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Carlisle is a town located northwest of Boston in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town had a population of 5,237.
History
English colonists first settled the area now incorporated as
the town of Carlisle in 1651 on parcels of land of the neighboring towns of Acton, Billerica, Chelmsford and Concord. Carlisle became a district of Concord in 1780 and was incorporated as a town by an act of the legislature in 1805.
Activities
Carlisle contains a library, a country store, a book store, a dentist's office, an automated teller machine, many residential buildings, and the largest playground in the state of Massachusetts (Carlisle Castle). There are two ice cream stores: one of the four branches of Kimball Farms, and Great Brook Farm State Park which is home to the first robotic milking system in Massachusetts and serves ice cream made from the farm's milk. Great Brook Farm is also the site of one of the premiere cross-country ski touring centers in New England. On the east end of town there is an auto body shop and the former (closed in 2012) Blue Jay Recording Studio, where artists such as the Platters, Aerosmith, Aimee Mann, Amy Grant, Alice Cooper, Boston, John Williams and the Boston Pops, Buckwheat Zydeco, Billy Joel, Lauryn Hill, Rihanna, Roy Orbison, k. d. lang, Pat Metheny, Yo Yo Ma, Carly Simon, the Pussycat Dolls, Genesis and Lady Gaga have recorded.
The town newspaper, the Carlisle Mosquito, has appeared as the weekly independent newspaper of the town since 1972. It is a non-profit publication distributed free to all town residents. The paper includes local news, announcements, and logs.
The Gleason Public Library is one of the 36 libraries in the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. Gleason Public Library also contains a seismograph.
Cultural organizations include the Carlisle Chamber Orchestra, the Carlisle Community Chorus, and the Savoyard Light Opera Company.
Carlisle Old Home Day has been held for over 100 years on the weekend prior to the Fourth of July as a free public event with family-friendly games and activities.
Geography
Carlisle is located about south-southwest of Lowell and northwest of Boston. It borders the towns of Concord, Acton, Westford, Chelmsford, Billerica, and Bedford.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (1.09%) is water.
Conservation land makes up about a quarter of the town's area. Besides town-owned land overseen by the town's conservation committee, Carlisle is home to Great Brook Farm State Park and a portion of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge neighboring the Concord River.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,717 people, 1,618 households, and 1,372 families residing in the town. The population density was 307.1 people per square mile (118.6/km2). There were 1,655 housing units at an average density of 107.7 per square mile (41.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 93.47% White, 0.17% African American, 0.06% Native American, 4.69% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.19% of the population.
There were 1,618 households, out of which 46.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.6% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.2% were non-families. 11.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the average family size was 3.18.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 30.6% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 34.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males.
The median income for a household in the town $176,228 (Average household income is $244,544). The per capita income for the town was $87,470.
Carlisle maintains a zoning law on new development.
Education
Carlisle has one public K–8 school, the Carlisle Public School. High School students attend Concord Carlisle High School in Concord.
Notable people
Sean Bielat, businessman and two time Republican candidate for United States Congress in Massachusetts's 4th congressional district
Clairo, musician and recording artist
John Berman, journalist and CNN anchor.
Notes
External links
Town of Carlisle official website
Carlisle.org, volunteer-run community website
The Carlisle Mosquito, town newspaper
Carlisle Conservation Foundation
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879. Volume 1, page 359 Carlisle by B.F.Heald.
Towns in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Towns in Massachusetts
1651 establishments in Massachusetts
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Taxis in Australia are highly regulated by each Australian state and territory, with each state and territory having its own history and structure. In December 2014, there were 21,344 taxis in Australia. Taxis in Australia are required to be licensed and are typically required to operate and charge on a fitted taximeter. Taxi fare rates are set by State or Territory governments. A vehicle without a meter is generally not considered to be a taxi, and may be described, for example, as a hire car, limousine, carpool, etc. Most taxis today are fueled by liquid petroleum gas. A2B Australia owns and operates the Cabcharge payment system, which covers 98% of taxis in Australia, and operates one of Australia's largest taxi networks.
Taxi services are particularly valuable to less mobile groups in the community, such as elderly and disabled people. As a result, government intervention has historically ensured that taxi services have assisted in ensuring equity, reliability, quality, and safety. At the same time, regulation has created barriers to entry and limited competition in the sector. In April 1995, the Federal and all State and Territory governments entered into the Competition Principles Agreement that required all jurisdictions to review legislation which restricts competition by the year 2000. As a result of pressures from competition law, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (and preceding legislation), and evolving technology, the regulated industry is facing challenges from deregulated vehicle for hire companies including Uber.
Brief history
Australia adopted horse-drawn taxis once cities were established and, in the case of Queensland, Brisbane introduced the first horse-drawn taxis, which plied throughout the city. These also included hansom cabs, a more elaborate type with a closed-in cabin for passengers with two small front doors and glass windows and their driver sitting high at the back. This type of vehicle was a standard type used in England. Hansom cabs were used in Brisbane until 1935, operating from a rank outside the Supreme Court in George Street.
Motor taxis were introduced into Australia not long after they were put into service in the United Kingdom and Europe. In 1906 Sydney inaugurated motorised taxis, followed soon after by the other states.
The taxis of the period included a variety of types, with tourers and sedans. The latter were mainly French built Renaults, which were designed as taxis, not unlike the hansom cabs. Brisbane had a number of them that plied from the ranks outside Parliament House, Brisbane in Alice Street, and the Supreme Court of Queensland building in George Street. As applied to the hansom cabs, the Renaults catered mainly for gentlemen of standing, including judges, barristers and other notables. The drivers wore uniforms with leggings, the same as those worn by chauffeurs of horse-drawn carriages.
Each large taxi company had telephones installed in a steel box type cover at city and suburban ranks, direct to the switch control rooms in the city.
Although motor vehicle taxis were being used at the time, a few horse-drawn taxis continued service in Brisbane until the early 1920s. Country towns had them for a while longer.
