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Love's Jazz and Art Center Love's Jazz and Art Center is located at 2510 North 24th Street in the Near North Omaha neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. Founded and named to honor of Omaha jazz great Preston Love, Love's highlights the African American culture of North Omaha. In addition to sponsoring a variety of events, Love's has hosted events for Native Omaha Days. See also History of North Omaha, Nebraska Music in Omaha, Nebraska Culture of Omaha, Nebraska References External links Official website Category:Music of Omaha, Nebraska Category:Museums in Omaha, Nebraska Category:African-American museums in Nebraska Category:African-American history in Omaha, Nebraska Category:Arts centers in Nebraska

Petticoat affair The Petticoat Affair (also known as the Eaton Affair), was a U.S. scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831. Led by Floride Calhoun, wife of Vice President (VP) John C. Calhoun, these women, dubbed the "Petticoats," socially ostracized then–Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eaton's marriage; what they deemed as her failure to meet the "moral standards of a Cabinet Wife". The Petticoat Affair rattled the entire Jackson Administration, and inevitably led to the resignation of all but one Cabinet member. The ordeal facilitated Martin Van Buren's rise to the presidency, and was in part responsible for VP Calhoun's transformation from a "Nationwide political figure with Presidential aspirations", into a "Sectional-leader of the Southern states". Background Margaret "Peggy" Eaton was the eldest daughter of William O'Neill, owner of The Franklin House, a boarding house and tavern located in Washington, D.C. a short distance from the White House that was a well-known social hub popular with politicians and military officials. Peggy was well-educated for a woman of that era - she studied French and was known for her ability to play the piano. William T. Barry, who later served as Postmaster General, wrote "of a charming little girl ... who very frequently plays the piano, and entertains us with agreeable songs." As a young girl, her reputation had already begun to come under scrutiny, due to being employed in a bar frequented by men as well as her casual bantering with the boarding house's clientele. In her elder years, Peggy reminisced, "While I was still in pantalettes and rolling hoops with other girls, I had the attention of men, young and old; enough to turn a girl's head." When Peggy was 15 years old, her father intervened to prevent her attempt to elope with an Army officer. In 1816, the now-17-year old married John B. Timberlake (1777-1828), a purser in the United States Navy. Timberlake, aged 39, had a reputation as a drunkard and was heavily in debt. The Timberlakes became acquainted with John Eaton in 1818. At the time, Eaton was a wealthy 28-year-old widower and newly elected U.S. Senator from Tennessee, despite not yet having reached the constitutionally-mandated minimum age of 30. He was also a long-time friend of Andrew Jackson. Once Timberlake told Eaton of his financial troubles, Eaton unsuccessfully attempted to have the Senate pass legislation that would authorize payment of the debts Timberlake had accrued during his Naval service. Eventually, Eaton paid Timberlake's debts, and procured him a lucrative posting to the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean Squadron; many rumormongers asserted that Eaton aided Timberlake as a means to remove him from Washington, in order for Eaton to socialize with Peggy. While with the Mediterranean Squadron, Timberlake died on April 2, 1828. This served to fuel new rumors throughout Washington, suggesting he had taken his own life, as the result of Eaton's supposed affair with Peggy. Medical examiners concluded Timberlake had died of pneumonia, brought on by pulmonary disease. Controversy Jackson was elected president in 1828, with his term set to begin on March 4, 1829. He was reportedly fond of Peggy Timberlake and encouraged Eaton to marry her. They were wed on January 1, 1829; only nine months after her husband's death. Customarily, it would have been considered "proper" for their marriage to have followed a longer mourning period. Historian John F. Marszalek explained his opinion on the "real reasons Washington society found Peggy unacceptable": "She did not know her place; she forthrightly spoke up about anything that came to her mind, even topics of which women were supposed to be ignorant. She thrust herself into the world in a manner inappropriate for a woman. ... Accept her, and society was in danger of disruption. Accept this uncouth, impure, forward, worldly woman, and the wall of virtue and morality would be breached and society would have no further defenses against the forces of frightening change. Margaret Eaton was not that important in herself; it was what she represented that constituted the threat. Proper women had no choice; they had to prevent her acceptance into society as part of their defense of that society's morality." When Jackson assumed the presidency, he appointed Eaton as Secretary of War. Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States, led the wives of other Washington political figures, mostly those of Jackson's cabinet members in an "anti-Peggy" coalition, which served to shun the Eatons socially and publicly. The women refused to pay courtesy calls to the Eatons at their home, to receive them as visitors, and denied them invitations to parties and other social events. Emily Donelson, niece of Andrew Jackson's late wife Rachel Donelson Robards, and the wife of Jackson's confidant Andrew Jackson Donelson, served as Jackson's "surrogate First Lady". Emily Donelson chose to side with the Calhoun faction, thus leading to Jackson replacing her with his daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson, as his official hostess. Secretary of State, Martin Van Buren, was a widower, and the only unmarried member of the Cabinet; he raised himself in Jackson's esteem by aligning himself with the Eatons. Jackson's sympathy for the Eatons stemmed in part from his late wife Rachel being the subject of innuendo during the presidential campaign, when questions arose as to whether her first marriage had been legally ended before she married Jackson. Jackson believed these attacks were the cause of Rachel's death on December 22, 1828, several weeks after his election to the presidency. Eaton's entry into a high-profile cabinet post helped intensify the opposition of Mrs. Calhoun's group. In addition, Calhoun was becoming the focal point of opposition to Jackson; Calhoun's supporters opposed a second term for Jackson because they wanted Calhoun elected president. In addition, Jackson favored and Calhoun opposed the protective tariff that came to be known as the Tariff of Abominations. U.S. tariffs on imported goods generally favored northern industries by limiting competition, but southerners opposed them because the tariffs raised the price of finished goods, but not the raw materials produced in the south. The dispute over the tariff led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832, with southerners - including Calhoun - arguing that states could refuse to obey federal laws to which they objected, even to the point of secession from the Union, while Jackson vowed to prevent secession and preserve the Union at any cost. Because Calhoun was the most visible opponent of the Jackson administration, Jackson felt that Calhoun and other anti-Jackson officials were fanning the flames of the Peggy Eaton controversy in an attempt to gain political leverage. Duff Green, a Calhoun protégé and editor of the United States Telegraph, accused Eaton of secretly working to have pro-Calhoun cabinet members Samuel D. Ingham (Treasury) and John Branch (Navy) removed from their positions. Eaton took his revenge on Calhoun. In 1830, reports had emerged which accurately stated that Calhoun, while Secretary of War, had favored censuring Jackson for his 1818 invasion of Florida. These reports infuriated Jackson. Calhoun asked Eaton to approach Jackson about the possibility of Calhoun publishing his correspondence with Jackson at the time of the Seminole War. Eaton did nothing. This caused Calhoun to believe that Jackson had approved the publication of the letters. Calhoun published them in the Telegraph. Their publication gave the appearance of Calhoun trying to justify himself against a conspiracy, which further enraged the President. Resolution The dispute was finally resolved when Van Buren offered to resign, giving Jackson the opportunity to reorganize his cabinet by asking for the resignations of the anti-Eaton cabinet members. Postmaster General William T. Barry was the lone cabinet member to stay, and Eaton eventually received appointments that took him away from Washington, first as governor of Florida Territory, and then as minister to Spain. On June 17, the day before Eaton formally resigned, a text appeared in the Telegraph stating that it had been "proved" that the families of Ingham, Branch, and Attorney General John M. Berrien had refused to associate with Mr. Eaton. Eaton wrote to all three men demanding that they answer for the article. Ingham sent back a contemptuous letter stating that, while he was not the source for the article, the information was still true. On June 18, Eaton challenged Ingham to a duel through Eaton's brother in law, Dr. Philip G. Randolph, who visited Ingham twice and the second time threatened him with personal harm if he did not comply with Eaton's demands. Randolph was dismissed, and the next morning Ingham sent a note to Eaton discourteously declining the invitation, and describing his situation as one of "pity and contempt." Eaton wrote a letter back to Ingham accusing him of cowardice. Ingham was then informed that Eaton, Randolph, and others were looking to assault him. He gathered together his own bodyguard, and was not immediately molested. However, he reported that for the next two nights Eaton and his men continued to lurk about his dwelling and threaten him. He then left the city, and returned safely to his home. Ingham communicated to Jackson his version of what took place, and Jackson then asked Eaton to answer for the charge. Eaton admitted that he "passed by" the place where Ingham had been staying, "but at no point attempted to enter ... or besiege it." Aftermath In 1832, Jackson nominated Van Buren to be Minister to Great Britain. Calhoun killed the nomination with a tie-breaking vote against it, claiming his act would "...kill him, sir, kill him dead. He will never kick, sir, never kick." However, Calhoun only made Van Buren seem the victim of petty politics, which were rooted largely in the Eaton controversy. This raised Van Buren even further in Jackson's esteem. Van Buren was nominated for vice president, and was elected as Jackson's running mate when Jackson won a second term in 1832. Van Buren thus became the de facto heir to the presidency, and succeeded Jackson in 1837. Although Emily Donelson had supported Floride Calhoun, after the controversy ended Jackson asked her to return as his official hostess; she resumed these duties in conjunction with Sarah Yorke Jackson until returning to Tennessee after contracting tuberculosis, leaving Sarah Yorke Jackson to serve alone as Jackson's hostess. John Calhoun resigned as vice president shortly before the end of his term, and returned with his wife to South Carolina. Quickly elected to the U.S. Senate, he returned to Washington not as a national leader with presidential prospects, but as a regional leader who argued in favor of states' rights and the expansion of slavery. In regard to the Petticoat affair, Jackson later remarked, "I [would] rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation." To Jackson, Peggy Eaton was just another of many wronged women who over his lifetime he had known and defended. He believed that every woman he had defended in his life, including her, had been the victim of ulterior motives, so that political enemies could bring him down. According to historian Daniel Walker Howe, the episode influenced the emergence of feminism. The Cabinet wives insisted that the interests and honor of all women were at stake. They believed a responsible woman should never accord a man sexual favors without the assurance that went with marriage. A woman who broke that code was dishonorable and unacceptable. Howe notes that this was the feminist spirit that in the next decade shaped the woman's rights movement. The aristocratic wives of European diplomats in Washington shrugged the matter off; they had their national interest to uphold, and had seen how life worked in Paris and London. Legacy Historian Robert V. Remini says that "the entire Eaton affair might be termed infamous. It ruined reputations and terminated friendships. And it was all so needless." The 1936 film The Gorgeous Hussy is a fictionalized account of the Petticoat affair. It featured Joan Crawford as Peggy O'Neal, Robert Taylor as John Timberlake, Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson, and Franchot Tone as John Eaton. References Bibliography External links "Andrew Jackson and the Tavern-Keeper's Daughter", Women's History Andrew Jackson on the Web: Petticoat Affair J. Kingston Pierce, "Andrew Jackson's 'Petticoat Affair'", The History Net, June 1999 This American Life, #485 "Surrogates", Act One: Petticoats in a Twist, (January 25, 2013). Sarah Koenig talks with historian Nancy Tomes about the Petticoat Affair. Category:Political scandals in the United States Category:Political controversies in the United States Category:1831 in the United States Category:John C. Calhoun Category:Presidency of Andrew Jackson

Sandrine Clet-Guet Sandrine Clet-Guet (born 1971) is a French ski mountaineer. Selected results 2002: 8th, World Championship team race (together with Laetitia Gachet) 2006: 2nd, Montée Pelluaz Pierra Menta 2002: 6th, together with Laetitia Gachet 2003: 10th, together with Laetitia Gachet References Category:Living people Category:French female ski mountaineers Category:1971 births

Balaban (instrument) Balaban, or balaman () is cylindrical-bore, double-reed wind instrument about long with eight finger holes and one thumb hole. Balaban, one of the ancient wind instruments, is played in all corners of Azerbaijan. This instrument is played in Iranian Azerbaijan and in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Balaban can be made of mulberry or other harder woods, such as walnut. The bore through the instrument is about in diameter. The double reed is made out of a single tube of cane about six cm long and pressed flat at one end. The performer uses air stored in his cheeks to keep playing the balaban while he inhales air into his lungs. This “circular” breathing technique is commonly used with all the double-reed instruments in the Middle East. Structure Balaban, which is often called also yasti (flat) balaban for flat mouthpiece and soft sound, consists of body made of apricot tree, cane, barrow and cover. Body has 8 holes on the surface and 1 on the back in the middle of 1st and 2nd holes (sound fret) on the surface. It consists of a stem, a reed, a regulator, and a cap. The stem of the balaban, or govda, is a cylindrical tube made primarily of apricot wood (sometimes also hazel, pear, mulberry, boxwood, etc.). The process of carving a balaban stem is called balaban chakma. The upper end of the stem (bash or kup) is given a round shape, whereas the lower end (ayag) is sharpened. The bore is in diameter. Eight holes or "tones" constituting a "sound tone" (sas pardasi) are made on the obverse and another one is made on the bottom side, opposite of the interval between the first and the second holes of the sas pardasi. Sometimes an additional hole called nizam pardasi is made on the lower end of the bottom side to ensure good timbre. The holes made on the stem are classified as follows: The reed (gamish, garghy or dil) made of club-rush that grows in an arid area is inserted into the upper end. It flattens and takes the shape of a double reed. It is tied to a long and wide regulator (kharak, boghazlig, boyundurug, ulama, akma) made of a willow or grape branch cut lengthways. The reed is then fixed by a collar-like regulator on one side and a pivot on the other side. The cap (qapaq, aghizlig, kip, band, etc.) made of willow, hazel, cornel or mulberry is put on the reed to prevent it from damage. It is tied to the regulator in order not to be lost. Use On solemn occasions such as weddings and holiday ceremonies, a balaban-player is accompanied by a percussionist. A traditional Azeri musical group consisting of two balaban-players and a percussionist is called balabanchilar dastasi. The short selection of Azerbaijani mugham played in balaban, national wind instrument was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as representing world music, included among many cultural achievements of humanity. It was also used in pastoral songs and funeral music. According to Huseyngulu Sarabski, hunters played the balaban to attract quails. Certain types of the balaban are also used in ashik music. Legacy Kamil Jalilov's recording of the song with balaban was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as representing mugham, only Azerbaijani song included among many cultural achievements of humanity. Gallery References External links Ch. Albright. BĀLĀBĀN. Iranica. Balaban, Duduk and Mey (video) Category:Single oboes with cylindrical bore Category:Azerbaijani musical instruments Category:Iranian musical instruments Category:Azerbaijani inventions Category:Azerbaijani words and phrases

Cyclotelus rufiventris Cyclotelus rufiventris is a species of stiletto flies in the family Therevidae. References Category:Therevidae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Insects described in 1869

Gösta Frykman Gösta Oskar Vilhelm Frykman (11 March 1909 – 26 February 1974) was a Swedish Army officer. Career Frykman was born in Vilhelmina, Sweden, the son of chief park ranger (överjägmästare) Dan Frykman and his wife Emy (née Forsgrén). He passed studentexamen in 1929 and became a second lieutenant in Älvsborg Regiment (I 15) in 1933. Frykman attended the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1940 to 1942, was press officer at the Defence Staff from 1943 to 1946 and was captain in the General Staff Corps in 1944. In 1946 he served as press officer in the camp staff during the Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers. He was military organizer at the defense exhibition in Gävle in 1946 and became major at the Swedish Infantry Combat School in 1954. Frykman was lieutenant colonel at Skaraborg Regiment (P 4) in 1957 and was commander of the Swedish UN battalion in Gaza in 1961 which was part of United Nations Emergency Force. The same year his battalion was redeployed to the Congo during the Congo Crisis where he was commander of the Swedish UN battalion XI G from April 1961 to November 1961. Other work Frykman was a member of the inquiry within the Swedish National Board of Information (Statens informationsstyrelse) from 1941 to 1943 and chairman of the board of Fastigheter AB Bergslagen. Personal life On 4 April 1936 he married Ingrid Schollin-Borg (1914–2004), the daughter of captain Peter Schollin-Borg and Märtha (née Liedberg). He was the father of Jan Christer (born 1939), Jan Peter (born 1942), Åke (born 1944), Eva (born 1946) and Ingrid (born 1954). He died on 26 February 1976 in Saltsjöbaden and was buried in Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm. Awards and decorations Knight of the Order of the Sword United Nations Medal References Category:1909 births Category:1974 deaths Category:Swedish Army lieutenant colonels Category:People of the Congo Crisis Category:People from Vilhelmina Municipality Category:Knights of the Order of the Sword Category:Burials at Galärvarvskyrkogården

Mind Your Manners Mind Your Manners may refer to: "Mind Your Manners" (Chiddy Bang song) (2011) "Mind Your Manners" (Pearl Jam song) (2013) Mind Your Manners (film), a 1953 short film by Olivier Megaton "Mind Your Manners" (Arthur), an episode of Arthur See also Manners or etiquette

Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (12 October 1913, Trichur – 13 August 1968, Kerala) was an Indian mathematician who worked on heat kernels and parabolic partial differential equations and introduced the Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function. Publications References External links S. Minakshisundaram memorial society Category:1913 births Category:1968 deaths Category:20th-century Indian mathematicians Category:Scientists from Kerala

American Biographical Institute The American Biographical Institute (ABI) was a paid-inclusion vanity biographical reference directory publisher based in Raleigh, North Carolina which had been publishing biographies since 1967. It generated revenue from sales of fraudulent certificates and books. Each year the company awarded hundreds of "Man of the Year" or "Woman of the Year" awards at between $195 and $295 each. Its awards were frequently denounced as scams by politicians, journalists, and others. The Government of Western Australia's ScamNet service considers the American Biographical Institute to be a scam vanity publisher "who appeals to people who want a plaque on their wall or see their name in a book, even if the honour has no real credibility—in effect, they have purchased the honour." The company went bankrupt in 2012. The company's owner, Arlene Calhoun, also ran another purveyor of for-profit awards called the United Cultural Convention and another vanity press called the Pentland Press or Ivy House Publishing Group. Operations The ABI invited individuals to purchase various honors as a commemorative in their inclusion for a specific biography. One former employee explained that the company bought mailing lists from organizations, and using those names, they sent out blanket mailings inviting individuals to be in biographical books or accept awards. Such honors include "International Man of the Year," "Most Admired Man of the Decade" or "Outstanding Man of the 21st Century" (see list below), or to be included in ABI publications, such as 500 Leaders of Science or The World Book of Knowledge, in exchange for a contribution fee. Those who accept, who sometimes write their own biographies, are offered books or certificates at prices as high as US $795. On its website, the publisher describes itself as "one of the world’s leading biographical reference publishers and authorities on global contemporary achievement" and claims that "inclusion in an ABI reference title is based on personal achievement alone and is not available for purchase." The ABI shares an address and P.O. box with the United Cultural Convention, another purveyor of for-profit awards. The Chairman of the ABI, Arlene Calhoun, also runs another vanity press, Pentland Press (d/b/a Ivy House Publishing Group). "World Forum" The ABI is also the co-host with the International Biographical Centre of a yearly World Forum, (previously the International Congress on Arts and Communications) which invites a group for a week of professional seminars, artistic displays and performances, and culture sharing. Host cities over the 31 yearly meetings have included: New York; Washington D.C.; New Orleans; San Francisco; Edinburgh; Cambridge, UK; Nairobi; Madrid; Lisbon; Cambridge, Mass. USA; Oxford, UK.; Singapore; and Sydney. The Maitre Artiste of Ethiopia, Afewerk Tekle was a regular attendee. No proceedings of these forums are produced except from the ABI which includes these in a newsletter. The often prestigious location is then quoted on their literature as if to add gravitas. In 2007, referring to the International Biographical Centre, the American Biographical Institute and Marquis Who's Who, Jan Margosian, consumer information coordinator for the Oregon Department of Justice, warned consumers to be wary and called the companies "pretty tacky", adding "I don't know why they would put you in there if they weren't hoping to get you to buy the book.. "You truly have to look at how they are marketing and what the spin is. It's something you might want to watch out for." Awards and titles New awards are continually created and marketed. Most awards are available for between US $195 and $495, payable by the recipient, depending on their level of prestige and the quality of the printing on the certificate and the material in the frame or mount. In 2005 the Institute awarded 200 "Man of the Year" awards at between $195 and $295 each. American Biographical Institute gives awards like Man of The Year or Scientific Award of the Excellence to many people in a year. Every award can be purchased from them. The ABI does not provide a consolidated list of all the awards, medals, diplomas and certificates it issues, but the titles of the honors may be identified through the recipients' use of them in their résumés. See also Author mill Who's Who scam References External links Company homepage — First-hand account that exposes fraudulent who’s who publishers Category:Companies based in Raleigh, North Carolina Category:Publishing companies established in 1967 Category:Book publishing companies based in North Carolina Category:Résumé frauds and controversies Category:Self-publishing companies Category:1967 establishments in North Carolina

