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Paruntuk Kana | Paruntuk Kana (Lontara script: , parable) is one of Makassarese literary works, sentences containing allegory, satire or comparison. It is like proverb or aphorism. Nowadays, Paruntuk Kana is virtually forgotten by Makassarese people as a part of their culture. In the past, it was used to show the respectful or reminder about bad behavior.
As Paruntuk Kana, Pasang is one of the Makassar literature types. It is mean will of the old people about clues that can used as rule in social life. especially about language and culture in Makassar such as religion, morality education, social life, economic etc. One of it samples is morality education. It is about honesty that everyone has to own it. Example: Pasanna IMangngadacinna daeng Sitaba karaeng Pattingngallowang. |
Gular Ahmadova | Gular Mikayil qizi Ahmadova (), née Aliyeva (born 20 August 1965, Baku), is a retired Azerbaijani politician, former member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan and former member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. She gained notoriety in 2012 after a video shot on a hidden camera was released, featuring Ahmadova negotiating a bribe sum with lawyer and fellow party member Elshad Abdullayev to help arrange, among other things, his election to the Azerbaijani parliament. The corruption scandal which ensued became known as Gulargate (by analogy with the Watergate scandal) and led to Ahmadova's stepping down as an MP and later arrest and expulsion from the party. She was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement and failure to report a grave offence, but her prison term was suspended 14 months into the sentence.
Early life and family
Gular Ahmadova was born in Baku, the oldest of the family's four children, but raised chiefly by her grandmother. Ahmadova's father was originally from the village of Nardaran near Baku, while her mother a native of Shamakhy. In 1986, she graduated with honors from the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in mathematics. For the next eight years, she worked as a teacher and vice-principal at various educational institutions. Ahmadova holds a master's degree in psychology. She taught at Baku State University until her arrest. 1994 marked the beginning of her career as a civil servant when she was employed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan first as a chief training manager, then head of a department and finally head of the administration. In 1996, she became chair of the Children's Organization of Azerbaijan.
Ahmadova met her future husband Fikrat Ahmadov in university and the two got married in 1985. They have three children. Fikrat Ahmadov worked as head of the advertisement department for the national broadcaster AzTV from 1995 to 2012. He reportedly "resigned of his own free will" following the corruption scandal involving his wife.
Political career
Member of the New Azerbaijan Party, which has been in power in Azerbaijan since 1993, Gular Ahmadova decisively won seats in the National Assembly in three consecutive parliamentary elections: in 2000, 2005 and 2010, representing the Yasamal I and lately Khatai II constituency. In a hidden-camera video published in the course of the Gulargate scandal, Ahmadova's friend Sevinj Babayeva claimed that in 2005 the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev arranged for police groups to arrive at Ahmadova's constituency and "take measures" to secure her victory. This was later confirmed by Ahmadova's opposition rival Eldar Namazov who said his observers in ten polling stations had been attacked by the police and their protocols destroyed. The issue remained unaddressed following Ahmadova's arrest.
During her parliament membership, she proved herself a vehement critic both of the opposition and her fellow ruling party members, and described herself as "a Heydar Aliyev follower". In a 2006 interview, she accused then recently sacked and imprisoned Health Minister Ali Insanov of giving Azerbaijani children up for illegal adoption abroad.
She was known as an advocate for children's rights and one of the few members of parliament who openly voiced their concern with regard to the frequent non-combat deaths among new conscripts in the Azerbaijani army in the early 2010s. She was also known to have opposed the passing of a law decriminalizing libel, stating that it would encourage vigilante justice.
2009 assault incident
On 18 April 2009, Ahmadova was physically assaulted by two unnamed females who showed up at her house late in the evening. The incident was reported to the police, but Ahmadova refused to comment on it. The police told the media that the incident was property-related.
Khural newspaper trial
On the night of 28 October 2011, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Khural Avaz Zeynally was arrested after Gular Ahmadova submitted audio materials to the police alleging that Zeynally had been blackmailing her for 10,000 AZN in return for not publishing controversial material about Ahmadova's corruption activity (which later became known as the Gulargate scandal). Zeynally claimed that the voice on the recording did not belong to him. He accused Ahmadova of brokering his persecution by the state. After the release of the first Gulargate video, Zeynally said there were obvious parallels between his case and the scandal. He claimed being harassed soon after Elshad Abdullayev submitted a complaint to the Attorney General's against Gular Ahmadova in July 2011. According to Zeynally, Ahmadova contacted him personally in October 2011 asking him "not to publish any information against her that he may be given".
Despite no other evidence having been brought against Zeynally, he remained in custody. On 12 March 2013, he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Zeynally appealed the verdict.
Zeynalli was pardoned and released on 30 December 2014, almost eight months after Ahmadova's sentence was suspended.
Gulargate scandal
On 25 September 2012, ex-rector of the Azerbaijan International University (which was stripped off its license and closed down in 2010) Elshad Abdullayev, who currently resides in France, posted a video on YouTube, dated 2005, in which a hidden camera captured a conversation involving himself, Gular Ahmadova and her friend Sevinj Babayeva in what appears to be an office room. During the sixteen-and-a-half-minute long footage, the three are seen and heard negotiating a price that Abdullayev is expected to pay in return to being given a seat in the National Assembly of Azerbaijan as an MP. In the video, Abdullayev offers to pay 500,000 USD, while Ahmadova insists on 1,000,000. In the video, Abdullayev repeatedly tries to get Ahmadova to admit that the money will go directly to the Head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Republic Ramiz Mehdiyev, though she never openly confirms that.
Ahmadova initially denied being in the video and laid counter-accusations of bribery against Abdullayev. Later Ahmadova and Babayeva made a statement that the money discussed in the video referred in fact to the student tuition fees misappropriated by Abdullayev after the closing down of the International University which they, as mediators, were urging him to redistribute to the former students. Gular Ahmadova stepped down as an MP in order "not to hinder the investigation".
In the next video released on 6 October 2012, Gular Ahmadova is heard talking about various high-ranking government officials compiling lists of MP candidates which they would like to see in the National Assembly following the election. Among them, she mentions Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev, Minister of Health Ali Insanov (both arrested on the eve of the 2005 election for planning a coup d'état and sentenced to imprisonment), Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov, head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev, President Ilham Aliyev, and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva. Sevinj Babayeva confirms this in the video, which together with the first video appears to be a fragment of a single conversation.
On 13 December 2012, Abdullayev released another video, in which he is seen speaking with Ahmadova's friend Sevinj Babayeva one-on-one. In the video, Babayeva claims that "Ramiz is behind this all" and "has the final say". She also reveals the details of Gular Ahmadova's win against Eldar Namazov in the 2005 parliamentary election through police involvement orchestrated by the said "Ramiz" to target Namazov's supporters at the polling station and changes made to the final election protocol for the constituency.
On 14 December 2012, the primary regional assembly of the New Azerbaijan Party voted in favour of expelling Ahmadova from the party.
Sevinj Babayeva, who fled to Istanbul, Turkey after the release of the first video, was reported to have died of heart failure after checking in a clinic on 26 December. Babayeva's son said he did not believe his mother had died of a heart problem and accused Ahmadova of having Babayeva poisoned after persuading her to escape to Istanbul and funding her trip and stay. The Attorney General's Office later did confirm Babayeva's departure on Ahmadova's insistence, but the autopsy did not reveal signs of poisoning.
Arrest, trial and imprisonment
Gular Ahmadova was arrested on 13 February 2013 while attempting to leave for Georgia. According to her lawyers, Ahmadova was on her way to receive medical treatment there. She was charged with embezzlement and failure to report a grave offence. She pleaded not guilty. Her official website was shut down, along with the newspaper Markaz which she had founded in 1998. On 5 July 2013, the Central Election Commission announced there would be no by-election held to fill the vacant seat following Ahmadova's resignation.
According to Ahmadova's lawyers, her physical and psychological state deteriorated while in custody. She refused to give any testimony till Elshad Abdullayev was tried, and alleged the videos had been edited. She was found guilty on all counts and on 2 December 2013 sentenced to three years in custody. The relatively mild verdict was ruled considering the fact that Ahmadova had previously had a clear criminal record, had been three-time elected parliament member, had engaged in charitable work, was suffering from unnamed health conditions and was a parent of an underage child. In January 2014, the Baku Court of Appeal upheld this decision.
Release and later life
On 5 May 2014, the Court of Appeal held a hearing following which Ahmadova's sentence was suspended and she was released immediately, having thus served 14 months of her sentence in custody. She continued to claim her innocence. The decision was heavily criticised by opposition members. Legal expert Aslan Ismayilov questioned the validity of Gular Ahmadova's mild sentence for embezzling a large sum of money in comparison with the sentence of the opposition youth activist Ilkin Rustamzadeh charged with hooliganism and organising unauthorised protests, a much less grave offence, and sentenced to eight years in custody in 2014. Elshad Abdullayev commented on Ahmadova's release by referring to the whole legal process as "a court show that went to demonstrate once again the lawless nature of Azerbaijani courts."
In an August 2015 interview, Ahmadova, without offering a specific date, admitted that she had been on the brink of committing suicide during "the most difficult times" of her life. In late 2015, Ahmadova filed an appeal in order to have herself cleared out of all charges but on 16 February 2016, after she had failed twice to show up for a hearing, the court refused to rule in her favour. |
Liberty & Lament | Liberty & Lament is Lucero's own record label. The label is a part of the EastWest Records family of labels.
Current Bands
Lucero
Glossary |
Argoed, Powys | Argoed is a small village in the community of Nantmel, Powys, Wales, which is 55 miles (88 km) from Cardiff and 152 miles (244 km) from London.
The Argoed water mill dates back to at least 1840. It stands on Nant Treflyn, a tributary of the River Wye, not far from Doldowlod Hall, Llanwrthwl. The property has recently been converted to a holiday-let cottage. |
Gorriti (disambiguation) | Gorriti is a town in Larraun, Navarre, Spain. It may also refer to:
People
Raúl Gorriti,Raúl Enrique Gorriti Drago (10 October 1956 – 2 April 2015) was a professional football midfielder from Peru.
José Ignacio de Gorriti,General José Ignacio de Gorriti (1770 – 9 November 1835) was an Argentine statesman, soldier and lawyer.
Gustavo Gorriti,Gustavo A. Gorriti Ellenbogen (born in 1948 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian journalist.
Juana Manuela Gorriti,Juana Manuela Gorriti (June 15, 1818–November 6, 1892) was an Argentine writer with extensive political and literary links to Bolivia and Peru.
Places
Gorriti Island,Gorriti Island is a small island near the shores of Punta del Este, Uruguay. |
Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight | The men's Greco-Roman bantamweight was a Greco-Roman wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. Bantamweight was the lightest category, including wrestlers weighing up to 58 kilograms.
Results
Source: Official results; Wudarski
The tournament was double-elimination.
First round
Second round
25 wrestlers began this round. In the 12 matches, 8 wrestlers suffered their second loss in this round and were eliminated. 4 wrestlers suffered their first loss. 9 wrestlers continued undefeated, while 3 won whilst avoiding elimination and a further one-loss wrestler received a bye.
Third round
9 wrestlers began this round with no losses, 8 with one loss.
5 wrestlers suffered their second loss in this round and were eliminated (including Gundersen, who withdrew). 5 wrestlers continued undefeated, 3 won whilst avoiding elimination, and 4 suffered their first loss.
Fourth round
5 wrestlers began this round with no losses, 7 with one loss.
Of the 6 matches, one pitted undefeated wrestlers against each other. Two involved two wrestlers who each had one loss. The remaining three were contested by an undefeated wrestler against one facing elimination, resulting in one elimination and two men receiving their first loss.
This resulted in 2 wrestlers keeping their undefeated status and 3 being eliminated. 3 men received their first loss and 4 won while avoiding elimination.
Fifth round
2 wrestlers began this round with no losses, 7 with one loss (6 after Dierickx withdrew).
Of the four matches, two involved both wrestlers facing elimination and two pitted an undefeated wrestler against a man with one loss. The latter two resulted in one elimination and one wrestler taking his first loss. In all, 4 wrestlers (including Dierickx) were eliminated. One wrestler continued undefeated, one had his first loss, and three survived elimination.
Sixth round
1 wrestler began this round with no losses, 4 with one loss (3 after Herschmann withdrew).
One match was certain elimination, while the other pitted the undefeated Pütsep against the one-loss Hansson. Pütsep defeated Hansson to remain undefeated, while Ahlfors survived elimination by eliminating Ikonen.
This round was the last. Pütsep, who had defeated Ahlfors already, won the gold. Ahlfors placed second. Ikonen took bronze over Hansson based on number of wins, as Ikonen had advanced without a bye while Hansson had received a bye. |
Flying frog | A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight. That is, it can descend at an angle of less than 45° relative to the horizontal. Other (non-flying) arboreal frogs can also descend, but only at angles greater than 45°, which is referred to as parachuting.
Gliding flight has evolved independently several times among the 3,400 species of frogs from both New World (Hylidae) and Old World (Rhacophoridae) families. This parallel evolution is seen as an adaptation to their life in trees, high above the ground. Characteristics of the Old World species include "enlarged hands and feet, full webbing between all fingers and toes, lateral skin flaps on the arms and legs, and reduced weight per snout-vent length". These morphological changes contribute to the flying frog's aerodynamic abilities.
Alfred Russel Wallace made one of the earliest reports of a flying frog. The species he observed was later described by Albert Boulenger as Rhacophorus nigropalmatus.
Flying frogs includes members of the following genera:
Ecnomiohyla (Hylidae)
Polypedates (Rhacophoridae)
Rhacophorus (Rhacophoridae) |
File Under: Easy Listening | File Under: Easy Listening (also known as F.U.E.L.) is the second (not counting the EP Beaster) and final studio album by Sugar.
Background
Primary songwriter Bob Mould discussed material written after Beaster in 1993: "It's pretty punk rock. Not real fast, just pretty basic. A lot of it's really vocal-y. Really beautiful and really harmonic, but it's real piledriving… Weird chord changes underneath real traditional vocal lines. So I think it'll be somewhere between these last two records. Also, I'm really starting to hate guitar solos, so I'm trying to avoid them. I'm bending a lot of strings, starting to sound like Johnny Thunders again."
An attempt to record the album in Atlanta proved abortive. "There were seventeen songs done," said Mould. "There were some vocals left to do, and that was it. But it wasn't satisfying me. I erased everything. What are you going to do – keep the tapes on a shelf somewhere? Like you'd ever go into that room again. 'Yes: there is my abject failure.' It's poison – get it out of your life."
Track listing
Personnel
Bob Mould - guitars, vocals
David Barbe - bass, vocals
Malcolm Travis - drums
Reception
"F.U.E.L. finds former Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould exorcising more demons over a structured barrage of pop noises," observed Steve Lamacq in Q. "The sounds and textures come from the dark, brooding Beaster while the melodies are lifted from the poppier Copper Blue."
"File Under Easy Listening is the kind of title that a third-rate death metal band would come with…" complained Clark Collis in Select. "Also, there's the production. Where tracks like 'Changes' or 'Hoover Dam' off Copper Blue leapt out of the speakers with all the unrestrained force and tang of a nuclear-powered kipper, most of F.U.E.L. would probably ask your auntie's permission before even turning up… And then, slowly but surely, it all begins to make sense."
Charts
Album
Single |
Shake for the Sheik | "Shake for the Sheik" is a song by English pop-rock band The Escape Club, from their 1988 album Wild Wild West. Written by the band members and produced by Chris Kimsey, the song was released as the album's second single and reached number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1989.
Release and reception
"Shake for the Sheik", the follow-up to the U.S. number one hit "Wild, Wild West", was released as a single in November 1988. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at number 81 in December.
The song spent five weeks in the Top 40 section of the chart, peaking at number 28 in January 1989. The single remained on the Hot 100 for 14 weeks. "Shake for the Sheik" reached number 24 on the Singles Sales chart and number 28 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.
The song also reached number 46 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.
Lead vocalist Trevor Steel said the song "was going down well, especially since we considered ourselves a live band. The humor of the title was a little lost on the U.S. audience, since Americans pronounce Sheik differently than we in the UK do."
Track listing
7" Vinyl (U.S.)
"Shake for the Sheik" – 3:40
"Working for the Fatman" – 3:00
12" Vinyl (U.S., Canada)
"Shake for the Sheik" (Dance version) – 7:22
"Shake for the Sheik" (Single edit) – 3:45
"Shake for the Sheik" (Dub mix) – 6:17
"Working for the Fatman" – 3:00
Chart performance |
Kristina Paner | Kristina Paner (born August 1, 1971 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino actress and singer. She is an alumna of Miriam College (then Maryknoll College).
Early life
At a very young age, Paner's parents noticed her interest in music. Her adoptive parents were prominent celebrities as well. Her father Manny Paner was a well known basketball player while her mother Daisy Romualdez was an actress in the 1960s. Paner is the sister of Danita Paner, who is also a singer.
Career
Paner's parents convinced her to try singing at the age of nine and the song "Sana" was popularized by her. She tried acting too at age of 10 when she starred in the film Sinasamba Kita as the young Lorna Tolentino who played the character role of Nora. She also did a Colgate commercial called "Colgate Winterfresh Gel" with fellow Triplets members Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz in the 1980s.
By that time her mother, having seen her acting potential, presented Kristina, then only 12, to Regal Films owner and producer Mother Lily Monteverde. She was soon offered a contract. She became a regular in television shows like Musmos Pa Si Boss with Niño Muhlach as the Boss, Ora Engkantada, and Wanbol High. She also became a cast of the youth-oriented variety show That's Entertainment.
In 1989, she had two launching films in Regal Films. These were Tamis ng Unang Halik, the film formerly titled Pepay Paypay and Huwag Kang Hahalik Sa Diyablo. That same year, the song "Tamis ng Unang Halik" became her signature song from her self-titled album. This song was also sang by Sharon Cuneta from the film Kaputol ng Isang Awit in 1991 under VIVA Films.
In 1990, she was nominated for Best Performance by a Female Recording Artist on Awit Awards for the song "Tamis ng Unang Halik". Alongside her were her fellow That's Entertainment co-stars Manilyn Reynes, Sheryl Cruz, Lea Salonga and Rachel Alejandro who were among the nominees. At that time, it was only Manilyn Reynes who had two songs nominated on that same category but in the end it was Rachel Alejandro who was announced the winner for her rendition of the song "Kay Tagal".
In June 6, 1994, Paner had her first major concert in Greenhills Theater entitled 'On My Own... Kristina Paner' with her as special guests were Rico J. Puno, Marco Sison, John Nite, Janno Gibbs and Chris de Venecia, and directed by Al Quinn. She sang the songs "The Nearness of You" a classic song which became very popular at that time from the PLDT commercial, "Let's Do the Twist/Let's Twist Again" medley, "Out Here on My Own" as popularized by Irene Cara, her singles "Tamis ng Unang Halik" and "Umiibig Ka Pala Sa Akin", and many others. The concert was under DR Productions in cooperation with Congressional Spouses Foundation, Inc.
In the mid-1990s, Paner also had the privilege to sing a duet with Tony Bennett with the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" when Bennett asked anyone in the audience to sing with him on stage and she volunteered to sing a with him in his concert in the U.S.
In 2003, she transferred residence to Spain where she had a daughter with a Filipino-Spaniard.
In 2013, she came back to Manila with her daughter Luisane Kristiel. She has since been active in acting on television series.
On April 21, 2013, she did a show at Zirkoh Tomas Morato with her sister Danita Paner with Ferown band, Sam Milby and Rico J. Puno. She sang a duet with Sam Milby on the song "Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang". The show was produced by DR Productions.
In 2014, Paner had a series of shows at Casino Filipino (PAGCOR), at Mactan Satellite with Ramon Christopher (Feb. 12) and at 365 Plaza Satellite in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte (Feb. 28). The other show was with her fellow Triplet member Manilyn Reynes.
In April 2014, she showed her other talent, dancing which she learned from That's Entertainment and applied it on the show Celebrity Dance Battle for two Saturdays on TV5. Her challengers were actress Iwa Moto and showbiz news writer Shalala.
On May 22, 2014, Lea Salonga wrote an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer titled "Letting Young Voices Be Heard" wherein she mentioned both Kristina Paner and Manilyn Reynes; "...Here's the thing: Young artists are impressionable and malleable, which is a wonderful thing. If and when influenced the right way, you create a singer who carries not only proper technique coupled with emotional accessibility, but a great respect for their chosen art form. That was something cultivated very early on in me, and in many child singers back in the day. Voices of young singers like Kristina Paner and Manilyn Reynes always deserved respect not only because the tonal quality was just beautiful, but also because they were also able to express themselves clearly and from the heart. Theirs are voices I will be looking to for guidance as I coach my wards in preparation for battles."
On July 17, 2016, Regine Velasquez's cookbook Bongga sa Kusina was launched and it featured the recipe titled "Tina Paner's Sinigang na Lechon" in one of its collections of delicacies when she guested on Velasquez's TV show Sarap Diva. The recipe also featured a picture of Paner's face beside the recipe title.
On September 9, 2017, she had a concert in the Music Museum with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz titled 'The Triplet Concert' with guests from the series Meant to Be, Addy Raj, Ivan Dorschner, Jak Roberto and Ken Chan.
In April 2019 Paner and her daughter Shane modeled for STYLE STELLAR – THE HOUSE OF BEA BIANCA launch.
Her other name according to her was Ma. Kharine Gomez written in the That's Entertainment magazine in the late 1980s.
Filmography
Film
Barcelona (December 13, 2006) (indie movie) – as herself with Alessandra de Rossi as Clarissa. Tina was shown here burning a showbiz magazine. On the front cover of the magazine was her with Cris Villanueva.
Sana Maulit Muli (1995) – as Daisy with Lea Salonga and Aga Muhlach.
I Have 3 Eggs (1990) – with Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon.
Lessons in Love (1990) with Isabel Granada, Cris Villanueva, Ana Roces, Jeffrey Santos, Chuckie Dreyfus, Aljon Jimenez, Ogie Alcasid, and Ruffa Gutierrez.
Papa's Girl (1990) – with Gary Valenciano, Alice Dixson, and Aiza Seguerra.
Huwag Kang Hahalik Sa Diablo (1989) (as Dianne) – with Ms. Gloria Romero, Jean Garcia, Gabby Concepcion, Sunshine Dizon, Chuckie Dreyfus, Isabel Granada, Jigo Garcia, and Ruffa Gutierrez.
Tamis Ng Unang Halik – (Musical) (1989) (as Pepay/Jocelyn) – with Cris Villanueva, Pops Fernandez, Joey Marquez, Cynthia Patag, Roderick Paulate, and Bella Flores
May Pulis... May Pulis... Sa Ilalim Ng Tulay (1989)
... aka May Pulis May Pulis Sa Ilalim Ng Tulay (Philippines: Tagalog title) – as Cindy
Starzan: Shouting Star Of The Jungle (1989)
Petrang Kabayo at ang Pilyang Kuting (1988) – as Cindy. In "Petrang Kabayo 2" under Viva Films it was Gelli de Belen who portrayed Tina's role while Vina Morales portrayed Manilyn's role.
Love Letters (1988) – Episode 2: Invisible Lover with Cris Villanueva; Episode 1: – was for Lotlot de Leon and Ramon Christopher 'Monching' Guttierrez while; Episode 3: – was for Manilyn Reynes and Janno Gibbs.
Bobo Cop (1988) – with Joey Marquez as Bobo Cop
Wake Up Little Susie (1988) – with Aiza Seguerra as Susie
Bunsong Kerubin (1987) – as Mylene with Matet de Leon as the Bunsong Kerubin
Payaso (1986) ... aka The Clown (literal English title) – with German Moreno.