The progress through the years included many types of tourers from circa 1910 until the late 1920s, with British and American cars predominating. Makes featured such names as Buick, Dodge, Talbot, Vauxhall, Saxon, Ford, Chandler, Studebaker, Chevrolet, Hupmobile, Whippet, Oldsmobile, Marmon, Pontiac, Hudson, Oakland, Erskine, Rugby, Essex and Chrysler.
Sedans were added during the late 1920s and included similar makes of vehicles. This was the case with all cars being imported into Australia until World War II. American cars proved more suitable to Australian motoring conditions, especially for taxis. General Motors built thousands in Australia, as did the other American companies including Ford and Chrysler.
Current industry structure by state or territory
New South Wales
New South Wales is served by around 6,000 taxis, and the industry employs over 22,700 taxi drivers, the largest number of taxis and drivers in Australia.
In general, individual taxis are owned by small-scale operators who pay membership fees to regional or citywide radio communication networks. These networks provide branding as well as telephone and internet booking services to operators and drivers.
Fares are set by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales (IPART). Other aspects of the industry are regulated by the Transport for NSW. The industry plays a self-regulating role through the New South Wales Taxi Council.
Vehicle operators are represented by the New South Wales Taxi Industry Association and, in country New South Wales, by the New South Wales Country Operators Association. Drivers are represented by the New South Wales Taxi Drivers Association. The New South Wales Transport Workers Union purports to represent taxi drivers. Most regional centers have a local taxi network.
Queensland
There are numerous taxi services throughout Queensland which operate in all main city centers, as far north as Thursday Island off North Queensland.
Prior to a taxi company being formed in Queensland, owners of taxis simply had signs on the vehicles indicating "For Hire" painted on the side, front and rear. Before 1924, all taxis plied for hire without a means of recording the mileage, other than the driver himself calculating the fare according to how far he drove his passengers. There was a fare scale, however, the driver could charge whatever he thought was nearest to the amount specified. This no doubt, brought about the introduction of meters.
The first taxi company in Queensland was Ascot Taxi Service which was formed in 1919 in Brisbane by two motor mechanics, Edmund William Henry Beckman and Edward Roland Videan. In 1924, the Yellow Cab Company imported their taxis from the United States, which were built especially for taxi work by the Yellow Cab Company in Chicago. The vehicle was the A2 Brougham (mustard pots)—a sedan with the driver separated from the passengers by a window with the baggage compartment in front beside him. The meter was alongside the window by the driver's side. The taxis were also the first fitted with meters in Australia. The vehicle was known as a yellow cab, having been built by the company with that name plate on the front of the radiator. The engines were also built especially for the type and were similar to the Willys Knight. The driver's compartment did not have side windows. The Broughams were taken out of service in 1936.
The Yellow Cab Company has now become the largest cab fleet in Brisbane and introduced the first computerized data dispatch from the control room to taxis. The system was designed to increase efficiency and provide a better and safer service for the public and increase drivers' security. The computers have been installed into the fleet of over 580 taxis.
The Taxi Council of Queensland is the trade association and its objective is to expand the total market for taxi services.
SsangYong Stavics are also currently being trialed in Queensland as 'maxi cabs'.
Uber is disrupting the Queensland taxi industry.
Victoria
Taxis and private hire cars are a part of public transport in Victoria. In December 2014, there were 5,778 taxis in Victoria. Each taxi is required to be licensed and one vehicle only is permitted to operate on each license. The number of licenses issued is restricted, but transfers of a license can take place. License fees were abolished in 2018.
Eight taxi license holders own and control more than 10 licenses. The largest license holders are A2B Australia and the Gange Corporation, both of which hold licenses under a variety of names. A2B Australia also operates the 13CABS booking network, and the Gange Corporation operates the Silver Top Taxis booking network. These companies are the two main network service providers in the greater Melbourne area. Taxi operators pay the booking service an affiliation fee.
More than 60% of licenses are assigned (or leased or rented) to taxi operators, who pay the license holder assignment fees. These fees fluctuate, and typically are in the order of $24,000 per annum. The operator owns, maintains and operates the taxi vehicle as well as the taximeter. Taxi operators may drive their taxis or may employ drivers. In June 2016 there were 14,771 active taxi drivers. Taxi drivers are required to be registered, and their registration certificate must be displayed in the taxi. A taxi operator can sell the taxi, comprising the assigned license, vehicle and meter, as a going concern. Besides receiving the assignment fees from the taxi operator, license holders also commonly benefit from capital growth in license values, or carry the risk of a decline in the market value of a license.
Concern about the availability and quality of taxis continues to be a major public issue in Victoria.
Significant reforms were made to the industry in 1994 under the Kennett Government, including taxis being required to be painted canary yellow. In 2002, peak service taxis, which must be yellow and a green top, were introduced to operate at night, between 3 pm and 7 am, and at special events only. In 2013, the taxi regulations were relaxed to allow colours other than yellow.
The taxi industry in Victoria was the subject of a major government inquiry, the Taxi Industry Inquiry in 2011.
The market value of a taxi license fluctuates over time. They were estimated to be valued at around $464,000, in October 2008. In April 2011, metropolitan taxi licenses had an approximate market value of $512,500. In June 2016 the approximate market value of a metro license was $158,688. Taxi licenses were abolished in 2018, and license holders are to be compensated at a cost of $494 million.
In 2008, there were 3,774 licensed taxis in Melbourne, including 235 wheelchair accessible taxis. In 2011, there were 5,045 taxi licenses across Victoria, including 502 wheelchair accessible taxis. In December 2014, there were 5,778 taxis in Victoria. More recently, the number of taxi licenses were:
In 2018, Uber, DiDi, Shofer, Taxify, GoCatch, Shebah, and Ola Cabs were legalized in Victoria. Taxi licenses were abolished and license holders are to be compensated by an 8-year A$1 levy on all taxi and ride-booking services in Victoria.
