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Chedwel, New York - Wikipedia |
Chedwel is a small community in Chautauqua County, New York, United States, on the north shore of Chautauqua Lake, about halfway between Bemus Point and Mayville, between State Route 430 and the lake. It is at an elevation of 1335 ft (407 m) above sea level.[1]
The area gained its name as the estate of Dr. Charles Edgar Welch (hence Ch-ed-wel), youngest son of Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch, who pioneered the development of unfermented grape juice as a drink. Charles Edgar, who shared his father's profession of dentistry, became involved in the grape juice enterprise as a young man, and began to run the Vineland, New Jersey, business independently in 1875. Within two decades, he founded the Welch's Grape Juice Company, and in 1897 relocated it to Westfield, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie just a few miles northwest of the tip of Chautauqua Lake. The estate at Chedwel included two main houses built by the Welchs, with adjacent cottages for guests, a tennis court, and a croquet court. Charles Edgar Welch was, among other things, six-time mayor of Westfield, a New York State gubernatorial candidate in 1916, and a trustee of Chautauqua Institution, located directly across the lake from Chedwel. The property was parceled and sold by the mid-twentieth century. The community presently includes, besides the former Welch domiciles, several other homes built along its two streets, Chedwel Road and Overlook Avenue.
One of the original buildings was a large log cabin. The interior of the cabin, including the accessories, was built entirely from logs and branches of trees. The beds, light fixtures, towel racks, door openers, even the toilet paper holders, are made from logs and tree branches. These pieces were gathered by the brother of Elbert Hubbard, of Roycroft fame, who spent untold hours walking through the woods looking for branches of just the right shape for various purposes in the cabin.
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Khorwah - Wikipedia | Khorwah, also spelled Khore Wah,[1] is a village and deh in Shaheed Fazil Rahu taluka of Badin District, Sindh.[3] As of 2017, it has a population of 7,574, in 1,404 households.[2] It is located about 26 miles south of Tando Muhammad Khan by road, with other roads connecting it to Badin, Mirpur Bathoro, and Bulri Shah Karim.[4]
Khorwah is the seat of a tapedar circle, which also includes the villages of Lakhi, Miano Karath, Narbut, and Nokhi.[2] It is also the seat of a Union Council, which has a total population of 39,475.[5]
Khorwah was founded in the late 1700s by Kamal Khor.[4][note 1] As of 1874, it was described as a village held directly by the British government, and it had a population of 914 people, including 649 Hindus and 235 Muslims.[4] Most residents were agriculturalists, along with a few merchants and shopkeepers.[4] It was not as significant producer of manufacturing goods or a trading centre, although there was local trade in cloth, grain, and ghee.[4] Some ghee and rice did also get traded long-distance, but only very little.[4] It was then the seat of a tappedar in the pargana of Guni, and it also had a police lines.[4]
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Devils Punchbowl (Antarctica) - Wikipedia | Devils Punchbowl ( WikiMiniAtlas77°1′S 162°24′E / 77.017°S 162.400°E / -77.017; 162.400) is a bowl-shaped cove (an empty cirque, the floor of which is below sea level) in the southwest corner of Granite Harbor, between Devils Ridge and the south side of The Flatiron, in Victoria Land. Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, under Scott.[1]
This article incorporates public domain material from "Devils Punchbowl (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle - Wikipedia |
The men's 100 m freestyle swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 6, 2006, at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.
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Combs, Arkansas - Wikipedia |
Combs is an unincorporated community in southern Madison County, Arkansas, United States.[1] It is located on Arkansas Highway 16 at the southern terminus of AR 295.[2] The community is within the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest and just south of the upper White River. The community of Brashears is about two miles east on route 16.[3] The population was 431 as of the 2021 census, the overwhelming majority of which was white.[4]
A post office was established at Combs in 1888.[5] The community has the name of Captain Hiram Hite Combs (1832-1917), a first settler.[6]
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Operation Cedar (KGB) - Wikipedia | Operation Cedar (Operation KEDR) was the name used by Russian defector Vasili Mitrokhin for an alleged covert program by the KGB against the United States during the Cold War. The program is mentioned in the Mitrokhin Archive which doesn't explain why Operation Cedar didn't happen.[1]
The program supposedly took 13 years of preparation (1959-1972) and was intended to seriously disrupt United States power supply. The KGB would allegedly destroy:
The operation supposedly began with the Ottawa residency in 1959. Mitrokhin claimed it involved immensely detailed reconnaissance of oil refineries and gas pipelines across Canada from British Columbia to Montreal. According to his account, each of the potential targets was photographed from several angles and the vulnerable points were identified. In addition, the most suitable approach roads for sabotage operations along with the best getaway routes, were carefully plotted on small-scale maps.[2]
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McIntosh Reserve - Wikipedia | McIntosh Reserve is an outdoor recreation area along the Chattahoochee River located in Carroll County, Georgia. The 527-acre (2.13 km2) park is operated by the Carroll County Recreation Department and supports outdoor activities including camping, hiking, fishing, and others. The park is open year-round, closing only on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.[1] McIntosh Reserve is named for William McIntosh, Jr., a prominent Creek Indian leader
The Reserve is named for William McIntosh, Jr., a prominent Creek Indian leader and planter. The plantation was known as Lochau Talofau, which in English means "Acorn Bluff". It is adjacent to Acorn Creek. McIntosh lived in a modest home, a two-story log house with a central, open "dog run" passage on both floors. The house doubled as an inn for travelers. A reconstructed house is open to park visitors today.[2]
In 1825, McIntosh signed the second Treaty of Indian Springs. The treaty essentially sold all Creek lands in Georgia and Alabama to the United States government; McIntosh was allowed to keep his plantation in exchange for signing the treaty. The treaty had been opposed by the Creek National Council and it violated the Law, the Code of 1818. The Council ordered the execution of McIntosh and other signatories for having committed a capital offense against the government by ceding communal lands, and he was executed at his home in 1825. McIntosh's single-plot, military grave may be found just across the road from the reconstructed house.[2]
Carroll County acquired Lochau Talofau in 1978; the plantation now lies within McIntosh Reserve boundaries.[1] McIntosh Reserve Park was closed for several months in 2009 and 2010, following the September 2009 flooding on the Chattahoochee River. The park was scheduled to reopen for Memorial Day weekend, 2010.
McIntosh Reserve features over 14 miles (23 km) of trails which may be traveled on foot or via bicycle or horseback. A large, flat grassy area is frequently used by model airplane hobbyists or groups seeking an open gathering place. The park also maintains several primitive campsites. The park also features a splash pad with covered enclosures, grills, tables and a scenic river overlook for more family friendly fun and enjoyment. The splash pad features several water sprinklers, and colorful play stations, which allow children of all ages to cool off during the hot summer months.
The park features two ponds and lies along the Chattahoochee River. Fishing is allowed in the park; the nearby town of Whitesburg, Georgia provides access to the river for rafting and canoeing.
Annual events such as the Easter Festival, Halloween Carnival, and Santa Program draw visitors to the park. An annual Fall Festival features a "Native American Pow-Wow," a traditional Native American music and dance performance. The Chattahoochee Challenge Car Show and various club-, hobby-, or scouting-related events also take place in the park.[1]
Polocrosse, a fun game played on horseback and great for a wide variety of ages, is practiced on most Sunday afternoons, weather permitting.
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Studio Simi - Wikipedia | Studio Simi, home of Italian painters Filadelfo and Nera Simi, is an historic house museum dedicated to them. The building is located in the town of Scala di Stazzema, in the province of Lucca, Italy.
The painter Filadelfo Simi, around the years 1885 - 1890, designed and built the house in Victorian style, a place where to work on large canvases that characterize its production of that period. The house has come down to us well preserved, full of furnishings and works.[1]
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Michael Otterman - Wikipedia | Michael Otterman is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York City and Sydney. He graduated from Boston University, with a BSc in Journalism, and from the University of Sydney with a MLitt (PACS) where he is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS).[1][2]
In March 2007, his first book American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond was published by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP).
He toured, promoting the book from June to October 2007.[3][4] In October 2007, he gave a talk at New York University.[5]
As Dennis Altman wrote in The Age, "Otterman writes as a patriot - one who expects much of his country and is angry when it fails him."[6][7] Television appearances in 2007 included The Tavis Smiley Show,[8] BBC World News,[9] and JTV, ABC Australia.[10]
Michael Otterman also ran a blog, American Torture, which was intended to "provide a venue for discussions about America's use of torture and feature updates about the fate of the over 10,000 'enemy combatants' and 'security detainees' held across the globe in secret CIA prisons and in places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan."[11]
He is currently, as of 2010, working on a forthcoming publication Collateral Carnage: The Human Cost of the War in Iraq, coauthored with Dr Richard Hil and Dr Paul Wilson.[1]
Michael Otterman is a partner at NorCor Manager, a business that runs in his family. This family-run business in Queens manages an expanding portfolio of cooperatives, condos, and rental properties.
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2002 Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia |
The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season was a near-average Atlantic hurricane season. It officially started on June 1, 2002, and ended on November 30, dates which conventionally limit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic Ocean. The season produced fourteen tropical cyclones, of which twelve developed into named storms; four became hurricanes, and two attained major hurricane status. While the season's first cyclone did not develop until July 14, activity quickly picked up: eight storms developed in the month of September. It ended early however, with no tropical storms forming after October 6—a rare occurrence caused partly by El Niño conditions. The most intense hurricane of the season was Hurricane Isidore with a minimum central pressure of 934 mbar, although Hurricane Lili attained higher winds and peaked at Category 4 whereas Isidore only reached Category 3. However, Lili had a minimum central pressure of 938 mbar.
The season was less destructive than normal, causing an estimated $2.47 billion (2002 USD) in property damage and 50 fatalities.
Most destruction was due to Isidore, which caused about $1.28 billion (2002 USD) in damage and killed seven people in the Yucatán Peninsula and later the United States, and Hurricane Lili, which caused $1.16 billion (2002 USD) in damage and 15 deaths as it crossed the Caribbean Sea and eventually made landfall in Louisiana.
Noted hurricane expert William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University issue forecasts of hurricane activity each year, separately from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Gray's team determined the average number of storms per season between 1950 and 2000 to be 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes, and 2.3 major hurricanes (storms exceeding Category 3). A normal season, as defined by NOAA, has 9 to 12 named storms, of which 5 to 7 reach hurricane strength and 1 to 3 become major hurricanes.[1][2]
On December 7, 2001, Gray's team issued its first extended-range forecast for the 2002 season, predicting above-average activity (13 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and about 2 of Category 3 or higher). It listed an 86 percent chance of at least one major hurricane striking the U.S. mainland. This included a 58 percent chance of at least one major hurricane strike on the East Coast, including the Florida peninsula, and a 43 percent chance of at least one such strike on the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward. The potential for major hurricane activity in the Caribbean was forecast to be above average.[1]
On April 5 a new forecast was issued, calling for 12 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 intense hurricanes. The decrease in the forecast was attributed to the further intensification of El Niño conditions. The estimated potential for at least one major hurricane to affect the U.S. was decreased to 75 percent; the East Coast potential decreased slightly to 57 percent, and from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville, Texas, the probability remained the same.[4]
On August 7, 2002, Gray's team lowered its season estimate to 9 named storms, with 4 becoming hurricanes and 1 becoming a major hurricane, noting that conditions had become less favorable for storms than they had been earlier in the year. The sea-level pressure and trade wind strength in the tropical Atlantic were reported to be above normal, while sea surface temperature anomalies were on a decreasing trend.[6]
On August 8, 2002, NOAA revised its season estimate to 7–10 named storms, with 4–6 becoming hurricanes and 1–3 becoming major hurricanes. The reduction was attributed to less favorable environmental conditions and building El Niño conditions.[7]
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2002.[9] It was a near-average season in which 14 tropical cyclones formed. Twelve depressions attained tropical storm status, and four of these reached hurricane status. Two hurricanes further intensified into major hurricanes.[10] Activity was suppressed somewhat by an El Niño, which was of near-moderate intensity by August.[7] Four named storms made landfall in Louisiana, a record which was later tied in 2020.[11] Overall, the Atlantic tropical cyclones of 2002 collectively resulted in 50 deaths and around $2.47 billion in damage.[12] The season ended on November 30, 2002.[9]
Tropical cyclogenesis began with Tropical Storm Arthur, which formed just offshore North Carolina on July 14. Following the storm's extratropical transition on July 16, no further activity occurred until Tropical Storm Bertha developed near Louisiana on August 4. Cristobal formed on the next day, while Dolly developed on August 29.[10] September featured eight named storms, a record which was later tied in 2007 and 2010 and surpassed in 2020.[13] During that month, Gustav reached hurricane intensity on September 11, the latest date of the first hurricane in a season since 1941.[14] While the long-lasting Kyle and Lili persisted into October, only one tropical cyclone developed that month, Tropical Depression Fourteen on October 14. The depression was absorbed by a cold front while crossing Cuba two days later, ending seasonal activity.[10]
The season's activity was reflected with a low accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 67, the lowest total since 1997. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. It is only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm status.[15]
Arthur formed out of a tropical depression off the coast of North Carolina on July 14 from a decaying frontal zone. It then moved out to sea, strengthening slightly into a tropical storm on July 15. Arthur gradually strengthened and peaked as a 60 mph (97 km/h) tropical storm on the following day. However, cooler waters and upper-level shear caused it to weaken. By July 17, Arthur had become extratropical, and moved north over Newfoundland. It proceeded to weaken below gale strength.[16] The precursor system produced up to 4.49 in (114 mm) of rainfall in Weston, Florida.[17] Later, one person drowned in the Conne River in Newfoundland due to Arthur.[18]
A surface trough of low pressure that would later spawn Tropical Storm Cristobal developed a tropical depression in the northern Gulf of Mexico on August 4. It quickly strengthened into a minimal tropical storm early on August 5, and made landfall near Boothville, Louisiana, just two hours later. Bertha weakened to a tropical depression, but retained its circulation over Louisiana. A high-pressure system built southward, unexpectedly forcing the depression to the southwest. It emerged back over the Gulf of Mexico on August 7, where proximity to land and dry air prevented further strengthening. Bertha moved westward and made a second landfall near Kingsville, Texas, on August 9 with winds of only 25 mph (40 km/h). The storm dissipated about 10 hours later.[19]
Across the Gulf Coast of the United States, Bertha dropped light to moderate rainfall; most areas received less than 3 inches (76 mm). Precipitation from the storm peaked at 10.25 inches (260 mm) in Norwood, Louisiana. Minor flooding was reported, which caused light damage to a few businesses, 15 to 25 houses, and some roadways. Overall, damage was very minor, totaling to $200,000 (2002 USD) in damage.[20] In addition, one death was reported due to Bertha, a drowning due to heavy surf in Florida.[19]
On August 5, Tropical Depression Three formed off the coast of South Carolina from a surface trough of low pressure – the same trough that spawned Tropical Storm Bertha in the Gulf of Mexico. Under a southerly flow, the depression drifted southward, where dry air and wind shear inhibited significant development. On August 7, it became Tropical Storm Cristobal, and reached a peak of 50 mph (80 km/h) on August 8. The storm meandered eastward and was absorbed by a front on August 9.[21]
The interaction between the extratropical remnant and a high-pressure system produced strong rip currents along the coastline of Long Island. The storm also caused waves of three to four ft (1.2 m) in height. Three people drowned from the rip currents and waves in New York.[22]
A tropical wave exited the African coast on August 27,[23] and with low favorable conditions the system organized into Tropical Depression Four on August 29 about 630 mi (1,010 km) southwest of Cape Verde.[24] Six hours later, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Dolly after developing sufficient outflow and curved banding features.[25] The storm continued to intensify as more convection developed,[26] and Dolly reached peaked winds of 60 mph (97 km/h) on August 30.[23] After peaking in intensity, the storm suddenly lost organization,[27] and the winds decreased to minimal tropical storm force.[28] After a brief re-intensification trend, Dolly again weakened due to wind shear. On September 4, Dolly weakened to a tropical depression, and later that day was absorbed by the trough; it never affected land.[23]
Edouard formed out of an area of disturbed weather north of the Bahamas on September 2. It drifted northward, then executed a clockwise loop off the coast of Florida. Despite dry air and moderate upper-level shear, Edouard strengthened to a peak of 65 mph (105 km/h) winds, but the unfavorable conditions caught up with it. The storm weakened as it turned west-southwestward, and made landfall near Ormond Beach, Florida on September 5 as a minimal tropical storm. Edouard crossed Florida, and emerged over the Gulf of Mexico as a minimal depression. Outflow from the stronger Tropical Storm Fay caused Tropical Depression Edouard to weaken further, and Edouard was eventually absorbed by Fay.[29]
Tropical Storm Edouard dropped moderate rainfall across Florida, peaking at 7.64 inches (194 mm) in DeSoto County.[30] Though it was a tropical storm at landfall, winds were light across the path of the storm over land. Several roads were flooded from moderate precipitation. No casualties were reported, and damage was minimal.[29]
In early September, a low pressure center developed along a trough of low pressure, and on September 5, the system had gained sufficient organization to be a tropical depression, to the southeast of Galveston. The depression drifted south-southwest while strengthening into Tropical Storm Fay, reaching its peak strength of 60 mph (97 km/h) on the morning of September 6. The system then abruptly turned to the west-northwest, and remained steady in strength and course until landfall the next day, near Matagorda. It quickly degenerated into a remnant low, which itself moved slowly southwestward over Texas. The low eventually dissipated on September 11 over northeastern Mexico.[31]
The storm brought heavy rainfall in Mexico and Texas. The storm also caused six tornadoes, up to 20 in (510 mm) of rain, and extended periods of tropical storm force winds.[31] The storm caused moderate flooding in some areas due to high rainfall amounts, which left about 400 homes with some form of damage. In total, 400 houses sustained damage from flooding.[32] 1,575 houses were damaged from the flooding or tornadic damage, 23 severely, amounting to $4.5 million (2002 USD) in damage. No deaths are attributed to Fay.[33]
A tropical wave exited Africa on September 1, and after initial development became disorganized. It moved west-northwestward for a week, reorganizing enough by September 7 to be declared Tropical Depression Seven about 1,155 mi (1,859 km) east-southeast of Bermuda.[34] At the time, the depression had persistent convection around a small circulation, and it moved steadily westward due to a ridge to its north.[35] Shortly after forming, strong wind shear diminished the convection and left the center partially exposed.[36] By September 8, there was no remaining thunderstorm activity,[37] and the depression degenerated into a remnant low-pressure area.[38] The storm dissipated shortly after as strong wind shear continued to cause the storm to deteriorate while located 980 mi (1580 mi) southeast of Bermuda. The depression never affected land.[34]
