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= = = Mike Bacsik (right-handed pitcher) = = = |
Michael James Bacsik (; born April 1, 1952), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played with the Texas Rangers and Minnesota Twins. |
In 1976, Bacsik was one of 30 pitchers who pitched to Hank Aaron while Aaron had accumulated 755 career home runs. His son, Mike Bacsik, pitched to Barry Bonds when Bonds was on 755 home runs. Aaron went 1 for 2 against the elder Bacsik with a single; Bonds went 3-for-3 against the younger Bacsik with a double, a single and the record-breaking home run. The younger Bacsik would comment, in 2007, "If my dad had been gracious enough to let Hank Aaron hit a home run, we both would have given up 756." |
= = = Dardilly = = = |
Dardilly is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. |
Its inhabitants are called "Dardillois" |
An undulating town to in the western lyonnais, Dardilly is crossed to the east by the A6 autoroute and the RN6 and to the west by the RN7. Marked by a pleasanter, greener and more rural lifestyle, Dardilly's center is only 20 minutes by car from the Lyons peninsula. (By TCL bus: lines 3, 89, and by train, from the Saint-Paul suburb, - Lozanne). |
Dardilly, with its , includes three valleys oriented north south: the valley of ruisseau de la Beffe to the west, the valley of the ruisseau des Planches and the valley of the ruisseau de Serres to the east. Its altitude varies between 260 and 390 metres, allowing exceptional views over the , the Monts du Lyonnais and even on clear days the Alps, from Vercors to Mont Blanc. |
The Town also possesses 1.73 km of leafy forests of ones and of farmland. Many paths for walkers, horseriders and mountain-bikers criss-cross these spaces: |
Bordering communes include: |
The name Dardilly may originate from the Gallo-Roman name Dardiliacus, if the town was founded in that period, but there is no historic proof for this hypothesis, although the remains of an aqueduct built by Claudius to bring the waters of the Brévenne River (a tributary of the Azergues, itself a tributary of the Saône) to Lyon have been found nearby. More likely, the name Dardilly originated at the time of its first surviving mention, in the 10th century cartulary of Ainay Abbey, which possessed several lands here. |
In the Middle Ages, the village, constructed on a mound, was made up of a church dedicated to Saint Pancras, an adjacent cemetery and about twenty houses. In 1210, at the time of the feudal wars, the Count of Beaujeu tried to seize the city of Lyon and its then archbishop, Renaud II de Forez, fortified Dardilly as part of his defence of Lyon by building a wall and ditch around the existing settlement. |
In the time of Jean-Marie Vianney - the late 18th and early to middle 19th centuries - Dardilly was an agricultural and wine-growing town, with some beautiful houses built by wealthy people from Lyons who spent the summer months here. The population was about 1500 inhabitants. At the end of the 19th century the vines were ravaged by phylloxera and many of the town's inhabitants left for Lyons to find work, bringing the population down to 982 in 1911. The vine-growers that remained went over to growing fruit. |
In 1986 Pope John-Paul II visited Dardilly to see Vianney's birthplace on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth. |
The active population of Dardilly is 3546. Out of the employed residents of the commune, 25.6% work in Dardilly, 17.4% work in another TECHLID (Technopole économique de l'Ouest Lyonnais - Technopolis of West Lyonnais) commune, 52.3% work in another (non-TECHLID) commune within the département and 4.7% work outside the département. |
Dardilly has several social action groups : |
The town had 1,700 buildings in 1982, compared to 2 821 buildings in 2005. Even though the town's buildings have remained very residential, with a majority being individually owned houses, many of its buildings are social housing. |
The 2 churches, Saint Jean-Marie Vianney et Saint Claude, make up the Catholic parish of Dardilly. |
About twenty sports associations and some businesses (e.g. a dance school) give a variety of sports opportunities in Dardilly. The town also has access to several sports facilities: |
= = = Sukh-Shari = = = |
Sukh-Shari (literally translated as 'Happiness-Song'), are an imaginary pair of birds who appear in Rupkatha (Bangla fairy tales) at random. They have the capability to speak like humans. |
Sukh is the male bird and Shari is the female bird. They are wise and well-informed about the story's secrets. They usually sing about good deeds of people, answer questions in riddles and usually converse in rhyme. |
Printed citation can be found in the books Thakurmar Jhuli (Grandmom's bag, 1907) and Thakurdadar Jhuli (Grandad's bag, 1909) |
written by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957). |
= = = Dinaw Mengestu = = = |
Dinaw Mengestu (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for "Rolling Stone" on the war in Darfur, and for "Jane Magazine" on the conflict in northern Uganda. His writing has also appeared in "Harper's", "The Wall Street Journal", and numerous other publications. He is the Program Director of Written Arts at Bard College. In 2007 the National Book Foundation named him a "5 under 35" honoree. Since his first book was published in 2007, he has received numerous literary awards, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2012. |
