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Sandy Hook (pilot boat) - Wikipedia | The Sandy Hook was a steam pilot boat built in 1902, by Lewis Nixon at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In 1914, she was purchased by the New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Association to replace the pilot boat New Jersey, that was lost in 1914. She could carry 10 to 12 pilots that would help guide ships through the New York Harbor. The Norwegian America Line Oslofjord, with the Crown Prince Olav of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden on board, ran into and sank the Sandy Hook in 1939.
The steel steam Sandy Hook was formerly the yacht Anstice. She was launched on September 12, 1902 by Lewis Nixon of the Crescent Shipyard at Elizabeth, New Jersey for fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.[1][2][3]: p90
In 1903, Robert A. C. Smith, of New York, purchased the steamer Anstice and converted her into a yacht at the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company in Wilmington, Delaware. Her dimensions were 168.6 ft. in length; 24.4 ft. breadth of beam; 12.6 ft in depth; and 361-tons. She was built with an 1,000-horse power engine powered by oil.[2]
On April 24, 1907, Robert A. C. Smith's Anstice name was changed to Privateer. Smith and his friends sailed on the Privateer for the Jamestown Exposition, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.[4]
In 1914, the Privateer yacht was purchased by the New York and New Jersey Pilots' Association from Robert A. C. Smith to replace the pilot boat New Jersey, that was sunk by the steamship SS Manchioneal in 1914.[3]: p90-91 She was renamed Sandy Hook. Her companion vessel was the pilot boat New York. Her hailing port was New York City. Her ship Master was William Baeszler.[5]
On September 19, 1915, James Howard Van Pelt, at age 58, died while boarding a Standard Oil tanker No. 95, outside Ambrose Light during rough weather. He was on the pilot boat Sandy Hook when he slipped from the ladder trying to board the barge and hit his head on the pilot boat's yawl.[6]
On December 1, 1918, the pilot boat Sandy Hook helped to rescue seven passengers from death near the Ambrose Channel Lightship during stormy weather. Captain William Healy, commander of the Sandy Hook took on board the men just before the fifty-foot motorboat, W. D. Anderson sank.[7]
In 1931, in place of what was once thirty pilot boats, there were only three steam pilot boats remaining in the pilot fleet, the Trenton, the New York, and the Sandy Hook.[8]
On April 27, 1939, in a dense fog off Ambrose Lightship, the Norwegian America Line Oslofjord, with the Crown Prince Olav of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden on board, ran into and sank the pilot boat Sandy Hook, No. 2. The Oslofjord rescued all 26 crew members and harbor pilots on board Sandy Hook.
The royal party was in New York City to open the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair and a coast to coast tour.[9]
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PolyAnalyst - Wikipedia |
PolyAnalyst is a data science software platform developed by Megaputer Intelligence that provides an environment for text mining, data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. It is used by Megaputer to build tools with applications to health care, business management, insurance, and other industries. PolyAnalyst has also been used for COVID-19 forecasting and scientific research.
PolyAnalyst's graphical user interface contains nodes that can be linked into a flowchart to perform an analysis. The software provides nodes for data import, data preparation, data visualization, data analysis, and data export.[2][3] PolyAnalyst includes features for text clustering, sentiment analysis, extraction of facts, keywords, and entities, and the creation of taxonomies and ontologies. Polyanalyst supports a variety of machine learning algorithms, as well as nodes for the analysis of structured data and the ability to execute code in Python and R.[4][5] PolyAnalyst also acts as a report generator, which allows the result of an analysis to be made viewable by non-analysts.[6] It uses a client–server model and is licensed under a software as a service model.[6]
PolyAnalyst was used to build a subrogation prediction tool which determines the likelihood that a claim is subrogatable, and if so, the amount that is expected to be recovered. The tool works by categorizing insurance claims based on whether or not they meet the criteria that are needed for successful subrogation.[7][better source needed] PolyAnalyst is also used to detect insurance fraud.[8]
PolyAnalyst is used by pharmaceutical companies to assist in pharmacovigilance. The software was used to design a tool that matches descriptions of adverse events to their proper MedDRA codes, determines if side-effects are serious or non-serious, and to set up cases for ongoing monitoring if needed.[9] PolyAnalyst has also been applied to discover new uses for existing drugs by text mining ClinicalTrials.gov[10] and to forecast the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the United States and Russia.[11][12]
PolyAnalyst is used in business management to analyze written customer feedback including product review data, warranty claims, and customer comments.[13] In one case, PolyAnalyst was used to build a tool which helped a company monitor its employees' conversations with customers by rating their messages for factors such as professionalism, empathy, and correctness of response. The company reported to Forrester Research that this tool had saved them $11.8 million annually.[14]
PolyAnalyst is run on the SKIF Cyberia Supercomputer at Tomsk State University, where it is made available to Russian researchers through the Center for Collective Use (CCU). Researchers at the center use PolyAnalyst to perform scientific research and to management the operations of their universities.[15] In 2020, researchers at Vyatka State University (in collaboration with the CCU) performed a study in which PolyAnalyst was used to identify and reach out to victims of domestic violence through social media analysis. The researchers scraped the web for messages containing descriptions of abuse, and then classified the type of abuse as physical, psychological, economic, or sexual. They also constructed a chatbot to contact the identified victims of abuse and to refer them to specialists based on the type of abuse described in their messages. The data collected in this study was used to create the first ever Russian-language corpus on domestic violence.[16][17]
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Elmer Hildebrand - Wikipedia | Elmer Hildebrand CM OM (born 1935) is a Canadian businessman, investor, philanthropist and broadcaster from Altona, Manitoba and current CEO & President of Golden West Broadcasting (Canada).[1][2] Hildebrand joined Golden West in 1961, just four years after its inception, and served as president for many decades, growing the company to more than forty radio stations, and the largest independent radio broadcaster in Canada.[3][4] He is a former director of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and was inducted into the CAB Hall of Fame, Manitoba Business Hall of Fame, and Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.[5] He also served as President of the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba.
He was awarded the Order of Manitoba in 2007 and made a member of the Order of Canada in 2013.[6][7]
He lives in Winnipeg with his wife Hilda and also owns a historic Mennonite housebarn in Neubergthal, Manitoba, a National Historic Site of Canada.[8]
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Parish Church of St. Cajetan, Ħamrun - Wikipedia | The Parish Church of St Cajetan of Thiene (Maltese: Knisja Parrokkjali ta' San Gejtanu ta' Thiene) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Ħamrun, Malta, dedicated to Saint Cajetan. The church was constructed between 1869 and 1875 to designs of Giorgio Costantino Schinas, in a combination of architectural styles. The oratory and dome were added later on in the 1890s and 1950s; the latter was designed by Andrea Vassallo and it was constructed under the direction of Ġużè Damato.[1]
As the settlement of Casale San Giuseppe (as Ħamrun was then known) began to grow in the 19th century, the two old churches dedicated to Our Lady of Atocia (tas-Samra) and Our Lady of Porto Salvo (ta' Nuzzu) became too small to cater for the area.[2] Therefore, the decision was taken to construct a new church, and it was dedicated to Saint Cajetan according to the wishes of Bishop Gaetano Pace Forno, instead of Saint Joseph, to whom there was popular devotion in the area.[3]
The foundation stone of the new church was laid down on 13 June 1869, on a plot of land donated by the Judge Giovanni Conti. Funds were raised by the government, the population and some benefactors, and the building was designed by the architect Giorgio Costantino Schinas. The building was completed in 1875, being inaugurated on 11 July of that year by Bishop Carmelo Scicluna. At the time of its construction, the area still formed part of the parish of Qormi, but Ħamrun became a separate parish on 1 December 1881, with the Church of St. Cajetan becoming the parish church.[3] The church was dedicated on 26 September 1930.[2][4]
The oratory was added in 1895, to designs of Andrea Grima. The dome was designed in the 1920s by Andrea Vassallo, but construction was delayed for a number of decades before it was actually built between 13 April 1953 and 20 April 1955, under the direction of Ġużè Damato. Despite being constructed decades after his death, the dome was built to his original designs with structural alterations made by Damato.[5]
The titular statue depicting Saint Cajetan was sculpted between 1885 and 1888 by Karlu Darmanin, with the pedestal being made by Giovanni Farrugia and the detachable platform by Antonio Sciortino. The altarpiece depicts Saint Cajetan receiving the baby Jesus from Mary, and it was painted by the Italian artist Pietro Gagliardi. Other works of art in the church include paintings by G. Briffa, Raphael Bonnici, Ramiro Calì, Emvin Cremona and other Maltese and Italian artists.[3] The interior of the dome contains paintings by Emvin Cremona.[6] Parts of the church's interior were altered following the Second Vatican Council, with the main altar being replaced, and some side altars being replaced by confessionals.[3]
The centenary of the parish was celebrated in 1981 with the relics of Saint Cajetan being temporarily brought over to the church.[3]
Restoration works have been undertaken on the dome interior,[6] and on a number of paintings located in the church.[7] Thirty solar panels were installed on the roof in 2012.[8]
The Parish Church of St. Cajetan has a cruciform plan, with two side aisles and a short choir. The two bell towers are the highest in Malta, and together with the dome they dominate Ħamrun's skyline.[3] The church is built in a combination of several architectural styles, exhibiting influences from a number of medieval and classical sources. In particular, it draws from the French Gothic style, especially from the Laon Cathedral, and from the Venetian Baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute.[5]
The church's dome is regarded as being one of the finest in Malta. Schinas' original plan was to have a Romanesque turret-like structure similar to those found at Mainz Cathedral and the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, but these would have been alien to the Maltese environment. Vassallo designed the present dome decades after the construction of the church, but it is harmonious to the rest of the building. It draws inspiration from the dome of Santa Maria della Salute, and it is also bears some similarities to the dome of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Siġġiewi, which had been designed by Vassallo in 1919.[5]
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RCTV Sangbad - Wikipedia | RCTV Sangbad (Sangbad meaning news in Bengali) is a regional Bengali language television channel owned by Raiganj Cable TV Private, Limited. It was launched on August 20, 2003, as a privatecompany.[1] The channel runs a daily live broadcast from Raiganj, West Bengal.
The company also provides a set-top box.[2] This channel provides viewers with news and entertainment.
RCTV Sangbad started as a broadcasting network named Manthan Yep Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. In 2013, they joined GTPL Kolkata Cable and Broadband Priseva Ltd.[3]
Rctv Sangbad on YouTube
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Ackhampstead - Wikipedia |
Ackhampstead (literally 'oak homestead' in Old English[1]) or 'The Moor' was an ancient township[2] (or chapelry) in the Chiltern Hills, south of Lane End.
Until 1844 it was a detached part of Oxfordshire in the parish of Lewknor, part of a division of the parish known as Lewknor Uphill consisting of three detached parts. It was transferred to Buckinghamshire by the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844. By the mid-nineteenth century the population of the community was negligible. The Bishop of Oxford demolished its medieval chapel and replaced it with a new church at Cadmore End.[3] In 1885 the division of Lewknor Uphill was dismembered. Ackhampstead was transferred to the parish of Great Marlow for ecclesiastical purposes,[2] and became part of the civil parish of Great Marlow in 1895.[4]
In 1934 the western end, including Moor Farm, became part of the civil parish of Fingest, renamed Fingest and Lane End in 1937,[5] and is now in Lane End parish. The greater part, including the site of the chapel and Moor Wood, remains in Great Marlow parish. A detailed history of Ackhampstead was compiled by Dr Gordon Wyatt in 1969 for the Frieth Village Society.[6]
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Erebia jeniseiensis - Wikipedia |
Erebia jeniseiensis is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Altai, Tuva, North Mongolia, South Siberia,Sakhalin, Magadan region) that belongs to the browns family. E. jeniseiensis Trybom (= velox Herz) is distributed in Central and North-East Siberia, is a form [of E. euryale] in which the black dots are thinly edged with russet-yellow. The hindwing above is mostly without markings, bearing beneath a narrow white band.[2]
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (novel) - Wikipedia | The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone. Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor. A primary source for the novel is Michelangelo's correspondence, all 495 letters of which Stone had translated from Italian by Charles Speroni and published in 1962 as I, Michelangelo, Sculptor. Stone also collaborated with Canadian sculptor Stanley Lewis, who researched Michelangelo's carving technique and tools.[2] The Italian government lauded Stone with several honorary awards for his cultural achievements highlighting Italian history.
Stone wrote a dozen biographical novels, but this one and Lust for Life (1934) are best known, in large part because both had major Hollywood film adaptations.
Part of the 1961 novel was adapted to film in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II.
The book is divided into eleven sections, each detailing a distinct period of Michelangelo's life.
After Ghirlandaio looks at Michelangelo’s sketches of Christ drawn with a stonemason as the model, he tells Michelangelo the story of Donatello showing his newly carved crucifix to Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi observes that it seems to him Donatello has, “put a plowman on the cross, rather than the body of Jesus Christ, which was most delicate in all its parts." Donatello, upset by his friend’s criticism, challenges Brunelleschi to make Christ’s figure himself. When Brunelleschi presents his own, newly finished crucifix, “Donatello, who could not take his eyes off the beautiful Christ, answered, ‘It is your work to make Christs, and mine to make plowmen.’” Michelangelo, familiar with both carvings, tells Ghirlandaio that he “preferred Donatello’s plowman to Brunelleschi’s ethereal Christ, which was so slight that it looked as though it had been created to be crucified. With Donatello’s figure, the crucifixion had come as a horrifying surprise….”
Ghirlandaio was currently working on the sketches for the Baptism of Christ, which was to be one of the scenes in the fresco of the Tornabuoni Choir. Though Ghirlandaio never mentions their conversation about the figure of Christ again, Michelangelo sees his preferred Christ in Ghirlandaio’s finished figure: “The legs twisted in an angular position, a little knock-kneed; the chest, shoulders and arms those of a man who had carried logs and built houses; with a rounded, protruding stomach that had absorbed its quantity of food: in its power and reality far outdistancing any of the still-life set figures that Ghirlandaio had as yet painted for the Tornabuoni Choir.”
(From Book Two, but about the same painting) Michelangelo “sketched his roughhewn young contandino just in from the fields, naked except for his brache, kneeling to take off his clodhoppers; the flesh tones a sunburned amber, the figure clumsy, with graceless bumpkin muscles; but the face transfused with light as the young lad gazed up at John. Behind him, he did two white-bearded assistants to John, with beauty in their faces and a rugged power in their figures. He experimented with flesh tones from his paint pots, enjoyed this culminating physical effort of bringing his figures to life, clothing them in warm-colored lemon-yellow and rose robes.”
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Index of Aruba-related articles - Wikipedia |
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Aruba.
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Killington Lane railway station - Wikipedia |
Killington Lane is a temporary terminus about one mile (1.6 km) southwest of Woody Bay on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B), the narrow gauge line that originally ran for 19 miles (31 km) through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon.
The L&B originally opened in 1898, and closed in 1935.
Killington Lane opened to passenger services on 27 May 2006, as the rebuilding continues southwards towards the former Halt at Parracombe.
The station has been built alongside rather than actually on the original formation. The adjacent cutting is partially filled in leading to Bridge 65, which, once rebuilt, would allow the line to be rebuilt under and beyond Killington Lane.
During 2013, with the introduction of three restored L&B heritage carriages, each 35 feet (11 m) long, and with a fourth being restored for delivery during 2014, the platform and run-round loop were extended to cater for larger trains.
The wooden platform shelter, similar in footprint to those used elsewhere on the original line (such as at Snapper) is, like the carriage shed at Woody Bay, intended to be transportable, so the station can be moved to each new railhead as the reconstruction continues. Destroyed by a storm early in 2014, which resulted in it being deposited in a field 100 yards (90 m) away, the shelter was replaced by a new building in April 2014, this time held in place by four internal posts made from lengths of redundant rail sunk into the platform.
Killington Lane station is at: grid reference WikiMiniAtlasSS67044582
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Matt Dunne - Wikipedia |
Matt Dunne (born November 20, 1969) is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives, two terms in the Vermont State Senate, was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 Vermont Lt. Governor's race, and the fourth-place finisher in the Democratic primary during the Vermont gubernatorial election, 2010.
Dunne was a candidate for the 2016 Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont.[1]
Dunne was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Hartland, Vermont, the son of lawyer and civil rights activist John Bailey Dunne and college professor Faith Weinstein Dunne.[2] Dunne attended Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating in 1987. He then spent a year at Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. After graduating from Choate in 1988, Dunne attended Brown University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in public policy in 1992.
Dunne was Director of Marketing for Logic Associates, a Vermont software company that during his tenure grew to over $18 million in sales. He also co-founded Cabin Fever Productions, which managed the Briggs Opera House and facilitated concerts in downtown White River Junction. Following the 2006 election, Dunne was hired by Google to run community affairs for the company from White River Junction, Vermont.[3]
At age 22, Dunne was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives representing Hartland and West Windsor in 1992. He served four terms in the Vermont House, during which he served as Vice-Chair of the Transportation Committee. In 1998 he became the youngest House majority whip in the country.[4] After serving in the legislature for 7 years, President Clinton asked Dunne to serve as Director of AmeriCorps VISTA, an organization that oversees over 6,000 full-time volunteers in the fight against poverty. As director, Dunne improved recruitment numbers and overhauled the organization's training programs. He served as director for two and a half years, under both President Clinton and President Bush.
After returning to Vermont in 2002, Dunne was elected to the Vermont State Senate, representing Windsor. He served on the Appropriations, Economic Development, and Administrative Rules Committees. During this time he served as Assistant Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, where he oversaw programs to prepare young people for careers in public service and non-profit management, including the Policy Research Shop. He also served as Chair of the Vermont delegation to the New England Board of Higher Education.
In 2006, Dunne ran for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. In the Democratic primary held September 14, 2006, Dunne defeated State Rep. John Tracy of Burlington, winning 59% of the vote.[5]
Dunne faced off against incumbent Republican Brian Dubie. Dunne's campaign received attention for its service politics events, where campaign volunteers worked with Vermont communities on local service projects. Dunne lost to Dubie 45%–51%.[6]
On November 3, 2009, Dunne announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont in 2010. Dunne was one of five Democrats vying for the nomination.
During the final weeks of the campaign, Dunne's brother Josh suffered a life-threatening stroke that required surgery. Dunne missed three of the final debates, and removed himself from the campaign trail for nearly two weeks, finally returning on August 20.[7]
The primary was held on August 24, 2010. Dunne finished fourth with 20.8% of vote. He finished ahead of Susan Bartlett (5.1%), but behind Peter Shumlin (24.8%), Doug Racine (24.6%), and Deborah Markowitz (23.9%). Only 4 percentage points separated the top four candidates, making it one of the closest primaries in Vermont history.[8] Shumlin went on to win the general election, and all his primary opponents but Dunne subsequently joined the Shumlin administration.[9]
Dunne announced his candidacy in September 2015.[10] In February 2016 Dunne left his position at Google, indicating to members of the media that he did so to focus on his campaign.[11]
Dunne received the endorsements of two major Vermont labor groups, the Vermont State Employees Association and the Vermont branch of the AFL-CIO,[12] and the progressive Vermont activist group Rights and Democracy.[13] In July, he received the endorsement of six dozen current and former Vermont legislators, including that of Senate Majority Leader Philip Baruth, who had said earlier he was not planning to endorse any candidate.[14] He was also endorsed by the Burlington Free Press, which praised his clearly articulated plans for Vermont's economy and government.[15]
Dunne finished second in the August 9 primaries, and endorsed the winner, Sue Minter.[1]
Dunne emphasized ethics, transparency, and campaign finance reform in his campaign, with a plan to require greater disclosure of campaign assets, close the revolving door between regulators and industry in Montpelier, improve Vermont's public campaign financing, and eliminate direct corporate contributions to campaigns.[16] His campaign voluntarily released more campaign finance reports than required by state law, and unsuccessfully called on Dunne's opponents to do the same.[17]
Dunne supported increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour and investing in microfinancing;[18] providing universal primary health care;[19] divesting from fossil fuels and investing $100 million in efficiency, solar, and heat pump technology;[20] improving women's equality through paid family leave, affordable state-run child care, free access to long-term birth control, and improving job training opportunities for women in the STEM fields;[21] improving enforcement of racial and LGBTQA anti-discrimination laws; emphasizing treatment over law enforcement in addressing Vermont's opioid abuse epidemic;[22] and legalizing and regulating marijuana.[23] He supported universal background checks for gun sales in Vermont, but unlike his rivals has not called for a ban on assault weapons.[24]
Climate activist Bill McKibben endorsed Dunne early in the race, but later switched his support to Dunne's rival Sue Minter after Dunne released a statement on wind power advocating more local control over projects, a position McKibben considered a dog whistle to opponents of wind expansion.[25] Environmental group Vermont Conservation Voters, which had been neutral in the race, endorsed Minter for the same reason.[26] Dunne's campaign manager responded that Minter had not clearly articulated her position on ridgeline wind, saying "Matt made a decision to be clear and is being attacked for it."[27][28]
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Ridgeway, Georgia - Wikipedia | Ridgeway is an unincorporated community in Harris County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]
Ridgeway was founded ca. 1829, and named for the ridge upon which the town site rests.[2] A variant name was "Mount Airy".[1] A post office called Ridgeway was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1903.[3]
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Communes of the Haute-Garonne department - Wikipedia |
The following is a list of the 586 communes in the French department of Haute-Garonne.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[1]
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Tomorrow We Move - Wikipedia | Tomorrow We Move (French: Demain on déménage) is a 2004, French-Belgian comedy film directed by Chantal Akerman. It won the Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film in 2005.[2]
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Mehmet Akgün - Wikipedia |
Mehmet Akgün (born 6 August 1986) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
In the 2005–06 season, Akgün played for Borussia Dortmund II. He was picked several times for the first team squad and played one Bundesliga game.
He was transferred to Kasımpaşa in 2007[1] and on 20 January 2008 signed a one and a half year contract with Dutch side Willem II.[2] He scored his first goal for Willem II on the opening day of the 2008–09 season against Ajax. On 19 May 2010, he left the Netherlands to sign for the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği S.K.
On 1 June 2012, he signed a two-year contract with Beşiktaş worth €200,000 per annum and €3,000 per game played.[3]
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Ronald Szymusiak - Wikipedia | Ronald Szymusiak is a professor at UCLA, where he researches sleep and Alzheimer's disease. Szymusiak is the editor-in-chief of SLEEP sleep medicine journal.[1]
Szymusiak obtained his Ph.D. in biological psychology from the University of Illinois in 1982 and did his postdoctoral training in neurobiology.[2] In the years 2017-2018[3] and 2021-2023,[4][5] he received a Veterans Affairs Research Career Scientist Award.[6][7] He is a professor at the school of medicine at UCLA.[8] He has worked on sleep disorders and contributed to the understanding of the REM–Non-REM Sleep Cycle, hypothalamic control of sleep homeostasis,[9] sleep suppression, and the impact of various factors, such as corticotropin-releasing factor, on sleep.