An area of unsettled weather developed between the Bahamas and Bermuda on September 6, and over the next few days convection increased in intensity and coverage. On September 8, the system gained sufficient organization to be declared a subtropical depression off the Southeast United States coast; later that day, the system was named Subtropical Storm Gustav. After attaining tropical characteristics on September 10, Gustav passed slightly to the east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a tropical storm before. While moving northeastward, Gustav intensified into a hurricane on September 11 and briefly became a Category 2 hurricane, prior to making two landfalls in Atlantic Canada as a Category 1 hurricane on September 12. Gustav became extratropical over Newfoundland around 1200 UTC that day, though the remnants meandered over the Labrador Sea before dissipating on September 15.[39][40]
The storm was responsible for one death and $100,000 (2002 USD) in damage, mostly in North Carolina. The interaction between Gustav and a non-tropical system produced strong winds that caused an additional $240,000 (2002 USD) in damage in New England, but this damage was not directly attributed to the hurricane. In Atlantic Canada, the hurricane and its remnants brought heavy rain, tropical storm and hurricane-force winds, as well as storm surges for several days.[39] Localized flooding was reported in areas of Prince Edward Island, and 4,000 people in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island were left without power.[41]
In early September, a tropical wave merged with a trough of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico and spawned a low-pressure system. Convection steadily deepened on September 11 east of the upper-level low and the surface low; it was classified as Tropical Depression Nine the next day. The disorganized storm moved westward, then northward, where it strengthened into Tropical Storm Hanna later that day. After reaching a peak with winds of 60 mph (97 km/h), it made two landfalls on the Gulf Coast, eventually dissipating on September 15 over Georgia.[42]
Because most of the associated convective activity was east of the center of circulation, minimal damage was reported in Louisiana and Mississippi.[42] To the east on Dauphin Island, Alabama, the storm caused coastal flooding which closed roads and forced the evacuation of residents. Portions of Florida received high wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and strong surf that resulted in the deaths of three swimmers.[43] Throughout the state, 20,000 homes lost electricity.[44] The heavy rainfall progressed into Georgia, where significant flooding occurred. Crop damage was extensive, and over 300 structures were damaged by the flooding. Overall, Hanna caused a total of about $20 million (2002 USD) in damage and three fatalities.[42]
On September 9, a tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa, and by September 14 it was classified as a tropical depression. The next day the storm was located just south of Jamaica, and it developed into Tropical Storm Isidore. On September 19, it intensified into a hurricane, and Isidore made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 1 storm. Just before landfall near Puerto Telchac on September 22, Isidore reached its peak intensity, with wind speeds of 125 mph (201 km/h), making it a strong Category 3 storm. After returning to the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm, Isidore's final landfall was near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on September 26. The storm weakened to a tropical depression over Mississippi early the following day, before becoming extratropical over Pennsylvania later on September 27 and then being absorbed by a frontal system.[45]
Isidore made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula of southern Mexico as a Category 3 hurricane, leaving $950 million (2002 USD) in damage in the country.[46] Despite dropping over 30 inches (760 mm) of rainfall among other effects,[47] only two indirect deaths were reported there.[48] As a tropical storm, Isidore produced a maximum of 15.97 inches (406 mm) of rainfall in the United States at Metairie, Louisiana.[47] The rainfall was responsible for flooding that caused moderate crop damage, with a total of $330 million in damage (2002 USD).[49]
A non-tropical low developed along a dissipating stationary front on September 16 in the central Atlantic and drifted north-northeastward.[50] The National Hurricane Center classified it as Tropical Depression Eleven on September 17 about 710 mi (1,140 km) east of Bermuda, and initially the depression did not have significant deep convection.[51] A wind report early on September 18 indicated the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Josephine. The storm continued generally northeastward, steered between a subtropical high to the northeast and a frontal system approaching from the west.[52] Josephine maintained a well-defined circulation, but its deep convection remained intermittent.[53] Early on September 19 the storm began being absorbed by the cold front, and as a tropical cyclone its winds never surpassed 40 mph (64 km/h).[54] Later that day Josephine transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and suddenly intensified to winds of 60 mph (97 km/h). The extratropical low was quickly absorbed by another larger extratropical system on the afternoon of September 19.[50][55]
A non-tropical low formed into Subtropical Depression Twelve, well east-southeast of Bermuda on September 20. It became Subtropical Storm Kyle the next day, and Tropical Storm Kyle on September 22. Kyle drifted slowly westward, slowly strengthening, and reached hurricane strength on September 25; it weakened back into a tropical storm on September 28. The cyclone's strength continued to fluctuate between tropical depression and tropical storm several times. Its movement was also extremely irregular, as it shifted sharply north and south along its generally westward path. On October 11, Kyle reached land and made its first landfall near McClellanville, South Carolina. While skirting the coastline of the Carolinas, it moved back over water, and made a second landfall near Long Beach, North Carolina later the same day. Kyle continued out to sea where it merged with a cold front on October 12, becoming the fourth longest-lived Atlantic hurricane.[56]
Kyle brought light precipitation to Bermuda, but no significant damage was reported there.[57] Moderate rainfall accompanied its two landfalls in the United States,[58] causing localized flash flooding and road closures. Floodwaters forced the evacuation of a nursing home and several mobile homes in South Carolina. Kyle spawned at least four tornadoes,[56] the costliest of which struck Georgetown, South Carolina; it damaged 106 buildings and destroyed seven others, causing eight injuries.[59] Overall damage totaled about $5 million (2002 USD), and no direct deaths were reported.[56] However, the remnants of Kyle contributed to one indirect death in the British Isles.[60]
On September 16, a tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa and across the Atlantic. It developed a low level cloud circulation midway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles on September 20. The next day, the system had become sufficiently organized to classify the system as a tropical depression about 1,035 miles (1,665 km) east of the Windward Islands and intensified into Tropical Storm Lili on September 23. After nearly reaching hurricane status over the eastern Caribbean, the storm degenerated into a tropical wave on September 25, before becoming a tropical depression again early on September 27. The cyclone re-intensified into a tropical storm several hours later. On September 30, Lili became a hurricane while passing over the Cayman Islands. After striking Cuba's Isla de la Juventud and Pinar del Río Province as a Category 2, the storm attained Category 4 status in the Gulf of Mexico, However, Lili rapidly weakened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, on October 3. The next day, it was absorbed by an extratropical low near the Tennessee – Arkansas border.[61]
In Louisiana, wind gusts reaching 120 mph (190 km/h), coupled with over 6 inches (150 mm) of rainfall and a storm surge of 12 feet (3.7 m), caused $1.1 billion (2002 USD) in damage. A total of 237,000 people lost power, and oil rigs offshore were shut down for up to a week.[62]
A weak tropical wave moved through the Lesser Antilles on October 9. As the system reached the southwestern Caribbean Sea on October 12, convection increased, and a broad low-pressure area formed later that day. Over the next two days, the low significantly organized, and became Tropical Depression Fourteen at 1200 UTC on October 14. The depression initially tracked west-northwestward, but then curved to the north-northeast. Due to vertical wind shear, the depression was unable to intensify, and remained below tropical storm status during its duration. By 1600 UTC on October 16, the depression made landfall near Cienfuegos, Cuba with winds of 30 mph (48 km/h). While crossing the island, the depression was absorbed by a cold front early on October 17. Minimal impact was reported, which was limited to locally heavy rains over portions of Jamaica, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands.[63]
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2002.[64] The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2008 season. This was the same list used in the 1996 season, with the exception of the names Cristobal, Fay and Hanna, which replaced Cesar, Fran and Hortense respectively. The three new names were used for Atlantic storms for the first time.[65]
Beginning in 2002, subtropical cyclones were named from the standard predetermined naming list upon gaining gale-force winds. This was first demonstrated with Gustav, which originated as a subtropical cyclone and was named from the predetermined list before becoming tropical and intensifying into a hurricane.
On March 30, 2003, the World Meteorological Organization retired the names Isidore and Lili from its rotating Atlantic hurricane name lists due to the damage each caused. Those names were replaced with Ike and Laura for the 2008 season.[65]
The following table lists all of the storms that formed in the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, intensities, areas affected, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2002 USD.
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Coptosia chehirensis - Wikipedia |
Coptosia chehirensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1943, originally under the genus Conizonia. It is known from Turkey.[1]
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Bryn Euryn - Wikipedia |
Bryn Euryn (Welsh: [ˈɛirɪn]; /ˈɛərɪn/ AYR-in) is a hill which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Conwy County Borough, Wales.[1] There is a trig point at the summit. It lies above the seaside town of Rhos-on-Sea and village of Mochdre, Conwy. It is 131 metres (430 feet) above sea level, and is listed as a HuMP.
At the bottom of the hill are the remains of Llys Euryn.
The site commands extensive views of the Conwy Valley and coast, and was once the location of a hillfort, which was initially excavated in the autumn of 1997 for the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust. The excavations revealed a "massive, well-built" wall formed from quarried limestone, believed to have once been 3 m (9.8 ft) high and to have been fronted by 3.5 m (11 ft) of rubble. There were no archaeological discoveries permitting a certain identification, but the pre-Norman layout led David Longley, the study's director, to connect it with the early-6th century king of Rhos Cynlas the Red on the basis of the "Bear Den" (Latin: receptaculi ursi) mentioned in Gildas's passage on him and the surviving local name of the area as Dinerth (Old Welsh: Din Eirth, "Fort Bear").[2][3]
The hilltop was used again in World War II first as an observation post by the Home Guard; it was then used by the RAF as one of the first radar posts used to detect German bombers heading to Liverpool.[3]
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2018–19 Baltic Men Volleyball League - Wikipedia |
The 2018–19 Baltic Men Volleyball League, known as Credit 24 Champions League for sponsorship reasons, was the 14th edition of the highest level of club volleyball in the Baltic states.
The following teams took part in the 2018–19 edition of Baltic Men Volleyball League.[1]
All participating 11 clubs were playing according to the double round robin system.
The four winners of each series qualified to the Final Four, while the other four teams were eliminated.
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Boyce Budd - Wikipedia |
Harold Boyce Budd Jr. (born January 4, 1939) is a retired American competition rower who won a gold medal in the eights at the 1964 Olympics.
Budd graduated from Yale University in 1961, and then joined Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club, winning with them national titles in the pairs, fours, and eights in 1964 and 1965. He also won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1965 European championships.[2] In 1962, he spent a year at Cambridge University in England, and won with them the Henley Royal Regatta in the eights.[1]
In 1980, Budd's home in Devon, Pennsylvania, was robbed; his Olympic gold medal was stolen and never recovered.[3]
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Mohanakrishnan Kaladi - Wikipedia |
Mohanakrishnan Kaladi is a Malayalam poet of the new age.[clarification needed] He was born in 1978 at Kaladi (Malappuram, Kerala) and educated in chemistry. He is currently working as a chemistry professor at NSS College, Ottapalam. His poems are collected in six books: Palise, Mazhappottan, Minukkam, Bhoothakkatta, and Rain Coat (D. C. Books, Kottayam) and Aanamazha (Kerala Balasahithya Institute). He has also published a prose-collection, Mattarum kanathey (Kairali books, Kannur)
Palise won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi "Kanakashree" award for poetry in 2006. He has also won the Vailoppilli-Shreerekha award, the K.B. Menon memorial award, the Atlas-Kairali award and Vailoppilli award for poetry.
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Lenkau language - Wikipedia | Lenkau is an Oceanic language spoken in a single village on Rambutyo Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Lenkau village ( WikiMiniAtlas2°20′28″S 147°42′58″E / 2.341166°S 147.716064°E / -2.341166; 147.716064 (Lenkau)), Rapatona Rural LLG.[2][3]
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Aphyosemion - Wikipedia |
Chromaphyosemion *Radda, 1971
Aphyosemion is a genus of African rivulines endemic as the name indicates to Africa. Many of these species are popular aquarium fish.
There are currently 100 recognized species in this genus:[3]
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Olavina Ole - Wikipedia | Olavina Ole is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Teshi Venkatesh and starring Santhosh and Neha Patil. The film talks about honour killings.[1] Aruna Balraj won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for this film.[2]
The film is directed by Teshi Venkatesh, who previously directed the action films Bangalore Bundh and Monda starring Sai Kumar.[3] The film is based on a true incident that happened in the 1990s.[4] In order to gain publicity for the film, Neha Patil and Teshi Venkatesh tried to create a controversy at the film's press meet.[5] The film ran into some financial trouble prior to release.[6]
The music was composed by Yashovardhana. The songs were released under the label Ashwini Media Networks.[7]
A critic from The Times of India wrote that "An age old theme that doesn't suit the present generation's tastes. Old wine in new bottle".[8] A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote that "Despite some in-your-face (and ears) mistakes, Olavina Ole is an attempt that deserves appreciation and encouragement. Moreover, audience backing".[9] A critic from IANS wrote that "Director Teshi Venkatesh deserves appreciation for basing his screenplay on the real life incident even when caste conflicts have still not subsided in several places in Karnataka, and only a few honour killing cases are reported".[10]
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Francesco Brina - Wikipedia | Francesco Brina or Del Brina or Brini (1540 – 1586) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active mainly in Florence.
S. J. Freedberg ascribes his training to either Ridolfo Ghirlandaio or more likely his son, Michele di Ridolfo. He holds him to have followed the "most conservative adaptation of the Vasarian maniera". He appeared to limit his output to mostly devotional Madonna and Child paintings (madonneri), and in this endeavor, paraphrasing the compositions and expressions of Andrea del Sarto. His brother Giovanni Brina (died 1599) helped Francesco in his work and copied his style .[1]
He painted an Adoration at Santa Felicita, Florence. He painted an Annunciation with Saints for a chapel in the church of San Gaggio, Florence.
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Bernard Dafney - Wikipedia |
Bernard Dafney (November 1, 1968 – January 11, 2006) was an American football offensive tackle. In 1992 Bernard was selected by the Houston Oilers in the ninth round of the NFL Draft.[1] Dafney's college years were spent at the University Of Tennessee Volunteers where he saw a good amount of playing time on the field. He played for the Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens in a six-year career that lasted from 1992 to 1998 in the National Football League.
He died of a heart attack in Rockdale County, Georgia.
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DDG(X) - Wikipedia |
The DDG(X) or Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer program of the United States Navy aims to develop a class of surface combatants to succeed 22 Flight II Ticonderoga-class cruisers and 28 Flight I/II Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.[1][2] The program is the culmination of the Large Surface Combatant (LSC) initiative that followed the cancellation of CG(X) and curtailing of the procurement of the Zumwalt-class destroyers. The ships will become the principal large surface combatants of the U.S. Navy; compared to their predecessors, they will incorporate more powerful sensors and have more room and weight margin for growth.[3][4]
With the cancellation of the CG(X) in 2010, the U.S. Navy embarked on new studies and programs for the future of the air defense role fulfilled by the Ticonderoga-class cruisers. Because the cruisers were built on the Spruance-class destroyer hulls, they had limited upgrade potential due to space, weight, and power margins.[5][6] Meanwhile, the procurement of the Zumwalt-class destroyers was severely curtailed due to high costs and a renewed emphasis on air and missile defense for larger combatants.[7] Eventually, the Navy chose to upgrade the Ticonderogas and procure the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers with the enhanced AN/SPY-6 and improved combat systems to supplement the Ticonderogas for air and missile defense.
The Navy also launched studies into a Future Surface Combatant (FSC) to replace the Ticonderoga-class—which will reach the end of their service lives in the 2020s—as well as older flights of the Arleigh Burke class.[8] The FSC evolved into the Large Surface Combatant (LSC) program, which became the DDG(X), with the program office established in June 2021.[9][10] In February 2022, Gibbs & Cox was contracted to provide design and engineering support.[11] The Navy is retaining the lead design role.[12]
Various hull configurations are currently being tested at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock and NSWC Philadelphia. A concept presented at the 2022 Surface Warfare Symposium depicts an angular hull form with displacement of 13,290 long tons (13,500 t), a conventional bow and a superstructure reminiscent of the Zumwalt-class destroyer. Future vessels of the class may be lengthened with a payload module for additional capabilities.[3][13]
The DDG(X) hull design will incorporate lessons and elements from both the Arleigh Burke and Zumwalt designs. The vessels will be able to accommodate larger missile launch systems, improved survivability, and space, weight, power, and cooling margins for future growth. As the ships will replace the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, they will have air defense command and control facilities and accommodations for an admiral's staff.[14]
Parts of the design concept of the DDG(X) have also been noted as externally similar to the Chinese Type 055 destroyer by some defense analysts, with two classes of ship sharing similar stealth profiles, propulsion configurations, and vertical launch system placements.[15][16]
The DDG(X) will use Integrated Power System (IPS), a modern integrated turboelectric drive as employed on the Zumwalt class. The vessels are expected to have 50% greater range, a 120% greater time on station, and a 25% reduction in fuel burn compared to current U.S. Navy destroyers.[3]
The sensors will initially be enlarged variants of the AN/SPY-6 radar mounted on the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The hull is designed with provisions for upgraded sensors in the future, including larger radar arrays.[3]
The Navy states that the baseline DDG(X) design, like the
Fight III DDG-51 design, is to include 96 standard Vertical
Launch System (VLS) cells, with an ability to incorporate
12 large missile launch cells in place of 32 of the 96
standard VLS cells.[17] The vessels will be initially fitted with 32-cell blocks of the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, with the concept image of the hull showing four such blocks. Instead of the Mk 41 block, large-cell launchers for hypersonic missiles can also be accepted, where existing naval missiles like RIM-174 Standard ERAM and BGM-109 Tomahawk could be quad-packed into the larger canister, leveraging design improvements in the Mk 41 Single Cell Launcher and U.S. Army's Typhon launcher from the Mid-Range Capability (MRC) program.[18] The concept image also shows the vessel mounting a main 5-inch (127-mm)/62 cal Mark 45 Mod 4 gun. Upgraded versions of the class may also incorporate directed energy weapons, with lasers ranging from 150 to 600 kW.[3]
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Ambient space (mathematics) - Wikipedia | In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For example, a 1-dimensional line
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Niels Bätge - Wikipedia | Niels Bätge (19 April 1913 in Reval – 12 December 1944 near Åland) was a German Schnellboot commander with Baltic German origin in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Bätge was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on 1 September 1943. Shortly after his promotion he took command of the destroyer Z35 on 25 September 1943. The destroyers Z35 and Z36 both ran into a German naval mine in the Gulf of Finland on 12 December 1944. Bätge and 24 members of the crew managed to save themselves in a life boat. However, they all froze to death and were later washed ashore near Åland.
