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The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The organization is based in Port Alberni, British Columbia. |
The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council began as the West Coast Allied Tribes in 1958, but then incorporated as a non-profit society called the West Coast District Society of Indian Chiefs in 1973. In 2009, the name was changed to the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC) (NTC, 2008). |
The northern boundary of Nuu-chah-nulth territory begins on the west coast of Vancouver Island at Brooks Peninsula and the southern boundary is at Port Renfrew. The territory extends inland about halfway across the island to encompass Gold River and Port Alberni. There are fourteen tribes that comprise the Nuu-chah-nulth Nations. These tribes share many aspects of their culture, language and traditions. Each Nation can have several "houses" that are centered on a Ha’wiih (hereditary chief) who is responsible for their Ha’houlthee (chiefly territories) (NTC, 2008). |
Note: The Pacheedaht First Nation, though Nuu-chah-nulth by culture and language, is not a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. Similarly the closely related Ditidaht of the Ditidaht First Nation and the Makah of the other side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca are not members of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. |
The NTC provides programs and services to approximately 8,000 registered members, of which about 2,000 live off reserve (NTC, 2008a). The Central Region is by far the largest component |
of the NTC at the present time. |
The role of the NTC is to represent its member nations and provide a variety of programs and services to them. It can coordinate projects (i.e., fisheries, training), oversee issues that overlap jurisdictions and can take advantage of economies of scale or cross regional planning opportunities. As well, it can act as a sounding board and coordinator on many issues of common concern. |
The NTC operates many programs that help further the wellbeing of the communities within their sphere of influence. The NTC provides programs for its members in the following areas: |
- Child Welfare |
- Fisheries |
- Economic Development |
- Membership |
- Education & Training |
- Financial Administrative Support |
- Employment & Training |
- Infrastructure Development |
- Health |
- Newspaper (Ha-Shilth-Sa) |
- Social Development |
- Teechuktl (mental health) |
The NTC works with its membership through a programs/services funding formula where each nation receives some portion of their funding based on population and some portion of their funding based on program application. Some programs (child welfare, fisheries, and training) are administered by NTC staff on behalf of the bands. As treaties are negotiated or as capacities build within individual nations, new funding agreements are being negotiated annually. This is shifting the emphasis away from centralized programs towards a greater degree of band-management. |
The Nuu-cha-nulth Tribal Council draws on the resources of fourteen tribes to provide staff and expertise. Not all staff, however, are members of its member nations. The NTC is presided over by a President, Vice-President and an Executive Director. To ensure all areas have access to the administrative body, staff positions are organized to ensure staff coverage for all regions. These include office managers for the Southern and Central Region and Northern Region, secretaries, receptionists and a file clerk. The NTC Board of Directors is composed of the elected Chiefs from each Nation. |
Ecotrust Canada. Sharmalene Mendis-Millard, "Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council," in Daniel Arbour, Brenda Kuecks & Danielle Edwards (editors). "Nuu-chah-nulth Central Region First Nations Governance Structures 2007/2008", Vancouver, September 2008. |
= = = Gilmour Leburn = = = |
William Gilmour Leburn (30 July 1913 – 15 August 1963) was a British company director and Conservative Member of Parliament for Kinross and West Perthshire from 1955 until 1963. He served in the government of Harold Macmillan as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland; his sudden death opened the way for Macmillan's successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home to return to the House of Commons. |
Leburn went to Gateside Village School and then Strathallan School, an independent school in Perthshire. Instead of university, he became a woodworking apprentice for Gateside Mills Co. Ltd., with which his family had connections. |