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2019 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach - Wikipedia | The 2019 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach was the fourth round of the 2019 IndyCar season and the 45th annual running of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The 85 lap race was held on April 14, 2019, in Long Beach, California. Alexander Rossi dominated the race from the pole position scoring his sixth career IndyCar victory.[1]
Notes:
1 Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.
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Autosticha acharacta - Wikipedia |
Autosticha acharacta is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in northwestern India.[1]
The wingspan is 12–15 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. The stigmata are small and dark fuscous, the plical is slightly before the first discal, a cloudy dot on the dorsum beneath the second discal. There is an almost marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen, in females less distinct. The hindwings are light greyish.[2]
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Ausenium - Wikipedia | Ausenium (atomic symbol Ao) was the name assigned to the element with atomic number 93, now known as neptunium. It was named after a Greek name of Italy, Ausonia.[1]
The same team assigned the name hesperium to element 94, after Hesperia, a poetic name of Italy.[2] (Element 94 was later named plutonium).
The discovery of the element, now discredited, was made by Enrico Fermi and a team of scientists at the University of Rome in 1934. In the same year Ida Noddack had already presented alternative explanations for the experimental results of Fermi.[3] Following the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, it was realized that Fermi's discovery was actually a mixture of barium, krypton, and other elements. The actual element was discovered several years later, and assigned the name neptunium.[2]
Fascist authorities wanted one of the elements to be named littorio after the Roman lictores who carried the fasces, a symbol appropriated by Fascism.[2]
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1999 Eurocard Open – Singles - Wikipedia | Thomas Enqvist defeated the defending champion Richard Krajicek in the final, 6–1, 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 to win the singles tennis title at the 1999 Eurocard Open.[1][2][3]
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye into the second round.
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Quercus microphylla - Wikipedia |
Quercus microphylla is a Mexican species of oak in the beech family. It is widespread from Oaxaca as far north as Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas.[2][3]
Quercus microphylla is a shrub rarely more than 60 centimetres (24 inches) tall, forming dense mats several meters across. The leaves are tiny compared to most other species in the genus, usually less than 35 millimetres (1+1⁄2 in) long.[2][4]
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Jean Hudson Boyd - Wikipedia | Jean Hudson Boyd (née Lucy Jean Hudson; born August 26, 1954) is an American judge who served as the Presiding Judge of Texas's 323rd District Court.[1] The 323rd District Court serves Tarrant County, Texas, as its juvenile court. Boyd, a Republican, assumed office in 1995,[1] but is known for her controversial[6] 2013 probation sentencing of Ethan Couch, a 16-year-old who killed four people and injured 11 while driving drunk.
Boyd earned a Bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University and a J.D. degree from South Texas College of Law.[4] She practiced law as a juvenile attorney before becoming an Associate Judge of the 323rd District Court in 1987, and the Presiding Judge of the 323rd District Court in 1995.[5] Boyd chairs the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Judicial Section of the State Bar of Texas, and was a member of the Board of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission.[5] She chaired the Juvenile Law Section of the State Bar of Texas from 1993 to 1994.[5] Boyd served as President of the Fort Worth-Tarrant Count Young Lawyers Association in 1985, and as President of the Tarrant County Women Lawyer's Association from 1982 to 1983.[5]
Boyd heard the case of Ethan Couch, a sixteen-year-old from a wealthy family who killed four people and injured nine people while driving drunk, in 2013.[7] After accepting his guilty plea, Boyd sentenced Couch to ten years' probation for his crimes, and also ordered him confined to a rehabilitation facility for treatment.[7] Boyd's ruling outraged the families of the victims, and provoked national criticism, especially after news sources revealed that Couch's defense team argued that he was not culpable because he could not understand the consequences of his decisions because of his financial privilege, a condition an expert witness termed "affluenza."[7]
Boyd herself specifically claimed the "affluenza" argument did not influence her judgment but, rather, that she merely felt Couch needed treatment and that given his parents' financial position, Couch could get better treatment in a rehabilitation center than in a youth detention center. Boyd did not comment regarding whether the punishment of ten years' probation was appropriate to Couch's crimes of stealing alcohol,[8] being a minor in possession of alcohol, consuming alcohol as a minor, driving drunk, and vehicular manslaughter of four individuals.[7]
Critics charged Boyd had given a free pass to Couch because he was white and wealthy, noting that in 2004, Boyd sentenced Eric Miller, a sixteen-year-old from a poor family, to twenty years' imprisonment for killing one person while driving drunk.[9] The 2004 case did differ to some extent from the Couch case, though, in that the defendant in the 2004 case committed a separate felony on the night in question, stealing a truck. However, in Couch's case, he had stolen a truck from his father, which was viewed as a lesser offense, and had also stolen the beer he'd consumed.[9] Boyd had intended to pass a similar mandatory rehabilitation sentence in a 2012 case involving a death stemming from a fight, but no rehabilitation program was willing to accept the suspect, who was then subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison.[10] Boyd has a history of long probationary sentences for juveniles[11] and keeping juveniles in the juvenile court system,[12] although at least one juvenile, convicted of murder, was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment following his conviction.[13]
A year later, Boyd stepped down from her position officially on December 31, 2014, after serving as judge for 20 years.[citation needed]
Two years into the 10-year probation sentence handed down by Boyd, Couch violated his probation and disappeared with his mother.[14] On December 28, 2015, Mexican authorities detained Couch and his mother near the Pacific beach resort town of Puerto Vallarta.[citation needed]
Lucy Jean Hudson married John G. Boyd, D.D.S., in 1977[3] and the two have a child.[5]
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Evil customs - Wikipedia | Evil customs (Catalan: mals usos, lit. "bad uses") were specific medieval feudal customs, generally levies, which peasants were subjected to by their feudal lords in the Crown of Aragon and other European countries. These obligations are related to the Ius Maletractandi, a right approved by the Catalan Court of 1358, which empowered the feudal lords to treat their people in ways later considered unjust.[1]
In the Principality of Catalonia, the population was controlled by the feudal nobility and a number of benefits were established that would later be considered evil customs. The customs were most often found in relation to the land of the so-called Old Catalonia. The ties of the peasant to the land he worked required him to pay a redemption if he wanted to leave it.[2]
The Usages of Barcelona collected only three of the most common obligations: the intestia, cugucia and eixorquia. The evil customs with the possibility of being redeemed paying a tribute to the lord in the Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe were:
In addition to these evil customs, other manorial customs existed, including:
Another custom that did not only oppress peasants but also humiliated them was the provision of arbitrary labor services. These included the use of a nursing woman to become a wet nurse for the lord's children.[10]
In the Crown of Castile, it is difficult to determine what the evil customs were, since the region was more subject to the oral tradition. Reference is made to the so-called bad fueros, feudal regimes harder in benefits. As Castile tried to attract people from other areas or kingdoms, the fueros or laws were rarely harsh. The evil customs were sporadic or were simply monetary payments. Some examples include:
The abolition of the evil or bad customs took a long time and this could primarily be attributed to the way that it formed part of the identity of the serfs, serving as an essential element in the definition of their servile bond and legal status as subordinate to the lords.[12] Before the series of peasant revolts that stemmed from the ius malectrandi, there were already attempts on the part of the royal courts to eliminate this system of servitude. For instance, Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon-Catalonia began raising the issue some time in the fifteenth century. She appealed to Pope Benedict XIII, her kinsman, citing the example of Christ (ad exemplum Crucifixi) who freed people from their bondage.[13] King John I was also against the system and planned to procure its abolition shortly before his death in 1395.
The evil customs became one of the causes of the Catalan Civil War, which took place between the years 1460 and 1486, the year in which they were abolished by king Ferdinand II of Aragon. He issued the Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe, which scrapped the evil customs with a previous payment of 60 salaries per farm, and abolished the right to mistreat and many other minor landed abuses.[14] The peasants maintained the useful domain of the farms, but they had to pay homage to the feudal lord and pay the feudal rights.[15]
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New England Cement Company Kiln and Quarry - Wikipedia |
The New England Cement Company Kiln and Quarry are a historic archaeological industrial site in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Located on and near a ridge paralleling Litchfield Turnpike, the site includes two components: a stone kiln used for processing cement, and a hand-dug quarry from which limestone used in the cement manufacture was taken. The site has an industrial history dating to 1847; the kiln, which survives in deteriorated condition, dates to 1874.[2][3]
A modern account of the demise of this business states there is "evidence of a nineteenth century scam" in which investors lost money. According to a 2013 article in The New York Times,"The concept was simple, toss local rock into the large stone furnace and wait until it melts. Then out comes fine cement. In this case the local bedrock proved unusable and produced an inferior product. Speculation is that the first batch was hauled into New Haven and dumped into the harbor more than 100 years ago."[2] However this is contradicted by a more contemporaneous account by U.S. Congressman Nehemiah D. Sperry as recounted in a local newspaper's coverage of his 1895 trip through this area where he grew up. Sperry said, "And here we are opposite the dam. Just over there on the hillside are the ruins of the old cement kiln, where twenty-five years ago they made cement from the rocks that are so abundant around it. It was good cement, but the business failed and was killed because cement was a cheap article and because it took off all the profits to cart the stuff to New Haven. Perhaps some day an electric road will come by here and then the business might be profitably worked."[4]
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]
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Ganapatrao Maharaj Kannur - Wikipedia |
Love everyone & Live in Happiness.
Shri Samartha Sadaguru Ganapatrao Maharaj Kannur (1909–2004) was an Indian guru in the Inchegeri Sampradaya.
Kannur was born on 18 September 1909 on the day of Ganesh Chaturthi (Bhadrapad Shukla Chaturthi), in a Deshastha Brahmin family[1] of Smt Saraswatibai & Shrimant Shivrampant Kannur, in the small village Kannur,[2] located in the Bijapur district of Karnataka, India.
He had his primary and high-school education in Bijapur. He graduated in 1932, earning a B.Sc. (mathematics and physics) degree from Fergusson College, Pune.[citation needed]
Since his early childhood days, Kannur had a great inclination towards spirituality. At the age of 13 he was blessed and initiated by Sri S.S. Siddharameshwar Maharaj, who also accepted him as his disciple and guided him to the path of self attainment.
Maharaj had given stringent directives to few of his selfless disciples: to wear ochre robes, to be devoted towards sadhana and make it the sole objective of life, not to touch money, and live with only bare minimum necessities. The disciples chose the bank of river Krishna at Audumbar[3] and carried out tapas (penance) for a year, strictly as instructed.
Even being a graduate he decided not to take any service or job and wowed for the bow of celibacy throughout his life as not to get entangled in materialistic life. Maharaj died in 1936. After his death, Shri Ganapatrao Maharaj became firmly rooted in his doctrines, and studied the Shrimad Dasbodh, Bhagavata, Bhagavad-Gita Upanishads and other holy texts to attain the highest goal of his life - self liberation and self attainment.
He carried on the mantle passed to him by his Sadguru, and strived for the uplifting of common people for 60 years. To carry forward his spiritual work he founded the Shanti Kuteer Ashram.[4] At the age of 95, on Monday 20 September 2004, he died in Kannur House, Bijapur.
Shanti Kuteer is a hermitage founded by Maharaj.[5] It is located near the village of Kannur, 25 km from Bijapur. This ashram was set up in 1951 and has gradually grown to consist of over 100 rooms for accommodation of the disciples. A temple of Lord Shree Dattatreya is located on the premises.[3]
Various saptahs (spiritual fests) are held at Shanti Kuteer Kannur in a calendar year.
Different accounts:
Kadasiddha,[t] also called "Almighty "Kadsiddeshwar",[u] who appeared as a vision to Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj[v]
or
The 22nd[citation needed] or 24th[w] Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj, who initiated Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj[x]
or
"The 25th generation of the kadsiddha at siddhagiri had then initiated Guruling jangam maharaj of nimbargi."[y]
or
"Juangam Maharaj" c.q. "a yogi [at Siddhagiri] who gave [Nimabargi Maharaj] a mantra and told him to meditate regularly on it"[z]
(1857 Jigajevani – 1933 Inchgiri)[ag][ah]
Student of Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj[bb]
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Maharaj traces his sampradaya to the Navanath Sampraday.[6] It was started by Adiguru Shri Dattatreya, and was further carried by the Navanaths, the Holy Nine Gurus.[7]
One of those Navnaths was Adiguru Sri Revanatah, who initiated Kaadasiddheshwar Swami Maharaj. Kaadasiddheshwar founded the Kaneri Ashram in the 13th century, which became a Dnyan Peeth. Many solace seekers were initiated for centuries.
In the mid-19th century, the then Shri Kaadasiddheshwar Swami Maharaj initiated Shri Gurulingajangam Maharaj, also known as "Nimbarji Maharaj". He founded the Nimbargi sampraday and initiated Shri Raghunathpriya Sadhu Maharaj.
Shri Raghunathpriya Sadhu Maharaj initiated Shri Samartha Sadaguru Bhausaheb Maharaj Deshpande, who was an ardent follower and a devoted disciple of Shri Gurulingajangam Maharaj.[8]
Shri Bhausaheb Maharaj established the Inchegeri Sampradaya. He preached the principle of non-dualness, advait tatva, and used to give discourses on Srimad Dasbodh.
Sri Bhausaheb Maharaj had many followers, many of which further rose to the state of Gurupad, and practised and preached the Principles of Vedant and Advait throughout India.
Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj was his disciple and ardent follower. Siddharameshwar professed the knowledge and basics of self-realization to the masses and became one of the most followed Guru of Inchegeri sampraday. Shri Maharaj was blessed and initiated by Siddharameshwar at the age of thirteen.
Maharaji's words came from the depth of his own experience. The acceptance of one being supreme and being one with the universe was the core of his discourses. Maharaj was ever vigilant about the welfare of his disciples, specifically about their spiritual progress. Hence he wrote a number of texts on the different aspects of spirituality. He also founded the publication Adhyatma Bhandar and all the books are published by it.
Amongst them are:
Shantikuteer Sandesh is a quarterly periodical published by Shantikuteer Trust. The periodical is available in the Kannada and Marathi languages.
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KWYB - Wikipedia | KWYB (channel 18) is a television station in Butte, Montana, United States, affiliated with ABC and Fox. Owned by the Cowles Company, the station has studios on Dewey Boulevard in Butte, and its transmitter is located on XL Heights east of the city.
KWYB-LD (channel 28) in Bozeman, Montana operates as a semi-satellite of KWYB. It simulcasts all network and syndicated programming provided by KWYB, but airs separate commercial inserts and legal identifications. KWYB-LD's transmitter is located southwest of Four Corners, Montana.
Channel 18 was allotted to Butte in 1983. A construction permit for a station to be owned by Community Christian Television was issued in 1986, but failed to materialize.[3]
In 1991, Continental Television Network applied for channel 18 in Butte and was granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on January 9, 1992. The launch of KWYB was delayed two years by transmitter site arrangements. To house its XL Heights transmitter, it reached a deal with local electric utility Montana Power Company to move into space formerly utilized by the company. However, Montana Power wound up moving out in 1996 instead of the previously planned 1994. This pushed back construction of the physical plant.[4] Station studios offices were set up in a building on West Park Street.[5]
KWYB went on the air September 27, 1996. It assumed the ABC affiliation from two low-power stations operated by KXLF-TV/KCTZ, known as "KBZ", in the Butte and Bozeman areas. When it launched, the station also assumed a secondary affiliation with Fox for NFL football.[6] A month later, K28FB—today's KWYB-LD—began broadcasting to Bozeman.[7]
In February 2001, CTN sold KWYB/KWYB-LP, along with KTMF in Missoula, KTMF-LP in Kalispell, and KTGF in Great Falls, to Max Media of Montana. They were the first television station acquisitions in Montana for Max Media.
Max Media provided operational support to the Equity Broadcasting-owned Fox affiliates in Butte/Bozeman, Missoula, and Great Falls from 2003 to 2008. This arrangement ended in 2008, when Equity assumed programming responsibilities directly.[8] In 2009, after a bankrupt Equity was forced to shut down the stations (including KBTZ channel 24 in Butte and KBTZ-LP channel 32 in Bozeman) because it could not convert them to digital television, the Fox affiliation migrated to digital subchannels of KWYB/KWYB-LD, KTMF/KTMF-LD, and KFBB-TV.[9]
On September 30, 2013, the Cowles Company acquired Max Media's Montana television stations for $18 million.[10][11] The sale was completed on November 29.[12]
KWYB's first local news service came under Max Media ownership in September 2002, when Max contracted Independent News Network of Davenport, Iowa, to produce a regional newscast for KWYB, KTMF, and KTGF, all third-to-air stations in their markets with no local news at the time. Six reporters, one each in the five areas serviced by the Max Montana stations and another in Helena, contributed reports to Big Sky News at 5 and 10 p.m., which was presented from Iowa.[13][14] The early newscast was dropped at the start of 2004.[15]
In 2005, Max Media acquired KFBB-TV in Great Falls, selling KTGF. Unlike KTGF, KFBB-TV produced its own local news. At that time, Big Sky News was replaced with a 10 p.m. newscast branded Montana News Network, produced from Great Falls and servicing all of the company's Montana stations except KULR-TV in Billings.[16] This newscast was subsequently discontinued, and for several years the only local newscast on the station was a ten-minute late newscast, 10@10.
As of September 2015[update], KWYB airs the state-wide morning newscast Wake Up Montana (produced in Spokane, Washington by KHQ-TV) and full early evening and late newscasts, as well as a prime time newscast on its Fox subchannel.
In October 2022, the station rebranded its news output as NonStop Local, as part of a rebranding by Cowles.[17]
The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:
On June 14, 2002, the FCC granted a construction permit to build KWYB-DT on UHF channel 19. The station received Special Temporary Authority (STA) on April 22, 2003 to broadcast at reduced power. In Butte, KWYB's analog signal went off the air on the original shutoff date on February 17, 2009.[20]
On August 11, 2006, the FCC granted "flash-cut" authorization to KWYB-LD, and on August 11, 2009, analog station KWYB-LP converted to digital station KWYB-LD on channel 28.
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Tricholoma album - Wikipedia |
Tricholoma album, commonly known as the white knight, is an all-white mushroom of the large genus Tricholoma. It is found in Europe, India, and possibly North America. The cap and gills are white. The whitish stipe has no ring.
The species was originally described as Agaricus albus by Jacob Christian Schäffer in 1774,[2] and reclassified as Gyrophila alba by mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1886.[3] It was given its current binomial name by German Paul Kummer in 1871.[4] The British Mycological Society has listed "white knight" as its common name.[5] The generic name derives from the Greek trichos/τριχος 'hair' and loma/λωμα 'hem', 'fringe' or 'border', while the specific epithet is the Latin adjective albus "white".[6]
The fungus is classified in the section Lasciva of the genus Tricholoma, characterised by species with a strong odor and acrid or bitter taste;[7] an older classification has it placed in section Inamoena.[8]
Marcel Bon named the variety Tricholoma album var. thalliophilum to account for those mushrooms that differed by staining blue-green with thallium oxide and sulfoformol;[9] in the absence of additional differentiating characters, some later authors have questioned the taxonomical value of this characteristic.[10]
The cap is 3–7.5 cm (1.2–3.0 in) wide and white with a pale yellow tinge, and more yellow or ochre in the centre as the fruit body ages. Convex with a slight boss, the cap is broadly conical in shape with inrolled margins. The white to pale yellow or ochre-tinged stipe is 3–8.5 cm (1.2–3.3 in) high and 0.8–1.5 cm wide and has no ring. There is no ring or volva. The mushroom has a prominent unpleasant sweet smell reminiscent of honey and radishes, and has an acrid and disagreeable taste.[1] The thick gills are widely spaced with finely serrated edges. The spore print is white, the oval or oblong spores 5–7 μm long by 3.5–5 μm wide.[7]
Tricholoma album is found across Europe, the fruit bodies appearing between August and December, in association with oak (Quercus) trees,[7] with which they form a mycorrhizal relationship.[11] Experiments have demonstrated that inoculating blue pine (Pinus wallichiana) and deodar (Cedrus deodara) seedlings with the fungus increases plant height and shoot and root biomass.[12] The mushroom can be encountered growing in sizeable fairy rings.[6] The presence of the mushroom in North America has not been confirmed.[13] It has been reported from India in 2010.[14]
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Steiner Studios - Wikipedia | Steiner Studios is a film studio at Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the largest film and television production studio complex in the United States outside Hollywood.[2] Steiner Studios, spread across 50 acres (20 ha), contains 30 soundstages as well as additional support space.
Steiner Studios was founded in 1999,[3] and the first soundstages at the site opened in November 2004. In 2012, Steiner Studios reached an agreement with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation to convert its 20-acre Naval Annex Historic Campus into a media and technology hub; the expansion is projected to be completed in the mid-2020s.[4] In 2020, Steiner Studios announced a new $550 million, 900,000 square-foot project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.[5]
Most recently, Inventing Anna, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, West Side Story, Tick, Tick...Boom!, and And Just Like That… have been filmed at Steiner Studios.
Steiner Studios is home to thirty soundstages, totaling 780,000 square feet (72,000 m2) and making it New York’s largest production facility.[6] There is also an additional 224,000 square feet (20,800 m2) of support space, which includes offices, dressing rooms, hair and make-up rooms, wardrobe rooms, mill shops, a spray booth, and prop storage.[7] Office and support spaces have access to satellite uplinks and a high-speed data backbone.
Soundstages are equipped with full grids from 26 to 45 feet, are column-free, sound-insulated, and offer loading and staging areas.[6] Built to accommodate film, high-definition television (HDTV) and digital camera productions, each stage is wired with a minimum of 4,800 amps of power and 50 to 200 tons of cooling. Stages are accessed via 13-foot-high (4.0 m) to 20-foot-high (6.1 m) elephant doors.
Each stage is attached to production and support space, including make-up and dressing rooms, green rooms, storage areas, conference rooms, and offices. In addition to the enclosed building areas, there are assembly and secondary areas for "lay-down" of materials and equipment used in large-scale film projects. The facility features a 100-seat screening room and a full commissary, on-site parking, 24/7 security and lighting and grip equipment services.[8]
In 2003, Douglas C. Steiner began development of what later became New York City's largest television and movie production facility, on 20 acres (8.1 ha) of the Navy Yard.[9] Steiner Studios opened in November 2004.[10][11] The site initially included a 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m2) studio spread across five stages.[12]
An expansion of the facility through renovation of a seven-story building in the Navy Yard, was announced by chairman Douglas Steiner, on February 15, 2007.[13] The studio was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.[14]
In March 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled five new sound stages (a total of 30,500 square feet (2,830 m2)) at Steiner Studios.[10][15][16] The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.[17]
Brooklyn College opened the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema on Steiner Studios' production lot for the fall 2013 semester.[18] It is the first public graduate school of film in New York and is thought to be the only film school in the country located on a working film lot.[19] In November 2013, Carnegie Mellon University announced the creation of the Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios.