At the start of World War II, Bätge was serving in a torpedo boat flotilla; during this period, he commanded the torpedo boat T2. In October 1940, he was transferred to command a flotilla of E-boats;[1] this newly formed unit began training in the Baltic before being transferred to the English Channel in May 1941. Bätge's boats were based in Cherbourg and Rotterdam. Upon the 4th Flotilla's arrival, the other three E-boat flotillas in occupied France were transferred to the Baltic in preparation for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Bätge's 4th Flotilla, which had just five boats operational owing to parts shortages and overuse, was to conduct the coastal campaign against Britain by itself. Bätge was instructed to keep his boats in action as much as possible to conceal the fact that the other three flotillas had been withdrawn. Throughout 1941, engine problems plagued the boats of the 4th Flotilla. Bätge had received orders to transfer his boats to Lorient in May to help cover the arrival of the battleship Bismarck, but bad weather delayed Bätge's departure and Bismarck was sunk in action. As a result, the 4th Flotilla remained in the Channel. On 30 May, three of the boats laid six mines off Great Yarmouth. The following month, Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft spotted what they believed to be the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, and Bätge sent four of his boats to attack the vessel on the morning of 3 June. They sank the ship, which turned out to be the merchant ship SS Mamari III, which had been converted into a decoy. Bätge's boats returned to minelaying operations for the rest of June, and these mines claimed three merchant ships that month.[2]
In February 1942, Bätge's flotilla participated in Operation Cerberus, helping to cover the transfer of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the Channel. By this time, his forces had been reinforced by the 2nd and 6th Flotillas. The three flotillas were responsible for escorting the heavy ships through the Dover Strait, and they rendezvoused off Cape Gris Nez.[3]
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Gelliodes fibrosa - Wikipedia |
Gelliodes fibrosa is a species of sponge found in shallow water in the Indian Ocean. It was first described in 1905 by the British zoologist Arthur Dendy, the type locality being the Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka.[1] In 1925, the American zoologist Edmund Beecher Wilson described a species of sponge from North Sulawesi as Gelliodes fibrosa. In 2013, Carballo, Aquilar-Camacho, Knapp & Bell, decided that this was a homonym, a separate taxon from the original one described by Dendy, and gave the new species the name Gelliodes wilsoni.[2]
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Elita Karim - Wikipedia |
International Indian School, Dammam
Dilshad Karim Elita,[1] better known as Elita Karim, is a Bangladeshi singer, journalist, versatile performer, anchor and voice artist.[2][3] She's the wife of Ashfaque Nipun.
Karim was born on 4 September 1982[4] in Dhahran the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, she completed her primary school in Bangladesh International School Dammam and high school from International Indian School, Dammam and first came to Bangladesh in 2001, to pursue her higher studies. Elita completed her graduation in English Literature from North South University.[5]
In 2001, Karim released her first song in a band mixed album "Amar Prithibi" (lit. 'My world'). In 2009, she released a song entitled 'Ontohin' with singer Mahadi. On 24 May 2015 her first solo studio album 'Elita' was released.[6] Karim made her debut as an actor in a serial Mukim Brothers which was broadcast on Channel i based on Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's story, written and directed by Ashfaque Nipun. Her acting in the drama was praised. She is working as a journalist in a Bangladeshi English daily named The Daily Star.
In 2021, Karim earned Humphrey Fellowship at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Arizona State University.[7][8]
Karim married Ashfaque Nipun on 29 May 2015.[9] Her brother Imrul Karim Emil is also a popular singer in Bangladesh.[10] He is the vocalist of the Bangladeshi pop rock band Shunno.
Hridoy (Duet)
Nijhum Raat (Duet)
Bhorer Shishir (Duet)
Harano Akash
Elita & Mahadi
Mahadi & Elita
Elita & Mahadi
Elita
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Santa Maria, Isabela - Wikipedia |
Santa Maria (Ibanag: Ili nat Santa Maria; Ilocano: Ili ti Santa Maria; Tagalog: Bayan ng Santa Maria), officially the Municipality of Santa Maria, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,758 people.[3]
Santa Maria was officially established as an independent municipality from its mother town of Cabagan by virtue of a Spanish Royal Order dated December 4, 1879. The establishment of the town was credited to the influential Masigan family who were rooted in the place and have served as the town's chief executives for most of its history. As it neighbors the Cordillera mountains, the town served as a starting point for Spanish military expeditions to conquer the Kalingas, who nevertheless continued to trade in the town.[5]
Santa Maria is politically subdivided into 20 barangays. [6] Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.
In the 2020 census, the population of Santa Maria, Isabela, was 25,758 people,[3] with a density of 180 inhabitants per square kilometre or 470 inhabitants per square mile.
As a municipality in the Province of Isabela, government officials in the provincial level are voted by the electorates of the town. The provincial government have political jurisdiction over local transactions of the municipal government.
The municipality of Santa Maria is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.
Barangays are also headed by elected officials: Barangay Captain, Barangay Council, whose members are called Barangay Councilors. The barangays have SK federation which represents the barangay, headed by SK chairperson and whose members are called SK councilors. All officials are also elected every three years.
Santa Maria, belonging to the first legislative district of the province of Isabela, is currently represented by Antonio T. Albano.[20]
The Schools Division of Isabela governs the town's public education system.[21] The division office is a field office of the DepEd in Cagayan Valley region.[22] The office governs the public and private elementary and public and private high schools throughout the municipality.
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Clemencia Rodriguez - Wikipedia |
Clemencia Rodriguez is a Colombian US-based media and communication scholar recognized for her role in establishing and promoting the field of alternative media studies in English language media studies, notably through her work on 'citizens' media,' a term she coined in her 2001 book Fissures in the Mediascape and through co-founding and facilitating OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios, a global network of researchers and practitioners of alternative media, community media and citizens' media, currently the biggest network of its kind with over 500 members in over 40 countries.[1]
Dr. Rodriguez has conducted research since 1984 on citizens’ media in different international contexts including Nicaragua, Colombia, Spain, Chile, and among Latino communities in the United States. Her current research explores the role(s) of community radio and audiovisual initiatives in regions of armed conflict in Colombia. Her studies focus on the AREDMAG network of community radio stations in Magdalena Medio; the audiovisual school and community radio station (Radio Andaqui) in Belen de los Andaquies, Caqueta; and the Colectivo de Comunicacion de Montes de Maria.
In 2001, she initiated OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios with Chris Atton,[2] Nick Couldry[3] and John DH Downing[4] and until 2003 was a key organizer of its yearly conferences.[5]
“Various media technologies provide different ways of 'communicating' both in the kinds of information they present and in the ways we experience it”.[6] Clemencia Rodriguez recognises a universal cultural change within the mediascape whereby media users have become media producers. She defines citizens' media as a concept 'that implies a collective embracing of new media and interaction, in a way that contests social codes, legitimised identities and institutionalised social relations, through a means of empowering the community'.[7] Moving away from the original concept of media whereby “communication is sent from one place and received in many places by a large audience”,[8] Citizens’ media’ encourages a two-way media process, reflecting participatory democracy and greater media access through networking, and broadcasting from citizen to citizen.
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County government in Arkansas - Wikipedia | County government in Arkansas is a political subdivision of the state established for a more convenient administration of justice and for purposes of providing services for the state by the Constitution of Arkansas and the Arkansas General Assembly through the Arkansas Code. In Arkansas, counties have no inherent authority, only power given to them by the state government. This means the county executive, the county judge, and legislative body, the quorum court (members of the quorum court hold the title justice of the peace, usually abbreviated JP), have limited power compared to other states.
All seventy-five counties have the following elected officials
Except Constables, all officials are elected to four-year terms in November of even-numbered, non-presidential election years after being nominated in partisan primary elections. Constables are elected to two-year terms in November of even-numbered years.[2][3][4][5]
Any citizen of Arkansas and the United States who is 18 years of age or older and lives in the county may run for the county positions except county judge, who must be 25 years old and an Arkansas resident for at least the prior two years. Candidates must be qualified electors in the county, and not have been convicted of an "infamous crime". The only professional credential requirements are for the county surveyor, who must be a licensed land surveyor.
Arkansas has 75 counties, including 10 with dual county seats: Arkansas, Carroll, Clay, Craighead, Franklin, Logan, Mississippi, Prairie, Sebastian, Yell. These dual county seats were established to allow for court business to proceed when travel across the county was difficult. Though they have two courthouses, the constitutional officers are not duplicated.
The quorum court is the legislative branch of the county government and controls all spending and revenue collection. Representatives are called justices of the peace and are elected from county districts every even-numbered year. The number of districts in a county vary from nine to fifteen, and district boundaries are drawn by the county election commission.
Presiding over quorum court meetings is the county judge, who serves as the chief operating officer of the county. The county judge is elected at-large and does not vote in quorum court business, although capable of vetoing quorum court decisions.[6][7]
A constitutional amendment in 1974 radically reformed county government in Arkansas, though the county executive's titles are relics from the state's constitution. The reform, approved as Amendment 55 to the Arkansas Constitution of 1874, made sweeping changes to the structure of county government. County judges were transformed into county executives who worked with the quorum court to conduct county business,[8] stripping the almost unfettered power they had accumulated since 1874.[7] Quorum courts were reorganized to have between 9 and 15 JPs, based on county population.[9] Several of the less populous counties have only nine members; only Benton County, Washington County, and Pulaski County have a fifteen-member quorum court. The quorum court was given power to set the salaries of county officials (within a state prescribed pay range), fill vacant county offices by appointment, and pass ordinances.[10] Amendment 55 requires every quorum court to meet at least monthly.
A main impact of this reform was reducing the number of JP positions to increase legislative efficiency, reducing from 2,800 in 1974 to 751 in 1976. The effects of this reduction was a trend toward more professionally accomplished, higher status elected officials. This shift from "amateur" toward "professional" elected officials is typical of the good governance reforms such as Amendment 55. It also led to a sharp reduction in women and minorities holding county office.[11]
A further reform, known as the Arkansas Plan, was proposed by Governor David Pryor in 1976 to expand county control beyond Amendment 55. The plan met strong resistance, and was ultimately defeated.
Each county has a three-member county election commission in charge of drawing districts for county office elections and preparing and holding elections.[9] Districts are redrawn after each decennial census.
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Marcelo Cascabelo - Wikipedia | Marcelo Fabián Cascabelo Ferreyra (born 6 February 1964) is a retired Argentine long-distance runner who competed primarily in the 3000 metres steeplechase.[2] He represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics without advancing from the first round. He also competed at one outdoor and one indoor World Championships. He won the Konex Award from Argentina in 1990.
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Lion Down - Wikipedia | Lion Down is a 1951 Goofy cartoon featuring Goofy and Louie the Mountain Lion.[1] The film's plot centers on Goofy and Louie competing for a comfortable place to rest. The film is Louie's third appearance.[2]
Goofy is trying to enjoy some peace and quiet on his hammock, but can't find a second tree to link it to. It is revealed that Goofy has a mock backyard on top of a huge skyscraper. To get a new tree, he heads out of the city and into the country to get a tree, one that is the home of Louie the Mountain Lion. Goofy and Louie begin competing for the hammock and tree (for example, they push each other off and sneak in after placing a doorbell call). Eventually, Goofy and Louie's competition for a resting place causes the hammock to break free out of the building, resulting in nothing but mayhem. Goofy and Louie decide to go their own ways, with Goofy staying where he is and Louie heading back to the countryside with his tree. Fortunately, an acorn falls off and Goofy ties a knot on it, then he starts watering it, planning to grow his own tree for the hammock.
The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy[3] and on the "Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites Starring Goofy" Volume 3.
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Jean Richafort - Wikipedia |
Jean Richafort (c. 1480 – c. 1547) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance, a member of the third generation of the Franco-Flemish School.
He was probably born in Hainaut, and his native language appears to have been French. According to the poet Ronsard, Richafort studied with Josquin des Prez, an association further borne out by the fact that he composed a requiem "in memoriam Josquin Desprez". Richafort served as choir master at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen between 1507 and 1509, and at St. Giles' church in Bruges between 1542 and 1547—leaving a huge gap in the record of his activity. At some time between these dates he was associated with the French royal chapel, since some of his music is for official occasions connected with Louis XII, and there is some evidence he may have been in Brussels in 1531 in the service of Queen Mary of Hungary, who was regent there.
Musically, Richafort was a representative of the first generation after Josquin, and he followed his style in many ways. In some of his music he used fragments of Josquin's compositions as a tribute. Richafort's compositional techniques are typical of the period (smooth polyphony, pervasive imitation, etc.) but he was unusually attentive to the clear setting of text so the words could be understood.
He wrote a requiem for six voices (Requiem in memoriam Josquin des Prez, 1532), masses, motets, settings of the Magnificat, two secular motets, and chansons.
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Saint-Martial-sur-Isop - Wikipedia | Saint-Martial-sur-Isop (Occitan: Sent Marçau) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France.
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Knut Anders Sørum - Wikipedia | Knut Anders Sørum (born 12 April 1976) is a Norwegian singer from Østre Toten. He represented Norway at Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul with the pop-ballad "High". He was also a vocalist and keyboard player for the Norway-based Christian extreme metal band Vardøger for many years (1994-2006, 2007, 2008–2018).
He won the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix, the selection process for Eurovision Song Contest in the 2004 contest, gaining the right to represent Norway at Eurovision 2004 in Istanbul with the pop-ballad "High", written by two Swedish composers. In the final, he came last, with just three points, all coming from Sweden.
After Eurovision, Knut Anders Sørum did backing vocals for the Wig Wam 2006 album Wig Wamania.
After a hiatus spending many years, he released his first studio album in 2010 called Prøysen reaching number 12 in the VG-lista, the official Norwegian Albums Chart followed by a second album Ting Flyt that entered at number 7 in its first week of release in May 2013.
He is a great supporter of the Salvation Army. He came out as bisexual admitting his attraction to both males and females in an interview with the Norwegian gay magazine Gaysir.[1]
Other albums
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David Wharnsby - Wikipedia | David Wharnsby (born June 20, 1967) is a Canadian film editor. He was married to director and actress Sarah Polley.
Wharnsby was born in Waterloo, Ontario. He attended Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School.
Some of Wharnsby's numerous credits include; the CBC's miniseries Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns; At The Hotel, directed by Ken Finkleman; TIFF top ten films, I, Claudia, by Chris Abraham; The Uncles by Jim Allodi; Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom and Foreign Objects; I Shout Love by Sarah Polley; Atom Egoyan's Sarabande; The Four Seasons and Don Giovanni Unmasked by Barbara Willis Sweete; David Weaver's Siblings and Century Hotel; and Three Stories by Semi Chellas.
His television directing credits include one episode of Billable Hours ("Killer Comma"), two episodes of Being Erica ("This Be the Verse" and "The Unkindest Cut") and three episodes of Saving Hope.
Wharnsby received a Gemini Award for his work on Jennifer Baichwal's documentary The Holier It Gets. He has also worked with Baichwal on The True Meaning of Pictures, and the Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles. He won a Genie Award in 2004 for his work on Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World. Wharnsby was also awarded the DGC Craft Award for Picture Editing of a Feature Film for Away from Her in 2007. Regardless of the myriad of awards he has been nominated for and/or received, he has rarely made any public appearances.
Wharnsby married Sarah Polley, who in addition to directing is an actress, singer, writer, and activist, in September 2003. They have since divorced.[1] He collaborated with then wife Polley on the 2006 feature-length film Away from Her, which Polley directed. His mother Marnie was host of the children's television show Romper Room in the 1960s for CKCO-TV. His brother Tim is a sports reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website, cbcsports.ca. He also has two sisters.
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Niafles - Wikipedia |
Niafles (French pronunciation: [njafl]) is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France.
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John Davies (poet, born 1569) - Wikipedia |
Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised) – 8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.
Davies was born in Wiltshire, possibly at Chicksgrove Manor at Lower Chicksgrove,[1] to John and Mary Davies. He was educated at Winchester College for four years, a period in which he showed much interest in literature. He studied there until the age of sixteen and went to further his education at the Queen's College, Oxford, where he stayed for just eighteen months, with most historians questioning whether he received a degree.
Davies spent some time at New Inn after his departure from Oxford, and it was at this point that he decided to pursue a career in law. In 1588 he enrolled in the Middle Temple, where he did well academically, although suffering constant reprimands for his behaviour. Following several suspensions, his behaviour cost him his enrolment.
Davies travelled to the Netherlands in 1592 with others of the Middle Temple (William Fleetwood, Richard Martin). There, in Leiden, he met the jurist Paul Merula, to whom the group had a letter of introduction from William Camden.[2]
In 1594, Davies's poetry brought him into contact with Queen Elizabeth. She wished him to continue his study of law at the Middle Temple and had him sworn in as a servant-in-ordinary. In the following year, his poem, Orchestra, was published in July, prior to his call to the bar from the Middle Temple. He was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in 1597.[3]
In February 1598, Davies was disbarred for the offence of entering the dining hall of the Inns in the company of two swordsmen and striking Richard Martin with a cudgel. The victim Martin was a noted wit who had insulted him in public, and Davies immediately took a boat at the Temple steps and retired to Oxford, where he chose to write poetry. Another of his works, Nosce Teipsum ("Know Thyself"), was published in 1599 and found favour with the queen and with Lord Mountjoy, later Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Davies became a favourite of the queen, to whom he addressed his work Hymns of Astraea in 1599. Later that year, however, his Epigrams was included in a list of published works that the state ordered to be confiscated and burned. In 1601 he was readmitted to the bar, having made a public apology to Martin, and in the same year sat as the member of Parliament for Corfe Castle.[3]
In 1603, he was part of the deputation sent to bring King James VI of Scotland to London as the new monarch. The Scots king was also an admirer of Davies's poetry, and rewarded him with a knighthood and appointments (at Mountjoy's recommendation) as solicitor-general and, later attorney-general, in Ireland.
Davies arrived in Dublin in November 1603, where Mountjoy had accepted the submission of the rebel Hugh O'Neill some six months earlier, at the close of the Nine Years War.
