designing information technology and for ensuring the safety of human-machine-environment systems. He stressed the importance of Russian science in the formation of the theoretical and applied bases for the usability of information technology.
Studies on the development of creative abilities
Venda put forward the idea that it is possible to purposefully, artificially develop subconscious creative thinking after he studied the biographies and works of A. S. Pushkin, Napoleon, and other outstanding personalities, and analyzed the results of his own longitudinal experiment, which lasted more than sixty-five years. Venda believed that artificially developing a child's subconscious creative thinking could enhance their intellectual talent, as well as instill in them superior motivation for intellectual success.
Research projects
Venda was the project head for the development and implementation of integrated information systems for Mosenergo TPP-21's power generation unit, the head of the workshops of the Voskresensky and Shchyokinsky Chemical Combine, the automated slabbing 1150 for the metallurgical plant (Galati, Romania), and for the integrated power systems of Transcaucasia in the Urals. He was the project manager for the development of camera consoles for the system of centralized operational control of urban transport in Moscow – the "Start" system.
He invented, designed, created, and explored a new kind of safe workplace for assembling electronic devices in a practical manner. A feature of his work was the indirect observation of workers in their operations when assembling electronic devices. He obtained a patent for this invention on June 22, 1995.
Venda developed ergonomic recommendations for the prevention of accidents at nuclear power plants and other processing facilities. For the first time, he used the registration of oculomotor behavior and the complex psycho-physiological parameters of a person for the evaluation of information technology. |
54093328_6 | Valeri F. Venda | A scientific analysis of ancient astrologers’ activities was among his outside interests. Venda thought that astrologers mistakenly believed that they were studying the influence of stars on people's lives, but, in fact, as they were observing the starry sky as a complex clock and simultaneously recording events on Earth, they were accumulating valuable data on cyclic processes in nature.
He proposed a strategy for winning the game "Sportloto 6 of 49", trying to solve the problem not as a traditional mathematical problem, but as psychological one, arguing that although the balls pop up chaotically, after studying the for the majority of players’ strategy in playing sportloto, one can see there is a chance for a constant probability of winning much more than prescribed by probability theory.
Teaching
Venda was a professor at MIIT, VPA – named after Lenin, Loyola College, Manitoba University, National University (San Diego, USA). He gave lectures and seminars at 56 universities, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), the University of Paris (Paris) (French: Université de Paris), and many universities in Japan, Sweden and other countries.
Venda Authored and co-authored 23 books and more than 300 scientific articles. Over 120 of his works have been published abroad, including 4 monographs in English, Slovak and Spanish. His books were used as university textbooks in the USSR, Slovakia, Spain, the US, and Canada.
Awards
In 1984 Valeri Venda was awarded International Prize for outstanding research in psychology by joint decision of USSR Academy of Science and academies of science of nine other socialist countries.