Elgiva cucularia Elgiva cucularia is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic . Larvae of E. cucularia are predators of aquatic, pulmonate snails in the families Lymnaeidae, Physidae, and Planorbidae. References External links Images representing Elgiva cucularia at BOLD Category:Sciomyzidae Category:Insects described in 1767 Category:Muscomorph flies of Europe Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Dariusz Koszykowski Dariusz Koszykowski (born January 22, 1972) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1994 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mexico City. Koszykowski also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the C-2 1000 m semifinal round at Barcelona in 1992. He did not advance to the final round in either Olympics. References Sports-reference.com profile Category:1972 births Category:Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Category:Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Living people Category:Olympic canoeists of Poland Category:Polish male canoeists Category:People from Gryfino County Category:ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Category:Sportspeople from West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Type 93 surface-to-air missile The is a surface-to-air missile used by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. It is the vehicle-borne version of the Type 91 missile. It is known in JSDF ranks as the Closed Arrow. Description It was first deployed in 1993, due to a need to replace L-90 35mm Anti-Aircraft Twin Cannons in JGSDF service. It is typically deployed on a modified launcher Kōkidōsha (military version Toyota Mega Cruiser) with a total of eight missiles ready to fire. Operation The Type 93 is a vast improvement over the L-90 as it has the ability to track down and shoot down enemy aircraft thanks to infrared homing on its system. See also Type 91 surface-to-air missile References External links Official JGSDF Page Category:Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1993 Category:Surface-to-air missiles of Japan

Barbezières Barbezières is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Population See also Communes of the Charente department References INSEE Category:Communes of Charente

Search by sound Search by sound is the retrieval of information based on audio input. There are a handful of applications, specifically for mobile devices that utilize search by sound. Shazam (service), Soundhound (previously Midomi), Axwave, ACRCloud and others has seen considerable success by using a simple algorithm to match an acoustic fingerprint to a song in a library. These applications takes a sample clip of a song, or a user generated melody and checks a music library/music database to see where the clip matches with the song. From there, song information will queried and displayed to the user. These kind of applications is mainly used for finding a song that the user does not already know. Searching by sound is not limited to just identifying songs, but also for identifying melodies, tunes or advertisements, sound library management and video files. Acoustic Fingerprinting The way these apps search by sound is through generating an acoustic fingerprint; a digital summary of the sound. A microphone is used to pick up an audio sample, which is then broken down into a simple numeric signature, a code unique to each track. Using the same method of fingerprinting sounds, when Shazam picks up a sound clip, it will generate a signature for that clip. Then it’s simple pattern matching from there using an extensive audio music database. The practice of using acoustic fingerprints is not limited to just music however, but other areas of the entertainment business as well. Shazam also can identify television shows with the same technique of acoustic fingerprinting. Of course, this method of breaking down a sound sample into a unique signature is useless unless there is an extensive database of music with keys to match with the samples. Shazam has over 11 million songs in its database. Other services such as Midomi and Soundhound allow users to add to that library of music in order to expand the chances to match a sound sample with its corresponding sound. Query by Humming Midomi and Soundhound both utilize query by humming. This is a branch off of acoustic fingerprints, but is still a musical retrieval system. After receiving a user generated hummed melody, which is the input query, and returns a ranked list of songs that is closest to the user query. See also AmpliFIND Automatic content recognition List of online music databases Music information retrieval Sound recognition References *

General counsel A general counsel, chief counsel, or chief legal officer (CLO) is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a company or a governmental department. In a company, the person holding the position typically reports directly to the CEO, and their duties involve overseeing and identifying the legal issues in all departments and their interrelation, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, distribution, credit, finance, human resources and production, as well as corporate governance and business policy. This would naturally require in most cases reporting directly to the owner or CEO overseeing the very business on which the CLO is expected to be familiar with and advise on the most confidential level. This requires the CLO/general counsel to work closely with each of the other officers, and their departments, to appropriately be aware and advise. Historically, general counsel often handled administrative tasks while outside lawyers in private practice handled more complex legal work. Since the 1980s, however, the general counsel position has become increasingly prominent in multinational companies, often directly advising the board of directors in place of outside lawyers. General counsel are now often among the most highly paid executives of major American corporations, and prominent American government lawyers and law firm partners are often hired for general counsel roles at prominent companies. Similar trends are also being seen in the United Kingdom and other countries. General counsel often have broad roles encompassing crisis management, compliance reporting management and public policy advocacy. Many companies also hire in-house counsel to handle specialized tasks such as tax work, mergers and acquisitions, labor law and intellectual property, sometimes building in-house practice groups that rival the practices of major law firms. Organizations Global The Association of Corporate Counsel The Association of Corporate Counsel ("ACC") has 35,000 general counsel, chief legal officer and other in-house counsel members located in 90 countries. ACC was founded as the American Corporate Counsel Association in 1982 and now includes more than 55 chapters, including in Argentina, Canada (four chapters), Europe, Israel, the Middle East and Singapore. Members have access to networking opportunities and education events through their regional chapter affiliations as well as global connections across practice area, job title and industry. ACC provides members with resources to deliver services and advice to their companies, promotes the value of in-house legal services and advocates on behalf of general counsel. For its general counsel and chief legal officer members, ACC hosts roundtables where members discuss current practice trends and issues. United States The General Counsel Forum The Forum is an association of 700 general counsel and senior managing counsel. The non-profit organization was founded in the fall of 1998 as the Dallas-Fort Worth General Counsel's Management Practices Forum (“DFWGCMPF”). The association is a partnership between in-house members and outside counsel, known as underwriters. Members are general counsel and managing counsel of corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The mission of the Forum is to improve the professional lives of general counsel and managing counsel through meaningful opportunities for peer-to-peer interaction and knowledge exchange, mentoring through professional development in legal best practices, ethics, governance, and compliance. In November 2000, the DFWGCMPF changed its name to The Texas General Counsel Forum, also known as The Forum, and in the following year the Houston Chapter was formed, and then the Austin-San Antonio Chapter was founded. In July 2005, the Forum hired a Chief Executive Officer with the mandate to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization, expand membership, and launch the organization nationally. In November 2009, the Board of Directors approved expanding the Forum nationally, and dropped the reference to Texas, becoming simply The General Counsel Forum. In the fall of 2012, the General Counsel Forum founded the Chicago Chapter. Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel The Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel (SVAGC) is a business league of chief legal officers from over 100 leading companies in the technology and life science sectors. Member companies include publicly traded corporations, private ventures and multinational subsidiaries located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with operations in software, electronics, power technology, biotechnology, medical devices, health informatics, analytics, materials science, cleantech, fintech, telecommunications, network infrastructure, e-commerce and Internet services, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The SVAGC hosts a series of monthly luncheons featuring expert presentations and off-the-record discussion about topics of professional interest. It also assists members who wish to survey their peers or pose questions on particular issues, and cooperates in special projects such as the All Hands Meeting, an annual multi-track conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center, attended by general and staff counsel from hundreds of member and nonmember legal departments in the technology and life science sectors. The SVAGC is a successor to the Peninsula Association of General Counsel (PAGC), formed in the early 1980s. In 2003, the SVAGC was formally organized as a California mutual benefit nonprofit corporation with the assistance of Ivy Associates, a consultancy to the Silicon Valley legal community that provides organizational support for the SVAGC and produces the All Hands Meeting. Only SVAGC members, speakers and invited guests may attend monthly luncheons, which are funded by modest membership dues. Individuals may join the SVAGC when they are the chief legal officer of a company with operations in Northern California that is publicly traded or which meets alternative criteria for private companies. Some SVAGC members serve as general counsel for companies headquartered outside Northern California, and attend meetings when business travel brings them into the SF Bay Area. United Kingdom In the United Kingdom a group of general counsel, called the GC100, was officially launched on 9 March 2005 and brings together the senior legal officers of more than eighty five FTSE 100 companies. The GC100 group was created in response to the increasing volume and complexity of domestic and international law and regulation which impacts on UK listed companies. The group was formed with the support of Practical Law Company which acts as its secretariat. The main objectives of the GC100 are to: Provide a forum for practical and business focused input on key areas of legislative and policy reform common to UK listed companies. Enable members to share best practice in relation to law, risk management, compliance and other areas of common interest. Membership of the GC100 is by invitation only. At the AGM on the 16 January 2007 members voted in favour of extending membership to company secretaries as well as general counsel in the FTSE 100. The formal name of the GC100 is now "The Association of General Counsel and Company Secretaries of the FTSE100", although it will continue to be known as the GC100. Mark Harding, the first chair of the GC100, has stated that the GC100 is not a campaigning body, although they work closely with the FD100 (a similar grouping of blue chip finance directors). See also Corporation counsel References External links In-House Legal Podcast - Interviews with leading GC's The General Counsel Forum Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel All Hands Meeting Category:Management occupations Category:Lawyers by type

Italian ship Cassiopea Cassiopea has been borne by at least three ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: , a launched in 1906 and discarded in 1927. , a launched in 1936 and stricken in 1959. , a launched in 1988. Category:Italian Navy ship names

Glenea anticepunctata Glenea anticepunctata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by James Thomson in 1857. It is known from Borneo, Sumatra, India and Malaysia. Varietas Glenea anticepunctata var. janthoides Breuning, 1956 Glenea anticepunctata var. mediovitticollis Breuning, 1956 Glenea anticepunctata var. obsoletepunctata (Thomson, 1857) References Category:Glenea Category:Beetles described in 1857

Federation Space Federation Space is a Star Trek-based space naval combat board game published by Task Force Games in 1981. Design and gameplay Federation Space was designed by Stephen Wilcox as a strategic companion to the more tactical Star Fleet Battles system. The game components are: 20" x 24" hex grid map 432 back-printed die-cut cardboard counters fleet organization charts combat results table 16-page rulebook The map covers the large extent of space and many of the space-faring races described in the Star Trek TV series. This included the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Gorns, Tholians and Hydrans. The Kzinti, a race mentioned in the Ringworld novels of Larry Niven, is also featured. This is a game of naval fleet action involving dozens (or more) ships. Nearly all ships move at the same speed (Warp Factor 6). With so many ships involved, combat relies on a simple two-step reduction system to determine damage. Each ship only has two statuses: normal (counter face up); and damaged (counter face-down). Taking any damage results in a ship receiving the "Damaged" status. Taking any subsequent damage destroys the ship. Battles continue until one side is either destroyed or withdraws. Since this is a strategic-level game, some scenarios describe the capture of base stations, starbases or even planets. There is also a campaign game for three or more players (each playing a different race) in which the players use diplomatic alliances and multiple navies to achieve their strategic goals. Reception In the March 1982 edition of The Space Gamer (Issue No. 49), William A. Barton recommended the game, saying, "Federation Space succeeds in its purpose to present a relatively simple, playable Star Trek game which can serve as a strategic module for Star Fleet Battles. Recommended to Trek gamers everywhere." In the August 1983 edition of Dragon (Issue 76), Tony Watson liked a number of things, including its simplicity of rules and combat, the fleet organization charts, the simple step-reduction damage system, and the colourful components. Watson criticized the size of the map, which although large compared to other combat games, was too small and restrictive for entire fleets. Watson also thought the game did not reward clever fleet maneuvers, relying instead on massed fleets simply engaging head on. He concluded, "Federation Space has much to recommend itself. Both those who play Starfleet Battles and those interested in a fast-moving, action-oriented strategic space game should find this title to their liking." References Category:Board games based on Star Trek Category:Board games introduced in 1981 Category:Star Fleet Battles

Litia Cakobau Adi Litia Qalirea Cakobau (c. 1941 – 8 October 2019) was a Bau high Fijian Chief and political leader. Cakobau, the daughter of Ratu Sir George Cakobau, who was Fiji's Governor-General from 1973 to 1983, was appointed to the Senate in 2001 as one of nine nominees of the Fijian government. She held this post till 2006, when her elder sister, Adi Samanunu Cakobau-Talakuli was appointed to the Senate. Prior to her appointment to the Senate, she had previously held Cabinet office as Minister for Women, a post to which she was appointed in 1987. Her brother, Ratu George Cakobau, was also a Senator from 2001 to 2006, but was nominated by the Great Council of Chiefs rather than the government, as she was. She died at her home in Lautoaka in October 2019 at the age of 78. References Category:1940s births Category:2019 deaths Category:Fijian chiefs Category:I-Taukei Fijian members of the Senate (Fiji) Category:Tui Kaba Category:Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua politicians Category:Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei politicians Category:Politicians from Bau (island)

Tallmadge Township, Michigan Tallmadge Charter Township is a charter township of Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,575 at the 2010 census. Communities Finnasey was a rural post office in Tallmadge Township from 1882 until 1883. Lamont is an village on the north side of the Grand River at . It was founded in 1833 by Harry and Zine Steele, and was known for many years as Steele's Landing. The Steele's Landing post office was established January 9, 1851. In the same year, the Steeles had the village platted as "Middleville", due to being located midway between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven, although the post office remained Steele's Landing. In 1855 Lamont Chubb, of Grand Rapids, offered a road scraper to the village in exchange for the community taking on his name. The post office was duly renamed as Lamont on July 2, 1856. The Lamont ZIP code 49430 provide P.O. Box-only service. Grand Valley is an unincorporated community on M-45 just east of the Grand River. Tallmadge is an unincorporated community near the center of the township at . The city of Coopersville is to the northwest, and the Coopersville ZIP code 49404 serves areas in the northwest part of Tallmadge Township. Marne is an village along the northern boundary with Wright Township. The Marne ZIP code 49435 also serves areas in the central part of Tallmadge Township. The city of Walker is to the east, and the Walker/Grand Rapids ZIP code 49544 serves the eastern parts of Tallmadge Township. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.76%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 6,881 people, 2,283 households, and 1,869 families residing in the township. The population density was 212.3 per square mile (81.9/km²). There were 2,369 housing units at an average density of 73.1 per square mile (28.2/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 97.83% White, 0.31% African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.44% from other races, and 0.80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.92% of the population. There were 2,283 households out of which 40.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.0% were married couples living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.1% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.97 and the average family size was 3.32. In the township the population was spread out with 29.6% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.3 males. The median income for a household in the township was $59,205, and the median income for a family was $65,086. Males had a median income of $45,847 versus $29,434 for females. The per capita income for the township was $23,957. About 3.4% of families and 5.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.2% of those under age 18 and 4.8% of those age 65 or over. References External links Tallmadge Charter Township Category:Townships in Ottawa County, Michigan Category:Charter townships in Michigan

Goddess worship Goddess worship may be the worship of any goddess in polytheistic religions worship of a Great Goddess on a henotheistic or monotheistic or duotheistic basis Hindu Shaktism the neopagan Goddess movement Wicca Dianic Wicca

Dolph Aluck Smokehouse The Dolph Aluck Smokehouse is a stone smokehouse located on the north side of Milford Rd., in Pendleton County, Kentucky near Falmouth. It faces the confluence of the North Fork Licking River and the Licking River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was built in the mid-1800s and was deemed significant as a "Typical early Kentucky smokehouse in good condition." It is believed to have been built by Dolph Aluck, owner of brick Greek Revival house at the site. References Category:Smokehouses Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, Kentucky Category:Greek Revival architecture in Kentucky

Lisnadill Lisnadill () is a hamlet, townland and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 54 people. It lies about 3 miles south of Armagh and is within the Armagh City and District Council area. Places of interest The Drumconwell Ogham Stone stood in the neighbouring townland of Drumconwell, on the ancient routeway to Eamhain Mhacha. It can now be seen in the Robinson Library in Armagh. People Frederick Francis Maude, born in Lisnadill on 20 December 1821, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross. Education Lisnadill Primary School See also List of civil parishes of County Armagh References NI Neighbourhood Information System Drumconwell Ogham Stone Category:Villages in County Armagh Category:Townlands of County Armagh Category:Civil parishes of County Armagh

Andrew Stroup Andrew Myung Stroup (born May 22, 1985) is an engineer and entrepreneur, best known as a participant on the first season of the Discovery Channel's The Big Brain Theory. He currently is the Founder of LVRG. Early life Stroup was born in Seoul, South Korea and at the age of 4 months old, was adopted by an Oklahoma family (David and Jimmye Stroup). He grew up in Sand Springs, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he attended and graduated as Valedictorian from Charles Page High School in 2003. He attended Oklahoma State University and graduated in 2009 with two B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology with focuses in Mathematics and Business Management. During his Senior year (2008-2009) at Oklahoma State University, he co-led Team Black, an engineering team of 15 students, that placed first in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Design/Build/Fly competition, hosted in Tucson, Arizona. Career Professional career Starting in 2006, he served as a project engineering manager for BarDyne, Inc., a fluid power engineering and consultant firm based in Stillwater, OK that originated from the Fluid Power Research Center (Oklahoma State University). During this time, he worked with organizations that spanned multiple industries, to include Walt Disney Imagineering, supporting their California Screamin' roller coaster in Anaheim, CA, and General Dynamics Amphibious Systems in Woodbridge, VA on the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program, developed for the United States Marine Corps. In 2009, Stroup relocated to Washington, D.C. to serve as a subject-matter expert (SME) defense contractor for the Department of Defense CBRN defense portfolio, specifically on aerospace platform integration efforts, to include the Joint Strike Fighter program. Mid 2011 he joined the Department of Defense civilian workforce through an insourcing initiative, where his roles and responsibilities shifted towards supporting the military medical community and the development of vaccines and drugs as medical countermeasures for the United States Armed Forces. His final position was an Informatics SME and Integration Lead on a White House Presidential Executive Order initiative called Biosurveillance. From October 2012 to March 2015, he served as the CEO of an internet security tech startup called CommonKey that provided a cloud-based identity and access management solution for small and medium enterprises through a software as a service management dashboard paired with a browser extension that provided single sign-on functionality. In June 2014 and until January 2015, Stroup became a co-founder of MegaBots, Inc. where he focused on fluid power design, fabrication, and business development and operations. In March 2015 he became the Director of Product and Technology for the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, which is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in condensed timelines (four to twelve months). Afterwards, he transitioned into the financial services industry when he served as an Entrepreneur in Residence within the Global Information Security organization at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, leading a Technology Strategy and Business Enablement team. Stroup currently serves as the founder and CEO of LVRG, an AI-driven vendor relationship management platform that streamlines enterprise-wide external engagements. Additionally, he serves as an Advisory Board Member at Exygy, Entrepreneur in Residence at Oklahoma State University, Mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator and Technology and Information Security Advisor for Human Rights Watch. TV career In 2013, Stroup appeared in the first season of Discovery Channel's reality TV series The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius, an engineering competition consisting of 10 contestants from across the country, which aired from May to June 2013. Each week contestants were put to the test, competing against each other in two teams to design, build, and deliver solutions to difficult engineering problems. He survived six out of eight episodes. To promote the show he appeared in a series of interviews prior to and during the airing of the TV series. Philanthropic interests Stroup, along with Corey Fleischer, another contestant and winner of The Big Brain Theory, and Jason Hardebeck founded the Baltimore Foundery in 2013, a nonprofit organization makerspace (ref hackerspace) that focuses on providing access to industrial grade tools and education in the heart of Baltimore. Additionally, Stroup serves as a Trustee for the Awesome Foundation, which provide small grants for projects to people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. References External links Andrew Stroup's CrunchBase profile Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:American aerospace engineers Category:Oklahoma State University alumni Category:Participants in American reality television series Category:People from Seoul

Vale Railway The Vale Railway (reporting mark VAEX), formerly the INCO Railway (reporting mark INCX), is an industrial railway operating in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by Vale Limited. An internal, private railway, the line connects Vale's mines and processing plants that dominates the city's skyline. The line serves Copper Cliff North Mine, Copper Cliff South Mine, Creighton Mine, Frood Mine, Stobie Mine, Clarabelle Mill, Copper Cliff Smelter, and Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery. The isolated Levack mine spur in the north end of the city serves Coleman Mine and is operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The line was once entirely electrified along its route. Electrification began in 1926, but ended in 2000 in favour of diesel locomotives. The following junctions exist with the line: Canadian Pacific Cartier Subdivision at Sprecher (MP 81.7) where loaded ore cars from Coleman Mine are delivered Canadian Pacific Cartier Subdivision at Levack (MP 102.5) where empty ore cars from Clarabelle Mill are delivered Canadian Pacific Nickel Subdivision at Clarabelle (MP 3.3) where freight is exchanged with both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway Canadian Pacific Webbwood Subdivision (leased to Huron Central) at Copper Cliff (MP 4.8) Locomotive roster VAEX rosters 8 re-manufactured EMD GP38-4M locomotives for use on ore trains from the mines, slag trains from the smelter, or for local plant switching of various chemicals and products. These locomotives have upgraded electrical systems and are set up for remote operation. References External links Inco Rail History Railways of Sudbury Category:Ontario railways Category:Industrial railways Category:Rail transport in Greater Sudbury