Batang Quiapo (1986) – with Fernando Poe Jr. and Maricel Soriano
Super Islaw and the Flying Kids (1986) – as Tinang
When I Fall in Love (1986)
Mga Kwento Ni Lola Basyang (1985) – Lalay (segment "Querubin: Maria Leonora Theresa")
I Have Three Hands (1985) – as Maricar
Sinasamba Kita (1982) as the young Nora with Ms.Vilma Santos as her half sister Divina, Lorna Tolentino as the grown Nora, Phillip Salvador, and Christopher de Leon
Juan Balutan (1982) Juan Balutan (A. Agravante) – with Niño Muhlach as Juan Balutan
Television
Dear Uge:"No Kiss, All Tell" & "Chis-miss Labandera" – as Selma with Gladys Reyes and Jelai Andres; Jason Abalos and Arra San Agustin (January 5, 2020; 2:30 pm. GMA 7)
All-Out Sundays – Special Participation (January 5, 2020; 12:00 pm - GMA 7)
Madrasta (TV series) – guest - Nurse Rita (January 2, 3, & 6, 2020; 4:15 pm - GMA 7)
Bawal Judgmental – Special Appearance accompanying her daughter Shane Paner as guest to be picked by the contestant (December 24, 2019 – Tuesday; 12:00 pm. GMA 7)
The Boobay and Tekla Show – guest - (na - TBATS Kulam) (December 15, 2019 – Sunday GMA 7)
Mars (Philippine TV series)(hosted by Camille Prats and Iya Villania) – guest with daughter Shane Paner (both singing the song "Tamis Ng Unang Halik") (December 12, 2019 – Thursday; 8:40 am. GMA 7)
Imbestigador: DALAWANG GINANG, PINAGHAHAMPAS, PINAGPAPALO AT PINAGSASAKSAK SA PAMPANGA with Dexter Doria and Lucho Ayala (October 26, 2019 – Saturday; 4:45 pm. GMA 7)
Bawal Kumurap, Nakamamatay ng Swerte! – guest artist with Sharmaine Arnaiz, Lilet, Jojo Alejar, Jaypee de Guzman, and Jeffrey Santos (October 17, 2019 – Thursday; 12:00 pm. GMA 7)
Wagas Presents: Wait Lang... Is This Love? – as Tita Sonya with Barbie Forteza, Jak Roberto, Yayo Aguila, Ayra Mariano, Ashley Ortega, and Kristoffer Martin (September 30, 2019–present 11:30 am. GMA 7)
The Boobay and Tekla Show – guest with Gladys Reyes, Betong Sumaya, and Diana Zubiri (August 25, 2019 GMA 7)
Magpakailanman: My Viral Single Tatay – as Derrick's mother Vilma with Derrick Monasterio as Ken, Jenine Desiderio as Josephine, Faith Da Silva as Mariel, Rosemarie Sarita as Lola Betty, and John Kenneth Giducos as young Ken (August 3, 2019 GMA 7)
Dear Uge: Kabitana – as Petra with Angelu de Leon as Kapitana Lucy, and Manilyn Reynes as Rosie, Therese Malvar, Antonio Aquitana, and Jo Berry (July 14, 2019; 2:30 pm. GMA 7)
Videoke Dabarclash – guest artist with Rannie Raymundo, Renz Verano, Jett Pangan, Gino Padilla, and Lou Bonnevie with Dabarkads Paolo Ballesteros and Maine Mendoza (May 4, 2019; 12:00 pm. GMA 7)
Dear Uge: Yayo Aguilar – as Bekbek – Kitchen Housemaid (supporting role) with Gardo Versoza as Yayo Aguilar(disguised as a female nanny), Lucho Ayala, Kelvin Miranda, and Mosang (April 7, 2019; 2:30 pm. GMA 7)
Young Once (upon a Time) (season 2) – guest artist (March 17, 2019; Sunday; 8:00 pm. Net 25)
TODA One I Love – Lea Hofilena-Dimagiba (Kylie Padilla's mother) (February 4, 2019 – April 17, 2019, GMA 7)
Tadhana: Pag-Uwi – as Cora the OFW mother who works in U.K. as a Caregiver with Martin del Rosario as her eldest son, Paul Salas as her younger son, Ashley Ortega as her daughter, Antonette Garcia as her fellow OFW, and Joanna Marie Tan as her daughter-in-law wife of Martin del Rosario (December 22, 2018 GMA 7; 3:15 pm)
Dear Uge: Selfie Queen – as Mikee Quintos's Mother with Mikee Quintos, Gil Cuerva, Eunice Lagusad, and Juancho Trivino ( November 4, 2018; 2:30 pm. GMA 7)
Wish Ko Lang: Lihim Ni Sonya – as Sonya with Archie Adamos and Yasser Marta (October 20, 2018; 4:10 pm. GMA 7)
Imbestigador: Dukot with Joanna Marie Tan (September 14, 2018 – Saturday; 4:45 pm. GMA 7)
Mars (Philippine TV series) – guest with Dennis Padilla cooking Tofu with Bokchoy recipe (August 20, 2018 GMA NEWS TV)
Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko : The Adventures of Laura Patola and Duwen-Ding!: Parts 1–5 as Laura's mother Nenita with Maine Mendoza and Baste(1st & 2nd episode)/Yuan Francisco(3rd, 4th, & 5th episode) (July 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2018 GMA 7)
Maynila: Hinagpis Ng Ina – as Eleonor with Renz Valerio as her son (June 2, 2018, GMA 7)
Idol sa Kusina – "Herbed Fried Chicken" – guest with Alyana Asistio, Charlotte and Charice Hermoso (May 6, 2018 GMA NEWS TV)
Magpakailanman: The Kyline Alcantara Story – as Kyline's mother Rowena with Kyline Alcantara as herself and Jay Manalo as Kyline's father (May 5, 2018 GMA 7)
Inday Will Always Love You – Yaya Madonna (2018, GMA 7)
Kambal, Karibal – Azon Martinez (2018 GMA 7)
Sunday PinaSaya – guest (2017 – 2018 GMA 7)
Magpakailanman: Remember My Love: The Gerald Cruz and Noreen Maddatu Love Story – with Kris Bernal and Jason Abalos (February 3, 2018 GMA 7)
Maynila: Anak Sa Puso – as Esther with Kristoffer Martin as her son and Cheska Diaz (November 11, 2017, GMA 7)
Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko : Darling, ang pangit na duckling with Sophie Albert (November 5, 2017 GMA 7)
All Star Videoke with Sheryl Cruz as All-star laglagers (October 1, 2017 GMA 7)
Road Trip (TV series) – Guimaras province with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz (September 24, 2017 GMA 7)
Tadhana: Bagahe – as Norma the OFW mother who works as a Domestic Helper who was stricken by cancer with Robert Ortega as her husband, John Manalo as her son, and Dang Cruz as her fellow OFW (July 22, 2017 GMA 7)
Dear Uge: Babe Bodyguard – as Barbie's Mother with Antonio Aquitana and Alyanna Asistio (2017 GMA 7)
Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko : Si Crispin, walang tigil kumain with Renz Valerio and Simon Ibarra (July 16, 2017 GMA 7)
Wish Ko Lang: Mag-ina – as Lolit with actress Jazz Ocampo as her daughter (2017 GMA 7)
Magpakailanman: DonitaNose On MPKStory (2017 GMA 7)
Meant to Be – Suzy Altamirano (2017 GMA 7)
People vs. the Stars – Celebrity Contestant with Gladys Reyes and Angelu de Leon (April 2, 2017 GMA 7)
Wish Ko Lang: Manliligaw – with Joyce Ching as Kris the possessed/sanib victim and Billy James (March 18, 2017 GMA 7)
Wowowin: OPM Battle, Triple Js vs Triplets – as Celebrity Contestant with Sheryl Cruz, Manilyn Reynes, Jude Michael, Jeremiah, and Jireh Lim (March 6, 2017 GMA 7)
Dear Uge: Kutis Tisay – as Yaya O with Andre Paras, Kate Valdez, and Sheryl Cruz (February 12, 2017 GMA 7)
Sarap Diva TBT Throw Back Thursday with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz (February 4, 2017 GMA 7)
Idol sa Kusina – "Tinola with Gata" – guest with Sheryl Cruz and Manilyn Reynes (January 15, 2017 GMA NEWS TV)
Unang Hirit – guest with Sheryl Cruz and Manilyn Reynes (January 6, 2017 GMA 7)
Celebrity Bluff – contestant (2016 – 2018 GMA 7)
Tonight with Arnold Clavio – guest (2014, 2017, and 2018 GMA NEWS TV)
Mars (Philippine TV series) – guest (December 29, 2016 GMA NEWS TV)
Pinoy M.D.: discovering healthier bread and cookies with Tina Paner – Tina Paner is baking "Kalabasa Pan de Sal" and "Malunggay Cookies" (August 6, 2016 GMA 7)
Magpakailanman: Anak sa mundo ng droga (2016 GMA 7)
Dear Uge: Paano Nga Ba Mag Move On? – as Lovely with Bianca Umali and Miguel Tanfelix (2016 GMA 7)
Family Feud (Philippine game show) – "ASAP Sessionistas vs. That's Girls" – (game show) (June 25, 2016 ABS-CBN) – with Rachel Alejandro, Sitti, and other members of each team.
Lip Sync Battle Philippines: Manilyn Reynes vs. Keempee de Leon – Special Appearance with Sheryl Cruz (May 7, 2016 GMA 7)
That's My Amboy – Rhea Medrano (2016 GMA 7)
Laff, Camera, Action! – ContraDiva (2016 GMA 7)
Imbestigador with Pen Medina as the murderer (2016 GMA 7)
Magpakailanman: Bagong pag-asa ni lola – as Yolly with Gloria Romero, Lindsay De Vera and Tina Monasterio (April 2, 2016 GMA 7)
The Master Showman's Final Bow (February 2016 GMA 7)
Wish Ko Lang: Masakit Ang Umibig – as Linda Salvan with Rainier Castillo, Elle Ramirez, and Cris Villanueva (January 22, 2016 GMA 7)
Ang Probinsyano – as Teressa "Teri" Porres guest for one season with Angelica Panganiban as drug mules in Hong Kong (2016 ABS-CBN)
Just Duet (2016 GMA 7)
Sunday All Stars – guest (2015 GMA 7)
Dangwa (2015 GMA 7)
Bulaga Pa More!: Musical Pa More! – Kristina Paner singing the Broadway song "On My Own (Les Misérables)" from Les Misérables (2015 GMA 7)
Maynila: Bilango ng Kahapon (2015 GMA 7)
Maynila: Status: Its Complicated (2015 GMA 7)
Healing Hearts (2015 GMA 7) as Alice Trajano with Joyce Ching and Kristoffer Martin
Maalaala Mo Kaya:Banana Que – "The Elha Nympha Story" – as Digna with Nikki Valdez, Brenna Garcia as Elha Nympha, and Matt Evans (2015 ABS-CBN 2)
Maynila: Happy Ending with Ruru Madrid, Gabbi Garcia, and Ramon Christopher Guttierrez (November 8, 2014 GMA 7)
Tim Yap Show – guest (October 11, 2014 1:49 am GMA 7)
Happy Wife Happy Life (hosted by L.J. Moreno) (guest) Tina Paner and her daughter Shayne Paner at Ginhawa Spa & Dining (TV5)
Trenderas as Veronica Sanchez (September 13 – December 27, 2014 TV5) – with Lara Maigue, Katrina 'Suklay Diva' Velarde, Isabelle de Leon, Ara Mina , Dingdong Avanzado, Cacai Bautista, K Brosas, and Kitkat
Moments (talk show) – also named MOMents – 25th Season – hosted by Ms. Gladys Reyes – guest (August 9, 2014 Net 25)
Magpakailanman: Dalawang kasarian: The Jonalyn Bulado Story – as Emma with Lauren Young as Jonalyn Bulado (July 5, 2014 GMA 7)
Celebrity Dance Battle (2014 TV5) (hosted by Lucy Torres Gomez) – Celebrity Dancer for two Saturdays with Iwa Moto and Shalala as her competitor/challenger
Strawberry Lane – Salve 'Marcela' Rosales (2014 GMA 7)
Cornered by Cristy: the story of Tina Paner – (2014 TV5)
Maalaala Mo Kaya:Mikropono – "The Rose Fostanes Story" – X Factor Israel winner – as Mel with Viveika Ravanes as Rose 'Osang' Fostanes (March 22, 2014 ABS-CBN)
Let's Ask Pilipinas (January 27, 2014 TV5) – (hosted by Aga Muhlach) – Herself Guest with Ms. Lea Salonga, William Martinez, and Lorenzo Mara. A reunion of the casts of the movie "Sana Maulit Muli" by Star Cinema.
The Singing Bee (Philippine game show) Herself Guest Performer with Bugoy Drilon, Sheryl Cruz, Rez Cortez, Tirso Cruz III, & Dennis Padilla (December 7, 2013 ABS-CBN)
Banana Nite – "Ihaw Na!" – guest – (September 23, 2013 ABS-CBN)
Tunay na Buhay – guest with Sheryl Cruz (September 12, 2013 GMA 7)
50 Years with the MASTER SHOWMAN (April 2013 GMA 7)
Sarap Diva with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz (March 9, 2013 GMA 7)
Pepito Manaloto (2013 GMA 7)
ASOP Music Festival – ASOP (A Song of Praise) Music Festival (2013 UNTV)- herself singing "Tamis Ng Unang Halik" and the composer Mr. Mon del Rosario. The show is hosted by Toni Rose Gayda and balladeer Richard Reynoso.
The Ryzza Mae Show with daughter (2013 – 2015 GMA 7)
Party Pilipinas Herself Guest Performer with Sheryl Cruz and Manilyn Reynes (February 2013 GMA 7)
ASAP Herself Guest Performer with Sheryl Cruz & Manilyn Reynes (2013 ABS-CBN)
Maalaala Mo Kaya:Saranggola, Arlene (2013 ABS-CBN)
My Little Juan, Vivian (2013 ABS-CBN)
Wansapanataym:Ang mga nawawalang Ngipin ni Tootsie (2013 ABS-CBN)
Bandila (TV program) – "Ikaw Na!" – guest (January 21, 2013 ABS-CBN)
Crazy For You (2006 ABS-CBN) Primetime TV Series
Magpakailanman (2005 GMA 7)
ASAP Herself Guest Performer with folk singer Florante & Jolina Magdangal singing together the song "Sana" (2002 ABS-CBN)
Click (2000 GMA 7) – guest
1896 (1996 TV5)
Gimik (1996 ABS-CBN 2) – guest
GMA Telecine Specials (1995 GMA 7) – guest
TGIS (1995 GMA 7)
Ryan Ryan Musikahan (1994 ABS-CBN 2) – Herself Guest Performer with Manilyn Reynes. Ryan Cayabyab a Filipino musician, composer and conductor had a conversation with both of them, Tina and Manilyn, and addressing them that they look like sisters. Kristina Paner sang her signature hit songs and the song "Used To Be" as popularized by singers Charlene and Stevie Wonder on a duet while Mr.Ryan Cayabyab played the piano.
Maalaala Mo Kaya:Patalim with Gary Estrada, Liza Lorena, Al Tantay, and Malou Crisologo (1994 ABS-CBN 2)
Noli Me Tangere (1994 TV5)
Love Notes (1993 TV5)
Maalaala Mo Kaya? (1991 ABS-CBN 2)
Wanbol High with Cheenee de Leon (1990 ABC 5)
Ora Engkantada with Romnick Sarmenta and Luz Fernandez as Lola Ora the narrator of the story in one of its episodes (1989 IBC 13)
Hapi House! (guest) it starred Tito Sotto, Sandy Andolong, Chuckie Dreyfus, Isabel Granada, Laura Hermosa and Aga Muhlach. (1989 IBC 13)
The Sharon Cuneta Show – Herself Guest Performer with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz (1989 ABS-CBN 2)
Maricel Live (1989 IBC 13)
Young Love, Sweet Love (1989 RPN 9)
Photographs and Memories with Cathy Mora in one episode (1989 RPN 9)
Mother Studio Presents produced by Regal Films – (for two episodes only) as Joyette the rebellious teenager and the other character where she portrayed an old mother, in her teenage years, to grown teenage girls in some other episode (1989 GMA 7)
Lotlot & Friends (1988 RPN 9)
Regal Shockers (1988 GMA 7)
Always, Snooky – with Manilyn Reynes and Sheryl Cruz performing the song "Mine, Mine, Mine" (1987 IBC 13)
Lovingly Yours Helen (1987 GMA 7)
Saturday Entertainment (1986 GMA 7)
That's Entertainment (1986 GMA 7) Monday Group earlier with Ramon Christopher Guttierrez as her former love team / Friday Group later with Cris Villanueva as her new love team at that time."
GMA Supershow, Germspesyal – guest (1980 – 1990 GMA 7)
Pira-pirasong Pangarap – with Joel Torre, Liza Lorena, and Bayani Casimiro
Musmos Pa Si Boss (1983 RPN 9) with Niño Muhlach as the Boss and her friend
Discography
Albums
Triplets (1986), Ivory Records
"Must Be Heaven"
"Words Get in the Way" (Miami Sound Machine cover)
"Oh, My Love"
"An Obsession (Over You)" – solo: Sheryl Cruz (The Zummos cover)
"System Addict" – solo: Manilyn Reynes (Five Star cover)
"I Want You to Be Mine" (Mine, Mine, Mine)"
"The Greatest Love of All" (George Benson cover)
"Let's Wait Awhile" (Janet Jackson cover)
"Friends" – solo: Tina Paner (Amii Stewart and Mike Francis cover)
"Venus" (Shocking Blue cover)
Kristina Paner (1989), DYNA Records (self titled album)
"Di Na Bale"
"Umiibig Ka Pala Sa Akin"
"Tamis ng Unang Halik"
"True Friend Forever" (duet with her father Manny Paner)
"Biro Biro"
"Sikret Lang" (composed by Vehnee Saturno)
"Ikembot Mo, Iyugyug Mo"
"In Love Ako Sa 'Yo"
Second Chance
Album appearances
Meant to Be (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017), GMA Records – songs included are "Dear Friend" and "Kaibigan" sung by the Triplets
Songs
"Sana" (1981), VICOR Records / Sunshine Records (Side A: "Sana" / Side B: "Kalinisan") (45RPM single) – with this song, Lea Salonga became her childhood rival or rather a friendly competitor when Salonga sang the song "Small Voice" that same year. Both of them were busy promoting their own singles on noontime shows and afternoon variety shows on different TV stations in their long ponytailed hairdo. Both singers/actresses met again in 1995 in the film Sana Maulit Muli. They were also pioneers in the TV show That's Entertainment. "Sana" was also revived by Jolina Magdangal on her A Wish Comes True CD under Walt Disney Records Philippines in 1996. The Tres Marias CD featuring Lolita Carbon, Cooky Chua and Bayang Barrios has their own version. It was also sung by Sarah Geronimo in Japan's Million Thanks to Remember in 2012. Another version was by Aiza Seguerra. The song was composed by folk singer Florante. The Side B song "Kalinisan" can be heard in youtube.
Musmos Pa Si Boss TV theme song (1983) – part of the lyrics include this phrase "...May gatas pa sa labi. Big time kahit Musmos pa si Boss..."
"Tamis ng Unang Halik" (1989) – as well as Sharon Cuneta, the song was also recorded by Juris Fernandez which was the theme song of the teleserye Katorse. Other versions were recorded by Julie Anne San Jose and by teenage singer Ashley in 2002 under Viva Records. An instrumental version was performed by jazz saxophonist Tots Tolentino on his Color Real CD. Vice Ganda sang a spoof version of it in his TV show It's Showtime.
"Umiibig Ka Pala Sa Akin" (1989) |
Rookley Manor | Rookley Manor (also Roclee, Rokeley, Roucle) is a manor house on the Isle of Wight, situated in the parish of Arreton. Though originally in Godshill parish, it is now included for the greater part in the boundaries of South Arreton.
History
The Lisle family owned Rookley Manor under their neighbouring manor of Appleford, and it is first mentioned in 1203 when Walter de Insula granted common pasture in Rookley to Philip of Blackpan. In 1272 a rent in Rookley was granted by Thomas Delamere to John Fleming, who is returned in the Testa de Nevill as holding jointly with William le Martre, half a fee in Rookley and Blackpan, with Robert Rookley also holding a quarter fee in Rookley. John Rookley held the vill (manor) in 1316 and was apparently succeeded by Adam Rookley, whose widow, Isabel, made an agreement in 1328–9 with Robert Rookley as to her life interest in land at Rookley. Geoffrey Rookley was holding a quarter fee in Rookley in 1346, and was granted licence in 1363 to have an oratory in his lordship of Rookley. In 1428 and 1431 Rookley was in the possession of Richard Coke or Cooke, a gentleman of Sussex, who was seised (had ownership) of a quarter fee there, another quarter held in 1346 by William Taunton and others not being answered for in 1428, as it was divided between Walter Veer and Thomas Lisle. The Cooke family seem to have remained at Rookley until the death of Thomas Cooke in 1519, leaving an infant granddaughter Mary.
The manor then passed in the same way as East Standen to the Bannister and Meux families. The Bannisters' third is not mentioned after 1546–7, but the two thirds belonging to the Meux family passed with East Standen until the death of Sir William Meux in 1638. From the Meux family it passed to the Colemans. The last Coleman willed the manor after the death of his sister to James Worsley of Stenbury. In the early 20th century, the holding frequently changed hands. Mr. Holmes Leigh, who bought it from Mr. William Ash of Newport, sold it in 1911 to Mr. Wickett. |
Sophie and Peter Johnston (album) | Sophie and Peter Johnston is the eponymous 1987 first album from the duo of the same name.
Track listing
"Television Satellite"
"Open Up"
"A Bigger Temptation"
"Take That Jerkin Off"
"Some Sunny Day"
"Happy Together"
"Torn Open"
"Run Away"
"I Want You to Know"
"No Time"
"Sold on You"
"Brain Def" |
Stancil | Stancil is the name of:
Felicia Stancil (born 1995), bicyclist
Stancil Johnson, psychiatrist and frisbee enthusiast
T. J. Stancil (born 1982), football player |
James Forrest (adventurer) | James Forrest is an English adventurer, hiker and author from Birmingham, England. In 2017 Forrest broke the record for the fastest known completion of all 446 mountains in England and Wales. He climbed every 2,000ft mountain in England and Wales, peaks known as the 'Nuttalls', in six months, walking over 1,000 miles in the process. In 2018 Forrest climbed all 273 mountains in Ireland and Northern Ireland in eight weeks, the fastest known time. He walked over 1,000km and climbed the height of Everest every week for eight weeks in a row in his mission to climb the so-called Vandeleur-Lynams, every mountain in Ireland and Northern Ireland over 600m.
Bibliography
Mountain Man: 446 Mountains. Six Months. One record-breaking adventure. Bloomsbury: London (2019). |
Ardyaloon, Western Australia | Ardyaloon or One Arm Point, also known as Bardi, is an Aboriginal Australian community town on the Dampier Peninsula, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is located north of Perth and the closest populated town is Derby. At the , Bardi had a population of 365.
The Bardi Ardyaloon hatchery has successfully produced Trochus shell at One Arm Point for a number of years, including reseeding the reef surrounding the area.
The area is home to the Bardi people.
According to the local Indigenous people, the name "One Arm Point" originated from the tale of an unfortunate pearler who had an accident with dynamite while attempting to catch fish using explosives in the bay.
Native title
The community is located within the Bardi Jawi native title determination area, determined by the Federal Court of Australia on 30 November 2005. (Federal Court file nos. WAD49/1998, WAD6001/2004) It is managed through its incorporated body, Ardyaloon Incorporated, registered under the Associations Incorporations Act 1987 and the Aboriginal Communities Act 1979.
The town plan follows the Ardyaloon Community Layout Plan No.2 has been prepared in accordance with State Planning Strategy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. Layout Plan No.2 was endorsed by the community on 15 September 2004 and the Western Australia Planning Commission on 15 February 2005, with various amendments up until 2017.
Town planning
Ardyaloon Layout Plan No.2 was prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 and was endorsed by the community in 2004 and the WAPC in 2005. |
Starch mogul | A starch mogul is a machine that makes shaped candies or candy centers from syrups or gels, such as gummi candy. These softer candies and centers are made by filling a tray with cornstarch, stamping the desired shape into the starch, and then pouring the filling or gel into the holes made by the stamp. When the candies have set, they are removed from the trays and the starch is recycled.
Starch moguls were invented around 1899 and were in common use within a decade or two. Early ones were built from wood, but later ones were made of steel.
Effects
Starch moguls reduced the number of jobs in candy factories and thereby lowered production costs for candies. All of the steps were previously performed by hand.
Starch moguls also improved worker safety. Previously, starch rooms tended to have dangerously high levels of starch in the air. Workers would breathe this and develop respiratory illnesses. By reducing the amount of combustible starch in the air, the machines also significantly reduced the risk of dust explosions and fire.
Method
The starch mogul system is a method of molding candy that allows runnier materials to be used than normal processes. It is used in the manufacture of jelly beans and gummy bears, and was formerly used in the manufacture of marshmallows before the advent of the extrusion process. The starch mogul system uses a machine with trays of starch. Each tray has a mold firmly pushed down in it to create cavities in the starch. The cavities are then filled with the candy material, and allowed to cool or harden as necessary. During this time, the starch helps absorb excess water, making the candy moldings handleable. Finally, the trays are dumped and the candy is separated from the starch, which is then reused by the machine. Hans Arthur Faerber, founder of NID Pty Ltd, created the current form of the starch mogul system in 1952. |
Sylvester–Gallai theorem | The Sylvester–Gallai theorem in geometry states that, given a finite number of points in the Euclidean plane, either
all the points lie on a single line; or
there is at least one line which contains exactly two of the points.