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1978, during a period of political repression that became known as the Red Terror, his father, who was an executive with Ethiopian Airlines, applied for political asylum while on a business trip in Italy; Mengestu's mother was pregnant with him at the time. Two years later, when Mengestu was a toddler, he, his mother and his sister were reunited with his father in the United States. The family settled in Peoria, Illinois, where Mengestu's father at first worked as a factory laborer, before rising to a management position. Later the family moved to the Chicago area, where Mengestu graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. |
Mengestu received his B.A. in English from Georgetown University, and his MFA in writing from Columbia University in 2005. |
Mengestu's début novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears", was published in the United States in March 2007 by Penguin Riverhead. It was published in the United Kingdom as "Children of the Revolution", issued in May 2007 by Jonathan Cape. It tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, who fled the warfare of the Ethiopian Revolution 17 years before and immigrated to the United States. He owns and runs a failing grocery store in Logan Circle, then a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C. that is becoming gentrified. He and two fellow African immigrants, all of them single, deal with feelings of isolation and nostalgia for home. Stephanos becomes involved with a white woman and her daughter, who move into a renovated house in the neighborhood. |
Mengestu's second novel, "How to Read the Air", was published in October 2010. Part of the novel was excerpted in the July 12, 2010, issue of "The New Yorker", after Mengestu was selected as one of their "20 under 40" writers of 2010. This novel was also the winner of the 2011 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. This literary award was established in 2007 by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. |
Mengestu's first two novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. |
In 2014, he was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region. |
= = = Sphinx (search engine) = = = |
Sphinx is a fulltext F/OSS search engine that provides text search functionality to client applications. |
Sphinx can be used either as a stand-alone server or as a storage engine ("SphinxSE") for the MySQL family of databases. |
When run as a standalone server Sphinx operates similar to a DBMS and can communicate with MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL through their native protocols or with any ODBC-compliant DBMS via ODBC. |
MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, is distributed with SphinxSE. |
If Sphinx is run as a stand-alone server, it is possible to use SphinxAPI to connect an application to it. Official implementations of the API are available for PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python languages. Unofficial implementations for other languages, as well as various third party plugins and modules are also available. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format. |
The Sphinx search daemon supports the MySQL binary network protocol and can be accessed with the regular MySQL API and/or clients. Sphinx supports a subset of SQL known as SphinxQL. It supports standard querying of all index types with SELECT, modifying RealTime indexes with INSERT, REPLACE, and DELETE, and more. |
Sphinx can also provide a special storage engine for MariaDB and MySQL databases. This allows those MySQL, MariaDB to communicate with Sphinx's codice_1 to run queries and obtain results. Sphinx indices are treated like regular SQL tables. |
Sphinx is configured to examine a data set via its Indexer. The Indexer process creates a full-text index (a special data structure that enables quick keyword searches) from the given data/text. Full-text fields are the resulting content that is indexed by Sphinx; they can be (quickly) searched for keywords. Fields are named, and you can limit your searches to a single field (e.g. search through "title" only) or a subset of fields (e.g. to "title" and "abstract" only). Sphinx's index format generally supports up to 256 fields. Note that the original data is not stored in the Sphinx index, but are discarded during the Indexing process; Sphinx assumes that you store those contents elsewhere. |
Attributes are additional values associated with each document that can be used to perform additional filtering and sorting during search. Attributes are named. Attribute names are case insensitive. Attributes are not full-text indexed; they are stored in the index as is. Currently supported attribute types are: |
(since 1.10-beta); |
(since 2.1.1-beta); |
Sphinx, like classic SQL databases, works with a so-called fixed schema, that is, a set of predefined attribute columns. These work well when most of the data stored actually has values: mapping sparse data to static columns can be cumbersome. Assume for example that you’re running a price comparison or an auction site with many different products categories. Some of the attributes like the price or the vendor are identical across all goods. But from there, for laptops, you also need to store the weight, screen size, HDD type, RAM size, etc. And, say, for shovels, you probably want to store the color, the handle length, and so on. So it’s manageable across a single category, but all the distinct fields that you need for all the goods across all the categories are legion. The JSON field can be used to overcome this. Inside the JSON attribute you don’t need a fixed structure. You can have various keys which may or may not be present in all documents. When you try to filter on one of these keys, Sphinx will ignore documents that don’t have the key in the JSON attribute and will work only with those documents that have it. |