In 2012, Steiner Studios proposed building a media campus at the former site of Brooklyn Naval Hospital.[20][21] located just east of the existing Steiner Studios lot.[22]: Figure 1.0–2 (PDF p. 15) Steiner Studios planned to restore the hospital buildings starting in 2017, and restoration was expected to take nearly a decade.[23]
The extant buildings at the hospital included the main building, surgeon's house, quarters 4 through 7, bachelors' and nurses' quarters, carriage houses and stables, the medical supply depot, and the morgue/lumber shed. Steiner proposed to convert these structures into production, post-production, and production support space.[22]: 1.5 (PDF p. 17) The hospital had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2014.[24] Steiner Studios' plan calls for the restoration of 15 NRHP-listed buildings at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital campus, but would also demolish some of the NRHP-contributing artifacts to make way for the new facility,[22]: 1.12 (PDF p. 24) Structures with a total floor area of 2,700 square feet (250 m2) would be demolished and replaced with landscaped lawn space.[22]: 1.13 (PDF p. 25)
In 2020, Steiner Studios signed a deal to build a new $550 million studio complex at the city-owned portion of Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where it would erect a studio of 900,000 square feet (84,000 m2) and eight soundstages.[25][26]
Steiner Studios benefits from New York's movie production incentive program. Douglas Steiner donated $40,000 to incumbent New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2022 campaign. The company spends $10,000 a month on lobbyists.[27]
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Cabinet of Josef Korčák, Ladislav Adamec, František Pitra and Petr Pithart - Wikipedia |
Josef Korčák's, Ladislav Adamec's, František Pitra's and Petr Pithart's Cabinet was in power from 18 June 1986 to 29 June 1990.[1][2][3]
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The Talking Clothes: Poems - Wikipedia |
The Talking Clothes : Poems (1966) is the ninth poetry collection by Australian poet William Hart-Smith.[1] It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry,[1] in 1966.
The collection consists of 86 poems, some of which had been previously published in various Australian magazines and journals, and the rest of which are published for the first time in this volume.[1]
Rodney Hall in The Bulletin notes that in this collection the poet "does not seem to be addressing the solitary reader, nor haranguing the crowd. He uses a middle voice, quiet yet public, as if talking to a small groups of friends and admirers." And concludes: "These poems, with their charm and compactness, make a cogent argument against the charge that all modern verse is obscure."[2]
In The Age, in a combined review of seven poetry collections, Dennis Douglas opines that this collection places "the poet as a mediator between the reader and the world of phenomenal objects...The incursions of phenomena are precariously held at bay in Mr. Hart-Smith's collection by the lightness of tone in his work and the use of the poet as observer."[3]
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Calvin Plummer - Wikipedia |
Calvin Plummer (born 14 February 1963) is an English former professional footballer born in Nottingham who played as a winger in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Chesterfield, Derby County, Barnsley and Plymouth Argyle.[1] He also played on loan for Derry City in the League of Ireland playing in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and for Lahden Reipas in Finland,[1] and for English non-league clubs Gainsborough Trinity, Shepshed Albion, Corby Town, Nuneaton Borough, Birstall United, Grantham Town, Arnold Town, Shepshed Dynamo and Kirby Muxloe.[2] He was manager of Bilborough and joint manager of Arnold Town,[3] before taking becoming assistant manager at Gedling Miners Welfare.[4]
Plummer also caused controversy in 1982, when he agreed to play on an unofficial tour of South Africa. The tour, organised by Jimmy Hill and sponsored by South African Breweries, was largely made up of players heading toward the end of their careers. Plummer's presence as the only younger player, as well as the only black player in the initial squad, gave rise to accusations of tokenism. The tour itself was both a footballing and public relations disaster and caused great damage to Plummer's career. Brian Clough, his Nottingham Forest manager at the time, was publicly critical of Plummer's naivety and relations did sour between them. Despite this, Clough re-signed Plummer later in his career.
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Birgitte Victoria Svendsen - Wikipedia | Birgitte Victoria Svendsen (born 14 December 1957) is a Norwegian actress. For her stage work she has won one Hedda Award.
Svendsen was initially employed at Rogaland Teater from 1980. Following employments at Fjernsynsteatret from 1982 and Riksteatret from 1984, she returned to Rogaland Teater in 1986. From 1990 on she has been a cast member at Oslo Nye Teater.[1]
She had guest tenures at Agder Teater, Nationaltheatret and Riksteatret before playing the role as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night at Teatret Vårt. This role landed her the Hedda Award for best female lead in 2009.[1]
Svendsen's film roles include Drømmeslottet (1986) and her television credits include the miniseries Ved kongens bord (2005).[1]
She had three children. She resides at Ljan.[2]
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Charleston Subdivision - Wikipedia | The Charleston Subdivision is a railroad territory owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia. The line from Florence, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, for a total of 195.8 miles. At its north end it continues south from the South End Subdivision and at its south end it continues south as the Savannah Subdivision of the Jacksonville Division.[1][2]
The Charleston Subdivision is a portion of the Florence Division that includes part of CSX's A Line, one of their main lines which ultimately extends from Richmond, Virginia, to Tampa, Florida. Charleston Subdivision also includes a flat switching yard in North Charleston named Bennett Yard, as well as a satellite yard located in downtown Charleston called Cooper Yard which primarily holds tanks.
The line from Florence to North Charleston was originally built as the Northeastern Railroad in 1856. The Northeastern Railroad became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1898.[3]
The line south of Johns Island (just southwest of Charleston) was originally chartered in 1854 by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad (later known as the Charleston and Savannah Railway).[4]
The line from North Charleston to Johns Island, including the bridge over the Ashley River, was built as the Ashley River Railroad, which opened in on December 27, 1877. This was the final link in what would become the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad mainline (the CSX A Line).[5]
The Charleston and Savannah Railway and the Ashley River Railroad came under the ownership of Henry B. Plant in the 1880s. The Plant System would then be bought by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.[6]
In 1967, the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) and its competitor, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) merged to create the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL). The first few months after the merger, the line was known as the Southover Subdivision. This was due to the fact that a nearly parallel ex-SAL route still existed just to the east from Charleston to Savannah (the East Carolina Line). This line was still designated as the Charleston Subdivision (which the SAL named it prior to the merger).[7] Though, a few months after the merger, the ex-SAL route was severed as a through route and the SCL then used the Charleston Subdivision designation to rename the Southover Subdivision.[8]
In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation. The CSX Corporation initially operated the Chessie and Seaboard Systems separately until 1986, when they were merged into CSX Transportation.
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David Massey (director) - Wikipedia | David Maurice Massey (born 1957) is a filmmaker and graduate of the American Film Institute. In 1992, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the film Last Breeze of Summer.[1] He is one of two African Americans to be nominated for a short film of any kind and the film won a Crystal Heart Award.
He has also received recognition by The National Education Association and is an inductee at The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. David Massey directed a short film about the Vietnam War which had Benjamin McKenzie before he got his starring role on the hit TV show The O.C.
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Tang Xiaotian - Wikipedia |
Tang Xiaotian (Chinese: 唐晓天; pinyin: Táng Xiǎotiān, born June 2, 1991) is a Chinese actor and model. He is best known for his roles in Put Your Head on My Shoulder (2019), To Get Her (2019) and My Little Happiness (2021).
Tang Xiaotian was born on June 2, 1991, in Tianjin, China. He graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.
Tang made his acting debut in the 2017 web series Forever Young where he played Hu Kankan, Xie Ruolin's brother.[1]
In February 2019, he joined the recurring cast of the series Queen Dugu where he played Yang Yong, the Crown Prince of Sui, the eldest son of Emperor Yang Jian and Empress Dugu Jialuo who is later stripped of his title.[2] In April of the same year, he portrayed the role of Fu Pei in the drama Put Your Head on My Shoulder.[3] On December, he joined the main cast of the series To Get Her where he played Tu Siyi, a famous idol who is trapped in a video game, where he loses all his memories and becomes the 3rd prince.[4]
In 2020, Tang starred as the male lead in Tencent Video's romantic drama series Way Back Into Love.[5]
In January 2021, he played the lead role of Wen Shaoqing in the romcom drama series My Little Happiness.[6] The same year Tang joined the recurring cast of the drama The Sword and The Brocade where he played Ou Yanxing / Lin Shixian.[7] In July, he played Jiang Xiaoye in Broker.[8]
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Cavan (Dáil constituency) - Wikipedia |
Cavan was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1977. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
From 1921 to 1923, Cavan elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). This was increased to 4 with effect from the 1923 general election, and reduced to 3 with effect from the 1961 general election to 1977.
At the 1977 general election, the Cavan constituency was combined with Monaghan to form the new 5 seat Cavan–Monaghan constituency.[1]
Throughout its existence, the constituency consisted of the entire administrative county of Cavan.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Following the resignation of Cumann na nGaedheal TD Seán Milroy, a by-election was held on 11 March 1925. The seat was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate John Joe O'Reilly.
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James Hawksley - Wikipedia |
James Hawksley (born 5 February 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in Australian Football League (AFL).
Hawksley played most of his junior football with Safety Bay Junior Football Club before moving to Mandurah Centrals JFC. He later played with Peel Thunder in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
Hawksley was drafted to the Brisbane Lions with the 38th selection in the 2006 AFL Draft.[1]
He made his debut against Fremantle in June 2008, round 11.[2] He had 6 disposals (3 handball and kicks) and 2 marks. However, he was dropped next match and returned to Suncoast Lions. Despite his drop from the first team, he continued to impress in AFLQ and was named many times for emergencies for the first team. He eventually won his way back into the senior team following strong form in the QAFL and played in Rounds 19 and 20 of the 2008 season against Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs where he collected 14 and 17 possessions respectively.
In 2009, he played in every NAB Cup match before struggling to edge his way in to the senior side. Finally in round 18 he made his return to the senior side against Collingwood and kept his spot until the end of the home and away season. In the finals series he was a strong contributor with 9 possessions against the Blues and then saved his best game for 2009 for the match against the Bulldogs where he amassed 15 possessions and made 5 tackles. In 2010 he played a further 11 games, but also spent some time out of the senior team. He re-signed with the Lions in September 2010,[3] but was delisted at the end of the 2012 AFL season.[4] He has since returned to Western Australia and is playing for Peel Thunder.[5]
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Pigs in Heaven - Wikipedia | Pigs in Heaven (ISBN 9780060168018) is a 1993 novel by Barbara Kingsolver; it is the sequel to her first novel, The Bean Trees. It continues the story of Taylor Greer and Turtle, her adopted Cherokee daughter. It highlights the strong relationships between mothers and daughters, with special attention given to the customs, history, and present living situation of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. It is Kingsolver's first book to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.[1]
The New York Times Book Review praised Kingsolver's "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" and called the novel a "resounding achievement".[2][3]
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Stella Greenall - Wikipedia |
Stella Margaret Greenall (8 October 1926 – 18 June 2008), born Stella Draycott, was an education activist and adviser to the United Kingdom government. Between 1952 and 1975 she worked at the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) and during this time was instrumental in the creation of a universal system of grants for higher education students in Britain.[1]
Born in Sheffield, and a pupil at High Storrs Grammar School for Girls, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Greenall was first involved with NUS as a student in the 1940s. She was then employed as a member of staff in 1952, and in her tenure there developed the union's education and welfare campaigns, especially around student finance. She was known as a formidable negotiator, and this culminated in the introduction, in 1962, of mandatory grants for all higher education students in the UK, a system which was in large part unchanged until the introduction of tuition fees in 1998.
In 1975, Greenall was persuaded to leave NUS to work as an advisor to the then Labour Education Secretary, Fred Mulley. She also advised his successor, Shirley Williams, until the Conservative victory in the 1979 elections. She was a staunch member of the Fabian Society.
In 1998 she cancelled her standing order to the Labour Party as a result of their introduction of tuition fees.
After his death in 1991, Greenall progressed her husband Philip's work on dividing 17th century tokens between London and Middlesex to publication in the British Numismatic Journal #61 from 1991. She also publicised with it a map in the London Topographical Society Newsletter of November 1993.
Greenall presented their collection of 870 Venetian coins and 23 medals to the British Museum, a gift which was celebrated with the exhibition 'Venice Preserv'd' which ran from 9 November 1993 to 13 February 1994.
As recently as February 2008 Stella attended the launch of the publication of Norweb Tokens Part VII in Harrow, London. Previously she had published three valuable analyses of 17th century tokens by place and by date.[2]
Greenall died of cancer on 18 June 2008.
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Ester Fuchs - Wikipedia | Ester Rachel Fuchs (born August 14, 1951) is an American academic. She is Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Fuchs studied at Queens College, CUNY, Brown University, and the University of Chicago.[1]
She wrote Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago, and describes herself as a "Pragmatic Utopian".[2] Fuchs served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2001 to 2005.[3]
In 2005, Fuchs served as Chair of the New York City Charter Revision Commission.[4] She currently serves as Director of WhosOnTheBallot.org, an online platform working to increase voter participation and education in New York City elections.[5]
Among her notable students are Karine Jean-Pierre, current White House Press Secretary, who credited Fuchs' mentorship for inspiring her to get involved in politics.[6][7]
In 2017, Fuchs was awarded the Bella Abzug Leadership Award.[8] She was the recipient of the NASPAA Public Service Matters Spotlight Award in 2014.[9]
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Eli (Israeli settlement) - Wikipedia |
Eli (Hebrew: עֵלִי) is a large Israeli settlement in the West Bank organized as a community settlement. Located on Highway 60 north of Jerusalem and Ramallah, between the Palestinian villages of As-Sawiya and Qaryut, part of whose lands were expropriated for the establishment of Eli. It was named after the biblical high-priest who served in the Tabernacle in nearby biblical Shiloh (1 Samuel 1:9). In 2021 it had a population of 4,613.
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2]
Eli, named after the Biblical high priest of the Israelites, was established on 11 September 1984, when three families moved into recently placed buildings. It was the first settlement to be attempted without a core group of families. Several families from Ofra, Kokhav HaShahar, and Shilo were persuaded to come for at least a year while more families would be found. The settlement was originally called 'Givat Levona' after the adjacent settlement Ma'ale Levona.[3] The Amana website states that the initial vision was creating 'one long territorial contiguity' of Jewish settlers between Eli and both Shiloh and Ma'ale Levona.[4]
According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two nearby Palestinian villages in order to construct Eli: 1,551 dunums from As-Sawiya[5] and 623 dunums from Qaryut.[6]
In recent years the town has evolved into the municipal center for the Shilo area settlement bloc. Eli is also home to the Bnei David pre-military Mechina academy. This yeshiva also offers post-army academic programs.[citation needed]
Bnei David is the first pre-military Orthodox Mechina academy (1988), and was founded by rabbis Eli Sadan and Yig'al Levinstein.[7] Many of the graduates have reached high rank in the IDF. It is an integral part of Eli, as many of the rabbis, administrators, graduates, and students live in Eli. There are currently over 500 students studying at Bnei David, and over 2,500 graduates, over 40% of them became officers, and the majority served in combatant or elite units.[8]
Shimon Peres has called it "Pride for the country".[9]
Co-founder of the academy, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, went on record in 2016 claiming gay people were 'sick and perverted' and that drafting women into the IDF deprived them of their Jewishness. In 2018 Rabbi Yosef Kelner asserted that women had feeble minds and a reduced spirituality. In April 2019, the head of the school, Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel (he), was filmed lecturing to students on the genetic inferiority of gentiles, Palestinians, on their stupidity, and the need for them to be enslaved. He endorsed racism, and the superiority of the Jewish people. In another lecture, Rabbi Giora Redler stated the Holocaust was a divine punishment to make Jews leave the diaspora, that Hitler was correct 'in every word he said… he was just on the wrong side,' that humanism was the real holocaust, not Hitler's murdering of Jews.[10][11][12]
Graduates of Bnei David who died during their IDF service include Roi Klein, Emmanuel Moreno, and Amihai Merhavia.
In 2013, the Israeli Civil Administration published a master plan (no. 237) which, if approved, would legitimize hundreds of the structures in Eli and incorporate Eli's four outposts, from the land of Palestinian villages As-Sawiye and Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, and Quaryut. It covers 1,000 dunams, but would allow the expansion of other outposts to embrace 6,000 dunams, including privately owned Palestinian land. Within the plan's map, there are 7 Palestinian enclaves, where Palestinians may carry out agricultural projects, but are denied the right to build. The plan depends on declaring collectively owned Palestinian village lands in question as ownerless under Ottoman law, a classification which allows them to be defined as "state property" reserved for Jews alone.[4]
In 2013, representatives of the nearby Palestinian village of Qaryut blamed Eli settlers for an alleged uprooting of more than 100 olive trees on their property.[13]
In January 2014, an Eli resident claimed to have photographed Palestinians chopping down an olive tree which a later report on Ma'an news blamed 'settlers' for the incident.[14][15][16]
In August 2015, a gas station was firebombed on Route 60 near Eli. Later, two Palestinian from Awarta, members of PFLP claimed the attack was a retaliation for the firebombing at Duma.[17][18]
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Eduardo Montealegre - Wikipedia |
Eduardo Montealegre Rivas (born 9 May 1955) is a Nicaraguan politician. He ran for president in the 2006 general election as the candidate of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN-PC)[1] a split-off of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) in alliance with other liberal parties and the Conservative Party. He finished in second place after Daniel Ortega, receiving 28.3% of the vote.
Montealegre was born in Nicaragua's capital Managua, from a wealthy and prominent family in the banking sector, the direct descendant of Mariano Montealegre y Romero, the founder of the city of Chinandega. He received an Sc. B in Economics from Brown University in 1976 and an MBA with a focus in finance and strategic planning from Harvard University in 1980.[2] He later became a businessman in Nicaragua.
Montealegre served as minister to the presidency in 1998 under Arnoldo Alemán. He also served as foreign minister from 1999 to 2000 in the government of Arnoldo Alemán and as finance minister from 2002 to 2003 in the government of the next President Enrique Bolaños. Subsequently, he served as minister to the presidency of Enrique Bolaños. He announced his split from the PLC in protest of the control of the party by former President Alemán, who was imprisoned for misappropriation of funds. Montealegre objects to an alliance, referred to in the popular media as "El Pacto", between Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega, who ran as the candidate of the FSLN in 2006 for the fourth consecutive time since his 1985–1990 presidency, this time successfully.[3] Because of Montealegre's stand against corruption of Arnoldo Alemán's PLC, and Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front, the U.S. ambassador in Managua openly endorsed his candidacy.
In 2006, a commission of Nicaragua's National Assembly threatened to criminally charge Montealegre, as well as a former head of the central bank and the former superintendent of banks. They allege that they abused their positions to enrich themselves by illegally issuing US$400 million in bonds in favor of banks that acquired several failed banks. Montealegre dismisses the charges, stating that he was no longer employed by the government when the bonds were emitted. In 2008, one of the members of the commission said the conclusions had been politically motivated and some of the facts invented under instructions from former President Arnoldo Alemán (1997–2002). In 2011, the charges have prescribed.[4]
Montealegre was granted a seat in the Nicaraguan congress after the 2006 general elections, since a seat in Congress is guaranteed to the candidate who comes in second in presidential elections.
After losing control of the leadership of the ALN, Montealegre agreed to run for mayor of Managua in the November 2008 municipal elections as candidate of the alliance led by his former party, the PLC still ruled by Arnoldo Aleman. Montealegre lost the election to Alexis Argüello, but alleged that the election was rife with fraud. The municipal elections which were held in November 2008 were highly contested and were held without international observers due to the Sandinista government's reluctance to invite any observers. The supposed fraud of the municipal elections resulted in several days of protest mostly in but not limited to Managua.
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Shawn Stockman - Wikipedia | Shawn Patrick Stockman[2][3] (born September 26, 1972)[1] is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men.[4]
In addition to Boyz II Men, Stockman was a member of the group Black Men United. He was also a judge on the NBC television show The Sing-Off for five seasons (2009–2014).[5]
Stockman, a native of Southwest Philadelphia, started singing with the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale at the age of 8.[6] He attended CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts High School) in South Philadelphia, where he met the other members of Boyz II Men, originally calling themselves Unique Attraction.[7]
Stockman was recruited to join the R&B vocal group Boyz II Men in 1988, when members George Baldi, Jon Shoats and Marguerite Walker all left the group due to graduating from high school. He was asked to join after the members saw him sing a solo in the school choir. After signing to Motown in 1991, they released their debut album, Cooleyhighharmony. Boyz II Men would quickly start to climb music charts with songs such as; I'll Make Love to You (1994) and Water Runs Dry (1995). In 1996, the group released the single One Sweet Day featuring Mariah Carey. Boyz II Men are best known for their vocal harmonies. Stockman sings tenor vocals in the group.
Stockman still tours with Boyz II Men as of 2023.
Stockman recorded a solo album as a side project during the late 1990s, but the LP was never released.[citation needed]
Stockman appeared in the group Black Men United with his group Boyz II Men, while recording their II album for the hit single "U Will Know" which appeared on the Jason's Lyric soundtrack (1994). He also wrote and sang the song "Visions of a Sunset" for the Mr. Holland's Opus soundtrack (1996).
Stockman wrote the songs "Forever", "Hot Thing" and "Let It Go" (which was played during the Showtime film Seventeen Again). He also recorded a cover version of Beyoncé's hit song "If I Were a Boy",[8] and contributed vocals on the title track of the Foo Fighters album Concrete and Gold (2017).
Stockman started his own record label called Soul Chemistry Projects.[citation needed] He released solo albums Shawn in 2018,[9] and Forward in April 2020.[10][11]
In 2009, it was announced that Stockman would be a judge on the NBC show The Sing-Off. He remained a judge on the show until its cancellation in 2014.
Stockman is married to Sharonda Jones.[12][13] He is the cousin of Atlanta-based neo soul singer Anthony David.[14][15]
Stockman is an honorary member of Phi Beta Sigma (2021).[16][17]
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Cardiff, Alabama - Wikipedia |
Cardiff is a town in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States west of Gardendale. At the 2010 census the population was 55, placing it as the least-populated incorporated area in Jefferson County. It is named after the capital of Wales.[2] It is one of four Jefferson County cities named after cities in Great Britain, the others being Birmingham, Leeds and Brighton.
Cardiff is located at WikiMiniAtlas33°38′43″N 86°55′59″W / 33.64528°N 86.93306°W / 33.64528; -86.93306 (33.645384, −86.932965).[3] on Five Mile Creek, a tributary of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River. It is immediately downstream of Brookside. The region is part of the Cumberland Plateau, with shallow but deeply incised stream valleys dissecting sedimentary rock, including significant seams of bituminous coal.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 82 people, 33 households, and 26 families residing in the town. The population density was 401.3 inhabitants per square mile (154.9/km2). There were 38 housing units at an average density of 186.0 per square mile (71.8/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 93.90% White and 6.10% Black or African American.
There were 33 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.6% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.2% were non-families. 18.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.85.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 32.9% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $34,107, and the median income for a family was $45,000. Males had a median income of $28,906 versus $18,125 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,067. There were 5.6% of families and 8.1% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.
Coal mining was the historical basis of the economy. The town, for years the smallest incorporated town in the State of Alabama, declined along with the decline of underground coal mining and the rise of strip mining. The epochal flood of May 2003 destroyed a number of buildings in that part of Cardiff close to Five Mile Creek. The town is now but a dent in the land; scarce of life with a scant 20–30 people and covered with kudzu. Cardiff is becoming a ghost town.