It is named after James Joseph Sylvester, who posed it as a problem in 1893, and Tibor Gallai, who published one of the first proofs of this theorem in 1944.
A line that contains exactly two of a set of points is known as an ordinary line. According to a strengthening of the theorem, every finite point set (not all on a line) has at least a linear number of ordinary lines. There is an algorithm that finds an ordinary line in a set of n points in time proportional to n log n in the worst case.
History
The Sylvester–Gallai theorem was posed as a problem by . suggests that Sylvester may have been motivated by a related phenomenon in algebraic geometry, in which the inflection points of a cubic curve in the complex projective plane form a configuration of nine points and twelve lines (the Hesse configuration) in which each line determined by two of the points contains a third point. The Sylvester–Gallai theorem implies that it is impossible for all nine of these points to have real coordinates.
claimed to have a short proof of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem, but it was already noted to be incomplete at the time of publication. proved the theorem (and actually a slightly stronger result) in an equivalent formulation, its projective dual. Unaware of Melchior's proof, again stated the conjecture, which was proved first by Tibor Gallai, and soon afterwards by other authors.
Projective and dual versions
The question of the existence of an ordinary line can also be posed for points in the real projective plane RP2 instead of the Euclidean plane. The Euclidean plane can be viewed as a subset of the projective plane, but the additional points and lines of the projective plane do not change the problem, as any finite set of projective points can be transformed into a Euclidean point set without changing its set of ordinary lines. Therefore, any pattern of intersecting points and lines that exists in one of these two types of plane also exists in the other. However, the projective viewpoint allows certain configurations to be described more easily.
By projective duality, the existence of an ordinary line for a set of non-collinear points in RP2 is equivalent to the existence of an ordinary point in a nontrivial arrangement of finitely many lines. An arrangement is said to be trivial when all its lines pass through a common point, and nontrivial otherwise; an ordinary point is a point that belongs to exactly two lines.
Proofs
For a description of Gallai's original proof of the theorem, see e.g. .
Kelly's proof
This proof is due to Leroy Milton Kelly.
Suppose that a finite set S of points is not all collinear. Define a connecting line to be a line that contains at least two points in the collection. By finiteness, there must exist a point P and a connecting line ℓ that are a positive distance apart but are closer than all other point-line pairs. We'll prove that ℓ is ordinary, by contradiction.
Assume that ℓ is not ordinary. Then it goes through at least three points of S. At least two of these are on the same side of P', the perpendicular projection of P on ℓ. Call them B and C, with B being closest to P' (and possibly coinciding with it). Draw the connecting line m passing through P and C, and the perpendicular from B to B' on m . Then BB' is shorter than PP'''. This follows from the facts that PP'C and BB'C are similar triangles, contained inside one another.
However, this contradicts the original definition of P and ℓ as the point-line pair with the smallest positive distance. So the assumption that ℓ is not ordinary cannot be true, QED.
Melchior's proof
In 1941 (thus, prior to Erdős publishing the question and Gallai's subsequent proof) Melchior showed that any nontrivial finite arrangement of lines in the projective plane has at least three ordinary points. By duality, this results also says that any finite nontrivial set of points on the plane has at least three ordinary lines.
Melchior observed that, for any graph embedded in the real projective plane, the formula V − E + F must equal 1, the Euler characteristic of the projective plane. Here V, E, and F, are the number of vertices, edges, and faces of the graph, respectively. Any nontrivial line arrangement on the projective plane defines a graph in which each face is bounded by at least three edges, and each edge bounds two faces; so, double counting gives the additional inequality F ≤ 2E/3. Using this inequality to eliminate F from the Euler characteristic leads to the inequality E ≤ 3V − 3. But if every vertex in the arrangement were the crossing point of three or more lines, then the total number of edges would be at least 3V, contradicting this inequality. Therefore, some vertices must be the crossing point of only two lines, and as Melchior's more careful analysis shows, at least three ordinary vertices are needed in order to satisfy the inequality E ≤ 3V − 3.
Melchior's inequality
By a similar argument, Melchior was able to prove a more general result. For every k ≥ 2, let tk be the number of points to which k lines are incident. Then
or equivalently,
Coxeter's proof
gave another proof of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem within ordered geometry, an axiomatization of geometry that includes not only Euclidean geometry but several other related geometries. See for minimal axiom systems inside which the Sylvester–Gallai theorem can be proved.
The number of ordinary lines
While the Sylvester–Gallai theorem states that an arrangement of points, not all collinear, must determine an ordinary line, it does not say how many must be determined.
Let be the minimum number of ordinary lines determined over every set of n non-collinear points. Melchior's proof showed that raised the question of whether approaches infinity with n. confirmed that it does by proving that . conjectured that , for all values of n, a conjecture that still stands . This is often referred to as the Dirac-Motzkin conjecture, see for example . proved that t2(n) ≥ 3n/7.
Dirac's conjectured lower bound is asymptotically the best possible, since there is a proven matching upper bound for even n greater than four. The construction, due to Károly Böröczky, that achieves this bound consists of the vertices of a regular m-gon in the real projective plane and another m points (thus, ) on the line at infinity corresponding to each of the directions determined by pairs of vertices; although there are pairs, they determine only m distinct directions. This arrangement has only m ordinary lines, namely those that connect a vertex v with the point at infinity corresponding to the line determined by v's two neighboring vertices. Note that, as with any finite configuration in the real projective plane, this construction can be perturbed so that all points are finite, without changing the number of ordinary lines.
For odd n, only two examples are known that match Dirac's lower bound conjecture, that is, with One example, by , consists of the vertices, edge midpoints, and centroid of an equilateral triangle; these seven points determine only three ordinary lines. The configuration in which these three ordinary lines are replaced by a single line cannot be realized in the Euclidean plane, but forms a finite projective space known as the Fano plane. Because of this connection, the Kelly–Moser example has also been called the non-Fano configuration. The other counterexample, due to McKee, consists of two regular pentagons joined edge-to-edge together with the midpoint of the shared edge and four points on the line at infinity in the projective plane; these 13 points have among them 6 ordinary lines. Modifications of Böröczky's construction lead to sets of odd numbers of points with ordinary lines.
proved that except when n is seven. Asymptotically, this formula is already 12/13 ~ 92.3% of the proven n/2 upper bound. The n = 7 case is an exception because otherwise the Kelly–Moser construction would be a counterexample; their construction shows that t2(7) ≤ 3. However, were the Csima–Sawyer bound valid for n = 7, it would claim that t2(7) ≥ 4.
A closely related result is Beck's theorem, stating a tradeoff between the number of lines with few points and the number of points on a single line.
Ben Green and Terence Tao showed that for all sufficiently large point sets, n > n0, the number of ordinary lines is indeed at least n/2. Furthermore, when n is odd, the number of ordinary lines is at least 3n/4 − C, for some constant C. Thus, the constructions of Böröczky for even and odd (discussed above) are best possible.
The number of connecting lines
As Paul Erdős observed, the Sylvester–Gallai theorem immediately implies that any set of n points that are not collinear determines at least n different lines. As a base case, the result is clearly true for n = 3. For any larger value of n, the result can be reduced from n points to n − 1 points, by deleting an ordinary line and one of the two points on it. Thus, it follows by mathematical induction. The example of a near-pencil (a set of n − 1 collinear points together with one additional point that is not on the same line as the other points) shows that this bound is tight.
Generalizations
The Sylvester–Gallai theorem does not directly apply to sets of infinitely many points or to geometries over finite fields. The set of all points in the plane is an infinite set with no ordinary lines, for instance, and the set of all points in a finite geometry also has no ordinary lines.
For geometries defined using complex number or quaternion coordinates, however, the situation is more complicated. For instance, in the complex projective plane there exists a configuration of nine points, Hesse's configuration (the inflection points of a cubic curve), in which every line is non-ordinary, violating the Sylvester–Gallai theorem. Such a configuration is known as a Sylvester–Gallai configuration, and it cannot be realized by points and lines of the Euclidean plane. Another way of stating the Sylvester–Gallai theorem is that whenever the points of a Sylvester–Gallai configuration are embedded into a Euclidean space, preserving colinearities, the points must all lie on a single line, and the example of the Hesse configuration shows that this is false for the complex projective plane. However, proved a complex-number analogue of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem: whenever the points of a Sylvester–Gallai configuration are embedded into a complex projective space, the points must all lie in a two-dimensional subspace. Similarly, showed that whenever they are embedded into a space defined over the quaternions, they must lie in a three-dimensional subspace.
Every set of points in the plane, and the lines connecting them, may be abstracted as the elements and flats of a rank-3 oriented matroid. In this context, the result of lower-bounding the number of ordinary lines can be generalized to oriented matroids: every rank-3 oriented matroid with n elements has at least 3n/7 two-point lines, or equivalently every rank-3 matroid with fewer two-point lines must be non-orientable. A matroid without any two-point lines is called a Sylvester matroid. Relatedly, the Kelly–Moser configuration with seven points and only three ordinary lines forms one of the forbidden minors for GF(4)-representable matroids. |
Szachy, Lublin Voivodeship | Szachy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drelów, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Drelów, west of Biała Podlaska, and north of the regional capital Lublin. |
Obierwia | Obierwia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lelis, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Dronpa | Dronpa is a reversibly switchable photoactivatable fluorescent protein that is 2.5 times as bright as EGFP. Dronpa gets switched off by strong illumination with 488 nm (blue) light and this can be reversed by weak 405 nm UV light. A single dronpa molecule can be switched on and off over 100 times. It has an excitation peak at 503 nm and an emission peak at 518 nm.
History
A tetrameric, reversibly switchable fluorescent protein was discovered in a cDNA screen of a stony coral (Pectiniidae). A monomeric variant of this protein was named "Dronpa" after "Dron" a ninja term for vanishing and pa for photoactivation.
Structure and mechanism of photoswitching
Dronpa is 257 amino acids long and is a 28.8 kDa monomer. Dronpa is 76% similar in sequence to GFP and shares a similar structure with an 11 stranded β-barrel (a β-can) enclosing an α-helix. The chromophore is formed autocatalytically from residues Cys62,Tyr63 and Gly64. The on state of the dronpa molecule has the chromophore in a cis conformation while the off state chromophore exists in the trans conformation. Several other residues in the vicinity of the chromophore also move during the on-off transition resulting a very different electrostatic environment.
Applications
Dronpa's fast dynamics and stability under repeated cycles of switching make it one of the more important switchable fluorescent proteins. It is used in super resolution microscopy techniques like PALM/STORM. It can also be used to track fast dynamics of proteins in cells.
Oligomeric forms of Dronpa have been engineered as synthetic photosensory domains. When a dimeric or tetrameric form of Dronpa photoswitches, its oligomerization affinity changes. This was used to enable optical control over the activity of enzymes. Specifically, two Dronpa domains can be attached to locations on a protein so that their tetramerization or oligomerization blocks or cages protein function in the dark, but monomerization after illumination activates or uncages protein function. This method has been used to control a variety of proteins including serine/threonine kinases. |
Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? | Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? is a 1973 American made-for-television comedy film starring Barbara Eden and Dean Jones, directed by Theodore J. Flicker from a teleplay written by Pamela Herbert Chais based on her play Six Weeks in August. It originally premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week on October 31, 1973.
Synopsis
Francine Gregory (Barbara Eden) is a divorced woman whose charming, vagabond, penniless ex-husband George (Dean Jones) brings hilarity and havoc into her life when he moves into her house with his new wife, baby, and dog during his annual summer visit.
Cast
Barbara Eden as Francine Gregory
Dean Jones as George Gregory
Ken Mars as Mitchell Bernard
Susanne Benton as Chloe Gregory
Todd Lookinland as Adam Gregory
Reta Shaw as Mrs. Guzmando
Diana Herbert as Delores
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Stolany | Stolany is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 350 inhabitants.
External links
Short official information about the village (in Czech) |
Andrew E. Bellisario | Andrew Eugene Bellisario (born December 19, 1956) is an American bishop of the Catholic Church serving as the sixth and current bishop of the Diocese of Juneau. He also serves as apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
Biography
Bellisario entered the Congregation of the Mission (Vicentians) in 1975 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 16, 1984.
Pope Francis appointed him bishop of the Diocese of Juneau on July 11, 2017. His was consecrated and installed on October 10, 2017 at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Juneau.
At his installation mass, Bishop Bellisario, during his homily, said "We as bishops need a living encounter and relationship with Christ, and our people need us to be in close relationship with Christ. Our friendship with Christ, indeed, our love for Christ, will lead us to his cross. I pray that Christ may help you to see the crosses of your life also as a ‘friend,’ for it is solely from this ‘tree of life’ that we enjoy the gift of salvation."
On June 7, 2019, Pope Francis appointed Bellisario apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Anchorage following the transfer of Archbishop Paul D. Eitenne to serve as the Archbishop of Seattle.
Coat of Arms
Left Side of the Shield, Diocese of Juneau
The Wavy Silver and Blue lines: Represents water, the highway uniting the parishes and missions of the diocese.
The Constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear: The constellation of the Northern Hemisphere includes the Big Dipper with its two pointers to the North Star.
The North Star (Polaris): Represents the Blessed Virgin Mary, the ever constant guide of spiritual mariners, under her title "Our Lady, Star of the Sea" (Stella Maris). It also represents the constant guide of the mariner, explorer, hunter, trapper, prospector, woodsman and surveyor of Alaska.
The Crescent Moon: Represents the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and commemorates the Cathedral church of the diocese.
Right Side of the Shield, Bishop Bellisario's Personal Coat of Arms
The Cross of Saint Andrew: Represents Saint Andrew the Apostle, Bishop Bellisario's Patron Saint.
The Long Stem Rose: Represents Bishop Bellisario's mother, Mildred (1922–2006), and his English heritage.
The Ship: Represents the Church, the Bark of Saint Peter, putting out into the deep. It also represents Bishop Bellisario's father, Rocky (1915–2005), the Bellisario Family and his Italian heritage.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus+: Represents Jesus, who died for our sins, and commemorates Bishop Bellisario's religious community, the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians), following Christ evangelizing the poor.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary+: Represents Mary, who intercedes for us and commemorates the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, serving persons who are poor.
+ Both hearts are taken from the reverse side of the Miraculous Medal.
Motto: "Rich in Mercy" (Dives in Misericordia) |
Sualkuchi | Sualkuchi (Pron: ˈʃʊɑ:lˌkʊʧɪ) is a census town in Kamrup district in the Indian state of Assam. It is situated on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra, about 35 km from Guwahati, Sualkuchi is a block of Kamrup District. It has large number of cottage industry engaged in handloom, for which it is also known as the "Manchester of Assam".
Silk center
This is the textile center of Assam. Muga silk and Pat silk along with Eri silk and Endi cloth from this region is famous for its quality. Mekhela chadors and Gamosas made from this indigenous materials is in demand throughout Assam as well as other parts of India. It's registered trademark is SUALKUCHI'S.
Geography
Sualkuchi is located at . It has an average elevation of .
Demographics
India census, Sualkuchi had a population of 14,129. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Sualkuchi has an average literacy rate of 82%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 88%, and female literacy is 76%. In Sualkuchi, 6% of the population is under 6 years of age. |
Velasco the Basque | Velasco the Basque (, Balask al-Galaski) was the Basque ruler of Pamplona in the early 9th century.
Velasco may have come to power in 799 in the uprising that overthrew the Umayyad rule in Pamplona. The Muslim governor, Muṭarrif ibn Mūsa, probably of the Banu Qasi, was assassinated.
The contemporary Annales Regni Francorum record that "the Navarri and the Pamplonans, who had defected to the Saracens in recent years, were received back into allegiance" in 806. Velasco must be seen as a pro-Frankish leader, perhaps even a Frankish appointee.
According to the 11th-century Muqtabis of Ibn Ḥayyān, in the year 816 (AH 200) the Córdoban ḥājib ʿAbd al-Karīm led an expedition against Velasco, whom he describes as the "lord of Pamplona" (, ṣāḥib) and the "enemy of God". There is no record of Velasco receiving any assistance from his Frankish allies. In fact, the Umayyad governor of Zaragoza, the future ʿAbd al-Raḥmān II, even sent an embassy to the Frankish emperor Louis the Pious that year, perhaps to forestall just such a Frankish reaction.
Velasco did request and receive assistance from the neighbouring Kingdom of Asturias. The Asturian contingent included some Basques from the region of Álava. After thirteen days of fighting "without truce" along the river Arum, Velasco was defeated and the Álavan leader, García López (Garsiya ibn Lubb), was killed. This García was a cousin of King Alfonso II of Asturias, who was himself half-Basque. The "best knight of Pamplona", Sancho, and a certain Ṣaltān, leader of the majūs (idolaters), were also among those killed. Following their defeat, the Basques blocked the rivers and mountain passes, frustrating any further Umayyad advance. Ṣaltān was probably the leader of a faction of pagan Basques.
Nothing is heard of Velasco after his defeat in 816, but he was no longer lord of Pamplona by 824, when Íñigo Arista was ruling there. |
Kuchpanqa | Kuchpanqa (Quechua kuchpay to roll, -nqa an archaic nominalising suffix to indicate a place destinated for something, "(place) for rolling something", hispanicized spelling Cuchpanga) is a mountain at a small lake of that name in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Pasco Region, Pasco Province, in the districts of and Huayllay and Simón Bolívar. |
GLUT3 | Glucose transporter 3 (or GLUT3), also known as solute carrier family 2, facilitated glucose transporter member 3 (SLC2A3) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC2A3 gene. GLUT3 facilitates the transport of glucose across the plasma membranes of mammalian cells. GLUT3 is most known for its specific expression in neurons and has originally been designated as the neuronal GLUT. GLUT3 has been studied in other cell types with specific glucose requirements, including sperm, preimplantation embryos, circulating white blood cells and carcinoma cell lines.
Discovery
GLUT3 was the third glucose transporter to be discovered, first cloned in 1988 from a fetal skeletal muscle cell line, using a GLUT1 cDNA probe and shown to share 64.4% identity with GLUT1.
Function
Although GLUT3 was found to be expressed in various tissues, it is most specifically expressed in neurons, found predominantly in axons and dendrites and also, but less prominently, in the cell body. GLUT3 has both a higher affinity for glucose than GLUT1, -2 or -4 and at least a fivefold greater transport capacity than GLUT1 and GLUT4, which is particularly significant for its role in neuronal glucose transport, where ambient glucose levels surrounding the neurons are 1-2 mM, which is approximately fivefold lower than in serum where glucose levels are 5-6 mM.
Brain
Glucose delivery and utilization in the mammalian brain is mediated primarily by a high molecular weight form of GLUT1 in the blood–brain barrier, GLUT3 in neuronal populations and a less glycosylated form of GLUT1 in the remainder of the parenchyma. GLUT3 is considered the main but not the exclusive neuronal glucose transporter, whereas other glucose transporters have also been observed in neurons.
GLUT3 expression in neurons in the rat coincides with maturation and synaptic connectivity and a positive correlation between protein levels of GLUT1, GLUT3 and regional cerebral glucose utilization was observed in mouse.
The central role of GLUT3 in cerebral metabolism has been challenged by the astrocyte-neuron lactate shuttle (ANLS) hypothesis, which proposes that astrocytes play the key role in the coupling of neuronal activity and cerebral glucose utilization. In this hypothesis, the astrocyte, which relies on GLUT1 for glucose transport, is the primary consumer of glucose in the brain, providing lactate as the primary energetic fuel for neurons. However, by modeling the kinetic characteristics and glucose concentrations in neurons and glia, it was concluded that the glucose capacity of neurons via GLUT3 far exceeds that of astrocytes via GLUT1. Additionally, demonstrations of increase in GLUT3 expression associated with increased cerebral glucose utilization provides further confirmation of the central role of GLUT3.
Other tissues
Expression of GLUT3 is also found in sperm, embryos, white blood cells and carcinoma cell lines.
Interactive pathway map |
Boulder Point | Boulder Point () is the southern extremity of Stonington Island, close off the west coast of Graham Land. It was first surveyed in 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service. Upon being resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey it was named for its prominent granite boulder. |
Custody Notification Scheme | A Custody Notification Scheme (CNS) is a 24-hour legal advice and support telephone hotline for any Australian Aboriginal person brought into custody, connecting them with lawyers from the Aboriginal Legal Service. It is intended to reduce the high number of Aboriginal deaths in custody by counteracting the effects of institutional racism. Where CNSs have been implemented, there have been dramatic reductions in the numbers of Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The implementation of a CNS in all Australian states and territories was recommendation 224 of the 339 recommendations of the 1991 Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report.
Implementation
Most states and territories did not comply with the CNS recommendation . About 340 Aboriginal people died in custody between the recommendation being made in 1991 and 2015. Between 1991 and 2019, over 400 Aboriginal people have died in custody.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) brought in a CNS in 1995. New South Wales (NSW) brought in a CNS in 2000. It was highly successful and has since been cited as a model. In 2016, one Aboriginal person died in custody in NSW; this was the first time an Aboriginal person had died in custody in NSW or the ACT since the CNSs were implemented. Police failed to notify the CNS, rather than there being any problem with the service itself.
In May 2016, a report recommended that Western Australia stop jailing people for unpaid fines. The report mentioned the death of Ms Dhu. The report was authored by Neil Morgan, Inspector of Custodial Services. In October 2016 Nigel Scullion, the federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, offered to fund the first three years of implementation for any state that legislated a CNS. The Western Australian government rejected the offer. In March 2017, Dhu's family criticised both the major political parties in Western Australia for not supporting such a scheme. The incumbent Liberal Party voiced their opposition to the program, while the Labor Party said they would consider the scheme though had made no commitments.
In October 2017, the Australian federal government was reported to be urging states and territories to implement a CNS. Attorney-General of Western Australia John Quigley supported such a program, saying "I think it [is] life-saving legislation. I'm sure if they took the late Ms Dhu into custody ... if the Aboriginal Legal Service [had] been contacted on day one it would have been a very different outcome." An online petition calling for the scheme was signed by almost 20,000 people in less than one week.
On 21 May 2018, it was announced that the WA state government had reconsidered the offer from the federal government to fund a CNS, and that the service would be operational by the end of the year. The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia will operate the service. As of 29 August the system has not been implemented due to inadequate funding, though negotiations for funding were ongoing, with John Quigley saying he hoped the service would be operational soon. In November 2018 it was announced the service would be operational in the first half of 2019. The service will cost $952,000 per year, with the Federal Government and State Government contributing $750,000 and $202,000 respectively. ALSWA will employ five lawyers and two support staff to run the service.
In 2018, the Northern Territory agreed to implement a CNS. The system attracted criticism for exempting protective custody and paperless arrests; for such arrests, police are not required to notify the CNS. There had previously been deaths in NT following exempted types of arrests. There are reports that the CNS legislation was substantially drafted by the police.
In some states, police have successfully argued for provisions in police operational manuals rather than legislation.
Victoria has some non-legislative CNS-like requirements in Victoria Police Manual’s instruction 113-1. The notifications are known as known as E* Justice Notifications. As of 2018, Victoria was expected to be the next state to legislate a CNS, with a proposed law being reviewed by the legislature.
In 2018, representatives from South Australian and Queensland argued they already had their own adequate systems in place, while Tasmania said they were considering the system but had not made a decision. |
Quenisset (crater) | Quenisset is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle at 34.6° N and 319.4° W. It measures 138 kilometer in diameter. Adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1973, the crater was named after French astronomer Ferdinand Quénisset.
Description
Some close up images of the rim show old glaciers along the walls of smaller craters. Some glaciers are called lobate debris aprons. |
Loophole (short story) | "Loophole" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1946 in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. It was subsequently published as part of a short story collection in A Treasury of Science Fiction (Groff Conklin, 1948 and Expedition to Earth in 1953.
It details the concern of the advanced Martian civilization with humanity's research into rocketry following the discovery of atomic power. The title of the story refers to the solution humanity utilizes to overcome the threat of the Martians.
Summary
The story begins in the form of correspondence between the President of Mars and the Secretary of the Martian Council of Scientists, regarding the discovery of atomic power (in the form of atomic bombs) by humans. They are concerned that once humanity's current war is over (they have been monitoring Earth's broadcasts), humans will use atomic power and rockets to breach interplanetary space and pose a threat to Mars. A remote monitoring station is set up by Mars on the Moon to monitor Earth's progress. Finally they send a fleet of 19 battleships along with a warning to Earth that one city will be destroyed every time a rocket leaves Earth's atmosphere. Earth agrees to stop experimenting with rockets when they realize their broadcasts are being intercepted. Ten years pass without any further rocket experimentation, while the Martians plan for the extermination of the human race, believing that Earth will always be a threat to them.