Finding pestilence and famine all over Ireland, Davies noted that the courts still commanded respect, but that the sloth of the protestant clergy and the ruin of the churches were detrimental to religion. He condemned the practice of issuing debased coinage and, in pursuit of the establishment of regular quarter-sessions of the courts, went on the Leinster circuit through seven counties in April 1604. In 1605 he travelled to England with the commendation of Sir Arthur Chichester, who succeeded Mountjoy in government, and had returned to Ireland by July.
Davies was very much committed to reform not just in the law but in religious affairs too. He was all for banishing Catholic clergy from Ireland and for enforcing church attendances, and strict measures to this end were taken on his return. He delivered a powerful speech on 23 November 1605 in the Court of Castle Chamber, dealing with the summonsing of recusants to answer their contempt of the king's proclamations.
In May 1606, he submitted his report of his circuit of the province of Munster to Sir Robert Cecil, the king's secretary, and was made serjeant at law after his appointment as Attorney General. In the summer he travelled through counties Monaghan, Fermanagh and Cavan, and a year later through Meath, Westmeath, Longford, King's and Queen's counties, both of which circuits he reported to Cecil. Davies always looked at Ireland as a stepping-stone towards major political office in England but he knew that his chances were hurt by the death of Cecil, his patron, and his own absence from the court.
Davies became heavily involved in government efforts to establish a plantation in the lately rebellious province of Ulster. In September 1607, he delivered to Cecil his report of the Flight of the Earls, a seminal event in Irish history and, before long, had travelled into the absent earls' territories to lay indictments against them there.
In August 1608, he went with Chichester to view the escheated lands, reporting that the people, "wondered as much to see the king's deputy as the ghosts in Vurgil wondered to see AEneas alive in hell[sic]". In October, he was in England, pushing for the plantation of the province.
In May 1609, Davies was made serjeant, with a grant of lands valued at £40 p.a. He revisited England in 1610 on plantation business, which had so advanced that he thought his assistance to the commission charged with bringing the project to fruition would no longer be needed.
In 1610, he defended proceedings brought by the Irish against the plans for the plantation of Cavan, but in the following year, he begged for recall from Ireland. At about this time he wrote the Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued (pub. 1612), a well-written – albeit polemical – account of the constitutional standing of Ireland.
In England, Davies spent much time preparing the way for the Irish Parliament of 1613, to which he was returned for County Fermanagh. In the first sitting, he was proposed as speaker with the Crown's approval, but he met fierce opposition from the Catholic members, who formed a very large minority and nominated a former High Court judge, Sir John Everard, the knight of the shire for County Tipperary. Everard was an open recusant, and despite his behaviour on this occasion, a man of good reputation. A scene of comical disorder ensued when Everard was placed in the chair and refused to vacate in favour of the government candidate. Davies, always a very heavy man, was seized by his own supporters and lifted bodily into his opponent's lap; Everard was then ejected from the chair and withdrew from the chamber with 98 supporters, whereupon the vote was taken in their absence. Davies was approved as speaker by Chichester, and delivered a memorable speech on the history and role of parliament in Ireland. Everard, his rival, was summoned to England and briefly imprisoned, but was quickly pardoned and thereafter loyally supported the Crown.
In 1615, Davies's reports of Irish cases were published; he had appeared as counsel in many of these, including the case of the Bann fishery and the cases of tanistry and gavelkind, which set precedents in Irish constitutional law, with wider implications for British colonial policy.[4]
In 1617 Davies failed to win the position of Solicitor General for England and Wales and consequently resigned as Attorney-General in Ireland, having ensured that he would be replaced by his nephew William Ryves. In 1619 he returned to England permanently, in the expectation that his chance of gaining office there would be improved by his presence. He practised as king's serjeant, and eventually went on circuit as a judge. He was a founder member of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1621, he was elected MP for Hindon,[3] and Newcastle-under-Lyme, choosing to sit for the latter constituency. He occasionally spoke in parliament on Irish matters. Davies retired to Englefield House in Berkshire,[5][6] but was then appointed Lord Chief Justice. He had always been corpulent, and on 7 December 1626 he died in his bed of apoplexy brought on after a supper party, and thus never enjoyed the appointment he had been angling for throughout his career.
Davies wrote poetry in numerous forms, but is best known for his epigrammes and sonnets. In 1599 he published Nosce Teipsum (Know thyself) and Hymnes of Astraea. Queen Elizabeth became an admirer of Davies's work, and these poems contain acrostics that spell out the phrase Elisabetha Regina.[7][nb 1]
His most famous poem, Nosce Teipsum, gained him the favour of James I, by which he won promotion in Ireland. The three-part poem is written in decasyllabic quatrains, and is concerned with one's self-knowledge and the immortality of the soul. A. H. Bullen described it as being "singularly readable for such a subject: highly accomplished verse, no Elizabethan quaintness, bothe subtle and terse".[8]
Bullen also described Davies's Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing as "brilliant and graceful". This poem, written in rhyme royal, reveals a typical Elizabethan pleasure: contemplating and trying to understand the relationship between the natural order and human activity.[9]
Davies's works are very well represented in Elizabethan anthologies. The last complete edition of his poems appeared in 1876 and is long out of print.[10]
In political terms, Davies was significant in his work on constitutional law and in framing the terms of the Plantation of Ulster, a model that served the English crown as it extended its colonial reach in North America and elsewhere. In literary terms, he was a fine poet who lay quite neglected from the mid-17th century, until his cause was championed by T. S. Eliot. Davies's poem "I know my soul hath power to know all things" was set to music by the composer Hubert Parry in his choral work, Songs of Farewell (1916–18).[11]
Davies married Eleanor Touchet, daughter of the first Earl of Castlehaven, in March of 1609.[12][13] She was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England, author of almost seventy pamphlets and prophecies, and one of the first women in England to see her works through to print.[14]
During the marriage, Eleanor published numerous books of prophecy, particularly anagrammatic prophecies; her prophetic writings were a source of conflict in the marriage and Davies burned a set of the prophecies that Eleanor had been writing.[14][13] Davies was exasperated by his wife's excesses and once addressed her, "I pray you weep not while I am alive, and I will give you leave to laugh when I am dead". She is said to have accurately foretold the date of his death and wore mourning clothes for the three years leading up to the predicted time: as the date approached – three days before – she "gave him pass to take his long sleep".[13]
Davies had three children by his marriage. His only son to survive infancy, John (Jack), was deaf and dumb; his daughter Lucy married Ferdinando Hastings and became Countess of Huntingdon.[5]
On 28 July 1625, Eleanor was working on a commentary of the Book of Daniel and believed she heard the voice of the prophet; she wrote about the experience and took it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. When Davies found and burned her writing she predicted he would die within three years, and went into mourning. In November 1626, Davies was appointed to high office in England. In early December, following her husband's appointment, Eleanor started weeping during a dinner with friends. When asked why, she explained it was in anticipation of Davies's funeral. Davies was found in his home, dead of apoplexy, on the morning of 8 December.
In 1633, Eleanor was brought before the high commission in England on charges relating to her religious anagram practices. During a fruitless examination of her under oath, one of the commissioners devised an anagram of his own: Dame Eleanor Davys – never so mad a ladye. She was sent to prison, and afterwards remarried, but was deserted by her new husband and buried next to Davies on her death in 1652.[15] She had continued to make prophesies until her death.[10]
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King's worm lizard - Wikipedia |
King's worm lizard (Amphisbaena kingii) is a species of worm lizard in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is endemic to South America.
The specific name, kingii, is in honor of Australian marine surveyor Philip Parker King.[2]
A. kingii is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay.[1]
A. kingii may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 21 cm (8.3 in), plus a tail about 2 cm (0.79 in) long. Dorsally, it is purplish brown. Ventrally, it is whitish.[3]
A. kingii is oviparous.[1]
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1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualifying - Wikipedia | This article features the 1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualifying stage. Matches were played 1988 through 1990. Eight group winners qualified for the main tournament in Hungary.
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Ortaköy, Aydın - Wikipedia | Ortaköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Efeler, Aydın Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 492 (2022).[2]
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Alfa Romeo Brera and Spider - Wikipedia | The Alfa Romeo Brera and the Alfa Romeo Spider (Type 939) are mid-size sports cars using the GM/Fiat Premium platform, manufactured by Pininfarina and marketed by Alfa Romeo as a 2+2 coupé and roadster respectively.[3]
12,488 units of the Spider and 21,786 units of the Brera were made[4] with production ending in late 2010 and inventory remaining into 2011.[5]
The Brera was originally unveiled as a concept car at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign Giugiaro. The concept was powered by a Maserati V8 engine rated at around 400 PS (294 kW; 395 hp).[6] The Brera received positive feedback, and Alfa Romeo subsequently announced production plans for 2005. In 2004, Giorgetto Giugiaro was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award for his Brera Concept.[7]
The Brera concept car
Interior
The Alfa Romeo Brera was introduced in production form at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. It translated the original's exterior appearance on a much smaller scale, becoming a mid-size coupé on the GM/Fiat Premium platform (shared with the Alfa Romeo 159), and designed to replace the outgoing GTV. A convertible version of the Brera called the Spider was also announced, to be launched shortly after the coupe to replace the existing GTV-based Spider.
In Europe, the Brera was initially available with two petrol engines, the 185 PS (136 kW; 182 hp) 2.2-litre JTS and 260 PS (191 kW; 256 hp) 3.2-litre V6; and a 200 PS (147 kW; 197 hp) 2.4-litre JTD turbodiesel. Cars with the diesel or 2.2 petrol were front-wheel drive, whilst the V6 came with a Torsen four-wheel drive system similar to the 159's Q4.
At the 2008 Geneva Motor Show Alfa Romeo introduced updated versions of the Brera and Spider respectively. The 3.2 liter V6 version became available in front-wheel-drive form, allowing for a top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph); all model variants adopted the e-Q2 electronic limited slip differential; the use of aluminium for various parts of the car helped reduce weight.[8]
The following year, again at the Geneva Motor Show, an all-new turbocharged petrol engine model badged as 1750 TBi (Turbo Benzina iniezione) was added to the lineup. This 1,742 cc unit featured direct injection and variable valve timing on both inlet and exhaust cams, and developed 200 PS (147 kW; 197 hp) and 320 N⋅m (236 lbf⋅ft) of torque.[9]
*stated by Pininfarina production records
As with its predecessor, the Brera was initially available with two trim levels: 'Medium' and 'Sky View', the latter's name being derived from the panoramic glass roof available for the Brera's top specification. In 2008 a special trim was introduced; called the TI (Turismo Internazionale), featuring 19" alloy wheels, special badges on the front fenders and inside the front headrests. Alongside the bigger wheels, there were bigger Brembo brakes and stiffer shocks and springs.
In Spring 2008 the Brera 'S' Special Edition was announced. This Alfa Romeo-approved British-only limited-run version was developed by British engineering specialists Prodrive and was intended to address criticism regarding the handling of the standard car. 500 units of the Brera S were made.[10] The Brera S was developed in 12 months and suspension and chassis components and settings of the 'S' were amended from the standard car, altering the handling characteristics. These include Bilstein and Eibach suspension, Prodrive sports exhaust and special 19" wheels and trim.[11] Alfa Romeo and Prodrive had previously collaborated in motorsport, campaigning an Alfa Romeo 155 in the BTCC during 1995.[12]
In 2009, Alfa Romeo released a limited edition of the Brera and Spider in association with Italia Independent, an Italian design company owned and run by Lapo Elkann, grandson of Gianni Agnelli of the Fiat empire. Limited to 900 units and named after Alfa Romeo's partner in the venture, the Italia Independent edition of the Brera was offered with opaque-finish titanium paintwork, 18" "turbine" style alloy wheels, and an aluminium fuel-filler cap. The interior had a Sat-Nav system as standard and the interior had a carbon-fiber trim.
The Italia Independent was offered with 125 kW (170 PS) 2.0 JTDM, 154 kW (210 PS) 2.4 JTDM diesel,157 kW (214 PS) 2.4 JTDM diesel (2009–10) or 147 kW (200 PS) 1.8 TBi, 136 kW (185 PS) 2.2 JTS, 191 kW (260 PS) 3.2 V6 petrol engines and six-speed transmission. A conventional 6-speed manual, the "Selespeed" automated manual, and the Q-Tronic automatic transmission options were offered, and the V6 engine was also available with Alfa Romeo's Q4 all-wheel drive system.[13]
The New Spider version (Type 939) was introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show, where it also received the "Cabrio of the Year" award.[14] The Spider is based on the Brera coupe, seating two passengers rather than four passengers as in the coupe. Originally Alfa Romeo offered two engines: the 2.2 L straight-4 and 3.2 L V6 JTS engines — the JTD common rail turbodiesel was introduced at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show. This car replaced the GTV Spider, which was introduced in 1995.
The 939 Spider can be viewed as the 6th generation of Alfa Romeo Spiders, the first version of which was released in 1966. Production ended in November 2010.
In 2009, Alfa Romeo unveiled a limited edition of the Brera and Spider in association with Italia Independent. Limited to 900 units and named after Alfa Romeo's partner in the venture, the Italia Independent edition of the Brera was offered with opaque-finish titanium paintwork, 18" "turbine" style alloy wheels, and an aluminium fuel-filler cap.
The Italia Independent was offered with 125 kW (170 PS) 2.0 JTDM, 154 kW (210 PS) 2.4 JTDM diesel, JTDM, 157 kW (214 PS) 2.4 JTDM diesel or 147 kW (200 PS) 1.8 TBi, 136 kW (185 PS) 2.2 JTS or 191 kW (260 PS) 3.2 V6 petrol engines and six-speed transmission. A conventional 6-speed manual, the "Selespeed" automated manual, and the Q-Tronic automatic transmission options were offered, and the V6 engined-car was also available with Alfa Romeo's Q4 all-wheel drive system.[13]
Alfa Romeo has created a special edition of its Spider convertible in order to commemorate the historic Mille Miglia 1,000-mile race that takes place in Italy annually. The carmaker built just 11 examples of the 'Spider Mille Miglia' to mark the 11 victories it's had in the famous Italian race, which heralded the rise of the original sports grand tourer.
While there are no performance increases, the Spider Mille Miglia is based on the standard 3.2 V6 model and has a power output of 260 PS (191 kW; 256 hp). Rather than performance upgrades, each special edition features a silver plate that outlines one of Alfa Romeo's victories between 1928 and 1947. The special edition model also gets an exclusive, bright red paint job called 'Rosso 8C' and a 'Quadrifoglio' logo (a four-leaf clover) on its front wings, as well as red stitching for the black leather seats. Additionally, the rear caps on the roll hoops bars are chrome rather than being painted silver, with the body caps behind them - also silver on other versions - in red.[15]
The Alfa Romeo Spider Limited Edition features a choice of three color combinations (Carbonio Black, Alfa Red, Ghiaccio White) plus 19-inch alloy wheels, leather upholstery, electrically adjustable and heated memory front seats, and door mirrors. The car is also now available with Fiat Group's Blue&Me hands-free system with voice recognition and media player. Bespoke colors for the Alfa Spider Limited Edition include a Carbonio Black version with a natural leather upholstery while the Alfa Red exterior paintwork is matched to a black leather interior. The Ghiaccio White color scheme comes with a choice of either black or natural leather upholstery.[16]
Under the hood sits the familiar 185 hp 2.2 L JTS petrol engine. The car can accelerate from 0-62 mph in about 8.8 seconds and reach a top speed of more than 139 mph (224 km/h). The new limited edition diesel was only on sale in the UK from 2009, less than 500 were produced worldwide. The 214 hp diesel engine was exclusive to the limited edition spider.
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Dashtak-e Meymand - Wikipedia | Dashtak-e Meymand (Persian: دشتك ميمند; also known as Dashtak-e Bālā and Dashtak-e ‘Olyā)[1] is a village in Sadat Mahmudi Rural District, Pataveh District, Dana County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 295, in 67 families.[2]
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Dmitry Girs - Wikipedia | Dmitry Konstantinovich Girs (Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Гирс; (1836, in Taganrog – December 15 [O.S. December 2] 1886, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer.
Dmitry Girs was born in Taganrog, where his father was chief of quarantine. Girs's ancestors were of Swedish origin. His most notable relative was his cousin Nikolai Karlovich Girs, foreign minister in 1882–1894. In 1843, his family moved to Saint Petersburg, where he studied in a military school, graduated from the engineer college, and then served as a field engineer. In 1868 he had to leave the city as punishment for his speech at the funeral ceremony of Dmitri Pisarev.
Girs's first writings were published in 1862 in The Russian Messenger under the pen-name Konstantinov. In 1868 he published the beginning of his novel Staraia i novaia Rossia (The Old and New Russia) in Otechestvennye zapiski (Homeland Notes). Although the novel aroused great expectations, it was never finished. Other works by Girs are Na krayu propasti (On the edge of the abyss) in Delo (The deed), 1870; Kaliforniiskiy rudnik (The California mine) in Otechestvennye zapiski, 1872; Dnevnik notarialnogo pistsa (The diary of a notary scribe), Ibid., 1883; Avdotya-dvumuzhnitsa (Avdotya the bigamist) in Russkaya mysl' (Russian Thought), 1884.
In 1876 Girs worked in Serbia as a military reporter for Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti (The St. Petersburg Gazette) and in 1877 for Severnyi vestnik (The Northern Bulletin). In 1878-1880 Girs published his own newspaper, called Russkaya pravda (Russian Truth), in which he wrote feuilletons under the pen-name Dobro-Glagol. The paper was respected but never enjoyed great success; it incurred administrative penalties and was suspended from publishing many times.
Girs's works Zapiski voiennogo (Notes of a military man) and Kaliforniiskiy rudnik were published in a single volume (St. Petersburg, 1872).