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Payathonzu Temple - Wikipedia |
The Payathonzu Temple (Burmese: ဘုရားသုံးဆူ [pʰəjá θóʊɰ̃ zù]; literally "Temple of Three Buddhas") is a Buddhist temple located in the village of Minnanthu (southeast of Bagan) in Burma. It is unique in the sense that the temple consists of three temples conjoined through narrow passages. The structure dates from the latter part of the 13th century. The interior of the temple contains frescoes, believed to be Mahayana and Tantric in style. However, it only applies to the decorative elements, and may have been added by skilled workers from northern India or Nepal. The temple was not completed.[1] The temple was renovated after being damaged by a 2016 earthquake,[2] with the completion of the three stupas atop the temple, which are lighter in colour.[3]
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Info Wars (film) - Wikipedia | Info Wars (styled as info wars) is a 2004 documentary film about the mechanics of modern information warfare and media hacking. It shows some of the ways special interests manipulate modern mass media to reach their ends. It explains the ways the flow of mass media could turn the tide in any battle, real or online.
The film is named after InfoWars, launched in 1999.
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Charel Cambré - Wikipedia | Charel Cambré (born 27 April 1968 as Carl Cambré) is a Flemish Belgian comics artist and author.
Carl Cambré was born in 1968 in Herenthout. After his studies at the art school of Lier and animation at the Royal Academy of Ghent, he worked in some foreign animation studies, before he started creating comics. He lives in Nieuwrode, a part of Holsbeek.[1]
His first published comic was Streetkids in Suske & Wiske Weekblad, which appeared from 1993 until 2003. From 2005 on he worked for the Studio Vandersteen, while continuing to create his own series at the same time.[2] He often works together with Marc Legendre, first on the Spike and Suzy spin-off series Amoras, and since 2017 on the Spirou et Fantasio spin-off Robbedoes Special, which marks the first time that Flemish authors have created an album in the iconic Franco-Belgian comic series.[3]
Amoras was a limited series of six albums, and became one of the best-selling comics in Flanders, with nearly 500,000 copies sold by February 2015.[4] It was continued with the prequel De Kronieken van Amoras, and the Belgian Comic Strip Center devoted in 2016 an exposition to the series.[5]
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El Ràfol de Salem - Wikipedia | El Ràfol de Salem (Valencian pronunciation: [el ˈrafol de saˈlem]; Spanish: Ráfol de Salem) is a municipality in the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain.
The land has been occupied since prehistoric times, as evidenced by the pottery shards found in the Rafol mountains.[2]
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Lady in the Dark (film) - Wikipedia |
Lady in the Dark is a 1944 American musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen, from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett that is based on the 1941 musical of the same name by Moss Hart. The film stars Ginger Rogers as a magazine editor, who although successful, finds herself on the edge of a breakdown while juggling her feelings for three prospective suitors, played by Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, and Jon Hall.
Paramount won the screen rights to the musical in February 1941, after a bidding war with Columbia, Warner Bros., and Howard Hughes. The studio initially purchased the property as a vehicle to reunite Rogers with Fred Astaire.[2] However, after negotiations with Astaire failed, the studio cast Milland, who had recently starred with Rogers in Paramount's The Major and the Minor.
The film was first released on February 10, 1944, and was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; for Best Cinematography, Best Music, and Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene Du Bois, Ray Moyer).[4]
Liza Elliott (Ginger Rogers) is the successful editor-in-chief of fashion magazine Allure, being published by Kendall Nesbitt (Warner Baxter). Elliott is a no-nonsense workaholic, who is involved in a relationship with Nesbitt. And while the two wish to marry, they cannot, as Kendall's estranged wife has refused to grant a divorce. Liza has recently developed a series of headaches and strange, bad dreams. On top of all this, she is having to deal at work with marketing manager Charley Johnson (Ray Milland), who annoys her greatly and takes pride in doing so. She reluctantly sees and undergoes psychoanalysis with Dr. Alex Brooks, who suggests that her no-nonsense approach to life is caused by something from her past, which has made her avoid all attempts at ever being as glamorous as the models in her magazine. Liza discounts this theory, and after Kendall announces his wife has finally agreed to a divorce, she dreams of a wedding to him where she is chased to the top of a large wedding cake where Charley questions whether she wishes to marry him.
Movie star Randy Curtis (Jon Hall) comes to the Allure offices for a photo shoot, where he corners her into accepting a dinner date with him. Anxious about the date, Liza intends to break it off, and storms out of Dr. Brooks' office when he suggests she is anxious because she is afraid to compete with other women. Charley also informs Liza he will be leaving Allure for another magazine, which has offered more creative control to him. Kendall confronts Liza about her fears, and she breaks down and confesses she is confused. To try and sort out her feelings, and aware Curtis does not care about her looks, Liza goes on her date with Curtis, changing into a beautiful dress for a change. The date is ruined when they bump into Charley and his date, who aggressively goes after Randy. She goes home, and hallucinates that she is put on trial by Kendall and Charley at a circus (based on a cover earlier designed by Charley). After singing about her troubles, she dreams of her father yelling at her for dressing glamorously. In her story to Dr. Brooks, she tells him of this, and possibly the reason for her devotion to a plain style: following her mother's passing as a young girl, she tried to make him happy by wearing one of her late mother's glamorous dresses, but was instead scolded, and she became detached from him; another incident happened after her high school graduation, where she went to a dance with a boy she liked, who was stolen away by another girl. Dr. Brooks concludes these incidents contributed to her current life, and suggests she allow herself to open herself to her childhood desires.
With this new knowledge, Liza decides to quit her job at the magazine and break off her relationship with Kendall, who agrees bittersweetly. Liza is disappointed to find out Curtis was only courting her to be the head of a new production company he has formed. However, when Charley comes to say good-bye to her, Liza realizes that she loves Charley – the last person she ever expected to. She proposes to promote him to run the magazine alongside her, and after arguing over fonts, the two share a passionate kiss.
The film was based on the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, written by Kurt Weill (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics), and Moss Hart (book and direction). The film version cut most of the Weill/Gershwin songs from the score. "The Saga of Jenny" and "Girl of the Moment" remained, and part of "This Is New" is played by a nightclub band in the background. Part of "My Ship" was hummed by Ginger Rogers, but the song itself was never sung.
Jon Hall's role had been played on stage by Victor Mature.[5]
Lady in the Dark, adapted from the 1944 movie, was broadcast on BBC Home Service, August 14, 1944 (and repeated on September 18, 1944). The radio adaptation was by Rhoderick Walker and produced by Tom Ronald. Although it was adapted from the movie, Gertrude Lawrence played the original part she created in the New York stage production of 1941.[6] Lady in the Dark was twice presented on Lux Radio Theatre. On January 29, 1945 a one-hour adaptation was aired where Ginger Rogers reprised her leading film role of Liza, along with Ray Milland.[7] On February 16, 1953 a second adaptation was aired, starring Judy Garland and John Lund.[8][9]
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Book of Gods and Strange Things - Wikipedia | Book of Gods and Strange Things or Shenyi Jing (Chinese: 神異經) is an ancient Chinese geography book. The original version was written by Dongfang Shuo during the Han dynasty.[1] The modern versions were edited by Zhang Hua during the Jin dynasty and Zhu Mouhan during the Ming dynasty.
The claim that Dongfang Shuo wrote the Book of Gods and Strange Things was first recorded by Pei Songzhi in the Records of the Three Kingdoms in the footnotes.
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Vojislav Ilić Mlađi - Wikipedia | Vojislav Ilić Mlađi (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Илић Млађи; 7 October 1877 – 22 May 1944) was a Serbian writer and poet.[1][2]
He is often mistaken with the 19th-century Serbian poet Vojislav Ilić to whom he was not related although for a time they lived near each other in the part of Belgrade called Palilula. Due to their same name, surname and even the same middle initial and out of respect to the older Ilić, he added the title of Mlađi (the Younger) to his name.
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Riedesel - Wikipedia | Riedesel is a German noble family that began to appear in legal documents in the early 13th century. They were of the knightly class, though not all had the official status of Ritter or knight. Its exact geographical and temporal origins are uncertain. However, all of the early references are from the area of Hesse, and many served as vassals of the Margrave of Hesse in Marburg. In later centuries, the men served a wide variety of higher nobility as men-at-arms, administrators, and counselors.
Lines of the family are known to have had residences and offices throughout Hesse including Frankfurt, Josbach, Camberg, Bellersheim, Melsungen, as well as in Westphalia. The names employed typically used "zu" to designate their main residence, e.g. the Wappen (coat of arms) of Krafft Riedesel zu Josbach dating from 1523 still hang in the church of Saint Elisabeth in Marburg. Following the example of the Margrave of Hesse to whom they were vassals, the Riedesels were early converts to the Lutheran faith.
With one significant exception, the various lines of Riedesel knights either died out in the male line by the early 17th century or disappeared into the ranks of unfree peasants. Without hereditary lands, they were dependent on fiefs from higher nobility in exchange for their services.
The exception was the line of Riedesels based in Melsungen. Hermann II (1407–1463) of this line married Margareta von Röhrenfurth after establishing himself as an able knight and adviser in the service of Landgrave Ludwig. Hermann took possession of Schloss Eisenbach near Lauterbach (Hesse), as well as other lands and rights. He also took over the office of Erbmarschall zu Hessen (hereditary counselor to the Hessian courts). With this achievement, the Riedesels of Melsungen-Eisenbach had a permanent, hereditary financial base. Their holdings were substantial in comparison with those of most free knights, but still quite minor within the patchwork of German states, secular and ecclesiastical.
In 1680, five of the male Riedesels were granted the title of "Freiherr zu Eisenbach" by the German Emperor, with that title passing to all of their male descendants who reached majority. The title is usually translated as "Baron" in English. The common property of the family was governed by complex arrangements that have kept it intact. Nevertheless, few had enough income to support the lifestyle of even minor nobility without entering the service of greater powers in their armies or administration. Some continued to live around Lauterbach, but many others resided elsewhere.
The best-known member of the family, in the English-speaking world at least, is probably General Friedrich Adolph Riedesel, Freiherr zu Eisenbach (1738–1800). Erroneously known to American historians as "von Riedesel", he commanded a regiment of soldiers from the Duchy of Braunschweig as part of the British forces during the American Revolution.
The noble Riedesels lost their sovereignty (and feudal rents and services) in the wake of the Napoleonic wars, so pursued other enterprises included brewing and forestry.
Far more numerous in Germany and in America are Riedesels who clearly do not descend from the Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach. Their traceable history begins around 1600 in the former Counties (Grafschaften) of Wittgenstein, immediately west of Hesse. A suggested ancestor was from the Riedesel zu Josbach line and settled in Wittgenstein perhaps a century earlier.[1] No member of the Wittgenstein Riedesels is better known than the master builder Mannus Riedesel (1662–1726). The name and the variant of 'Rietesel' were also known among commoners in Vorpommern/Western Pomerania around Stralsund.
The history of the Riedesel zu Eisenbach has been thoroughly researched and documented in a series of volumes with the overall title of Die Riedesel zu Eisenbach.
1. Vom ersten Auftreten des Namens bis zum Tode Hermanns III. Riedesel 1500 (Dr. E.E. Becker, 1923)
2. Riedeselisches Urkundenbuch 1200 bis 1500 (Dr. E.E. Becker, 1924)
3. Vom Tode Hermanns III. Riedesel 1501 bis zum Tode Konrads II 1593 (Dr. E.E. Becker, 1927)
4. Vom Tode Konrads II 1593 bis zum Vertrag mit Hessen-Darmstadt 1593-1713 (Dr. Fritz Zschaeck, 1957)
5. Vom Reich zum Rheinbund 1713-1806 (Dr. Karl Siegmar Baron von Galéra, 1961)
6. Wege zu neuen Lebensformen 1806-1918 (Dr. Karl Siegmar Baron von Galéra, 1965)
7. Die Riedesel in republikanischen Staatsformen 1918-1965 (Dr. Karl-August Helfenbein, 2003)
The only real source on the Riedesel zu Josbach line and its many branches is:
Die Riedesel zu Josbach und ihre Josbacher Stammgüter. Hessiche Familienkunde Heft 1/1964, Heft 2/1964, Heft 4/1964. Gesellschaft für Familienkunde in Kurhessen und Waldeck e.V. (Dr. Ernst Wagner).
Concerning the origins of the Riedesel name in the county of Wittgenstein, from whence all Americans and most Germans bearing the name descend:
Die Entstehung des Namens Riedesel in der Graftschaft Wittgenstein: Bekanntes und neue Theorien. Wittgenstein, Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatvereins e.V., Volume 71, Number 4, 2007. (Dr. Paul Riedesel and H. Stefan Riedesel). Also: Die Entstehung des Namens Riedesel in der Grafschaft Wittgenstein: Neue Erkenntnisse zu seiner Abstammung.Wittgenstein, Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatvereins e.V., Volume 78, Number 2, 2014. (H. Stefan Riedesel and Dr. Paul Riedesel).
Also Riedesel web site has a variety of references and factual information.
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Gåsvær - Wikipedia | Gåsvær is an island group in the municipality of Herøy in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northwest of the municipal center of Silvalen. The main islands in the group include Nordgåsvær, Sørgåsvær, Flatøya, and Innerodden. Gåsvær Chapel is located on Sørgåsvær island.[1] Ytterholmen Lighthouse lies about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of Gåsvær.
The last permanent residents moved away from Gåsvær in 1990. Ferry services to Gåsvær ended in the summer of 2007. Many of the houses that remain on the islands are now used as holiday houses and summer houses. The islands once had many residents who made a living by fishing and small farms on the islands.
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Paul Reid (soccer, born 1979) - Wikipedia |
Paul James Reid (born 6 July 1979) is an Australian international footballer who is an assistant coach for Sydney FC in the A-league.
Reid previously played for Wollongong Wolves during championship winning seasons before moving to England where he played for six years with Bradford City and Brighton & Hove Albion before returning to Australia.
Reid has made two appearances for the Australian national team.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Reid started his youth career at Marconi Stallions alongside Socceroos, Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton in the same U-13 team and was quickly noted for his talents.[2]
Reid went on to begin his senior football career in Australia for Wollongong Wolves in 1998. He became a cult hero during his time at the Wollongong Wolves after scoring the last minute equaliser in the 2000 grand final against Perth Glory. The Wolves went on to win the game 7–6 on penalties.[3] In 2002, Reid moved to England and joined Bradford City, but only stayed for one season before joining Brighton & Hove Albion in 2003.
Reid had usually played in the right-back position in defence for the Seagulls, but the player has stated his preferred position is in the centre of midfield. Near the start of the 2006–07 season, Reid suffered a serious knee injury which saw him sidelined for nearly a year, but the player did return for the start of the 2007–08 pre-season. On 6 May 2008, it was confirmed that Reid, along with experienced trio Kerry Mayo, Gary Hart and Guy Butters were to be released from the club.[4] On 11 July 2008, Reid began training with Hereford United in a bid to win a new contract.[5]
He was expected to sign with Perth Glory for the 2008–09 A-League season,[6] but instead signed with Adelaide United on a two-year deal.[7] He won a call up to the national-team squad in October 2008 along with Adelaide United teammates Scott Jamieson, Robert Cornthwaite and Eugene Galeković.[8] Despite usually playing in a deep midfield role Reid has created a number of assists from both open play and set pieces.[9][10] He scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Wellington Phoenix at Westpac Stadium on 18 January 2009.[11]
Reid signed a short-term end of season contract with Melbourne Heart as injury cover during the 2012 January transfer window.[12]
On 9 March, Reid agreed with a short-term contract with INSEE Police United. He arrived in Thailand on 11 March.[13]
In early 2011, Reid had asked former club Adelaide United for a release to join hometown club Sydney FC for their 2011 Asian Champions League campaign, resulting in a bitter fallout between himself and then manager Rini Coolen who would not release him until season's end. In September 2012, it was announced that Reid was on trial with Sydney FC, taking part in two of their pre-season matches against A-League opposition before eventually signing a 1-year deal to join the Sky Blues beginning on 1 October 2012.[14] However, as a result of Sydney FC failing to qualify for the A-League finals, Reid, along with teammates Nathan Sherlock, Krunoslav Lovrek, Trent McClenahan, Adam Griffiths and Jarrod Kyle were released by Sydney FC at the conclusion of the 2012-13 A-League season.[15]
After being released as a player from Sydney FC, Reid signed for Rockdale City Suns in the NSW Premier League.[16] However, he also still works for Sydney FC as a Community Football Officer.
Reid made his senior international debut for the Socceroos on 28 January 2009 in an AFC Asian Cup qualifying match versus Indonesia.
Following Branko Culina departure from the managers position at Rockdale, following a poor start to the 2015 NPL, Reid was announced as Rockdale City Suns new coach, a position which he would combine with playing duty when required.[17] Reid led Rockdale to the Round of 16 of the 2015 FFA Cup against A-League club Melbourne Victory at Jubilee Oval. Despite a valiant comeback, Melbourne would win 3-2 and go on to win the overall competition.[18]
Wollongong Wolves
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Reginald Hankey - Wikipedia |
Reginald Hankey (3 November 1832 – 25 August 1886) was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1853 to 1860.[1]
Born at Marylebone, London, Hankey was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the First XI in 1850, and at Balliol College, Oxford.[2] He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Oxford University, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Surrey, and made 18 known appearances in first-class matches.[2] He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series. He made his highest first-class score of 70 for the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's in 1857, when he was the highest scorer on either side in a match the Players won by 13 runs.[3]
Hankey was renowned for the stylishness of his batting. His contemporary William Caffyn wrote:
If it were possible to see Dr Grace and Mr Hankey at the wickets together, each well set, and each unknown to the spectators, they would in all probability pronounce Mr Hankey the finer batsman of the pair. There was, in my opinion, no hit on the board which Mr Hankey was unable to make equally as well as Dr Grace or any one else; and so it was with many others of the old players. Caffyn went on to say that Grace surpassed all others because he made fewer mistakes, "and would continue to occupy the wickets long after his companion had been compelled to retire to the pavilion".[4]
Hankey was unable to play more than a few matches of first-class cricket owing to the requirements of his work in the family banking business.[5] He died aged 53 in 1886 in Brighton, Sussex.[1] His cousin Frederick Hankey also played first-class cricket for MCC, and was later an MP.[6]
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Gilbert Lawford Dalton - Wikipedia |
Gilbert Lawford Dalton (1904–1963) was a British children's writer and comics writer. He was most prolific as an author of stories for British boys' comics for DC Thomson publications.
He wrote under several pseudonyms so the extent of his writing may not be entirely clear, but is believed to include Wilson the Wonder Athlete, Alf Tupper and Matt Braddock.
Clive James wrote that he enjoyed the stories of Matt Braddock and Alf Tupper as a boy, without realising at the time that they were intended as fantasy figures for working-class readers.[1]
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Kristianstads IP - Wikipedia | Kristianstads IP is a football stadium in Kristianstad, Sweden. Kristianstads IP has a total capacity of 6,000 spectators.[1]
WikiMiniAtlas56°1′22″N 14°9′57″E / 56.02278°N 14.16583°E / 56.02278; 14.16583
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Racha Arodaky - Wikipedia |
Racha Arodaky (French pronunciation: [ʁaʃa arɔdaki]) is a Syrian/French pianist born in Damascus.[1] She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Dominique Merlet. After receiving her premier prix de conservatoire at age 16, she went to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Yevgeny Malinin. She has also studied with Murray Perahia.[2]
She pursued a career as a recitalist[3] in venues as diverse as the Salle Pleyel and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Barge Music in New York, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the concert halls of Seoul and Busan, Manege in Reims, Palais de la musique et des congrès Strasbourg, Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes and Cairo Opera.
Arodaky has been invited to festivals in France, including the Chopin Festival in Bagatelle, Piano aux Jacobins, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Domaine du Rayol, Les Heures Musicales du Haut-Anjou, Pionsat Castle Festival, the Festival Le Touquet Pianissime Sannois Festival, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the Festival Les Musiciennes on the island of Ouessant, and the Parc Floral de Vincennes. Outside France, she has been invited to the Valldemossa Chopin Festival in Majorca, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and Brighton, England.
Since 2006, Arodaky has been the artistic director of the Musique à la cour piano festival at the Château de Solliès-Pont in the Var, France.
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Fielder House - Wikipedia | The Fielder House is a historic house in Fordyce, Arkansas. Its oldest portion built in 1875, it is the oldest building in Dallas County, predating Fordyce's founding. It stands on the south side of US 79B in the west side of the city, and looks today like a single-story central-hall gable-roof structure with a rear shed addition, and a shed-roof porch extending across the front. The core of the house is a log structure, which is now the west side of the building. In the 1880s the eastern pen was added, creating a dog trot structure, which was then filled in and enclosed by later additions. The house is also notable for being the home of the aunt of author Harold Bell Wright, who is said to have written some of his works there.[2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
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Moros y Cristianos (dish) - Wikipedia | Moros y Cristianos is a traditional Cuban dish served both in homes and in restaurants. It is the Cuban version of rice and beans, a dish found throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the Southern United States.[citation needed]
Moros y Cristianos means 'Moors and Christians'. Moros refers to the black beans, and Cristianos to the white rice. The name of the dish is a reference to the African Muslim governance of the Iberian Peninsula from the early 8th century through the Reconquista (15th century).[citation needed]
Onions, garlic, and bell pepper are commonly used as a sofrito. To this sofrito are added the white rice and pre-boiled black beans, as well as the water that the beans were boiled in. Other seasonings such as oregano and bay leaf are often added to the dish to give additional flavor.
Moros y Cristianos are different from simple arroz con frijoles in that the beans and rice are cooked in the same pot instead of separately.[1] Congrí is another term for the dish, but is used more commonly to refer to the similar dish with red beans that is traditionally eaten on the eastern part of the island.[citation needed]
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1991 Kerry Senior Football Championship - Wikipedia |
The 1991 Kerry Senior Football Championship was the 91st staging of the Kerry Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Kerry County Board in 1889.[1] The championship ran from 29 June to 22 September 1991.
West Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Dr. Crokes in a first round replay.[2]
The final was played on 22 September 1991 at Austin Stack Park in Tralee, between Dr. Crokes and Castleisland Desmonds, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Dr. Crokes won the match by 2-10 to 1-10 to claim their fifth championship title overall and a first title in 77 years.[3][4]
Ger O'Shea was the championship's top scorer with 0-22.