The next letter, beginning "Mars is a mess!", is sent from Mars by a human named Lieutenant Commander Henry Forbes, and reports to Earth upon the destruction of Martian civilization due to a nuclear attack from Earth. The previous letters had been recovered from the ruins of the capital. Rather than experimenting with rockets, humans had perfected matter transmission and beamed their bombs directly over the Martian cities. Forbes is hopeful that rocket experiments will resume soon, as he finds being "beamed" across space to be uncomfortable. |
St. Rynagh's GAA | St. Rynagh's (Irish: Naomh Raghnach) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club that encompasses the towns of Cloghan and Banagher in County Offaly, in Ireland. Formed in 1961, the club gained almost immediate success - winning the senior championship in 1965. St. Rynagh's went on to appear in three All-Ireland club finals during the next 30 years.
St. Rynagh's has also supplied three of Offaly's four All-Ireland winning captains, namely Padraig Horan, Martin Hanamy and Hubert Rigney. Other noted players in the club's history include RTÉ pundit Michael Duignan, Pad Joe Whelahan, Aidan Fogarty and Declan Fogarty, David Hughes, Tom and Mícheál Conneely, and first ever all-star goalkeeper Damien Martin. All the previously mentioned players plus Seanie White, John Ryan, Paudie Mulhare, Eunan Martin and Michael Rigney are holders of All Ireland Senior Hurling Medals.
The club enters teams for all major codes, and has had and continues to have many players on the county teams - though in recent years St. Rynaghs have been more noted for supplying players to the football inter-county side.
St. Rynagh's have won the Minor, Under 16, and Under 14 Offaly championships in 2007, while also reaching the Semi-Final at the 2007 Féile na nGael in Kilkenny. The Under 14 football squad captured the Division 3 title at Feile Peil na nÓg also.
The St. Rynagh's Senior Football side are based in Cloghan and wear green and white hooped jerseys. They are managed by Ken Kellaghan (Rhode). Sod Daly is a selector.
The St. Rynagh's Senior Hurling side are based out in Banagher and wear blue and gold jerseys and are managed by Francis Forde
Honours
Offaly Senior Hurling Championships: 17
1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1992 1993, 2016
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 4
1970, 1972, 1982, 1993
Offaly Intermediate Football Championship: 5
1980, 1986, 1997, 2005, 2010
Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship: 4
1978, 1987, 1992, 1993
Offaly Junior Football Championship: 2
1974, 1975
Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship: 4
1963, 1975, 2004, 2011
Notable players
Tom Conneely
Michael Duignan
Aidan Fogarty
Declan Fogarty
Martin Hanamy
Padraig Horan
David Hughes
Damien Martin
Shane McGuckin
Paudie Mulhaire
Hubert Rigney
Pad Joe Whelahan |
Thom Wolf | Thom Wolf is international president and professor of global studies of University Institute, New Delhi, India, an Asia-based learning group in, servicing South and East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is an International Fellow of Canyon Institute of Advanced Studies, Phoenix.
Wolf is a social entrepreneur, author and educator in the fields of international education and leadership. He has the B.A. Sociology, Baylor University, M.A. Cross-Cultural Studies, Fuller Graduate School; been awarded an honorary D.Lit. Humanities Grand Canyon University; and has earned a PhD (Global Leadership) Andrews University
Wolf designed several Master of Arts programs for US universities. Leadership engagement and lectures globally include the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México[3], Harvard University, New York University, Indiana University, UCLA, the UC Berkeley, Princeton University, Stanford University, Kunming University (Yunan Province China), Delhi University, Lucknow, and UniversityAmerican University of Dubai. Kunming University (Yunan Province China).
His teachings have centered on the social, educational, and ethical dimensions of comparative worldviews. Informed by the "culture matters" school of thinking (Harrison, Berger, Etounga-Manguelle, Edgerton, Gordona, and others), Wolf is part of a growing international group of thinkers and activists (Omvedt, Mani, Mungekar, Jadhav, Sardar, Lall, Andrade and others) exploring the significance of the voice of Mahatma Jotirao Phule and wife Savitribai Phule, for the full development of contemporary India.
Wolf is author of India Progress-Prone, translated into Hindi and Marathi.
His ideas have been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, Journal of AC Leadership and elsewhere., and is co-author of Phule in His Own Words (2007) 2nd Edition (with Sunil Sardar), and of "Savitribai and India’s Conversation on Education" (2008) (with Suzana Andrade).
His explorations of worshipviews/worldviews/worldvenues linkages have been published in Hindu/Buddhist and Hebrew/Christian Meditation: A Gender Studies Comparison (2006); Buddhism and the Contemporary World, "Three Challenges for Buddhism in the 21st century" (2007)[5]; and Buddhism in the 21st century, "Mahayana Buddhism: TippingPoint Buddhism" (release date 2009).
Articles and Lectures
GlobalShift: The New History Vectors
Hindu/Buddhist and Hebrew/Christian Meditation: A Gender Studies Comparison
Progress-Prone and Progress-Resistant Cultures: Worldview Issues
Chair, 'International Practices of Buddhism' Session, 2550th Anniversary of Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha, at Bodhgaya, India, the birthplace of Buddhism. The International Conference "was organized by the Ministry at Bodh Gaya from 4th to 6th February, 2007 where eminent scholars from India and abroad presented a rich collection of papers on 'Buddha and the 21st century'".
The Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
World Christian Fellowship Newsletter
Catching the Wave: the Shift from the Ordained to the Ordinary
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor School of Business Distinguished Speaker Series 2006: GlobalShift: The New History Vectors. Other University Distinguished Speakers Series lecturers included Dr. Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) and former USA President, the Honorable George H. W. Bush (2006).
Baylor University, Lecture: Hindu/Buddhist and Hebrew/Christian Meditation: A Gender Studies Comparison (2006)
Lucknow University, Sociology Department Lecture: Progress-Prone and Progress-Resistant Cultures: Worldview Issues (2006)
Chair, International Practices of Buddhism Session, 2550th Anniversary of Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha, International Conference at Bodhgaya, India, the birthplace of Buddhism. A Conference of the Government of India, Ministry of Culture (2007)
American University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Progress-Prone and Progress-Resistant Cultures: A Template for Research (2008)
Publications
India Progress-Prone 2nd edition (2008) (2008, translated into Hindi and Marathi)
Buddhism and the Contemporary World (2007)
Phule in His Own Words (2007) 2nd Edition (with Sunil Sardar)
Savitribai and India's Conversation on Education (2008) (with Suzana Andrade)
Buddhism in the 21st century (release date 2009) |
Annie Kuether | Annie Kuether is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 55th district. She has served since 1997.
Committee membership
Energy and Utilities (Ranking Member)
Judiciary
Major donors
The top 5 donors to Kuether's 2008 campaign:
1. Kansans for Lifesaving Cures $1,000
2. Golden Belt Telephone Assoc $1,000
3. Kansas Contractors Assoc $1,000
4. Kansas City Power and Light $1,000
5. Kansas National Education Assoc $1,000 |
Margaret Baird | Margaret Alison Baird (1945 – 2016) was a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago. Her research considered dendritic cells and their role in cancer and infectious disease.
Early life and education
Baird was born in Tauranga, a small town that is on the North Island of New Zealand. She attended the University of Otago, where she studied zoology and graduated in 1967. After graduating Baird worked as a high school teacher, teaching biology at St Hilda’s Collegiate School. She developed debating and drama programs for the school students. Her husband joined the King George VI School in Honiara in 1970, and soon after Baird followed to teach science and art. In 1972 she returned to New Zealand, where she worked as a Speech and Drama teacher. Baird became interested in microbiology and enrolled on a postgraduate course in immunology at the University of Otago. She was the only woman and oldest person on the course. She eventually started a doctoral degree in transplant immunology, working with Barbara Heslop at the University of Otago. In 1984 she earned her PhD, and later that year coordinated an important immunology meeting in Queenstown. The 1985 meeting would lead to the formation of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology.
Research and career
Baird investigated dendritic cells. She was made a lecturer in the Microbiology Department at the University of Otago, where she investigated the role of dendritic cells in infectious diseases and cancer. She was promoted to Professor in 2011.
When Baird retired in 2012 she was made a part time Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Otago. In this capacity she studied the role of p53 in tumour suppression. She also studied how p53 was involved in the regulation of dendritic cell function.
Academic service
Baird taught immunology courses at the University of Otago. In 2013 Baird was the first New Zealander to be awarded the Derrick Rowley Medal, which represents outstanding service to Immunology and the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology.
Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award
In 2019 the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology established the Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award. The award is worth $5,000 AUD to fund a trans-Tasman lectureship. This lectureship will involve a series of guest lectures across New Zealand and Australia, focusing on the applicant’s research, but also including perspectives on equity and balance in science careers. |
Jean-Théodore Laurent | Jean-Théodore Laurent (6 July 1804 – 20 February 1884) was the Apostolic Vicar of Luxembourg from 1841 to 1856.
Laurent was born in 1804 in Aachen to a family of modest means. His father, the Luxembourger Franz Laurent, had 14 children with his wife Gertrude Schönen, originally from Aachen. After attending a Gymnasium in Aachen, Laurent studied theology for two years in Bonn. As he disliked the lectures by Professor Georg Hermes, he moved to the diocese of Lüttich, where he continued his studies in the seminary. Here he was ordained a priest on 14 March 1829. From 1829 to 1835 he was a vicar in Heerlen, and from 1835 to 1839 worked as a parson in Gemmenich in Belgium, near Plombières. During this period the Cologne church controversy was escalating, in which he was involved through his own writings, and in which he took the side of the founder of the Aachener Priesterkreis and ultramontanist, Leonhard Aloys Joseph Nellessen, arguing against the tenets of Hermesianism.
The Leuven Professor Karl Möller and the Nuntius in Brussels, Raffaele Fornari, were friends with Laurent, and on 17 September 1839 he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the Nordic Missions and titular bishop of Chersonesus in Crete. He was consecrated on 27 December 1839 in Lüttich. As Laurent was rejected by the Prussian government due to his position during the church controversy, his appointment was untenable, and he asked to be relieved of his office on 15 November 1840. Until then, he had resided in Aachen.
On 1 December 1841 he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of Luxembourg, but the appointment was kept a secret at the wish of William II of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (and King of the Netherlands in personal union). Confrontations ensued between Laurent, oriented towards Rome, and the liberal Luxembourgish government. Laurent, more reckless than diplomatic, made efforts to establish a seminary, a regulated parish system, and to strengthen church influence in the schools.
During the Revolution of 1848-1849, false accusations were levelled against the Bishop, and the government increasingly agitated for his dismissal. He finally left Luxembourg on 1 May 1848. Numerous pleas from e.g. the Dutch King, still did not lead the government to soften their tone. In the end, Laurent submitted his resignation on 2 June 1856, at the request of Pope Pius IX. This was accepted on 10 July 1856, and the Luxembourgish government agreed to award him a pension. On 20 May 1856, there had been a formal statement in Luxembourg which rehabilitated the Bishop.
In Aachen, he lived with his brother, the city archivist and librarian Josef Laurent, and was involved in the foundation of several monasteries, specifically that of the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus, of which he was the spiritual director and in whose church he often preached. In 1879 he followed them to Simpelveld, as they had to go into exile during the Kulturkampf, and functioned as their resident cleric. Here he died in 1884; his grave is in the cemetery of the Sisters.
Laurent was a complicated person and characterised by a certain imbalance. Guided in his actions by feelings and moods, he followed his sympathies and antipathies, and could appear spontaneous and energetic in his statements. At other times, he was filled with melancholy and gloom. In matters concerning the Catholic Church, however, he was always full of energy, without compromise, and always ready for a fight. He saw himself as the warrior of an orthodox faith, rejecting anything that hinted of Hermesianism. Equipped with his great theological knowledge, he was however less of a scholar, as an agitator and attacker. His bravery, sincerity and devoutness also brought respect from his opponents. |
Quilly, Ardennes | Quilly is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.
Population |
William Becknell | William Becknell (1787 or 1788 – April 30, 1865) was an American soldier, politician, and freight operator who is credited with opening the Santa Fe Trail in 1821, which became an early major transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. It served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880. Becknell had used long-established trails made by Native Americans and Spanish and French colonial explorers and traders for years before his trip.
French colonists in St. Louis had a monopoly on trade with Santa Fe, which was granted by the Spanish crown before the Louisiana Purchase. When Mexico achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it opened up trade to its territories; residents of Santa Fe were eager for more trade goods. In 1822, Becknell altered his route to Santa Fe in order to find a trail more suitable for wagon trains so that he could enable transport of more trade goods. Earlier travelers had ridden on horseback trailing packhorses. By 1825, he assisted a surveyor with the federal government in mapping the trail to make it available for commercial and military use.
Early life
William Alexander Becknell was born in the Rockfish Creek area of Amherst County, Virginia to parents Micajah and Pheby (Landrum) Becknell. Conflicting sources say his year of birth was 1787 or 1788. Young Becknell's father and grandfather were veterans of the American Revolution, as were two uncles who died in the war.
Becknell married Jane Trusler in 1807 in Virginia. In 1810 the young family migrated to the new Missouri Territory, homesteading west of present-day St. Charles. During the War of 1812, Becknell served in the United States Mounted Rangers under Captain Daniel Morgan Boone, son of the famed explorer. He participated in several engagements, including the Battle of Credit Island and the defense of Fort Clemson, near St. Louis. In the latter engagement, he took control of the defense after senior officers fell. For this he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and was long known as Captain Becknell. Following his discharge from Federal service in June 1815, Becknell moved west to the area known as the Boonslick in central Missouri.
Jane Becknell died of unknown circumstance around the time of her husband's military discharge, possibly in childbirth. In January 1817 the widower married again, to Mary Cribb. According to U.S. Census Bureau records, Becknell was the father of at least five children in total: Mary Jane born in 1815, John Calhoun born in 1817, William Alexander Jr. also born in 1817, Lucy born in 1818, and Cornelia born in 1827. Becknell supported his family by working as a ferryman on the Missouri river and by managing the Boone's Lick Salt Works. In early 1820 he purchased 180 acres in Howard County, Missouri and moved the family there.
Trailblazer
In 1821 William Becknell faced substantial debt. He had bought out the Boone family interest in the aforementioned salt works around 1818. In 1820 Becknell ran unsuccessfully for the Missouri Legislature and borrowed money to finance the campaign. The Panic of 1819 took its toll on his business activities by limiting the amount of credit and hard currency available. Owing creditors more than $1,200 dollars ($20,000 in today's money), Becknell was briefly jailed until a friend posted bail. The judge in the case gave Becknell until early 1822 to pay his creditors or face more jail time.
Under pressure, Becknell left Franklin in September 1821 on an extended trading trip, including hunting for furs, as the fur trade was still lucrative. He bought $300 worth of trade goods for his trip. According to an advertisement Becknell placed in the Missouri Intelligencer newspaper, his intent was "for the purpose of trading for horses and mules and catching wild animals of every description." Becknell and his group were not the only ones searching for a convenient trade route to Santa Fe, but that fall they were the first to arrive, in mid-November 1821. Becknell's timing was near perfect.
Mexico had recently become independent of Spain. It lifted the ban against trade with outsiders. French colonists from St. Louis had traded with Santa Fe when both were still under Spanish rule before the Louisiana Purchase. The Chouteau brothers of St. Louis had been given a monopoly with the Spanish for trade in Santa Fe, and this trade contributed to the wealth of the river city.
The people of Santa Fe were eager for the variety of goods Becknell offered from his string of pack horses. They were willing to pay high prices, with some cotton cloth and calico bringing the then-unheard of sum of three dollars a yard. After a month of trading, Becknell and his party left Santa Fe on December 13 with their saddlebags overflowing with silver. His investment of $300 in trading goods had returned approximately $6000 in coin.
Reaching Missouri in January 1822, Becknell almost immediately began planning his next trading trip to Santa Fe. For his second journey, he chose to haul trade goods by wagon instead of pack horse. He had to slightly alter his original route to accommodate the width of wagons and draft teams. The wagon train left Franklin in May 1822 and suffered considerable hardship, with both animals and people nearly dying of thirst in the parched Cimarron Desert. The 'train' arrived in Santa Fe forty-eight days later. The second trip proved to be even more profitable than the first. Taking an estimated $3,000 in goods to Santa Fe, Becknell's party returned with a profit of around $91,000 dollars. They paid some of that total as dividends to shareholders who had helped fund the trip, and even the smallest investor reaped great returns.
Becknell made a third profitable trip to Santa Fe in 1824. The following year in 1825, he helped map the trail for surveyors hired by the U.S. Congress. For his efforts in opening up an improved route for regular traffic and military movement, William Becknell became known as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail
Later life
In 1827 Becknell was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Saline County, Missouri. The following year he was elected to the first of two terms in the Missouri House of Representatives. Retaining his rank of Captain, Becknell served in the Missouri state militia during a Native American uprising in 1829 and again during the 1832 Black Hawk War.
In 1835 Becknell sold all his Missouri property and business interests and moved to present-day Red River County, Texas in northeast Texas. During the Texas War of Independence, Becknell organized and led a cavalry unit known as the Red River Blues. Later he would serve briefly as a Texas Ranger and as a member of the legislature in the newly established Republic of Texas.
Becknell died on April 30, 1865, at his home. He is buried in a private family cemetery. US 82 passes by the site a few miles west of Clarksville, Texas. |
Marcus Minucius Rufus | Marcus Minucius Rufus (died August 2, 216 BC) was a Roman consul in 221 BC. He was also Magister Equitum during the dictatorship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus known as Cunctator.
He was a political enemy of Fabius Maximus. He was against his delaying defensive strategy during the Second Punic War. While the Carthaginians had been busy at Geronium, Fabius had left Minucius in charge of the Roman army with instructions to follow the "Fabian strategy" and journeyed to Rome to observe some religious duties. Minucius, who had always advocated a more forward strategy against Hannibal, moved down from the hills after a few days and set up a new camp in the plain of Larinum to the north of Geronium. The Romans then began harassing the Carthaginian foragers from their new camp as Minucius sought to provoke Hannibal into battle. Hannibal in response moved near the Roman camp from Geronium with two thirds of his army, built a temporary camp and occupied a hill overlooking the Roman camp with 2,000 Numidian spearmen. The mobility of the Carthaginians was restricted at this time as their cavalry horses were being rested. This had also deprived Hannibal of his best weapon against the Romans, a fact which would come into play soon.
Minucius promptly attacked and drove back the spearmen posted on the hill, and then moved his camp to the top of the captured hill. The stage was set for a confrontation, with the initiative resting with Minucius. The Roman commander, for all his rashness, handled the situation with skill and shrewdness to manipulate the events to his advantage. After that he was named co-commander to Fabius. However Minucius finally accepted his commands after Fabius saved his life during Hannibal's attack at Geronium.
Marcus Minucius Rufus was killed in the Battle of Cannae.
Notes and references
Rufus, Marcus |
Get Skintight | Get Skintight is the third studio album by the American rock band The Donnas, released in 1999 (See 1999 in music) on Lookout!.
As of 2005 it has sold 58,000 units in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Track listing
All songs written by Brett Anderson, Torry Castellano, Maya Ford and Allison Robertson except as noted.
"Skintight" – 2:36
"Hyperactive" – 2:15
"You Don't Wanna Call" – 4:01
"Hook It Up" – 2:36
"Doin' Donuts" – 1:36
"Searching the Streets" – 2:58
"Party Action" – 2:22
"I Didn't Like You Anyway" – 3:57
"Get Outta My Room" – 2:21
"Well Done" – 2:35
"Get You Alone" – 2:21
"Hot Boxin'" – 2:31
"Too Fast for Love" (Nikki Sixx) – 3:29
"Zero" – 2:28
Personnel
Donna A. (Brett Anderson) – vocals
Donna R. (Allison Robertson) – guitar, vocals
Donna F. (Maya Ford) – bass guitar
Donna C. (Torry Castellano) – drums, percussion, vocals
Production
Producers: Jeff McDonald, Steve McDonald
Engineer: Robert Shimp
Mixing: The Donnas, Robert Shimp
Mastering: John Golden
Layout design: Chris Appelgren |
Matheson, New South Wales | Matheson, New South Walesis civil parish of Manara County and a rural locality of Central Darling Shire in far western New South Wales.
Matheson is located at 32°49′35″S 144°12′59″E and the area is hot and arid and as such there are no settlements with Matheson but the nearest town is Ivanhoe 3 kilometers to the south east. |
Meet the Mormons | Meet the Mormons is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Blair Treu and produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The film documents the lives of six devout Mormons living in the United States, Costa Rica, and Nepal. The LDS Church donated all net proceeds from the theatrical release of the film to the American Red Cross.
Production
The film was originally designed for viewing in the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City, but after screenings with test audiences, LDS Church leadership decided to release the film first in theaters across the United States. According to Jeffrey R. Holland, the film is "not a proselytizing effort but informative" and is an "opportunity to share who Mormons really are". The film is financed and distributed by the LDS Church, a first for the church. It is shot in documentary format and will be translated into 10 languages.
American singer-songwriter and actor David Archuleta sang the track "Glorious" for the film.
Featured people
The film features Jermaine Sullivan, "The Bishop", and his family. Sullivan is an African-American who is an academic counselor at the University of Phoenix. He was bishop of a ward in Atlanta, Georgia when the film was made, and now serves as a stake president. The film also covers Sullivan's wife and children. Darius Gray was among the associates of Sullivan interviewed.
"The Coach", Ken Niumatalolo, head football coach at the United States Naval Academy.
"The Fighter", Carolina Muñoz Marin, an MMA fighter from Costa Rica who had a chance to go pro international, but she and her husband decided it would separate their family too much.
"The Humanitarian", Bishnu Adhikari, a man from Nepal, with a degree in engineering who is the country director for Choice Humanitarian in Nepal. The organization works to improve the living situation in rural parts of Nepal.
"The Candy Bomber", Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force pilot best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" who dropped candy to children during the Berlin airlift from 1948 to 1949.
"The Missionary Mom", Dawn Armstrong, her story is chronicled from the birth of a son when she was a teenager, abandonment by his biological father, meeting her current husband - who had both her oldest son and her deceased next oldest son sealed to him when they were married in the temple, to her oldest son leaving to serve a mission.
Release
Meet the Mormons was released on October 10, 2014, in the United States by Purdie Distribution and Excel Entertainment. The LDS Church donated all net proceeds from the theatrical release of film to the American Red Cross. Beginning January 2015, the LDS Church began showing the film in all of its visitors' centers and historical sites.
Theme song
The theme song from the documentary was "Glorious" originally written and recorded by Stephanie Mabey. It is found in her album Wake Up Dreaming released on August 1, 2012.
For the film version, the song was sung by David Archuleta, a finalist in season 7 of American Idol. The Archuleta version was released as a single in English language accompanied by a music video. An alternative Spanish version as "Glorioso" was also released again sung by Archuleta.
Reception
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 18% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2 out of 10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 29 out of 100 based on reviews from 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
The film has been criticized as propaganda. Critics felt the documentary lacked information about Mormon history, its tenets, and its controversies. Producer Jeff Roberts responded to these reviews saying, "Most reviewers wanted the movie to be controversial, but we wanted to tell stories about those who make up our base." Some reviewers praised the movie for its "slick" cinematography.
The film grossed $2,509,808 in its opening weekend, placing it outside the top 10. , it is listed 34th in revenue-producing documentary films. |
Manche (disambiguation) | Manche is a French department in Lower Normandy.
Manche or La Manche may also refer to:
English Channel ()
Daniel Manche (born 1993), American child actor
French frigate Manche (1806)
La Manche, Newfoundland and Labrador, a former community in Canada
La Manche Provincial Park, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Manche Ch'ol, a former Maya people
Manche Sanchez, a character on the television series Prison Break
Neck (music), part of musical instruments, particularly used in French music |
Manzil (1995 film) | Manzil is a 1995 Maldivian drama film directed by Mariyam Shauqee and Arifa Ibrahim. Produced by Shauqee, the film stars Abdulla Munaz, Aishath Shirani, Mariyam Nisha and Arifa Ibrahim in pivotal roles.