Regulatory scheme
Victoria does not have a dedicated industry statute covering the taxi industry. The prime operational statute for the taxi industry is the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983. Part 6 of that Act contains the key provisions regulating the taxi industry including provisions relating to licensing, accreditation and compliance. The overarching Transport Integration Act 2010 (TIA) is a key piece of legislation. It both establishes the taxi industry regulator, the Director of Public Transport, and contains a set of high level policy objectives and principles which the regulator must have regard to when exercising functions including licensing and accreditation decisions. In practice, the Director delegates taxi industry functions to the General Manager of the Victorian Taxi Directorate. Another key operational legislative instrument is the Transport (Taxi-cab) Regulations 2005.
The Taxi Industry Inquiry of 2011 resulted in major reforms to Victoria's taxi industry and has had a far reaching impact on taxi services in Melbourne and beyond. The Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011 created the Taxi Services Commission to regulate the taxi industry. The Commission commenced its role on 1 July 2013 and began operations on 19 July. Accreditation requirements apply to a number of key parties in the taxi industry.
Taxi Talk
Taxi Talk Magazine – Voice of the Taxi Industry – was the first ever magazine dedicated solely to the Victorian taxi industry. The first edition was delivered to depots on 1 May 1966, and each issue was a small pocket size magazine, 8" x 5", until Taxi Talk became a B5 colour magazine produced monthly. With collaborations from all sectors of the industry, the magazine kept taxi owners, operators, drivers, industry suppliers, service trade providers, associations and government interested people up to date with the latest news within the Victorian taxi industry.
In April 2017, Taxi Talk was rebranded to represent the taxi industry on a national level and developed into DRIVE NOW (previously DRIVE A2B) Magazine, the new Voice of the Australian Commercial Passenger Transport Industry. In September 2018, DRIVE NOW printed its first issue, and since has featured information on the Australian taxi industry for every State and Territory in Australia.
Tasmania
As at 19 February 2009, there are 448 perpetual, 8 owner-operator and 45 wheelchair accessible taxi licenses on issue in Tasmania. The industry employs over 1,000 taxi drivers: some owner-drivers and most drivers on a bailiff agreement commission basis.
There are 3 main providers in Hobart – 131008 Hobart, Taxi Combined and Yellow Cabs. 131008 Hobart alone service over 50% of Hobart's immediate population. The remainder of the industry consists of smaller fleet operators with several licenses each and the rest are owner-operators. The location of taxi ranks in the southern district are around the main CBD area, with many others in suburbs close to Hobart.
The Tasmanian Taxi Association began publishing a quarterly industry newsletter "TTA Taxi Talk" in December 2008. In October 2008 Yellow Cabs began operating their first Toyota Prius, becoming Tasmania's first taxi company to run hybrid vehicles.
Western Australia
There are two main taxi dispatch service operators in the greater Perth area of Western Australia: Australian owned (parent company ASX listed) Black and White Taxis (with about 10% of traffic), providing Black & White Cabs, Sunseeker Taxis, Maxi Cabs, 13eCab and 13LCab; and Singaporean owned (through a subsidiary of ComfortDelGro) Swan Taxis (with almost 90% of traffic) which dispatches Swan Taxis, 13Cabs, Easy Access Perth, Coastal Cabs, Silver Service, Tricolor and Yellow Cab taxis. Other much smaller independent dispatch companies include West Coast Cabs, Rainbow Taxis, Carlisle Cabs, Cabwest and White Eagles.
In Perth, there were 2,215 taxis operating in 2013, most being either conventional sedans or station wagons. This number included 116 multipurpose taxis that can also cater for passengers who are wheelchair-bound, 41 peak period restricted taxis and 75 restricted area taxis. An additional fifty London-style taxis were introduced in late 2013, dispatched by Black and White Cabs.
Outside the Perth metropolitan area, taxi fleets vary considerably in size from the largest, Kalgoorlie/Boulder with 44 licensed taxis (2013), to numerous very small towns with only one licence. The largest rural taxi fleets for 2014 were Kalgoorlie/Boulder (44), Mandurah (36), Bunbury (30), Broome (29), Geraldton (25), Port Hedland (23) and Carnarvon (23).
All taxis in Western Australia have meters operated by the distance and time. The meter is connected to a rooftop light that illuminates when the cab is vacant. Cabs can be booked either by phone call or on the internet. Hailing of taxis on the street is permitted in Western Australia. There are also taxi ranks at airports, many railway stations, popular nightspots and shopping centres.
Australian Capital Territory
Taxis in the Australian Capital Territory originated from hire cars, which began operating in Canberra from 1924. The most well-known operators of the Canberra hire car industry at this time were Horrie and Alice Cleaver.
In 1956, one hire car was successfully fitted with a two way radio, leading to a new era of radio hire cars. Twenty-seven of these radio hire cars worked from the owners' homes as well as from ranks in the city, and picked up hails; these were then called public hire cars or taxis. Fares were calculated by the operators and were based on a return trip. Within the next year, Deluxe Taxis and Black and White Taxis were introduced and started servicing the public.
Aerial Taxis was founded in 1957 by Ken Lambert, Bruce Lamber, Jack McCarthy, Bill Dennis, Clem Sykes, Alec Vince and Rex Brodie. The founders created a telephone booth sized dispatch center and set up an antenna for their two way radios at the Ampol Service Station in Kootara Cres, Narrabundah. The name Aerial Taxis came about, as each vehicle in operation needed a one metre long antenna fixed onto the roof. By 1963, Aerial Taxis was thriving and merged with the only other taxi group in the state Deluxe Taxis. Aerial Taxis is known today as Canberra Elite (Canberra Cabs).
Canberra Cabs is now one of Canberra's largest taxi booking service providers, alongside taxi service ACT Cabs.
Northern Territory
To own and operate a taxi in Northern Territory, one has to be approved as an accredited operator, attain a Commercial Vehicle Licence (CVL) and register their taxi. There is a limit on how many taxi licences can operate in Darwin and Alice Springs, and licences are issued by ballots. A ballot is held every time taxi licences become available, with people receiving 3 weeks notice on when it will occur.