At the outbreak of the Second World War Leburn became brigade signal officer with the |
154th Infantry Brigade of the 51st Highland Division, which served in France. In 1941 he was made staff officer for the brigade, and fought at El Alamein where he was severely wounded: he took two years in hospital to recover. When well, he joined the Staff College, Camberley, where he was promoted to the rank of major. During the war, Leburn was mentioned in despatches on two separate occasions. |
When demobilised, Leburn returned to the Gateside Mills Company, where he moved into management. He became active politically as a Unionist, and in 1948 was elected to Fife County Council. He enjoyed life on the Council and was Vice Convener in 1951-52. Leburn was selected to follow William McNair Snadden as Unionist candidate for Kinross and West Perthshire when Snadden stood down at the 1955 general election. Leburn easily won what was a safe seat. |
His maiden speech called for the use of smaller driver-operated buses in rural areas. Leburn was loyal to the government of Anthony Eden over the Suez crisis, signing a motion which commended the Foreign Secretary's policy while condemning the United States government's attitude. He became popular with Conservative MPs, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Maclay (the Secretary of State for Scotland) from 1957. |
After the 1959 general election Leburn was brought into the government as Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office. He had specific responsibility for agriculture, forestry and fishing, which led him to intervene to try to solve a dispute between Scots fishermen over the Isle of Lewis in 1961. The next year, he made it clear he was aware of the loophole whereby British fishing vessels could register in Ireland. From September 1962, Leburn switched responsibilities to planning, housing and industry. He encouraged the building of strategic bridges. |
Leburn died suddenly from a heart attack while at his hunting lodge at Lochmore near Lairg, Sutherland in August 1963, aged 50. His seat was at the time the safest Conservative and Unionist seat in Scotland. The local association had selected as his successor George Younger, but the Earl of Home's appointment as Prime Minister meant he needed a seat in the House of Commons. Home disclaimed his peerage under the Peerage Act 1963, and Younger agreed to give up his claim on the seat. |
= = = Cold Harbor Confederate order of battle = = = |
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Cold Harbor (May 31–June 12, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle and the reports. |
Gen Robert E. Lee, Commanding |
General Staff: |
MG Richard H. Anderson |
MG Jubal A. Early |
LTG Ambrose P. Hill |
MG Wade Hampton |
= = = Samuel Gray (bishop) = = = |
Samuel Gray is a Bishop of the Moravian Church in North America, elected by the Southern Province of the Church. |
Bishop Gray joins six other Moravian bishops in the Southern Province. They are the Rt. Rev. Robert Iobst, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Graham Rights, the Rt. Rev. Dr.Jay Hughes, the Rt. Rev. John Wilson, the Rt. Rev. Lane Sapp, and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Wayne Burkette. |
Sam was born in Winston-Salem, NC. His intercultural experience began at an early age when his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Joe Gray, took him to Nicaragua when he was 5 weeks old. He lived in Nicaragua for 11 years; his mother taught her five children all through elementary school. He gave his life to Christ at an old fashioned revival service at Grace Moravian Church in Mt. Airy, NC in 1968. |
After graduating from The Stony Brook School (Long Island, NY) in 1972, Sam attended Moravian College from 1972 – 1976, majoring in Religion. He was active in choir, band, the Campus Christian Association and a jazz band, "The Brethren." |
He worked for the Moravian Church in Honduras for one year, organizing a student group in Tegucigalpa. |
In 1978 he returned to Moravian College for further study in Elementary Education and then attended Fuller Seminary (Pasadena, CA) in the summer of 1979. |
In January 1980 he began full-time service for the Board of World Mission in Honduras as a high school teacher, Director of the Bible Institute, Christian Education Director, Student Group Organizer, and founding pastor of Israel Moravian Church in Tegucigalpa, serving there for 13 1/2 years. |
During that time, he married Lorena Alvarez, a Registered Nurse, from Cocobila, Honduras. |
Sam returned to Moravian Theological Seminary in 1993, graduating in 1996 with a M.Div. and was ordained as a deacon in May, 1996. He served as Assistant Pastor of Emmaus Moravian Church and Director of Youth Ministries for the Eastern District of the Northern Province. |