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Shahu Tushar Mane - Wikipedia |
Shahu Tushar Mane (born 26 January 2002) is an Indian sport shooter. He won the gold medal in the ISSF world cup 10m Air Pistol mixed event along with Mehuli Ghosh .[1][2]
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Megalodacne grandipennis - Wikipedia |
Megalodacne grandipennis is a species of pleasing fungus beetle, in the family Erotylidae.[1] It is endemic to Tanzania and Namibia.[2][3] As is typical of species in the genus Megalodacne, M. grandipennis feeds on bracket fungi.[4]
The species' name comes from Latin and Ancient Greek, "grandipennis" meaning "large wing" in Latin.[5]
Megalodacne grandipennis appears to have two brown spots on the end of its wings, differentiating it from other species of Megalodacne.[6]
Megalodacne grandipennis was discovered by Léon Fairmaire in 1891,[2][3] and contains the following subspecies:[1]
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Probitas Partners - Wikipedia | Probitas Partners is an independent, global advisory firm founded in 2001.[1] The company is focused on raising capital as a placement agent for private equity fund sponsors as well as providing portfolio management and liquidity solutions[buzzword], through the private equity secondary market, for investors in private equity. The firm operates through three primary businesses: fund placement, portfolio management and secondary advisory. In 2002, the firm established a European placement business.[2]
Probitas Partners identifies and raises capital for some alternative fund managers across multiple strategies. Among the notable private equity firms that Probitas has represented in fundraising are: Alta Partners, CIVC Partners, Granite Ventures, KRG Capital, Littlejohn & Co., MidOcean Partners, and Panorama Capital.[3]
In 2015, Probitas Partners announced the promotion of four new managing directors who will continue managing the growth of the firm. It was reported that "these promotions are in recognition of contributions to the success of the firm and in anticipation of continued success on behalf of our fund sponsor and institutional investor clients".[4]
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CDXL - Wikipedia | CDXL is motion video file format developed by Commodore in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the Amiga computer platform. It is notable for being one of the earliest formats created for motion video playback from CD-ROM.[1][2]
In an era shortly after the introduction of CD-ROM drives and before low cost MPEG decoding hardware became available the CDXL format was created, primarily for the Commodore CDTV, to permit playback of video from CD-ROM. CDXL is tailored for the Amiga chipset and takes advantage of DMA transfers, thus achieving playback with a low CPU load.[3] As a result, CDXL can only support weak video compression and therefore relatively low video resolutions and moderate frame rates.
CDXL is a simple streaming format, consisting of linear concatenated chunks (packets), each with an uncompressed frame and associated audio data. There is no overall file header, just a header per chunk. The frame rate is constant but not stored in the file, so it is necessary to set the playback speed in the player software manually. The CDXL format initially allowed playback of up to 24 frames per second with up to 4096 colors encoded in HAM-6. Audio support allows for 8-bit mono or stereo sound. With the advent of the Amiga CD32, the CDXL format has been extended to support AGA color modes (up to 262,144 on-screen colors from a 24-bit color palette) and higher display resolutions.
A number of Amiga CD-ROM games and entertainment software uses CDXL for motion video.
CDXL is supported by AmigaOS through its datatype system, which allows playback of CDXL files on compatible systems.
Playback performance can be thought of as impressive at the time of release given the CDTV's Motorola 68000 processor, OCS chipset and single-speed CD-ROM drive constraints. A single-speed (150 kB/s) CD-ROM drive permits resolutions equivalent to 160×100 with 4,096 colors at 12 frame/s with 11025 Hz 8-bit mono audio. At these settings audio and visual quality is perceived as considerably worse than VHS.
A CDXL stream at 300 kB/s (equivalent to 256×128 at 12 frame/s) allows approximately 36 minutes of video to fit on CD-ROM. In comparison, a Video CD encoded in MPEG-1 format allows approximately 72 minutes of 352×288 (PAL) 24-bit color video at 25 frame/s .[4]
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Oaxaca City - Wikipedia | Oaxaca de Juárez (Spanish pronunciation: [waˈxaka ðe ˈxwaɾes]), or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec: Ndua), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Oaxaca. It is in the Centro District in the Central Valleys region of the state, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre at the base of the Cerro del Fortín, extending to the banks of the Atoyac River.[1]
Heritage tourism makes up an important part of the city's economy, and it has numerous colonial-era structures as well as significant archeological sites and elements of the continuing native Zapotec and Mixtec cultures.[1] The city, together with the nearby archeological site of Monte Albán, was designated in 1987 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the site of the month-long cultural festival called the "Guelaguetza", which features Oaxacan dance from the seven regions, music, and a beauty pageant for indigenous women.[2]
The city is also known as la Verde Antequera (the green Antequera) due to its prior Spanish name (Nueva Antequera) and the variety of structures built from a native green stone.[3] The name Oaxaca is derived from the Nahuatl name for the place, Huaxyacac, which was Hispanicized to Guajaca, later spelled Oaxaca. In 1872, "de Juárez" was added in honor of Benito Juárez, a native of this state who became president, serving from 1852 to 1872, and leading the country through challenges, including an invasion by France. The Zapotec name of the city, Ndua, is still used in the Zapotec language (Tlacolula Zapotec). The coat of arms for the municipality bears the image of Donají, a Zapotec woman hostage killed and beheaded by the Mixtec in conflict immediately after the Conquest.
The Zapotec and Mixtec peoples had settlements in the valley of Oaxaca for thousands of years, especially in connection with the important ancient centers of Monte Albán and Mitla. The modern city of Oaxaca developed relatively near them.[3] The Aztecs entered the valley in 1440 and named it "Huaxyacac", a Nahuatl phrase meaning "among the huaje" (Leucaena leucocephala) trees. They created a strategic military position at what is now called the Cerro (large hill) del Fortín to oversee the Zapotec capital of Zaachila and secure the trade route between the Valley of Mexico, Tehuantepec, and what is now Central America.[4]
When the Spanish arrived in 1521, the Zapotec and the Mixtec were involved in one of their many wars. The Spanish conquest ended this fighting, imposing a kind of imperial peace on the area. At the same time, Spanish Catholic missionaries began evangelizing the indigenous peoples, urging them to conversion.[5]
The first Spanish expedition to Oaxaca arrived late in 1521, headed by Captain Francisco de Orozco who was accompanied by 400 Aztec warriors.[4] Hernán Cortés sent Francisco de Orozco to Oaxaca because Moctezuma II had said that the Aztecs' gold came from there.[5] The Spanish expedition under Orozco set about building a Spanish city where the Aztec military post was at the base of the Cerro de Fortín.
The first mass in Oaxaca was given by Chaplain Juan Díaz on the bank of the Atoyac River under a large huaje tree, where the Church of San Juan de Dios would be constructed later. This same chaplain added saints' names to the surrounding villages, in addition to keeping their Nahuatl names: Santa María Oaxaca, San Martín Mexicapan, San Juan Chapultepec, Santo Tomas Xochimilco, San Matías Jalatlaco, Santiago Tepeaca, etc. This group of Spaniards chose their first mayor, Gutierres de Badajoc, and their first town council, and began construction of the cathedral of Oaxaca in 1522. Their name for the settlement was Guajaca, a Hispanization of the Nahuatl name used by the Aztec (it was later spelled as Oaxaca).[4]
The relatively independent village did not suit Hernán Cortes, who wanted to control power over the entire region. Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado, who proceeded to drive out most of the village's population. The original Spanish settlers appealed to the Spanish crown to recognize the village they founded, which it did in 1526, dividing the land among the Spaniards of Orozco's expedition. But three months later, Cortés forced out the population of the village once again and replaced the town council with his own appointees. The original founders appealed again to Spanish royal authority, this time to the viceroy in Mexico City, Nuño de Guzmán. He also sided with the original founders; they reestablished the town in 1529, naming it Antequera, in honor of Nuño de Guzmán's hometown. Francisco de Herrera convened the new, Crown-approved town council.[4] Juan Peláez de Berrio platted the new settlement.[1]
In the meantime, Cortés gained from the crown the title of the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, which contains the disputed village. This enabled him to demand high taxes in the area, and to control the territory that surrounded the village. The village had to survive while surrounded by other villages that answered to Cortés. These villages not only did not take orders from Antequera, they were hostile to it, mostly likely encouraged by Cortés.[4]
To counter this, the village petitioned the Crown to be elevated to the status of a city, which would give it certain rights, privileges and exceptions. It would also ensure that the settlement would remain under the direct control of the king, rather than of Cortés. This petition was granted in 1532 by Charles V of Spain.[1][4]
After the Independence of Mexico in 1821, the city became the seat of a municipality. The name of both the city and the municipality became Oaxaca, changed from Antequera. In 1872, "de Juárez" was added to the city and municipality names to honor Benito Juárez, a native son who had begun his legal and political career here and who served as president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in 1872.[1]
The 2006 Oaxaca protests developed from state actions in 2005. Oaxaca's new state governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz banned political demonstrations in the capital's main square and historic center, or zócalo. He acted to make the Zócalo a modernized tourist attraction, turning the state legislature building into a museum. In summer 2005, Oaxaca's urban middle classes joined in protests against these decisions.
In May 2006, the national teachers' union staged their annual occupation of the Zócalo, a union negotiation tactic and local tradition performed every summer since 1989. After a year of protests and growing resistance to the new governor, in 2006 the summer occupation of the square attracted more teachers than usual.
The government announced increases in wages and employment benefits for teachers a short time later. An internal conflict in the local teachers' union led to accusations that the bargaining had not really been in the teachers' best interest. On the night of June 14, the state police attacked and tear-gassed the teachers still sleeping in the Zócalo, generating more public outrage against Governor Ruiz and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Many radical groups merged with the teachers' union to form the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). This assembly defended the rights of several neighborhoods and organizations against government repression, in particular the "caravanas de la muerte" – death squads of government agents patrolling the city in police trucks. The assembly also closed government buildings, barricaded access roads to the city, and replaced the city's police force with the Honorable Cuerpo de Topiles, a civilian law force based on indigenous traditions of communal policing.[6]
In October 2006 president Vicente Fox sent in more than 10,000 paramilitaries to take back control of the city. Armed confrontations resulted in many deaths, including that of Indymedia journalists Bradley Roland Will,[7] Roberto López Hernández, and Jorge Alberto Beltrán.[8][9] In late December, teachers' union leaders announced an end to their strike. Several leaders of the APPO were arrested. These grassroots groups continued to clash with local and state government, but finally all the barricades were removed and they turned over control of the city.[10]
Oaxaca has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw), closely bordering on a humid subtropical climate (Cwa), due to its high altitude. During the dry season, temperatures during the day remain warm with an average high of 27.1 °C (80.8 °F) in the coolest month, December, and an average high of 33.3 °C (91.9 °F) in April, just before the beginning of the wet season. Although daytime temperatures are warm, nighttime temperatures are cool with an average low of 9 °C (48 °F) in January. Due to its altitude of 1,555 m (5,102 ft), the climate of Oaxaca is cooler than lowland areas at the same latitude. Precipitation is concentrated in the summer months with June being the wettest with an average precipitation of 171 mm (6.7 in).[11]
The city is the primary attraction of the state, which also relies economically on tourism. From 1984 to 2009, tourism grew to become the dominant factor in Oaxaca's economy.[15] The attractions are the verdant landscapes of the Oaxaca Valley, and the architectural and cultural charms of the city itself.[15] A massive 77% of the municipality of Oaxaca has employment that is related in some way to tourism. The 2006 Oaxaca protests had a severe negative impact on tourism revenue.[16] The next largest economic sectors are mining and manufacturing, which employ 20% of the work force.[1]
The city centre was included in a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO, in recognition of its treasure of historic buildings and monuments.[17] Tourist activity peaks in three seasons: Holy Week, summer (especially during Guelaguetza) and New Year. Many of the tourists who come during Holy Week and for New Year come from other parts of Mexico and include native Oaxacans returning to visit from their places of work. Most international visitors come during the summer.[16]
The Plaza de la Constitución, or Zócalo, was planned out in 1529 by Juan Peláez de Berrio. During the entire colonial period this plaza was never paved, nor had sidewalks, only a marble fountain that was placed here in 1739. This was removed in 1857 to put in the bandstand and trees were planted. In 1881, the vegetation here was rearranged and in 1885, a statue of Benito Juárez was added. It was remodeled again in 1901 and a new Art Nouveau bandstand installed. Fountains of green stone with capricious figures were installed in 1967.[1] The bandstand in the center hosts the State Musical Band, La Marimba and other groups.[18]
The plaza is surrounded by various arcades. On the south side of the plaza are the Portales de Ex-Palacio de Gobierno, which was vacated by the government in 2005 and then reopened as a museum called "Museo del Palacio 'Espacio de Diversidad'" Other arcades include the "Portal de Mercadores" on the eastern side, "Portal de Claverias" on the north side and the "Portal del Señor" on the west side.[3]
The State Government Palace is located on the main square. This site used to be the Portal de la Alhóndiga (warehouse) and in front of the palace is the Benito Juárez Market. The original palace was inaugurated in 1728, on the wedding day of the prince and princess of Spain and Portugal. The architectural style was Gothic. The building currently on this site was begun in 1832, inaugurated in 1870 but was not completed until 1887. The inside contains murals reflecting Oaxaca's history from the pre-Hispanic era, the colonial era and post-Independence. Most of these were painted by Arturo García Bustos in the 1980s.[1]
The Federal Palace is located across from the cathedral and used to be the site of the old Archbishiop's Palace until 1902. Its architecture is "neo-Mixtec" reflecting the nationalism of the early 20th century and the reverence in which the Mixtec-Zapotec culture has been held in more recent times. The architectural elements copy a number of those from Mitla and Monte Albán.[1]
Northwest of the Zócalo is the Alameda de León, a garden area[3] that is essentially an annex of the main square. In 1576, viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza set aside two city blocks on which to build the city government offices, but they were never built here. One of the blocks was sold and the other became a market. Antonio de León, governor of the state of Oaxaca, lived in front of this market and decided to turn it into a park in the 1840s, making it a small replica of the Alameda Central in Mexico City. In 1885, a statue of León was added.[1]
The Macedonio Alcalá Tourist Corridor is a street paved with green cantera. It was closed to traffic in 1985[18] and is now only open to pedestrian traffic. Along the street are notable places such as the original building to house the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez. The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art) or MACO is located here as is the Plazuela (small plaza) Labastida and the Parroquia de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo (Parish of the Precious Blood of Christ).[3]
Oaxaca Cathedral, also referred to as Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the third to be built as the first two were destroyed by large earthquakes in the 16th and 18th centuries.[3] Construction of this third church began in 1702 and it was consecrated in 1733. Its facade is made of the green cantera stone commonly found in Oaxaca's buildings, and the interior is in Neoclassical style. The altar features a bronze statue of Our Lady of the Assumption (Nuestra Señora de al Asunción) sculpted by Tadoini and cast in Italy during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz.[3][19]
The church and former monastery of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is located 4 blocks north of the cathedral. It was constructed between 1555 and 1666. It is divided into two parts: the church and the former living/working areas of the monks. The front of the church is Renaissance-style, in the central relief, Saint Dominic and Hippolytus of Rome are holding up the church. After La Reforma around 1860, the church was converted into a stable, which caused serious deterioration of the building. It was returned to devotional use at the end of the 19th century. The living and working areas were converted into barracks and officers' quarters. In 1994, work began to convert this area as the Centro Cultural Santo Domingo.[3]
The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is located four blocks west of the cathedral on Avenida Independencia. It was built between 1682 and 1697 by Father Fernando Méndez[19] on a site where supposedly an image of the Virgin Mary appeared inside a box. It is of Baroque style finished in 1690. Its front is made of a reddish stone sculpted to look like a folding screen. In the back of the church is the Museo de la Basilica de Nuestra Señora de La Soledad that exhibits the Virgin's dresses, offering and small painting done in her honor.[3] The statue of the Virgin of Solitude, crowned with a 2 kg solid gold crown studded with diamonds – was recently the subject of a theft. Over the years, the cloister has been converted into a correctional facility, a teacher's college and district attorney's office. Now it serves as the Municipal Palace. The building conserves a number of valuable items such as paintings, sculptures and religious vestments[19] and a pipe organ dated 1686.[20]
The Church and ex-monastery of Del Carmen Alto belonged to the Carmelites, who established themselves here in 1696. The complex began as a hermitage built over the teocalli of Huaxyacac. The project was financed by Manuel Fernandez Fiallo.[19] In the late 17th century, much of this space was occupied by a jail and barracks.
Church and former monastery of St John of God (Templo y Exconvento de San Juan de Dios), Oaxaca's oldest church still standing, completed in 1703. This is where the first mass in Oaxaca was held in 1521.[1]
Church of San Felipe Neri The Church of San Felipe Neri is considered a classic example of Baroque with estipite (inverted truncated pyramid) columns from the end of the 18th century, and has a large gilded main altarpiece. While the church overall is Baroque, the portal contains other decorative elements as well. Benito Juárez married Margarita Maza here in 1841.[19]
Ex monastery of San Catalina was built in the second half of the 16th century by Dominican friar Hernando de Carvarcos, who also was responsible for the Santo Domingo de Guzmán monastery. In 1862, the monastery became a jail and at the end of the 19th century, the southern part became the Municipal Palace. Since 1976, it has been a hotel, called Hotel Camino Real.[18]
Church of the Company of Jesus (Iglesia de la Compañia de Jesús), located to the southwest of the Zócalo, was built by the Jesuits in 1579 and consecrated to Francis Xavier and the Immaculate Conception.[19] The towers were destroyed by a series of earthquakes and never rebuilt. Inside the chapel is a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe with a prayer written in Spanish, English, Náhuatl as well as 12 other languages native to the state of Oaxaca, including 4 dialects of Zapotec.[3]
The Centro Cultural de Santo Domingo occupies the former monastery buildings attached to Santo Domingo church, and were restored in 1996 and considered to be one of the best restoration works in Latin America.[21] Some important artifacts from Monte Albán are displayed here. In the center of the Centro Cultural, there is a courtyard with a fountain and a very large staircase. The passages along the courtyard have vaulted ceilings, cupolas and intricate corridors. Much of the Centro Cultural is occupied by the Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca (Museum of Oaxacan Cultures), whose entrance is the one pilgrims used to use to enter the church area of the complex.[3] This museum was placed in the Centro Cultural in 1964, after originally being in the Instituto de Ciencias y Artes, among other places. The museum specializes in Zapotec and Mixtec cultures, covering ten halls and one auditorium.[1] In Sala III is displayed the "Tesoro Mixteco" (Mixtec Treasure) which is a collection of offerings that were discovered by archeologist Alfonso Caso in Tomb 7 of Monte Álban. These offerings include hundreds of pieces of jewelry made of gold and silver. They make up the richest collection of gold and silver smithing of ancient Mexico.[3] Another important exhibit is the objects from Tomb 5 of Lambitieco, which dates back to 700 C. E and from Monte Albán. The museum has rooms dedicated to everyday items from the colonial period as well.[1] The center also contains the Biblioteca Fray Francisco de Burgoa (Fray Francisco de Burgoa Library) which holds over 25,000 degrees that were conferred from the 15th to the 20th century from the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez in Oaxaca.[3]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, MACO) is housed in the so-called Casa de Cortés. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city and one of the most representative of non-religious buildings.[1] It dates from after the death of Hernán Cortés and could never have served as his house.[3] Although it has been modified somewhat over the years, it still conserves its basic layout with rooms surrounding three courtyards. The architectural style is basically Andalucian modified by Oaxaca traditions. The facade has two levels, and the doors and windows have lintels, and are protected by wrought iron railings. To the far left of the facade, there are two arched entrances that permitted entrance of carriages to the third courtyard. The main portal is Spanish Baroque and has three levels. In the first, there are two "tritóstila" columns that support the balcony which has wrought iron railings. On the second level two Solomonic columns flanking a window. The jambs of the window are decorated with circles and the lintel with inverted curves. At the top of the window is seal of the Jesuits. The third level contains a central niche with a sculpture of an archangel as well as the coats of arms of the Laso de la Vega and the Pinelo families. This group is flanked by Solomonic columns. The house was acquired by the state of Oaxaca and initially housed the Museo Historico Urbano de Oaxaca in 1986.[1] The museum was created with help from the state government, the José F. Gómez Foundation, painter Francisco Toledo and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Its permanent collection contains works by Rufino Tamayo, Toledo, Nieto, Aquinos and others.[21]
The Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños(Museum of Oaxacan Painters) is located north of the Alameda de León on Avenida Independencia in a former 18th century mansion. It is dedicated to local artists such as Rodolfo Morales whose work is on permanent display. The museum has also featured exhibitions by Felipe Morales, Rodolfo Nieto, Alejandro Santiago and Francisco Toledo.[3]
The Casa de Culturas Oaxaqueñas used to the Church and ex monastery Los Siete Príncipes dating from the 18th century. The only part still used for religious purposes is the small chapel. The complex was restored in the 1960s and in 1970, the Casa opened.[19] It houses the Instituto Oaxaqueño de la Culturas, which is a state government entity to promote culture and the arts.[18]
The Rufino Tamayo Museum (Museo Arte Prehispánico de Rufino Tamayo) or Museo Rufino Tamayo, has an important collection of pre-Hispanic art that the painter himself collected. He donated the collection, as well as the house that is now the museum to his home state (Oaxaca) in 1974.[3] This house, which was known as the Casa de Villanaza, was built in the 18th century. It first housed the State Museum Archives, before becoming what it is today.[21] The museum exhibits over 1150 pieces from different Mesoamerican periods, including Mayan steles, ceramic dogs from Colima and stone faces from the Gulf of Mexico coast. The purpose of the museum is to show the aesthetic as well as the cultural value of these works.[3]
The Religious Museum of the Ex monastery of La Soledad is located next to the Basilica of la Soledad. It contains objects such as paintings, sculptures and vestments. It is located in the southwest portion of the old monastery.[18]
The Instituto de Artes Gráficos de Oaxaca (Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca) contains a large collection of graphic designs both present and past.[21]
The Casa de Juárez, is a museum devoted to the life of Benito Juárez.[1] It belonged to someone named Antonio Salanueva,[21] but Juárez lived here from 1818 to 1828 after arriving from his hometown of Guelatao.[1] It contains documents related to his presidency as well as furnishings designed to recreate the environment of that period. Its architecture is typical of homes built in this city in the 18th century and located on Garcia Vigil 609.[3] It also contains ordinary artifacts from that time period, some of which belonged to Juárez.[21]
Hemeroteca Publica de Oaxaca "Nestor Sánchez" (Nestor Sanchez Public Newspaper Library of Oaxaca) is located behind the ex-convent of Santo Domingo along with the Jardin Ethobotánico (Ethnobotanic Gardin) at the corner of Reforma and Constitución. These two occupy more than 2 hectares which used to be the gardens of the convent of Santa Domingo.[3]
Teatro Macedonio Alcalá is a working theatre and also houses a collection of romantic art.[3] Built between 1903 and 1909, it was originally named the Luis Mier y Terán Theater. The design is typical of the Porfirio Díaz period ending the 19th century and beginning the 20th. It was later renamed the Jesús Carranza Theater. The current name dates back to 1932, honoring the composer of the state anthem "Dios Nunca Muere" (God Never Dies).[18] The theatre has three parts: the vestibule, the main hall and the stage. The main entrance is on the corner. On the Armenta and López Street sides, the lower level is occupied by shops and by the Miguel Cabrera Salon, which hosts art exhibits. The vestibule is Louis XV style with a white marble staircase and the main hall is in "Imperial" style, in which the anthropomorphic columns stand out.[1]
Other cultural places of interest include the Alvarez Bravo Photography Center, the Oaxaca Stamp Museum, the Railway Museum of Southern Mexico (in the old train station) and the Planetarium located on the Cerro del Fortín.[3]
Monte Albán is a pre-Hispanic city that was an ancient capital of the Zapotecs. It reached its peak between 500 BCE and 800 CE with about 35,000 inhabitants. Monte Albán is known for its architecture, its carved stones and its ceramic urns. In 1987, it was declared a World Heritage Site, along with the city of Oaxaca itself.[22]
The Benito Juárez Market is located one block south of the Zócalo on Flores Magón and Las Casas but it takes up the entire block to 20 de Noviembre and Aldama streets. It offers flowers, fruit, ices, fruit drinks, handcrafts, leather goods, hats and knives, among other things.[3] The block to the south houses the Mercado (Market) 20 de Noviembre which is the official name, but this market is commonly known as the "Mercado de la Comida (food)" because of the food stands that dominate the place. It is recommended by México Desconocido magazine for Oaxacan regional dishes such as moles, tasajo, tlayudas, pan de yema (a type of egg bread), chapulines (fried grasshoppers in chili), Oaxaca cheese (known locally as "quesillo"), queso fresco (lit. "fresh cheese"), as well as very large cups of hot chocolate made locally that is often spiced with cinnamon and almonds.[3]
The city contains a number of parks, gardens and plazas, many of which were former monastery lands, for example, the Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca, surrounding the former monastery of Santo Domingo.[3] Even better known is the Plaza de la Danza y Jardín Sócrates complex on Morelos Street at the foot of the Cerro del Fortín. It is part of the area bounded by the Basilica de la Soledad and the Church of San José. The Plaza de la Danza was constructed in 1959 by Eduardo Vasconcelos to hold the annual Bani-Stui-Gulal (representation of antiquity) dance, held one day before the festival of the Guelaguetza. The Plaza also hosts other cultural events including art shows, concerts and political rallies. The Socrates Garden is the old atrium of the Basilica de la Soledad, converted into a public park in 1881. It features a bronze chalice cast in that year. In 1981, the Garden was remodeled, adding a new layer of stone to the floor.[1] The Cerro de Fortín next to it bears in stone letters Benito Juárez's slogan, "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz" (Respect for others' rights is peace).[3] The Antonia Labastida Garden is named after a woman who fought with Porfirio Díaz during the French Intervention. This park has become a place for artists and artisans to display their wares.[18]
The Guelaguetza, also known as the Fiestas de los Lunes del Cerro (Festivals of Mondays at the Hill) is the major cultural event in the city with origins in pre-Hispanic times. The "Hill" is the Cerro del Fortín, which was the scene of the annual rites to the goddess Centeótl, or goddess of the corn. The hill had a teocalli, or sacred plaza, built by the Aztecs. The ritual would end with the sacrifice of a young maiden chosen to represent the goddess.[2]
This rite was prohibited by the Spanish after the Conquest, who also destroyed the teocalli. In its place, they constructed the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmen, now known as Carmen Alto. The recently baptized Mixtecs and Zapotecs then replaced ceremonies to Centeótl with those to this manifestation of the Virgin Mary, at the same place, the Cerro del Fortín.[2]
This revised festival grew over time to be the largest and most anticipated for the town. In 1932, the city of Oaxaca realized its 400th anniversary and decided to combine these festivities with those of the Cerro del Fortín, adding traditional dances, music, regional cuisine and Margarita Santaella as the first Miss Oaxaca, in addition to the religious rites. The word "guelaguetza" is from Zapotec and means offering, sympathy, caring and cooperation. This first Guelaguetza was such a hit that organizers decided to repeat it every year at the Cerro del Fortin, on all the Mondays of July starting in 1953, becoming an amalgam of Oaxacan festivals from many parts of the state.[2]
Originally, the festival took place at the foot of the Cerro del Fortín, where the curve of the land makes for a natural theatre. Since 1974, many of the events, which have grown in number, have been moved to a number of different venues, included the then-inaugurated Guelaguetza Auditorium. This is a Greek-style venue with seats 11,400 people.[2]
One venue is the Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, where regional band come to play, dressed in colorful costumes as part of the opening ceremonies. They march from here to Oaxaca Cathedral, where they are joined by folk dance groups such as the China Oaxaqueñas, the Chilenas de Pinotepa Nacional and the Jarabes Serranos. Another major event, which takes place at the Jardin Socrates, is a beauty pageant for indigenous women from different regions of Oaxaca state. The winner represents the goddess Centeótl and presides over the festivities along with public officials. The Bamo-Stui-Gulal takes place at the Plaza de la Danza and represents the history of Oaxaca and the Guelaguetza itself. The Plaza is divided into four quadrants, each representing a different period in Oaxaca's history. One other event, hosted in the Auditorium is a reenactment of the Legend of Donají, which takes place at the time of the Conquest. On the streets of the city, there are parades with children and giant papier-mâché puppets.[2]
The "Noche de Rábano" or Night of the Radishes is a tradition of the city of Oaxaca. Artisans show off designs created from large radishes, often decorated with other plant materials. The event only lasts a few hours but draws most of the city's population to the main square to look at the creations. It occurs each year on 23 December.[23]
The event developed from a Dominican Christmas tradition, when they would have a large dinner on the night of 23 December. To decorate the tables, indigenous servants of the monks would carve radishes and adorn them with flowers and other plants. This led 23 December to the known as the Night of the Radishes. This led to a special market on this day selling the radishes along with two other popular Christmas plant materials, the Flor Inmortal (immortal flower) and corn husks. This market has grown into a major cultural event and now is sponsored by the city, which packs the main square on that day. The day also includes a competition where radish creations are judged by originality, technical skill and beauty.[23]
Donají was a high-ranking Zapotec woman in pre-Hispanic Mitla. When she was born, a seer predicted that she would die for her country. When she grew up, the Zapotec were involved in one of their many wars with the Mixtec, who generally dominated the area. One day, Zapotec warriors brought a prisoner, a Mixtec prince named Nucano, to Mitla. Taking pity on him, Donají took care of his wounds. When he healed, he asked her to free him, which she did. The war continued, and the Zapotec king and Donaji forced to abandon their capital of Zaachila. Peace negotiations were attempted but the Mixtec did not trust the Zapotec king, taking Donají captive as insurance.