Fares in Northern Territory are regulated by the Government of the Northern Territory. Taxi meters must be certified each year and checked they are showing the correct set fares. Taxi vehicles are also required to have a roof sign, including two tariff indicator lights indicating the rate being charged on the meter, and the word 'TAXI' on the front, which is to illuminate when the taxi is currently operating and not already servicing a passenger.
South Australia
As at 1 September 2020, there are 994 metro taxis, 253 country taxis and 102 metro wheelchair accessible vehicles registered in South Australia. In addition, as at 1 September 2020, there are 780 accredited taxi only drivers in South Australia.
Under the current legislation and the standards outlined by Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT), vehicles used as taxis must meet road safety and basic amenity requirements. Taxis are to display the details of the booking service provider or operator and a vehicle inspection sticker on the left hand corner of the windscreen.
On 1 October 2016, maximum fares for Adelaide metro taxis increased, for the first time within a period of 3 years, by 3%. In Adelaide, fares are calculated by the flagfall, distance travelled and waiting time. Tariffs set these rates depending on the time and day and the number of passengers in the taxi.
Cabcharge
The Cabcharge account payment system was established in 1976 to provide a way to pay for taxi fares throughout Australia and participating countries. Cabcharge has been the subject of Federal Court proceedings over alleged anti-competitive practices including predatory pricing activities and was subjected to a record high $15 million settlement for these behaviours. The company is also facing criticism of profiteering for the 10% surcharge it imposes on taxi fares paid by card and the matter is currently being investigated by the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the surcharge has been limited to no more than 5% in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.
See also
Taxicabs by country
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction#Australia
References
External links
taxis in Melbourne, Australia
Australia
Taxis of Australia
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Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson (born March 7, 1953 in Búðardalur, Iceland) is an Icelandic artist. He grew up in Búðardalur and moved at the age of 15 to Reykjavík. He studied Fine Arts and Crafts from 1971 to 1976, after which he went to The Hague and studied at De Vrije Academie (1976–77) and then at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He returned to Iceland when his studies were finished in 1979.
In a monograph by Elena Pontiggia, the artist's work was described as "northern, polar fairytales, full of fish and walrus, crossed by ice sheets and clouds, where unexpected water springs appear and there is an uninterrupted limbo of angels and birds chirping."
Helgi represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 1990.
Painting
Helgi has worked with drawings, graphics, sculpture and text. In his initial paintings, done while he was a student in the Netherlands, he complied with all the rules that were followed at the time. They struck him as overcomplicated and he elected to simplify things. He began to "transfer the sketch onto canvas, i.e. to think directly in the painting." He says he works images rapidly and that they are based on concepts connecting them to particular time periods.
Helgi was one of the painters involved at the beginning of the New Painting movement that was launched in Iceland in 1980. He first showed oil paintings in Gallery Leechers Street 7 in 1980, and then at the Nordic House in 1981. He also took part in large exhibitions like "New Painting" at The Living Art Museum and the "Gold Coast Spirit" exhibition held at the JL-House in 1983. The last two exhibitions garnered considerable publicity and shook up the Icelandic art community. It was at an exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir branch of the Reykjavík Art Museum in 1987 that Helgi first received widespread recognition for his work.
Helgi began to paint figurative characters, which have since characterized his painting, around 1987; this was seen in paintings in his Kjarvalsstaðir exhibition and others thereafter. The figures most characteristically depicted in his landscapes are centaurs and angels. Helgi extensively references legends and stories in ways that take on surreal undertones, but the work is never formally surrealistic. Gunnar B. Kvaran says in a book about Helgi published by the Reykjavík Art Museum in 1989 that the idea and the subject have always played an equally important role in the formal implementation of his inspirations.
Helgi says that he works with the solitary person in his paintings. This can, for example, be seen in the people and other figures who almost never touch, with eyes never meeting, so that the figures seem barely to know each other. He reinforces this theme by painting women as well as men naked and without appeal to sexuality. Solitude is absolute.
Exhibitions
List of major exhibits:
1980 Biennale de Paris, France
1983 Thick Air, Fodor Museum, Amsterdam
1990 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1993 Prospect ´93, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Confronting Nature, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Solo exhibitions:
2005 Galerie der Stadt Salzburg im Mirabellgarten (with Eggert Petursson), Salzburg, Austria
2005 Tregablandin fegurd, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
2005 ASI Art Museum, Reykjavik
2005 Drawings, 101 Gallery, Reykjavik
2006 Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden
2006 Skard, Gallery Amina (with Einar Falur Ingolfsson), Reykjavik
2006 Viaggio in Islanda, Gallery Duet (with Salvo), Varese, Italy
2008 Gallery Turpentine, Reykjavik
The Corridor gallery
Friðjónsson opened a small exhibition space in 1980 that has since exhibited works of Icelandic and international artists.
References
Sources
Gunnar B. Kvaran. (1989). Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson. Reykjavík: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Kjarvalsstaðir.
Ólafur Kvaran. (1999). Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson. Reykjavík: Listasafn Íslands.
Ólafur Kvaran – fyrirlestur á http://www.ugla.hi.is í November 2008.
Hannes Sigurðsson, Ólafur Gíslason, Þorri Hringsson. (1996). Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson - Sjónþing VI. Reykjavík: Menningarmiðstöðin Gerðuberg. (Visual Congress 6, Gerðuberg Cultural Centre)
Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson. (2007). The corridor. Sótt 17. November 2008 at http://www.helgi-fridjonsson.com/
Galerie Schulze (Author). (1991). Maximalists: Helgi Thorgils Fridjonsson, Marcello Jori, Milan Kunc, Daryush Shokof, Wainer Vaccari. Bess Cutler Gallery.
External links
Artist's web site: http://helgif.is/
Opening of an exhibition in ASÍ art museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm_ZnHIlpVU
Helgi Fridjonsson
1953 births
Living people
Icelandic contemporary artists
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The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2022 was held on 29 January 2022. The incumbents Magdalena Davis and Michal Berg were elected for another term.