Sam and Lorena have three sons: Luke, Tim and Christian David, as well as two granddaughters, Rachel and Gabriella Marie. |
Bishop Gray is the 2014 recipient of Moravian Theological Seminary's John Hus Alumni Award. Initiated in 1974, the John Hus Alumni Award was created for the purpose of "giving special recognition to an alumnus or alumna, who, through outstanding service and loyalty to ministry, has brought distinction to the work of the ministry and to Moravian Theological Seminary." |
= = = Bernard Ato V = = = |
Bernard Ato V (died 1163) was the Viscount of Nîmes of the Trencavel family from 1129 to his death. |
In 1138, Bernard Ato swore an oath of fidelity to Alfonso Jordan, Count of Toulouse, along with his brothers Roger of Carcassonne and Raymond of Béziers. Nevertheless, because his father Bernard Ato IV had supported William IX of Aquitaine in his attempt to take Toulouse and because his lands controlled the roads between Alfonso's Languedocian and Provençal lands, Bernard Ato and Alfonso were fundamentally at odds. Alfonso even seized some castles in the vicinity of Nîmes itself. |
= = = Giuseppe Ceracchi = = = |
Giuseppe Ceracchi (also known as "Giuseppe Cirachi") (4 July 1751 – 30 January 1801) was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassic style in Italy, England and the nascent United States, who was a passionate republican during the American and French revolutions. He is remembered for his portrait busts of prominent British and American individuals. |
He initially trained in Rome with Tommaso Righi (1727–1802) and then continued his studies at the Accademia di San Luca. He went to London in 1773, armed with a letter of introduction from Matthew Nulty, an English antiquarian and amateur sculptor in Rome, and worked under Agostino Carlini, a founding member of the Royal Academy. Ceracchi exhibited busts at the Academy 1776-79 and was proposed for membership but received only four votes. His bust of the Academy's president Sir Joshua Reynolds, is in the collection of the Royal Academy of Art. Living in Carlini's lodgings near Soho Square, Ceracchi modelled architectural ornament and bas-relief panels for Robert Adam, most notably a grand bas-relief of a Sacrifice to Bacchus, fourteen feet long and six feet high, in Adam's patent mastic composition, for the rear façade of Mr. Desenfans' house in Portland Place. |
In 1778, Ceracchi sculpted the statues of "Temperance" and "Fortitude" cast in Portland stone for the Strand façade of Sir William Chambers' Somerset House, London; Carlini, who modelled the other two classical virtues for the project, was occupied with architectural sculpture for Somerset House over several years and doubtless recommended Ceracchi. As well as the portrait busts he executed in London is a full-length portrait of Anne Seymour Damer, herself a sculptor and to some extent his pupil, in antique robes, with her tools at her feet (British Museum). |
He went back to Rome in 1781 but had to leave the city twice due to his links with the Jacobin movements. He befriended Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the German poet's Grand Tour in Italy in 1786 - 1788, as they dwelled in the same building in Via del Corso where Ceracchi had his atelier/house. Goethe commissioned him a bust of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and they lived together in Ceracchi's studio for a brief period in 1788. |
He made two visits to the new American republic, in 1790–2, in hopes of being commissioned to erect an extremely elaborate monument to the new republic and George Washington that he was convinced Congress had voted, and again in 1794–5, when he was disappointed in raising the funds for his venture by private subscription. Of this unrealizable project for a bombastic marble allegory James Madison drily remarked that the sculptor "was an enthusiastic worshipper of Liberty and Fame, and his whole soul was bent on securing the latter by rearing a monument to the former". Duplicate letters from Ceracchi to Washington and George Clinton describe plans for a national monument to Washington to be built in the newly planned capital city. |
During his two American visits he executed heroic portrait busts of leaders of the American Revolution, including Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), John Jay (Supreme Court, Washington DC), Thomas Jefferson (Monticello), George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga (Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Clinton, again presented as a noble Roman (twice, Boston Atheneum and New-York Historical Society), and Alexander Hamilton. Most of his prominent subjects sat to him to encourage his art, but none could be found to pay for their busts after the fact. Washington politely refused the gift of his Roman bust. |