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Andrebakely Est - Wikipedia | Andrebakely Est is a town and commune (Malagasy: kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Amparafaravola, which is a part of Alaotra-Mangoro Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 12,000 in 2001 commune census.[1]
Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. The majority 80% of the population of the commune are farmers. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are bananas and sugarcane. Services provide employment for 5% of the population. Additionally fishing employs 15% of the population.[1]
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Versicolored barbet - Wikipedia |
The versicolored barbet (Eubucco versicolor) is a very colorful species of bird in the family Capitonidae, the New World barbets. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.[1]
The versicolored barbet was described by Statius Müller in 1776 as Bucco versicolor, based on a specimen collected in Maynas Province, Peru.[2] Its taxonomy is in flux. The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy treat it as one species with three subspecies. The HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World treats the three as individual species.[2][3]
The three subspecies are:[1]
The versicolored barbet is multicolored and like all barbets has a sturdy bill. The subspecies differ in their plumage, but all the males have a red face and crown and green to blue-green upperparts. The males' lower breasts are red and their bellies yellowish with green streaks, though the size and shape of the red vary. The female's upperparts are also green to blue-green and their bellies a similar yellowish with green streaks. All the subspecies are approximately 16 cm (6.3 in) long but differ in their weights.[4]
The nominate "blue-moustached" form weighs 28 to 39 g (0.99 to 1.38 oz). The male has a red throat with a thin blue band below it. It has a blue malar patch (the "moustache") and a blue band separating the red head from the greenish back. Its upper breast is yellow. The female has a greenish cap, blue malars with a yellow edge, and a blue throat with a thin red band below it.[4]
The "blue-cowled" form weighs 31 to 37 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz). The back of the male's head and nape (the "cowl") are blue. It has a red chin and yellow malars and throat. The female's crown and nape are yellow. Its face, throat, and upper breast are blue with a thin red crescent dividing the throat and breast.[4]
The "blue-chinned" form weighs 26 to 41 g (0.92 to 1.45 oz). The male has a thin blue band behind the head like the "blue-moustached" form and a yellow malar. It has successive bands of red, blue, and orange between its bill and its yellow upper breast. The female has a yellow crown and nape. Its face and throat are blue with a red band below the latter.[4]
The nominate "blue-moustached" barbet is found from Peru's Cuzco and Puno Regions eastward to Cochabamba Department in north central Bolivia. The "blue-cowled" form is found only in Peru, from west central Amazonas south to northern Huánuco. The "blue-chinned" form is also found only in Peru, along the eastern slope of the Andes from eastern Huánuco to northern Cuzco.[4]
All subspecies of the versicolored barbet inhabit humid submontane forest, especially those heavy with epiphytes and mosses, as well as mature secondary forest. The nominate also inhabits dry forest in Bolovia. All three typically range in elevation from 1,000 to 2,000 m (3,300 to 6,600 ft) but can be found as high as 2,225 m (7,300 ft).[4]
Only the nominate form of versicolored barbet's diet and foraging technique have been studied; those of the other forms are assumed to be similar. About 80% of its diet is fruits and seeds and the remainder mostly arthropods. It forages alone, in pairs, and sometimes with mixed-species foraging flocks, usually between 10 and 25 m (33 and 82 ft) above the ground. It seeks arthropod prey by poking and tearing clusters of dead leaves.[4]
The subspecies of the versicolored barbet have not been studied individually. The species apparently breeds between July and December. One nest (of the nominate) has been described; it was in a tree hole and contained three eggs.[4]
No differences are known in the vocalizations of the versicolored barbet's subspecies. Its song is " a fast, low-pitched trill" [1].[4]
The IUCN has separately assessed the three subspecies of versicolored barbet. The "blue-moustached" and "blue-cowled" forms are considered of Least Concern, though until 2020 the latter had been rated Near Threatened.[5][6] The "blue-chinned" form is considered Near Threatened. It "could be undergoing a moderately rapid decline...[and] the population may be moderately small".[7]
Male illustrated by Prêtre, 1838
Male illustrated by Keulemans, 1871
Male of E. v. steerii illustrated by Smit, 1878
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Quincy Diggs - Wikipedia | Quincy Johan Diggs (born April 8, 1990) is an American professional basketball player, who most recently played for Kaposvári KK of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A in Hungary.
In the 2011–11 season, the Akron Zips qualified for the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Notre Dame with Diggs scoring 11 points in the matchup.[1] The following season Akron lost in the MAC tournament final to Ohio when Diggs's missed a desperation last second shot.[2] The Zips participate in the National Invitation Tournament in 2012, however, they lost in the first round to Northwestern despite 18 points from Diggs.[3] Diggs averaged 8.5 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game as a junior and was MAC Sixth Man of the Year in 2012, but was suspended from the university for the next season,[4] in what was later revealed to be fights with his girlfriend.[5] After a year break Diggs returned to the team, which lost in the semifinals of the MAC championship after overtime against the eventual winner Western Michigan.[6] This time Akron participated in the Collegeinsider.com Tournament (CIT), in which they lost 97–91 to IPFW in the first round despite 23 points from Diggs, which brought Diggs's career in college to an end.[7] As a senior, Diggs posted 12.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists and was named Second Team All-Mid-American Conference.[8]
Diggs signed with Redwell Gunners Oberwart in 2015 and averaged 20.0 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game. He was named MVP of the Austrian league.[8] In the 2016–2017 season, Diggs competed for Eisbaeren Bremerhaven. He averaged 13.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game. In June 2017 he signed with the Czech team CEZ Nymburk.[9] Diggs averaged 9.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game with Nymburk. In November 2017, he inked with Boulazac Basket Dordogne.[10] On July 24, 2018, Diggs moved to Greece for Kolossos Rodou. He was released from the Greek team on April 5, 2019.
On April 19, 2019, Diggs signed with Okapi Aalstar of the Belgium Pro Basketball League. [11] He later joined PVSK Panthers of the Hungarian league and averaged 13.1 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game. On September 9, 2020, Diggs returned to Redwell Gunners Oberwart.[12] He averaged 14 points, 5.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game. On August 10, 2021, Diggs signed with Fribourg Olympic Basket of the Swiss Basketball League.[13]
On January 2, 2022, Diggs signed with Kaposvári KK of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A.[14]
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HMS Bonetta (1907) - Wikipedia |
HMS Bonetta was a British torpedo boat destroyer which was later classified as part of the B class. The ship was built as a Private Venture, without a specific order, by the Jarrow shipbuilder Palmers and was launched in 1907. She was purchased for the British Royal Navy in 1909 and served through the First World War. Bonetta was sold for scrap in 1920.
The shipbuilder Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company laid down two destroyers on speculation (i.e. without a specific order) on 1 September 1905, as Yard Number 786 and 787.[1][a] The two destroyers were of generally similar size and design to the Royal Navy's earlier "thirty knotter" destroyers (later redesignated as the B, C or D class depending on the number of funnels), with a turtleback forecastle,[3] with the Royal Navy having abandoned the "thirty-knotter" type for the River-class destroyers, with a higher raised forecastle instead of a turtleback, and sacrificing high speed in sea trials in favour of greater seaworthiness.[4] The second destroyer, which would later become HMS Bonetta, was launched on 14 January 1907.[1] Palmer's was unable to find a customer for these ships, however,[5] and offered to sell them to the Royal Navy on 5 December 1907 for £70,000–80,000 each. The Admiralty rejected the offer in February 1908, but in April two destroyers, Tiger and Gala, were lost in accidents and it was decided to order the two stock ships from Palmer's as replacements. A provisional order for the two ships was placed on 8 May 1908, at a price of £60,000 each, depending on successful trials, with a speed of 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) being required.[6]
Unlike most "thirty-knotter"s, the new ships were powered by steam turbines rather than triple expansion engines, with four Reed boilers feeding steam at 250 pounds per square inch (1,700 kPa) to Parsons direct drive turbines which drove two shafts, generating 6,000 shaft horsepower (4,500 kW).[2][7][b] The ships had four funnels, with the middle two funnels closely spaced.[2]
Bonetta was 220 feet 10 inches (67.31 m) long overall and 215 feet 3 inches (65.61 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 feet 0+1⁄4 inch (6.41 m) and a draught of 6 feet 5+1⁄2 inches (1.97 m). She displaced 408 long tons (415 t) normal load and 440 long tons (450 t) deep load.[9] The ship's stem was higher than earlier turtleback destroyers, while rather than the narrow conning tower of the earlier destroyers, Albacore had a full width bridge situated further aft, which was claimed by Palmer's to make the ship much dryer in heavy seas.[1][2] Gun armament consisted of three QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns, with two situated side by side on top of the bridge and one aft.[2] Two 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes were carried,[3] while the ship had a complement of 56 officers and men.[9]
It was hoped that the two ships, which were both afloat and in good condition, could be accepted quickly, and delivery was expected within two to three months of the order being placed. Official sea trials demonstrated that the ships could not reach the required speed, with Bonetta' sister ship Albacore only reaching a maximum of 26.75 knots (49.54 km/h; 30.78 mph).[10] This may have been due to more realistic trial conditions.[2] The Admiralty finally agreed to accept Albacore and her sister ship Bonetta on 3 March 1909, paying £45,000 for each.[11] HMS Bonetta was commissioned on 27 March that year.[12] In June 1909, Bonetta, part of the Devonport Flotilla, was brought up to a full complement from a nucleus crew to take part in that year's naval manoeuvres.[13] Bonetta, now part of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, was again mobilized in June 1910 for the manoeuvres.[14]
Bonetta was part of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth in 1911,[15] and on 3 April 1911 the ferry Harlequin drifted onto Bonetta as Bonetta was passing through Spithead on the way back to Portsmouth.[16] On 5 July 1911 the destroyer Osprey, another member of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, collided with Bonetta while leaving Berehaven harbour. While Osprey was unharmed, Bonetta's bows were damaged, requiring a return to Portsmouth.[17] On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on appearance.[18][19] As a four-funneled ship, Bonetta was listed as a B-class destroyer on 1 October 1913.[3]
In March 1913 Bonetta was listed as a member of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla based at Portsmouth.[20] By February 1914 she was attached to the Lamlash Submarine Flotilla based at Devonport,[21] and in March to the Ninth Submarine Flotilla, still based at Devonport.[22] Bonetta remained as a tender to submarine flotillas throughout the First World War, both on the Clyde and the Tyne.[23]
On 19 July 1918, she attended the rescue operations of SM UB-110, arriving late on the scene after an alleged massacre she picked up five survivors, including the captain, but one of them, the engineer officer died on deck immediately after being taken out of the water. The German captain, despite the ordeal he had come through, proved himself to be a very self-possessed individual when examined in the chart room. He expressed the opinion that Germany would shortly win the war, but he was a long way out in his calculation, as Germany was defeated six weeks later. Some of his sailors had not the same guts, but had got on their knees and begged for their lives on seeing officers of the `Bonetta' carrying arms. Webley & Scott automatic pistols hanging round their necks by lanyards were always put on when 'action' was sounded. The Bonetta's duties around that time had included picking up many, badly wounded, survivors, and dead, from fishing boats, which had been shelled by a German submarine, off the entrance to the Tyne. Perhaps unsurprisingly the crew of the Bonetta were not made aware of any massacre. The first lieutenant on board was to relate "A few weeks later we entered the Tyne for bunkers, which we obtained from a collier lying at Jarrow. Shortly after securing alongside the collier, a fishing vessel the 'Baden Powell' came alongside and her skipper invited the crew to help themselves to his catch, Apparently he was one of the survivors we had picked up and, on recognising our boat as we passed the fish market at North Shields, he had cast off the fish quay and come after us. On another occasion... we were ordered out to search for several German prisoners, who had succeeded in escaping from Stobo camp, near Peebles in South Scotland and had set off for Germany in a fishing boat, which they had taken from the beach, somewhere North of Blyth. We came across them about one hundred miles off the home coast at dusk, sailing along with a nice fair wind. If we had been a few minutes later they would probably have been quite safe as it would have been too dark for us to have spotted them. Needless to relate they were very disappointed when we 'closed them' and they did not show any eagerness to come on board when they were ordered to do so, but after firing a few rifle shots over their heads, they hastily scrambled on board, one of them injuring his leg in the process".[24] She was sold for scrap to Thos. W. Ward on 7 June 1920 and broken up at their Briton Ferry shipbreaking yard.[23]
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Embassy of Peru, Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia | The Embassy of Peru in Washington, D.C., also known as the Emily J. Wilkins House, is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Peru to the United States. It is located at 1700 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood.[1]
The embassy also operates Consulate-Generals in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hartford, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Paterson, New Jersey, San Francisco.[2]
Since May 2023, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra has been the ambassador of Peru to the United States.
The Residence of the Ambassador is Battery Terrill, a Colonial Revival-styled mansion located in Northwest Washington, D.C. The 25-acre estate of wooded land adjoining Rock Creek Park is considered the largest private property in Washington, D.C.[original research?][citation needed]
The building was designed by Jules Henri de Sibour.
Beriah Wilkins lived there; he married Emily Wilkins. Their son John F. Wilkins inherited the property in 1910. He married Julia C. Wilkins; they entertained there.[original research?][citation needed]
In 1946, Australia purchased the property. On January 31, 1973, Australia sold the property to the Republic of Peru.[3]
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Clifton station (Staten Island Railway) - Wikipedia |
The Clifton station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Clifton, Staten Island, New York. This station was the original terminal of the Staten Island Railway from 1860 until 1886. The station was known as Vanderbilt's Landing, and was used as a transfer point for passengers going to Manhattan via ferries to South Ferry.
This station was originally known as Vanderbilt's Landing and opened on April 23, 1860 with the opening of the Staten Island Railway, and was the northern terminal for the line. The line extended from Vanderbilt's Landing to Eltingville.[1][2][3] The station was also once known as Vanderbilt Avenue.[4] It also included a ferry port with ferries to Stapleton, Tompkinsville, and South Ferry in Manhattan.[5] The port was replaced by Saint George Terminal on March 7, 1886, which was also the day before Clifton became the northern terminus of the South Beach Branch, a status it maintained until 1953.
In 2019, the MTA announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.[6]
Clifton station is located at Norwood Avenue and Bay Street on the main line. It is located on an embankment with side platforms and beige canopies.
The SIR's Clifton Yard is next to the northbound track, with yard leads and signals north of Clifton station. South of the station are the remains of the South Beach Branch turnout and a dismantled bridge.[7] To the south, a spur on a pair of I-beams on concrete pillars is the location of an old coal, concrete, and lumber business. South of this station, the SIR main line turns southwest to Tottenville, and no longer runs along the harbor front.
Due to the wide space from trains caused by the platform's curvature, the last car for St. George-bound trains do not open here.[8]
The north end has exits on both platforms that lead to Bay Street. The southbound platform has winding stairs to Townsend Avenue while the northbound platform has stairs under the right-of-way to Norwood Avenue. The northbound platform also has a second staircase on Bay and Edgewater Streets, which is not present on the southbound side.[9]
On Bay Street (sidewalk level) and facing the platform above, are remains of the original steps up to the old station platform, which became inaccessible when the platforms were extended in the 1990s. On the southbound side there is a station house on the outside, but only a shelter on the platform. Some of the boarded up windows and layout of the brick shelter suggest that it was originally a station house.
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Lamar Rogers - Wikipedia | Lamar Rogers (born November 5, 1967) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by and played for the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991 and 1992.[1] Rogers played college football at Auburn University.
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Olympic torrent salamander - Wikipedia |
The Olympic torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus) is a species of salamander in the family Rhyacotritonidae. This is a small salamander (up to 10 cm total length) that lives in clear, cold, mountain streams. It is medium to dark brown and may have a few small light spots on the sides and small dark spots on the tail; it is bright yellow on the belly, usually with some dark spots. Torrent salamanders typically have short snouts and relatively large eyes. As in other torrent salamanders, adult males have square-edged lobes behind the cloaca. These salamanders live at the edges of clear, cold, mountain streams; they can be abundant under gravel at stream edges and in the spray zones of waterfalls. During rainy seasons, they are occasionally found under objects on land away from streams.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, and freshwater springs.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Utopia Falls - Wikipedia |
Utopia Falls is a Canadian TV series that combines science fiction with hip hop.[1] Created by R.T. Thorne[2] with Joseph Mallozzi as showrunner,[3] the show premiered on the streaming service Hulu on February 14, 2020.
In the distant future, a colony of humans live in a city called New Babyl under a dome to protect them from the aftermath of a great war that killed all other life on Earth. The city is divided into four sectors—Progress, Industry, Nature, and Reform—and is ruled over by a governing authority known as the Tribunal.
A yearly performing arts contest called the Exemplar[4] is held for teens who have turned 16.[5] While competing, a group of the competitors discover an ancient archive hidden in the forest on the outskirts of New Babyl filled with forbidden historical, cultural and musical relics which forces them to question everything they have been taught.
Each sector in New Babyl has a distinctive coloured uniform that is a type of jumpsuit/overall. Progress citizens wear blue, Nature citizens wear green, Industry citizens wear Orange, and Reform citizens wear grey.
Principal photography for the first season began in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 1, 2019.[7]
Series creator R.T. Thorne says of the show:
People definitely looked at me weird when I first threw it out there a few years ago, just this idea of science fiction and hip-hop. But what was interesting to me, is that even though they didn’t know what to make of it, everybody wanted to understand more. There are black nerds out there that love whatever they love and it’s a beautiful time to be able to create in that space and know that it will find people or people will find it. I’m happy that I get to show that to other black kids walking around so they know that that is not out of our reach. That it’s a reality that a black woman can lead the world.[8] Utopia Falls premiered on Hulu in the United States and CBC Gem in Canada on February 14, 2020, with all 10 episodes available to stream.[9] It is not yet known which overseas territories that do not have access to Hulu or CBC Gem will broadcast the show. The show premiered on South Korean channel AXN in July 2023.
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave season 1 an approval rating of 43%, with an average of 4.51/10 based on reviews from 14 critics.[10] Metacritic gave the series an average score of 39 out of 100, based on reviews from 5 critics.[11]
Tai Gooden of Nerdist compared the premise to that of the Hunger Games series and Divergent, and said: "it’s a musical sci-fi dystopian mystery/drama where kids try to dismantle a system through creative dance. It is both unlike anything on TV and exactly like a lot of what fans have seen before in terms of typical genre tropes.[12] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter said: "think of Utopia Falls as a Child's First Guide to Dystopia and a Child's First Guide to Hip-Hop. It skews really young, really basic and really simplistic, but if you can accept how primitive and occasionally even amateurish it is, maybe you'll be able to fixate on the terrific soundtrack and promising young cast and ignore how many times you've seen basically this story delivered with vastly more polish.[2]
Nicole Hill of Den of Geek wrote "Utopia Falls, Hulu’s latest TV series offering, has a premise straight out of young adult fiction. Every year, New Babyl hosts 'The Exemplar,' which sees twenty-four teenagers participate in a musical competition to win the title, and make history. It’s Divergent meets Step Up and how you feel about either or both of those franchises is probably a good barometer for how you will feel about Utopia Falls."[13] Joel Keller of Decider said: "Hulu is billing Utopia Falls as 'the first ever sci-fi hip-hop television series,' and it’s easy to see why such a thing hasn’t been created before. Sci-fi has been a generally white genre, and one that’s more concerned with drama than dancing, singing and rapping. That may sound like we’re being wiseasses, but nothing could be further from the truth; the idea that a sci-fi show could be made from a younger, more diverse perspective is a welcome change. But is Utopia Falls that show?"[14]
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Făurei, Neamț - Wikipedia | Făurei is a commune in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Budești, Climești, Făurei and Micșunești.