In 1996 he was the first person received a new Distinguished International Colleague Award for outstanding contribution to the human factors and ergonomics field from USA Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
In 2002 he was the first person elected Honorary fellow USA Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Publication
Monographs |
54093328_7 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V. F. (1969). Средства отображения информации: эргономические исследования и художественное конструирование [Information displays: ergonomic evaluation and industrial design]. p. 304. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1975). Инженерная психология и синтез систем отображения информации [Engineering psychology and design of information display systems]. p. 396. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1978). Организация труда операторов (инженерно-психологические проблемы) [Organizing of operator work (engineering psychological issues)]. p. 224. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1980). Видеотерминалы в информационном взаимодействии (инженерно-психологические аспекты) [Video terminals in information interaction (engineering psychological issues)]. p. 200. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) |
54093328_8 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V. F. (1980). Inzinierska psychologia a synteza systemov zobrazovania informacii [Engineering psychology and design of information display systems]. p. 240. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1982). Инженерная психология и синтез систем отображения информации [Engineering psychology and design of information display systems]. p. 344. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V.; Lomov, B. (1983). González, Marta (ed.). La interrelación hombre – máquina en los sistemas de información [Human-machine interection in information system]. p. 432. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Savelyev, A.; Venda, V. (1989). Higher education and computerization. p. 256. ISBN 978-5-01-001138-3. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1990). Системы гибридного интеллекта: эволюция, психология, информатика [Hybrid intelligent systems: evolution, psychology, informatics]. p. 448. ISBN 978-5-217-01006-6. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, Valery F.; Venda, Yuri V. (1995). Dynamics in ergonomics, psychology and decisions. p. 503. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) |
54093328_9 | Valeri F. Venda | Shorter books
* Venda, V. F. (1964). Оператор и машина [Human-operator and machine]. p. 48. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1970). Информационная техника и эргономика [Information technology and ergonomics]. p. 48. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1977). Инженерная психология и труд оператора АСУ [Engineering psychology and human operator work at automated systems]. p. 64. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1988). Обыкновенная психология "необыкновенных чудес" [Ordinary psychology of "extraordinary miracles"]. p. 64. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1989). Волны прогресса [The waves of progress]. p. 62. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Selected papers |
54093328_10 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V. F.; Mitkin, A. A. (1969). "Risultati di uno sdudio obiettivo sull'attivita di un operatore" [Data on objective study of operator work]. La Scuola in Azione (in Italian). 6: 80–95.
* Lomov, B. F.; Venda, V. F. (1977). "Human Factors: Problems of adapting systems for the interaction of information to the individual: The theory of hybrid intelligent systems". Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 21st Annual Meeting. pp. 1–9. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1980). "Voies nouvelles pour une theorie de l'apprentissage" [The new learning theory]. Present et future de la psychologie du travail [Present and future of work Psychology]. pp. 586–594. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1983). "On the transformation learning theory". Third European Conference on Human Decision Making and Manual Control. pp. 345–354. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1984). "In searching of general regularities of adaptation dynamics: on the transformation learning theory". In Degreef, E.; van Buggenhaut, J. (eds.). Trends in Mathematical Psychology. pp. 121–158. ISBN 978-0-444-87512-9. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1985). "The fundamental laws of psychology and ergonomics". Proceedings of IX – th Congress of the Int. Ergonomics Association. pp. 265–281. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1986). "On transformation learning Theory". Behavioral Science. 31 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1002/bs.3830310102. |
54093328_11 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V. F. (1986). "On the laws of mutual adaptation in man - machine and other systems". Ergonomics - Human Factors III. pp. 151–272. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1988). "The quadrigrams of mutual adaption as a new model of human activity". In USW (ed.). Proceedings of the X-th Congress of International Ergonomics Association. pp. 141–156. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1989). "Ergonomics. Education and Safety Systems Research in the USSR". In Mital, Anil (ed.). Advances in Industrial Ergonomics and Safety I. pp. 3–12. ISBN 978-0-85066-493-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F.; Venda, Y. V. (1991). "Transformation Dynamics in Complex Systems". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 81 (4): 163–184. ISSN 0043-0439.
* Venda, Yuri V.; Venda, Valery F. (1992). "An introduction to the transformation dynamics: The law and theory of transformations". In Kumar, Shrawan (ed.). Edvances in Indastrial Ergonomics and Safety IV. pp. 86–96. ISBN 978-0-203-22133-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F.; Thornton – Trump, A. V. (1992). "Applications of transformations theory in biomechanics". In Kumar, Shrawan (ed.). Edvances in Indastrial Ergonomics and Safety IV. pp. 97–106. ISBN 978-0-203-22133-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) |
54093328_12 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V.; Strong, D.; Hawalehska, O.; Rychlicki, B. (1992). "Human factor and transformations of manufacturing technologies". In Kumar, Shrawan (ed.). Edvances in Indastrial Ergonomics and Safety IV. pp. 107–115. ISBN 978-0-203-22133-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Yufik, Y. M.; Sheridan, T. B.; Venda, V. F. (1993). "Quantitative evaluation and performance prediction in Human – computer interaction: Applications and case studies". Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on HCI. pp. 642–647. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1993). "Work efficiency vs. complexity: Introduction to ergodynamics". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 83 (1): 9–1. ISSN 0043-0439.