Premise
An intelligent and honest orphan, Zahidha (Aishath Shirani) moves out of her sister's house unable to tolerate their verbal abuse and settles as a maid at Arifa Ibrahim's house where she befriends her only daughter, Nazima (Mariyam Nisha). As days pass by, her commitment to work is noted by the house owner and the elder son, Nadheem (Abdulla Munaz) while she is bullied by the younger son, Waheed (Mohamed Aboobakuru).
Cast
Abdulla Munaz as Nadheem
Aishath Shirani as Zahidha
Mariyam Nisha as Nazima
Mohamed Aboobakuru as Waheed
Fathimath
Arifa Ibrahim
Ibrahim Shakir
Zareena Yoosuf
Hawwa Enee
Gamini
Suneetha Ali as Jeeza
Soundtrack |
Denver Heights, West Virginia | Denver Heights is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia. |
Aroga hulthemiella | Aroga hulthemiella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in northern Iran. |
Zero Tolerance (1999 film) | Zero Tolerance () is a Swedish action film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 29 October 1999, directed by Anders Nilsson. It is the first film in the series about police officer Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund) and is followed by Executive Protection in 2001 and The Third Wave and 2003.
Plot
Johan Falk, a Gothenburg police officer and former member of Nationella insatsstyrkan, gets involved in a shooting on Christmas Eve. He saves the life of a little girl but is then drawn into a stream of events and he ends up being the accused. In the search for the truth he sees no other way than to take the law into his own hands, and becomes hunted by his own colleagues.
Cast (selection)
Jakob Eklund - Johan Falk
Peter Andersson - Leo Gaut
Lennart Hjulström - Ola Sellberg
Sonny Johnson - Thorsen
Marie Richardson - Helen Andersson
Fredrik Dolk - Peter Kroon |
Timpa Lake | Timpa Lake is a small alpine lake in Elmore County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is accessed from Sawtooth National Forest trail 479 along Timpa Creek Creek.
Timpa Lake is in the Sawtooth Wilderness, and a wilderness permit can be obtained at a registration box at trailheads or wilderness boundaries. It is downstream of Chickadee Lake, Surprise Lake, Confusion Lake, and Low Pass Lake. |
Cristovam Roberto Ribeiro da Silva | Cristovam Roberto Ribeiro da Silva (born 25 July 1990), simply known as Cristovam, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a right back for Guarani, on loan from Paraná.
Club career
On 27 June 2013, FK Senica signed Cristovam together with his teammate Hiago on one-year loan with option to buy from Brazilian club Arapongas. He made his debut for FK Senica on 13 July 2013 against FC Spartak Trnava, Senica defeated Spartak Trnava 2-1. On 29 December 2017, Cristovam joined K League 1 club Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
Cristovam joined Ceará for the 2019 season. |
Viktor Gozhy | Viktor Spiridonovich Gozhy (; born 10 July 1946, in Ukraine) is a Russian politician, former First vice-chairman of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. He is the next in the line of succession after the Chairman of the Government, Nikolay Mikhaylovich Volkov. |
Dar Gol (disambiguation) | Dar Gol is a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran.
Dar Gol () may also refer to:
Dar Gol-e Seyyed Hasan, Kermanshah Province
Dar Gol-e Seyyed Salim, Kermanshah Province
Dar Gol-e Teymaz, Kermanshah Province
Dar Gol, Lorestan |
Bouteflika | Bouteflika is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (born 1937), Algerian president 1999-2019
(born 1958), Abdelaziz' brother and one of his advisors |
Tryvannstårnet | Tryvannstårnet is a 118-metre (387 feet) tall broadcasting tower near Oslo, located 529 metres (1,736 feet) above mean sea level on the summit of Tryvannshøyden hill overlooking lake Tryvann.
Tryvannstårnet was built in 1962 and has an observation deck at a height of 60 metres (197 feet), from which, weather conditions permitting, the view extends to the border with Sweden and Gaustatoppen mountain. The observation deck was closed in 2005 because of new fire safety regulations which would have required expensive modifications which coincided with rapidly declining visitor numbers. In the 1980s and 1990s annual visitor numbers averaged 100,000, but in the last year it was open to the public, only 25,000.
There is a large underground shelter beneath Tryvannstårnet. |
Edward O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin | Edward Donough O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin KP (14 May 1839 – 9 April 1900) was the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility. In 1862, he was appointed High Sheriff of Clare.
Born the eldest son of Lucius O'Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin and Mary Fitzgerald. He took the title in March 1872, upon the death of his father, and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick on 5 August 1892.
He married firstly Emily Holmes-á Court, the daughter of William Holmes-á Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, and together they had four children; Geraldine Mary O'Brien (1863-?), Lucius William O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin (1864-1929), Murrogh O'Brien (1866-1934), and Edward Donough O'Brien (1867-1943).
He then married Ellen Harriet, the daughter of Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly, with whom he had a further ten children. One daughter, Beatrice, married Guglielmo Marconi, the radio pioneer. |
First Greceanîi Cabinet | The First Greceanîi Cabinet was the Cabinet of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 10 June 2009. It was the first government led by Zinaida Greceanîi who was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2008 to 2009.
Cabinet of Minister
The composition of the cabinet of was as follows:
External links
Government of Moldova |
Marko Mirgorodský | Marko Mirgorodský (born 4 November 1998) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2013. He competes in the C1 event and is once World U23 Champion (2017) and twice World Junior Champion (2015 & 2016).
Mirgorodský won a silver medal in the C1 team event at the 2018 European Canoe Slalom Championships, alongside Michal Martikán and Alexander Slafkovský. |
French ship Conquérant (1746) | The Conquérant was originally launched in 1746 on a design by François Coulomb the Younger. She was taken out of service in March 1764 and rebuilt at Brest as a Citoyen class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she was armed with only 18- and 12-pounders, and crewed by a mere 400 men, under captain Dalbarade. Second ship in the vanguard of her line, Conquérant sustained fire from the passing British ships sailing to attack the centre of the French fleet. She was particularly targeted by HMS Audacious and Goliath, who reduced her to a hulk before 19:00. Immobilised, hopelessly overgunned and undermanned, her captain mortally wounded, Conquérant struck her colours and was seized by a boarding party from Audacious.
She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy under the same name.
External links
Naval Database |
Tanwé-Hessou | Tanwé-Hessou is an arrondissement in the Zou department of Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Zogbodomey. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 7,512. |
The Accidental Spy | The Accidental Spy is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts action film, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Teddy Chan. Filming took place in Seoul, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Cappadocia, Turkey.
Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English, particularly during communications between the Chinese characters and the Korean and Turkish characters. Despite having a fairly serious and dark plot in some parts, it still features some humour, as is typical of Chan's films.
Plot
A news reporting team cover a story in an Anatolian village where many people have seemingly died from pneumonia while a team of scientists try to find a cure. A terrorist group disguised as farmers attack and kill everyone there. Some days later, a former North Korean spy shows up at the South Korean embassy in Istanbul.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, Buck Yuen, an exercise equipment salesman, inadvertently foils a bank robbery and becomes a media celebrity. Later that night, a stranger called Manny Liu approaches Yuen and says that he is looking for men of Yuen's age and description on behalf of a terminally ill Korean man, Park Won-jung, who wants to pass his fortune to his long-lost son.
Yuen agrees and follows Liu's associate to South Korea to meet Park in a military hospital. Later, Yuen is approached by Carmen, a reporter, who asks him questions about Park. When Yuen returns to the hospital, he saves Park from a group of thugs and accepts Park's offer to play a "game" – if Yuen wins, he gets everything Park leaves behind for his biological son; if Yuen loses, he will still have fun. Park also gives Yuen a shiny crucifix similar to the one Yuen sees his parents holding in his dreams. After Park's death, Yuen scatters his ashes at his wife's grave and finds a message ("wait for me") engraved on the tombstone. After leaving the cemetery, Yuen and Carmen narrowly evade attacks from thugs. Yuen later realises that "wait for me" corresponds to a phone number of a bank in Istanbul.
In Istanbul, Yuen uses the crucifix, which turns out to be a stamp, to retrieve the contents of Park's safety deposit box. Shortly after leaving the bank, he encounters several robbers trying to steal his briefcase full of money. He holds off the robbers until the police show up and the robbers flee. While touring Istanbul, Yuen meets a mysterious Chinese woman, Yong, who has "wait for me" embroidered on her scarf. When Yuen asks her where she got her scarf, she arranges to meet him at a later date and time.
When Yuen is at a Turkish bath, he gets accosted by a group of thugs demanding that he hands over "the thing". After a long chase through the streets, Yuen finally escapes from them but shows up late for his meeting with Yong. Just then, Carmen and her colleague, Philip, approach Yuen and reveal to him that they are actually CIA agents. The "thing" that everyone is after is a biological weapon, Anthrax II, a more powerful version of anthrax. The weapon had already killed many people in Anatolia, which was chosen as a testing ground. Park developed brain cancer as a result of his involvement in the case. Yuen also learns that Zen, a crime lord, wants to buy the Anthrax II and had sent Yong to get close to Yuen to gather information.
Yuen meets up with Yong, who confirms she is working for Zen. Moments later, they are captured by a group of thugs and brought back to the Anatolian village. As the thugs are beating up Yuen to force him to tell them where the Anthrax II is, mercenaries attack the village and gun down all the thugs. In the ensuing chaos, Yuen escapes with Yong on a makeshift raft. They are picked up by Zen, who reveals that he sent the mercenaries to save them. Yuen also learns that Yong is a drug addict enslaved by Zen. Zen offers Yuen a new deal: more money and Yong's freedom in exchange for the Anthrax II. Although Yuen refuses, Zen still gives him time to find the Anthrax II.
Yuen recalls that there was a bible in the safety deposit box so he makes his way to a nearby church and meets a priest who knows Park. The priest leads Yuen to the basement where Park temporarily stayed; Yuen finds two vials of Anthrax II there and a note saying "game over". Yuen then reluctantly hands over the Anthrax II to Zen in exchange for Yong. It turns out later that Zen had double-crossed Yuen by giving Yong a fatal dose of drugs. After Yong dies at the train station, Yuen gets arrested and thrown into prison but Carmen and Ashley bail him out. Carmen, feeling sorry for Yong's death, secretly reveals to Yuen that the CIA is meeting Zen the next day to discuss buying the Anthrax II from him.
Yuen takes matters into his own hands and tries to stop Zen at the airport. While Zen and his henchmen flee in a car, Yuen chases them, fights them and manages to get back the Anthrax II. However, the car gets stuck to the rear of a tanker, which soon catches fire. The tanker has to keep moving at a certain speed or else it will explode. After Yuen manages to save the driver and his son, the tanker is heading straight towards the edge of a disused bridge. Just then, Manny Liu appears in a helicopter and tries to pull Yuen out but fails. Yuen leaps from the tanker and grabs hold of the plastic bridge barrier as he swings down. He rolls down a slope, sustains severe injuries from the fall, and becomes unconscious. Liu searches Yuen for the Anthrax II, finds it and leaves.
When Yuen regains consciousness in hospital later, he learns from Liu that his entire adventure was actually a CIA mission arranged to be performed by him as an informal, non-official agent (an "accidental spy"). He was chosen because of his background as an orphan, his sharp intuition and excellent fighting skills. The dream of his parents is actually an illusion created by Liu, who added drugs into Yuen's drink to put him into a hypnotic state.
In a post-credits scene, Yuen, now officially a spy, delivers a briefcase to a drug dealer in Italy and tips off the police to arrest him.
Cast
Jackie Chan as Buck Yuen
Eric Tsang as Manny Liu
Vivian Hsu as Yong
Wu Hsing-kuo as Lee Sang-Zen
Kim Min-jung as Carmen
Alfred Cheung as Park's lawyer
Lillian Ho as Candice
Cheung Tat-ming as Stan
Joh Young-kwon as Park Won-jung
Anthony Rene Jones as Philip Ashley
Reception
The Accidental Spy holds a 29% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 7 reviews.
Releases
Dimension (a sub-set of Disney) acquired the international distribution rights to the film (outside of Asia). Like many Jackie Chan films distributed by Disney, scenes were cut, foreign dialog was dubbed, and the music score was changed. However, Dimension made so many changes to the film that it almost changed the entire movie. For example:
Buck Yuen's name was changed to Jackie Chan
Zen's name was changed to Lee
The Anthrax II was changed to "Opia Maxa", a new and more powerful form of opium. The context of the conflict between Zen and the Turkish villagers was changed to be a drug war between Korean and Turkish drug lords.
In some cases, scenes were actually re-arranged. For example, in the HK cut, Buck Yuen and Manny's associate arrive at the South Korean hospital, they talk to the doctor, then Buck visits with Carmen Wong, and then Buck goes back to the hospital, fends off the thugs attacking his "father", and then converses with him. However, in the Dimension version, they arrive at the hospital, then "Jackie" talks to his father, then he visits Carmen Wong, and then he returns to the hospital, fends off the thugs, but Dimension added in a "flatline" sound effect, and used a scene of Mr. Park struggling to breathe to suggest that he died because of the thugs.
A lot of dialog that was actually in English was dubbed over into foreign languages, creating a language barrier between "Jackie Chan" and other characters that didn't exist in the original Hong Kong version. A lot of English dialogue was dubbed over to change the plot.
Buck's dialog is sometimes dubbed over by a voice that definitely doesn't belong to Jackie Chan, including scenes where he was speaking in English.
DVD
The film was first released on DVD by Universe Laser in Hong Kong. The release contains a non-anamorphic picture and a "making of" feature section. On 19 March 2009, Kam & Ronson released a remastered DVD with an anamorphic picture, 5.1 and DTS sound, but with no special features.
Blu-ray Disc
The film was released on Blu-ray Disc on 4 May 2009. This film is the first Hong Kong production by Jackie Chan to be released on Blu-ray Disc.
Box office
The film grossed HK$30,009,076 during its theatrical run in Hong Kong, and was Hong Kong's third biggest domestic release of the year.
Legacy
The scene of Buck's disguising while escaping from thugs was reproduced in Bollywood movie Thank You (2011), wherein Akshay Kumar's character, detective Kishan, also hides by twisting hanging materials around himself.
Awards and nominations
21st Hong Kong Film Awards (2002)
Won: Best Action Choreography (Tung Wei)
Won: Best Film Editing (Kwong Chi-leung)
Nomination: Best Sound Design (Kinson Tsang)
Nomination: Best Visual Effects |
Go Harder | "Go Harder" may refer to:
"Go Harder", song by British boyband JLS from 4th Dimensions Tour
"Go Harder", song by Jaz-O
"Go Harder", song by Future from Pluto (Future album) |
Edmonton Trappers | The Edmonton Trappers were a minor league baseball team in Edmonton, Alberta. They were a part of the Triple-A level in the Pacific Coast League, ending with the 2004 season. Their home games were played at Telus Field in downtown Edmonton.
The Trappers joined the PCL in 1981 when Edmonton businessman Peter Pocklington purchased the Ogden A's franchise from Utah trucker Dennis Job. The team's games were originally played in Renfrew Park (later called John Ducey Park). The Trappers were immediately popular with the community, often above the league average in attendance, attracting almost half a million fans every season. A total of 8 million fans came to see them play over the course of their 24-year existence.
In 1984, the Trappers (then the Triple-A affiliate of the California Angels) became the first Canadian franchise to win a championship. They were also the only team to win a PCL championship, and first to win any championship, under affiliation with the Angels. The manager was Moose Stubing.
In 1995, John Ducey Park was torn down and replaced by Telus Field where the Trappers celebrated three PCL titles in their last decade, most recently in 2002 under the affiliation of the Minnesota Twins. In 2003, the team became the major affiliate of the Montréal Expos. The Trappers were one of the most successful, longest running, and second-to-last affiliated team in Canada.
In 2004, future Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Scott Downs threw a no-hitter against Las Vegas on June 11. It was the first no hitter by a Trapper since August 8, 1996, when Aaron Small threw one against the Vancouver Canadians.
Edmonton qualified for playoffs for the last time in September 2003. They defeated the Portland Beavers to make the post-season, but were eliminated immediately by the Sacramento River Cats in a three-game sweep.
In October 2003, the Trappers' fate in Edmonton was sealed when the team, then owned by the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos, was sold to a group led by hall of famer Nolan Ryan and his son Reid. The sale shocked many fans in Edmonton. The Ryans moved the team after the 2004 season to Round Rock, Texas, a suburb north of Austin, and it was renamed the Round Rock Express. The last home game in Edmonton had a sizeable crowd against the Las Vegas 51s, but it was rained out after only one inning.
Notable former Trappers
Baseball Hall of Fame
Bert Blyleven (player, 2011 induction) |
Canon's Town | Canon's Town or Canonstown (Ordnance Survey) is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, UK, situated on the A30 road in the civil parish of Ludgvan, between Penzance and Hayle. It is southwest of St Erth railway station. It is in the civil parish of St Erth |
Albert Ayguesparse | Albert Ayguesparse (1900–1996) was a Belgian writer.
Bibliography
Essays
Machinismes et culture
Magie du capitalisme
Poetry
Neuf offrandes claires (1923)
Le Vin noir de Cahors (1957 - Prix Engelman)
Langage
Novels
La main morte
Notre ombre nous précède (Prix Rossel 1952)
Une génération pour rien (1954 - Prix triennal du roman). |
Fulton Creek (Ohio) | Fulton Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Fulton Creek was named for one Mr. Fulton, a pioneer who disappeared near this creek and was not heard from again, despite an extensive search. |
Reuben Davis House | The Reuben Davis House, also known as Sunset Hill, is a U.S. national historic place located in Aberdeen, Mississippi. It is an impressive two-story antebellum mansion that was constructed between 1847 and 1853. Well known as the former residence of Reuben Davis, a prominent attorney, statesman, and author, the property has important historical connections for both the town of Aberdeen and Mississippi.
History
Design and construction
The Reuben Davis House is an imposing example of the Greek Revival style that was popular in the prosperous South during the mid-19th Century. The original structure was built in 1847 by D.F. Alexander and then remodeled and expanded by William Cunningham in 1853. The house expresses major stylistic references to Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter (1830) and Practice of Architecture (1833).
Location
The city of Aberdeen was incorporated in 1837. According to an article featured in the Aberdeen Examiner, the city is described as containing more antebellum homes than any other Mississippi town of a comparable size. In the mid 19th-century, the community grew from the development of a cotton port on the Tombigbee River. The town was made the county seat in 1849 and had a population of approximately 5,000 by the 1850 census. However, the prosperity and economic growth declined after 1850 when the Mobile and Ohio Railway Company constructed a line eight miles west of the town.
Reuben Davis
Reuben Davis (January 18, 1813 – October 14, 1890) was a prominent figure in 19th century Mississippi. He served as a prosecuting attorney for Mississippi's sixth judicial district from 1835 to 1839, and a judge of the high court of appeals in 1842. During the Mexican–American War he was a colonel in the Second Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers. In 1855 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives and in 1857 to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress. In 1861 he withdrew from this position to become the Monroe County candidate for the state secession convention. That same year he became a Mississippi representative to the Confederate Congress in Richmond, Virginia. During the Civil War he was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. Following the Civil War, Davis returned to Aberdeen to resume his law practice. He purchased Sunset Hill in 1869. It was at this residence that Davis raised his family (with his second wife) and wrote the historical reference Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians. He remained at Sunset Hill until his death in 1890 and was buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. His wife died 22 years later, in 1912. Prior to her death, she had requested that her body be laid in state on top of the grand piano in her parlor and surrounded with roses; a wish which was honored.
Modern times
Over the next 36 years, the property changed owners multiple times. One of the owners, from 1937 to 1943, was a grandniece of Reuben Davis, Mrs. Edmonia Nichols. During the 1940s the house was utilized as an apartment complex and its condition deteriorated. In 1948 the property and the one acre on which it now stands was sold to Drs. Chester and Catherine Brummett. In 1961 Sunset Hill was sold to Mr. & Mrs. W. Emerson Jones. The Jones' made substantial improvements and renovations during their ownership of the property.
The U.S. Department of the Interior added Sunset Hill (listed as the Reuben Davis House) to The National Register of Historic Places in November 1978. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History officially designated Sunset Hill as a Mississippi Landmark in February 1987. The house was sold in 1992, and again in 1997 to its current owners. Additional renovations have taken place over the last 15 years, including restoration of the Reuben Davis office.
Architecture
The architecture of Sunset Hill is described with great detail in the National Register Form:
Tourism
Given its rich history and cultural significance, Sunset Hill attracts a number of visitors each year. The home was featured in the 2013 Aberdeen Pilgrimage and Christmas Holiday Home Tour. In the future, the residents may open select bedrooms to the public as a "bed and breakfast."
Gallery |
Rosières-en-Haye | Rosières-en-Haye is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
It hosted an important Air Base (the Toul-Rosières Air Base) that has been converted in 2012 in the largest photovoltaic power plant of Europe at that time. |
Fougaron | Fougaron is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Population |
Clypeostoma elongatum | Clypeostoma elongatum is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae (formerly in the family Trochidae, the top snails).
Description
The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 24 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia. |
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | The Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by AIP Publishing on behalf of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The objective of the journal is to provide critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation, preferably with uncertainty analysis. The editors-in-chief are Donald R. Burgess, Jr, and Allan H. Harvey.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Current Contents/Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 4.684. |
Xining Xiaoqiao railway station | Xining Xiaoqiao Railway Station is a railway station on the Qingzang railway. It serves the city of Xining and is located 3 km from Xining Railway Station. |
Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand | This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand. For a list of other country's broadcasting rights, see Sports television broadcast contracts.
Association football
Football
From 2019 until 2023, the match aired on Sky Sport also available on beIN Sports platforms due to Sky-beIN four year partnership contract.
Leagues
A-League: Sky Sport
W-League: Sky Sport
English Premier League: Spark Sport
English Football Leagues: beIN Sports
La Liga: beIN Sports
Segunda División: YouTube (regular season) & beIN Sports (play-offs)
Serie A: Sky Sport
Ligue 1: beIN Sports
New Zealand Football Championship: Sky Sport (finals coverage only)
Bundesliga: beIN Sports
Scottish Premiership: beIN Sports
J-League: Rakuten TV (3 live matches per week)
Major League Soccer:beIN Sports (through 2022), ESPN
National Women's Soccer League: ESPN
USL Championship: ESPN
Domestic Cups
English FA Cup: Sky Sport
FA Community Shield: Sky Sport
EFL Cup: beIN Sports
IRN-BRU Cup: beIN Sports
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: ESPN
FFA Cup: beIN Sports
Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only)
Kate Sheppard Cup: Sky Sport
International Club Competitions
UEFA Champions League: Sky Sport (through 2021)
UEFA Europa League: Sky Sport (through 2021)
UEFA Super Cup: Sky Sport (through 2021)
UEFA Youth League: UEFA.tv
UEFA Women's Champions League: beIN Sports (exclusive coverage for PSG matches), Sky Sport (final only)
CONMEBOL Libertadores: beIN Sports (through 2022)
CONMEBOL Sudamericana: beIN Sports (through 2022)
CONMEBOL Recopa: beIN Sports (through 2022)
FIFA Club World Cup: Sky Sport (2019 and 2020)
International Champions Cup: beIN Sports
Florida Cup: beIN Sports
International Matches
World Cup Qualifying: Sky Sport, beIN Sports
European Championship qualifying: Sky Sport
Other International Matches: Sky Sport, Prime
International Tournaments
FIFA World Cups (through 2022)
Men's:
FIFA World Cup: Sky Sport, Prime (Selected matches only)
FIFA U-20 World Cup: Sky Sport
FIFA U-17 World Cup: Sky Sport
Women's:
FIFA Women's World Cup: Sky Sport, Prime (New Zealand matches only)
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
UEFA
UEFA Euro 2020: Sky Sport
UEFA Nations League: Sky Sport
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship: UEFA.tv
2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship: UEFA.tv
2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: UEFA.tv
2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship: YouTube
2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: YouTube
Copa América 2019: beIN Sports
Africa Cup of Nations 2019: beIN Sports
WAFU Nations Cup: ESPN
Toulon Tournament: ESPN
Beach Soccer
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: Sky Sport (2019 and 2021)
Futsal
International tournaments
FIFA Futsal World Cup: Sky Sport
UEFA Futsal Euro: TBA (2022)
UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv
UEFA Women's Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv (final four only)
International Club Competitions
UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv (final four only)
Athletics
IAAF Golden League:
Sky Sport: Highlights, plus some live coverage.
Grenada Invitational: ESPN
Australian rules football
Australian Football League
Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.
Badminton
BWF: OVO Mobile (2019–2021)
Baseball
Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
College baseball: ESPN
Little League World Series: ESPN
World Baseball Classic: ESPN
USA Softball International Cup: ESPN
Basketball
National Basketball League: Sky Sport
National Basketball League (Australia):
Sky Sport has one game every Thursday night; live coverage of Semifinal, and Grand Final.