At the request of artist Charles Willson Peale, Ceracchi was invited along with 30 artists to the Museum rooms at Philosophical Hall in Philadelphia on December 29, 1794 where he signed an agreement to create "The Columbianum, or American Academy of the Fine Arts." This short lived organization was a precursor of the modern day Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts created in 1805 |
He returned to Florence about 1794. In Rome he entered with fiery vehemence into the projected Italian Republic under revolutionary French auspices, when Joseph Bonaparte arrived in the city in 1797, drawing Jacobin sympathizers to him. In the Jacobin riots of December 1797, during which brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot was killed, Ceracchi was noted as a leader of the rioters; events led directly from Duphot's death to the Directoire's decision to occupy the city. French troops arrived on 10 February 1798 and on the 15th the Republic of Rome was proclaimed. In 1799 Ceracchi moved to Paris, where he sculpted the portrait bust of Pope Pius VI (Residenzmuseum, Munich; Palazzo Bianco, Genoa). Having sculpted a bust of Napoleon Bonaparte (Museum at Nantes), he became disillusioned after the "coup d'état" of 18 Brumaire to the extent that he was embroiled in the paranoid and furious reaction of Napoleon to the plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, an attempt against Napoleon's life in which a device dubbed the "machine infernal" was exploded, with loss of innocent life. Ceracchi was arrested for his alleged participation in the "Conspiration des poignards" and guillotined 30 January 1801, "going to the scaffold, it is said, in a triumphal chariot of his own design". |
= = = Estrellas del Caos = = = |
Estrellas del Caos is a 2006 album, of the Venezuelan Ska band Desorden Público. It includes seventeen tracks. |
= = = Nautical Antiques = = = |
Nautical Antiques (2006) is "a collection of outtakes, B-sides and rarities from the early years of Pinback's career." |
= = = ManyCam = = = |
ManyCam is a freeware program that allows users to use their webcam with multiple different video chat and video streaming applications simultaneously for Windows and Mac computers. Users can also add live graphics effects and filters to video feeds. ManyCam Pro is a paid upgrade, it provides users with more video production options. ManyCam also publishes mobile apps. |
ManyCam uses a webcam or video camera as input for the software itself and then replicates itself as an alternative source of input. Because of this, ManyCam works with nearly all chat software that can use alternative video sources. |
On October 2, 2013, ManyCam LLC was acquired by Visicom Media, a developer of Internet applications. |
= = = Coningham = = = |
Coningham may refer to: |
= = = Short Skirt/Long Jacket = = = |
"Short Skirt/Long Jacket" is the first single by American alternative rock band Cake from their 2001 album "Comfort Eagle". |
The lyrics begin to describe an ideal fantasy woman beginning with the simple desire for a woman with "a short skirt and a long jacket" and go on to become much more elaborate and very specific, as if to tell a story about a particular woman. |
John McCrea said the song was "about prosperity and depression" and the strange behavior of the human mating ritual. |
The associated music vox pop video is composed entirely of people listening to the song on headphones and their reactions. Responses include enthusiasm, critique, and apathy; some dance, while one Ralph Walbridge, poet, gives the headphones back partway through, stating "uh... I've heard it all a million times, all the way back to all of the old records - which were much better - when they first came out, back in the 1940s." Other comments include Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen's (aka Dr. B.L.T.) "as a psychologist, I'd have to say it has therapeutic value because it releases something deep inside". The video was nominated for Groundbreaking Music Video of the Year at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, but the White Stripes ultimately secured the award. |
MuchMusic released an official "Canadian" version of the video that uses footage of people in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. The video humorously censors some foreign words spoken by non-English speakers due to the words' strange pronunciations. |