Erich Emminger Erich Emminger (25 June 1880 – 30 August 1951) was a German lawyer and Catholic politician of the Center Party (Zentrum) and later of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). He served as Minister of Justice in the Weimar Republic from 30 November 1923 until 15 April 1924 under Chancellor Wilhelm Marx. Early life Erich Emminger was born on 25 June 1880 in Eichstätt, Bavaria. His parents were Johann Adolf Erich Emminger (1856-1909), a Gymnasialprofessor, and his wife Marie Therese (1854–99), née Müller, daughter of an Augsburg notary. Emminger married Maria Schärft in 1906. Their children included Otmar Emminger, future president of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Following his training as a lawyer at Münster, Emminger practiced law at Augsburg (1906–08) and Nuremberg (1908–09). In 1909 he became a civil servant (state prosecutor and Amtsrichter). He participated in World War I first as a voluntary soldier and later as a Kriegsgerichtsrat (military judge). Political career Emminger was a member of the Catholic Center Party (Zentrum)and, from 1913-18 held a seat in the Reichstag for the constituency of Weilheim. In 1918, he joined the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and represented it in the Reichstag 1920-33. Emminger was Minister of Justice in the first cabinet of chancellor Wilhelm Marx, which took office on 30 November 1923. His tenure was defined by the passage of three decrees of 22 December 1923, 4 January and 13 February 1924, which were based on the of 8 December 1923. These significantly changed civil and criminal law and the judiciary system with an eye towards speeding up proceedings. The reform of 4 January became known as the so-called Emminger Reform that among other things abolished the jury as trier of fact and replaced it with a mixed system of judges and lay judges in Germany's judiciary which still exists today. Schwurgerichte (formerly based on jurors) kept their name but were in fact replaced by lay judges. Since the reforms were successful, they were kept in place by later legislation once the enabling law had lapsed. Late 1923 was among the most tumultuous times of the Weimar Republic, bringing the peak of hyperinflation and the ongoing Occupation of the Ruhr. One of Emminger's main goals as a politician and lawyer became a revaluation of the currency to partially offset the adverse social consequences of hyperinflation. As a minister he prevented the planned Aufwertungsverbot from becoming law and continued to fight for revaluation as a Reichstag delegate. Emminger left office on 15 April 1924 and his Secretary of State, Curt Joël, took over as acting Minister of Justice. He remained a member of the Rechtsausschuss of the Reichstag and 1927-31 served as chairman of the Zentralvorstand der deutsch-österreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft which worked towards a harmonisation of German and Austrian laws. He also contributed to a reform of the criminal law. Emminger was re-elected to the Reichstag in 1933 but the Nazi takeover ended his political activities. He worked as a judge at the Oberste Landesgericht of Bavaria in 1931-35 and then at the Oberlandesgericht. From 1946 until his retirement in July 1949, he was Senatspräsident there. Emminger died in Munich on 30 August 1951. Publications Die Aufwertungsfrage im aufgelösten Reichstage, 1924 References External links Erich Emmminger at the Akten der Reichskanzlei online version (German) Bio of Erich Emminger in a databank on (Imperial) Reichstag delegates (German) More biographical information on Erich Emminger, Datenbank der deutschen Parlamentsabgeordneten (German) Category:1880 births Category:1951 deaths Category:People from Eichstätt Category:People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Category:German Roman Catholics Category:Centre Party (Germany) politicians Category:Bavarian People's Party politicians Category:Justice ministers of Germany Category:Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Category:Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Associated Co-operative Creameries Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC), formerly CWS Milk Group, was a subsidiary and operating division of the Co-operative Group. Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited is an industrial and provident society that was first registered in 1961, and became a subsidiary of the North Eastern Co-operative Society (NECS), a large regional consumer co-operative based in Gateshead. It became one of the largest milk processors and distributors in north-east England. After NECS merged with the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS, now the Co-operative Group) in 1992, Associated Co-operative Creameries absorbed CWS Milk Group, a milk processor and distributor based in Wales and north west England. The abbreviated trading name ACC was adopted in 2001 when the milk and distribution operations were split. By 2004, Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited, trading as ACC Milk, was the UK's fourth largest dairy business, when it was sold to yet another co-operative, Dairy Farmers of Britain of Nantwich, Cheshire, forming Britain's largest milk co-operative, and the UK's third largest milk processor. ACC moved its registered address to Nantwich at that time. ACC Distribution was the logistics division of The Co-operative Group and supplied not only stores belonging to The Co-operative Group itself but other co-operative societies. ACC Distribution is still owned by the Co-operative Group and is today known as Co-operative Retail Logistics. References Category:Former co-operatives of the United Kingdom Category:Agricultural marketing cooperatives Category:Dairy products companies of the United Kingdom Category:The Co-operative Group

Sundby Church Sundby Church (Danish: Sundby Kirke) is a Church of Denmark parish church located on Amagerbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Completed in 1870 to designs by Hans Jørgen Holm, it is the oldest church on the northern part of Amager. History In the middle of the 19th century, Sundby still belonged to the parish of Tårnby but the old village church there was located almost five kilometres away. A local committee was therefore established in 1868 to raise money for the construction of a new church, charging the architect Hans Jørgen Holm with its design. Construction began in 1869 and the new church was consecrated in 1870. Nathanael's Parish was disjoined from Sundby Parish in 1899. The church was refurbished by Frederik Zeuthen and Cai Bertelsen in 1963. Architecture The church has a cruciform plan and is built in red brick to a Neo-Romanseque design. The roof is topped by an octagonal flèche. The chancel faces north-east. Decorations include corner leseness and round arched friezes on the gables. A porch was built at the nave's south-west gable in 1941. Its tympanum and bronze door were designed by the artist Max Andersen. The bronze door was installed in 1974 to mark the 100th anniversary of the church. The tympanum's relief is identical to the one above the entrance of Absalon Church on Sønder Boulevard. The six reliefs on the bronze door show scenes associated with the Passion of Christ. Interior Sundby Cemetery Sundby Cemetery (Danish: Sundby Kirkegård) was established in 1872 at a site a little to the south of the church and is the main cemetery for Amager. It consists of an old and a modern section, located on either side of Kastrupvej, with a combined area of 10 hectares. The old section will be decommissioned in 2020. References External links Official website Concerts in the church Category:Lutheran churches in Copenhagen Category:Churches completed in 1870 Category:1870 establishments in Denmark

Eulamprotes atrella Eulamprotes atrella, the two-spotted neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found from most of Europe, east to Japan. The habitat consists of mixed deciduous woodlands. The wingspan is 10.8–13 mm. The forewings are brilliantly brownish fuscous, with a yellow blotch on the costa at the apical one-third and also on the tornus. The hindwings are greyish fuscous. Adults are on wing from May to August in one generation per year. The larvae feed on Hypericum species, including Hypericum maculatum. They feed internally in the stems and shoots. Pupation takes place in a case made from part of a leaf. References Category:Moths described in 1775 Category:Eulamprotes

Mesoscia procera Mesoscia procera is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Walter Hopp in 1930. It is found in Amazonas, Brazil. References Category:Moths described in 1930 Category:Megalopygidae

Benedetto Bartolo Benedetto Bartolo (1627–1684) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Belcastro (1684–1685) and Bishop of Lacedonia (1672–1684). Biography Benedetto Bartolo was born in Giarutana, Italy on 16 December 1627 and ordained a priest on 11 March 1668. On 12 September 1672, he was appointed by Pope Clement X as Bishop of Lacedonia. On 18 September 1672, he was consecrated bishop by Cesare Facchinetti, Bishop of Spoleto. On 18 September 1684, he was appointed by Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Belcastro. He served as Bishop of Belcastro until his death in November 1685. Episcopal succession While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: Giambattista Morea, Bishop of Lacedonia (1684); Pietro Luigi Malaspina, Bishop of Cortona (1684); and Giovanni Riccanale, Bishop of Boiano (1684). References External links and additional sources (for Chronology of Bishops) (for Chronology of Bishops) (for Chronology of Bishops) (for Chronology of Bishops) Category:17th-century Roman Catholic bishops Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Clement X Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Innocent XI Category:1627 births Category:1685 deaths

Zhu Shijie (painter) Zhu Shijie (; 1900 - 1990) was a Chinese painter and educator, who is regarded as one of the fathers of Chinese oil painting and an important art educator of his time. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, Zhu began studying painting in 1912 and founded the Suzhou Art Academy in 1922. In the 1920s, Zhu went to Japan and brought back to China the Bauhaus concepts and ideas of practical art. Zhu, along with Yan Wenliang and Hu Cuizhong comprise the “Three Masters of Suzhou”. Early life Zhu Shijie studied traditional Chinese paintings, including flower, bird, and landscape, under Yan Chunsheng and Fan Shaoyun in 1912. Career In 1922, along with two other artists Yan Wenliang and Hu Cuizhong, He established the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In a national reorganisation in 1952, the Suzhou Fine Arts Institute and the Shanghai Fine Arts Academy were incorporated into the Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts. Zhu, Yan and Hu were passionate about reforming traditional art education in China. They attempted to modernise Chinese art education by introducing western concepts and methods in their school. The Academy fundraised and bought a large amount of torso and plaster from Paris in the late 1930s. While in Europe, Yan assembled a collection of plaster casts of famous European sculptures, which totaled as many as 500 pieces, which he shipped home to be used at the Academy. Zhu was then tasked to fix those sculptures that were damaged during transit. Many well-known artists were nurtured such as Luo Erchun, Mo Pu and Fei Yifu. For a large part of his life, Zhu taught in Eastern China College of Art, the former Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts. Work 9 works including "Jing Gangshan Mountain" and "Small Wharf at Dongting Lake" are part of the collection of the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. His important works such as "Net Casting" and "View of the Bridge" are at Jiangsu Fine Arts Museum. A sizable portion of Zhu's work is in private collections in Taiwan and Hong Kong. See also Yan Wenliang The Bauhaus Notes Category:1900 births Category:1990 deaths Category:Republic of China painters Category:China Academy of Art faculty Category:Victims of the Cultural Revolution Category:Painters from Suzhou Category:20th-century Chinese painters Category:Educators from Suzhou

Qohestan Rural District Qohestan Rural District () is a rural district (dehestan) in Qohestan District, Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,849, in 2,819 families. The rural district has 31 villages. References Category:Rural Districts of South Khorasan Province Category:Darmian County

The Shaggy Dog (1994 film) The Shaggy Dog is a 1994 American made-for-television fantasy-comedy film and a remake of the 1959 film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Television that premiered on November 12, 1994 as an ABC Family Movie. It is the first in a series of four remakes of Disney live-action films produced for broadcast on ABC during the 1994–95 television season. Plot Preteen Martin "Moochie" Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Ron, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the old English sheepdog of New neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch's big brother Wilbur "Wilby" is smart, shy and a promising inventor, but hopelessly clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his slick mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby cast a spell on himself (he accidentally got from dad's museum of curiosities), which magically transform him into Bundles the Big Shaggy Dog. back and forward transformation at uncontrollable times. This is how he also knows that the diamond on loan in his father's museum is Charlie's next target, but who would believe his story? Cast Scott Weinger as Wilbur "Wilby" Daniels Jordan Warkol as Martin "Moochie" Daniels Ed Begley Jr. as Ronald "Ron" Daniels Sharon Lawrence as Monica Daniels Jon Polito as Detective Al James Cromwell as Charlie "the robber" Mulvihill Jeremy Sisto as Trey Miller Sarah Lassez as Francesca Natasha Gregson Wagner as Allison Bobby Slayton as Coach Evans Rick Ducommun as Officer Kelly David Pasquesi as Officer Hanson References External links Category:1994 television films Category:1990s fantasy-comedy films Category:American fantasy-comedy films Category:American films Category:American film remakes Category:Films based on American novels Category:Disney television films Category:Disney film remakes Category:Films about dogs Category:Fiction about shapeshifting Category:The Shaggy Dog films Category:Films directed by Dennis Dugan Category:Television remakes of films Category:Walt Disney anthology television series episodes

KIIZ-FM KIIZ-FM (or Z-92.3) is a commercial Urban Contemporary radio station in Killeen, Texas, broadcasting on 92.3 MHz. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc.. The station's studios are located in nearby Harker Heights, and its transmitter is located in Killeen. History KIIZ started in 1979 on 1050 AM. On February 15, 1991, KIIZ moved the station from the AM dial to the FM dial on to 92.3 FM. External links Z-92.3 official website Category:Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States IIZ-FM Category:Radio stations established in 1979 Category:1979 establishments in Texas Category:IHeartMedia radio stations

Austrochthonius insularis Austrochthonius insularis is a species of pseudoscorpions in the family Chthoniidae. Distribution The species is endemic to the Crozet Islands in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Original publication Vitali-di Castri, 1968 : Austrochthonius insularis, nouvelle espèce de pseudoscorpions de l'archipel des Crozet (Heterosphyronida, Chthoniidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ser. 2, vol. 40, . External links Catalogue of Life : Austrochthonius insularis Vitali-di Castri, 1968 Category:Crozet Islands Category:Chthonioidea Category:Chthoniidae

Apollo (storeship) The Apollo is a historic storeship that is buried at a location in downtown San Francisco, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Parts of the ship have been uncovered, most recently in 1921 and 1925. Photographs from the 1921 uncovering exist. The 1925 excavation revealed coins from 1797, 1825, and 1840, a gold nugget, and assorted navigational pieces. One of numerous buried ships within San Francisco, it is an archeological site, listed at least partially for its potential to yield information in the future. References Category:Financial District, San Francisco Category:National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco Category:History of San Francisco Category:Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in California

William Faulkner (cricketer) William George Faulkner (born 5 May 1923) is a former English first-class cricketer. While serving in the Royal Air Force, Faulkner made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Air Force against Worcestershire at Worcester in 1946. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 5 runs by Peter Jackson in the Royal Air Force first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Leonard Blunt for 18 runs. With his right-arm fast-medium bowling, he bowled 24 wicketless overs. References External links Category:1923 births Category:Living people Category:People from Bromley-by-Bow Category:Royal Air Force airmen Category:English cricketers Category:Royal Air Force cricketers

Rachael Maskell Rachael Helen Maskell (born 5 July 1972) is a British Labour Co-operative politician serving in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet since 2020 as Shadow Employment Rights Secretary, succeeding Laura Pidcock, and previously from 2016 to 2017 as Shadow Environment Secretary. She was a Junior Transport Minister under Andy McDonald from 2017 to 2020. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of York Central after retaining the seat for her party at the 2015, 2017, and 2019 general elections. Education She graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in physiotherapy in 1994. Background Maskell became politically active at an early age. When she was a child, her uncle campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty, in addition to serving as an advisor to the Wilson government and as an academic. The Yorker, a York-based student publication, states: "[he] preferred to live and work amongst his community rather than be without. [H]is approach to politics was her inspiration as a child". Career Maskell worked as a care-worker and physiotherapist in the National Health Service for 20 years. Maskell has also been a trade-union official. Maskell used her maiden speech to advocate for a new mental health hospital in York to replace the ageing Bootham Park. Speaking of the vision of "late member for Ebbw Vale" Aneurin Bevan, she said that "the growing social and financial inequalities manifest themselves in health inequality, and access to vital services is delayed and even denied as a direct result of the £3 billion structural reorganisation that the previous Government introduced." On Wednesday 8 July 2015, Rachael Maskell was one of four Labour MPs elected to the Health Select Committee. Maskell voted against the Welfare Bill in the House of Commons on 20 July 2015. Maskell made a statement saying "I have a duty to protect our vulnerable people. I could not stand by and let the most vicious Tory attacks on some of the poorest in our city go unchallenged." In September 2015, during the European refugee crisis, Maskell called on the UK to open its doors to refugees; she said "we can all have a bit more compassion. If it was the other way round and we were in that desperate situation, we would expect somebody to show compassion to us." Speaking as 20,000 refugees arrived in Munich in one weekend, and as the German Government gets ready to receive 800,000 refugees in 2015; Maskell said that the UK Government must do more. She questioned David Cameron in the House of Commons asking "what criteria has the Prime Minister used to arrive at a figure of just six refugees per constituency per year?" She is quoted as saying "20,000 is not enough and 30,000 is not enough' and that "We will keep going until we hit our saturation point because what does it matter if we have to wait another week for a hospital visit? Or if our class sizes, are slightly bigger? Or if, our city is slightly fuller? What does it matter, if things are slightly more challenging? If we have to pay a little bit more in to the system?"; in a statement on the crisis, she urged local authorities to help in every way they can and use every space they had to offer to aid people fleeing war in Syria and Northern Iraq, she said "we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that is getting worse, I am incensed that Turkey is hosting over one and a half million refugees and our government says we will open our borders to no more than six men, women and children a year in each constituency." Maskell spoke in the Trade-Union Bill 2nd Reading debate on 14 September 2015. She referred the house to her Register of Interests as a member of Unite the Union declared "I am a proud trade-unionist" – she subsequently voted against the Bill. Following a period working part of the Shadow Defence Team under Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle, Maskell was appointed Shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary as part of the Labour Party's post-Brexit reshuffle. Maskell resigned from her position ahead of the vote on the second reading in the House of Commons European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017 which triggers Article 50 which carried a three-line whip imposed on Labour MPs. She returned to the Labour front bench on 3 July 2017 as Shadow Rail Minister. On 5 March 2019, she joined a dozen other Labour MPs on Westminster Bridge, next to the Houses of Parliament, in a protest against Brexit under the banner 'Love Socialism Hate Brexit'. She was one of 5 Labour MPs to vote against the extension of abortion rights to Northern Ireland, and is a vice chair of the All-Party parliamentary Pro-life Group. During votes on the same bill, she also abstained on extending same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland. Maskell endorsed Clive Lewis in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election. In January 2020, Maskell was returned to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Employment Rights Secretary, replacing Laura Pidcock who lost her seat in the 2019 general election. Personal life Maskell is a keen cyclist and rode the trip to Labour Conference 2015 in Brighton from Parliament in aid of the British Heart Foundation. References External links |- Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century British women politicians Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia Category:Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:Labour Co-operative MPs for English constituencies Category:Politics of York Category:UK MPs 2015–2017 Category:UK MPs 2017–2019 Category:UK MPs 2019–

David-Weill David-Weill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David David-Weill (1871-1952), French-American banker Jean David-Weill (1898-1972), French epigrapher Michel David-Weill (born 1932), French investment banker Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975), French investment banker See also David (surname) Weil (surname) Category:Compound surnames Category:French-language surnames Category:Jewish surnames

Gornja Borina Gornja Borina is a village in the municipality of Loznica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 188 people. References Category:Populated places in Mačva District