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Siege of Carlisle (December 1745) - Wikipedia |
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The siege of Carlisle (December 1745) took place from 21 to 30 December during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when a Jacobite garrison surrendered to government forces led by the Duke of Cumberland.
The town had been captured by the Jacobite army that invaded England in November 1745 and reached as far south as Derby, before turning back on 6 December. They re-entered Carlisle on 19 December; leaving a garrison of 400 men, the main army continued its retreat into Scotland the next day.
Advance elements of the government army reached Carlisle on 21 December, but siege operations were delayed until their heavy artillery arrived six days later. They commenced firing on 28 December, and the Jacobites surrendered on 30th; 384 prisoners were taken, some of whom were later executed and many others sentenced to transportation to the West Indies.
The Jacobites crossed into England on 8 November and reached Carlisle on 10th. Previously an important border fortress, its defences had been neglected since the 1707 Union but it remained a formidable challenge for the Jacobites, who had no siege equipment. They insisted on the surrender of both town and castle, threatening to burn them if not; although Jacobite officer O'Sullivan later admitted this was a bluff, Carlisle capitulated on 15 November. Leaving a garrison of 100 men under Colonel John Hamilton to hold the castle, the army continued south.[1]
After turning back from Derby on 6 December, the Jacobites reached Carlisle on 19 December and after considerable discussion, continued into Scotland on 20th, leaving a garrison of around 400. It is generally agreed Prince Charles did so to demonstrate his determination to return, but its wisdom was almost unanimously condemned, both at the time and by historians since.[2] One Jacobite officer, James Johnstone, later recorded he refused an order to remain with the garrison, as he 'would never be a victim by choice.'[3]
Hamilton commanded the castle, with the town held by Colonel Francis Towneley, colonel of the Jacobite Manchester Regiment, the only significant unit recruited in England. He held a commission in the French army from 1728 to 1736, which had been renewed in 1744, and the Jacobite cavalry officer Sir John MacDonald viewed him as having "the greatest intelligence and prudence" of those on Prince Charles' staff.[4] This opinion was not universally shared; he had a reputation for being hot-tempered and one of his subordinates James Bradshaw transferred to another unit, rather than continue serving under him.[5]
Government records show that of the 396 prisoners taken when the garrison surrendered, 114 were English members of the Manchester Regiment, 274 were Scots, mostly from Lowland units like Glenbuckets' and Lord Ogilvie's regiments, while 8 were French. The Duke of Newcastle later suggested the garrison was made up of 'the worst of their troops;' many of the Manchester recruits were unarmed, while a subsequent inventory showed most of the 46 pieces of artillery available were unused, as the defenders had plenty of powder but very little ammunition.[6]
On 21 December, advance elements of Cumberland's army arrived outside the town; over the next few days, their numbers increased to over 5,000, including a contingent from Newcastle under George Wade. In their attempts to catch up with the retreating Jacobites, the heavy guns had been left at Lichfield and Cumberland was forced to wait for additional artillery to be brought up; meanwhile, his troops blockaded the town and began constructing gun positions.[7]
Taking even a rundown fort was not easy, a fact acknowledged by Cumberland, who wanted to prosecute the civic officials who surrendered the town to the Jacobites in November, despite their complete lack of siege equipment. The Duke of Richmond, grandson of Charles II and one of Cumberland's officers, wrote to Newcastle on 24 December predicting the capture of Carlisle would take some time.[8] Towneley reinforced the defences and his men fired 'upon every body who has shown himself;' while this did little damage, it demonstrated an assault would face determined resistance.[7]
The first battery of siege guns arrived on 25 December; more arrived on 27th from Whitehaven, along with 70-80 naval gunners under William Belford, an experienced artillery specialist who served under Cumberland in Flanders. On 28th, they began firing on the castle and apart from a short pause caused by shortage of ammunition, continued until the morning of 30 December, when Hamilton offered to surrender.[8]
In contests between regular armies, the garrison would have surrendered on terms, which at the minimum meant being treated as prisoners of war; as rebels, Cumberland only granted their lives, subject to the 'King's pleasure' ie they would not be summarily executed but receive a trial. Towneley opposed surrender and felt they could have held out for better terms; he was over ruled and the garrison capitulated on the afternoon of 30 December.[7]
Due to fears of a possible French invasion of south-East England, Cumberland returned to London, sending Henry Hawley to Edinburgh. His immediate objective was to secure Lowland Scotland but an attempt to lift the siege of Stirling Castle was defeated at Falkirk Muir on 17 January. The Jacobites were unable to follow up their victory and retreated to Inverness on 1 February; the rebellion ended on 16 April with defeat at Culloden.[9]
Two Irish officers, Captains Brown and Maxwell, escaped over the walls and made their way to Scotland.[10] Prince Charles at first refused to believe their report but the loss of nearly 400 men for little gain placed further strain on the already poor relationship between him and his Scottish officers.[11]
Most of the Carlisle garrison were initially held in a dungeon in the castle without food or water for several days; in January, nearly 200 were transferred to York Castle, where they joined 80 prisoners taken at Clifton Moor.[12] 27 members of the Manchester Regiment were executed, including nine officers who were hanged, drawn and quartered in London on 30 July 1746; they included Towneley, whose argument he was a French officer was rejected by the court.[13] Hamilton, along with a number of others including James Bradshaw and Sir John Wedderburn, was executed on 28 November.[14]
In all, 3,471 Jacobite prisoners were indicted for treason; in addition to those from the Manchester Regiment, 93 suffered death, including 40 recaptured British army deserters. 33 of these executions were carried out between October and November 1746 at Harraby Hill outside Carlisle, most of whom are thought to have been members of the garrison.[15] Of the remainder, 650 died awaiting trial, 900 pardoned and the rest transported; the 1747 Act of Indemnity pardoned any remaining prisoners, among them Flora MacDonald.[16]
One of those captured at Carlisle was Richard Riding, an 24 year old unemployed weaver who joined the Manchester Regiment in November 1745; in May 1747, he was one of 150 Jacobites transported to the West Indies. En route, the ship was taken by a French privateer and the prisoners released in the French colony of Martinique; some eventually made their way home, others went on to North America but the majority disappear from the historical record, including Riding.[17]
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Clearing House Electronic Subregister System - Wikipedia | The Australian Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (commonly abbreviated to CHESS) is an electronic book entry register of holdings of approved securities that facilitates the transfer and settlement of share market transactions between CHESS participants (including stockbrokers on behalf of their clients, and large institutional investors on their own behalf) as well as speed up the registration of the transfer of securities. CHESS was developed by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and is managed by the ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation (ASTC), a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX.[1]
Under Australian corporate law, every company must maintain registers of security holders. Australian listed companies enter into a contractual arrangement with ASTC for ASTC to maintain a CHESS subregister, as agent for the issuer. The CHESS subregister is one of two subregisters that together make up the issuer’s register. Australian companies listed on the ASX are obliged to establish a CHESS subregister, and all equity securities are held through CHESS.
The parties who are permitted to access CHESS are referred to as participants, who are either members of ASX (e.g., brokers) or are otherwise approved non-brokers. Each participant is allocated a unique participant code. A security holder on CHESS must be either a CHESS participant or be sponsored by one (e.g., a client of a broker). Sponsored uncertificated security holders are allocated a unique holder identifying code (HIN) in CHESS, which together with the participant's code provides the authority under which CHESS will allow a transfer of securities.
Only the designated controlling participant can initiate transactions on CHESS in relation to a holding. It is a criminal offence to effect an unauthorised transaction, whether the client suffers a loss or not; and a broker's client is entitled to compensation for loss suffered as a result of an unauthorised transaction. Failing to obtain compensation from the broker, the client is covered by the National Guarantee Fund for losses arising from any unauthorised transfer of shares by a broker.[1]
Security holders who have uncertificated CHESS holdings, through a sponsorship agreement with a CHESS participant, will receive periodic holding statements directly from ASX Settlement Administration, while those who have Issuer Sponsored holdings will receive similar statements from the company registry. These statements provide a record of transfers, allotments, etc. for uncertificated holdings.[1] Share certificates are not produced.
When a trade takes place, settlement takes place two trading days (T+2) after the trade. On settlement day, the controlling participant initiates ASX Settlement transaction, and ASX Settlement invokes the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's SWIFT FIN service, the service which sends financial information from one financial institution to another,[2][3] to send an interbank request to the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS). The message is regulated by Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) under the Regulations for High Value Clearing System Framework (CS4).[4]
Based on the information provided by SWIFT FIN, RITS makes a final and irrevocable settlement by the simultaneous crediting and debiting the participants’ Exchange Settlement Accounts (ESAs) held at the Reserve Bank.[5]
RITS notifies ASX Settlement of the transfer of the gross amount across ESAs, and ASX Settlement messages CHESS, which finalises the transaction at the participant level by recording the transfer of the shareholding on the CHESS subregister from one security holder to the other. It is then the responsibility of the issuing company to complete the administrative aspects of the transaction, such as notifying both parties of the change of shareholding, as well to ensure it has the details of the new security holder, such as bank details, address for communications, tax file number, etc.
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Bush Hill Park railway station - Wikipedia |
Bush Hill Park is a London Overground station on the Enfield Town branch of the Lea Valley lines, serving the neighbourhood of Bush Hill Park in the London Borough of Enfield, north London. It is 9 miles 69 chains (15.9 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Edmonton Green and Enfield Town, the terminus.
Its three-letter station code is BHK and it is in Travelcard zone 5. In 2015 the line and Bush Hill Park transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia operation to become part of the London Overground network, and it was added to the Tube map.[2][3]
The station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1880[4] following housing development plans arranged by the North London Estates Company.[5] Development in the area expanded after the railway station was opened.[6]
The typical off-peak service (including Sundays) is two trains per hour to Enfield Town and two trains per hour to London Liverpool Street.[7]
During morning and evening peak times, service frequency is increased, typically to four trains per hour in each direction. On Tottenham Hotspur football match-days, additional trains run, but not all of them continue to Liverpool Street, with some starting/terminating at White Hart Lane or Seven Sisters.
London Buses routes 192, 217, 231, 377 and school route 617 serve the station.[8][9]
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Fuliji railway station - Wikipedia | Fuliji railway station (Chinese: 符离集站) is a railway station in Yongqiao District, Suzhou, Anhui, China. The station is situated in Fuli town at the junction between the Beijing–Shanghai railway, Suzhou–Huai'an railway, and Fuliji–Jiahezhai railway.
This station was opened on the Tianjin–Pukou railway in 1912.[1] The Tianjin–Pukou railway has since become part of the Beijing–Shanghai railway. Passenger services at this station and nearby Suixi railway station were suspended on 1 April 2006.[2] The closure of the station was noted as leading to a reduction in tourists arriving with a knock on effect on the local roast chicken industry.[1]
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Grade II* listed buildings in Maldon (district) - Wikipedia |
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There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Maldon in Essex.
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Sadikpur, Siwan - Wikipedia |
Sadikpur is a village in the Siwan District of Bihar, India. It is situated on the Pachrukhi - Tarwara state highway.
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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group - Wikipedia | The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) began in 1955 as one of the first publicly funded cooperative groups to perform multi-center clinical trials for cancer research.[1] A cooperative group in oncology constitutes a large network of private and public medical institutions developing protocols for cancer treatments. Institutional members include universities, medical centers, governments, and other cooperative groups. Research results are often provided through scientific publications, but the group also works closely with the pharmaceutical industry to test potential cancer drugs.
According to ECOG's website, there are "more than 90 active clinical trials in all types of adult malignancies. Annual accrual is 6,000 patients, with more than 20,000 patients in follow-up."[2]
ECOG's coordinating center is based in Boston, Massachusetts while its Group Chair's office is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - Wikipedia | The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science, social theory, and economics. The editor-in-chief is Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge). It was established in 1987 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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George Herzog - Wikipedia | George Herzog (October 19, 1851 – September 16, 1920) was an American interior designer and decorative painter, best known for his work on Philadelphia Masonic Temple.
Born in Munich to German landscape painter Hermann Ottomar Herzog, he trained under the ornamental painter Joseph Schwarzmann, and at Munich's Royal Academy of Arts. His family immigrated to the United States in 1871. He became a partner in the Philadelphia decorating firm of Otto & Konstantine Kaiser in 1873, and assumed management of the firm in 1874, following the Kaisers' deaths. His work received prizes at the 1876 Centennial Exposition for upholstery design and fresco painting.[1]
He specialized in ceiling and wall decoration, and sometimes oil portraiture. The goddesses playing musical instruments in the music room ceiling mural of Albert H. Disston's house may be portraits of the client's relatives. The wall murals in the dining room of industrialist Peter A. B. Widener's house featured portraits of the client's children in Renaissance garb looking down from a balcony.[2] Herzog's ornate interiors often combined stencilled geometric patterns with painted floral and classical-inspired scenes:
Herzog's interiors—commonly consisting of wall as well as ceiling treatments—mixed meticulous German training with late-Victorian American tastes. Their closest analog is the oeurvre of the Herter Brothers, European-trained partners who designed interiors for New York's elite. Like the Herter Brothers, Herzog frequently exercised control over the entire interior design process, including walls, ceilings, furniture, draperies and glass.[3] He decorated major rooms at Philadelphia City Hall, including the Mayor's Reception Room, the Supreme Court Room, the Judges' Consultation Room and the Law Library. He was a member of the Philadelphia Masonic Temple and the Union League of Philadelphia, and completed multiple commissions for each. He decorated the city and country houses of industrialists, churches, and Keneseth Israel, the largest synagogue in Philadelphia. He did work at Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis, Tennessee. He opened an office in New York City, and decorated interiors there and on Long Island, including the Harmonie Club with McKim, Mead & White.
Louis Comfort Tiffany formed Associated American Artists in 1879, assembling a team of artisans to create a comprehensive (if short-lived) design company. Perhaps in imitation, a team of Philadelphia artisans – Herzog (decorative painting and textiles), Charles F. Vollmer (furniture and cabinetry), Alfred Godwin (stained glass), J. E. McClees (art and imported goods), Sharpless & Watt (decorative tiles and metalwork) – joined in 1893 to form Associated Art Workers. They opened a designer showcase house at 1518 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, but the company appears to have disbanded by 1895.[4]
Most of Herzog's work does not survive, it was demolished, destroyed or painted over. His most-intact interiors are at the Philadelphia Masonic Temple, where he designed roughly 80% of the decorative painting.[5] Collections of his watercolor renderings are at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Masonic Temple, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Egyptian Hall, Philadelphia Masonic Temple.
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Chartbreak - Wikipedia |
Chartbreak is a 1986 novel by British author Gillian Cross.[1]
A girl called Janis Finch, known as "Finch", leaves home due to tension between her and her stepfather, and meets an unsigned rock band called Kelp in the cafe of a motorway service station. She joins the band and they achieve chart success, including an appearance on Top of the Pops for their single "Face It". The lead singer of the band is Christie Joyce, and the other members are Job, Dave and Rollo.[1]
The text was a source for OCR A-Level English Literature.[2]
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Chau Thanh, Tay Ninh - Wikipedia | Châu Thành is a township (thị trấn) and capital of Châu Thành District, Tây Ninh Province, Vietnam.[1]
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Pseudalidus fulvofasciculatus - Wikipedia |
Pseudalidus fulvofasciculatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Pseudalidus. It was described by Pic in 1926.[1]
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Metro (design language) - Wikipedia |
Microsoft Design Language (or MDL),[1] previously known as Metro, is a design language created by Microsoft. This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes. Early examples of MDL principles can be found in Encarta 95 and MSN 2.0.[2][3] The design language evolved in Windows Media Center and Zune and was formally introduced as Metro during the unveiling of Windows Phone 7. It has since been incorporated into several of the company's other products, including the Xbox 360 system software and the Xbox One system software, Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Outlook.com.[4][5] Before the "Microsoft design language" title became official, Microsoft executive Qi Lu referred to it as the modern UI design language in his MIXX conference keynote speech.[6] According to Microsoft, "Metro" has always been a codename and was never meant as a final product, but news websites attribute this change to trademark issues.[4]
Microsoft Design Language 2 (MDL2) was developed alongside Windows 10.[7][8] In 2017, the Fluent Design language extended it.
The design language is based on the design principles of classic Swiss graphic design. Early glimpses of this style could be seen in Windows Media Center for Windows XP Media Center Edition,[9] which favored text as the primary form of navigation, as well as early concepts of Neptune.[10] This interface carried over into later iterations of Media Center. In 2006, Zune refreshed its interface using these principles. Microsoft designers decided to redesign the interface and with more focus on clean typography and less on UI chrome.[11] These principles and the new Zune UI were carried over to Windows Phone first released in 2010 (from which much was drawn for Windows 8). The Zune Desktop Client was also redesigned with an emphasis on typography and clean design that was different from the Zune's previous Portable Media Center based UI. Flat colored "live tiles" were introduced into the design language during the early Windows Phones studies.
In an interview[with whom?] it was explained[by whom?] that different Microsoft divisions use each other's products, and the extension of Metro was not a company-wide approach but instead teams such as Xbox liking Metro and adapting it for its own products. Many of Microsoft's divisions ended up adopting Metro.[12]
Microsoft Design Language 2 (MDL2) was developed alongside Windows 10. This version introduced a new set of widgets, including date pickers, toggles and switches, and reduced the border thicknesses for all user interface elements.[7][8]
Microsoft's design team cites as an inspiration for the design language signs commonly found at public transport systems.[13] The design language places emphasis on good typography and has large text that catches the eye. Microsoft sees the design language as "sleek, quick, modern" and a "refresh" from the icon-based interfaces of Windows, Android, and iOS.[14] All instances use fonts based on the Segoe font family designed by Steve Matteson at Agfa Monotype and licensed to Microsoft. For the Zune, Microsoft created a custom version called Zegoe UI,[15] and for Windows Phone Microsoft created the Segoe WP font family. The fonts mostly differ only in minor details. More obvious differences between Segoe UI and Segoe WP are apparent in their respective numerical characters. The Segoe UI font in Windows 8 had obvious differences – similar to Segoe WP. Characters with notable typographic changes included 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, I, and Q.