Background and election
Magdalena Davis and Michal Berg led Green Party since 2020. The party received 0.99% under their leadership during 2021 Czech legislative election. Both Davis and Berg decided to run for reelection. They were the only candidates.
Election was held on 29 January 2022. Davis received 142 of 170 votes while Berg received 153 votes. They were elected for another term.
Voting
Female
Male
References
Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership elections
2022 elections in the Czech Republic
Indirect elections
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Fraser High School (FHS) is a secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school began in 1920 as Hamilton Technical Day School (later amended to Hamilton's Technical High School in 1924).
History
In 1970, the school moved to the northwest suburbs of Hamilton and was re-established as a comprehensive co-educational secondary school. In 1969 while still at the Hamilton Technical College site the school was called Fraser High School under principal Dave Campbell. The school took its name from the original Principal, Whampoa Fraser. In 1998 the name was modified slightly to Hamilton's Fraser High School to reflect their historical link to Hamilton Technical Day School, and to give a stronger geographical link to Hamilton. The Māori name of the school is Te Kura Tuarua o Taniwharau.
The former principal of the school, Martin Elliott, caused some controversy over his use of obscenities during his ill-fated run for the Mayoralty of Hamilton in 2004. Hamilton Fraser High School contains approximately 1657 students and 200 staff.
In 2001, the school suffered a huge loss when the school gymnasium was burnt down by vandals. A newer and larger gym was built in its place through support from the community. The school also opened a new technology block, on 19 October 2007, which has very similar architecture to the gymnasium.
The school was one of a number of Hamilton schools affected by the 2003 gypsy moth operations in the city. In 2004, the school's compensation claim for the cost of relief teachers to cover staff absences during the operations was declined by The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Acting head Virginia Crawford was appointed the new principal following the resignation of Martin Elliott after the discovery of his embezzlement in 2009. She had been a deputy principal at the school for 5 years. The school roll as of 30 March 2010, is 1657. Virginia Crawford became the principal in 2010, after a Board of Trustees election.
In 2013, the technology block was updated with 2 new kitchens and a sewing room.
Cadets
Hamilton's Fraser High School is the home to the country's last school-based cadet unit, which celebrated its 80th Jubilee in 2011. The Hamilton's Fraser High School Cadet Unit provides on a rotating basis, the duty of providing honour guards to the cenotaph on ANZAC Day, sharing this with the Hamilton City Cadet Corps, Hamilton Air Training Corps, TS Rangiri Sea Cadet Corps.
Facilities
The school has a guidance and careers department and medical facilities. Guidance counselling and medical treatment is provided to all students when required.
Construction is slowly progressing on Ministry of Education funded new multimillion-dollar technical block which will accommodate such subjects as soft and hard fabrics, catering and automotive. The school also has a Teen Parent Unit and Frasers' Little Feet Childcare Centre.
Hamilton Technical College
Fraser High was previously known as Hamilton Technical College, which was located in the current Wintec building.
Notable alumni
Sir William ("Bill") Birch - former National Member of Parliament for Franklin and Minister of Finance from 1993 to 1999
Duane Bailey - basketballer for New Zealand Breakers and Southland Sharks
Sarah McLaughlin - soccer player for Football Ferns and national youth representative sides
Greg Smith Super Rugby Player Waikato Chiefs position- Hooker. Also played for Waikato ITM Cup Provincial team and Captained the Fijian National side. Greg is currently the head coach for the National Women Rugby Team of New Zealand- The 'Black Ferns.'
Alex Pledger - basketballer for New Zealand Breakers
Marco Rojas - footballer for the New Zealand national football team
References
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Fraser High School
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Secondary schools in Hamilton, New Zealand
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Jiangnan Shipyard () is a historic shipyard in Shanghai, China. The shipyard has been state-owned since its founding in 1865 and is now operated as Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd.
Before 2009, the company was south of central Shanghai at 2 Gaoxing Road (). In 2009, the shipyard was moved to Changxing Island, in the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north of urban Shanghai. ().
The shipyard builds, repairs and converts both civilian and military ships. Other activities include the manufacture of machinery and electrical equipment, pressure vessels and steel works for various land-based products.
Ship building
The shipyard main production is: liquefied gas carriers, car carriers, crude oil tankers, Panamax bulk carriers, Handymax bulk carriers, Lake suitable bulk carriers, multi-purpose cargo ships, and fast feeder container ships. The shipyard recently delivered 23,000 TEU LNG-fueled containership the CMA CGM Champs Elysées, but there was a delay of at least 10 months.
See also
Chinese aircraft carrier programme
Foochow Arsenal
Great Hsi-Ku Arsenal
Hanyang Arsenal
Naval history of China
Self-Strengthening Movement
Taiyuan Arsenal
References
External links
listing by GlobalSecurity.org
Collection of photos of ships built by Jiangnan Shipyard
Shipbuilding companies of China
Manufacturing companies based in Shanghai
Manufacturing companies established in 1865
Firearm manufacturers of China
Shipyards of China
Chinese companies established in 1865
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Merlucciidae
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The Merlucciidae are a family of cod-like fish, including most hakes.
They are native to cold water in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and typically are found at depths greater than in subtropical, temperate, sub-Arctic or sub-Antarctic regions.
The best known species are in the genera Macruronus and Merluccius. These predatory fish are up to in length, though most only reach about half that length, inhabiting the waters of the continental shelf and upper continental slope, where they feed on small fish such as lanternfishes. Several species are important commercial fish, for example the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae) that is fished in the southwest Pacific and the North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) that is fished off western North America.
The taxonomy of the Merluccidae is not settled, with some authorities raising two or three subfamilies, the Merluccinae, Macruroninae, and Steindachneriinae, while other authorities raise the latter two into their own families, the Macruronidae and the monotypic Steindachneriidae.