Eduard Spelterini Eduard Spelterini (June 2, 1852 – June 16, 1931) was a Swiss pioneer of ballooning and of aerial photography. Early life Spelterini was born in Bazenheid in the Toggenburg area in Switzerland as Eduard Schweizer. His father, Sigmund Schweizer, was an innkeeper. When he was eight years old, the family reportedly moved to northern Italy, to a place near the Swiss-Italian border in the province of Como. Eduard is said to have attended the schools in Lugano. At the age of eighteen, Eduard allegedly went first to Milan and then to Paris to be trained as an opera singer. During this time, he chose the name "Spelterini", because to him it sound fancier than "Schweizer". His singing career was cut short by a severe case of pneumonia. In any case, Spelterini turned up in the mid-1870s in Paris, and in 1877 he was licensed by the Académie d'Aérostation météorologique de France as a ballon pilot. Ascents around the world In the 1880s, after having successfully made 17 ascents by himself, Spelterini began to offer commercial rides with passengers. In 1887, he had his first own balloon made by the Surcouf company in Paris, a gas balloon with a volume of 1,500 cubic meters, which he named "Urania". The first voyage with this ballon was on October 5, 1887, starting in Vienna. Subsequently, Spelterini moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed together with an American aerial acrobat going by the name of Leona Dare who would perform acrobatic acts suspended under the basket of Spelterini's balloon during the flights. The spectacle, but also Spelterini's often taking journalists for a ride for free ensured them favourable publicity. Together, they toured eastwards through Europe until Moscow, where they parted. Spelterini turned southwards, making ascents in Bucharest, Saloniki, and Athens, before moving to Cairo. After his ascents in spring 1890 over the pyramids of Giza he continued touring, first to Naples, then to Istanbul. In 1891, Spelterini returned to Switzerland. By that time, he was famous for his ballooning adventures. On July 26, 1891, Spelterini made his first ascent in Switzerland, starting at the Heimplatz in Zurich. The initial skepticism of the people vanished quickly, and his starts soon attracted crowds wherever he turned up: Zurich, Winterthur, St. Gall, Interlaken, Vevey, ... His endeavours also caught the attention of scientists. On various occasions, Spelterini made ascents with scientists solely for the purpose of conducting experiments: with physicists to study the atmosphere, with physicians to study human blood cells at low atmospheric pressure, with geologists to study the earth from above. Geologist Albert Heim had once proposed to Spelterini to try crossing the Alps by balloon. But he needed a larger balloon for such an endeavour. With the help of sponsors, he was able to buy the "Wega", twice as large as "Urania" with a volume of 3,260 cubic meters. With it, Heim and Spelterini planned to travel from Sion in the Valais across Uri into the Grisons. But the winds decided otherwise. Despite unfavourable wind conditions, they started on October 3, 1898. The winds drove the balloon across Les Diablerets and then further westwards, across Lake Neuchatel and the Jura Mountains, until they descended near Besançon in France. Much of the trip was made at altitudes between 5000 and 6000 meters above sea level. In the following years, Spelterini crossed the Alps numerous times with his balloons, in all directions. In 1904, he spent several months in Egypt, and in 1911, he even travelled to South Africa, yet he returned each time to Switzerland. Aerial photography Around 1893, Spelterini had begun to take a camera aboard his balloon and started to take pictures on his flights. It was certainly not easy to photograph with this equipment, weighing between 40 and 60 kilograms, and with a minimum exposure time of 1/30th of a second. But Spelterini brought back stunning photographs of the landscape seen from above that won awards repeatedly at aeronautical expositions in Milan, Paris, Brussels, or Frankfurt. For Albert Heim his photos provided whole new insights about the relief of the Alps. Spelterini presented his photos in slide shows wherever he went, from Stockholm to Cape Town, fascinating his audiences and winning the general acclaim of the press, who reviewed his presentations favorably. Decline of ballooning The outbreak of World War I put an end to Spelterini's travels. Borders were closed, and Spelterini's balloons remained grounded. He retired as an independent gentleman to Coppet near Geneva with his wife Emma (née Karpf), whom he had married on January 28, 1914 in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. But although he was well off financially, his savings diminished in the war years, and what was left of it was eaten up by the post-war inflation. The airplane had surpassed ballooning, nobody cared anymore about his pre-war exploits, and Spelterini was all but forgotten. In 1922, he hired out as a showman at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, posing for photos and taking people for short rides in a captive balloon. He detested it. Disappointed, he retired to Zipf near Vöcklabruck in Austria, where he had bought a small house and lived from the sale of the eggs of his 300 chickens. In 1926, he tried a last time to revive his old ballooning adventures. With the financial help of some friends, he started from Zurich in a rented balloon. But he fell unconscious during the voyage; his passengers just barely managed to crash-land the balloon in Vorarlberg. Spelterini returned to Zipf, where he died impoverished and largely unknown in 1931. References Further reading Capus, A.: "Geschenke des Himmels", p. 36-50 in Das Magazin 38/2007. In German. Degen, H.R.: "Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931)", p. 39-57 in Schweizer Flugtechniker und Ballonpioniere, Verein für wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Meilen. . In German. Heim, A.: Die Fahrt der "Wega" über Alpen und Jura am 3. Oktober 1898, Verlag B. Schwabe, Basel 1899. In German. Kramer, Th., Stadler, H. (eds.): Edurad Spelterini – Fotografien des Ballonpioniers, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2007. . In German & English. Spelterini, E.: Über den Wolken/Par dessus les nuages, Brunner & Co, Zürich 1928, with an introduction by A. Heim. In German & French. Category:19th-century Swiss photographers Category:Aerial photographers Category:1852 births Category:1931 deaths Category:Aviation pioneers Category:People from Toggenburg Category:20th-century Swiss photographers Category:Swiss balloonists

1928 Salvadoran legislative election Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in January 1928. The result was a victory for the National Democratic Party, which won all 42 seats. Results References Category:1928 elections in Central America Category:Elections in El Salvador Category:1928 in El Salvador

Ginifer Ginifer may refer to: Ginifer railway station, in Melbourne, Australia Jack Ginifer (1927–1982), Australian politician

Koch County Koch County is an administrative division of Northern Liech, South Sudan, covering an area in the center of the state. The administrative center is the town of Koch. Large villages include Dhor Wang, Thorial, Duar, Wath-Thier and Bieh. According to the Sudan Population and Housing Census, 2008, there were 75,000 persons in Koch County. The population is extremely poor, with widespread illiteracy. There are serious security concerns. Between April and November 2010, over 35 people died in the county, many of them civilians, from insurgent attacks. There were suspicions that General Gatluak Gai, who came from Koch County, was the leader of the forces responsible for these attacks. As of January 2011 talks were in progress with different people who claimed to represent Gatluak Gai, but the situation was extremely obscure. On 18 July 2011, Gatluak Gai concluded peace talks with the SPLA. Three days later he was killed. His second in command in the "South Sudan Liberation Army" rebel group, Marko Chuol Ruei, claimed responsibility for the death, saying Gatluak Gai had told his fighters to ignore the peace agreement. References Category:Unity (state)

Blériot-SPAD S.71 The Blériot-SPAD S.71 was a French fighter aircraft developed in the early 1920s. Design and development The S.71 was a single-seat fighter plane of all-wood construction with jointed fabric. Specifications References Category:Fighter aircraft Category:Biplanes Category:1920s French fighter aircraft S.71 Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1923

David Aitken David Aitken may refer to: David D. Aitken (1853–1930), U.S. Representative from Michigan David A. Aitken, architect in Malaysia David Aitken (minister) (1796–1875), Scottish minister and church historian

Jason Leverant Jason Leverant is the President and COO of the AtWork Group, a national staffing company in the United States, having started there in 2007. Under his leadership, the company earned more than $300 million in sales during 2017 and was one of the largest staffing firms in the US, with about 100 American franchise locations. In 2016, Leverant was named to the Business Journal’s 40 under 40, and he has also been named to the international Staffing Industry Analysts’ Staffing 100 list, along with their own 40 under 40 list. He has also written for publications such as Smart Business. References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American chief executives

List of Turkish place names Some well-known place names in modern Turkey are derived from the Greek or Latin languages. In Turkey Outside Turkey See also List of Greek place names Category:Lists of place names

Brødrene Hansen Brødrene Hansen ("Hansen Brothers") is a real estate company and former retailer in Oslo, Norway. It was established by the brothers August, Jørgen, and Hans O. Hansen on 17 October 1864. It was located at the address Kongens gade 29, then Nedre slotsgade 15 from 1899. August Hansen was both the first to retire from the company, and the first founder to die (in 1913). The company was passed down to Jørgen's sons August and Thomas Walle-Hansen. The third generation, with Tom and Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen, later entered the company. The company contained retailing and wholesaling of dry goods as well as a readymade clothing factory. In 1969 the retail outlet in Nedre slottsgate 15 was sold to Adelsten Jensen. Brødrene Hansen is now a real estate company. It still owns Nedre slottsgate 15, and in the last half of the 1990s they expanded and bought Konowsgate 80 in Oslo, Astridsgate 26, Astridsgate 34 and Oskarsgate 2 in Sarpsborg and Madam Arnesens vei 43 and Kongens gate 24 in Moss. References Category:Companies established in 1864 Category:1864 establishments in Norway Category:Real estate companies of Norway Category:Defunct retail companies of Norway Category:Companies based in Oslo Category:Retail companies established in 1864

Clarence E. Walker Clarence Earl Walker is an American historian and Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Walker works on Black American studies. In 2001, his book We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism was selected as an International Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement. In 2015, he was awarded the US$45000 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. He planned to retire in June 2015. His publications include: Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, University of Virginia Press, 2009 We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism, Oxford University Press, 2001 Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, University of Tennessee Press, 1991 References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:21st-century American historians Category:University of California, Davis faculty Category:San Francisco State University alumni Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni

Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne The Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Anne (), also known as Saint Mary's Cathedral, The North Cathedral or The North Chapel, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located at the top of Shandon Street in Cork, Ireland. It is the seat of the Bishop of Cork and Ross, and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross. Its name derived from the fact that it encompassed the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary and the civil parish of St. Anne. History The cathedral is both the seat of the Bishop of Cork and Ross, and the parish church for the Cathedral parish which includes the areas of Blarney Street, Shandon and Blackpool. Baptismal records date back to 1731. The parish boundary had also included the areas of Blackpool, Sunday’s Well, Shanakiel, Clogheen, Kerry Pike and Curraghkippane until 1981. (Both chapels of ease to the Cathedral, The Church of the Most Precious Blood, became the parish church of Clogheen/Kerry Pike & The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary became the parish church of Blackpool) The cathedral was built during the tenure of Bishop Francis Moylan. Construction began in 1799 on the site of a former church built in the 1730s. The cathedral was dedicated on 22 August 1808 by Archbishop Thomas Bray of Cashel. In his sermon, coadjutor bishop Florence McCarthy D.D. spoke of the "necessity of social worship, arguing the point from reason, scripture, and tradition." McCarthy died of typhoid in 1810, contracted while visiting a sick parishioner. The building was extensively damaged by an act of arson in 1820. George Richard Pain undertook the restoration of the cathedral, enlarging the sanctuary and creating a Chancel Arch. The cathedral re-opened in 1828. In 1964, at the request of Bishop Cornelius Lucey who wished to fulfil the dream of Bishop Francis Moylan concerning the completion of the cathedral, the sanctuary was extended, a sanctuary tower added, and the internal layout reorganised. These works were completed in 1968. The architects employed were Boyd Barrett and Associates. Ideas and plans for the extension and renovation of the cathedral were discussed as far back as 1931 in an annual blotter book published by the Cathedral parish office during the reign of Bishop Daniel Cohalan. The most recent large-scale works were completed at the cathedral between 1994 and 1996. The tower and sanctuary were renovated and refurbished, and the high altar, altar rails and side altars were removed. The roof was re-slated and the gothic ceiling was repaired. External stonework of the cathedral was also repointed. The cathedral closed for the duration of the works. It was re-dedicated by Bishop Michael Murphy on 29 September 1996 (shortly before his death in October 1996). The cathedral celebrated its bicentenary in September 2008. In 2017 a visitor centre was established underneath the sanctuary of the cathedral, with tours of the Cork Folklore Project's exhibition and work. Architecture Designed in early Neo-Gothic Revivalist style, the building combines sandstone with limestone dressings. The tower over the main door was added in 1869, designed by John Benson. The original altar was fashioned in wood by Italian craftsmen in Lisbon. The bells were cast in 1870 by John Murphy of Dublin, and were originally hung for change-ringing, however they are now considered 'unringable'. The modern sanctuary of 1996 was designed by architect Richard Hurley, and is finished in white limestone. References External links Corkcathedral.ie - Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne homepage Category:Roman Catholic cathedrals in the Republic of Ireland Category:Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross Category:Roman Catholic churches in Cork (city) Category:Tourist attractions in County Cork

Danny Overbea Daniel Dorsey "Danny" Overbea (January 3, 1926 – May 11, 1994) was an American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his songs "Train, Train, Train" and "Forty Cups of Coffee", which he wrote and recorded in the early 1950s. Life and career He was born in Philadelphia, but grew up on the South Side of Chicago where he learned guitar while at DuSable High School. After serving with the military, he started a professional career as a musician in 1946, initially with the Three Earls in Cleveland, Ohio, before launching a solo career. After returning to Chicago he made his first recording in 1950, as guest vocalist on saxophonist Eddie Chamblee's "Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep". He signed as a solo artist to Premium Records, and released his first single, "Contrary Mary", in early 1951. He became a popular club performer, noted for his guitar skills while performing splits, playing behind his back, and with his teeth, many such moves emulating T-Bone Walker (and later adopted by Jimi Hendrix). In 1952, he was spotted by radio DJ Al Benson, who arranged for him to be signed by Chess Records. His first and most successful record for the company, "Train, Train, Train", his own composition, was issued on the Checker subsidiary label in early 1953 and reached number 7 on the Billboard R&B chart. The song was covered by Buddy Morrow, whose version on RCA Victor reached number 28 on the pop chart. Overbea became a favorite of leading DJ Alan Freed and appeared on some of Freed's shows as well as maintaining a performing schedule in Chicago clubs. On his second Checker single, "Forty Cups of Coffee", he was backed by the King Kolax Orchestra. A cover version by Ella Mae Morse reached number 26 on the pop chart, and the song was recorded by Bill Haley in 1956. According to Allmusic, Overbea's first two Checker records were "essentially rock ‘n’ roll songs before the concept of ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ had even emerged." His later records for Checker were less successful, and he interspersed his rockier recordings with ballads in the style of Billy Eckstine, such as "Sorrento", which he sang in Italian, "You're Mine" (also recorded by The Flamingos), and "A Toast to Lovers". He continued to tour, with Dinah Washington and others, and performed on Alan Freed's shows including the week-long Easter Jubilee of Stars in Brooklyn in April 1955. After several singles on Checker, Overbea moved in 1956 to the Argo label, another Chess subsidiary specifically established to market pop music. However, his Argo recordings were not commercially successful, and he left in 1957. He then recorded for Federal Records in Cincinnati, until 1959, but again with little success. His last known recordings were for the Apex label in Chicago. Overbea continued to perform occasionally in Chicago clubs until the 1970s. He died in Chicago in 1994, aged 68. References Category:1926 births Category:1994 deaths Category:Chicago blues musicians Category:American blues guitarists Category:American blues singers Category:American male singers Category:Chess Records artists Category:Guitarists from Illinois Category:Guitarists from Philadelphia Category:American male guitarists Category:20th-century American guitarists Category:20th-century American singers Category:20th-century male singers

Bertolotti Bertolotti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alessandro Bertolotti (born 1960), Italian writer and photographer Andrés Bertolotti (born 1943), Argentine footballer Bernardino Bertolotti, 16th-century Italian composer and musician Cesare Bertolotti (1854–1932), Italian painter Gianni Bertolotti (born 1950), Italian basketball player Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti (1640–1721), Italian Baroque painter Mariano Bertolotti (born 1982), Argentine judoka See also Bertolotti's syndrome, back pain Category:Italian-language surnames

2018 ADAC GT Masters The 2018 ADAC GT Masters was the twelfth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC. The season began on 14 April at Oschersleben and ended on 23 September at Hockenheim after seven double-header meetings. Entry list Race calendar and results On 29 November 2017, the ADAC announced the 2018 calendar. Championship standings Scoring system Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. Drivers' championships Overall Junior Cup Trophy Cup Teams' championship Notes References External links Category:ADAC GT Masters seasons ADAC GT Masters

1968–69 Oakland Seals season The 1968–69 Oakland Seals season was the Seals' second season in the NHL. For the first time in their short history they qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs after finishing second in the West Division (albeit with seven more losses than wins). They were upset in the playoffs, losing their quarter-finals series to the fourth-place Los Angeles Kings in seven games. (Oakland's three playoff game victories against Los Angeles were the only ones the franchise would get in their entire ten-year history.) Offseason Amateur draft Regular season Final standings Record vs. opponents Schedule and results Player statistics Skaters Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes †Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Seals. Stats reflect time with the Seals only. ‡Traded mid-season Goaltenders Note: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average Transactions The Seals were involved in the following transactions during the 1968–69 season: Trades Additions and subtractions Roster Playoffs The Seals made it into the playoffs and went against Los Angeles in the Quarter-finals in a best of seven series and lost in 7 games, or 3–4. References Seals on Hockey Database Seals on Database Hockey Category:California Golden Seals seasons Oakland Oakland

Yam Ah Mee Yam Ah Mee (, born 2 July 1957) is a former Singaporean civil servant and Chief Executive Director of the People's Association. He shot to fame after Singaporeans took to his monotone voice and expressionless demeanour as the Returning Officer for the General Elections in 2011. Biography Yam studied at Hwa Chong Junior College and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a First Class Honours in Engineering and the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Australia, with The Queens Medal in 1980, on a Singapore Armed Forces scholarship. He also has a Masters in Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and a Masters in Public Administration degree from Harvard University. Yam served in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, writing an article in the Military Journal POINTER, rising to be the chief of staff of the air staff and commanding the ground-based, air-defence systems, including the new Igla short range surface to air missiles, before retiring as a Brigadier-General and entering the Civil Service. He joined the Public Service Division in August 1998 and was appointed the Deputy Secretary (Development) and the CEO & Dean of the Civil Service College. He was then posted to the Ministry of Transport as Deputy Secretary (Sea & Air) on 1 June 2004 and was appointed chief executive of Land Transport Authority on 11 May 2005. He was also President of the Singapore Youth Flying Club for 8 years from 1998 to 2006. Yam was honoured in 2008 with the Public Administration (Gold) Medal, a top National Day Award. On 1 May 2010, Yam was appointed CED-designate of the People's Association and on 1 June 2010 fully assumed the Chief Executive Director (CED) mantle, taking over from the retiring Tan Boon Huat. His appointment as Returning Officer also took effect on 1 June 2010. Elections Singaporean general election, 2011 Yam shot to fame during the election results release night/morning, as the Returning Officer (having replaced Tan Boon Huat, who retired). He was noted for his monotoned "nasal" voice and expressionless demeanour while reading out the 26 batches of results. Fan pages were soon created on Facebook while the results release was still ongoing. Netizens have also released music videos with clips and remixes of his voice on YouTube. A video of Yam doing the chicken dance with youths from Geylang Serai Community Club also went viral, before it was quickly taken down. Yam has since explained that his "robotic" and "nasal" voice is due to an operation he had to remove a fishbone in his larynx, although he has also said, explaining his impassive delivery to The Straits Times, that he "felt it was important to announce (the election results) clearly, concisely and impartially." Singaporean presidential election, 2011 Yam was appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Returning Officer for the Singapore Presidential Election. Yam announced the results of the 4 nominated candidates for the Presidential Election on 4:24am (GMT +8). Hougang SMC by-election, 2012 Yam was named as the Returning Officer for the 2012 Hougang by-election. He delivered the nomination announcement at 12.35 pm on 16 May 2012. Punggol SMC by-election, 2013 This was Yam's last appearance as the Returning Officer. Post-elections After GE 2011 Yam's robotic voice announcing the results for Aljunied GRC had turned into a mix just within a few hours ensuing the elections. Many have taken clips of his voice and mixed it with various styles of music, from electro to dance, on popular video-sharing website YouTube. Within two days, Yam's Facebook account had reached the 5000 friends limit. Yam thus created an official page for himself ; although non-official pages had already appeared by then. After a week, he did a "spoof" video of himself, in which he announced PAssion Movie Night, held to celebrate a million PAssion Card memberships, in his trademark manner. Mr. Yam filmed a video in late May, to promote a K-pop dance event on 29 May 2011, to be held at Ngee Ann City. In less than 24 hours after the release of the presidential election results, a club mix of Yam announcing the results was released on YouTube, by the same user responsible for the earlier club mix of Yam's general elections "performance". Yam starred in a musical held to celebrate the opening of the first 12 stations of the Circle Line, on 2 October. People's Association As part of an effort to promote the PA and social cohesion, Yam made appearances at many youth and sporting events, particularly after his rise to fame in the elections. In January 2013, reports emerged that Yam had resigned from the PA and would leave the organisation by March, to be replaced by Health Promotion Board chief executive Ang Hak Seng. In an interview with RazorTV, he announced plans to pursue a career in the private sector after 36 years in the civil service. He held a farewell party on 28 March 2013 and ended his tenure at the PA on 31 March 2013. Sembcorp Yam joined Sembcorp Design and Construction as its managing director on 16 April 2013. References External links People's Association Directory OurCommunity.sg PAssion Card Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Singaporean people of Chinese descent Category:Singaporean civil servants Category:Hwa Chong Junior College alumni Category:John F. 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Listing of historic ships in Sweden The Maritime Museum in Stockholm is responsible for the listing of historic ships in Sweden (). The purpose of the listing is to encourage and support owners of historic ships and boats to preserve and take care of their vessels. The listing does not confer any legal protection on the vessels or obligations on their owners but entitles them to some privileges. Ships and pleasure boats Historic ships and boats can be listed in either of two categories: Listed historical ships or Listed historical pleasure boats. The purpose of listing vessels is similar in both cases; it is done in order to "make them better recognized, preserved and used". In addition, the listing aims to encourage conscious private cultural heritage ownership and management. Owners of listed ships are entitled to display a plaque that confirms the ship's listed status on board, and pleasure boats are equipped with a similar enamel sign. While the listing does not confer any legal protection on the ships – in contrast to listed buildings – the Maritime Museum notes that listed ships and boats under some circumstances enjoy reduced harbour fees and listed pleasure boats sometimes enjoy various benefits by harbours, canals, dockyards and boat clubs. For example, a news item from 2013 notes that at on Djurgården in central Stockholm, listed boats and ships may berth for a short period of time free of charge if they agree to let visitors come aboard. Listed pleasure boats are also e.g. exempted from a national ban on letting out toilet waste into the surrounding water. The museum is also responsible for providing financial aid to the restoration of culturally significant private ships and boats, and while there is no direct connection between owning a listed vessel and receiving aid, the Maritime Museum has concluded that many owners of listed ships have voiced the opinion that an important way to facilitate the management of listed ships is to increase this financial support. Some owners of listed pleasure boats have voiced that the listing has attracted attention to them and their boats from other boat owners, boat clubs, and in maritime festivals and competitions, as well as from local papers and radio channels. Commercial and utility ships have been listed since 2001, and pleasure boats since 2009. Sweden was the first country in Europe to list pleasure boats. The museum made an evaluation of its listing of ships in 2014, and of the listing of pleasure boats in 2017. Listing of ships For a ship to be eligible for inclusion on the historic ship list, it must meet the following criteria: It has to be at least long and wide. It has to be at least 50 years old or of such an age and character that it can be deemed significant from a cultural perspective. It was built or constructed in Sweden, or was registered in Sweden for a prolonged period or else deemed to be of very high value for the promotion of knowledge about the maritime history of Sweden. Commercial and utility vessels smaller than 12 by 4 metres can be eligible if there are special reasons. The owner of the ship submits an application to the museum containing, among other things, an account of the ship's history and its present state of preservation. The museum then makes an assessment based on seven criteria, taken from the handbook of assessing listed buildings issued by the Swedish National Heritage Board and adopted to maritime conditions. Listed ships are graded by the museum between I and III, where I represents the highest grade of cultural value. Listing of pleasure boats The following criteria must to be fulfilled for a boat to be eligible for listing by the museum: The boat was originally built as a pleasure craft. The boat was built in Sweden; or designed by a Swedish boat constructor; or is of a model which has been popular in Sweden; or in some other way considered important to preserve from a cultural perspective. It was built before 1965; boats constructed later may be considered for listing if they are large and have extraordinary cultural significance. The boat's history must be well-documented. It must be in a good and seaworthy condition. Repairs and alterations must have been made in a considerate way. The boat must not be a copy or reproduction of another vessel. Only individual boats are considered eligible, not entire series or models of boats. The owner of the boat may apply twice a year to have the boat listed. If a boat is listed and at a later point sold, the museum asks the owner to provide contact details to the new owner of the pleasure craft in order to be able to maintain knowledge about the fate of these boats. Traditional-ship classification The Maritime Museum also conducts Traditional-ship classification (T-classing) of ships of historic value. The classification is aimed at guaranteeing the seaworthiness of the ship while maintaining its historic value and allows older ships to obtain certificates needed in order to sail in international waters. Notes References External links Complete list of listed Swedish ships (in Swedish) Complete list of listed Swedish pleasure boats (in Swedish) Category:Cultural heritage of Sweden Category:Maritime history Category:Conservation in Sweden Category:Heritage registers in Sweden Category:Tourist attractions in Sweden Historic