* Venda, V. F.; Hendrick, Hal W. (1994). "Ergodynamics and macroergonomics in analysis of decision – making efficiency and complexity". International Journal of Human – Computer Interaction. 6 (3): 253–274. doi:10.1080/10447319409526095.
* Venda, V. F. (1994). "Transformations in work structures: theoretical fundamentals of the ergodynamics". Human factors in organizational design and management - IV. pp. 269–274. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (1995). "Ergodynamics: theory and applications". Ergonomics. 38 (8): 1600–1616. doi:10.1080/00140139508925212. |
54093328_13 | Valeri F. Venda | * Venda, V. F.; Chachko, S. A. (1996). "Ergodynamics and Hybrid Intelligence Systems in the Reliability of Power Plant Operators". International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics. 2 (2): 93–108. doi:10.1080/10803548.1996.11076339. PMID 10602580.
* Venda, V. F.; Trybus, J. R. (2000). "Cognitive Ergonomics: Theory, Laws, and Graphic Models". International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics. 4 (4): 331–349. doi:10.1207/S15327566IJCE0404_4.
* Venda, V. F.; at al. (2000). "Usability of the graphic information: navigation systems and cars for seniors and disabled". Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. pp. 727–730. doi:10.1177/154193120004402888. S2CID 110395451. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F.; Kalin, V. K.; Trofimov, A. Y. (2008). "The Laws of Ergonomics Applied to Design and Testing of Workstations". Ergonomics and Psyhology Developments in Theory and Practice. pp. 71–88. ISBN 9781420067002. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
* Venda, V. F. (2017). "О законах взаимной адаптации и трансформации систем" [On the Laws of Mutual Adaptation and Transformations of the Systems]. Вопросы философии (in Russian): 94–105. ISSN 0042-8744.
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14686974_0 | Lisa-Marie Woods | Lisa-Marie Woods (born 23 May 1984) is a Norwegian retired professional football midfielder and current assistant coach at Creighton University. She last played at Asheville City SC of the Women's Premier Soccer League as a forward. She has previously played for Asker SK and LSK Kvinner in the Toppserien FC Indiana & Ottawa Fury in North America's USL W-League as well as Kolbotn, Stabæk, and Fortuna Hjørring in Denmark's Elitedivisionen, BIIK Kazygurt in the Kazakhstani women's football championship, and Perth Glory in Australia's W-League.
Early life
University
Woods played for Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan during her freshman year in 2003. She later transferred to Middle Tennessee State University, where she played in 2004. These periods were alternated with summer seasons in Norway with Asker FK in Toppserien. In 2008, she played for Ottawa Fury during the summer break for the Beijing Olympics.
Playing career
Club
Woods began her career at Trosterud and later joined Lindeberg; she then transferred to Vålerenga, and in July 2001Asker SK on loan. She scored in her first match on 21 July 2001 when Asker beat Røa 8–0. Asker was a successful Toppserien team that in 2005 won the Norwegian Cup. She also played on the losing side of the Cup Final in 2006 and 2007 with Asker.
On 23 January 2009 Woods joined the German club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam,FC Indiana as a forward. After a successful American season with many goals scored, she transferred back to Norway and the elite Toppserien club Kolbotn in August 2009.
In January 2010 Woods signed to play for Stabæk, Oslo.
In January 2011 Woods left Norway to sign for the Danish club Fortuna Hjørring.
15 November she returns to the W-League, after signing with the Lady Reds, where she re-unites with Kristy Moore and Melissa Barbieri with whom she played with at Fortuna.
In 2015, she played for Kazakh champions BIIK Kazygurt. |
14686974_1 | Lisa-Marie Woods | In 2017 she was back in Norway with Avaldsnes IL, playing 9 league games.Asheville City SC in 2018.