This would mean the genera would be arranged as:
Steindachneriidae
Steindachneria
Macruronidae
Lyconodes
Lyconus
Macruronus
Merlucciidae ss
Merluccius
References
External links
Terra Curanda Fishery Statistics
Marine fish families
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Marcos Lenzoni
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Marcos Lenzoni (1894–1924) was an Argentine poet and playwright.
Born in Nelson, Santa Fe, Argentina on September 1, 1894.
Died on April 25, 1924 in Rosario, Argentina.
Author of Los murciélagos (play, 1919), Un pobre diablo (play 1920), Las que pecan (play 1921) y Nuestras hermanas (play 1922). Marcos Lenzoni published several of his best known work as a poet in the literary magazines El hogar, Atlántida, Mundo Argentino, Apolo, Monos y Monadas and Nosotros. Amongst his most celebrated poems: Ego, El lago, Tarde de lluvia and a compilation of verses dedicated to his home town of Rosario named Mi ciudad published in Transparencias, a magazine founded and edited by Alfredo A. Bianchi and Roberto F. Giusti.
Bibliography: Resurrección de Lenzoni, con un florilegio, Ricardo Ernesto Montes i Bradley. Editorial Palace, Rosario, Argentina, 1945. Florilegio y dos dibujos de Ricardo Warecki y Arzubi Borda.
References
1894 births
1924 deaths
20th-century Argentine poets
20th-century Argentine male writers
Argentine male poets
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More Deadly Than the Male
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More Deadly Than The Male is a 1919 silent film comedy adventure produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. Robert G. Vignola directed and Ethel Clayton stars.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Helen O'Hara (Clayton), actress and manager, is in love with Richard Carlin (Coxen). Richard is a man of the world, more fond of roaming in foreign countries and exploring other lands rather than enjoying the comforts of city or country life. Helen decides to change his habits and make of him a useful citizen. With this purpose, she stages a little drama in which Richard makes ardent love to her and is caught by her husband who is then shot and killed in the encounter that follows. Up to this point all has gone as planned, but the police step in and take Richard into custody. Helen is forced to produce her "dead" brother who played the role of her husband, and explains to the police that it was only a trick. Richard admires the woman's cleverness, admits his love, and decides to forgo any further world travels.
Cast
Ethel Clayton as Helen O'Hara
Edward Coxen as Richard Carlin
Herbert Heyes as Terry O'Hara
Hallam Cooley as Jimmy Keen
Peggy Pearce as Angela
Preservation status
This is now considered to be a lost film.
References
External links
Scene from the film (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
1919 films
American silent feature films
Lost American films
Films directed by Robert G. Vignola
Paramount Pictures films
American black-and-white films
1910s adventure comedy films
American adventure comedy films
1919 comedy films
1910s American films
Silent American comedy films
Silent adventure films
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Pravosudiye Mitropolichye
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Pravosudiye Mitropolichye (), Metropolitan's Justice) is a source of Old Russian law. It reflects the influence of the secular norms on Old Russian church law.
Text
There is one copy in church collection of the writings and homilies Flower Garden (). This collection also includes extracts from the Short Chronicler and Kiev Pechersk Patericon, Story about Abdication Books in edition the end of the 15th century, the canonical texts mainly from Novgorod monuments and other materials. It includes special redaction of Church Statute of Prince Yaroslav. According to Vladimir Avtokratov, processing of this redaction is similar to processing of Pravosudiye, therefore compiler of Pravosudiye could be the author of Flower Garden. The name of the monument ("Lo, this is the Metropolitan's Just Judgment") is a postscript at the bottom of the leaf.
Date
Pravosudiye was dated 13—14th centuries by Serafim Yushkov, 13th century by Boris Grekov. Mikhail Tikhomirov noted the similarity of the terminology of Pravosudiye and Moscow monuments, like Sudebniks, and believed that Pravosudiye could not be composed before the 14th century. Lev Cherepnin connected Pravosudiye with Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' and some documents of the end of the 14th century. Vladimir Avtokratov gave a late date: between 1497 (the publication of Sudebnik of Ivan III) and paleographic date of available copy of Pravosudiye, that is the beginning of the 16th century.
Sources
According to Vladimir Avtokratov, sources of Pravosudiye Mitropolichye were Russkaya Pravda in Extensive edition, Church Statute of Prince Yaroslav, Zakon Sudnyi Liudem, Old Russian law of 15—16th centuries, including Novgorod law (reflected in monuments such as Dvina Statutory Charter of 1397—1398, Beloozero Statutory Charter of 1488, Novgorod Judicial Charter, Novgorod Treaties with Princes) and possibly Sudebnik of 1497. Parts of the text almost always is marked by cinnabar initials, that meant different sections, taken from different sources. In the central part of the text (articles 13—21), one can see the influence of the structure and content of Sudebnik of 1497.
Content
According to Mikhail Tikhomirov, Pravosudiye Mitropolichye was not related to church courts. It was an original work written by "some not a very literate monk".
Vladimir Avtokratov supposed that Pravosudiye could be created by Novgorod clergy. If one use the late date, the purpose of creating Pravosudiye could be an attempt to replace the main clauses of the Sudebnik of 1497 with obsolete Novgorod legal norms. According to Boris Grekov (who, however, assumed the early date of Pravosudiye), this Sudebnik became unacceptable "for the adherents of the old order", that is, adherents of Novgorod law as opposed to Moscow one. However, the compiler also introduced a number of clauses related to the strengthening of Grand Prince of Moscow. A certain number of Pravosudiye norms of both the all-Russian and local Novgorod law were intentionally archaized. The other norms are outdated in comparison with the judicial practice of the end of the 15th century. This can be explained by typical for this time heightened interest in the texts of Novgorod olden time, as well as interest in codification of law because of the emergence of a unified Russian code of laws, Sudebnik of 1497.
The title of Pravosudiye does not correspond to its content: there is not anything about Metropolitan Bishop and his court in the articles of the document. According to Vladimir Avtokratov, the title could be drawn up to more authority for mainly obsolete legal norms.