National Route 101 (Argentina) National Route 101 is a national road in the NW of Misiones Province, Argentina ending at Iguazu National Park. It runs for near the border between Argentina and Brazil crossing the Missiones Province Departments of General Manuel Belgrano and Iguazú. After decades of difficult travel through this road, especially after rains, it was decided to pave it starting from the south end. The work was contracted with a financial agreement with the federal government and under the technical supervision and administration of the Dirección Provincial de Vialidad (Provincial Dept. of Transportation). In 2006 the Dirección Provincial de Vialidad paved the section between Bernardo de Irigoyen and San Antonio. The next until the rural area known as Piñalito Norte were completed in mid-2007. The section between Piñalito Norte and Provincial Route 19 is under construction. The following until Puerto Iguazú International Airport is unpaved, while the section from the airport to the junction with National Route 12 is paved. References Category:Roads in Argentina Category:Tourism in Argentina

Sally Mann Sally Mann HonFRPS (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, widely known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Early life and education Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children. Her father, Robert S. Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Mann was raised by an atheist and compassionate father who allowed Mann to be "benignly neglected". Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest in photography; his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today. Mann began to photograph when she was sixteen. Most of her photographs and writings are tied to Lexington, Virginia. Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. She earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1974 and a MA in creative writing in 1975. She took up photography at Putney where, she claims, her motive was to be alone in the darkroom with her boyfriend. She made her photographic debut at Putney with an image of a nude classmate. Mann has never had any formal training in photography and she "never read[s] about photography". Early career After graduation from Hollins College, Mann worked as a photographer at Washington and Lee University. In the mid-1970s she photographed the construction of its new law school building, the Lewis Hall (now the Sydney Lewis Hall), leading to her first solo exhibition in late 1977 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC The Corcoran Gallery of Art published a catalogue of Mann's images titled "The Lewis Law Portfolio". Some of those surrealistic images were also included as part of her first book, Second Sight, published in 1984. While Mann explored a variety of genres as she was maturing in the 1970s, she truly found her trade with her book, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (Aperture, 1988). In 1995, she was featured in an issue of "Aperture". On Location with: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, Clarissa Sligh" which was illustrated with photographs. At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women Her second collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, published in 1988, stimulated minor controversy. The images “captured the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls [and the] expressive printing style lent a dramatic and brooding mood to all of her images”. In the preface to the book, Ann Beattie says “when a girl is twelve years old, she often wants – or says she wants – less involvement with adults. […] [it is] a time in which the girls yearn for freedom and adults feel their own grip on things becoming a little tenuous, as they realize that they have to let their children go.” Beattie says that Mann's photographs don't “glamorize the world, but they don’t make it into something more unpleasant than it is, either”. The girls photographed in this series are shown “vulnerable in their youthfulness” but Mann instead focuses on the strength that the girls possess. In one image from the book (shown to the right), Mann says that the young girl was extremely reluctant to stand closer to her mother's boyfriend. Mann said that she thought it was strange because “it was their peculiar familiarity that had provoked this photograph in the first place”. Mann didn't want to crop out the girl's elbow but the girl refused to move in closer. According to Mann, the girl's mother shot her boyfriend in the face with a .22 several months later. In court the mother “testified that while she worked nights at a local truck stop he was ‘at home partying and harassing my daughter.’” Mann said “the child put it to me somewhat more directly”. Mann says that she now looks at this photograph with “a jaggy chill of realization”. Immediate Family and controversy Mann is widely known for Immediate Family, her third collection, first exhibited in 1990 by Edwynn Houk Gallery in Chicago and published as a monograph in 1992. The New York Times said, “Probably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world”. The book consists of 65 black-and-white photographs of her three children, all under the age of 10. Many of the pictures were taken at the family's remote summer cabin along the river, where the children played and swam in the nude. Many explore typical childhood themes (skinny dipping, reading the funnies, dressing up, vamping, napping, playing board games) but others touch on darker themes such as insecurity, loneliness, injury, sexuality and death. The controversy on its release was intense, including accusations of child pornography (both in America and abroad) and of contrived fiction with constructed tableaux. One of her detractors, Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, has said that “selling photographs of children in their nakedness for profit is an exploitation of the parental role and I think it’s wrong”. He views such work as a violation of the responsibility of parents to do everything in their power to protect, shelter, and nurture their children. More negative criticism came from Raymond Sokolov's article Critique: Censoring Virginia in the Wall Street Journal. He questioned whether children should be photographed nude and whether federal funds should be appropriated for such artworks. Accompanying his article was a modified image by Mann of her daughter Virginia (Virginia at 4), in which her eyes, nipples, and pubic region were now covered with black bars. Mann said he used the image without permission “to illustrate that this is the kind of thing that shouldn’t be shown”. Mann claimed that after Virginia saw the article, she started touching herself on the areas that were blacked out, saying, “what’s wrong with me?” Mann responded to the criticisms saying she did not plan the photographs and that when she was young, she was often nude, so she raised her children similarly. Many of her other photographs containing her nude or hurt children caused controversy. For example, in The Perfect Tomato, the viewer sees a nude Jessie, posing on a picnic table outside, bathed in light. Jessie told Steven Cantor during the filming of one of his movies that she had just been playing around and her mother told her to freeze, and she tried to capture the image in a rush because the sun was setting. This explains why everything is blurred except for the tomato, hence the photograph's title. This image was likely criticized for Jessie's nudity and presentation of the adolescent female form. While Jessie was aware of this photograph, Dana Cox, in her essay, said that the Mann children were probably unaware of the other photographs being taken as Mann's children were often naked because “it came natural to them”. This habit of nudity is a family thing because Mann says she used to walk around her house naked when she was growing up. Cox states that “the own artist’s childhood is reflected in the way she captures moments in her children’s lives”. One image that deals more with another aspect of childhood besides "naked play", Jessie's Cut, shows Jessie's head, wrapped in what appears to be plastic, with blood running down the side of her face from the cut above her left eye. The cut is stitched and the blood is dry and stains her skin. As painful as the image looks, there are a great number of viewers who could relate to Jessie when they think about the broken bones and stitched up cuts they had during childhood. Mann herself considered these photographs to be “natural through the eyes of a mother, since she has seen her children in every state: happy, sad, playful, sick, bloodied, angry and even naked”. Critics agreed, saying her “vision in large measure [is] accurate, and a welcome corrective to familiar notions of youth as a time of unalloyed sweetness and innocence”, and that the book “created a place that looked like Eden, then cast upon it the subdued and shifting light of nostalgia, sexuality and death".<ref>Lyle Rexer, “Art/Architecture; Marriage Under Glass: Intimate Exposures”, ‘’The New York Times, November 10, 2000. ART/ARCHITECTURE - Marriage Under Glass - Intimate Exposures - NYTimes.com</ref> When Time magazine named her “America’s Best Photographer” in 2001, it wrote: Mann recorded a combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments of childhood repose and revealingly — sometimes unnervingly — imaginative play. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. No other collection of family photographs is remotely like it, in both its naked candor and the fervor of its maternal curiosity and care.The New Republic considered it "one of the great photograph books of our time". Despite the controversy, Mann was never charged with the taking or selling of child pornography, even though, according to Edward de Grazia, law professor and civil liberties expert, “any federal prosecutor anywhere in the country could bring a case against [Mann] in Virginia, and not only seize her photos, her equipment, her Rolodexes, but also seize her children for psychiatric and physical examination”. Before she published Immediate Family, she consulted a Virginian federal prosecutor who told her that some of the images she was exhibiting could have her arrested. In 1991, she initially decided to postpone the publication of the book. In an interview with New York Times reporter, Richard Woodward, she said “I thought the book could wait 10 years, when the kids won’t be living in the same bodies. They’ll have matured and they’ll understand the implications of the pictures. I unilaterally decided.” The children apparently did not like this decision and Mann and her husband arranged for Emmett and Jessie to talk to a psychologist to be sure their feelings were honest, and so that they understood what the publication would do. Each child was then allowed to vote on which photographs were to be put in the book. To further protect the children from “teasing”, Mann told Woodward that she wanted to keep copies of Immediate Family out of their home town of Lexington. She asked bookstores in the area not to sell it and for libraries to keep it in their rare-book rooms. Dr. Aaron Esman, a child psychiatrist at the Payne Whitney Clinic believes that Mann is serious about her work and that she has “no intention to jeopardize her children or use them for pornographic images”. He says that the nude photographs don't appear to be erotically stimulating to anyone but a “case-hardened pedophile or a rather dogmatic religious fundamentalist”. Mann stated, "I didn't expect the controversy over the pictures of my children. I was just a mother photographing her children as they were growing up. I was exploring different subjects with them." Her fourth book, Still Time, published in 1994, was based on the catalogue of a traveling exhibition that included more than 20 years of her photography. The 60 images included more photographs of her children, but also earlier landscapes with color and abstract photographs. Later career In the mid-1990s, Mann began photographing landscapes on wet plate collodion 8x10 inch glass negatives, and used the same 100 year-old 8x10 format bellows view camera that she had used for all the previous bodies of work. These landscapes were first seen in Still Time, and later featured in two shows presented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC: Sally Mann – Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginia in 1997, and then in Deep South: Landscapes of Louisiana and Mississippi in 1999. Many of these large (40"x50") black-and-white and manipulated prints were taken using the 19th century “wet plate” process, or collodion, in which glass plates are coated with collodion, dipped in silver nitrate, and exposed while still wet. This gave the photographs what the New York Times called “a swirling, ethereal image with a center of preternatural clarity", and showed many flaws and artifacts, some from the process and some introduced by Mann. Filmmaker Steven Cantor directed two films about Mann's life: Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (1994) was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary short, and What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann premiered on television in 2007. Mann uses antique view cameras from the early 1890s. These cameras have wooden frames, accordion-like bellows and long lenses made out of brass, now held together by tape that has mold growing inside. This sort of camera, when used with vintage lenses, softens the light, which makes the pictures timeless. Mann's fifth book, What Remains, published in 2003, is based on the show of the same name at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. The book is broken up into four sections: Matter Lent, December 8, 2000, Antietam, and What Remains. The first section contains photographs of the remains of Eva, her greyhound, after decomposition, along with the photographs of dead and decomposing bodies at a federal forensic anthropology facility (known as the ‘body farm’). The second part details the site on her property where an armed escaped convict was killed in a shootout with police. The third part is a study of the grounds of Antietam, the site of the bloodiest single day battle in American history during the Civil War. The fourth part is a study of close-up faces of her children. Thus, this study of mortality, decay and death ends with hope and love. Mann's sixth book, Deep South, published in 2005, with 65 black-and-white images, includes landscapes taken from 1992 to 2004 using both conventional 8x10 film and wet plate collodion. These photographs have been described as “haunted landscapes of the south, battlefields, decaying mansion, kudzu shrouded landscapes and the site where Emmett Till was murdered". Newsweek picked it as their book choice for the holiday season, saying that Mann “walks right up to every Southern stereotype in the book and subtly demolishes each in its turn by creating indelibly disturbing images that hover somewhere between document and dream". Mann's seventh book, Proud Flesh, published in 2009, is a study taken over six years of the effects of muscular dystrophy on her husband Larry Mann. Mann photographed her husband using the collodion wet plate process As she notes, "The results of this rare reversal of photographic roles are candid, extraordinarily wrenching and touchingly frank portraits of a man at his most vulnerable moment." The project was displayed in Gagosian Gallery in October 2009. Mann's eighth book, The Flesh and The Spirit, published in 2010, was released in conjunction with a comprehensive show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Regarding this exhibition, the museum director stated, "She follows her own voice. Her pictures are imbued with an amazing degree of soul." Though not strictly a retrospective, this 200-page book included new and recent work (unpublished self-portraits, landscapes, images of her husband, her children's faces, and of the dead at a forensic institute) as well as early works (unpublished color photographs of her children in the 1990s, color Polaroids, and platinum prints from the 1970s). Its unifying theme is the body, with its vagaries of illnesses and death, and includes essays by John Ravenal, David Levi Strauss, and Anne Wilkes Tucker. In May 2011 she delivered the three-day Massey Lecture Series at Harvard. In June 2011, Mann sat down with one of her contemporaries, Nan Goldin, at Look3 Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph. The two photographers discussed their respective careers, particularly the ways in which photographing personal lives became a source of professional controversy. This was followed by an appearance at the University of Michigan as part of the Penny W. Stamps lecture series. Mann's ninth book, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, released May 12, 2015, is a melding of a memoir of her youth, an examination of some major influences of her life, and reflections on how photography shapes one's view of the world. It is augmented with numerous photographs, letters, and other memorabilia. She singles out her "near-feral" childhood and her subsequent introduction to photography at Putney, her relationship to her husband of 40 years and his parent's mysterious death, and her maternal Welsh relative's nostalgia for land morphing into her love for her land in the Shenandoah Valley, as some of her important influences. Gee-Gee, a black woman who was a surrogate parent, who opened Mann's eyes to race relations and exploitation, her relationship with local artist Cy Twombly, and her father's genteel southern legacy and his eventual death are also examined. The New York Times described it as "an instant classic among Southern memoirs of the last 50 years". An article by Mann adapted from this book appeared with photographs in The New York Times Magazine in April 2015. Hold Still was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award. Mann's tenth book, Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington was published in 2016. It is an insider's photographic view of Cy Twombly's studio in Lexington. It was published concurrently with an exhibit of color and black-and-white photographs at the Gagosian Gallery. It shows the overflow of Twombly's general modus operandi: the leftovers, smears, and stains, or, as Simon Schama said in his essay at the start of the book, "an absence turned into a presence". Mann's eleventh book, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, authored by Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel, is a large (320 pages) compendium of works spanning 40 years, with 230 photographs by Mann. It served as a catalog for an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art entitled Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings which opened March 4, 2018 and was the first major survey of the artist's work to travel internationally. In her recent projects, Mann has started exploring the issues of race and legacy of slavery that were a central theme of her memoir Hold Still. They include a series of portraits of black men, all made during one-hour sessions in the studio with models not previously known to her. Mann was inspired by Bill T. Jones' use of the Walt Whitman 1856 poem "Poem of the Body" in his art, and Mann "borrowed the idea, using the poem as a template for [her] own exploration". Several pictures from this body of work were highlighted in Aperture Foundation magazine in the summer of 2016. and they also appeared in A Thousand Crossings. This book and exhibit also introduced a series of photographs of African American historic churches photographed on expired film, and a series of tintype photographs of a swamp that served as refuge for escaped slaves. Some critics see in Mann's work a deep working through of the legacy of white violence in the South, while others have voiced concern that Mann's work at times repeats rather than critiques tropes of white domination and violence in the American southeast. Personal life Mann, born and raised in Virginia, is the daughter of Robert Munger and Elizabeth Munger. In Mann's introduction for her book Immediate Family, she "expresses stronger memories for the black woman, Virginia Carter, who oversaw her upbringing than for her own mother". Elizabeth Munger was not a big part of Mann's life, and Elizabeth said “Sally may look like me, but inside she’s her father’s child.” Virginia (Gee-Gee) Carter, born in 1894, raised Mann and her two brothers and was an admirable woman. “Left with six children and a public education system for which she paid taxes but which forbade classes for black children beyond the seventh grade, Gee-Gee managed somehow to send each of them to out-of-state boarding schools and, ultimately, to college.” Virginia Carter died in 1994. In 1969 Sally met Larry Mann, and in 1970 they married. Larry Mann is an attorney and, before practicing law, he was a blacksmith. Larry was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy around 1996. They live together in their home which they built on Sally's family's farm in Lexington, Virginia. They have three children together: Emmett (b.1979), who took his own life in 2016, after a life-threatening car collision and a subsequent battle with schizophrenia, and who for a time served in the Peace Corps; Jessie (b.1981), who herself is an artist and was a candidate for an advanced degree in neurobiology, and whose heroes include Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr, and Madonna; and Virginia (b.1985), now a lawyer. She is passionate about endurance horse racing. In 2006, her Arabian horse ruptured an aneurysm while she was riding him. In the horse's death throes, Mann was thrown to the ground, the horse rolled over her, and the impact broke her back. It took her two years to recover from the accident and during this time, she made a series of ambrotype self-portraits. These self-portraits were on view for the first time in November 2010 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a part of Sally Mann: the Flesh and the Spirit. Recognition Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of New York City among many others. Time magazine named Mann "America's Best Photographer" in 2001. Photos she took have appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine twice: first, a picture of her three children for the September 27, 1992 issue with a feature article on her "disturbing work", and again on September 9. 2001, with a self-portrait (which also included her two daughters) for a theme issue on "Women Looking at Women". Mann has been the subject of two film documentaries. The first, Blood Ties, was directed by Steve Cantor, debuted at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short. The second, What Remains was also directed by Steve Cantor. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary in 2008. In her New York Times review of the film, Ginia Bellafante wrote, "It is one of the most exquisitely intimate portraits not only of an artist’s process, but also of a marriage and a life, to appear on television in recent memory." Mann received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in May 2006. The Royal Photographic Society (UK) awarded her an Honorary Fellowship in 2012. Mann won the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Hold Still: A Memoir in Photographs. Publications Books At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women. Aperture, New York, 1988. Immediate Family. Aperture, New York, 1992. Still Time. Aperture, New York, 1994. Sally Mann (2005), 21st Editions, South Dennis, MA (edition of 110) Sally Mann: Proud Flesh. Aperture Press; Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY, 2009. Southern Landscape (2013), 21st Editions, South Dennis, MA (edition of 58) Exhibition catalogues The Lewis Law Portfolio, at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1977 Sweet Silent Thought, at the North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, Durham, NC, 1987 Still Time, at the Allegheny Highland Arts and Crafts Center, Clifton Forge, VA, 1988 Mother Land, at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, NY, 1997 Sally Mann, at the Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY, 2006 Sally Mann: Deep South/Battlefields, at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 Collections Ferdinand Protzman, Landscape: Photographs of time and Place. National Geographic, 2003. R. H. Cravens, Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50. Aperture Press, 2005. Other Film and television Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann. Directed by Steven Cantor and Peter Spirer. Moving Target Productions. 30 minutes, color, DVD. Nomination for an Academy Award for Best Documentary: Short Subject (1992) "Giving Up the Ghost". Egg, The Arts Show. Produced by Thirteen/WNET, New York. “Place”. Episode One. Art 21- Directed by Catherine Tatge, Art in the Twenty-First Century, PBS Broadcasting, Virginia. 14 minutes. Color. DVD. (2002) What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann. Directed by Steven Cantor. Zeitgeist Films, New York. 80 minutes, color, DVD. (2004). Winner of Best Documentary. Jacksonville Film Festival. Won Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Film. Nantucket Film Festival Won Best Storytelling in Documentary Film. Nantucket Film Festival Official Selection. Sundance Film Festival New York Loves Film Documentary Award. Tribeca Film Festival. (2006) "Some Things Are Private". Playwrights Deborah Salem Smith, Laura Kepley. Trinity Repertory Theatre, Dowling Theater. Providence, RI. (2008) "The Genius of Photography: We Are Family". Episode 6. BBC Four Productions, Wall to Wall Media Ltd. (2008) "Thalia Book Club: Sally Mann Hold Still". Ann Patchett, Symphony Space (13 May 2015) References External links The main works of Mann Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 - Art in the 21st Century, Season One (2001). TV interview with Charlie Rose in 2016 21st Photography Platinum Series'' by Sally Mann, a Lucie Award Winner in 2005 Sally Mann Exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Links to sites with her photographs: Link to some pictures from Immediate Family Link to more Sally Mann pictures Immediate Family and Landscape images at Strother Fine Arts Links to sites about the documentaries: Category:Portrait photographers Category:Nude photography Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:American women photographers Category:Guggenheim Fellows Category:Bennington College alumni Category:Hollins University alumni Category:People from Lexington, Virginia Category:The Putney School alumni Category:20th-century American photographers Category:21st-century American photographers Category:20th-century American writers Category:21st-century American writers Category:20th-century American women artists Category:21st-century American women artists Category:20th-century women writers Category:21st-century women writers Category:Photographers from Virginia