International
In 2003 Woods captained Norway in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. Her team reached the Final in Leipzig, Germany, where they lost 0–2 to France. In October 2009 Woods was selected for the Norway women's national football team to play in qualification matches for a forthcoming championship. She played as a substitute against the Netherlands in a match that Norway won 3–0.
In 2010 Norway played 16 international matches to mid–November, including important qualification matches for the 2011 World Cup. Woods played in 13 of the matches, mainly as a defensive midfielder in a 4–4–2 formation, and scored five goals. She was withdrawn from the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad with a hip injury.Fortuna Hjørring that same summer. Woods was called up to the national team again for the next Euro qualifications in Iceland where she earned her spot in the starting lineup again.
Coaching career
In 2018, Woods joined the women's soccer coaching staff at Creighton University.
Personal
Woods is of Scottish, Norwegian and Filipino descent; the daughter of Gregory James and Gunn-Karin. Her brother Scott is also a footballer and played for the Philippines U23.
Honours
* 2005: Winner Norwegian Cup with Asker FK
* All-‐American 2004/2004
* Mid-‐Con Newcomer of the Year
* Great Lakes First-‐team
* All-‐Mid-‐Con
* Great Lakes Freshman of the Year
* Team All-‐Great Lakes
* Mid-‐Con Offensive Player of the Week(Oct.20)
* MVP Asker Fotball Kvinner 2008
* Player of the year 2010
* Toppserien "Kniksen Prisen"
* Profile and photo at club site
* Profile on goblueraiders.com
* Interview with Lisa-Marie Woods
* Lisa-Marie Woods on Twitter
* Lisa-Marie Woods Official blog on Women's Soccer United |
59687232_0 | Boraqchin (wife of Ögedei) | For the wife of Batu Khan, see Boraqchin (Tatar).
Boraqchin was the first and eldest wife of Ögedei Khan.
The earliest known Sino-Mongolian inscription, from 1240, mentions a "Yeke Qadun" or "Great empress". Some scholars have identified this figure with Boraqchin, while others argue that the inscription refers to Ögedei Khan's second wife, Töregene Khatun.
* History of Mongolia
* Ogedei Khan |
2973977_0 | Shane Willis | Shane Willis (born June 13, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. Willis was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but grew up in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.
Career
Willis was originally drafted by Tampa Bay 56th overall in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, but unable to come to terms, he re-entered the draft and was selected 88th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Willis was drafted from the Western Hockey League where he played for the Prince Albert Raiders and Lethbridge Hurricanes.
In 1999, his first full professional season, Willis won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the top rookie of the American Hockey League, while playing for the Beast of New Haven. Shane made his NHL debut for the Hurricanes in the 1998–99 before breaking out in the 2000–01 season, enjoying career highs of 20 goals and 24 assists.
Carolina qualified for the postseason in 2001 and faced the New Jersey Devils in the conference quarterfinals. Late in game 2, Willis was leveled by a Scott Stevens hit. He sat out the rest of the series. Combined with another hit the following season, an elbow to the face by Bryan Marchment, the injuries would hinder Willis' game, who would never score as much as in his rookie season.
In 2005–06, he played in Europe for Davos in Switzerland and for Linköpings HC in Sweden. He returned to North America for the 2006–07 season, signing with the Carolina Hurricanes on July 18, 2006. However, Willis spent the year playing with the Hurricanes affiliate, the Albany River Rats.
On July 5, 2007, Willis signed a one-year contract with the Nashville Predators but after his first game with affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals, he was ruled out for the season.
In the 2008–09 season Willis had signed a tryout contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets2008–09 season but was subsequently released on September 25, 2008.Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL to a player/coach role.Springfield Falcons of the AHL to a professional try-out contract on January 16, 2009.
On September 8, 2011, Willis was hired as the Youth and Amateur Hockey Coordinator for the Carolina Hurricanes.
Awards and achievements |