This occurred during the Conquest, when the Spanish Christian evangelization of the country had begun. Donají asked for baptism and was renamed Doña Juana de Cortés.[24]
As the Mixtec feared, the Zapotec broke the peace treaty, attacking Monte Albán while the Mixtec slept. The survivors killed their hostage. Later the body of Donají, decapitated, was found in the Atoyac River. Time passed. One day a shepherd came to the place where Donaji was buried by the river. A fragrant lily flower grew there. Fifteen days later, he returned to find the same flower, still fresh and fragrant in the same place, as if a mysterious force was preserving it.[24] She is honored by having her severed head as part of the coat of arms of the city of Oaxaca.[1] In addition, her story is reenacted every year at the Guelaguetza festival.[2]
Every year in the fall, Oaxaca hosts the Oaxaca FilmFest.
The city of Oaxaca has long been considered "Mexico's culinary capital."[25] The most notable aspect of Oaxacan cuisine is its variety of moles, which are a type of complex sauce. Their origins go back to the melding of Spanish and Arabic food in Spain. After the Conquest, New World ingredients such as chile mulato, 'miltomate' (a small whitish wild tomato), tomatoes, peanuts, avocado leaves, and chocolate were incorporated. While moles can be found in many parts of Mexico, Oaxaca has the greatest variety including negro (black), Colorado (red), coloradito (faint red), chichilo, verde (green), amarillo (yellow), and manchamanteles (lit. 'stainer of tablecloths'). They are sold in markets all over the city as a paste which is combined with water and simmered with a variety of meats.[26]
Other notable foods sold in markets include bars of chocolate (primarily used for making hot chocolate), traditional breads, and chapulines (fried grasshoppers with chile). Street foods include tlayudas, which are large, slightly crispy corn tortillas piled high with ingredients such as grilled beef (called tasajo), cheese, tomatoes, avocados, onions etc. Local drinks include those made with water, sugar and a flavoring such as aguamiel (honey water), trocitos de melón (melon), horchata (rice), tuna batida (cactus fruit shake), and nuez (nuts) as well as local fruits such as chilacayota and guanábana. In nearby Tlacolula and Ejutla an indigenous drink called 'tejate' is still prepared and sold in the local market. Known here as the drink of the gods, it is prepared with corn, cacao, cacao flower and the seed of the mamey fruit. As for alcoholic beverages, this area prefers mezcal, which like tequila is made from agave, but unlike tequila can be made from a variety of different species of the plant.[26]
As in other areas in Mexico, chocolate has had special importance here since long before the Conquest. Aside from being a foodstuff, it was also used as medicine and cacao seeds were used as money. The chocolate prepared in this city is well known within Mexico, as it is distinguished by being flavored with cinnamon, almonds and sugar and is usually prepared with hot water or milk, served in large coffee cups with a local sweet roll.
The city of Oaxaca is home to several universities. It is the site of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, which has buildings in various parts of the city. The most visible building is the Edificio Central de la Universidad (Central Building of the University), which is located in the historic downtown. It is in a building that originally housed the Sciences Institute. It was constructed between 1899 and 1901, in the European Romantic style that was popular for academic institutions at that time. However, indigenous touches, such as the cresting over the portal, can be seen as well. This building houses the Department of Law and Social Studies as well as the gymnasium.[1] Additionally, the Universidad de Mesoamérica has locations in the city. The Universidad Anáhuac Oaxaca was opened in 2000.
Oaxaca-Xoxocotlan Airport (IATA code OAX) is approximately 7 km south of the city centre. Most flights are to Mexico City for onward connection, but there are also flights to Huatulco, Cancún, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Tijuana. In addition both American Airlines and United Airlines have nonstop flights between Oaxaca and their respective U.S. hubs in Dallas and Houston.
The city has separate first class and second class bus stations, offering services to most places within the state of Oaxaca, including the coastal resorts of Huatulco, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel and Pinotepa Nacional, and also long-distance services to Puebla and Mexico City and other Mexican locations such as Veracruz. There are several bus lines which run in Oaxaca. The largest is TUSUG, a type of cooperative company. All of the drivers own their own buses and are aided by other drivers in purchasing new buses.
The major highways serving Oaxaca are Federal Highways 175 and 131, southwards to the Oaxacan coastal resorts; National Highways 190 and 125, southwest to Pinotepa Nacional; National Highways 190 and 130, to Mexico City; the autopista 150D/131D, offering a quicker route to Mexico City; and National Highway 175 north to the city of Veracruz.
A number of small towns surround the main city and are closely linked economically and culturally with the main city. Some of these towns are known for producing certain crafts that are identified with the three central valleys of Oaxaca. In these towns one can see the workshops and the crafts being produced in the traditional manner although most of these towns' products are sold in the main city. Santa María Atzompa produces glazed, glass-inlaid pottery of green, while San Antonio Arrazola and San Martín Tilcajete make alebrijes, small painted wooden figures. San Bartolo Coyotepec is known for its barro negro pottery, and Teotitlán del Valle works with wool to make tapestry and rugs. These rugs are known for their colors and geometric designs, made traditionally with natural dyes; a wild marigold, pericon, that grows in the nearby mountains gives a gold yellow, cochineal, a native insect, gives reds and indigo, raised in the hotter regions of the state gives blues.
In addition, Oaxaca city and surrounding towns have market days, where one can visit the tianguis (open-air markets) set up for that day. There are markets on each day of the week. Monday in Miahuatlán is for buying daily staples, and Tuesday, in Ayoquezco is noted for wood furniture. On Wednesday, people head to Etla and Zimatlán for dairy products, especially cheese. Thursday is reserved for the two largest tianguis in Ejutla and Villa de Zaachila. On Friday, in Coyotepec, Jalietza and Ocotlán cotton textiles, embroidered blouses, corn-husk flowers and glazed pottery from Atzompa are sold. Saturday is reserved for the main city of Oaxaca, and to finish, on Sunday mezcal is sold in Tlacolula.[3]
As the municipal seat, the city of Oaxaca has governmental jurisdiction over the following communities:
Arbolada Ilusión, Camino a San Luis Beltrán, Camino Ancho, Casas del Sol, Colonia Buena Vista, El Bajío (Rancho Guadalupe Victoria), El Silencio, Entrada de el Silencio, Gloria Antonio Cruz, Guadalupe Victoria, Guadalupe Victoria Segunda Sección (La Mina), Lachigulera, Las Salinas (El Arco Grande), Loma Bonita, Lomas Panorámicas, Los Ángeles, Los Ángeles Uno, Miravalle, Paraje Caballetiyo, Paraje el Cerrito, Paraje el Pando, Paraje la Canoa, Paraje la Loma, Paraje la Mina, Paraje la Rabonera, Paraje Pio V (Ojito de Agua), Paraje Tierra Colorada, Pueblo Nuevo Parte Alta, Rancho el Chilar, Rancho los Girasoles, San Bernardo, Solidaridad, and Viguera The municipality has a total area of 85.48 km2[1] and as of 2021 has a population of roughly 715,000 people who live in or around the Oaxaca city limits.[27] While much of the indigenous population was either massacred or died from European diseases during the colonial era, sixteen different ethnic groups continue to inhabit the municipality. Spanish is the most commonly spoken language[15] but according to the 2005 census, there were 20,109 people who spoke an indigenous language, representing between seven and eight percent of the population.[1]
The municipality is bordered by San Pablo Etla, San Antonio de la Cal, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, San Andrés Huayapam, San Agustín Yatareni, Santa Lucía del Camino, Santa María Atzompa and San Jacinto Amilpas.[1] It is located in the Valley of Oaxaca in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, at WikiMiniAtlas17°03′38″N 96°43′31″W / 17.06056°N 96.72528°W / 17.06056; -96.72528 near the geographic center of the state, and at an altitude of about 1550 m (5000 ft). The area is known as the three "Valles Centrales" (Central Valleys) region and is surrounded by thick forests of pine and holm oak.[3]
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Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium - Wikipedia | Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Gori, Georgia. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Dila Gori. The stadium is able to hold 5,000 people.
Being a UEFA category 2 arena,[1] it is named after football player Tengiz Burjanadze, who had several distinguished seasons at Dila in the late 1960s.[2]
Prior to 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, the stadium underwent a thorough renovation which cost around 1,350,000 GEL. After individual chairs were installed, its initial capacity has been reduced from 8,500.[3]
The arena is often used by Georgian youth teams. In 2017, U19s held there their all three European championship matches.
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6th General Logistic Support Regiment - Wikipedia | The 6th General Logistic Support Regiment (Italian: 6° Reggimento Logistico di Supporto Generale) is a military logistics regiment of the Italian Army based in Budrio in the Emilia Romagna. The regiment is operationally assigned to the Logistic Support Command and manages the transport of equipment, personnel, and materiel from the logistic transit areas to military units in operations. The 6th regiment, together with the Transit Areas Management Regiment provides third line logistic support for the army's brigades and Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy.[3][4]
The history of the regiment begins with the support units of the 20th Infantry Division "Friuli". In April 1941 the division participated in the Invasion of Yugoslavia. After the Allied landings in French North Africa Italy and Germany occupied Vichy France on 11 November 1942 and the Friuli was ferried from Tuscany to northern Corsica, where the division remained on occupation duty until the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943. In following days Italian forces and French partisans on Corsica fought the German Sturmbrigade Reichführer-SS, 90th Panzergrenadier Division, and Italian XII Paratroopers Battalion of the 184th Paratroopers Regiment "Nembo",[5] which had crossed over from Sardinia and retreated through Corsica towards the harbor of Bastia in the island's north.[6]
Now part of the Italian Co-belligerent Army the Friuli was transferred in July 1944 to San Giorgio del Sannio in southern Italy. On 20 September 1944 the division was reorganized as Combat Group "Friuli" and equipped with British weapons and materiel. The group entered combat on 5 February 1945 as replacement for the Polish 5th Infantry Division "Kresowa" of the II Polish Corps on the Senio river near Brisighella. From there the Friuli advanced with the allied armies to liberate Imola, Castel San Pietro and Bologna.[7][6]
On 15 October 1945 the Combat Group "Friuli" was renamed Infantry Division "Friuli". Initially the division was based in the city of Bolzano, but in 1949 the division moved to Florence. On 15 April 1960, the division was reduced to Infantry Brigade "Friuli". The brigade was supported by the Supply, Repairs, Recovery Unit "Friuli" based in Coverciano in Florence.
During the 1975 army reform the army disbanded the regimental level and newly independent battalions were granted for the first time their own flags. On 23 September 1975 the Supply, Repairs, Recovery Unit "Friuli" and the Transport Unit "Friuli" in Coverciano were merged to form the new Logistic Battalion "Friuli".[8] On 12 November 1976 the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone issued decree 846, which granted the new units their flags.[9][1]
After the end of the Cold War and the subsequent reduction of the Italian Army the Motorized Brigade "Friuli" merged with the Mechanized Brigade "Trieste" on 1 June 1991. On the same date the Logistic Battalion "Trieste" in Budrio was renamed Logistic Battalion "Friuli" and the flag of the Logistic Battalion "Trieste" was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.[1]
On 27 June 2001 the battalion was reorganized as 6th Transport Regiment and was transferred to the Logistic Projection Brigade. On 1 January 2015 the 6th Transport Regiment was renamed Logistic Regiment "Friuli" and assigned to the Airmobile Brigade "Friuli".[1] Already one year later on 1 January 2016 the regiment left the brigade again and was assigned to the army's Logistic Support Command and reorganized as 6th General Logistic Support Regiment.[4]
As of 2022 the 6th General Logistic Support Regiment consists of:[4]
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon.
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Anton Cassar - Wikipedia | Anton Cassar (1924 – 30 June 2014) was a Maltese journalist and editor, who founded L-Orizzont, a national daily newspaper, in 1962.[1]
[2] Cassar also served as L-Orizzont's first editor.[1]
Cassar was born in Marsa, Malta, in 1924.[3] He started his career as a journalist at Il-Berqa in 1946.[1][2][3] He was awarded the Gold Award from the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IMJ) for his work.[1] He also received a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Council in 2013.[1]
Anton Cassar died on 30 June 2014, at the age of 90.[1]
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Hilary Dwyer - Wikipedia |
Hilary Dwyer (6 May 1945 – 30 March 2020), also known as Hilary Heath, was an English actress, businessperson, and film producer. She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage. In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Her final producing role was the 2014 miniseries Jamaica Inn.
Born on 6 May 1945, in Liverpool, England, Hilary Dwyer was the daughter of Frederick Dwyer, a South African-born orthopaedic surgeon noted for his pioneering calcaneal osteotomy, who married Norah Eileen Milroy in 1940.[2][3] They had two daughters, Hilary and Patricia, the latter of whom would later marry the philosopher Bernard Williams.[2] As a youth, Hilary practised ballet and became a talented pianist,[4] winning a music scholarship to Lowther College in North Wales.[3] At age 16 she attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (now part of the Central School of Speech and Drama) in London.[5][3] She trained in repertory theatres and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic.[6]
Dwyer is best known for appearing in several horror films distributed by American International Pictures in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably her first feature film, Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), starring Vincent Price, in which she played Sara Lowes, and gave a "sensitive performance...intelligent and articulate".[7] Of the role, Dwyer later recalled "I don't think that I realised I was the star."[8] Dwyer enjoyed working with Reeves, describing him as "terrific, we became really good friends".[9] In a 2010 interview at the Southend Film Festival, Dwyer described her interview for Witchfinder General as her "first casting call", in which she was "absolutely terrified" because she "knew no-one".[10]
Dwyer also appeared in The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970), both again featuring Price.[6] Of working with Price, she said "I adored Vincent...I played his mistress, his daughter and his wife. And he said, 'if you ever play my mother, I'll marry you'."[10][6] Dwyer also performed in Robert Fuest's Wuthering Heights (1970). Cry of the Banshee was her final feature film appearance.
Her many television roles included The Prisoner, The Avengers, Hadleigh, Z Cars,[5] and Van der Valk. Her last TV appearance was in a 1976 episode of Space: 1999.[6]
Dwyer also had a successful career on the stage. In 1970 she appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest and in Arms and the Man at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and later on tour with the Bristol Old Vic.[11] In 1978 Dwyer performed in the play Whose Life Is It Anyway? alongside Tom Conti at the Mermaid Theatre in London, and later at the Savoy.[12][5]
In 1973, she helped set up the talent agency Duncan Heath Associates with her then husband-to-be, Duncan Heath, working long hours to set up the business and even taking business calls on her wedding day. Duncan Heath Associates became a successful talent agency, and was later bought by ICM Partners.[3] Today, Duncan Heath is co-chairman of the Independent Talent Group Ltd.[3] In a 2002 interview in the Financial Times, Heath said of Dwyer "She introduced me to a lot of people – if it wasn't for her it wouldn't have happened."[13] Dwyer married Heath in 1974; they had two children, Laura and Daniel.[3][14][6] However, working with her husband was not always easy. The relationship was later described by Duncan Heath as "a nightmare", in part because of her strong personality and also because she had begun to drink heavily.[3]
She began a career as a producer in the mid-1980s under her married name Hilary Heath. In 1988 she won a CableAce Award for the TV movie The Worst Witch (1986). Unfortunately her marriage did not prosper and she and her husband Duncan separated, and were divorced in 1989.[14] Despite the divorce, she retained a relationship with her ex-husband, which continued to be the most important in her life, and the two continued to speak and meet regularly.[3] She also embraced sobriety, giving up alcohol.[3]
Heath is credited as either producer or executive producer for a number of feature films, including Criminal Law (1988) and An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.[6] She co-produced Gary Oldman's 1997 film Nil by Mouth.[6] She also produced TV-remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). In 2014 she executive produced the miniseries Jamaica Inn.
As a producer, she was skilled at managing talent. Jonathan Powell, former controller of BBC 1, said of her: "Everybody knew Hilary. And if they didn't, they couldn't stop her from getting to know them. She had a complete incapacity to understand what the word 'no' meant".[3]
In her mid 60s Dywer returned to education, studying cognitive behaviour therapy for a master's degree at the University of Oxford, and forging a new career as an addiction counsellor.[3] She was reportedly a good counsellor, thanks to her frankness, and her openness about her own past struggles with addiction.[3]
Dwyer died on 30 March 2020, aged 74,[1] from complications related to COVID-19.[15] The health crisis caused by the virus meant that Dwyer's funeral did not take place as she had hoped or planned. The only individuals present were her daughter Laura and the presiding vicar.[16] She was survived by her two children, Laura and Daniel. Laura Heath founded the Hope-Martin Animal Foundation in Barbados.[14]
Daniel Heath is a Los Angeles-based film composer, writing songs for artists such as Lana Del Rey.[3]
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Charlotte Brown (producer) - Wikipedia | Charlotte Sue Brown (born October 20, 1943) is an American television producer, writer, director, and showrunner who in 1977 was acclaimed to have become the first woman showrunner of a primetime network television series for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda.[1][2] However, Gertrude Berg, who created The Goldbergs, earned that title almost two decades earlier.