Gira language Madi, or Gira (Girara), is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. References Bibliography A brief overview of the Gira language is found on p. 50. Category:Finisterre languages Category:Languages of Papua New Guinea Category:Languages of Madang Province

Cartoon violence Cartoon violence is the representation of violent actions involving animated characters and situations. This may include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted. Animated violence is sometimes partitioned into comedic and non-comedic cartoon violence. Influence on real-life behavior Opinions on the influences of cartoon violence vary. Some researchers believe that high level of violence in cartoons can make children more aggressive. Their studies also found that young children tend to mimic the negative behavior they see on television. Output aimed at children as young as seven, which include a number of cartoons, had the highest levels of violence. Researchers also concluded across the early and middle childhood, laboratory experiments using cartoons with comedic violence have consistently failed to demonstrate significant differences in person-oriented aggression. In contrast, field experiments have consistently shown that aggressive behavior towards peers increases following the viewing of non-comedic violent cartoons. Other researchers believe that people need to consider the ways in which children process information, the amount of mental effort they invest, and their own life experience to gain an understanding of how television violence affects children. For instance, recent research has indicated that children do not appear to mimic acts of violence in the media, whether television or cartoons. Blumberg, Bierwirth and Schwartz argue that children possess the ability to differentiate real life from animation, as well as the ability to understand right from wrong. They know that violent acts qualify as immoral and infringe on the welfare of others, therefore the violence witnessed in cartoons will register as "make believe" to children and will not be applied into their real lives. Options for parents and restriction There are a number of ways parents can control their children’s exposure to violence. One of the most effective and common ways of prevention is restricting the number and types of programs children watch. With older children, parents might want to discuss, and explain television. This can help children to understand television material and overcome the effect TV violence has on their outlook and behaviors. Three initiatives have been put in place to combat violence in cartoons (). The first is The Children's Television Act which requires broadcasters to air shows which are educational and provide information for the children. The second initiative is the V-chip legislation that gives parents the opportunity to block out violent shows from their television. The third legislation against violent cartoons is the National Cable Television Association’s TV Parental Guidelines, which is a system that rates the Television shows based on their contents. In action-adventure oriented cartoons, the most consistent avenue of addressing violence is the use of a form of fantasy violence in which no one is injured or killed on screen. In science fiction cartoons, for example, enemy forces are typically said to be robots so that they may be destroyed in bulk by the heroes without concern over killing living beings. In cases where vehicles are known to be piloted by living beings, tanks, aircraft, and other war vehicles that are destroyed in combat always allow time for the pilot to escape or bail out. Realistic firearms are often replaced with futuristic beam weapons which still seldom hit anyone. Swords and other bladed weapons may be prohibited from being used as offensive weapons but may be used defensively or be depicted as magical weapons. Direct violence is frequently limited to hand to hand combat where directly kicking or punching another character may or may not be allowed. The majority of action adventure cartoons over the past decades have used these methods of depicting dynamic action scenes although their use has been heavily criticized as "sanitized violence". Cartoons based on the Voltron, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Masters of the Universe franchises (especially the versions produced during the 1980s) are notable examples using variations on fantasy violence. Victor C. Strasburger, Amy B. Jordan and Ed Donnerstein, writing in Pediatrics, say that parents should limit the total screen time for children older than two years of age to no more than one to two hours per day. Children under two years of age should avoid watching television altogether. Televisions should be kept out of children’s bedrooms and parents should watch television with their children and discuss the content. Health practitioners can also play their part by taking the time to ask their young patients how much time per day they spend with entertainment media and if there is a television or computer with Internet access in their bedroom. Effects Effects of cartoon violence on youth remain controversial. Research has generally been divided on this issue with no consensus reached regarding the effects of violence on behavior. F.C. Blumberg, K.P. Bierwirth, and A.J. Schwartz, in a 2008 paper in Early Childhood Education Journal, say that the impact of exposure to violence may remain regardless of whether children choose to imitate it. References Category:Adult animation Category:Violence

Sunil Kumar Jakhar Sunil Kumar Jakhar (born 9 February 1954) is an Indian Politician and President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Elected consecutively three times from Abohar constituency (2002-2017), he was a Leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha from 2012-2017. He is a member of the Indian National Congress(INC). He was elected from Gurdaspur, Punjab to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian parliament in a by-election. Political career He first became a member of Punjab Vidhan Sabha from Abohar in 2002. In 2007 and 2012, he was re-elected from Abohar. he became member of parliament after winning a by-election in Gurudaspur. Controversy On 7 January 2017, Jakhar sent a complaint to the Punjab chief election officer alleging that local Shiromani Akali Dal leader Shivlal Doda and his nephew used seven different mobile numbers while in a Fazilka prison. References |- Category:State cabinet ministers of Punjab, India Category:Living people Category:Punjab, India MLAs 2002–2007 Category:Punjab, India MLAs 2007–2012 Category:Punjab, India MLAs 2012–2017 Category:People from Fazilka district Category:16th Lok Sabha members Category:Indian National Congress politicians Category:Leaders of the Opposition in Punjab, India Category:Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India Category:People from Gurdaspur district Category:1954 births

Northern Army (Home Forces) Northern Army was a home service formation of the British Army during the First World War, responsible for the defence of East Anglia. It was formed on 11 April 1916 under the command of Sir Bruce Hamilton, with headquarters at Mundford. The Army was composed of 1st Cyclist Division, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division, 64th (2nd Highland) Division and four provisional brigades (3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th), with 68th (2nd Welsh) Division attached for training purposes. The Army was disbanded on 16 February 1918. References Category:Field armies of the United Kingdom in World War I Category:Military units and formations established in 1916 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1918

Norwegian Entomological Society The Norwegian Entomological Society (, NEF) was established in 1904. The purpose of the society is to promote interest in and the study of entomology in Norway and to establish contact between the interested parties. The society is open to both amateurs and experts. Anyone with an interest in insects or other arthropod groups can become a member. Local branches of the society are located in the largest Norwegian cities, and they organize excursions to particularly interesting sites and guides, who offer advice connected with identifying species and preparing collected material. History The society was founded by ten enthusiasts; none of them were entomologists by profession, but two were biologists. All of them shared an interest in insects. Thomas Georg Münster originally came up with the initiative, and he served as the society's first chairman. The following year, two more members joined the society and it received its first charter. Work with butterflies and beetles occupied the society's members during its early years. Institutions were allowed to become members of the society in 1921, the first one being the Norwegian College of Agricultural in Ås. in 1922 the society started admitting individual members from abroad. Membership of the society gradually grew, and in 1930 there were about 40 individual members. The society had about 400 members in 2008. The society is open to anyone that would like to be a member. This has not always been the case; previously, another member had to recommend individuals for membership in the society, and membership was approved after assessment by the board. For example, Arne Semb-Johansson became a member in 1939 at the recommendation of Fridthjof Økland. In the process, he received a letter from Leif Reinhardt Natvig, stating: "Through Dr. Økland I have been informed that you would like to become a member of the Norwegian Entomological Society. To that end, I am bound to obtain some information from you: date of birth, place of birth, position, and which insect group you collect or are especially interested in. I will then present the matter at the society's next board meeting. Yours, Leif Reinhardt Natvig." Later Semb-Johansson received a second letter: "I have the honor to inform you that you have been admitted as a member of the Norwegian Entomological Society." Surveying insects in Norway In order to be able to survey the prevalence of Norwegian insects, a simple geographical system for locating sightings was needed. In 1924, Thomas Georg Münster and others created a system that divided Norway into bio-geographical sectional areas for botanists and zoologists using number codes. Eventually it turned out that this was little used. In 1943, Andreas Strand came up with a new system called Inndeling av Norge til bruk ved faunistiske oppgaver (Division of Norway for Use in Fauna Tasks), popularly known as the Strand System. In it, Norway was divided into 37 regions based on municipal and county boundaries, and it took into account that the fauna in the interior parts of the country differed from the fauna on the coast. Therefore, most Norwegian counties are divided into smaller areas (e.g., inner, outer, north, or south). Strand chose letter codes instead of numbers; for example, HOY is the code for outer Hordaland (Hordaland, ytre). The system was revised in 1981 by Karen Anna Økland because the municipal boundaries had also been revised. This system is recommended by the society and is used in all publications. Since the 1960s, UTM coordinates have routinely been used for mapping species. Since 1978, the European Invertebrate Survey (EIS) system has been recommended. In this system, Europe is divided into squares of . In a separate limited system for Norway, the squares are adapted to the Norwegian map and numbered from 1 to 189. For example, Oslo is in the square designated EIS 28. This gives the Norwegian map a grid that is well suited for demarcating a species' distribution. In May 2008, the Norwegian Species Observation System (Artsobservasjoner) was launched; this is an internet-based service where sightings can be published. The Norwegian Entomological Society is one of five organizations working with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken) to operate the website. Journal and other publications There were no Norwegian entomological journals in the early years. The first publications by Norwegian entomologists appeared in the Swedish Entomologisk Tidskrift (Entomological Journal), which was not unexpected because Norway was in a union with Sweden. Other articles also appeared in series published by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and in Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne (New Journal for the Natural Sciences). This situation was not satisfactory, and the first issue of Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift (now Norwegian Journal of Entomology) appeared in May 1921. Norwegian Journal of Entomology is the association's research journal, and it is sent to all members. It is issued twice a year. The journal has been published since 1921; it was originally called Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift and it has changed its name several times. Back issues are posted online and can be read at the Norwegian Entomological Society's website. Catalogus Coleopterorum Daniae et Fennoscandiae (Register of Beetles of Denmark and Fennoscandia) inventoried beetles and was published in 1939. It was the first complete register of the distribution of a group of insects in Norway. Atalanta norvegica (The Norwegian Atalanta) was published from 1967 to 1983, and it was a companion publication to the Norwegian Journal of Entomology. It was dedicated to the study of Norwegian butterflies. The journal is no longer published, but it can be read on the Norwegian Entomological Society's website. Insekt-Nytt (Insect News) is written in a popular science style and is the society's members' magazine. It was first published in 1976, and it appears four times a year. It contains material on collection and preparation, literature on Norwegian insects, brief presentations of insects or insect groups, and new discoveries. Other arthropod groups such as arachnids are also covered in the magazine. Issues of the magazine over five years old can be read on the Norwegian Entomological Society's website. Insecta norvegiae (Insects of Norway) is a journal that publishes major works such as individual volumes, checklists, bibliographies, and so on. It is published at iregular intervals. Norske Insekttabeller (Norwegian Insect Tables) is a series of inexpensive Norwegian-language booklets with identification tables for smaller groups of Norway's insect fauna. All the booklets are available on the Norwegian Entomological Society's website. Catalogus Lepidopterorum Norvegiae (Register of Norwegian Butterflies) appeared in 2002, and it is based on about 125,000 sightings of butterflies in Norway. Its information is available in a searchable database. Chairs of the society Thomas Georg Münster, 1904–1937 Leif Reinhardt Natvig, 1937–1949 Arne Semb-Johansson, 1950–1953 Ragnhild Sundby, 1954–1959 and 1964–1967 Alf Bakke, 1960–1963 and 1971–1974 Hans Kauri, 1968–1970 Reidar Mehl, 1975–1976 Karl Erik Zachariassen, 1977–1990 Sigmund Hågvar, 1991–1995 Preben S. Ottesen, 1996–2000 Leif Aarvik, 2003–2007 Geir E. E. Søli, 2008– Honorary members Thomas Georg Münster Andreas Strand Magne Opheim Carl Fredrik Lühr Eivind Sundt Astrid Løken Tore Randulff Nielsen Lauritz Sømme References External links Norwegian Entomological Society website Artsobservasjoner: Norwegian Species Observation System Category:Entomological organizations Category:Scientific organisations based in Norway Category:Organizations established in 1904 Category:1904 establishments in Norway

Amselia leucozonellus Amselia leucozonellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Walsingham and Hampson in 1896. It is found in Yemen. References Category:Crambinae Category:Moths described in 1896 Category:Moths of Asia

Genovefa The Merovingian name Genovefa is rendered in French as Geneviève. Saint Genovefa, patroness of Paris, see Genevieve. Genovefa of Brabant, of medieval legend. Genovefa Weber (1764-1798), German opera singer

The Departed The Departed is a 2006 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The Departed stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles. The film takes place in Boston. Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Nicholson) plants Colin Sullivan (Damon) as a mole within the Massachusetts State Police; simultaneously, the police assign undercover state trooper William "Billy" Costigan (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides realize the situation, Sullivan and Costigan each attempt to discover the other's identity before they are found out. The character Colin Sullivan is loosely based on the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while the character Frank Costello is based on gangster Whitey Bulger. The Departed was a critical and commercial success, and won several awards, including four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing; Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Plot In 1970s South Boston, young Colin Sullivan is introduced to crime by Irish-American mob boss Frank Costello. By 2006, Costello has groomed him as a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP). Sullivan is accepted into its Special Investigations Unit, which targets organized crime. Before graduating from the MSP's academy, William "Billy" Costigan Jr. is recruited by Captain Queenan and Staff Sergeant Dignam to go undercover, as his family's ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator. His cover story is that he is an MSP academy dropout who served time in prison on a (fake) assault charge; he subsequently joins Costello's crew. Sullivan begins a romance with police psychiatrist Madolyn Madden. Costigan also sees her as a condition of his probation, and they begin a relationship as well. After Costello escapes a sting operation, each mole becomes aware of the other's existence. Sullivan is promoted to the State Police's Internal Investigations unit and tasked with finding the rat. Costigan follows Costello into a porn theater, where Costello gives Sullivan an envelope containing personal information on his crew members. Costigan chases Sullivan through Chinatown, but neither man sees the other's face. Sullivan later has Queenan tailed to a meeting with Costigan on the roof of an empty building. Costello's men arrive, and Queenan makes Costigan leave to preserve his cover before confronting them alone. They drop Queenan to his death before engaging in a brief shootout with police. Crew member Delahunt subsequently dies from a gunshot wound, after telling Costigan he knew he was the informant. Television news states that Delahunt had been an undercover cop, but Costello recognizes this as a ploy to protect the real informant. With Queenan dead, a furious Dignam is ordered to take a leave of absence after a fight with Sullivan, but he resigns instead. Using Queenan's phone, Sullivan reaches Costigan, who refuses to abort his mission. Sullivan learns from Queenan's diary that Costello is a protected FBI informant, causing him to worry about his own identity being revealed (meanwhile, Costigan also learns Costello is an FBI informant from a bank robber he is sent to brutalise). With Costigan's help, Costello is traced to a cocaine drop-off, where a gunfight erupts between the crew and the police. Most of the crew are killed. Costello, confronted by Sullivan, admits he is an FBI informant, and Sullivan kills him. With the operation wrapped up, Costigan goes to Sullivan to restore his true identity, but he notices the envelope from Costello on Sullivan's desk, realizes he's Costello's mole and flees. Recognizing Costigan's revelation, Sullivan erases his records from the police computer system. Costigan forwards Madolyn recordings, which Costello willed to him of confidential conversations incriminating Sullivan as a mole, prompting her to abandon Sullivan. Costigan arranges to meet Sullivan at the building where Queenan died, where he holds him at gunpoint. Trooper Brown, a friend of Costigan's from the academy, also arrives at his behest, but he has not brought Dignam as requested and instead treats him with suspicion. Trooper Barrigan from Special Investigations arrives and kills both Costigan and Brown, revealing that he was a second mole for Costello. Sullivan then kills Barrigan and frames him as the only mole. At Costigan's funeral, Sullivan notices that Madolyn is tearful. She ignores him when he attempts to speak to her. Later, Sullivan arrives home to his apartment and is confronted by Dignam, who kills him. As he leaves, a rat traces across the balcony. Cast Leonardo DiCaprio as William "Billy" Costigan Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan Conor Donovan as young Colin Jack Nicholson as Francis "Frank" Costello Mark Wahlberg as Sgt. Sean Dignam Martin Sheen as Capt. Oliver Queenan Ray Winstone as Arnold French Vera Farmiga as Dr. Madolyn Madden Alec Baldwin as Capt. George Ellerby Anthony Anderson as Trooper Brown Kevin Corrigan as Sean Costigan James Badge Dale as Trooper Barrigan David O'Hara as Patrick "Fitzy" Fitzgibbons Mark Rolston as Timothy Delahunt Robert Wahlberg as FBI Special Agent Frank Lazio Kristen Dalton as Gwen Amanda Lynch as Carmen Shay Duffin as Phil Richard Hughes as Uncle Ed Costigan Production In January 2003, Warner Bros., producer Brad Grey, and actor/producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million. William Monahan was secured as screenwriter, and later Martin Scorsese, who admired Monahan's script, came on board as director. In March 2004, United Press International announced that Scorsese would be remaking Infernal Affairs and setting it in Boston, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt were slated to star. Pitt, tentatively scheduled to play Sullivan, later declined to play the role, saying a younger actor should play the part; he decided to produce the film instead. Scorsese's associate Kenneth Lonergan suggested Matt Damon, who grew up in Boston, for the part of Sullivan, and Scorsese asked Jack Nicholson to play Costello. Nicholson wanted the film to have "something a little more" than the usual gangster film, and screenwriter Monahan came up with the idea of basing the Costello character on Irish-American gangster Whitey Bulger. This gave the screenplay an element of realism – and an element of dangerous uncertainty, because of the wide-ranging carte blanche the FBI gave Bulger in exchange for revealing information about fellow gangsters. A technical consultant on the film was Tom Duffy, who had served three decades on the Boston Police Department, particularly as an undercover detective investigating the Irish mob. The Departed was officially greenlit by Warners in early 2005 and began shooting in the spring of 2005. Although some of the film was shot on location in Boston, for budgetary and logistical reasons many scenes, interiors in particular, were shot in locations and sets in New York City, which had tax incentives for filmmakers that Boston at the time did not. Themes and motifs Film critic Stanley Kauffmann said that for The Departed, Scorsese "was apparently concerned with the idea of identity, one of the ancient themes of drama, and how it affects one’s actions, emotions, self-knowledge, even dreams." Kaufmann however did not find the theme conveyed with particular effectiveness in the film. The father-son relationship is a motif throughout the film. Costello acts as a father figure to both Sullivan and Costigan, while Queenan acts as Costello's foil in the role of father figure. Sullivan addresses Costello as "Dad" whenever he calls to inform him of police activities. In the final scene, a rat is seen on Sullivan's window ledge. Scorsese acknowledges that while it is not meant to be taken literally, it somewhat symbolizes the "quest for the rat" in the film and the strong sense of distrust among the characters, much like post-9/11 U.S. The window view behind the rat is a nod to gangster films like Little Caesar (1931), Scarface (1932), and White Heat (1949). Throughout the film, Scorsese uses an "X" motif to foreshadow death in a manner similar to Howard Hawks' classic film Scarface (1932). Examples include (but are not limited to) shots of cross-beam supports in an airport walkway when Costigan is phoning Sgt. Dignam, the taped windows of the building Queenan enters before being thrown to his death, behind Costigan's head in the elevator before he is shot, and the carpeted hallway floor when Sullivan returns to his apartment before being shot by Dignam at the film's end . Reception Box office The Departed grossed $132.4 million in the United States and Canada and $159 million in other territories for a total gross of $291.5 million, against a production budget of $90 million. The film grossed $26.9 million in its opening weekend, becoming the third Scorsese film to debut at number one. In the following three weeks the film grossed $19 million, $13.5 million and $9.8 million, finishing second at the box office each time, before grossing $7.7 million and dropping to 5th in its fifth week. Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 91% approval rating based on 277 reviews, with an average rating of 8.24/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast, The Departed is a thoroughly engrossing gangster drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy morality we come to expect from Martin Scorsese." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 85 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale. Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade "best of" list, saying: "If they're lucky, directors make one classic film in their career. Martin Scorsese has one per decade (Taxi Driver in the '70s, Raging Bull in the '80s, Goodfellas in the '90s). His 2006 Irish Mafia masterpiece kept the streak alive." Online critic James Berardinelli awarded the film four stars out of four, praising it as "an American epic tragedy." He went on to claim that the film deserves to be ranked alongside Scorsese's past successes, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Andrew Lau, the co-director of Infernal Affairs, who was interviewed by Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, said: "Of course I think the version I made is better, but the Hollywood version is pretty good too. [Scorsese] made the Hollywood version more attuned to American culture." Andy Lau, one of the main actors in Infernal Affairs, when asked how the movie compares to the original, said: "The Departed was too long and it felt as if Hollywood had combined all three Infernal Affairs movies together." Although Lau said the script of the remake had some "golden quotes", he also felt it had a bit too much profanity. He ultimately rated The Departed 8/10 and said that the Hollywood remake is worth a view, though according to Lau's spokeswoman Alice Tam, he felt that the combination of the two female characters into one in The Departed was not as good as the original storyline. A few critics were disappointed in the film, including J. Hoberman of the Village Voice, who wrote: "Infernal Affairs was surprisingly cool and effectively restrained for HK action, but Scorsese raises the temperature with every ultraviolent interaction. The surplus of belligerence and slur reach near-Tarantinian levels—appropriate as he’s staking a claim to QT’s turf." Top ten lists The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2006. Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal, Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer named it one of the top ten films of 2006. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times named it the best film of the 2000s. 1st – Richard Roeper, Ebert and Roeper 1st – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 1st – Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald 1st – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club 1st – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York 1st – Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1st – James Berardinelli, ReelViews 2nd – Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun 2nd – Adam Kempenaar, Filmspotting 2nd – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club 2nd – Kyle Smith, New York Post 2nd – Mike Russell, The Oregonian 2nd – Richard James Havis, The Hollywood Reporter 2nd – Richard Schickel, TIME 3rd – Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter 4th – Glenn Kenny, Premiere 4th – Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle 4th – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune 4th – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 5th – Empire 5th – David Ansen, Newsweek 5th – Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times 5th – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 5th – Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post 6th – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post 6th – Jack Mathews, Daily News 6th – Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club 6th – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe 7th – Nathan Lee, The Village Voice 7th – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club 7th – Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle 8th – Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun 9th – Claudia Puig, USA Today 9th – Desson Thomson, The Washington Post 9th – Lou Lumenick, New York Post 9th – Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter Accolades At the 64th Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2007, The Departed won one award for Best Director (Martin Scorsese), while being nominated for five other awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg), and Best Screenplay (William Monahan). At the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007, The Departed won four Academy Awards: Best Picture (Graham King), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Best Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan). Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, but he lost to Alan Arkin for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. The film marked the first time Scorsese won an Oscar after six previous losses. Many felt that he deserved it years earlier for prior efforts. Some have even gone further, calling it a Lifetime Achievement Award for a lesser film. Scorsese himself joked that he won because: "This is the first movie I've done with a plot." While accepting the award, Scorsese stated that "I just want to say, too, that so many people over the years have been wishing this for me, strangers, you know. I go walking in the street people say something to me, I go in a doctor's office, I go in a...whatever...elevators, people are saying, "You should win one, you should win one." I go for an x-ray, "You should win one." And I'm saying, "Thank you." And then friends of mine over the years and friends who are here tonight are wishing this for me and my family. I thank you. This is for you." At the 11th Satellite Awards on December 18, 2006, The Departed won awards for Best Ensemble, Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Screenplay – Adapted (William Monahan), and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Leonardo DiCaprio). In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list. Home media The Departed was released by Warner Brothers on DVD in 2007. The film is available in a single-disc full screen (1.33:1), single-disc widescreen (2.40:1) edition, and 2-disc special edition. The second disc contains deleted scenes; a feature about the influence of New York’s Little Italy on Scorsese; a Turner Classic Movies profile; and a 21-minute documentary titled Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and The Departed about the crimes that influenced Scorsese in creating the film, including the story of James "Whitey" Bulger, upon whom Jack Nicholson's character is based. The Region 1 version has three available audio tracks: English, Spanish, and French (all of which are in Dolby Digital 5.1), and three subtitle tracks (English, Spanish, French). The film was released on HD DVD and Blu-ray at the same time as the standard-definition DVD. The 2-Disc Special Edition was packaged in a Limited Edition Steelbook. It marked the first time that an Oscar-winning Best Picture was released to the home video market in DVD format only, as VHS was phased out by the start of 2006. Music There were two albums released for The Departed, one presenting the original score composed for the film by Howard Shore, and the other featuring earlier recordings, mostly pop/rock songs, which were used on the soundtrack. Soundtrack As with previous Scorsese films, Robbie Robertson had a hand in picking the music. The film opens with "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones ("Let It Loose" also appears later on), and prominently plays "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, which gained the band some popularity and their first and only platinum selling single. The film features the live version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" from the 1990 Berlin Wall concert performed by Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson of The Band. Although "Gimme Shelter" is featured twice in the film, the song does not appear on the album soundtrack. Also heard in the movie but not featured on the soundtrack is "Thief's Theme" by Nas, "Well Well Well" by John Lennon, "Bang Bang" by Joe Cuba, and the Act II Sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The film closes with a cover of Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams", by Roy Buchanan. Score The film score for The Departed was written by Howard Shore and performed by guitarists Sharon Isbin, G. E. Smith, Larry Saltzman and Marc Ribot. The score was recorded in Shore's own studio in New York State. The album, The Departed: Original Score, was released December 5, 2006 by New Line, and produced by Jason Cienkus. Scorsese described the music as "a very dangerous and lethal tango" and cited the guitar-based score of Murder by Contract and the zither in The Third Man as inspiration. Cancelled sequel Although many of the key characters in the film are deceased by the movie's end, there was a script written for a sequel. This was ultimately shelved due to the expense and Scorsese's lack of interest in creating a sequel. See also List of American films of 2006 "The Debarted", an episode of The Simpsons that parodies the film. 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McKinlay Hendry Ltd v Tonkin & Taylor Ltd McKinlay Hendry Ltd v Tonkin & Taylor Ltd is a cited case in New Zealand regarding the Contracts (Privity) Act 1982 and pre-incorporation contracts. References Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand cases Category:New Zealand contract case law Category:2005 in New Zealand law Category:2005 in case law