Joe Belfiore was one of the architects of Metro. At Nokia World 2011, Belfiore explained that the UI aims to be "artistic" in textual elements and iconography. He also mentioned the "motion" of the UI, specifically in Windows Phone, of the Live Tiles, moving dots, and kinetic scrolling.[16]
Microsoft designed the design language specifically to consolidate groups of common tasks to speed up usage. It achieves this by excluding superfluous graphics and instead relying on the actual content to function as the main UI. The resulting interfaces favor larger hubs over smaller buttons and often feature laterally scrolling canvases. Page titles are usually large and consequently also take advantage of lateral scrolling.
Animation plays a large part. Microsoft recommends consistent acknowledgement of transitions, and user interactions (such as presses or swipes) by some form of natural animation or motion. This aims to give the user the impression of an "alive" and responsive UI with "an added sense of depth".[17][18]
Early response to the language was generally positive. In a review of the Zune HD, Engadget said, "Microsoft continues its push towards big, big typography here, providing a sophisticated, neatly designed layout that's almost as functional as it is attractive."[19] CNET complimented the design language, saying, "it's a bit more daring and informal than the tight, sterile icon grids and Rolodex menus of the iPhone and iPod Touch."[20]
At its IDEA 2011 Ceremony, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) gave Windows Phone 7, which uses the UI, its "Gold Interactive" award, its "People's Choice Award", and a "Best in Show" award.[21][22] Isabel Ancona, the User Experience Consultant at IDSA, explained why Windows Phone won:[23]
The innovation here is the fluidity of experience and focus on the data, without using traditional user interface conventions of windows and frames. Data becomes the visual elements and controls. Simple gestures and transitions guide the user deeper into content. A truly elegant and unique experience. It was reported that the UI was better received by women and first-time users.[24]
Criticism particularly focused on the use of all caps text. With the rise of Internet usage, critics have compared this to a computer program shouting at its user. IT journalist Lee Hutchinson described Microsoft's use of the practice in the macOS version of OneNote as terrible, claiming that it is "cursed with insane, non-standard application window menus IN ALL CAPS that doesn't so much violate OS X's design conventions as it does take them out behind the shed, pour gasoline on them, and set them on fire."[25]
With the arrival of Windows 8, the operating system's user interface and its use of the design language drew generally negative critical responses. On 25 August 2012, Peter Bright of Ars Technica reviewed the preview release of Windows 8, dedicating the first part of the review to a comparison between the Start menu designs used by Windows 8 and Windows 7. Recounting their pros and cons, Peter Bright concluded that the Start menu in Windows 8 (dubbed Start screen), though not devoid of problems, was a clear winner. However, he concluded that Windows 8's user interface was frustrating and that the various aspects of the user interface did not work well together.[26] Woody Leonhard was even more critical when he said, "From the user's standpoint, Windows 8 is a failure – an awkward mishmash that pulls the user in two directions at once."[27]
In addition to the changes to the Start menu, Windows 8 takes a more modal approach with its use of full-screen apps that steer away from reliance on the icon-based desktop interface. In doing so, however, Microsoft has shifted its focus away from multitasking and business productivity.[28]
In August 2012, The Verge announced that an internal memorandum had been sent out to developers and Microsoft employees announcing the decision to "discontinue the use" of the term "Metro" because of "discussions with an important European partner", and that they were "working on a replacement term".[29] Technology news outlets Ars Technica,[30] TechRadar,[31] CNET,[32] Engadget[33] and Network World[34] and mainstream press Bits Blog from The New York Times Company[35] and the BBC News Online[36] published that the partner mentioned in the memo could be one of Microsoft's retail partners, German company Metro AG, as the name had the potential to infringe on their "Metro" trademark. Microsoft later stated that the reason for de-emphasizing the name was not related to any current litigation, and that "Metro" was only an internal project codename,[37] despite having heavily promoted the brand to the public.[38] In some contexts, the company began using the term "Modern" or the more generic "Windows 8" modifier to refer to the new design, possibly as a placeholder.[39]
In September 2012, "Microsoft design language" was adopted as the official name for the design style.[1][40] The term was used on Microsoft Developer Network documentation[41][42][43][44] and at the 2012 Microsoft Build conference to refer to the design language.[1][45]
In a related change, Microsoft dropped use of the phrase "Metro-style apps" to refer to mobile apps distributed via Windows Store.[40]
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I Tell It Like It Used to Be - Wikipedia | "I Tell It Like It Used to Be" is a song written by Ron Hellard, Michael Garvin and Bucky Jones, and recorded by American country music artist T. Graham Brown. It was released in October 1985 as the first single and title track from the album I Tell It Like It Used to Be. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]
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Katherine Rowe - Wikipedia |
Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William & Mary on February 20, 2018. She began her service on July 2, 2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III, who had served as president since 2008.[2] After seven months in office, Rowe was formally inaugurated February 8, 2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.[3]
Rowe, a Shakespearean scholar, is recognized for her work in the digital innovation of the liberal arts. As the guest editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly's special issue on New Media, Rowe led the first open review of a traditional humanities journal on the web. The New York Times deemed the special issue "trailblazing."[4] In a 2020 special report, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education highlighted Rowe as one of 35 leading women in higher education.[5]
Rowe served as provost and dean of the faculty of Smith College from 2014 to 2018. While at Smith, she also served as the interim vice president for inclusion, diversity and equity. In this role, Rowe is credited with transforming Smith's liberal arts curriculum and increasing diversity in faculty hiring.[6] During her tenure as provost, Smith College developed "one of the first statistical and data sciences majors at a liberal arts college…”[7] as well as worked to integrate design thinking methodology across curricula.[8] Rowe also oversaw the creation of Smith College's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).[9]
Prior to Smith, she served as an English professor at Bryn Mawr College from 1998 to 2014, and at Yale University from 1992 to 1998, teaching courses exploring the history of reading, writing, and performance from the Renaissance to the digital age. In another leadership position, she served as the director for the Tri-College Digital Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of faculty, students and staff from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges as well as the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum, a group supporting collaboration between the three colleges’ faculty members.[10] An entrepreneur, Rowe is also the co-founder and was chief executive officer of Luminary Digital Media, an organization responsible for creating social reading apps in partnership with the Folger Library Shakespeare editions on the iPad.[11]
Rowe and her husband, Bruce Jacobson, a telecom entrepreneur, co-founded the nonprofit Boston Ultimate Disc Alliance and Rowe co-founded the Carleton College women's Ultimate team. As a player, Rowe was a World Ultimate Club Finalist and a Women's National Finalist.[12] She has served as an Ultimate coach for more than a decade and led multiple teams to state championships in Pennsylvania.[13] It was also through Ultimate that Rowe met and married Jacobson.[14]
Rowe received a bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Carleton College in 1984. She earned a master's and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard University. Mid-career, Rowe completed graduate work in Cinema and Media Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Rowe also served as President [15] of the Shakespeare Association of America and the Associate General Editor of The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Cambridge. She also served on Harvard University's Board of Overseers’ Visiting Committee of the Library and on the Executive Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also been a member of the Modern Language Association, International Shakespeare Association and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.[16] She was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa - The National Leadership Honor Society, in 2018 at William & Mary.
Rowe and Bruce Jacobson have two adult children.[17]
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Chamber of Deputies of Iraq - Wikipedia | Member State of the Arab League
The Chamber of Deputies of Iraq (Majlis an-Nuwwab) was the elected lower house of the bicameral parliament established by the Mandatory Iraq's 1925 constitution. There were initially 87 deputies, who were elected[1] The Chamber of Deputies remained in existence until the 1958 revolution. The number of deputies was later increased to 141.
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Moses I. Cantine - Wikipedia | Moses I. Cantine (January 18, 1774 - January 24, 1823) was an American politician, judge and newspaper editor from New York. A Democratic-Republican, he was most notable for his service as a member of the New York State Senate and First Judge of the Greene County Court.
Cantine was born in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York on January 18, 1774, a son of Johannes and Maria (Brodhead) Cantine.[1][2] He graduated from Princeton University in 1796, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Greene County, New York.[1][3]
A member of the Democratic-Republican Party,[4] Cantine served as district attorney of the Third District (Columbia, Greene and Rensselaer counties) from 1805 to 1806, 1808 to 1810, and 1811 to 1818.[5] He served in the New York State Senate from 1814 to 1818.[2] He served as First Judge of the Greene County Court from 1818 to 1820.[1]
A longtime member of the New York Militia, Cantine served as inspector of the 4th Brigade with the rank of major.[6][7] During the War of 1812, he served on the northern frontier, the border area between New York and Canada.[8] In 1818, he was appointed the militia's judge advocate general with the rank of lieutenant colonel.[6][9]
On August 25, 1820, Cantine and Isaac Q. Leake took over the Albany Argus from Jesse Buel.[1] In addition to publishing the newspaper, Cantine and Leake received appointment as the official state printers.[10]
He died in Albany, New York on January 24, 1823.[2] Contemporary news accounts indicate that Cantine died after drinking Crème de Noyaux.[11] This liqueur contains trace amounts of hydrogen cyanide, and bottles left to age will sometimes have the poison concentrate near the top, posing a risk to the person who takes the first drink after the bottle is opened.[12]
Cantine was married to Christina Hoes (1780-1823), the sister of Martin Van Buren's wife Hannah.[1] They were the parents of two children, Moses Jr. and Christina.[1]
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Martadoris oliva - Wikipedia |
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clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
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This Polyceridae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Martadoris oliva is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[2]
This species was described from Panama. It has been reported from South Carolina.[3]
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G99 Taiwan Ring Expressway - Wikipedia | The Taiwan Ring Expressway (Chinese: 台湾环线高速公路) was a proposed, hypothetical expressway encircling the island of Taiwan as part of the National Trunk Highway System of the People's Republic of China. It never came into fruition, though, due to the political status of Taiwan. The People's Republic of China claims control over Taiwan, but has never administered it. Taiwan has its own highway system and does not recognize the designation by the People's Republic of China.
According to the People's Republic of China, the expressway would have passed through the cities of Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taitung, Hualien, Yilan, Keelung, before returning to Taipei.[1]
China Expwy G99 sign with name
China Expwy G99 sign with no name
In the 71118 plan of 2017, G99 was officially removed off of the books. This announcement was reaffirmed during the July 2022 expansion.
The "G99" number is currently used in the NTHS for metropolitan area ring roads (G99XX), which are somewhere between city ring roads (GXX0X) and orbitals (G9X) in degree of importance.
Note: italic indicates the routes that were available in 2013 network plan, but removed in 2022 network plan
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Lussier Hot Springs - Wikipedia | Lussier Hot Springs is an undeveloped hot spring just inside Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, a province of Canada.
The hot springs are in traditional territory of the Ktunaxa people. In the early 20th century, the springs were used by prospectors, trappers and guides.[2]
The springs are made up of several rock pools with gravel bottoms. The hottest pool is up to 43°C, and then the water cools to about 37°C as it flows down through the rest towards the Lussier River.[1]
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Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan - Wikipedia |
Alberto Azzo II (997 in Modena – August 20, 1097, in Modena), Margrave of Milan, and Liguria, Count of Gavello, Padua, Rovigo, Lunigiana, Monselice, and Montagnana, was a powerful nobleman in the Holy Roman Empire. He is considered the founder of Casa d'Este (House of Este), having been head of the first family to be master of Este, a town of Padua.[1]
Alberto Azzo II was the only son of Albert Azzo I, Margrave of Milan and Adela of Milan.[2] He inherited his father's offices around 1029, and continually increased his properties in northern Italy. Around 1073 he made a castle at Este his residence, from which the House of Este took its name. Before his building project, Este was little more than a village.
In the Investiture Controversy between Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Pope Gregory VII, Azzo attempted to mediate,[3] but later he joined the side of the pope.
Azzo II married Kunigunde (also called Chuniza), the daughter of Welf II, Count of Altdorf, in 1035/6.[4] Azzo's son with Chuniza, Welf, moved first to Carinthia and then to Bavaria, giving rise to one of the most important families in European history, the Guelphs.
With his first wife, Chuniza, Azzo had:
Around 1050, Azzo married again, to Garsende, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine. In 1069–1070, he tried to acquire Maine for his son Hugh, because his wife, Garsende, was a co-heiress of the previous counts of Maine.[6]
With his second wife, Garsende, Azzo had:
Some sources say he also married Vitalia Orseolo, daughter of Peter Orseolo. They had a daughter: Itta.
He had an extra-marital affair with, or perhaps married,[10] Matilda, sister of William/Guglielmo, Bishop of Pavia (r.1069-1102/3), with whom he had a daughter named Adelasia, who married Guglielmo Adelardi.[11]
Alberto Azzo II lived to at least his 90s.[7] He died in August 1097 at the monastery of Vangadizza (Badia Polesine), where he was buried.[12]
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White-winged guan - Wikipedia |
The white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. It is endemic to northwestern Peru.[3]
The white-winged guan was originally known from three specimens collected in 1876 and 1877. It was not positively seen again until 1977, though there had been hints of its continued existence in 1969. Surveys from about 1980 on found individuals in many other locations than the 1977 sightings, though still within a small area.[4]
At various times the white-winged guan has been considered closely related to the crested guan (Penelope purpurascens), Cauca guan (P. perspicax), Spix's guan (P. jacquacu), and dusky-legged guan (P. obscura). It was also treated as a color morph of Baudo guan (P. ortoni). More recent evidence confirms that it is a species in its own right and most closely related to either or both of crested guan and band-tailed guan (P. argyrotis).[5][4]
The white-winged guan is monotypic.[3]
The white-winged guan has an average length of 85.2 cm (2.8 ft) and average weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb). It has blackish brown plumage overlain by a green gloss. Much of its forepart has short whitish or pale gray streaks. Its white primaries show as a slash on the folded wing. Its reddish eye is surrounded by bare purple skin, its bill is dark gray with a black tip, and it has an orange dewlap.[4]
The white-winged guan is now found only in the departments of Lambayeque, Cajamarca, and Piura in northwestern Peru. It is confined to an area that is at most 190 km (120 mi) long and 40 km (25 mi) wide and is divided by a major road and its accompanying human settlement. The 1876 specimen had been collected much further north than the current known area.[4]
The white-winged guan inhabits a very specialized landscape, small forested ravines and nearby slopes on the west side of the Andes. In elevation it generally ranges between 500 and 1,100 m (1,600 and 3,600 ft) but has been reported as low as 300 m (980 ft) and as high as 1,385 m (4,540 ft).[4]
The white-winged guan typically begins calling before dawn and at first light moves from overnight roosts to feed until about 9:00. They are then mostly sedentary until late afternoon, when they typically feed again before roosting for the night.[4]
The white-winged guan is usually found in pairs or family groups, though several groups commonly will feed in one fruiting tree. It eats fruits, flowers, leaves, and seeds. Fruits of Ficus figs and Cordia lutea are the most important part of the diet because they are available during most of the year.[4]
The white-winged guan is territorial and mated pairs stay together over successive years. Their breeding season spans from November to May, a period which overlaps the resource-abundant rainy season. They construct a nest of twigs and leaves in vine-covered trees, typically about 2.5 m (8 ft) above the ground. The clutch size can be one to three eggs but two is the usual number.[4]
The white-winged guan has three categories of vocalization, which are sometimes mixed or merged. They are most vocal at dawn and dusk during the breeding season. The territorial call "sounds like 'jar-jar-jar' ending with a quick 'ha-ha-ha-ha'" and is usually given by the male. The alarm call "'piu-piu-piu' or 'cau-cau-cau'" can be given in duets. The threat call is given as a direct challenge to a conspecific intruder and "sounds like 'arrr, arrr, arrr'." The guan's non-vocal wing-drumming display is given at dawn and can be heard at great distances.[4]
The IUCN has assessed the white-winged guan as Endangered, an improvement in 2018 from its previous Critically Endangered status. Its population of approximately 200 mature birds is believed to be stable. Several refuges have been created specifically to protect the species and reintroduction efforts have helped augment the current six to 10 locations that host the bird. However, habitat destruction and hunting remain as threats.[1]
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Mirgissa - Wikipedia | Mirgissa (originally Iken) was a settlement in Northern state, Sudan. Situated at the 2nd cataract in Wadi Halfa, it contained one of the largest fortresses in Nubia. In the time of Thutmose II, 250 to 450 people inhabited the area.[1] The first European explorer was English geologist Sir Henry George Lyons in 1892, and was excavated without Sudanese permission, by the French Egyptologist Jean Vercoutter from 1962 to 1969. In addition to the fort, excavations uncovered the remains of two cities, one of which was fortified, a northern enclosure, two cemeteries, a boat slide, and a port. Construction of the Aswan High Dam caused the disappearance of Mirgissa, which now lies under the waters of Lake Nubia.
Travelers from the north who reached Abusir had to leave their boats and circumvent the 2nd cataract in order to reach Mirgissa. It was situated 300 feet (91 m) from the harbor, where boats from the south could dock in calm waters, the rapids of the cataract preventing them from continuing their journey further north.[2] Its lofty geographic position allowed sentries to observe the movement of troops for miles around.[3]
Even before the great fort, an open town existed at Mirgissa.[4] It went on to become a frontier post and trade center; it also served as a river control point at the 2nd cataract.[5] The occupation of the region dates back to 7500 BCE as shown by the evidence obtained at Akha, an important Mesolithic site located a few hundred meters east of the great fortress. Large stone tools, dating from 3500 BCE, were found in several places of the plain. They demonstrate that Mirgissa was occupied in Neolithic times. But the occupation was at its height during the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt, and to a lesser extent, during the New Kingdom.
While Senusret I probably established the fortification site within the northern enclosure, the great fortress was mainly the work of Senusret III. A stele, dated to year 8 of the reign of Senusret III, was discovered near the fortress of Semna. Its inscription stresses the economic importance of Mirgissa. Its translation reads:
During the Twelfth Dynasty, it served as a customs post for travels heading north to Egypt.[5] The periods of most intense occupation date from the Thirteenth Dynasty and then the Hyksos era, as evidenced by the large number of beetles found on the premises. The great fortress was then re-occupied during the Eighteenth Dynasty, followed by a sharp decline until the Twentieth Dynasty. Sporadically occupied at the time Meroitic era, the abandonment of the site was final during the early Christian era.