National Basketball Association: ESPN, Spark
Women's National Basketball Association: ESPN
College basketball: ESPN
NBA Summer League: ESPN
NBA G League: ESPN
The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
Cricket
International Cricket:
Sky Sport: Shows All New Zealand Home and away matches also shows Australian Home International, English Home International and India Home International fixtures.
Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
Domestic Cricket:
Sky Sport: Live coverage of selected games, and highlights of some games.
Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage.
Cycling
Tour de France: Sky Sport
eSports
Madden Club Championship: ESPN
Madden Bowl: ESPN
EXP Pro-Am APEX Legends
EXP Invitational APEX Legends at X Games
Extreme Sports
X Games: ESPN
Field hockey
Men's and Women's Hockey World Cups: Spark
Men's and Women's Hockey Pro Leagues: TVNZ (All Black Sticks matches only), Spark
Golf
Australian Open: Sky Sport
The Open Championship: Sky Sport
Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
European Tour: Sky Sport
PGA Tour: Sky Sport
U.S. Open: Sky Sport
U.S. Masters: Sky Sport
New Zealand PGA Championship: TV3
World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
World Cup : Sky Sport
New Zealand Open : Sky Sport
LPGA Tour : SKY Sport (New Zealand)
Evian Masters : Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Gridiron football
National Football League:
ESPN: NFL Network games, two Sunday afternoon games, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. All play-off games.
Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
Super Bowl: ESPN
College football: ESPN
XFL: ESPN
Horse-racing
All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
All international race meetings: Trackside
Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: Prime
Melbourne Cup: Trackside, Prime
Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
Ice Hockey
National Hockey League: ESPN
Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse: ESPN
Mixed Martial Arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship: ESPN (Fight Night and PPV preliminaries)
Motor racing
FIA Formula One: Spark
Porsche Supercup: Spark
Formula 2: Spark
Formula 3: Spark
Formula E: TVNZ (live), Three (highlights)
IndyCar Series: Sky Sport
AMA Supercross Championship: ESPN
Virgin Australia Supercars Championship: Sky Sport (Includes support categories)
Dunlop Super2 Series: Sky Sport (Live with Supercars Championship) Three (Delayed)
NZ Touring Cars Championship: Three (delayed coverage)
DTM: Three (highlights)
WTCC: Three (highlights)
World Rally Championship: Spark
World Rallycross Championship: Spark
MotoGP: Sky Sport
Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
NASCAR: Sky Sport
BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
Multi-discipline events
Commonwealth Games: TVNZ
Summer Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
Winter Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
Paralympics 2016: TVNZ
Netball
ANZ Premiership:
Sky Sport (live coverage of all games, elimination final and grand final)
INF Netball World Cup:
Sky Sport (2019)
International Netball:
Sky Sport (live coverage)
Beko Netball League:
Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
Suncorp Super Netball:
Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
Poker
World Series of Poker: ESPN
Rowing
World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport
Rugby league
National Rugby League:
Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games sometimes only show one live game on Sunday and show the other delayed
Prime: Delayed coverage of Warriors games
New South Wales Cup:
Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
State of Origin:
Sky Sport: Live Coverage
Prime: Delayed coverage
Super League:
Sky Sport
Rugby League Challenge Cup:
Sky Sport
Four Nations:
Sky Sport: Live Coverage
Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games
Rugby union
Rugby World Cup: TVNZ & Spark (2019)
The Rugby Championship:
Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
Super Rugby:
Sky Sport: live coverage of all games
Prime: Delayed coverage of one game per weekend on Saturday Night. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
College 1st XV coverage
Sky Sport Live and delayed coverage and highlights of televised matches during the week.
Currie Cup: Sky Sport
European Rugby Champions Cup: TVNZ & Spark
Mitre 10 Cup:
Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend, Live coverage of selected games and highlights of all games on Sunday afternoon
Six Nations Championship: Sky Sport
Gallagher Premiership: Sky Sport
Pro14: Sky Sport
Anglo-Welsh Cup: Sky Sport
Swimming
FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport
ISL: Spark
Tennis
Australian Open: Sky Sport
French Open: Sky Sport
The Championships, Wimbledon: TVNZ
U.S. Open: ESPN
ATP Finals: ESPN
ATP Tour Masters 1000: ESPN
ATP Tour 500: ESPN
Next Generation ATP Finals: ESPN
WTA Tour: Spark Sport
ASB Classic: Sky Sport
Laver Cup: ESPN
Davis Cup: Sky Sport
Fed Cup: Sky Sport |
SV Borussia-Preußen Stettin | SV Borussia Preußen Stettin was a German association football club from the city of Stettin, Pomerania Province (today Szczecin, Poland).
The club was established in 1937 after a merger of 1. Stettiner Borussia-Poseidon and SC Preußen Stettin.
After two seasons in the Gauliga Pommern (I) the team was demoted to the Bezirksliga, but returned to the top flight after one season, only to again be immediately sent down. They also played in the final Gauliga season (1944–45) which was cancelled after just three matches as World War II was drawing to a close. After the conflict all German teams in Stettin disappeared as the territory became part of Poland. |
Ernest Nister | Ernest Nister (1841–1906) was a publisher and printer of movable books for children and paper ephemera such as greeting cards, post cards, and calendars. He was born in Darmstadt, Germany and later had an office in London. He refined the techniques used in the design of "magic windows," "dissolving picture," and pop-up books, publishing them from his firm based in Nuremberg, a toy-making center of the nineteenth century.
Types of books
Although not the first to invent pop-up books, he was the first to invent automatic pop-up books. Before Nister, pop-ups had to be manually maneuvered into an upright position.
"Pop-up books" is a term sometimes applied to other movable books, volvelles, tunnel books, pull tabs, and other varied forms of paper engineering; similar techniques such as die cutting and embossing are often also used in greeting cards. Children's books with movable parts are subject to the play of children and may not work properly after heavy use. Older mechanical books in library or personal collections can be preserved by professional conservators. The older original first edition books by Ernest Nister can be found in antiquarian book stores and the archives of Library rare book collections.
Editing
It is not known exactly how much of his own drawing he contributed to the illustrations of the books he edited and printed, but he would sometimes remove an artist's name and replace it with his own. Louis Wain, known for his anthropomorphic cats, was one of the illustrators who worked for Nister. In 1894, Beatrix Potter sold a series of verses and illustrations to Nister for his Changing Pictures series.
Marketing
In addition to the German books, an English version was produced for Nister's London office and an American version, working with Edward Payson Dutton, for Dutton Publishing, his American publisher. Vintage chromolithographically printed postcards of Father Christmas by Nister are now sold on Etsy, Amazon, AbeBooks and eBay. |
Duke Ding of Qi | Duke Ding of Qi (; reigned c. 10th century BC) was the second recorded ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Western Zhou Dynasty. His personal name was Lü Ji (呂伋) and ancestral name was Jiang (姜).
According to classical Chinese texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian and Zuo Zhuan, Duke Ding succeeded his father Lü Shang, Duke Tai of Qi, who was said to have been a centenarian. Duke Ding supposedly served King Kang of Zhou along with other major vassal state rulers including Xiong Yi, viscount of Chu, Count Kang of Wey (衞康伯), Xie, Marquis of Jin and Boqin, Duke of Lu. However, most modern historians believe Duke Ding was in fact the fifth-generation descendant of Duke Tai, and he could not have served King Kang of Zhou.
After Duke Ding died, he was succeeded by his son Duke Yǐ of Qi.
Family
Parents:
Shang (; 1156–1017 BC), known as Jiang Ziya; ruled as the Great Duke of Qi () from 1046–1026 BC
Wives:
The mother of Crown Prince Dexing and Prince De
Sons:
Prince Heng (), the progenitor of the Nie () lineage
Served as the Minister of War of Wey
Fourth son, Crown Prince Dexing (), the progenitor of the Cui lineage and the father of Count Mu of Cui ()
Prince De (; d. 933 BC), ruled as Duke Yǐ of Qi from 974–933 BC
A son who ruled as the Count of Yi () |
2017–18 Rensselaer Engineers women's ice hockey season | The Rensselaer Engineers represented Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in ECAC women's ice hockey during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season.
Offseason
Recruiting
2017–18 Engineers
Schedule
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Berolina | Berolina is the New Latin female personification of Berlin and the allegorical female figure symbolizing the city. One of the best-known portraits of Berolina is the statue that once stood in Alexanderplatz.
Statue
In 1871, emperor William I ordered an Berolina statue in Belle-Alliance-Platz (today's Mehringplatz), to glorify the homecoming victorious troops of the Franco-Prussian War.
Another statue was designed in 1889 by the sculptors Emil Hundrieser (1846–1911) and Michel Lock (1848–1898) as a decorative element for the state visit of King Umberto I of Italy. The Berolina figure was produced in plaster and was placed on Potsdamer Platz. The statue of showed a woman with a crown of oak leaves. The inspiration allegedly was from a painting in the Rotes Rathaus city hall that featured cobbler's daughter Anna Sasse.
Later, in 1895, the gypsum figure by Hundrieser was copper-melted and unveiled in Alexanderplatz on December 17. Weighing five tonnes, it was placed in front of the site where Hermann Tietz erected his department store in 1904.
The statue was damaged in the barricade fights of the German Revolution of 1918–19. It had to be removed during the construction of the U5 underground line in 1927, but was set up again in 1933. The nearby Berolinahaus, built in 1929–32 according to plans by Peter Behrens, was named after the statue. Finally dismantled on 26 August 1942, it was probably melted down in 1944 for war purposes. A model is preserved at the Märkisches Museum.
In 2000, an association named "Wiedererstellung und Pflege der Berolina e.V." (Recreation and Maintenance of Berolina eV) was created with the aim to rebuild the statue.
Name
Many Berliner companies are named "Berolina". A leading German film studio of the 1950s was called Berolina Film. In the past, there were several radio and television broadcasts in which reference was made the city's personification. Today, it is the popular name of central Berlin Police radio.
In 1980s, the "Berolina" music awards was organized, sponsored by the TV networks ARD, ZDF and ORF, and hosted in a television show by Thomas Gottschalk on 27 August 1987 with a total of 15 musicians and bands.
Several songs, poems, and plays are named "Berolina"; as for example, works by Kurt Tucholsky, Günter Neumann, Ulli Herzog, and Alexander von Bentheim.
The Main belt asteroid 422 Berolina, is also named after the city in that way.
Photogallery |
Hilton Mexico City Reforma | Hilton Mexico City Reforma is a five-star luxury hotel in Mexico City, Mexico, overlooking Alameda Central. The hotel is operated by the Hilton Hotels chain (formerly the Sheraton). It was built in 2004. It is situated in the heart of the old city on Avenida Juárez, in close proximity to Hidalgo Metro Station. It has been popular with business travellers since its establishment in 1985. It has 457 bedrooms, and has several restaurants, including the Mexican eatery El Cardenal. It was the venue for Wikimania 2015. It has a convention centre with a capacity of 5,000 people. |
Barnaby's Tower | Barnaby's Tower stands at the southeast corner of the city walls of Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
The tower probably dates from the 13th century, and it was damaged in 1644–46 during the Civil War. When the city walls were converted into a raised walkway between 1702 and 1708, the tower was converted to form a feature at this corner. It has been repaired on occasions since, and in 1879–80 was altered at the expense of one of the city councillors.
The tower is constructed in coursed red sandstone rubble, and stands on a stony outcrop. It forms a three-sided projection from the walls, its top being level with the walkway, and is decorated with mock crenellation. There is no evidence of any chamber at a lower level. |
Yiya Murano | María de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano (20 May 1930 - 26 April 2014), better known as Yiya Murano, and also referred to as the Poisoner of Monserrat was an Argentinian serial killer and swindler. Convicted of three murders, she was imprisoned for 16 years before being sent to an elderly care facility to serve out the remainder of her sentence, due to her advanced age.
Murders
Nilda Gamba, a neighbor of Murano's died on 10 February 1979. On 19 February, Murano's friend, Leila Chicha Formisano de Ayala, died. Murano owed money to both women, and both bodies showed signs of cyanide poisoning.
On 24 March 1979, Murano's cousin, Carmen Zulema del Giorgio de Venturini, fell and died on the stairs of a building on Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, where she lived. Zulema's death was initially attributed to cardiac arrest. Zulema's daughter found that a promissory note worth 20 million Argentine peso ley was missing from her mother's belongings. The building's doorman said that Murano arrived for a visit carrying a mysterious package (which was later discovered to contain masas finas), and had casually asked for a copy of the keys to Zulema's apartment keys, saying, "I need her notebook to warn her relatives". Murano entered her cousin's apartment and left quickly, carrying papers and a jar. She complained loudly: "My God, it's my third friend to die in a short time!" During the autopsy, examiners discovered cyanide in Zulema's body. Investigators discovered the poison in the jar mentioned by the doorman, and in the masas finas.
Arrest
On 27 April 1979, the police arrested Murano at her home on Mexico Street. In 1980, she was found unconscious in the prison where she was being held; later, they removed one of Murano's lungs.
Murano was convicted in 1985, during the Trial of the Juntas. She insisted upon her innocence, saying: "I never invited anyone to eat."
Murano was released from prison after 16 years. It was learned that she sent the judges who released her a box of chocolates as a token of her appreciation.
Media
Argentinian writer Marisa Grinstein included Murano in her book Mujeres Asesinas (Killer Women). In 2006, an episode of the Canal 13 television series of the same name featured a recreation of Murano's crimes. At the end of the episode, the real Yiya Murano appeared and proclaimed her innocence, citing evidence.
The second season of Mujeres Asesinas, the Mexican adaptation of the series, featured an episode based on Murano entitled "Tita Garza, Swindler," starring Patricia Reyes Spindola. |
Hesamabad, Zanjan | Hesamabad (, also Romanized as Ḩesāmābād; also known as Asmawa and Hīssamābād) is a village in Zarrineh Rud Rural District, Bizineh Rud District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,817, in 350 families. |
Microcrambon | Microcrambon is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. Its single species, Microcrambon paphiellus, described by Achille Guenée in 1862, is endemic to Réunion and Seychelles. |
Dois (album) | Dois (English: Two) is the second studio album by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana. It was released in July 1986.
Release history
Renato Russo originally intended Dois as a double-disc album named "Mitologia e Intuição" ("Mythology and Intuition"), including some material later recorded for Que País É Este, but EMI-Odeon denied the proposal.
Unlike Legião's previous album, heavily influenced by post-punk instrumentation and themes, Dois shows a wider palette of styles and influences such as folk rock and blues, including "Eduardo e Mônica", a ballad said by Russo to be largely inspired by Bob Dylan; "Música Urbana 2", a spiritual sequel to one of Russo's Aborto Elétrico composition ("Música Urbana" was recorded by Capital Inicial on their debut album); "Fábrica", a classic concert-opener; "Quase sem Querer"; and "Índios", according to Russo, a "suicide song".
In 2007, the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone magazine featured Dois in the 21st position on a list of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums. On September 2012, it was elected by the audience of Radio Eldorado FM, of Estadao.com e of Caderno C2+Música (both the latter belong to newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo) as the third best Brazilian album ever. By the time of the album's release, the newspaper also said: "You bite it and see there is meat there. Bleeding. The little taste of Smiths on side A, with lyricist and vocalist Renato Russo singing a lot on Daniel na Cova dos Leões or Tempo Perdido, actually just prepares the ground for the punch of side B, as in Metrópole and Fábrica."
Track listing
Covers
Argentine punk band Attaque 77 covered "Fábrica". They would also later cover another Legião Urbana song, "Perfeição", from O Descobrimento do Brasil.
Trivia
During the initial seconds of opening track "Daniel na Cova dos Leões", a badly tuned radio can be heard. Excerpts of Legião's song "Será", as well as the anthem of the Socialist International, can be faintly heard playing.
"Andrea Doria" is named in reference to the SS Andrea Doria which shipwrecked near the shores of New York in July 25, 1956. 51 people died in the disaster, and many Italian paintings were lost in the sea.
An alternate version of the track "Química" appears in the cassette edition of the album as a bonus track.
The title of '"Índios"' features quotes, and is in reference to "Heroes" by David Bowie.
Personnel
Dado Villa-Lobos: Guitars
Renato Russo: Vocals, keyboards, bass guitar (tracks 3 and 4), acoustic guitar (track 4)
Renato Rocha: Bass guitar
Marcelo Bonfá: Drums and percussion |
Ken Karcher | Kenneth Paul Karcher (born July 1, 1963) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at East Central Community College, a position he has held since January 2013. Karcher served in the same capacity at Liberty University from 2000 to 2005, compiling a record of 21–46.
Early life and playing career
Out of Shaler Area High School, in Pennsylvania, Karcher was a highly recruited quarterback and eventually went to the University of Notre Dame. While there, he was a third-string quarterback behind Blair Kiel. He decided to transfer after two years to Tulane University, where he finished out his collegiate playing career.
Karcher went undrafted by NFL teams, and bounced around training camps before going to the Denver Broncos. He played in a total of four NFL games; three of those games came when he played as a replacement player while many other NFL players were on strike. The Broncos retained him for the rest of the year, and Karcher backed up John Elway while the team played in Super Bowl XXII. Karcher continued to play for the Broncos for one additional season, in 1988.
's NFL off-season, and despite severely limited duty Ken Karcher held at least 2 Broncos franchise records in front of more famous Broncos quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and John Elway, including:
Completions: rookie game (25 on 1987-10-18 @KAN )
Pass Yds/Game: rookie season (209.3 in 1987)
Coaching career
Karcher began his coaching career in 1991 as an assistant coach at the University of North Texas, where he coached the Mean Green quarterbacks and receivers. The next year, he was hired by head coach Galen Hall as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Orlando Thunder of the World League of American Football. Following the suspension of the World League, Karcher returned to the college ranks as an assistant on Johnny Majors' coaching staff at the University of Pittsburgh. During his first season, he served as the Panthers' pass offense coordinator and quarterbacks coach, sharing coordinator duties with run offense coordinator Charles Coe. In March 1994, Majors put Karcher in sole charge of the offense, promoting him to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He held that position for the next three years, until Majors resignation at the end of the 1996 season.
In 1997, Karcher rejoined Galen Hall in the revamped World League, this time as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the Rhein Fire, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He helped lead the Fire to the first winning season in the team's three-year history. Rhein finished in first place with a record of 7–3, but lost to the Barcelona Dragons in World Bowl '97. Under his tutelage, quarterback T. J. Rubley earned all-World League honors and was named the league's offensive most valuable player. Karcher's offense led the league in rushing yards (1,555) and ranked second in total offense (3,253). The offensive line set a league record by holding their opponents to only one sack the entire regular season.
Collegiate coaching
Karcher was named the sixth head football coach at Liberty University on February 18, 2000.
At Liberty, Karcher's teams underachieved. Despite this, Liberty chancellor Jerry Falwell resigned him to a 5-year contract after the 2004 season. But, he would only last one more season. After a 1–10 campaign in 2005, Karcher was fired. His final coaching record at Liberty was 21–46, with a 6–8 record in conference play (including two straight second places finishes).
As a coach, Karcher stressed building character in his players through football. One such player was Samkon Gado, a reserve while playing at Liberty. Karcher helped Gado get his foot in the door of an NFL team, and within the year Gado was the starting running back for the Green Bay Packers.
After his dismissal from Liberty, Karcher was the offensive coordinator at Fellowship Christian High School in Roswell, Georgia, where he led the Paladins to their first-ever winning season and a deep run in the Georgia state playoffs. He also served as the school's athletic director, and taught a 9th grade Bible class at Fellowship Christian School.
In 2008, Karcher accepted a position as the quarterbacks coach with the University of Toledo. He helped the Rockets in an upset win over the Michigan Wolverines, although the squad finished 3–8.
In January 2009, head coach Ron English hired Karcher as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Eastern Michigan University. The Eagles finished that year with a 0–12 record, and Karcher's offense ranked 116th out of 120 teams in total yards (3,340). Since then, EMU has improved, posting a 2–10 record the following year and a 6–6 record in 2011. EMU regressed in 2012 and finished the year 2–10. After the season, in which the Eagles finished near the bottom of the conference offensive statistics, Karcher left the program.
Head coaching record
College
Personal life
Karcher is married to the former Pauline Termini and they have four children, daughters Kelly and Katie, and sons Austin and Clay. |
Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford | The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (the Migration Observatory) is a project providing analysis of immigration and migration issues affecting the United Kingdom. It is a part of the Oxford University's Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) and was launched in March 2011 with the broad aim of improving public discourse on migration in the UK by looking at key migration issues. They break this mission into two parts: one part of their mission is "to inform media, public and policy debates" while a second part is "to generate high quality research on international migration and public policy issues".
Impact
The Migration Observatory’s outputs are used by the media in the UK and its staff are often quoted in the media on issues regarding immigration.
Funding
The Migration Observatory is a project of COMPAS, a multidisciplinary research centre at Oxford University. Funding for the Observatory comes from Unbound Philanthropy, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council. |
Sonic Unleashed | Sonic Unleashed is a 2008 platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The story follows Sonic as he attempts to restore the world after his nemesis Doctor Eggman shatters it with a powerful laser to unleash Dark Gaia, an ancient evil, while dealing with having become a "Werehog", a werewolf-esque transformation, which he gains after coming into contact with the energy of Dark Gaia. Gameplay features two distinct styles, with each being played either during daytime or nighttime. Daytime stages incorporate Sonic's traditional platforming and trademark speed, with a combination of behind-the-back third-person viewpoints and 2D side-scroller platforming; gameplay seamlessly transitions between these two views. Night-time levels see Sonic transform into the Werehog; gameplay slows down to accommodate greater platform play, and involves combat against waves of enemies using the Werehog's brute strength.
The game's development began in 2006, after the creation of its game engine, the Hedgehog Engine. It was initially conceived as a sequel to Sonic Adventure 2, but developer Sonic Team began to introduce enough new innovations that separated it from previous games, and it was renamed Unleashed. The Werehog gameplay was conceived to help introduce newer gamers unfamiliar with the Sonic franchise to the series. The game's existence was first brought to light when Sega trademarked the Unleashed name in March 2008, and shortly after, images and a gameplay video were leaked. Three versions of the game were developed: one by Sonic Team for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, one by Sonic Team and Dimps for the Wii and PlayStation 2, and one by Gameloft for mobile phones. Sonic Unleashed was released in the west in November 2008, and in Japan the following month.
Public anticipation for Sonic Unleashed was high, as video game journalists saw it as a possible return to Sonic's platforming roots. While it was commercially successful—selling 2.45 million units—critical reception was mixed. Reviewers praised certain elements, such as the sense of speed in daylight stages and the graphics and audio that make up the environments, but criticized others, such as the Werehog game mechanic, as well as several gameplay and design concepts. Many felt Unleashed was not the game to reinvigorate the series. Sonic Unleashed was delisted from retailers in 2010, following Sega's decision to remove all Sonic games with below-average Metacritic scores from sale. Despite this, the game was released on the PlayStation Network in April 2014 and on PlayStation Now in March 2017, and was also given Xbox One backwards compatibility on November 29, 2018.
Gameplay
Sonic Unleashed is a platform game in which the player controls the titular Sonic the Hedgehog in two modes: fast-paced levels that take place during daytime, showcasing and using Sonic's trademark speed as seen in previous games in the series, and slower, night-time levels, during which Sonic transforms into the Werehog, and gameplay switches to an action-based, brawler style of play, in which Sonic battles Gaia enemies (those created by the main enemy in the game, Dark Gaia). Each level takes place on a particular continent, each of which is based on a real-world location. In sections of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, the player may choose to advance the time of day in order to play as either Sonic or the Werehog; in the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions, time is advanced automatically.
Daytime levels focus on Sonic's speed, and to this extent, sees the player control Sonic through fast-moving stages containing both 2D and 3D styles of gameplay. 2D sections are reminiscent of the Mega Drive/Genesis-era Sonic games, where the player controls Sonic in a side-scrolling fashion, while 3D sections see the camera placed behind Sonic, so the player may move in all directions. In addition to moves available in past games, such as the Homing Attack, new moves are also introduced. For instance, a new sidestep feature known as the Quick Step is available, allowing Sonic to dodge left and right, and a Drift feature, which allows Sonic to make tighter turns without slowing down. The game also features a gameplay mechanic previously used in the Sonic Rush series called the Sonic Boost, which greatly increases Sonic's speed, allowing him to smash through objects, destroy enemies instantly, or even access different level paths. In the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, an on-screen "Ring Energy" meter displays how much boost is available. The amount of boost remaining may be increased by collecting more rings, and is decreased by using the Boost. In contrast, the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of the game represent available Boost using bars, which may be added by performing "Action Chains", destroying multiple enemies in quick succession through the use of homing attacks, or by collecting rings. Japanese game company Dimps helped design some of the stages.