Atunda Ayenda Atunda Ayenda is a radio soap opera broadcast on 27 stations within Sierra Leone and through the Internet. It was created by Talking Drum Studios and was the first radio soap opera aired in Sierra Leone. In the Mandingo language Atunda Ayenda means Lost and Found. The plot on the show revolved around young people and their experiences of the Sierra Leone Civil War, with story-arcs addressing contemporary issues such as HIV/AIDS. Background In 2000, Sierra Leone's 10-year Civil War came to an end leaving the country to rebuild itself and enact a disarmament programme. Search for Common Ground, an international non-profit organization, started Talking Drum Studios to produce media content to address problems experienced after the war and promote peace and reconciliation. In December 2001, it produced Atunda Ayenda, which means lost and found in the Mandingo language, the first radio soap opera aired in Sierra Leone. The show quickly gained significant popularity; according to a 2004 survey of Sierra Leonean radio listeners, 90 percent of respondents said that they regularly listened to the show and 80 percent discussed the content with family and friends. Narrative The narrative is divided into stages with story arcs reflecting current events in Sierra Leone. Each stage is written independently in the period just prior to broadcasting so that the stories are always up-to-date. The show's narrative is a reflection of the real experiences of people throughout Sierra Leone with the writers travelling to remote areas of the country to research the stories. The plot of the show revolves around young people and their experiences of the Sierra Leone Civil War and reconstruction after the war. Individual story-arcs address contemporary issues such as HIV/AIDS. The show was originally scripted by Kemoh Daramy but is now written by a team of writers. Characters Dragon - an ex-combatant who did not take part in the disarmament process. Matuka - who was held prisoner by Dragon but escaped to Nigeria. Tapia - a hot tempered character who coaches football and is in love with Matuka. Production The show is normally produced in the Krio language, but Talking Drum Studios has joined partners with the BBC World Service to produce an English version of the show. The original producers of the show were Desmond During and Emrys Savage with assistants including Isastu Mansaray. Some members of the cast, for example Isata Mahoi who plays Mamy Saio, also work as programme editors. Format The show is broadcast weekly, from Monday to Friday, on 21 radio stations within Sierra Leone and on the Internet in an MP3 format. Old episodes of the show following from programme 850 are also available on the Internet. The show is 15 minutes in length when its theme tune is included and is usually broadcast on an evening prime-time slot at 17:45, GMT. A 30-minute summary of the show is also broadcast during the weekend. See also Media of Sierra Leone References External links Internet broadcasts of Atunda Ayenda at Talking Drum Category:Media in Sierra Leone Category:2001 radio programme debuts

Shahrak-e Modarres Shahrak-e Modarres () is a village in Qaleh Hashem Rural District, Shal District, Buin Zahra County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,560, in 689 families. References Category:Populated places in Buin Zahra County

Lac des Autannes Lac des Autannes is a lake above Grimentz in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The reservoir has a surface area of 4.5 ha. It is located at an elevation of 2686 m. Category:Lakes of Valais Category:Reservoirs in Switzerland

F.I.S.Co. F.I.S.Co.,(Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo) is an international festival that showcases examples of the convergence taking place across the contemporary arts (dance, theatre, performance, visual and plastic arts). F.I.S.Co. is conceived and created by Xing a cultural network based in Bologna. The experience of F.I.S.Co. (11 editions from 2000 to 2011) was merged into the Annual Live Arts Week Issues So far 11 editions of the festival have taken place: segue (2011) ( color cane che scappa ))))(2010) TRIBU' (2009) UNIVERSAL COSMIC MURMUR (2008) TODAY IS OK (2007) FIGURA N° (2006) DEFICIT! (2005) YOUR PRIVATE SKY (2004) DOING (2003) NON IO (arte in mancanza di soggetto) (2002) CORPO SOTTILE (2001) Artist involved Absalon (IL) Aernout Mik (Nl) Alessandro Bosetti (IT/DE) Alexander Petlura + Open (RU/IT) Alice Cattaneo (IT) Anna Huber (CH) Antonia Baehr (DE/FR) Antonija Livingstone/Heather Kravas (CA/US/FR) BAROKTHEGREAT vs guests (IT/NL/SE/UK) Barbara Manzetti (IT/FR) Bobby Baker (UK) Bojana Mladenovic (RS/NL) Brainstorming - Camera di Decompressione per Spettatori (IT) Brynjar Bandlien (NL) Camilla Candida Donzella (IT) Claudia Triozzi (FR/IT) Compagnia Virgilio Sieni Danza (IT) Compagnie 7273 (CH/FR) Cristina Rizzo (IT) Cuoghi Corsello (IT) Cuqui Jerez (ES/DE) Darren O'Donnell/Mammalian Diving Reflex (CA) Édouard Levé (FR) Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FI) Elia Suleiman (PS) Elodie Pong (CH) Erwin Wurm (AT) Eszter Salamon (FR/DE/CH) Eva Meyer Keller (SE/DE) Fabio Acca (IT) Fanny & Alexander (IT) Fahim Amir (AF/AU) Federico Bacci (IT) Fischli & Weiss (CH) Flavio Favelli (IT) Forced Entertainment (UK) Hans Van Den Broeck/Les Ballets C. De La B. (BE) Jan Fabre (fr)/Erna Omarsdottir (BE/IS) Jan Kopp/*Melk Prod (CH/DE/FR) Jennifer Lacey/Nadia Lauro (US/FR) Jérôme Bel (fr) (FR) Jimmie Durham (US) John Baldessari (US) Joe Kelleher (UK) Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion (UK) Jordi Colomer (ES/FR) Juan Dominguez (ES/DE) Katrin Schoof (DE) Kinkaleri (IT) Krõõt Juurak (EE/AU) La Ribot (ES/CH) Lacey/Lauro/Parkins/Cornell (FR/US) Laminarie (IT) Latifaa Labissi (FR) Loïc Touzé/Latifa Laâbissi/Compagnie 391 (FR) Luca Vitone (IT) Luca Vitone/Cesare Viel (IT) MK (IT) Marcel Broodthaers (BE) Marcello Maloberti (IT) Marco Berrettini/*Melk Prod (FR/CH/T) Marco Mazzoni (IT) Margareth Kammerer (IT/DE) Marie Gilissen (BE) Martine Pisani (FR) Marzia Migliora (IT) Maurizio Mercuri (IT) Mette Edvardsen (NL/BE) Mette Ingvartsen (DE/DK) Michael Fliri (IT) Moira Ricci (IT) Myriam Gourfink (FR) Mårten Spångberg (SE/DE) Nature Theater of Oklahoma (US) Nico Vascellari (IT) Olaf Breuning (CH) Residenza di Pensiero (IT/UK) Robin Rhode (ZA) Rodrigo Garcia (ES) Roman Signer (CH) Riccardo Benassi (IT/DE) Romeo Castellucci (IT) Sinistri/Simionato & Donnachie (IT/AU) Stoa - Scuola di movimento fisico e filosofico della Societas Raffaello Sanzio (IT) Susanna Scarpa (IT) Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment (UK) Thomas Lehmen (de) (DE) Vincent Dupont/Edna (FR) Xavier Le Roy (fr)/Eszter Salamon (FR/DE/CZ) Yves-Noël Genod (fr) (FR) Zachary Oberzan (US) ZimmerFrei (IT) See also Video Art Performance Art Sound Art Subculture Creative Class Arts du spectacle References External sources F.I.S.Co. Website XING Website Netmage Website Bologna Contemporanea Terrazze. Artisti, storie, luoghi in Italia negli anni zero Category:Performance art festivals Category:Music festivals in Italy Category:Art exhibitions in Italy Category:Dance festivals in Italy Category:Arts festivals in Italy

Greatest Moments – VH1 Storytellers Live Greatest Moments is a greatest hits compilation by British band Culture Club. It was released in the UK on 9 November 1998, where it reached #15 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum. The album also contains three solo Boy George tracks. Content The album includes the greatest hits released from the band, spanning from their debut album (1982's Kissing to Be Clever), to their most recent single in 1998. There is also a limited edition bonus disc called VH1 Storytellers Live, featuring Culture Club performing selected songs live in front of a small audience on 2 May 1998 at Sony Studios in New York City, for the VH1 network's Storytellers television music series. The only single taken from the album was "I Just Wanna Be Loved", which reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart. "I Just Wanna Be Loved" was later included on Culture Club's fifth studio album, Don't Mind If I Do, released a year later. Track listing Greatest Moments (Disc 1) "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" "Time (Clock of the Heart)" "Church of the Poison Mind" "Karma Chameleon" "Victims" "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" "It's a Miracle" "Miss Me Blind" "Move Away" "Love is Love" "Everything I Own" (Boy George solo track) "The Crying Game" (Boy George solo track) "I Just Wanna Be Loved" "Generations of Love (The Timewriter Bootleg Mix)" (Boy George solo track) (UK edition only) VH1 Storytellers Live (Disc 2) "Church of the Poison Mind" "Miss Me Blind" "Move Away" "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" "It's a Miracle" "That's the Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)" "Strange Voodoo" "Black Money" (US/Canada editions only) "I Just Wanna Be Loved" "What Do You Want" "The Crying Game" "Victims" "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" "Time (Clock of the Heart)" "Karma Chameleon" Charts External links Official Culture Club website Culture Club on MySpace Culture Club on Yahoo! Rock on the Net:Culture Club MTV.com Culture Club VH1.com Culture Club Category:Culture Club albums Category:1998 live albums Category:1998 greatest hits albums Category:Virgin Records compilation albums Category:Virgin Records live albums Category:VH1 Storytellers

Izumi, Osaka is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on September 1, 1956. As of March 2017, the city has an estimated population of 186,370 and a population density of 2,200 persons per km². The total area is 84.98 km². It is the last station on the Semboku Rapid Railway Line at Izumi Chuo Station. It is known for its cabbage and sweet Vidalia-like onions. The Izumi Hall in the city is a notable international concert hall. It is twinned with Bloomington, Minnesota in the USA. Higher education Momoyama Gakuin University is located in Izumi. Notable people from Izumi Super Delfin, professional wrestler Jun Akiyama, professional wrestler References External links Bloomington-Izumi website Category:Cities in Osaka Prefecture

Glischrochilus confluentus Glischrochilus confluentus is a species of sap-feeding beetle in the family Nitidulidae. It is found in North America. References Further reading Category:Nitidulidae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1823

Yorke Island Airport Yorke Island Airport is an airport in Yorke Island, Queensland, Australia. Airlines and destinations See also List of airports in Queensland References Category:Airports in Queensland Category:Torres Strait Islands communities

Alien Brigade Alien Brigade is a horizontally-scrolling rail shooter released by Atari Corporation in 1990 for the Atari 7800. Similar in style to Operation Wolf, Alien Brigade tells the story of a soldier battling with alien invaders that take over the bodies of fallen soldiers. Despite being released late in the Atari 7800's life cycle, Atari Corporation made more efforts to market the game than it had with other Atari 7800 titles. The game had its own print advertisement and was referenced in Atari's 1990 shooter, Planet Smashers (Alien Brigade would return the favor by advertising Planet Smashers). Alien Brigade is 144K in size, making it one of the largest commercially released Atari 7800 games. Gameplay The game is played from a first-person point of view and scrolls horizontally in two directions as various enemy creatures, possessed soldiers, human vehicles and alien vehicles attack the player character. Alien Brigade can either be played with the Atari 7800 joystick or with an Atari light gun. The game has five levels and four difficulty modes. The initial mission is to rescue hostages from an enemy camp, but the game then progresses to a waterfront battle, an underwater melee, a showdown in an underground mine, and then a final mountaintop battle. Adding to the challenge, the player must be careful not to shoot innocent bystanders. Between levels, the player is briefed by the commanding officer, who advises of the situation and rates the player's performance in the level. Reception Alien Brigade was reviewed in the September 1991 issue of Atari's own Atari Explorer magazine. References External links Alien Brigade manual Alien Brigade at AtariAge Category:1990 video games Category:Atari 7800 games Category:Atari 7800-only games Category:Light gun games Category:Rail shooters Category:Video games developed in the United States

Portsmouth Bombers FC Portsmouth Bombers Football Club is a Dominican football club representing Portsmouth, Dominica (on the northern side of the country, hence their previous name Northern Bombers) but that plays its home games in Roseau, Dominica (on the southwestern side of the country). The club competes in the Dominica Premiere League, the top tier of Dominica football. Honors Dominica Premiere League: 1 2013–14 Stadium Currently the team plays at the 12,000 capacity Windsor Park Cricket Stadium. References External links Soccerway profile Category:Football clubs in Dominica

Kintbury railway station Kintbury railway station serves the village of Kintbury in Berkshire, England. It is situated on the Reading to Taunton Line, from . The station was opened in 1847, along with the first portion of the Berks and Hants Railway as far as . This was subsequently extended to and in 1862 and ultimately to Cogload Junction near by 1906. The station has a level crossing at its western end, controlled from a nearby crossing box that also remotely supervises the ones at Hamstead and Hungerford (though this will eventually be abolished and control transferred to the Thames Valley ROC at Didcot by CCTV). Services Great Western Railway regional trains from via and to provide the service here. Trains call hourly each way (with peak extras) on weekdays and Saturdays and every two hours on Sundays. Some early morning and mid/late evening trains only run as far as Reading. References External links Category:Railway stations in Berkshire Category:Former Great Western Railway stations Category:Railway stations opened in 1847 Category:Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Category:1847 establishments in England

6-Phosphogluconic acid 6-Phosphogluconic acid (6-phosphogluconate) is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Entner–Doudoroff pathway. It is formed by 6-phosphogluconolactonase, and acted upon by phosphogluconate dehydrogenase to produce ribulose 5-phosphate. It may also be acted upon by 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase to produce 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate. Category:Organophosphates

Spazigaster Spazigaster is a genus of hoverflies. Species S. ambulans (Fabricius, 1798) S. nostra Zimina, 1963 References Category:Diptera of Europe Category:Diptera of Asia Category:Hoverfly genera Category:Taxa named by Camillo Róndani