Brown was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jewish parents.[2] Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was young.[3]: 149 She grew up in the Fairfax and Pico-Robertson neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a musician and her mother worked in a clerical position at The May Company.[2]
Brown graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English.[3]: 149
Brown's early career began first as a high school teacher,.[3]: 149 and then as a junior copywriter at an advertising agency.[2] She wanted to get into the TV industry and managed to meet James L. Brooks via her dentist, eventually visiting the set of early episode tapings of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She gave Brooks a spec script, and was mentored by Brooks, who hired her as a freelance writer.[2][4]
Brown worked on many of Grant Tinker['s MTM Enterprises shows run by writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns during the early 1970s – shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Partridge Family, Love, American Style and The Bob Newhart Show[2] She was part of a universe of women writers that included Pat Nardo, Gail Parent, Susan Silver, and Treva Silverman.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was unusual to find a woman inside the writers' room of a primetime network television show other than secretaries and personal assistants. A notable exception was Madelyn Pugh, who wrote for the I Love Lucy series. After the success of Treva Silverman, some showrunners began to actively recruit women writers. One of them was James L. Brooks who hired Brown to write an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.[1] Assignments soon followed on The Sandy Duncan Show, The Partridge Family, and The Bob Newhart Show. For many of the series in which she worked, Brown was often the first woman writer that had ever been hired by that particular producer.[1][2]
When Brooks created Rhoda, a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Brown was hired as a staff writer. She quickly rose up the ranks, becoming the program's executive producer in 1977.[5] As a result, Brown became one of the first female showrunners in primetime television history.[1][6]
Brown said that she based the character of Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda's mother, portrayed by actor Nancy Walker, on her own mother.[3]: 212 Rhoda ran for 5 seasons before it was canceled.[2]
Brown went on to direct and write. She created the 1992 tv series, The Powers That Be with Marta Kauffman and David Crane.[2]
In the early 1980s, Brown adopted a daughter.[2]
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Turing degree - Wikipedia | In computer science and mathematical logic the Turing degree (named after Alan Turing) or degree of unsolvability of a set of natural numbers measures the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the set.
The concept of Turing degree is fundamental in computability theory, where sets of natural numbers are often regarded as decision problems. The Turing degree of a set is a measure of how difficult it is to solve the decision problem associated with the set, that is, to determine whether an arbitrary number is in the given set.
Two sets are Turing equivalent if they have the same level of unsolvability; each Turing degree is a collection of Turing equivalent sets, so that two sets are in different Turing degrees exactly when they are not Turing equivalent. Furthermore, the Turing degrees are partially ordered, so that if the Turing degree of a set X is less than the Turing degree of a set Y, then any (possibly noncomputable) procedure that correctly decides whether numbers are in Y can be effectively converted to a procedure that correctly decides whether numbers are in X. It is in this sense that the Turing degree of a set corresponds to its level of algorithmic unsolvability.
The Turing degrees were introduced by Post (1944) and many fundamental results were established by Kleene & Post (1954). The Turing degrees have been an area of intense research since then. Many proofs in the area make use of a proof technique known as the priority method.
For the rest of this article, the word set will refer to a set of natural numbers. A set X is said to be Turing reducible to a set Y if there is an oracle Turing machine that decides membership in X when given an oracle for membership in Y. The notation X ≤T Y indicates that X is Turing reducible to Y.
Two sets X and Y are defined to be Turing equivalent if X is Turing reducible to Y and Y is Turing reducible to X. The notation X ≡T Y indicates that X and Y are Turing equivalent. The relation ≡T can be seen to be an equivalence relation, which means that for all sets X, Y, and Z:
A Turing degree is an equivalence class of the relation ≡T. The notation [X] denotes the equivalence class containing a set X. The entire collection of Turing degrees is denoted
D
{\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}}
.
The Turing degrees have a partial order ≤ defined so that [X] ≤ [Y] if and only if X ≤T Y. There is a unique Turing degree containing all the computable sets, and this degree is less than every other degree. It is denoted 0 (zero) because it is the least element of the poset
D
{\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}}
. (It is common to use boldface notation for Turing degrees, in order to distinguish them from sets. When no confusion can occur, such as with [X], the boldface is not necessary.)
For any sets X and Y, X join Y, written X ⊕ Y, is defined to be the union of the sets {2n : n ∈ X} and {2m+1 : m ∈ Y}. The Turing degree of X ⊕ Y is the least upper bound of the degrees of X and Y. Thus
D
{\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}}
is a join-semilattice. The least upper bound of degrees a and b is denoted a ∪ b. It is known that
D
{\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}}
is not a lattice, as there are pairs of degrees with no greatest lower bound.
For any set X the notation X′ denotes the set of indices of oracle machines that halt (when given their index as input) when using X as an oracle. The set X′ is called the Turing jump of X. The Turing jump of a degree [X] is defined to be the degree [X′]; this is a valid definition because X′ ≡T Y′ whenever X ≡T Y. A key example is 0′, the degree of the halting problem.
A great deal of research has been conducted into the structure of the Turing degrees. The following survey lists only some of the many known results. One general conclusion that can be drawn from the research is that the structure of the Turing degrees is extremely complicated.
A degree is called recursively enumerable (r.e.) or computably enumerable (c.e.) if it contains a recursively enumerable set. Every r.e. degree is below 0′, but not every degree below 0′ is r.e.. However, a set
A
{\displaystyle A}
is many-one reducible to 0′ iff
A
{\displaystyle A}
is r.e..[3]
Additionally, there is Shoenfield's limit lemma, a set A satisfies
[
A
]
≤
T
∅
′
{\displaystyle [A]\leq _{T}\emptyset '}
iff there is a "recursive approximation" to its characteristic function: a function g such that for sufficiently large s,
g
(
s
)
=
χ
A
(
s
)
{\displaystyle g(s)=\chi _{A}(s)}
.[4]
A set A is called n-r e. if there is a family of functions
(
A
s
)
s
∈
N
{\displaystyle (A_{s})_{s\in \mathbb {N} }}
such that:[4]
Properties of n-r.e. degrees:[4]
Emil Post studied the r.e. Turing degrees and asked whether there is any r.e. degree strictly between 0 and 0′. The problem of constructing such a degree (or showing that none exist) became known as Post's problem. This problem was solved independently by Friedberg and Muchnik in the 1950s, who showed that these intermediate r.e. degrees do exist (Friedberg–Muchnik theorem). Their proofs each developed the same new method for constructing r.e. degrees, which came to be known as the priority method. The priority method is now the main technique for establishing results about r.e. sets.
The idea of the priority method for constructing a r.e. set X is to list a countable sequence of requirements that X must satisfy. For example, to construct a r.e. set X between 0 and 0′ it is enough to satisfy the requirements Ae and Be for each natural number e, where Ae requires that the oracle machine with index e does not compute 0′ from X and Be requires that the Turing machine with index e (and no oracle) does not compute X. These requirements are put into a priority ordering, which is an explicit bijection of the requirements and the natural numbers. The proof proceeds inductively with one stage for each natural number; these stages can be thought of as steps of time during which the set X is enumerated. At each stage, numbers may be put into X or forever (if not injured) prevented from entering X in an attempt to satisfy requirements (that is, force them to hold once all of X has been enumerated). Sometimes, a number can be enumerated into X to satisfy one requirement but doing this would cause a previously satisfied requirement to become unsatisfied (that is, to be injured). The priority order on requirements is used to determine which requirement to satisfy in this case. The informal idea is that if a requirement is injured then it will eventually stop being injured after all higher priority requirements have stopped being injured, although not every priority argument has this property. An argument must be made that the overall set X is r.e. and satisfies all the requirements. Priority arguments can be used to prove many facts about r.e. sets; the requirements used and the manner in which they are satisfied must be carefully chosen to produce the required result.
For example, a simple (and hence noncomputable r.e.) low X (low means X′=0′) can be constructed in infinitely many stages as follows. At the start of stage n, let Tn be the output (binary) tape, identified with the set of cell indices where we placed 1 so far (so X=∪n Tn; T0=∅); and let Pn(m) be the priority for not outputting 1 at location m; P0(m)=∞. At stage n, if possible (otherwise do nothing in the stage), pick the least i<n such that ∀m Pn(m)≠i and Turing machine i halts in <n steps on some input S⊇Tn with ∀m∈S\Tn Pn(m)≥i. Choose any such (finite) S, set Tn+1=S, and for every cell m visited by machine i on S, set Pn+1(m) = min(i, Pn(m)), and set all priorities >i to ∞, and then set one priority ∞ cell (any will do) not in S to priority i. Essentially, we make machine i halt if we can do so without upsetting priorities <i, and then set priorities to prevent machines >i from disrupting the halt; all priorities are eventually constant.
To see that X is low, machine i halts on X iff it halts in <n steps on some Tn such that machines <i that halt on X do so <n-i steps (by recursion, this is uniformly computable from 0′). X is noncomputable since otherwise a Turing machine could halt on Y iff Y\X is nonempty, contradicting the construction since X excludes some priority i cells for arbitrarily large i; and X is simple because for each i the number of priority i cells is finite.
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Sinan Cem Tanık - Wikipedia | Sinan Cem Tanık (born 19 June 1980) is a Turkish professional volleyball coach and former player. He studied at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
He played for the Polish team of Mlekpol AZS Olsztyn in the 2006–07 and 2007–08 season, and was the first Turkish player to have ever played in the Polish Volleyball League. He represented Turkey in over 100 games, and was a captain of the national team at the 2011 European Championship.
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Thornton Kipper - Wikipedia | Thornton John Kipper (September 27, 1928 – March 29, 2006) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1953 through 1955 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Listed at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), 190 lb (86 kg), Kipper batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bagley, Wisconsin and attended Bagley High School.
A standout pitcher in college, Kipper spent one year (1946) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining the U.S. Navy during peacetime. After being discharged in 1948, he returned to school and played for the UW team from 1949 to 1950. In that last season he posted an 11–1 record, and later went 5–0 in the Big Ten Conference. He also recorded two victories during the 1950 College World Series and made the All-Star team. Together with catcher Bob Wilson, Kipper formed one of the Big Ten Conference's top batteries. Dynie Mansfield was Kipper's college coach and mentor.[1]
After graduating in 1951, Kipper was signed by the Phillies. In a three-season career, he went 3–4 with 35 strikeouts and a 5.27 ERA in 55 appearances, including three starts, one save, and 99.0 innings of work.
Following his majors career, Kipper pitched in the Kansas City Athletics minor league system. He also played for the Magallanes team of the Venezuelan Winter League (1953–54) and in the 1954 Caribbean Series.
After retirement from baseball, he ran a pizza business out of Scottsdale, Arizona.[2] Kipper died in Scottadale at age 77.
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Google Map Maker - Wikipedia |
Google Map Maker is a defunct map editing service launched by Google in June 2008.[2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators. Google Map Maker was used at Google Mapathon events held annually.
In November 2016, Google announced that Google Map Maker would be retired and merged with Google Maps.[3] Google Map Maker was officially shut down on March 31, 2017.[4]
Using the find or browse tools, contributors were able to add and draw features directly onto a map where the borders had already been drawn, and could add features such as roads, railways, rivers and so on. In addition, users could add specific buildings and services onto the map such as local businesses and services.[3]
Three kinds of drawing tools were available: placemark (a single point of interest on the map), line (for drawing roads, railways, rivers, and the like) and polygon (for defining boundaries and borders, adding parks, lakes and other large features). The approach encouraged by users and by Google was to trace features such as roads from the existing satellite imagery. This approach was not useful in areas with poor satellite imagery, and users consequently created less map data in those areas.
New users' contributions were moderated by more experienced users or reviewers at Google to ensure quality and prevent vandalism. As users made more successful contributions, their edits were less closely monitored and may have been published on the map straight away. Certain larger features may have taken a long time to appear on the map as they were waiting to be rendered by the server.
Contributors could assign areas of the map as their 'neighbourhood', that is an area they know well enough to make detailed contributions to. Users could also moderate the contributions of others within their neighbourhood. This information was private; the neighbourhood a user selected was not publicly associated with the users' account.[5]
As of 6 March 2016, the service was available in Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark (not including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.[6]
In April 2015, Google removed user-created Map Maker content that showed an "Android robot urinating on the Apple logo" and a separate feature saying "Google review policy is crap", after they were discovered on Google Maps.[7] Following the "large scale prank", Google disabled auto-approval and user moderation, and on 8 May, the Map Maker team announced that editing would be temporarily disabled worldwide as of 12 May 2015.[8][9]
Google reenabled the service in six countries in August 2015, with plans to enable in other countries in the following weeks.[10] On 10 August, editing was re-opened to Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, the Philippines, and Ukraine; Google relied on regional moderators to review edits as an extra precaution, in addition to automated and human moderation.[11] On 26 August, Google Map Maker re-opened to 45 more countries.[12]
Map Maker required contributors to grant Google a "... perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission".[13] While Google provided a form to request Map Maker data downloads,[14] it provided no programmatic access to data. There were expressions of concern that Google was taking advantage of open communities,[15] and large contributors to Map Maker, such as the World Bank's project partnering with Google, were viewed critically.[16][17]
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Dubovichi - Wikipedia | Dubovichi, also spelled Dubovychi, is a town in Ukraine, in the Konotop district of Sumy Oblast.[1] During the Battle of Hlukhiv – part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – a convoy of seventeen Russian vehicles passed through, shooting at civilians along the way.[2][3]
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Tlokh - Wikipedia | Tlokh (Russian: Тлох; Avar: Кьохъ) is a rural locality (a selo) in Botlikhsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 770 as of 2010.[2] There are 39 streets.[3]
Tlokh is located on the right bank of the Andiyskoye Koysu River, 24 km east of Botlikh (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kilyatl is the nearest rural locality.[4]
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Programmable ROM - Wikipedia | A programmable read-only memory (PROM) is a form of digital memory where the contents can be changed once after manufacture of the device. The data is then permanent and cannot be changed. It is one type of read-only memory (ROM). PROMs are used in digital electronic devices to store permanent data, usually low level programs such as firmware or microcode. The key difference from a standard ROM is that the data is written into a ROM during manufacture, while with a PROM the data is programmed into them after manufacture. Thus, ROMs tend to be used only for large production runs with well-verified data. PROMs may be used where the volume required does not make a factory-programmed ROM economical, or during development of a system that may ultimately be converted to ROMs in a mass produced version.
PROMs are manufactured blank and, depending on the technology, can be programmed at wafer, final test, or in system. Blank PROM chips are programmed by plugging them into a device called a PROM programmer. Companies can keep a supply of blank PROMs in stock, and program them at the last minute to avoid large volume commitment. These types of memories are frequently used in microcontrollers, video game consoles, mobile phones, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, implantable medical devices, high-definition multimedia interfaces (HDMI) and in many other consumer and automotive electronics products.
The PROM was invented in 1956 by Wen Tsing Chow, working for the Arma Division of the American Bosch Arma Corporation in Garden City, New York.[1][2] The invention was conceived at the request of the United States Air Force to come up with a more flexible and secure way of storing the targeting constants in the Atlas E/F ICBM's airborne digital computer. The patent and associated technology were held under secrecy order for several years while the Atlas E/F was the main operational missile of the United States ICBM force. The term burn, referring to the process of programming a PROM, is also in the original patent, as one of the original implementations was to literally burn the internal whiskers of diodes with a current overload to produce a circuit discontinuity. The first PROM programming machines were also developed by Arma engineers under Chow's direction and were located in Arma's Garden City lab and Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters.
OTP (one time programmable) memory is a special type of non-volatile memory (NVM) that permits data to be written to memory only once. Once the memory has been programmed, it retains its value upon loss of power (i.e., is non-volatile). OTP memory is used in applications where reliable and repeatable reading of data is required. Examples include boot code, encryption keys and configuration parameters for analog, sensor or display circuitry. OTP NVM is characterized, over other types of NVM like eFuse or EEPROM, by offering a low power, small area footprint memory structure. As such OTP memory finds application in products from microprocessors & display drivers to Power Management ICs (PMICs).
Commercially available semiconductor antifuse-based OTP memory arrays have been around at least since 1969, with initial antifuse bit cells dependent on blowing a capacitor between crossing conductive lines. Texas Instruments developed a MOS gate oxide breakdown antifuse in 1979.[3] A dual-gate-oxide two-transistor (2T) MOS antifuse was introduced in 1982.[4] Early oxide breakdown technologies exhibited a variety of scaling, programming, size and manufacturing problems that prevented volume production of memory devices based on these technologies.
Another form of one-time programmable memory device uses the same semiconductor chip as an ultraviolet-erasable programmable read-only memory (UV-EPROM), but the finished device is put into an opaque package, instead of the expensive ceramic package with transparent quartz window required for erasing. These devices are programmed with the same methods as the UV EPROM parts but are less costly. Embedded controllers may be available in both field-erasable and one-time styles, allowing a cost saving in volume production without the expense and lead time of factory-programmed mask ROM chips. [5]
Although antifuse-based PROM has been available for decades, it wasn’t available in standard CMOS until 2001 when Kilopass Technology Inc. patented 1T, 2T, and 3.5T antifuse bit cell technologies using a standard CMOS process, enabling integration of PROM into logic CMOS chips. The first process node antifuse can be implemented in standard CMOS is 0.18 um. Since the gate oxide breakdown is less than the junction breakdown, special diffusion steps were not required to create the antifuse programming element. In 2005, a split channel antifuse device[6] was introduced by Sidense. This split channel bit cell combines the thick (IO) and thin (gate) oxide devices into one transistor (1T) with a common polysilicon gate.
A typical PROM comes with all bits reading as "1". Burning a fuse bit during programming causes the bit to be read as "0" by "blowing" the fuses, which is an irreversible process. Some devices can be "reprogrammed" if the new data replaces "1"s with "0"s. Some CPU instruction sets (e.g. 6502) took advantage of this by defining a break (BRK) instruction with the operation code of '00'. In cases where there was an incorrect instruction, it could be "reprogrammed" to a BRK causing the CPU to transfer control to a patch. This would execute the correct instruction and return to the instruction after the BRK.
The bit cell is programmed by applying a high-voltage pulse not encountered during a normal operation across the gate and substrate of the thin oxide transistor (around 6 V for a 2 nm thick oxide, or 30 MV/cm) to break down the oxide between gate and substrate. The positive voltage on the transistor's gate forms an inversion channel in the substrate below the gate, causing a tunneling current to flow through the oxide. The current produces additional traps in the oxide, increasing the current through the oxide and ultimately melting the oxide and forming a conductive channel from gate to substrate. The current required to form the conductive channel is around 100 µA/100 nm2 and the breakdown occurs in approximately 100 µs or less.[7]
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2018 AFL Women's All-Australian team - Wikipedia |
The 2018 AFL Women's All-Australian team represents the best-performed players of the 2018 AFL Women's season. It was announced on 27 March 2018 as a complete women's Australian rules football team of 21 players, the first time that this happened after teams in the AFL Women's were reduced from 22 players following the competition's inaugural season.[1] The team is honorary and does not play any games.
The initial 40-woman All-Australian squad was announced on 21 March. Collingwood and Melbourne had the most players selected in the initial squad with seven each, while grand finalists Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs had six each. Twelve players from the 2017 team were among those selected.[1]
The final team was announced on 27 March. Melbourne and grand finalists Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs had the most representatives with four each, and every team again had at least one representative. Nine players from the 2017 team were among those selected. Adelaide co-captain Chelsea Randall was announced as the All-Australian captain and Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce, the previous year's All-Australian captain, was announced as the vice-captain.[2]
Note: the position of coach in the AFL Women's All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership-winning team.
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Äynu language - Wikipedia | Äynu (also known as Abdal) is a Turkic cryptolect spoken in Western China. Some linguists call it a mixed language,[3] having a mostly Turkic grammar, essentially Uyghur, but a mainly Iranian vocabulary.[4][5] Other linguists argue that it does not meet the technical requirements of a mixed language.[5] It is spoken by the Äynu, a nomadic people, who use it to keep their communications secret from outsiders.
The language is known by many different spellings, including Abdal,[1] Aini, Ainu, Ayni, Aynu, Eyni and Eynu.[6] The Abdal (ئابدال) spelling is commonly used in Uyghur sources. Russian sources use Eynu, Aynu, Abdal (Эйну, Айну, Абдал) and Chinese uses the spelling Ainu. The Äynu people call their language Äynú (ئەينۇ, xx [ɛjˈnu]).
Äynu is spoken in Western China among Alevi Muslims[7][8][9] in Xinjiang on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in the Tarim Basin.
Similarly mixed varieties of Turkic and Persian are spoken in other locations including Turkey and Uzbekistan. The speakers of these varieties are also referred to as "Abdal".[3]
The only speakers of Äynu are adult men, who are found to speak it outside of their area of settlement in order to communicate without being understood by others. Uyghur is spoken with outsiders who do not speak Äynu and at home when it is not necessary to disguise one's speech.[10]
Most of basic vocabulary in Aynu comes from the Iranian languages, which might be speculated that the language have been originally an Iranian language and have been turned into a Turkic language after a long period.[11] There are three vocabulary formation methods in Ainu language: simple words, derived words and compound words. The affixes of derived words have both Uyghur and Persian origin. Old people mostly use Persian affixes, while the young people use Uyghur derived vocabulary and affixes.[12]
/j/ is a palatal consonant. Phonemes on the left of a cell are voiceless, while those on the right are voiced.
Due to Äynu's secretive nature, along with a lack of official status in areas which it is spoken in, it does not have any widely used writing system. However, the Uyghur Arabic alphabet is typically used in the occasion where it needs to be written.