Nighttime levels feature slower-paced, action-oriented levels, in which Sonic transforms into the Werehog, a beast form that has great strength and stretchable arms. Gameplay here sees the player use a variety of melee and combo attacks to defeat large numbers of enemies, collect items, and move items around to advance through the level, and use his stretchable arms to cling to distant objects; simple puzzle elements are also featured. Collecting rings in these levels replenishes the Werehog's health, while a special move, Unleashed Mode, allows the Werehog to channel his energy into increasing the power of his attacks for a short time. Nighttime levels are adjusted in the Wii version to allow greater use of the Wii Remote, such that players may control the arms of the Werehog by using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk in order to grab onto objects and proceed in the levels. The Wii version of the game also expands upon the ratio of nighttime levels to daytime, with more than three times as many nighttime levels (twenty-five in all). After nighttime levels are completed, Dark Gaia Points are gained, allowing access to bonus moves.
In addition to these two gameplay types, Sonic Unleashed also features hubworlds, in which the player may reveal, as well as advance, the story of the game. Hubworlds operate differently depending on the version of the game being played; the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions feature fully interactive, explorable 3D hubworlds, similar to those in Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Adventure, in which townspeople may be interacted with and side quests may be undertaken, in order to gain experience or unlock items, such as artwork, videos and music tracks. In contrast, the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions feature menu-based map systems, in which players simply click on areas to talk to townspeople and find information. Within both day and nighttime levels are medals that Sonic may collect, two types of which exist: Sun and Moon. In the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, collecting these medals allows the player to level up Sonic's Sun and Moon stats, and these must be increased to reach new stages in the game, with a certain number of Sun medals for Hedgehog levels, and a certain number of Moon medals for Werehog levels. Because only the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions feature playable hubworlds, these are also the only versions in which Sun and Moon medals may be found by exploring the towns, talking to the citizens, and completing side quests. In the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions, Sun and Moon medals are earned after completing stages and clearing their objectives. The medals are used to open up doors in Gaia gates, which can earn bonus content.
Plot
In a cold open, Sonic is pursuing his nemesis, Doctor Eggman, bounding around a fleet of spaceships. After the defeat of several of his robots, Sonic transforms into Super Sonic and corners Eggman on the main spaceship. However, Eggman traps the hedgehog using a powerful new ray weapon which drains the power of the Chaos Emeralds, causing them to turn grey and useless. He then uses the Emeralds' energy to fire an enormous laser and unleash a powerful beast, Dark Gaia, from the center of the planet, which has devastating consequences, shattering the planet into seven pieces. In addition, the ray and drained Chaos Emeralds have the unforeseen side-effect of transforming Sonic into a "Werehog" — a beast form with greater strength and abilities — at night. Eggman ejects Sonic into space, who then lands safely onto the planet below.
After landing along with the Emeralds, Sonic encounters a friendly creature who appears to suffer amnesia. Assuming he has caused it with his fall, Sonic decides to assist him in his quest to find out who he is, and the creature becomes a guide for the player; Sonic soon gives him the nickname Chip. Sonic's quest begins, and with the help of some old friends, such as Amy and Tails, he attempts to solve the crisis by traveling the world's continents, finding Gaia Temples that will restore the Emeralds' power, in order to return the world, and himself, to normal.
After six out of the seven continents are returned to normal, Chip is able to regain his memory; he is in fact Dark Gaia's opposite, Light Gaia. Since the beginning of time, the two of them had been in a cycle where Dark Gaia would break the planet apart, and Light Gaia would put it back together. Chip was released along with Dark Gaia, but because both of them were released prematurely, he lost his memory, and Dark Gaia was broken apart. They are able to place the last Chaos Emerald in the shrine on the final continent at Eggman's new empire, "Eggmanland", but are interrupted by him; Sonic then defeats Eggman who is using a robot that utilizes Dark Gaia's power. During the battle, the three sink into the core of the Earth and encounter Dark Gaia. Eggman orders Dark Gaia to destroy Sonic, but it turns on him, knocking him away with one of its tentacles, and absorbs the power that turned Sonic into a Werehog, curing Sonic of lycanthropy.
Dark Gaia then attacks Sonic and Chip, but Chip protects Sonic and calls all of the Gaia temples together to form the Light Gaia Colossus and fight Dark Gaia. The Gaia Colussus seemingly destroys Dark Gaia, but Dark Gaia is not finished with them or the Earth yet, and consumes the entire world in darkness, becoming Perfect Dark Gaia in the process. Chip then gives the restored Chaos Emeralds to Sonic, allowing him to turn into Super Sonic and continue their fight, until he finally destroys it; Dark Gaia sinks back into the planet, but the battle takes its toll on Super Sonic. Chip saves Sonic by throwing him to the surface, before returning himself to the inside of the planet; he leaves behind his necklace and some parting words. Sonic places the necklace on his hand as a bracelet to remind him of their adventure together before speeding off with Tails, flying alongside him on the coastline in the Tornado plane.
Development
Sonic Team began development of the game in 2006, after having begun work on the core technology, the Hedgehog Engine, in 2005. The title Sonic Unleashed was trademarked by Sega on March 12, 2008. Screenshots of cutscenes, artwork, and a video were leaked ten days later, with the title confirmed by Sega on April 3, 2008 with a small selection of screenshots and an updated video. The game was developed internally by Sonic Team in Japan. It was originally intended to be the third installment of the Sonic Adventure series and subsequently, at an early development stage, had the working title Sonic World Adventure, complete with a work-in-progress logo. However, the development team began to introduce enough new innovations to separate it from the Sonic Adventure games, and so a new title, Sonic Unleashed, was decided. It was then later revealed that the game's name in Japan would in fact remain Sonic World Adventure for its release there.
Sonic Team decided early on in the development process to reduce the number of characters present in the game, as well as to make Sonic the only playable character; this decision was taken to get more quality out of fewer characters. While it felt that these ideas combined with traditional Sonic gameplay was a good beginning, it also had to consider how to introduce newer gamers unfamiliar with the Sonic franchise to the series, and so the concept of the Werehog was born, in addition to exploring its own mythology and ideas for the story. Director Yoshihisa Hashimoto felt from the outset that there would be both praise and criticism, but hoped that long-term Sonic fans would understand and empathise with the ideas and direction the team had taken.
In terms of technology, Hashimoto remarked that the visual style was born out of desire to see a global illumination solution used for the game's lighting — that is, light reflecting from one object in the scene onto others. To this extent, development on the renderer for this process began, and the final solution allowed the developers to use distributed rendering over hundreds of computers to calculate lighting for each ten- to twenty-kilometer action stage in around two or three days. Characters, enemies and objects are then lit at run-time with Sonic Team's "Light Field" technology to blend them in with the surrounding pre-calculated lighting. Because the game was being developed for two levels of hardware capability depending on the target platform, two development "silos" were set up to work on two separate builds of the game: one for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version utilizing the Hedgehog Engine, and one for the PlayStation 2 and Wii version, which instead utilizes a modified version of an existing, internal Sega engine. Hashimoto, who had never directed a Sonic game before, incorporated new features such as a "Quick Step" mechanic allowing players to dodge obstacles with the L and R triggers. Hashimoto sought to combine the best qualities of 2D and 3D Sonic gameplay and address the criticisms directed at previous 3D entries in the franchise. Additional code to dynamically adjust the speed of the game for different situations was used to properly balance its fast pace with traditional platforming elements.
As well as the unique motion-based gameplay mechanics, the Wii version of the game also supports the GameCube controller, and also the option of using the Classic Controller. The daytime levels for the Wii were altered to accommodate the motion control-based boost mechanic, while night-time levels include a mostly behind-the-back view and different platforming styles and combat mechanics. Developer Dimps, who had past involvement in the Sonic franchise, was involved in the design of the daytime areas for these versions. In addition, overall, the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions have fewer daytime levels than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 counterparts.
Initially, it was stated that Unleashed was to be intended solely as a single-player experience, and would not offer any multiplayer or online modes. This was cast into doubt when references to online modes were alluded to around E3 2008, but later interviews re-iterated that Unleashed would have no online modes at all. However, downloadable content, including additional levels, would remain a possibility after the game's release. A demo version was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on December 8, 2008 and on the US and EU PlayStation Stores on December 18 and 24, 2008, respectively. The demo does not contain any of the Werehog stages. On March 12, 2009 Sega released Sonic Unleasheds first downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, consisting of four Chun-nan daytime stages and two night stages in addition to two new missions. Since then, more downloadable levels have been added: Spagonia, Holoska, Mazuri, Apotos, Shamar, Empire City and Adabat.
Speaking after the game's release, Sonic Team member and Sonic and the Black Knight director Tetsu Katano remarked that although he did not feel the Werehog concept was a mistake, time and resources were a limiting factor in the game's production. He also remarked that the Werehog may reappear in future games, or possibly in a sequel to Sonic Unleashed, should one be made.
Game developer Gameloft announced in May 2009 that it had secured a licensing agreement with Sega Europe Ltd. to produce Java versions of Sega properties, and that its first game would be a version of Sonic Unleashed for mobile phone platforms. It was released in June 2009 in Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. The mobile version of Sonic Unleashed is strictly a side-scroller reminiscent of the original Genesis games, featuring new level designs and character abilities.
Music
The game's original soundtrack, Planetary Pieces: Sonic World Adventure Original Soundtrack, was released as a three-disc set in Japan on January 28, 2009. The theme track, "Endless Possibility", features Jaret Reddick of the American rock band Bowling for Soup. The ending theme music for the game is a slow tempo ballad, "Dear My Friend", and features singer Brent Cash.
Reception
Initial anticipation when the first media for Unleashed was revealed was high, as the demonstration videos hinted at a possible return of Sonic to his traditional platforming roots, especially because of the series' declining quality in recent years, and a number of poorly received games in the franchise that preceded it, such as the 2006 game, Sonic the Hedgehog.
Critical reception to Unleashed was mixed, with Metacritic aggregate scores of 60 and 54 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions respectively, and 66 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions. The added element of motion controls for the Werehog sections, as well as text-based hub worlds and better Werehog level design and camera system, were reasons cited for the higher review scores for the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions of the game, though a few review websites, such as 1UP, gave the Wii version a lower score than its Xbox 360 and PS3 counterparts. Nevertheless, the game was a commercial success and sold 2.45 million units combined making it Sega's third bestselling game during their last fiscal year period of 2008.
Positive elements of Sonic Unleashed remarked upon by reviews include the environments, such as the "postcard-perfect architecture", and the graphics, with stages looking "absolutely gorgeous" and being "very pretty and lovingly animated", with one reviewer comparing them to a playable Pixar film. Praise was given to the technical competence of Sega's new Hedgehog Engine as a whole on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, with "bright cartoonish graphics that fly by without a stutter"; however, some complaints were raised about frame rate reduction when large numbers of enemies appeared during the Werehog sections. Although the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions do not use the Hedgehog Engine, graphics for these platforms were still praised for their high quality, with the game being nominated for Best Graphics Technology for the Wii by IGN in its 2008 video game awards. The soundtrack to the game was also praised as being an improvement on more recent installments in the series; use of an orchestral score, rather than rock as in more recent games, was appreciated.
A generally negative reaction was given by critics to the Werehog concept and corresponding night-time sections, which contributed greatly to the lower than expected review scores. Some reviewers compared the Werehog sections to God of War. Complaints stemmed from the game's change of speed, from high-speed daytime sections to the slower, night-time sections; the "pace-breaking combat levels" were described as "plodding", as well as "lethargic" and "combat-heavy". Further to the change of pace, the new style of gameplay that accompanies the night-time levels was widely criticized, involving "frustrating" platform elements and combat described as not "terribly interesting" and "boring", with "awkward" action sequences overall. Some reviewers felt that the Werehog as a concept did not mix well with the daylight areas and traditional Sonic gameplay; GamePros review described them as "dreadfully out-of-place", while IGN stated that they have "nothing to do with Sonic whatsoever", feeling that the Werehog was "being slapped on" to the Sonic experience.
In stark contrast to the Werehog sections, many reviewers found the daytime levels to be enjoyable, especially the "exhilarating" sense of speed they provide; with "the most satisfying gameplay of any Sonic title in years", the game "perfectly [captures] the feel of classic Sonic". Many also enjoyed the mixture of, and transition between, 2D and 3D sections. Indeed, many reviewers remarked that they would have appreciated the game more had it consisted solely of, and expanded upon, the daytime levels. GameSpot's review for the Xbox 360 version, however, argued that the controls were "unresponsive" in the daytime levels, and that most of them were "horribly designed", instead describing the Wii version as a "vastly superior experience", with its daytime levels praised for better control and design.
Aside from the criticism of Werehog levels, further aspects of the game were criticised, contributing to the mixed review scores. The quests that players must undertake in hub-towns were described as "inane" and "tedious", where "figuring out what happens next involves aimlessly wandering through towns and speaking to citizens, only to discover that most of them don't know what we're looking for". The story and overall tone of the game, including the new character Chip, were criticised, some remarking that it was too juvenile, or comparable to that of a Saturday morning cartoon.
Legacy
Archie Comics has made an adaptation of Sonic Unleashed featuring the opening cutscene and Sonic's transformation into the Werehog. A short CGI animated film was released to tie in with the game on November 21, 2008, Sonic: Night of the Werehog. The film was produced by Marza Animation Planet.
Sonic Unleasheds engine, the Hedgehog Engine, would later be refined for use with later games in the franchise, such as Sonic Generations (2011) and Sonic Forces (2017). The daytime gameplay style of Unleashed was re-used and expanded upon to become the defining gameplay of the franchise.
To celebrate the Sonic franchise's 20th anniversary, Sega released Sonic Generations, which re-made various stages and aspects from throughout the series. The console/PC versions of the game contain remakes of the "Rooftop Run" stage and the Egg Dragoon boss fight. The 2017 entry Sonic Forces also contains a re-imagined version of the Egg Dragoon boss.
Notes |
Jim Chalmers (disambiguation) | Jim Chalmers is a Queensland politician and member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013.
Jim Chalmers may also refer to:
Jim Chalmers (New South Wales politician) (1901–1986), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956
Jimmy Chalmers (1877–1915), Scottish footballer |
USS Jamestown | USS Jamestown may refer to any one of a number of United States Navy vessels.
, was a sloop that served from 1844 until 1892
, was a patrol gunboat that served from 1941 until 1946
, was originally a Liberty ship (AG-166) completed in 1945, converted and renamed in 1963, and then redesignated in 1964 to AGTR-3. Scrapped in 1970. |
Triggerfinger (album) | Triggerfinger is the self-titled debut album of Belgian rock band Triggerfinger. Released on January 26, 2004 via Green L.F.ant Records, the album features the singles "Inner Peace" and "Camaro", the latter of which features guitar riffs based on the song Kashmir by English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Track listing
Personnel
Ruben Block - lead vocals, guitar
Paul Van Bruystegem - bass guitar, backing vocals
Mario Goossens - drums, backing vocals
External links
Band's official website |
Powys | Powys (; ) is a principal area and county, and one of the preserved counties of Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain.
See the list of places in Powys for all towns and villages in Powys.
Location
Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire – an area of 5,179 km² (2,000 sq miles), making it the largest unitary authority in Wales by land area and about the same size as the country of Trinidad and Tobago. It is bounded to the north by Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham; to the west by Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; to the east by Shropshire and Herefordshire; and to the south by Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot.
Human geography
The majority of the Powys population lives in villages and small towns. The largest towns are Newtown, Ystradgynlais, Brecon, and Welshpool with populations of 11,357, 8,092, 8,250 and 6,664 respectively (2011). Powys has the lowest population density of all the principal areas of Wales. Most of Powys is mountainous making north-south transport difficult.
Just under a third of the residents have Welsh linguistic skills: Welsh speakers are concentrated mainly in the rural areas both in and around Machynlleth, Llanfyllin and Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (where William Morgan first translated the whole Bible into Welsh in 1588) in Montgomeryshire (), and the industrial area of Ystradgynlais in the southwest of Brecknockshire (). Radnorshire () was almost completely Anglicised by the end of the 18th century. The 2001 census records show 21% of the population of Powys were able to speak Welsh at that time, the same as for the whole of Wales.
History
The county is named after the ancient Welsh Kingdom of Powys, which in the sixth century AD included the northern two thirds of the area as well as most of Shropshire and adjacent areas now in England, and came to an end when it was occupied by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd during the 1260s.
The uplands retain evidence of occupation from long before the Kingdom of Powys, and before the Romans, who built roads and forts across the area. There are 1130 identified burial mounds within the county, of varying styles and ages, dating from 4000BC to 1000BC, most of them belonging to the Bronze Age. Of these, 339 are Scheduled Monuments. Standing stones, most again dating to the Bronze Age, also occur in large numbers, 276 being found across the county, of which 92 are scheduled. From the Iron Age, the county has 90 scheduled Hill forts and a further 54 enclosures and settlement sites.
Heraldry
The gold in the county coat of arms symbolises the wealth of the area. Black is for both mining and the Black Mountains. The fountain is a medieval heraldic charge displayed as a roundel barry wavy Argent and Azure. It represents water, and refers to both the water catchment area and the rivers and lakes. Thus, the arms contain references to the hills and mountains, rivers and lakes, water supply and industry.
The crest continues the colouring of the arms. A tower has been used in preference to a mural crown, which alludes to the county's military history and remains. From the tower rises a red kite, a bird almost extinct elsewhere in Britain but thriving in Powys. The bird is a "semé of black lozenges" for the former coal mining industry while the golden fleece it carries is a reference to the importance of sheep rearing in the county.
The county motto is: Powys – the paradise of Wales ().
Government
On 1 April 1974, Powys was created under the Local Government Act 1972 and originally had Montgomery and Radnor and Brecknock as districts within it, which were based directly on the former administrative counties. On 1 April 1996, the districts were abolished, and Powys was reconstituted as a unitary authority with a minor border adjustment in the northeastspecifically, the addition of the communities of Llansilin and Llangedwyn from Glyndwr district in Clwydand with moving the border, so that rather than half of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, all is included.
The first Lord Lieutenant of Powys was previously the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire. The Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire were appointed as Lieutenants. The present Lord Lieutenant is The Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Shân Legge-Bourke LVO of Crickhowell.
Attractions
The Black Mountains
Brecon Beacons
Radnor Forest
Y Gaer, Brecon Roman fort
Battle of Bryn Glas site
2015 Wales Rally GB
Castles
Dolforwyn Castle
Montgomery Castle
Powis Castle
Tretower Castle
Aberedw Castle
Castell Du
Bronllys Castle
Lakes, reservoirs and waterfalls
The Elan Valley Reservoirs
Lake Vyrnwy
Llangorse Lake
Llyn Clywedog
Pistyll y Llyn – one of the highest waterfalls in Wales
Pistyll Rhaeadr
Water-breaks-its-neck – waterfall in Radnor Forest
Waterfall Country – waterfalls on the upper tributaries of the River Neath
Cave systems
Ogof Agen Allwedd
Ogof Craig a Ffynnon
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
Ogof y Daren Cilau
Museums and exhibitions
Brecknock Museum, Brecon
Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth
Llandrindod Wells Museum
Llanidloes Museum
Newtown Textile Museum
Powysland Museum, Welshpool
The Judge's Lodging, Presteigne
The Old Bell Museum, Montgomery
The Robert Owen Museum, Newtown
The Rhayader Museum & Gallery, Rhayader
The Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells
Walks
Glyndŵr's Way – runs for in an extended loop through Powys between Knighton and Welshpool
Sarn Sabrina Walk – a circular walking route from Llanidloeswhich, counting from the source, is the first town on the River Severn ()to the source of the Severn and back
Severn Way – the Long Distance Walkers Association describes the Severn Way as a waymarked long-distance trail
Taff Trail
Offa's Dyke Path
Wye Valley Walk – Chepstow to Rhayader – a total of
Railways
Brecon Mountain Railway (heritage line)
Cambrian Line (main line)
Heart of Wales Line (main line)
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway (heritage line)
Fairtrade
In December 2007, Powys was awarded Fairtrade County status by the Fairtrade Foundation. |
Too Wise Wives | Too Wise Wives is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Lois Weber, written by Lois Weber and Marion Orth, and starring Louis Calhern, Claire Windsor, Phillips Smalley, and Mona Lisa. It was released on May 22, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, David Graham (Calhern) is the husband of Marie (Windsor), a wife whose great love leads her to too careful safeguarding of her husband's happiness. Sara Daily (Lisa), a former sweetheart, is the wife of John Daily (Smalley), a wealthy man whose love she retains by methods more subtle than sincere. Sara attempts to regain the adulation of David, but Marie intercepts her letter of invitation, precipitating a dramatic situation that does not develop into disaster only because Marie does not open the letter. As a result of the exposure of intentions, both wives are taught a new and better understanding of family obligations with an ending happy for all concerned.
Cast
Louis Calhern as Mr. David Graham
Claire Windsor as Marie, Mrs. David Graham
Phillips Smalley as Mr. John Daly
Mona Lisa as Sara, Mrs. John Daly |
Dušan's Code | Dušan's Code (, Dušanov zakonik, known historically as Закон благовјернаго цара Стефана – Law of the pious Emperor Stefan) is a compilation of several legal systems that was enacted by Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia in 1349. It was used in the Serbian Empire and the succeeding Serbian Despotate. It is considered an early constitution, or close to it; an advanced set of laws which regulated all aspects of life.
Background
On 16 April 1346 (Easter), Dušan convoked a huge assembly at Skopje, attended by the Serbian Archbishop Joanikije II, the Archbishop of Ochrid Nikolaj I, the Bulgarian Patriarch Simeon and various religious leaders of Mount Athos. The assembly and clerics agreed on, and then ceremonially performed the raising of the autocephalous Serbian Archbishopric to the status of Serbian Patriarchate. The Archbishop from then on was titled Serbian Patriarch, although one documents called him Patriarch of Serbs and Greeks, with the seat at the Monastery of Peć. The first Serbian Patriarch Joanikije II now solemnly crowned Dušan as "Emperor and autocrat of Serbs and Romans" (Greek ).
History
The Code was promulgated at a state council on 21 May 1349 in Skopje, the capital of the Serbian Empire. The foreword is as follows: "We enact this Law by our Orthodox Synod, by His Holiness the Patriarch Kir Joanikije together with all the Archbishops and Clergy, small and great, and by me, the true-believing Emperor Stefan, and all the Lords, small and great, of this our Empire". In the Charter, which accompanied the Code, it said: "It is my desire to enact certain virtues and truest of laws of the Orthodox faith to be adhered to and observed". Emperor Dušan added a series of articles to it in 1353 or 1354, at a council in Serres. This second part was half the size and at times cited issues from the first part, referring it to the "first Code".
It had a total of 201 articles. Four of them (79, 123, 152, 153), regarding various subjects, refers to the authority of the "Law of the Sainted King" (i.e. Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia, r. 1282–1321, Dušan's grandfather), which suggests that Milutin had issued a code whose text has not survived. Dušan's Code was thus a supplement to Milutin's code, as well as a supplement to the various Church law codes that also had authority in Serbia; in particular the Nomocanon of Saint Sava (Zakonopravilo), enacted in 1219 with the establishment of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Kingdom. The Syntagma Canonum, written in 1335 by Matthew Blastares, had been translated into Serbian and had received legal authority by 1349, and its articles had influenced the text of the Code. Dušan's Code was heavily influenced by Byzantine law – nearly half of its articles reflect some influence, often modified for Serbia. The code had many articles concerning the Church, which reflects Byzantine Church law; Byzantine civil law codes, especially the late-9th-century compilation by Basil I and Leo VI, also influenced the code. Scholars A. Solovjev and Soulis conclude that the Council of 1349 issued a three-part comprehensive legal document, since most early manuscripts of the Code also contain two other texts: The first part was an abridgement of the Syntagma, the second part was the "Code of Justinian" (an abridgement of The Partner's Law), and the third part was always Dušan's Code itself.
According to Fine, there is a possibility that the Code was written to supplement the first two parts, by adding items that were not covered, rather than to build a comprehensive legal system.