See also
Old Russian Law
Church Statute of Prince Vladimir
Church Statute of Prince Yaroslav
Kormchaia
Rus'–Byzantine Treaties
Russkaya Pravda
Sudebnik of 1497
Sudebnik of 1550
Stoglav
Sobornoye Ulozheniye
Notes
Eastern Orthodoxy in medieval Russia
Christian terminology
East Slavic manuscripts
Society of Kievan Rus'
Medieval legal codes
Legal history of Russia
Legal history of Belarus
History of Christianity in Ukraine
Cyrillic manuscripts
13th-century manuscripts
Old East Slavic
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue is an American 1996 television film directed by Robert Ellis Miller, the last film Miller directed before his death on January 27, 2017. The film was completed days before actor Robert Urich had surgery for cancer.
Plot
During the Great Depression, an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, prompting his three children to travel over 500 miles to the White House in search of help from President Herbert Hoover in order to have their father home for Christmas.
Cast
Diana Scarwid as Annie Feagan
Robert Urich as Angus Feagan
Tegan Moss as Bernice Feagan
Britt Irvin as Lily Feagan
Alexander Pollock as Jack Feagan
Camille Mitchell as Margaret
Thomas Peacocke as President Herbert Hoover
Production
Filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia during October and November 1996. Robert Urich had been diagnosed with synovial sarcoma in August 1996 and received treatments while filming was taking place; Ulrich had also completed a chemotherapy course just before he was approached to perform as Angus. Days after filming was completed Ulrich had surgery for the cancer.
Release
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue premiered on The Family Channel on December 15, 1996. It was a co-production between the channel and Hallmark Entertainment.
Reception
Radio Times gave it 2 stars, saying "Cheesy dialogue and general overacting don't help matters, though it still warms the heart when the trio are finally given their audience with President Hoover."
References
External links
1996 television films
1996 films
1990s Christmas drama films
ABC Family original films
American Christmas drama films
Films about presidents of the United States
Films directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Great Depression films
Christmas television films
Cultural depictions of Herbert Hoover
1990s English-language films
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Sick (magazine)
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Sick is a satirical-humor magazine published from 1960 to 1980, lasting 134 issues.
Overview
Sick was created in 1960 by comic-book writer-artist Joe Simon, who also edited the title until the late 1960s. His son Jim Simon edited the magazine for several issues in 1976 to 1977. The magazine was published by Crestwood Publications until issue #62 (1968), when it was taken over by Hewfred Publications. Charlton Comics took over publishing the magazine in 1976 with issue #109.
Sick 's original mascot was a blank-faced little physician. He was later replaced by a mascot named Huckleberry Fink, whose design was similar to that of Mad 's Alfred E. Neuman, and whose motto, instead of Neuman's "What, me worry?", was "Why Try Harder?"
Its contributors included Mad regulars Angelo Torres and Jack Davis, as well as Howard Cruse, Arnold Drake, Ernie Schroeder, Washington correspondent Jim Atkins, and B.K. Taylor. Its art director from 1961 until his death in 1967 was the noted comic-book artist Bob Powell.
In his book American Comic Book Chronicles 1960–1964, comic book historian John Wells comments:
See also
Sick comedy
References
1960 comics debuts
1980 comics endings
Satirical magazines published in the United States
Comics magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Black comedy comics
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1960
Magazines disestablished in 1980
Magazines published in New York City
Comedy franchises
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Interactive transcripts are a new tool for media consumption. Similar to subtitles in many ways, an interactive transcript is displayed beside the audio or video source. As the user hears the words being spoken, the matching words in the transcript are underlined or highlighted. Interactive transcripts allows users to interact with video in an entirely new way. Users can search the transcript of the video and navigate to an exact point by clicking on any word. Doing so greatly increases the retention of the material.
Types
There are two broad categories of interactive transcripts. The first, characterized by YouTube, has timings (in minutes and seconds) running down the left side of the transcript. Users click on a block of words to jump to the corresponding section in the video. The second, characterized by Ted Talks, has the transcript in a paragraph form. This allows readers to read more naturally, and jump to a specific points in the video by clicking on a word in the text.
Benefits
At least 65% of the population are considered to be visual learners, those who absorb and recall information best by reading as opposed to listening. Visual learners benefit significantly from reading transcripts and watching or listening instead of only listening to spoken information.
In addition it has been reported that almost 1 in 20 Americans are deaf or hard-of-hearing, as well as millions more around the world. Whether at work or school or home, individuals that have difficulty hearing need new ways to understand and retain the material presented.
We read nearly twice as fast as we listen, assuming we want to read every word (an author's dream but not necessarily reality).
The average American adult reads prose at 275 to 350 words per minute while most of us speak at around 150-165 wpm. Slide presentations and speeches are often at 100–120 words per minute. Auctioneers and most true Bostonians speak at 200-250 wpm.
Monetization
Many sites have various forms of audio/video on their website—these same sites rely on search engines for a substantial portion of their visitors. However, search engines currently don't have the capability to know what is in a picture, movie or audio file as they are all text-based. Therefore, these websites may have valuable content that search engines won't be able to know about.
The easiest solution to this problem is to for website owners with media to include transcripts on their pages. This text must be placed in the HTML of the page and not loaded dynamically via Javascript. Search engines will then be able to crawl the content and include it in their search results. This will lead to more visitors finding the relevant content they are looking for.
If the website owner utilizes advertising on their website, a corollary benefit of having a transcript accompany their media is that advertising platforms, such as Google AdWords, will be able to place relevant advertisements since the content of the media is now known.
References
Mass media
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Gabukay
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Gabukay () is a rural locality (an aul) and the administrative center of Gabukayskoye Rural Settlement of Teuchezhsky District, the Republic of Adygea, Russia. The population was 1811 as of 2018. There are 17 streets.
Geography
The aul is located on the left bank of the Pshish River, near the Ryazanskaya stanitsa, 20 km east of Ponezhukay (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ryazanskaya is the nearest rural locality.