Mirgissa's open city predates its fortification.[4] Situated 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north-northeast of the great fortress, it stretched over a 75,000 square metres (810,000 sq ft) area. In its early development, the city was protected by a stone wall 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) thick, though the residential area later spread outside the walled section. According to various artifacts unearthed at the site, such as jars, millstones, bread molds, beer mugs, and plates, the city appeared to have been occupied by a strictly Egyptian population during the Middle Empire and the Second Intermediate Period. Of the two older excavated houses, the first was surrounded by a rectangular corrugated brick wall, while the second, a stone hut, was mainly rectangular though it contained circular elements.
The multiple cemeteries at Mirgissa establish a continuous settlement here from the late Middle Kingdom through the New Kingdom:[7]
The great fortress dominated the western Wadi. It was built by the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom to defend their southern border and control trade routes that passed through the Nile from Sudan and Africa. From a strategic and commercial standpoint, Mirgissa was of importance as it ensured economic exchanges between the Kingdom of Kush and Egypt. Together with Dabenarti, situated on a rocky islet measuring 2.5 square kilometres (0.97 sq mi),[8] the two fortresses formed a barrier to prevent invasions from the south. During excavations, only the foundation remained of the smaller Dabenarti fort, dating from the Twelfth Dynasty, its purpose having been to protect the harbor and dock located at the southern end of The Boat Slide. The great fortress was abandoned during the reign of Neferhotep I.[9]
While eleven forts were built during the reign of Senusret III in the region between the 2nd and 3rd cataracts, including Shalfak, Uronarti, Askut, Semna, Kumma, and Sumna South,[10] Mirgissa was the largest of them.[11]
The great fortress covered more than 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft). Its double wall with bastions and square-cornered towers, 12 metres (39 ft) high, protected the city. The walls were more than 6 metres (20 ft) thick and over 10 metres (33 ft) high. Both entrances were protected by a ditch. The south side, facing the Nile, was protected by a fortified wall, which perfectly fit the rocky peaks on which it was underpinned. Two enormous gates were flanked to the north and near the southeast corner of the river. The north gate had a narrow passage, its access blocked by two massive wooden doors and a portcullis. Angled bedding-planes enabled the uphill brickwork.[4] Excavations revealed a small temple dedicated to the goddess Hathor and a stele mentioning this goddess as the mistress of Iken; this discovery enabled positive identification of the fortress.
During excavations, few traces of the port were evident, probably due to an exceptional flood. However, the French expedition identified the remains of a boat slipway,[12] over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in length. It extended to the natural harbor in the south. It served as a slide for hauling boats who wanted to pass the 2nd cataract. Composed of evenly spaced wooden cross beams set in silt and spread mud layers, it was low enough to wet the clay and make it very slippery, thus reducing friction between the boat hull and the track.
The expedition of Jean Vercoutter made a discovery in the surrounding desert, west and not far from the city open, of a grave filled with some 3,500 fragments of pottery sherds; some were inscribed. The Execration texts listed the names of foreign countries and their leaders, their purpose apparently being a form of ritual magic designed to curse the enemies of Egypt.[13] It is highly likely that once the text was written on a vase, it was broken and its fragments buried in the grave. Near this place, three statues dating from the Twelfth Dynasty were also unearthed, as well as a seal from Nebiryraw I of the Sixteenth Dynasty.[9]
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Sir John Cotton, 4th Baronet, of Connington - Wikipedia |
Sir John Cotton, 4th Baronet (c. 1680 – 5 February 1731)[1] was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and the House of Commons of Great Britain at various times between 1705 and 1713.
He was the son of John Cotton and Frances Downing. His father was the eldest son of Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet, of Connington, and his first wife Dorothy Anderson. His mother was the daughter of the eminent statesman and financier Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Howard.
He married Elizabeth Herbert, daughter of the Hon. James Herbert, a younger son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and Lady Catherine Osborne, daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds. They had no issue: on his death, the title passed to his uncle Robert.
He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1705 to 1706, and for Huntingdonshire from 1710 to 1713.[1]
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Itera ASA - Wikipedia | Itera ASA is a Scandinavian group of consultancy companies providing Internet-based services. The company’s headquarters is located in Oslo, Norway and its CEO is Arne Mjøs.[1][2]
Itera Consulting is a subsidiary of Itera ASA and is based in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine and Slovakia.[3]
Itera has more than 500 employees working in offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine and Slovakia.[4]
Itera was founded in 1995 in Norway as Objectware.[5] In 1999, Itera itself was founded and started functioning on the Norwegian market. Later that year, it was included to the list of Oslo Stock Exchange. In 2000, Itera merged with Objectware.
In 2000, Itera Consulting was established. In 2000, Itera entered Sweden by acquisition of the business intelligence company IT Partner and entered Denmark with the acquisition of the web company 3Enigheten.[6]
In 2008, Itera Consulting entered Ukraine, an important location for Central and Eastern European outsourcing.[7] Itera Consulting is represented in Ukraine by a nearshore development center.[8] The first delivery office was started in the capital city of Kyiv.[9] It was established by composing a management team with over 10-years experience from leading organizations within offshoring.[10] The business of Itera Consulting Ukraine is headed by VP Global Sourcing Igor Mendzebrovski, formerly one of the founders of leading offshoring company in Eastern Europe.[11][12] In the beginning of 2011 a second delivery office was started in Lviv, Ukraine.[13]
In 2008, Objectware was renamed Itera Consulting.[14]
Itera ASA Group companies spheres of business: Communication, Consulting, Operations, Business Solutions. The group companies are linked by shared ownership, entrepreneurial philosophy[citation needed] and assets.
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English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29 - Wikipedia |
The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory.
Writing in the 1930 Wisden, SJ Southerton wrote:[1]
England were stronger in batting, more reliable and consistent in bowling and very definitely superior in fielding.
The series was defined by the prodigious runscoring of Wally Hammond, playing his maiden Ashes series, who with a run of scores of 251 at Sydney, 200 and 32 at Melbourne, and 119 not out and 177 at Adelaide, scored a then-record series aggregate of 905 runs at an average of 113.12; the record has only been surpassed once, by Donald Bradman in the 1930 Ashes.[2] In the fifth Test, England's Jack Hobbs became the oldest player to score a Test century, at the age of 46 years and 82 days, a record that still stands.[3]
The MCC touring party was:[1]
The English team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.[5]
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Homaro Cantu - Wikipedia | Homaro "Omar" Cantu Jr. (September 23, 1976 – April 14, 2015) was an American chef and inventor known for his use of molecular gastronomy. As a child, Cantu was fascinated with science and engineering. While working in a fast food restaurant, he discovered the similarities between science and cooking and decided to become a chef. In 1999, he was hired by his idol, Chicago chef Charlie Trotter. In 2003, Cantu became the first chef of Moto, which he later purchased.
Through Moto, Cantu explored his unusual ideas about cooking including edible menus, carbonated fruit, and food cooked with a laser. Initially seen as a novelty only, Moto eventually earned critical praise and, in 2012, a Michelin star. Cantu's second restaurant, iNG, and his coffee house, Berrista, focused on the use of "miracle berries" to make sour food taste sweet. He was working on opening a brewery called Crooked Fork at the time of his suicide in 2015.
In addition to being a chef, Cantu was a media personality, appearing regularly on TV shows, and an inventor. In 2010, he produced and co-hosted a show called Future Food. Through his media appearances, he advocated for an end to world hunger and thought his edible paper creation and the miracle berry could play a significant role in that goal. Cantu volunteered his time and money to a variety of charities and patented several food gadgets.
Cantu was born in Tacoma, Washington, on September 23, 1976.[1] His father was a fabrication engineer and Cantu developed a passion for science and engineering at a young age. He disassembled the family lawn mower three times to learn how it worked, and his "Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces."[2]
A self-described problem child, Cantu grew up in Portland, Oregon.[1][3] From the age of six to nine, he was homeless. He would later credit the homelessness for his inspiration to make food and become a social entrepreneur.[4] At the age of twelve, Cantu was nearly jailed for starting a large fire near his fathers house[3] and began working at a fast food restaurant.[2] Cantu later described the owner's purchase of a tandoori oven as spurring his interest in cooking.[3] After he completed high school, Bill and Jan Miller, a couple who took in troubled teens, offered Cantu a place to live under the condition that he attend culinary school.[3]
Cantu graduated from the Western Culinary Institute (now a Le Cordon Bleu School) and spent the next two years staging on the West Coast.[1][3] After about 50 such two-week to one-month internships, he was ready for a paid job. One day in February 1999, he decided to try to get a job with his idol, Charlie Trotter.[3] "I made it my life's goal to become a sous chef for Charlie Trotter," Cantu remarked. "I literally just flew out [to Chicago] one day with $300 in my pocket and no place to stay".[5] Despite initially rebuffing Cantu as rude, Trotter agreed to an interview the following day and hired him.[3] Cantu eventually worked his way up to become one of Trotter's sous chefs.[2] On his days off, he began to explore new ways to prepare and present food.[3]
In 2003, Cantu learned of a chef opening at a soon-to-open restaurant called Moto. The restaurant's backer, Joseph De Vito, initially suggested that the restaurant focus on Asian fusion. However, after Cantu cooked an elaborate seven-course meal featuring an exploding ravioli and a small table-top box that cooked fish, De Vito instead hired Cantu.[3]
Upon Moto's opening in January 2004, guests were initially confused by the tasting menu's format and content, but the restaurant soon became notable for its experimentation:[3] dishes included carbonated fruit,[6] menus printed on edible paper using a conventional printer filled with edible ink,[7] and fish and bread cooked from the inside out using a class IV laser.[7] At weekly brainstorming sessions, Moto chefs were encouraged to explore and prototype new takes on ordinary food by discussing how they could change foods they ate that week.[3]
Although the restaurant was sometimes criticized for "emphasiz[ing] cleverness over deliciousness",[2] Moto earned a Michelin star in 2012.[2] Chefs were also split, variously describing Cantu as a "faddish flavor of the month" or a "creative genius."[3] Grant Achatz described Cantu as "an ambassador of creative food."[6] Together with Achatz and Graham Elliot, Cantu helped earn Chicago a reputation as the center of the innovative food.[6] Ferran Adria also praised Cantu as a chef with the capacity to explore "what is the limit–what is cooking, what is not cooking".[3]
Cantu's second restaurant, iNG, focused on a concept he called "flavor-tripping" – the use of the "miracle berry" to make sour foods taste sweet.[8] The restaurant lost money and was closed in the Spring of 2014.[9] After iNG closed, Cantu opened a coffee house called Berrista focused around the same concept.[1] At the time of his death, he was preparing to open a brewery/brewpub called Crooked Fork with his friend and former Moto manager Trevor Rose-Hamblin.[8] In September 2016, Rose-Hamblin and another of Cantu's associates, Matthias Merges, opened the brewpub, now renamed Old Irving Brewing Company.[10][11]
Cantu was also a prolific inventor, filing more than 100 patent applications, and signing deals with NASA and Whirlpool for use of his inventions.[5][3] Inventions included new utensils, a polymer cooking box that allows food to continue cooking after it is removed from the heat source, and an edible printer he called the "food replicator" in homage to Star Trek.[3] Cantu also converted Moto's office into a "state-of-the-art indoor farm to grow vegetables – complete with a vortex aerator".[2] Pete Wells credited Cantu with pioneering the use of intellectual property licensing as a source of income for chefs.[12]
In 2007, Cantu appeared on Iron Chef America, defeating Masaharu Morimoto.[5] In the episode, Cantu used a laser to caramelize edible packaging material, and liquid nitrogen to create beet (which was the secret ingredient) "balloons," among other innovations.[3] He returned to the show in 2013, again facing off with Morimoto, this time in a battle of herring. He lost the rematch.
Also in 2007, Cantu was featured in the documentary series Unwrapped and on Dinner: Impossible. He appeared on Good Morning America and twice on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He was featured on Roadtrip Nation in season six and was twice a guest judge on Hell's Kitchen. Cantu was also featured in the At the Table with ... documentary series and the British science documentary series Horizon. He appeared on the November 27, 2011, episode of CNN's The Next List.[13]
In 2010, Cantu produced and co-hosted a TV show called Future Food on Discovery's Planet Green.[1]
Following his death in 2015, Director/Producer Brett A. Schwartz of StoryScreen directed and produced a feature-length documentary film called Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story (2016). Insatiable had its world premiere at SXSW (South By Southwest Film Festival) in March 2016.[14]
Cantu said his mission was "changing the way humans perceive food."[3] He saw his edible paper as a novelty to amuse customers, but also a way to combat world hunger. "My goal with this is to deliver food to the masses that are starving," he declared. "We give them something that's healthy, that has an indefinite shelf life and that is super cheap to produce."[1] He also said it could be used as an alternative to MREs, on long space missions, or in refugee camps.[3]
Cantu was also a prominent proponent of "miracle berries", which he believed could end hunger by allowing people to eat normally unpalatable food and end dependence on processed sugar.[15] On Future Food, Cantu demonstrated this idea by spending a week on a diet of miracle berries and common weeds, grass, and leaves he found in his backyard.[1] He would also regularly donate the berries to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to make food more palatable to them.[6]
In 2013, Cantu founded the Trotter Project, a non-profit aimed at providing culinary education to students in poor neighborhoods.[1] He donated up to 250 lunches a day to kids in the Old Irving Park neighborhood who picked them up at Berrista.[6]
On March 19, 2015, former Moto and iNG investor Alexander Espalin sued Cantu.[6] Espalin alleged that Cantu had misused restaurant funds for personal use and to promote Cantu's cookbook.[1] He also said he did not receive his share of Moto's profits and called for Cantu's ousting from Moto.[6] After Cantu's death, his widow called the lawsuit frivolous and without basis. "It was just another case of someone trying to make a buck off of [Cantu] or take credit for his ideas."[1] Earlier in March, Cantu's pastry chef, Claire Crenshaw, had left Moto to work at another restaurant. In April, Moto's executive chef, Richie Farina, announced plans to also leave the restaurant.[6]
On April 14, 2015, Cantu's body was found hanging inside the building he was renovating into Crooked Fork on the Northwest Side of Chicago.[16] After an autopsy on April 15, the Cook County medical examiner's office said the cause of death was asphyxiation by hanging and ruled it a suicide.[6] Cantu did not leave a note and had no history of depression or mental illness.[1]
Cantu's wife said they had had "one of the best conversations of our life the other night about how we were going to fight [Espalin]" and that everything seemed fine.[6] Family friend and fellow chef Matthias Merges said Cantu seemed stressed in recent days, but was shocked by the news of Cantu's death. Architect Rachel Crowl, who designed Berrista and Crooked Fork, said Cantu "was an inventor at heart. Some people might say he was a little crazy, but it was crazy good, excited, positive, laughing. This would be the last thing I would have ever guessed for Omar."[6]
His funeral was held April 17 at St. Viator Church in Chicago.[6]
Cantu and his family lived in the Old Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago.[1] He had two daughters.[2]
He was known for his generosity and positive attitude.[6] The New York Times described him "almost compulsively giving [of] his money, his time, [and] his encouragement."[9] Farina said nothing ever appeared to bother Cantu: "He had this persona around him of being Teflon. No matter what someone said, it didn't faze him. He almost seemed invincible."[9]
Cantu was described as a "celebrity chef" and his restaurants as "internationally renowned".[5][17] In the 2013 guide, Fodor's described him as "a cult figure".[18] He was considered more experimental than even other molecular gastronomers, challenging preconceived notions of what could be considered "food."[9] Fellow chefs compared Cantu to Salvador Dalí or Willy Wonka; The New York Times called him the Buck Rogers of cuisine "blazing a trail to a space-age culinary frontier."[7] A 2005 Fast Company article described Moto as "a temple for science-based gastronomy" and Cantu as "the classic mad scientist, a Stephen Hawking acolyte with a basement filled with gadgets, robots, and gazillions of inventions aching for just a little bit more time and attention."[3] New York based chef Wylie Dufresne described Cantu as "an inventor who accidentally ended up as a chef and [was] returning to being an inventor".[3] The host of Iron Chef described Cantu as the most "wildly original" contestant in the show's history.[3] Food & Wine said his "gonzo innovations place[d] him among the shock troops of American cuisine".[12]
Farina said Cantu had created a "very inspirational environment" at Moto to which he would "always stay connected".[19] A Washington Post obituary said that Cantu had "turned cooking into alchemy through his playful and surprising brand of molecular gastronomy".[2] Elliot said he hoped Cantu would be remembered for his vision to end hunger, saying "no other chef anywhere is thinking about those same kind of things."[15]
Berrista and Moto remained closed for several days in honor of Cantu's memory.[6] Moto reopened on April 18 with a special "celebration of (Cantu's) life" menu featuring contributions by 10–20 former Moto employees. Farina commented "The last thing he would want was for us not to be in the kitchen cooking ... We're going to continue to do what he taught us and what he would want."[19] Although he still plans to leave Moto to start his own restaurant, Farina said he would continue to help out at Moto beyond his planned last day. Moto returned to its regular menu on April 21.[19]
In January 2016, Cantu's widow Katie McGowan announced the sale of Moto to the Alinea Group. McGowan, who inherited Moto after her husband's death, said that the sale was a "bittersweet decision" that came "after deep reflection of the lasting impact" her late husband Cantu had made with his innovative restaurant.[20]
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Jan Sundberg - Wikipedia | Jan Sundberg (born 12 December 1949) is a professor of the department of the political science in the University of Helsinki. He has published many studies concerning the party system of Finland both in English and Swedish languages.[1] He has also given interviews to Hufvudstadsbladet.
Sundberg opposes the idea of merging bigger municipalities and cut the amount of the municipalities from 336 to near 100 municipalities as Jyrki Katainen had suggested. This would, according to Sundberg, threaten democracy, which is learnt in the best way in the municipal offices.[2]
Sundberg has also served as an election specialist for the foreign ministry press department [3][4][5]
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Open Doors (film) - Wikipedia |
Open Doors (Italian: Porte aperte) is a 1990 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. Set in Palermo in the 1930s, a judge who is morally against the death penalty is confronted with the case of a man who has murdered his wife and two colleagues in cold blood. Opposed by both the fascist government - endorsing death penalty since it allows people to be safe to the point of "sleeping at night with open doors" - and public opinion, he struggles to do what he believes is right. Based on a 1987 novel, "Porte Aperte", by Leonardo Sciascia. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards.[2]
The film opens with a Fascist bureaucrat, recently fired, killing the man who fired him, the man who replaced him, and his wife.
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