Composition
The first part, the Syntagma, was an encyclopedic legal collection, provided in alphabetical order. It drew from religious and secular law; ecclesiastical articles made up a majority of the Byzantine original. The version of Dušan's manuscripts contained only a third of the original Greek version; it omitted most of the ecclesiastical material and contained mainly secular articles; Serbia already had an ecclesiastical code in St. Sava's Nomocanon. The secular articles of the abridged Serbian version of the Syntagma were drawn chiefly from Basil I's law code and the Novella's of Emperors who succeeded him; they focused on laws governing contracts, loans, inheritance, marriage, dowries etc. as well as on matters of criminal law. The second part, the Law of Justinian, was actually a shortened version of the 8th-century Farmer's Law, a code settling problems and disputes among peasants within a village.
The third part, Dušan's Code, added what was not covered in the other two parts and specific Serbian situations. Since aspects of civil and criminal law were well covered in the two parts, Dušan's articles concerned with public law and legal procedures. The Code also provided more material on actual punishments; in which there is a strong Byzantine influence, with executions and mutilations frequently replacing Serbia's traditional fines. It touched on crimes or insults and their punishment; settlement of civil suits (including ordeals and selection and role of juries); court procedure and judicial jurisdictions (defining which cases to be judged by which bodies among Church courts, the Emperor's court, courts of the Emperor's circuit judges, and judgement by a nobleman); and rights and obligations, including the right to freely carry out commerce (articles 120, 121), tax obligations (summary tax and timeframe to pay), grazing rights and their violation, service obligations to the Emperor, exemption from state dues (usually for the Church), obligations associated with land, and the obligation of the Church to perform charity. The code also defined the different types of landholding (specifying the various rights and obligations that went with various categories of land), the rights of inheritance, the position of slaves, and the position of serfs. It defined the labor dues serfs owed to their lords (article 68) but also gave them the right to lay plaint against their master before the Emperor's court (article l39). The code also noted the special privileges of foreign communities (e.g. the Saxons).
Many articles regarded the Church's status, thus supplementing the existing canon law texts. The Church received a very privileged position, on the whole, though it was given the duty of charity in no uncertain terms: "And in all churches the poor shall be fed ... and should any one fail to feed them, be he Metropolitan, bishop, or abbot, he shall be deprived of his office" (article 28). The code also banned simony. A clear-cut separation of Church and state was established in most matters, allowing Church courts to judge the Church's people and prohibiting the nobility from interfering with Church property and Church matters. Dušan's Code did not look favorably upon the Catholic Church, though he, as his predecessors, was friendly and respectable to foreign Catholics (Saxons and coastal merchants). He referred to the Roman Catholic Church as the "Latin heresy" and to its adherents as "half believers." He prohibited proselytism by Catholics among the Orthodox, Orthodox conversions to Catholicism, and mixed marriages between Catholics and Orthodox unless the Catholic converted to Orthodoxy. He also had articles strongly penalizing "heretics" (Bogomils). Only the Orthodox were called Christians.
The code defined and allowed court procedure, jurisdictions, and punishment to depend upon the social class of the individual involved, supporting the existing class structure. Articles touched on the status in society and in court of clergy, nobility, commoners, serfs, slaves, Albanians and Vlachs (the latter two for their pastoralist lifestyle, than for ethnic reasons), and foreigners. The Code also guaranteed the authority and income of the state; it contained articles on taxes, obligations assiociated with land, and services and hospitality owed to the Emperor and his agents.
The Code also maintained law and order, not limiting itself against crime and insults, but also gave responsibility to specific communities; it stated the existing custom that each territory was responsible and liable for keeping order; e.g. a frontier lord was responsible for defending his border: "if any foreign army come and ravish the land of the Emperor, and again return through their land, those frontier lords shall pay all [the people] through whose territory they [the army] came." (Article 49). The control of brigands, a constant problem in the Balkans, was also widely addressed in articles 126, 145, 146, 158 and 191. Article 145 says: "In whatsoever village a thief or brigand be found, that village shall be scattered and the brigand shall be hanged forthwith ... and the headmen of the village shall be brought before me [the Emperor] and shall pay for all the brigand or thief hath done from the beginning and shall be punished as a thief and a brigand." and continues in article 146, "also prefects and lieutenants and bailiffs and reeves and headmen who administer villages and mountain hamlets. All these shall be punished in the manner written above [article 145] if any thief or brigand be found in them." And article 126 states, "lf there be a robbery or theft on urban land around a town, let the neighborhood pay for it all." And finally article 158 requires that the localities bordering on an uninhabited hill jointly supervise that region and pay for damage from any robbery occurring there. Fine concludes that these articles demonstrate a weakness in the state's maintaining of order in rural and border areas, which caused it to pass responsibility down to local inhabitants, by threatening them with penalties, the state hoped to force the locality to assume this duty. Another reason for the strictness of the articles towards the locality was the belief that the brigand could not survive without local support, shelter, and food. Thus the brigand was seen as a local figure, locally supported, preying on strangers. As a result, the allegedly supporting locality shared his guilt and deserved to share the punishment. The strict articles were therefore intended to discourage a community from aiding brigands.
The monarch had wide autocratic powers, but was surrounded and advised by a permanent council of magnates and prelates. The court, chancellery and administration were rough copies of those of Constantinople. The Code named the administrative hierarchy as following: "lands, cities, župas and krajištes", the župas and krajištes were one and the same, with the župas on the borders were called krajištes ("frontier march"). The župa consisted of villages, and their status, rights and obligations were regulated in the constitution. The ruling nobility possessed hereditary allodial estates, which were worked by dependent sebri, the equivalent of Greek paroikoi; peasants owing labour services, formally bound by decree. The earlier title of župan was abolished and replaced with the Greek kephale (kefalija, "head, master").
The legal transplanting is notable with the articles 171 and 172, which regulated juridical independence, taken from Basilika (book VII, 1, 16–17).
Peasants
Dušan's Code is one of few sources on the position of Serbia's peasants.
Legacy
The code continued as the constitution under the rule of Dušan's son, Stefan Uroš V, and during the fall of the Serbian Empire, it was used in all provinces. It was officially used in the successor state, Serbian Despotate, until its annexation by the Ottoman Empire in 1459. The code was used as a reference for Serbian communities under Turkish rule, which exercised considerable legal autonomy in civil cases. The code was used in the Serbian autonomical areas under the Republic of Venice, like Grbalj and Paštrovići.
According to Serbian authors T. O. Oraovac and S. S. Djurić, the code also served as the base of the Kanun of Albanian nobleman Leka Dukagjini (1410–1481), a set of customary laws in northern Albania that existed until the 20th century. Noel Malcolm suggests that an article in Dušan's Code was an early attempt to clamp down on the self-administered customary law of the mountains, as later codified in the Kanun of Lek Dukagjin, and if so, this would be the earliest evidence that such customary law was in effect. Despite the similarities historians agree that the Code of Leke Dukagjini is not the same as Dusans Code and that such conclusions are "far-fetched". When the Turkish invaders conquered the medieval Serbian state many customary laws of social life amongst the Balkan peoples were brought back to use, this included the Albanians.
The town of Shkodra had for example, before Dušan's Code, its own customary laws and rules.
It regulated all social spheres, thus it is considered the second oldest preserved constitution of Serbia. The original manuscript is not preserved, but around twenty copies of the transcript, ranging from the 14th to the 18th century, remain.
Manuscripts
The Popović family from Dvorane, which generated 18 or 21 generations of village priests, were important in the preservation of medieval Serbian literature: they had the Charter of Our Lady of Ljeviš, written by Serbian King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331), in their direct property; the Russian consul in Prizren, Jastrebov, found it at the house of the last descendant of the family, Jovan Dvoranac Popović in Prizren, who gave it to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is believed that one of the forefathers of the family was the elder of the Saint Archangels Monastery (Dušan's endowment) near Prizren, and that he during the Ottoman times managed to transfer the valuable texts to the church in his village of Dvorane. In 1779, priest Partenije Popović became a monk of the Saint Mark Koriški Monastery, to where he brought several important books. In 1859, Prizren teacher Nikola Musulin found the Dušan's Code there, and in 1860 the Saint Archangels Charter was found in the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Koriša.
Today 24 manuscripts of Dusan's Code are known. The oldest extant is the Struga manuscript from 1373; which is not preserved in full; only 100 articles remain. The Athos and Studenica manuscripts date from around 1418. The Hilandar, Bistrica and Prizren manuscripts, which have the most complete texts, date to the 15th century. The Rakovac manuscript, dating to around 1700, comprises only the last 12 articles and the Emperor's comments.
Quotes
On the Law
Further commandeth our Imperial Majesty:
Should our Imperial Majesty write a letter
Out of wrath, or out of love
Or out of mercy for any one,
And should such a letter contravene the Code
And be at variance with the law and justice
As set down in the Code,
The judges
Shall not comply therewith
But shall judge
And act withal as justice commandenth.
On Poor Women
Any poor woman unable to litigate
Or defend herself shall choose an attorney
Who shall speak on her behalf.
The poorest hemp-spinstress shall be as free as a priest shall.
On Prisoners
Whoso escapeth from prison to the Imperial Court, be he a serf of the Crown, or of the Church, or of a nobleman, shall by the act itself be set free; should he be bearing any gifts for the man to whom he hath escaped, he shall return them to the man from whom he hath escaped.
Whoso escapeth from the prison at our Imperial Court to the patriarchal court shall be set free; also shall be set free any man who escapeth from the patriarchal prison to the Imperial Court.
Also, should any one give shelter to a man from a foreign land, and that man be a fugitive from his master of from justice holding our imperial letter of clemency, said letter shall not be contested; should he hold no such letter, he shall be returned wherefrom he hath escaped. |
Amber Gray | Amber Gray (born April 2, 1981) is an American actress and singer.
Gray is best known for portraying Hélène Kuragina in the 2016 Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, and Persephone in the Tony Award–winning musical, Hadestown, for which she was nominated for a 2019 Tony Award as well as won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Early life and education
Gray is an Army brat and spent her early childhood across Europe and The United States. She later settled in Massachusetts and attended Wayland High School.
She attended Boston University where she received a BFA in Acting and New York University where she received an MFA in Acting.
Gray identifies as "mixed race" or "biracial."
Career
In 2012, Gray first became involved with Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, an electro-pop opera based on War and Peace. Gray portrayed Countess Hélène Bezukhova in the musical's performances at the Off-Off-Broadway Ars Nova Theater. Gray continued with Great Comet when it moved to Kazino Meatpacking in 2013, Kazino Times Square in 2014, and when it opened on Broadway in late 2016. Gray was awarded a 2017 Theatre World Award for her performance as Hélène.
In 2014, Gray reprised her leading role as Zoe in An Octoroon at Soho Repertory Theatre (she had previously performed as Zoe in 2010 at P.S.122). An Octoroon utilized the plot of The Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama, but turned it into a contemporary new play that discusses America's slave history and both past and present racism. In an interview with the New York Times, Gray spoke of the part's difficulty due to many intense racial scenes, saying it, "seems like an impossible role". Gray remained with the production when it went on to play at Theatre for a New Audience in 2015.
In 2016, Gray portrayed Persephone in New York Theatre Workshop's production of the new musical Hadestown, based on Anaïs Mitchell's album of the same name. Gray was again directed by Rachel Chavkin, whom she collaborated with during Great Comet. Gray was praised by critics, who were impressed by her "vocal dexterity," "charisma," and "powerhouse voice". She reprised this role in the Edmonton Citadel Theatre, London National Theatre, and Broadway productions. For the Broadway production, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Theatre credits
Awards and nominations |
Carp Lake Provincial Park | Carp Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 2 hours northwest of Prince George between the Muskeg and McLeod Rivers, to the southwest of the community of McLeod Lake, which is 32 km from the park's campground. |
Yang Zengxin | Yang Zengxin (; March 6, 1864 – July 7, 1928) was the ruler of Xinjiang after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 until his assassination in 1928.
Life
Yang Zengxin was born in Mengzi, Yunnan Province, in 1864. Though a Han Chinese, he had connections with the leading Muslim families of Yunnan. He was knowledgeable about Islam and Islamic culture.
Magistrate in Gansu
Hezhou Prefecture Magistrate Yang Zengxin wrote an essay on Sufi menhuan dated 1897.
Governorship of Xinjiang
In 1907 Xinjiang was where the Qing assigned Yang Zengxin. He effectively fabricated Xinjiang's boundaries in its modern form by having the posts of Altay minister, Tarbagatai councilor and Ili general destroyed and having their self-rule directly to Beijing removed.
Ma Yuanzhang, a Sufi Jahriyya Shaykh, gave his support to Yang Zengxin to seize power in Xinjiang. This enabled Yang to immediately raise a massive army of Hui Muslim troops, mainly from Jahriyya mosque communities.
Muslim Gen. Ma Anliang, in cooperation with Yang, attempted to arrest and execute Yihewani (Ikhwan in Arabic) leader Ma Wanfu. Ma Qi, one of Ma Anliang's subordinates, staged a rescue operation and brought Ma Wanfu to Xining. Ma Anliang and Yang Zengxin were both monarchists and did not trust republicanism, and had served in the Qing military together.
Yang came to power after he defeated the revolutionaries who caused the last Qing dynasty governor, Yuan Dahua, to flee during the Xinhai Revolution in Xinjiang. The Ili revolutionaries and the Gelaohui were eliminated by Yang. He appointed Ma Fuxing military commander of 2,000 Chinese Muslim troops, whose purpose was to crush Yang's rivals. In 1913 the revolt of Tömür Khälphä in Qumul was crushed by Yang with the help of the Turpan-based Ma Yuanzhang's religious representative "ra'is" Jin Yunlun (). President Yuan Shikai recognized his rule and in return he supported Yuan's revival of the monarchy by inviting Republican anti-Yuan rebels to a banquet and decapitating them on New Year's Day, 1916. Yang believed a monarchy was the best system for China, and some western travelers noted — with approval— that Yang was a former Mandarin, unlike the Republican governors of the other provinces.
Yang was made a Count of the First Rank () by Yuan Shikai.
In 1917 President Li Yuanhong assigned Fan Yaonan () to observe Yang and, if possible, replace him. Yang always recognized whichever faction was in power in the Beiyang government to avoid trouble. His rule kept the region relatively peaceful, compared to other parts of China which were war-torn. However, he ruled dictatorially and executed many dissidents. Taxes for Kazakhs, Uighurs and other minorities were lowered. People were forbidden to abuse minorities, and he warned his Muslim subjects on the Soviet Russians, saying, "Beware of associating themselves with a people who are entirely without religion and who would harm them and mislead their women".
During the Russian Civil War, Yang had a friendly stance towards the new Soviet state. In 1920–21, more than thirty thousand White Russians. Some of them were disarmed and interned, other were offered a safe return, while others, those who fled to the Altai mountains, were persecuted with the help from the Red troops.
He recognised Russian economic dominance in Xinjiang, while concluding a provisional trade deal which established Soviet consulates in the Ili Valley and two Chinese consulates in Semipalatinsk and Verkhne-Udinsk. The Chinese government initially denied the impacts of the unrecognised agreement, but later accepted it. In 1924, Soviet economic advantages over Xinjiang were expanded by the new agreement, which also established Soviet consulates in Ürümqi, Kulja, Chuguchak, Shara-Sume and Kashgar, in return, Chinese consulates were opened in Semipalatinsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata, Zaysan and Andijan. As of 1927, these Chinese officials acted independently from the Chinese government, following instead orders from Ürümqi.
Yang relied heavily on Hui people—Chinese Muslims—to enforce his rule in Xinjiang. They were disliked by both Han and Uighurs because they had high positions within the Xinjiang military and government under Yang.
A Tungani (Hui) was the military commander at Khotan in 1920.
On July 1, 1928, he recognized the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. Six days later he was killed in a coup attempt by Fan Yaonan during a banquet. Fan had risen high in Yang's regime, but Yang never trusted him. The motive seemed to be Yang's denial of the pro-Nationalist Fan to a Nationalist advisory council designed to keep Xinjiang in check. Yang's death was avenged by Jin Shuren almost immediately. Lacking resources to oust Jin, Nanjing recognized his succession to the governorship.
Ma Fuxing was appointed Titai of Kashgar from 1916–24 by Yang, who ordered Ma Shaowu to assassinate Ma Fuxing in 1924. Ma Shaowu was then appointed Daotai of Kashgar.
Yang Zengxin's Statement on Hui people
The third reason is that at the time that Turkic Muslims were waging
rebellion in the early years of the Guangxu reign, the ‘five elite
divisions’ that governor general Liu Jintang led out of the Pass were
all Dungan troops [Hui dui 回队]. Back then, Dungan military
commanders such as Cui Wei and Hua Dacai were surrendered
troops who had been redeployed. These are undoubtedly cases of
pawns who went on to achieve great merit. When Cen Shuying was
in charge of military affairs in Yunnan, the Muslim troops and
generals that he used included many rebels, and it was because of
them that the Muslim rebellion in Yunnan was pacified. These are
examples to show that Muslim troops can be used effectively even
while Muslim uprisings are still in progress. What is more, since the
establishment of the Republic, Dungan have demonstrated not the
slightest hint of errant behaviour to suggest that they may prove to
be unreliable. |
Resin canal | Resin canals or resin ducts are elongated, tube-shaped intercellular spaces surrounded by epithelial cells which secrete resin into the canal. These canals are orientated longitudinally and radially in between fusiform rays. They are usually found in late wood: denser wood grown later in the season. Resin is antiseptic and aromatic and prevents the development of fungi and deters insects.
Types
Normal resin canals exist naturally in the wood of the genera Picea, Larix, Pinus, Pseudotsuga and Shorea.
Traumatic resin canals may be formed in wounded trees that don't have normal resin canals. Wounding occurs from either fire, freezing or mechanical damage. These canals are irregularly shaped compared to normal resin canals.
Characteristics
Resin canal characteristics (such as number, size and density) in pine species can determine its resistance to pests. In one study, biologists were able to categorize 84% of lodgepole pine, and 92% of limber pines, as being either susceptible or resistant to bark beetles based only on their resin canals and growth rate over 20 years. In another study, scientists found ponderosa pine trees that survived drought and bark beetle attacks had resin ducts that were >10% larger in diameter, >25% denser (resin canals per mm2), and composed >50% more area of per ring. |
Scarce (surname) | Scarce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kevin Scarce (born 1952), Royal Australian Navy admiral
Mac Scarce (born 1949), American baseball player
Michael Scarce (21st century), American writer |
Present Day Memories | Present Day Memories is an EP by the Chicago, Illinois punk rock band The Lawrence Arms and the San Francisco, California ska punk band The Chinkees, released in 2001 by Asian Man Records. It is considered a "split" CD in that each band contributes several songs. It is now out of print, however all of the Lawrence Arms tracks have been reissued on their B-sides album Cocktails & Dreams. This is the release that got Fat Mike interested in signing The Lawrence Arms to his label, Fat Wreck Chords.
Track listing
Side 1: The Lawrence Arms
"Quincentuple Your Money" 3:22
"100 Resolutions" 3:31
"There's No Place Like a Stranger's Floor" 3:24
"Hey, What Time is 'Pensacola: Wings of Gold' on Anyway?" 4:20
Side 2: The Chinkees
"Clouding Up My Storm" 1:33
"1980s Drowning Me" 1:48
"Heart + Me" 1:47
"Run for Help" 1:25
"Present Day Memories" 3:10
Performers
The Lawrence Arms
Chris McCaughan - guitar, vocals
Brendan Kelly - bass, vocals
Neil Hennessy - drums
The Chinkees
Mike Park - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Greg Alesandro - guitar, drums, backing vocals
Jason Thinh - guitar
Miya Zane Osaki - bass, backing vocals
Steve Choi - keyboards
Album information
Record label: Asian Man Records
The Lawrence Arms tracks recorded at Atlas Studios in January 2001 by Matt Allison |
Lievin Formation | The Lievin Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. |
Karl Wilhelm Stolle | Karl Wilhelm Stolle (19 December 1842 - 11 March 1918) was a German SPD politician.
Life
Karl Wilhelm Stolle was born into a Protestant family in the village of Frankenhausen, which today has become part of Crimmitschau, a short distance to the north of Zwickau. The "protestant" label appears to have been replaced with a "no religion" one fairly early on. His father was a building worker. After attending school locally, Stolle trained in horticulture. He travelled as a gardener's assistant across Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Russia. Between 1862 and 1879 he owned a horticulture business at Crimmitschau.
At the same time he was already active in the workers' education movement from the beginning of the 1860s. In 1866 Stolle joined the newly formed radical democratic Saxon People's Party, which following party mergers in 1869 made him a member of the new German Social Democratic Workers' Party ("Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei" / SDAP) and of the Socialist Workers' Party("Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands" / SAP) in 1875. The lifting of the Anti-Socialist Laws triggered a further consolidated relaunch: that of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1890. Karl Wilhelm Stolle was an activist member throughout these decades. He was a founder of the "International Trades Union Fraternity of Factory and Manual workers" ("Internationale Gewerksgenossenschaft der Manufaktur-, Fabrik- und Handarbeiter"). Between 1869 and 1916 he was a delegate at several social democratic party conferences and sat on various party committees.
In 1870 he joined with some like minded friends to set up a political printing-publishing co-operative, registered under the name "Stolle, Schlegel & Co." This published the "Crimmitschauer Bürger- und Bauernfreund" (""Crimmitschau Citizens' and Rural Workers' Friend "). The newspaper was suppressed with the implementation of Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws, which led to the financial collapse, around 1879, both of the printing-publishing co-operative and of Stolle's horticulture business, after which he is recorded as the owner of a guest house, the "Schönburger Hof", in nearby Gesau, close to Glauchau.
At Gesau he sat on the local council between 1886 and 1907. Between 1885 and 1893 or 1897 he was also a member of the Saxon regional parliament (Landtag). After several unsuccessful candidatures, in 1881 Karl Wilhelm Stolle was elected to the national parliament (Reichstag) in the 1881 general election, representing Electoral District 18, which covered Zwickau, Crimmitschau and Werdau, sitting as one of the twelve members of the Socialist Workers' Party which at that time was the only socialist party present in a chamber still dominated by conservative, liberal and "catholic centre" parties. He continued to sit for the same electoral district till 1918, representing the same party and, after 1890 its successor, till 1917.
After 1890 the vote share of the SPD rose rapidly, to reach nearly 35% in the 1912 general election, although this translated into only 110 of the 397 seats in the Reichstag, due to the distortive impact of an old-fashioned voting system and constituency boundaries that had been unchanged since 1871. The party leadership responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a political truce which involved voting in the Reichstag for credits to fund the war, and abstaining from criticism of the government for its duration. Support for the political truce was encouraged within the party by the spectre of life under an autocratic Russian Czar if Germany failed to win, but even in 1914 there were prominent SPD members resolutely opposed to the war, grouped around Hugo Haase: Karl Wilhelm Stolle was one of these. Stolle was one of 18 SPD Reichstag members who formed themselves into the so-called Social Democratic Working Group ("Sozialdemokratische Arbeitsgemeinschaft") within the party, which on 21 December 1915 voted against the renewal of war credits. As economic destitution at home and industrial-scale slaughter on the frontline mounted, in 1917 the SPD itself broke apart and Stolle was one of those who went with the breakaway faction, forming the short-lived Independent Social Democratic Party ("Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" / USPD). Three years later the USPD itself split, with a larger element of its membership joining the new Communist Party, but by that time Karl Wilhelm Stolle had died, aged 75, in March 1918.
Personal
Karl Wilhelm Stolle was married to Auguste Stolle, born Auguste Wagner. When he died, he left behind his "wife and four children". |
Ypey Mole, Ryptsjerk | Ypey Mole is a smock mill in Ryptsjerk, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1911. The mill has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument.
History
Ypey Mole was originally built in 1858 at Zwartewegsend, where it was in use until the Autumn of 1958 when the sails were damaged. The mill was restored in 1959 by millwright De Roos of Leeuwarden, Friesland. In November 1970, the mill was set on fire by some children. The fire brigade was able to prevent the mill being destroyed. The mill was moved to its current site in 1981 and restored by millwright Tacoma of Stiens, Friesland. Ypey Mole was sold to Stichting De Fryske Mole on 10 May 1982, the 31st mill acquired by that organisation. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, №35687.
Description
Ypey Mole is what the Dutch describe as a Grondzeiler. It is a two storey smock mill on a single storey base. There is no stage, the sails reaching almost to ground level. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The smock and cap are thatched. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of . The sails are carried on a cast iron windshaft. The windshaft carries the brake wheel which has 50 cogs. This drives the wallower (31 cogs) at the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft there are two crown wheels The upper crown wheel, which has 41 cogs drives an Archimedes' screw via a crown wheel. The lower crown wheel, which has 35 cogs is carried on the axle of an Archimedes' screw, which is used to drain the polder. The axle of the screw is diameter . The screw is diameter. It is inclined at 23°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water.
Public access
Ypey Mole is open to the public by appointment. |