Sphinx is dual licensed: |
= = = Václav E. Beneš = = = |
Václav Edvard "Vic" Beneš (born January 1, 1931) is a Czech-American mathematician, known for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes, queueing theory and control theory, as well as the design of telecommunications switches. |
He studied under John Kemeny and gained a doctorate in mathematics at Princeton University (1953) on a treatise on "Mathematical logic". |
He then worked for Bell Labs until 1986, contributing to Kalman filter theory as well as the Beneš network, a permutation network of the Clos network type. In the 1980s he held a position at Columbia University as well. |
He has continued to publish independently since 1989. |
He was elected IEEE Fellow (1991) for "contributions to the structure of telephone connecting networks, stochastic control, and nonlinear filtering". |
The "Benesfest" was celebrated at Columbia University (2001) to honor his 70th birthday. He resides in Millburn, New Jersey (since 1985) where he has been a long-time mountain climber and member of the American Alpine Club, and currently heads the local historical society. |
He is a relative of the former President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš and politician Vojta Beneš. Emilie Benes Brzezinski, a sculptor, is his sister. |
His first wife Janet was the daughter of Philip Franklin and niece of Norbert Wiener. |
= = = Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo = = = |
Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo (1941 – 1989), known as Niccolo Caracciolo, was an Irish painter. |
Born in Dublin, he was the only son of Ferdinando Caracciolo, Prince of Cursi, a member of an old Italian family originally from Naples. His mother was a Fitzgerald of the Island, near Waterford, now Waterford Castle, where he was reared. |
After being educated in England, at The Oratory School, he went to Florence at the age of nineteen to study art and continued to keep a base there for much of the rest of his life, travelling back and forth to Ireland. |
In 1964 Caracciolo was one of the painters chosen to paint a replica of the Sistine Chapel for the scenery of the 1965 film "The Agony and the Ecstasy", on the life of Michelangelo. |
From 1975 to 1978 he lived at Rosemount House, near Moate, County Westmeath, where he painted many scenes of the surrounding countryside and exhibited at the Lad Lane Gallery in Dublin in 1978. He also exhibited at the Solomon Gallery. |
In 1983 he became an associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1984 a full member of the RHA. |
He died near Siena, Italy in a road accident in 1989 and was buried at Bunclody, County Wexford. |
The Don Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo RHA Medal is awarded in his memory. |
= = = Olivier De Cock = = = |
Olivier De Cock (born 9 November 1975 in Eeklo) is a retired Belgian footballer who played as a right-back. He is currently manager of the reserve team of R. Knokke FC. |
He has been at Club Brugge since 1987. In 1995, he was promoted to the first team. |
De Cock made his debut for Club Brugge on 29 November 1996 in the competition against AA Gent (1–3 to Club). It was however after the departure of Eric Deflandre that De Cock got a permanent place in the side. When Brian Priske came, he lost his permanent place in the side. In August 2007 he moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan. He then played for Oberhausen and Oostende. In the summer of 2010 he joined Roeselare on a one-year contract. |
De Cock has so far had 11 caps for the Belgium national football team. His first game for them came against Andorra on 12 October 2002 in a 1–0 victory. |
In January 2018, De Cock was appointed team manager of his former club Roeselare. In the summer 2018, he was hired as the manager of K.V. Oostende's U11 team. |
On 22 April 2019, he was appointed manager of the reserve team of R. Knokke FC. |
= = = Pars destruens and pars construens = = = |
Pars destruens / pars construens (Latin) is in common parlance about different parts of an argumentation. The negative part of criticizing views is the "pars destruens". And the positive part of stating one's own position and arguments is the "pars construens". |
The distinction goes back to Francis Bacon and his work "Novum Organum" (1620). There he puts forth his inductive method that has two parts. A negative part, "pars destruens", that removes all prejudices and errors. And the positive part, "pars construens", that is about gaining knowledge and truth. |
= = = Sandy Green (singer) = = = |
Sandy Green (born 18 June 1987), known professionally as Sandy, is an English singer and songwriter from Croydon, Surrey. |
Sandy’s interest in music began at an early age. Growing up with a father who was an avid music fan, Sandy became influenced by his rich and eclectic music collection. At the age of 12 Sandy formed a vocal group with two friends, called Xposia. Sandy was the lead singer and together the girls wrote and performed their music, performing at local venues. Sandy learnt to play the piano and continued her songwriting. After completing her GCSE’s, Sandy attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey. |
It was at this time that Sandy focused on her songwriting and performing skills with a view to releasing her music to the general public. |
Sandy’s debut single was released through the independent record label, Sandy Music, in February 2007 on digital download. The A-side, "So into You", was an uptempo R&B track. A video for the song was released and received airplay across Europe and on selected outlets in the United Kingdom. |