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1891 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator and pastor. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960. Johnson has been considered one of the three leading African-American preachers of the early 20th-century, along with Vernon Johns and Howard Thurman. Early life Johnson was born on January 12, 1890, in Paris, Tennessee. His parents were former slaves. His father was Reverend Wyatt J. Johnson, a preacher and mill worker, and his mother, Carolyn Freeman, was a domestic worker for one of the prominent families in town. Education Johnson attended a small elementary school in his native town. Afterwards, he moved to Nashville, where he studied at Roger Williams University. Later he studied at Howe Institute in Memphis. He eventually transferred to the Atlanta Baptist College (now Morehouse College) where he completed his secondary and undergraduate education. During his college career, he was a member of the debating team and the Glee Club, a star athlete in three sports, and quarterback of the football team. Offered a faculty position at the college upon graduation, he taught English and economics and served a year as acting dean. He maintained a profound interest in economics throughout his career—an interest that was apparent in some of his major addresses. After one year of teaching, he continued his education at the University of Chicago, where he received a second A.B. degree, and at the Rochester Theological Seminary in Rochester, New York, where he earned the B.D. degree. At Rochester he was profoundly influenced by the great "social gospel" advocate, Walter Rauchenbusch. His experiences there made an indelible impact upon his thinking and his entire career. Family Johnson married Anna Ethelyn Gardner on December 25, 1916. They had five children: Carolyn Elizabeth Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Jr., Archer Clement Johnson, William Howard Johnson, and Anna Faith Johnson. Career Following a brief stint as secretary of the western region of the Student YMCA, in 1917 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia. He later founded a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Presidency of Howard University On June 26, 1926, at the age of 36, Johnson was unanimously elected the eleventh President of Howard University, becoming the first African American to serve as the permanent head of that institution. Prior to his appointment Johnson had served as Professor of Economics and History at Morehouse College. He had also served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia. During his tenure, Johnson appointed Charles Hamilton Houston as dean of the law school, who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws. Johnson raised millions of dollars for new buildings and for upgrading all of the schools. National honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, were established on the campus of Howard. During his administration, it was said that Howard had the greatest collection of African American scholars to be found anywhere. Notable scholars at Howard included: Alain Locke, graduated from English and Philosophy at Harvard, and was the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Ralph Bunche, professor of political science and later a Nobel Laureate; Charles Drew, who perfected the use of blood plasma; Percy Julian, a noted chemist; and Sterling Brown, professor of English and noted Harlem Renaissance poet. Johnson brought Howard university into national prominence and served as president of Howard for 34 years, since 1926 until his retirement in 1960. In this time the enrollment at Howard University increased from 2,000 in 1926 to more than 10,000 in 1960. Johnson the Orator Johnson was an annual speaker for the Education Night at the National Baptist Convention, a speaker at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and spoke alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. He traveled 25,000 miles a year throughout the country speaking principally on topics such as racism, segregation, and discrimination. In 1951 he was a member of the American delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that met in London. Awards and recognitions In 1929, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awarded Johnson the Spingarn Medal (its highest honor at that time), for Johnson's ability to secure annual federal funds to support the university's financial future. Death Johnson died on September 10, 1976, at the age of 86, in Washington, D.C. References Yenser, Thomas (editor), Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 (third edition) Category:1890 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Morehouse College alumni Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:Howard University alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Interdenominational Theological Center alumni Category:Presidents of Howard University Category:Spingarn Medal winners Category:African-American academics Category:African-American educators Category:20th-century American educators Category:People from Paris, Tennessee Category:Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School alumni

1989 Comorian constitutional referendum A constitutional referendum was held in the Comoros on 5 November 1989. The proposed amendments to the constitution would allow incumbent President Ahmed Abdallah to run for a third term, as well as creating the post of Prime Minister. The changes were approved by 92.5% of voters. On 26 November Abdallah was killed during a coup led by Said Mohamed Djohar. Results References Category:1989 referendums 1989 Category:1989 in the Comoros Category:Constitutional referendums in the Comoros 1989

Dudarova Dudarova may refer to: Veronika Dudarova (1916–2009), Russian conductor 9737 Dudarova, main-belt asteroid named after Veronika Dudarova

Ibbi-Sin Ibbi-Sin (, ), son of Shu-Sin, was king of Sumer and Akkad and last king of the Ur III dynasty, and reigned c. 1963–1940 BCE (Short chronology). During his reign, the Sumerian empire was attacked repeatedly by Amorites. As faith in Ibbi-Sin's leadership failed, Elam declared its independence and began to raid as well. Ibbi-Sin ordered fortifications built at the important cities of Ur and Nippur, but these efforts were not enough to stop the raids or keep the empire unified. Cities throughout Ibbi-Sin's empire fell away from a king who could not protect them, notably Isin under the Amorite ruler Ishbi-Erra. Ibbi-Sin was, by the end of his kingship, left with only the city of Ur. In 1940 BCE, the Elamites, along with "tribesmen from the region of Shimashki in the Zagros Mountains" sacked Ur and took Ibbi-Sin captive; he was taken to the city of Elam where he was imprisoned and, at an unknown date, died. The success of the Amorite invasion The Amorites were considered a backward people by Mesopotamian standards; Ibbi-Sin's 17th year was officially named "Year the Amorites, the powerful south wind who, from the remote past, have not known cities, submitted to Ibbi-Sin the king of Ur." However, despite his father Shu-Sin having built a "wall of Martu" across Mesopotamia against Amorite incursions, these were penetrated early in Ibbi-Sin's reign. Scholars have suggested that, by the reign of Ibbi-Sin, the empire was already in decline due to long-term drought – in fact, the same drought that helped to take down the Akkadian Empire c. 2193 BCE may have been responsible for the fall of Ur III. Studies of Persian Gulf sediments indicate that the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates was very low around 2100–2000 BCE. [...] Any damage to the agricultural system by enemy raids, bureaucratic mismanagement, or an inattentive ruler would result in food shortages In years seven and eight of Ibbi-Sin's kingship, the price of grain increased to 60 times the norm, which means that the success of the Amorites in disrupting the Ur III empire is, at least in part, a product of attacks on the agricultural and irrigation systems; these attacks brought famine and caused an economic collapse in the empire, paving the way for the Elamites under Kindattu to strike into Ur and capture the king. References Category:Sumerian rulers Category:20th-century BC rulers

Trumai language Trumai is an endangered language isolate of Brazil. Most Trumai are fluent in languages of wider communication, and children are not learning it well. Background Trumai is a language spoken by the indigenous community of the same name located in the Xingu reserve along the Upper Xingu River in central Brazil. Murphy and Quain reported that there were only 25 people remaining in the Trumai community. Fortunately, this has since increased to 94 as of 1997, of which 51 people spoke the Trumai language. In the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Grimes observes that there are 78 speakers as of 2003. Due to the popularity of speaking Portuguese among the local population, Trumai is considered an extremely endangered language because the children are not learning to speak it as a first language. The Trumai people first entered the Upper Xingu region sometime in the early 19th century after being driven away from southeastern Brazil by the Xavante people. The first contact the Trumai had with a white person was in 1884 when Karl von den Steinen explored the Upper Xingu region. He observed the differences between Trumai culture and other Xingu cultures due to the Trumai’s relocation. In the fifty years or so that followed Von den Steinem’s first visit to the Trumai, there is little documentation of the community because researchers who visited the Xingu region preferred visiting and studying other indigenous cultures instead. In the time between the Trumai’s first arrival in the upper Xingu and Von den Steinen’s first contact with them, they were continuously being attacked by the native communities in the region, including the Suyá and Ikpeng. Following a period of contacts from researchers, including Buell Quain in 1938, the Trumai moved to a new territory again, this time because of a flu and measles epidemic. After recovering from this, the subsequent population increase led to the emergence of more Trumai villages in the Upper Xingu region, while their former territories have since become occupied by other communities. Despite being surrounded by a variety of different languages that belong to the four major stocks of Brazilian indigenous languages (Tupi, Arawak, Cariban, and Ge), Trumai is an isolated language. There is speculation that Trumai belongs to the Equatorial language stock, in which case it is still very far removed from other languages and families belonging here. Initial research done on the Trumai was included in an overall study of the cultures of the Xingu region, which was performed through surveys focussing on “material culture”. Quain was the first researcher to focus on the Trumai culture specifically, however, this was an anthropological study, not linguistic. In the preface to her thesis “A Reference Grammar of Trumaí”, Guirardello states that Monod-Becquelin was the first person to conduct descriptive studies on the Trumai language, in which she focused on aspects of the language such as ergativity and phonological transcriptions. Monod-Becquelin’s early work was followed by Greenberg’s research, which includes his aforementioned proposal that Trumai, instead of being a completely isolated language, belongs to the Equatorial stock. Guirardello’s “A Reference Grammar of Trumai” is the first proper description of Trumai grammar, which Guirardello composed with the intention of it becoming an aid for future research papers on the language. Since then, research on the Trumai language has increased, leading to studies of various aspects of the language. Monod-Becquelin has continued her research by investigating the use of transitive verbs in Trumai. Guirardello’s work has also included studies into Trumai’s ergativity, focussing on the ergative-absolutive patterns in its morphology and the complexity of its syntax due to the nominative-accusative patterns also present. Trumai was one of the 24 indigenous languages studied in South America as part of a series of documentation projects conducted by DoBeS (Documenting Endangered Languages). DoBeS is one of the many language documentation organizations operating in Brazil, and is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The Trumai culture has also been the topic of anthropological studies. The first was done by Buell Quain, who spent four months with the Trumai and gathered information on many aspects of the culture and community. More recently, De Vienne has conducted ethnographic studies on Trumai focussing on language and communication in the community, such as joking and ritual singing traditions. Grammar Phonology This inventory is atypical of Amazonian languages (Trumai is a recent immigrant to the Xingu basin) in its ejective consonants, the lateral fricative , and the alveolar–dental distinction. Guirardello, who specializes on Trumai, has presented varied inventories of these phonemes: Guirardello (1999a) lists /t̪ t̪' ts ts' s/ as dental, and /t t' d n l ɬ ɾ/ as alveolar; whereas Guirardello (1999b) lists only /t/ and /t'/ as alveolar. Younger speakers do not make the ejective distinction. The vocalic inventory is /, , , , / and . Syllable structure is maximally CVC, and stress always falls on the final syllable of a word. Morphology The morphological aspects of Trumai as covered in Guirardello’s grammar of the language include the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, and auxiliaries. Under nouns, she investigates the effect of adjectives, plurality in the language, and count versus mass nouns, among others. Under verbs, she focuses on causality, negation, intensity, and imperativity in verb particles. And under auxiliaries, she discusses body posture, mood and aspect, and directional auxiliaries. Chapter 5 explores further analyses of each of these aspects of the parts of speech in terms of “Simple Declarative Clauses”. Pronouns in Trumai are distinguished by person, gender, number, and listener inclusion/exclusion in the first-person plural pronoun. Like in English, gender is only seen in the third-person singular pronoun, while number is categorized as singular, dual, and plural (whereas English only has singular and plural). They are also affected by the type of Noun Phrase (henceforth “NP”) they appear in (absolutive, ergative, or dative), which are distinguished by suffix insertion. The following are tables of the Trumai personal pronouns with examples included for the absolutive case: Absolutive: ha hu’tsa chï(_in) [huksitukuk yi]-ki [yayanke tam] 1 see Foc/Tens capivara YI-Dat deer Com “I saw a capivara and a deer.” Ergative: [Karu], [Kumaru], [Atawaka] hai-ts amidoxos ke. Karu Kumaru Atawaka 1-Erg call KE ‘I called Karu, Kumaru, and Atawaka.’ Dative: kiki-k atlat-ø kï̡tï ha wan-ki. man-Erg pan-Abs give 1-Dat ‘The man gave it to us.’ 1st-person/exclusive pronouns are formed in ha, inclusive with ka, 2nd person with hi, and 3rd with in. Dual number is indicated by the suffix -a, and plural by -wan. Masculine and feminine are distinguished in the 3rd person. Alienable possession is indicated by the suffix -kte or -kate on the possessor (Kumaru-kte tahu "Kumaru's spoon"), and inalienable possession by juxtaposition (dinoxo kuʃ "the girl's head", ha kuʃ "my head"). Suffixes are used to mark ergative (-ts for 1sg, otherwise -ek/-ak), dative, locative, allative, comitative, and instrumental case. One interesting phenomena in Trumai morphology is the use of particles in the language. Guirardello first discusses them as a form of identifying tense in lieu of the tense-aspect-mood affixes used in English. These word formations are ‘ka in’, used for present or the recent past, and ‘chï in’, for past tense, but they are only used when the tense is not indicated via context. In a sentence, these particles appear as so: ka_in: [[Yaka] chumuchu] ka_in tehnene-n. Yaka lie.down Foc/Tens floor-Loc ‘Yaka lay.down on the floor.’ chï_in: [ha ayen]-atl chï_in [hai]-ts [oke yi] kï̡tï. 1 grandfather-Dat Foc/Tens 1-Erg medicine YI give ‘I gave medicine to my grandfather (emphasis).’ As a whole, particles in Trumai are defined as a verb modifier that is not an adverb or auxiliary instead of being placed in a class of its own. There are four classes of particles in Trumai: Intensity, Negation, Causative, and Intensity. These modifiers fall under the ‘particle’ label because of their characteristics which differentiate them from auxiliaries. For example, while auxiliaries can only modify verbs, Intensity and Negation particles can also modify adverbs and quantifiers. The use of auxiliaries in Trumai is also very fascinating. In the language, they are defined as verb modifiers “associated with the domain of aspect, mood, and spatial orientation (this last domain is subdivided into body posture of the entity performing the event and directionality of the event being performed)”. Here are some examples of each of these auxiliaries used in sentences: Aspect/Mood: iyi sone-kma-n de. IYI drink-Perf-3Abs already ‘He already finished drinking.’ OR ‘He already drank all.’ Body Posture: iyi ma chumuchu-n. IYI eat lie-3Abs ‘He is eating lying (on the floor).’ Directionals: ha ka’chï lako. 1 walk Dir(down hill) ‘I go down walking.' Guirardello makes a point of noting the significant differences between auxiliaries and verbs in Trumai: there is no independent argument structure, no lexical content, some experience phonological reduction, and they form a closed class. Their syntactic position is restricted to following a verb in the VP, which distinguishes them from adverbs, which hold a more flexible position in sentences. Apart from appearing inside the VP following the Verb, a property of some auxiliaries is that “they can bear the 3Abs enclitic –n/-e”. Syntax Ergative-Absolutive Language Structure Trumai is a language with ergative-absolutive case assignment and therefore has three argument types: absolutive, ergative, and dative. The ergative-absolutive language system is described as that “in which a subject in an intransitive construction is realized in the same way as a patient or object in a transitive construction, and is thus distinguished from the subject or agent in the transitive”. It is “manifested through case-marking, verb-marking, and word order”. Dative case is used for verbs such as 'eat', 'see', and 'talk with'. There are two verbs 'kill', one, -fa, which takes a dative, and one, disi, which takes the ergative. Constituent order is basically ergative-absolutive-verb-dative (SV, SVB, AOV, AOVB). Ergative and dative arguments, which are marked by postpositions, may occur on the other side of the verb, but for an absolutive to do this, it needs to be marked with ke. In noun phrases (including pronouns), the grammatical case is marked by an enclitic. For example, an ergative NP would end in either –ek or –k. Case marking using enclitics also occurs for Dative, Locative, and Genitive cases. In the case of personal pronouns, the first person singular pronoun also allows the enclitic –ts. The first person singular pronoun is also changed from ha in Absolutive case to hai for Ergative and Dative cases. An interesting phenomenon in Trumai syntax is the NP morpheme iyi/yi because of its lack of a clear function. It always appears phrase-final, as iyi when only the noun itself is included in the phrase, but as yi when pluralizers or other lexical items are also included. However, despite this rule, there are still occasions where iyi appears in an NP with a lexical item. When it is present in Ergative and Dative sentences, the enclitics for each case are still added to the end of the NP: Reduced form: [inatl yi] pech ka_in. 3Pr(Fem) run Foc/Tens ‘She is running.’ No lexical item: [iyi] pech-e ka_in. run-3Abs Foc/Tens ‘She/he is running.’ Ergative/Dative: [ni’dak wan yi]-k chï_in ha disi. that.one PL -Erg Foc/Tens 1 beat ‘They (these ones) beat me.’ For verb phrases in Trumai, case marking provides four verb categories: Intransitive, Transitive, Extended Intransitive, and Extended Transitive, where Intransitive verbs can have Absolutive case, Transtive verbs have Absolutive and Ergative case, and the Extended categories also have Dative case on top of this. Guirardello labels arguments as S, A, O, and DAT for case-marking instead of terms such as “agent” and “patient”. Guirardello observed three types of clauses in Trumai sentences. Intransitive clauses attach the case marking /-ø/ to the S noun phrase or attach the third person enclitic –n/-e to the end of the verb phrase. Transitive clauses have A marked by –(V)k and O marked by –ø. Similarly to Intransitive clauses, the third person enclitic is added to the VP when A is absent. In Ditransitive clauses, the same marking occurs for A and O that we see in Transitive clauses. The DAT argument is marked by either –(V)tl, -ki, or –(V)s “depending on the characteristics of the head of the NP”. No marking is attached to the VP when DAT is absent from the sentence. These clauses are proof of the Ergative-Absolutive argument of Trumai, as we see S and O undergo the same marking, while A is treated differently. In sentences, they would appear as follows: Intransitive: S V pet’ew-ø achïkida frog-Abs jump ‘The frog jumps.’ (256) Transitive: A V ine-k Ø mapa-n 3-Erg break-3Abs ‘He broke it (a valuable pan).' Ditransitive: A O V DAT kiki-k atlat-ø kï̡tï kasoro-s 1-Erg rice-Abs give dog-Dat ‘I gave rice to the dogs.' The Absolutive argument is obligatory and therefore occurs in all clause types. Its case-marking is –ø or it has none at all and its syntactic placement is within the VP, before the verb (Guirardello is not clear as to whether it appears immediately before the verb or if other lexical items can be placed between them). The Ergative argument is marked by –(V)k and only occurs in Transitive clauses, where it is the main argument of the verb and is therefore always required. Its syntactic placement is preceding the VP. While there are certain scenarios where it can be absent from a sentence that mainly occurs when there is discourse continuity. If it occurs without this, then the sentence has passive or middle voice. The Dative argument is marked by –(V)tl, -ki, or –(V)s. Like the Ergative argument, it occurs before and outside of the VP. It is only obligatory in Extended clauses, where it is the main argument of the verb. Trumai’s causative construction uses the particle ka, which appears after the verb and can modify it. For Intransitive and Extended Transitive verbs, the causee is marked as Absolutive, while the causer is marked as Ergative. While this makes it similar to a simple Transitive clause, the difference is that the Absolutive enclitic is marked on the particle instead of the verb. For Transitive verbs, both the causee and causer are marked Ergative: a. hai-ts Yakairu-ø sa ka. 1-Erg Yakairu-Abs dance Caus ‘I made Yakairu dance.’ [Intransitive verb] b. hai-ts sa ka-n. 1-Erg dance Caus-3Abs. ‘I made her dance.' Semantics Quantifiers In Trumai, quantifiers appear before the noun they modify. For numerals, while the language includes the names for 1-10, most often only numbers 1-5 are spoken: ‘1’ mihin ‘2’ huch ‘3’ huch tahme ‘4’ pine pine-kte len ‘5’ ine k’ad kel-an Friend friend-Gen group 3Masc hand finger-Loc Other quantifier words (ex. ‘few’, ‘many’, etc.) change depending on whether they appear before count or mass nouns. They also vary from speaker to speaker, as in the case of “few” versus “a little”, some speakers can distinguish the two based on how they appear before count vs. non-count words, while others cannot except for “high quantities”. When they are distinguished, the quantifiers used by some speakers are: While most speakers, who cannot distinguish between count and mass nouns for small quantities, say: Aside from the above forms, there is an alternate form to describe small quantities: pa̡t “few”, which is meant to describe a small portion of an object. Here are some examples for each type of the above quantifiers: Many/a lot: a’di ka_in k’ate yi. (count) many Foc/Tens fish YI ‘There are many fish.’ (or: ‘The fish are many/big in quantity.’) Many/a lot: pïx ka_in misu yi. (mass) a.lot Foc/Tens water YI ‘There is a lot of water.’ (or: ‘The water is big in quantity.’) Few/a little: a’di tak ka_in k’ate yi. (some speakers) many Neg Foc/Tens fish YI ‘There are a few fish.’ (or: ‘The fish are not many.’) Few/a little: pïx tak ka_in k’ate yi. (most speakers) a.lot Neg Foc/Tens fish YI ‘There are a few fish.’ (or: ‘The fish are not many.’) Few: atlat pa̡t. clay.pan small ‘small clay.pan.’ Just as is seen above where “few/a little” are formed as “many/a lot” plus a negation, there is no word for “none”, so negation is added in its place as well: katnon take tak [kiki wan yi]. work Desid Neg man PL YI ‘No man wants to work.’ (lit: ‘The men do not want to work.’) Quantifiers (numeral and otherwise) can also appear as a clause predicate or a focussed unit, in which they appear at the beginning of a sentence and are followed by a Focus/Tense particle. Person plays a crucial role in what NP a quantifier is assigned to. Guirardello explains that in a sentence where there is both first- and third-person nouns/pronouns, it is clear that the quantifier is attached to the third-person. This is not as clear when there are two third-person NPs in a sentence. In order to understand which NP the quantifier is modifying in this scenario, one must look at what kinds of NPs are in the clause with the quantifier and if it is also being modified by a pluralizer. Vocabulary Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Trumai. {| class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Trumai |- | one || mihin |- | two || hursh |- | three || hurstame |- | head || yau-kut |- | ear || yau-haptü |- | tooth || yau-i |- | hand || yau-kenap |- | woman || ipae |- | water || misu |- | fire || só |- | stone || liki |- | maize || hotet |- | tapir || monotó |} References External links Trumai (Intercontinental Dictionary Series) Category:Language isolates of South America Category:Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas Category:Endangered language isolates Category:Languages of Brazil

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