Äynu numerals are completely Persian. However, ordinal adjectives are made by adding Uyghur -(I)ncI suffix.[13]
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Parcoblatta uhleriana - Wikipedia |
Parcoblatta uhleriana, the Uhler's wood cockroach, is a species of Parcoblatta native to the United States and Canada.[2][3] It is a forest species also found in disturbed and urban environments.[4][5] The male of the species flies freely, while the female does not fly.[6]
The male Parcoblatta uhleriana is a mostly uniform pale brownish-yellow, with slightly darker tegmina (outer forewings).[4] It is relatively slender, with a broad head, and brownish stripe from the middle of its eyes downward. Its pronotum (the shield behind its head) is subelliptical (nearly elliptical), widest at the middle, and rounded angles.[4]
The female of the species coloration is more variable, but is usually a shining blackish-brown, and sometimes a dark reddish-brown except its abdomen.[4] Most of the legs, and the edges of the tegmina, are a chestnut brown.[4] It is broader, with a wider head, than the male.[4] Its pronotum is suborbicular (nearly round), widest near the base.[4] Tegmina at most reach the second abdominal segment, and its wings are rudimentary.[4]
Females are readily distinguished from allied species by their short, separated tegmina and shining black color, while males are more difficult to separate from P. fulvescens and P. virginica.[4]
The ootheca (egg case) is typically 3.4–3.5 mm (0.13–0.14 in) wide, and variously reported as ranging from 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) long.[4][7] It has a row of small, well-spaced conical projections which set it apart as "an entirely different type from that known for any other species of the genus".[4][7]
The distribution of the species is limited to the Ontario, Canada[3] and the eastern United States, including Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.[8]
Parcoblatta uhleriana is considered a dense deciduous forest species, with a preference for microhabitats that have deep, moist leaf mold and plant litter,[9] but is also found along the borders of wooded areas, as well as in suburban areas.[5][10] It is often found beneath both dry and damp leaves, pine needles, and other debris, as well as under loose bark, in decaying logs, on foliage, grass, and on roads at night.[10][11]
A study of habitat preferences in Kansas found that in forested areas, females were usually observed on the ground, while males were primarily found on bushes, though also found on the ground or grass.[11] In disturbed areas, female were also moving on the ground, while males were usually seen on or flying to blades of grass.[11] Males were found at a mean height of 71 cm in forest areas, or 42 cm in nonforest areas, while females were found at a mean height of 7 cm in forest areas, and 5 cm in nonforest areas.[11]
A survey of ants and cockroaches outside suburban houses in the Raleigh, North Carolina area found P. uhleriana the most frequently caught cockroach species, using soil-level pitfall traps.[5]
Nocturnal observations of feeding adults have found the species eating mushrooms, moss, bird feces and mammalian cartilage.[12] Females feeding on a mushroom were observed biting, kicking, lunging, and posturing when they contacted one another.[11] Males and females in a laboratory study showed similar levels of agonism in same-sex encounters, with no agonism in about 31-36% of encounters, threat in 42-48% of encounters, kicking or biting by one cockroach in 19-20% of encounters, and kicking or biting by both cockroaches in 2% of encounters.[13]
Males are often attracted to and fly to light, and females are attracted to molasses used as a bait.[4][6] The species has also been reported to be attracted at night to honeydew secreted by aphids on pear species.[10]
The fungal species Herpomyces arietinus was found to infect P. uhleriana nymphs in a laboratory, possibly through contact with infected P. virginica.[10]
The protozoan species Gregarina parcoblattae is found in the midgut of P. uhleriana as well as P pensylvanica.[10]
The nematode species Protrellus aurifluus is found in the intestinal tract of both P. uhleriana and P. lata.[10]
An unidentified species of mite in the hypopial (migratory larval) stage was found deeply embedded in the body fat of two P. uhleriana individuals in North Carolina.[10]
The wasp species Hyptia harpyoides parasitizes the ootheca of P. uhleriana, as well as P. virginica and P pensylvanica. The last instar larva of the wasp overwinters inside the ootheca.[10]
Nymphs of Parcoblatta uhleriana
Nymph
Parcoblatta uhleriana nymphs and oothecae. 1st instar nymph on the left and 2nd instar nymph on the right.
Two adult females
Oothecae of Parcoblatta uhleriana
Oothecae of Parcoblatta uhleriana
Ootheca of Parcoblatta uhleriana
Ootheca of Parcoblatta uhleriana
Adult male Parcoblatta uhleriana on the right with an unidentified species of Parcoblatta on the left. Both from North Carolina.
Picture of an adult male showing the modified structures underneath wings.
Light colored Parcoblatta uhleriana adult female (on the left) beside an unidentified species of Parcoblatta (on the right). Both are from North Carolina.
Recently molted adult female.
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Matthew George Easton - Wikipedia |
Matthew George Easton (3 June 1823 – 27 February 1894) was a Scottish minister and writer. His most known work is the Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), later known as Easton's Bible Dictionary.
The English translations of two of Franz Delitzsch's commentaries are among his other works.
He studied at the University of Glasgow[1] and served as minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Girvan 1848, then Darvel 1861, then Free Church Darvel 1876 to death on the amalgamation of the RPC and Free Church of Scotland.
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Banyan (band) - Wikipedia |
Banyan is an art rock/alternative rock band with heavy jazz and funk influence based in Los Angeles, California.[1][2]
The leader and co-founder is Stephen Perkins,[3] who first played drums for Jane's Addiction (1986–1991, plus later regroupings), and then for Porno for Pyros. He co-founded the group with Emit Bloch. The core members of the band are Nels Cline on guitar, Willie Waldman on trumpet and Mike Watt (Minutemen) on bass. Watt also sings on some Banyan songs. Both Watt and Cline generally play only West Coast dates and at various times the band has had Rob Wasserman and Daniel Shulman who played with Garbage on bass and Clint Wagner on guitar fill in when they are unavailable. Saxophone players Steve Mackay and Herman Green, guitar player Calvin Newborn, Dave Aron on clarinet, and bass player J. D. Westmoreland have also joined the band during select live shows.
Los Angeles artist Norton Wisdom paints on a wet-erase board while the band plays, and the imagery he creates interprets the music much in the same way that lyrics might.[3] To see the band in more than one performance, you will see some images that recur and some that are new, since the songs are compositions whose structure remains the same while there is also a large amount of improvisation, in the jazz tradition.[3]
The first EP featured Money Mark as keyboardist labeled as the Freeway Keyboardist. The first album was engineered by the Dust Brothers at their studio and produced by Turin and Perkins.
Notable guest appearances on the second album Anytime at All include Flea,[4] John Frusciante[4] (both from the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Martyn LeNoble (Perkins' former bandmate from Porno for Pyros), Rob Wasserman[4] and Buckethead. It was produced by Dave Aron (Producer/Engineer/Mixer of Snoopdogg, Sublime and moe.) and Willie Waldman as the Blunt Brothers.
For their third album Live At Perkins' Palace (named after the fact that it was recorded at Perkins' home studio, not after the live performance venue of the same name), the band reduced itself to a four-piece unit of Perkins, Watt, Cline, and Waldman.[4]
Steve Kimock sat in with Banyan during their August 26, 2007 performance at the Riverview Music Festival in Chicago.
In liner notes and personal conversations, members of the band cite Igor Stravinsky and Miles Davis as influences.
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Teodora Simović - Wikipedia |
Teodora Simović (born 27 October 1993) is a Serbian long distance runner.[1] She competed in the women's marathon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.[2]
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Orobanche crenata - Wikipedia |
Orobanche crenata is a species of broomrape, commonly known as bean broomrape.[2] It is a common parasite of the faba bean, Vicia faba.[3] It is native to the Mediterranean basin in Europe and North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Western Asia through to Iran. It has been introduced elsewhere, including Ethiopia.[1] It has no chlorophyll, and gets its carbohydrates from the host's phloem, and water and minerals from the host's xylem. It is a constant threat to legume production.[3]
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List of political parties in Sardinia - Wikipedia |
Several political parties operate in Sardinia. No party has ever had the chance of gaining power alone and thus parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. The political parties are currently organized mainly in two political coalitions at the regional level: once centred on the Sardinian Action Party and Lega Sardegna, the other around Democratic Party. Because of their ideological and political factionalism, the Sardinian nationalist parties have played a marginal role in the electoral scene.
More than 10% in the 2019 regional election (or at least 10 regional councillors):
Between 4% and 15% in the 2014 regional election (or at least 5 regional councillors):
Between 1% and 4% in the 2014 regional election (or at least 1 regional councillor):
At least 1% in a regional, general or EP election in Sardinia (or at least 2 regional councillors):
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Marsella Duarte - Wikipedia | Marsella Duarte is an American politician and educator who served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives for the 16th district from 2022 to 2023. She was appointed to the position on December 14, 2022, succeeding Moe Maestas.
Since November 2021, Duarte has worked as a kindergarten teacher in the Albuquerque Public Schools. She was previously a legal assistant and worked Maggie Toulouse Oliver's 2020 campaign for the United States Senate.[1][2] On December 14, 2022, the Bernalillo County Commission selected Duarte to fill the remainder of Moe Maestas's House term.[3]
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Mike Catalana - Wikipedia | Mike Catalana is the Sports Director of WHAM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Rochester, New York. His professional career began in 1986 when he became the Sports Director at WMGC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Binghamton, New York. He came to WOKR (now WHAM) in Rochester as the weekend sports anchor and reporter in December 1987. After 16 months, he was named the station's Sports Director in December 1989.
Mike Catalana served as the sideline reporter for the Buffalo Bills Television network on MSG Western New York during the NFL pre-season from 2000 to 2017; he lost that position after MSG signed a syndication deal with Nexstar Media Group (owners of rival station WROC-TV) in 2018.[1] He lost his remaining positions with MSG when the company hired Maddy Glab to fill his remaining posts there in 2019.[2] Catalana is the pre-game and between period host of Amerks Hockey games on MSG. Mike also anchors a daily sports report for “The 5 O’clock News Hour” on WHAM radio in Rochester.[3]
Catalana attended St. Augustine College Preparatory School in Richland, New Jersey and graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College where he studied media.[4]
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United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion - Wikipedia |
The United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion community consists of Naval Officers and Enlisted members who are specially trained to run and maintain the nuclear reactors that power the submarines and aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. Operating more than 80 nuclear-powered ships, the United States Navy is currently the largest naval force in the world.[1]
The United States Navy first began research into the applications of nuclear power in 1946 at the Manhattan Project's nuclear power-focused laboratory to develop a nuclear power plant. Eight men were assigned to the project. One of these men was Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who is known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy.”
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), was launched and commissioned in 1954. The development of the nuclear-powered submarine greatly increased capabilities; the duration a sub could remain underwater was now limited only by food supply. By using power generated from the reactor, air was able to be continually recycled and water was able to be distilled from seawater. The nuclear-powered sub could also reach and maintain much higher speeds than its predecessors.
Shortly after the USS Nautilus, the USS Seawolf was commissioned. The reactor engine in the USS Seawolf was a liquid metal-cooled (sodium) reactor. This proved to be a more difficult reactor to maintain and was eventually replaced with a pressurized-water reactor, the same design used in the USS Nautilus.
The first production run of nuclear submarines was the Skate class, which was followed by the Skipjack class. The Skipjack was designed with a more advanced teardrop hull that provided greater hydrodynamics, which allowed the submarines to achieve higher speeds while producing less noise.
Today, the United States Navy operates four different classes of submarine: the Los Angeles, Ohio, Seawolf and Virginia-classes.
The United States has a total of 70 submarines on active duty as of 2018. All are nuclear-powered. There are 18 Ohio class, 14 Virginia class, 3 Seawolf class and 35 Los Angeles class.
Shortly to follow in utilizing nuclear technology was the aircraft carrier. Commissioned in 1961, the USS Enterprise was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
The first production class of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the Nimitz class. Ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in total were produced with all remaining in active duty. This class of aircraft carrier is currently intended to be replaced with the Gerald R. Ford class. The Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are still in production, with three currently being produced. There are plans to produce an additional seven vessels.
The United States to this day has a total of 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and controls the largest carrier fleet in the world.[2]
For almost 40 years, the US Navy had nuclear powered cruisers as a part of its fleet, beginning in 1961 with the commissioning of USS Long Beach (CGN-9) and ending in 1998 with the decommissioning of USS Arkansas (CGN-41). The Navy had a total nine nuclear cruisers spread across five different classes. The Navy found they were too costly to maintain and eventually stopped producing them. Long Beach was equipped with a C1W cruiser reactor while the other eight ships were equipped with D2G destroyer reactors.
All of the Navy's submarines and aircraft carriers are propelled by nuclear power. In order for this to happen, each ship essentially contains a small nuclear power plant. The power generated by this reactor is created through nuclear fission. During the process of nuclear fission, there are two products of significant importance in the reactor: heat and radiation. The heat is generated from the breaking down of the fuel source (uranium). Uranium creates heat through a self-sustaining reaction as it is bombarded by free neutrons created during fission and then reabsorbed to continue the reaction. The heat generated from the reaction heats water in the steam generator. Due to the pressurization of the system, the water that cools the reactor does not boil, but creates a media to transfer the heat to the steam plants to create steam. As steam is produced, it is forced through a series of pipes and past different turbines, causing the turbine to spin and generate electrical power or propel the ship. The steam is then cooled and converted back to water, which is then sent back to the steam generator and the process is repeated.
Nuclear reactors create energy through fission, as opposed to burning fuel. Because of this, no greenhouse gases are produced in the energy creation process. Nuclear energy is completely self-contained and produces no airborne by-products.[citation needed] The waste created through nuclear power is contained in the reactor and is disposed of when the vessel is decommissioned or the reactor is replaced.
Unlike nuclear power plants that have to have spent fuel rods removed from their reactors every 18 to 24 months, the nuclear reactors powering the submarines and aircraft carriers of the United States Navy remain fully operational until they are decommissioned. When the reactors powering the ships of the Navy are decommissioned, all the nuclear waste is disposed of at once.
As of 2003[update], and since the first US nuclear-powered submarine (USS Nautilus), the United States Navy had logged over 6,200 "reactor years" with no radiological accidents.[3][needs update]
However, on 22 May 1978 on USS Puffer, a valve was mistakenly opened releasing up to 100 US gallons of radioactive water into a drydock at Puget Sound naval base. The leak was fully contained and there was no personnel irradiation.[4]
In order to safely operate the fleet of nuclear-powered vessels, the U.S. Navy recruits and trains the men and women who serve in the Navy Nuclear Propulsion community.
There are careers for Officers, requiring a minimum of a college degree, and there are Enlisted careers requiring a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent.
Because of the rigorous training that Navy Nuclear Officers undergo, only a select group of individuals are given the opportunity to lead a crew and command this technologically advanced equipment. Careers as an Officer in Navy Nuclear Propulsion include:
They oversee the day-to-day operations on board a submarine. They ensure that all systems run smoothly, including the nuclear reactor and nuclear propulsion system, weapons systems, and atmosphere control and fire control systems. They are also responsible for driving the vessel and charting its position and operating communications and intelligence equipment.
Nuclear Surface Warfare Officers oversee the day-to-day operations of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and conventional war ships, managing everything from communications and navigation to armament capabilities and tactical deployment. Nuclear Surface Warfare Officers are in charge of numerous shipboard operations and activities, from the engineering plant to the bridge. They have the responsibility of ensuring that Sailors in their division maintain and operate the ship's complex systems.
Naval Reactors (NR) is a government office that has responsibility for all shipboard nuclear power plants, shore-based prototypes and nuclear propulsion support facilities for the Navy. Naval Reactors Engineers assume responsibility for key technical work in a variety of facilities, including:
Naval Nuclear Power School Instructors train the future Navy Nuclear community through a technologically advanced curriculum that is taught with a sole purpose in mind: to prepare Navy Enlisted Sailors and Officers attending Nuclear Power School in Goose Creek, SC, for their work in the nuclear power field. They provide detailed knowledge of how to work the key aspects of a pressurized-water Navy nuclear power plant, which include:
For current undergraduate students who meet the high academic standards and prerequisite background, especially those pursuing majors such as mathematics, engineering, physics or chemistry, the NUPOC program provides money to eligible candidates to complete their undergraduate or graduate degree as well as a regular monthly income while in school. The pay amount varies based on location, but is usually in the range of $4000–5500 per month. There is also a one-time $15,000 bonus for getting accepted for Submarine, Surface, and Naval Reactors Engineer positions. After obtaining their degree, individuals earn a commission in the Navy and pursue one of the Officer career paths in Navy Nuclear Propulsion.
While in NUPOC, students have no special uniforms, classes, or obligations day-to-day. They must, however, refrain from drug use and pass a physical fitness test every six months. Students in NUPOC are considered "Active Duty" and paid at the E-6 or E-7 paygrade. As such, time spent completing a degree accrues for purposes of Naval Retirement and VA benefits such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
The NUPOC program is open to both men and women. Depending on career focus, the eligibility requirements have minor variances. There are criteria that one must meet regardless of the focus. Candidates must:
Education: Candidates must be graduates or students of an accredited college or university in the United States or a United States territory holding or pursuing a BA, BS or MS (preferably majoring in mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry or another technical area) and must have:
Members of the Navy Nuclear community operate, control and maintain the components that power Navy aircraft carriers and submarines. This could involve doing anything from operating nuclear propulsion plant machinery to controlling auxiliary equipment that supports Naval reactors to maintaining the electronic equipment used to send and receive messages, detect enemy planes and ships, and determine target distances.
Machinist's Mates (MM) operate and maintain steam turbines and reduction gears used for ship propulsion and auxiliary machinery such as turbogenerators, pumps and oil purifiers. They also maintain auxiliary machinery outside of main machinery spaces, such as electrohydraulic steering engines and elevators, refrigeration plants, air conditioning systems and desalinization plants. They may also operate and maintain compressed gas-producing plants. Nuclear-trained Enlisted Sailors perform duties in nuclear propulsion plants operating reactor controls and propulsion and power generation systems.
Electrician's Mates (EM) are responsible for the operation of a ship's electrical power generation systems, lighting systems, electrical equipment and electrical appliances. The duties include installation, operation, adjustment, routine maintenance, inspection, test and repair of electrical equipment. EMs also perform maintenance and repair of related electronic equipment.
Electronics Technicians (ET) in the nuclear field are normally assigned to Reactor Control division. They are responsible for maintenance, repair and operation of equipment that is closely related to the nuclear reactor and reactor safety.
To be eligible for any Nuclear Operations career, a candidate must first be selected for nuclear training by scoring above the minimum requirements on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and must:
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Dark Light (Gary Numan album) - Wikipedia |
Dark Light is a live album by English musician Gary Numan. The album was released in June 1995 in the United Kingdom. The album was not released in the United States until August 1998. In April 2003 the album was remastered and reissued. The album was recorded at Numan's concert at Labatt's Hammersmith Apollo in London on 12 November 1994 during his Sacrifice Tour. The album reached number 107 on the UK Albums Chart.[2]
All tracks written by Gary Numan except where noted.
All timings are approximate and will vary slightly with different equipment.
CD One
CD Two
Same CD track listing as Numa release. Different front, rear and inner tray artwork.
Same CD track listing as Numa release. Different front, rear and inner tray artwork and an essay by Dominic Jones.
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Jean-Bernard Sempastous - Wikipedia |
Jean-Bernard Sempastous (born 5 August 1964) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was deputy for Hautes-Pyrénées's 1st constituency in the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022.[1]
In parliament, Sempastous served as member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the parliamentary friendship groups with Pakistan and Spain as well as of the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).[2]
At the initiative of Sempastous and Benoît Simian, some twenty LREM deputies who had been elected in rural areas established their interest group within the party's parliamentary group in September 2018.[3]
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Lai Cheuk-cheuk - Wikipedia | Lai Cheuk-cheuk (22 May 1905 – 15 May 1990), was a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Lai is credited with over 180 films.
On May 22, 1905, Lai was born in Hong Kong.[1]
Lai started her acting career in Shanghai, China in 1932 when she joined the famed Lianhua Film Company, which was co-owned by her uncle Lai Man-Wai. In 1934, Lai started as an actress in Hong Kong films. Lai appeared in Breaking Waves, a 1934 Romance film directed by Moon Kwan Man-ching. Lai's last film was Joy to the World (aka Jacky Wong, King of Comedy), a 1980 Romantic Comedy film directed by Gam Yam. Lai is credited with over 180 films.[1]
On May 15, 1990, Lai died in Hong Kong.[1]
In the 1991 film Center Stage, Lai is portrayed by actress Maryanna Yip.
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Provinces of Afghanistan - Wikipedia |
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (ولايت, wilåyat). The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages.
Provincial governors played a critical role in the reconstruction of the Afghan state following the creation of the new government under Hamid Karzai.[1] According to international security scholar Dipali Mukhopadhyay, many of the provincial governors of the western-backed government were former warlords who were incorporated into the political system.[1]
During Afghanistan's history it had a number of provinces in it. It started out as just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, and Kabul.[13]
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King Keraun - Wikipedia | Keraun Harris (born January 17, 1988), better known by his online alias and persona King Keraun, is an actor, comedian, and Internet personality who has appeared on HBO's Insecure, ABC's Black-ish, and Halloween Ends.[1][2][3]
Harris was born in Houston as the eldest of five children of Derrick Harris, a former National Football League player. In 2009, Harris served a 2+1⁄2-year term for robbery and credit card abuse convictions in federal prison.[4][5] After his release from prison, he worked with chemicals on oil fields, which he soon quit because of medical problems caused by the work.[5]
After quitting his job in the oil fields, Harris started posting funny videos online to pass the time while looking for a new job.[5] His short videos on Instagram (which only allowed videos to be 15 seconds in length) about relationships, family and football brought him to the attention of Russell Simmons who became his mentor. Harris massed more than 1.4 million Instagram followers, 1.8 million Facebook likes, and more than 100 million Vine loops, and used his newfound celebrity status to advertise for multiple companies seeking to use new media to promote their products.[4]
In 2015, Harris was offered a guest role in ABC's Black-ish episode "Chop Shop".[6]
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Inman Park–Moreland Historic District - Wikipedia |
Inman Park–Moreland Historic District is a historic district in Inman Park, Atlanta, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986. It includes the Kriegshaber House, now the Wrecking Bar Brewpub, which is separately NRHP-listed.[1]
The district spans the Fulton County-DeKalb County border.
The district was increased in 2003.[1]
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Gottfried von der Goltz - Wikipedia | Gottfried Graf von der Goltz[1] (born 1 June 1964 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire.
Born into the ancient Brandenburgish noble von der Goltz family, as the son of Conrad Graf von der Goltz (b. 1928) and his wife and relative, Kristine Hjort (1931-1992). Gottfried was a great-grandson of the former commander of the Baltic Sea Division and the Baltische Landeswehr during World War I and the Russian Civil War, General Count Rüdiger von der Goltz.[2]
He was at first taught by his parents. After further education in Hannover, New York, and Freiburg, he joined the radio orchestra of Hamburg's Norddeutscher Rundfunk at the age of 21. Two years later he left in order to focus on his career as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. He is now musical leader of the Freiburger Barockorchester. From 1997 to 2004 he held a professorship with the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. In October 2004 he was called to a professorship in violin and baroque violin at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since January 2007 von der Goltz has also been artistic director of the Oslo-based Norwegian Baroque Orchestra. His interests include salt-water swimming. His extensive discography and DVD production include recordings as soloist, chamber musician, and conductor, also of larger scenic works, like Rameau's Dardanus.
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Triopas - Wikipedia | In Greek mythology, Triopas (/ˈtraɪəpəs/) or Triops (/ˈtraɪ.əps, ˈtraɪˌɒps/; Ancient Greek: Τρίωψ, gen.: Τρίοπος) was the name of several characters whose relations are unclear.
The name's popular etymology is "he who has three eyes" (from τρι- "three" + -ωπ- "see") but the ending -ωψ, -οπος suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
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Tunis Agenda for the Information Society - Wikipedia | The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society was a consensus statement of the World Summit on the Information Society, adopted on November 18, 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia. It called for the creation of the Internet Governance Forum and a novel, lightweight, multistakeholder governance structure for the Internet.
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Parastichtis - Wikipedia |
Parastichtis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
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