Ethnicity
The aul is inhabited by Circassians.
References
Rural localities in Teuchezhsky District
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Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation
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The 1992 Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation (the Agreement) was instrumental for the release of funds pursuant to the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991. It was signed on 17 June 1992.
Version 53 of the April 2022 Congressional Research Service guide to "Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements" mentions this Agreement with the annotation that it "Provides for U.S. assistance to Russia for the safe and secure transportation, storage, and destruction of nuclear, chemical, and other weapons."
Under the terms of this Agreement "the United States was the donor and Russia was the recipient of U.S. financial and technical assistance, including money provided to help Russia implement the reductions specified in START I."
This agreement was commonly known as the "Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Umbrella Agreement", and it expired on 17 June 2013. This Agreement was replaced by the Framework Agreement on the Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation signed 14 June 2013.
President George W. Bush and President Yeltsin signed the Agreement at their first summit on 16–17 June 1992 in Washington, D.C. The Agreement was signed on 17 June 1992 for a seven-year term and extended in 1999 until 15 June 2006.
References
See also
1999 Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Regarding Cooperation in the Area of Nuclear Material Physical Protection, Control, and Accounting
Arms control
Russia–United States military relations
Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Boris Yeltsin
Nuclear proliferation
United States Department of Defense
United States Department of State
1992 in Washington, D.C.
History of Russia (1991–present)
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Stipa
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Stipa is a genus of around 300 large perennial hermaphroditic grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and spear grass. They are placed in the subfamily Pooideae and the tribe Stipeae, which also contains many species formerly assigned to Stipa, which have since been reclassified into new genera.
Many species are important forage crops. Several species such as Stipa brachytricha, S. arundinacea, S. splendens, S. calamagrostis, S. gigantea and S. pulchra are used as ornamental plants. One former species, esparto grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), is used for crafts and extensively in paper making.
It is a coarse grass with inrolled leaves and a panicle patterned inflorescence.
Ecology
Species of the genus Stipa can occur in grasslands or in savanna habitats. Certain specific prairie plant associations are dominated by grasses of the genus Stipa, which genus often lends its name to the terminology of some prairie types. In some areas of the western United States grasses of the genus Stipa form a significant part of the understory of Blue Oak savannas, and were even a more important element prehistorically before the invasion of many European grasses.
Selected species
Stipa arundinacea
Stipa avenacea – black oat grass
Stipa baicalensis Roshev.
Stipa barbata Desf.
Stipa bavarica
Stipa borysthenica
Stipa brachytricha – Korean feather grass
Stipa canadensis
Stipa capensis
Stipa capillata L.
Stipa coreana Honda – Korean needlegrass
Stipa grandis P.A.Smirn.
Stipa hymenoides
Stipa joannis Čelak.
Stipa leptogluma
Stipa mexicana
Stipa milleana
Stipa mollis
Stipa pennata L. – feather grass
Stipa pulcherrima
Stipa spartea – porcupine grass
Stipa speciosa
Stipa tirsa Steven
Stipa tulcanensis
Stipa turkestanica Hack.
Stipa viridula – green needle grass
Stipa zalesskii Wilensky
Formerly placed here
Achnatherum aridum (as S. arida)
Achnatherum calamagrostis (L.) P.Beauv. (as S. calamagrostis (L.) Wahlenb.)
Achnatherum robustum (Vasey) Barkworth (as S. robusta (Vasey) Scribn.)
Achnatherum splendens (Trin.) Nevski (as S. splendens Trin.)
Celtica gigantea (Link) F. M. Vazquez & Barkworth (as S. gigantea Link)
Hesperostipa comata (as S. comata)
Jarava ichu Ruiz & Pav. (as S. ichu (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth)
Macrochloa tenacissima (Loefl. ex L.) Kunth (as S. tenacissima Loefl. ex L.)
Nassella leucotricha (Trin. & Rupr.) R.W.Pohl (as S. leucotricha Trin. & Rupr.)
Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth (as S. pulchra Hitchc.)
Oryzopsis hymenoides (as S. hymenoides)
See also
Nassella
References
External links
Poaceae genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Meyer%20%28German%20politician%29
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Ernst Meyer (German politician)
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Ernst Meyer (10 July, 1887, Prostken – 2 February, 1930, Potsdam) was a German Communist political activist and politician and a general secretary of the KPD. He is best remembered as a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of Germany and as the leader of that party's fraction in the Prussian Landtag. A political opponent of Ernst Thälmann, Meyer was moved out of the top party leadership after 1928, not long before his death of tuberculosis-related pneumonia at the age of 43.
Biography
Early years
Ernst Meyer was born in 1887 in Prostken, East Prussia, to a religiously devout working-class family.
Meyer studied economics and philosophy at the University of Königsberg, from which he received a PhD in 1910.
Political career
Meyer joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1908, while he was still a student in college, beginning to write almost immediately for Vorwärts (Forward), the SPD's official daily newspaper. In 1911 Meyer was promoted to the position of the economics editor of 'Vorwärts.
At the time of World War I, Meyer took his place on the extreme left of the SPD, along with Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, and Clara Zetkin. He was a close political friend of Leo Jogiches and participated in the issuance of the letters and leaflets of the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League). Meyer remained the only Spartakan on the editorial board of Vorwärts and he attempted to resist efforts by the majority of the editorial board to support German efforts in the war. This discordant position made Meyer a target of the SDP's right wing and on April 15, 1915, he was removed from his position on the paper's editorial board.
Meyer was the delegate of the Spartacus League to the Zimmerwald Conference in 1915, one of five Germans from three political groups to participate. Meyer and his Spartacist comrade, Bertha Thälheimer, did not lend their support to the resolution of the Zimmerwald Left at that gathering demanding an immediate break of revolutionary socialists from the reformist wing of the Social Democratic movement.
Meyer also served as a delegate to the Zimmerwald movement's second conference, held at Kienthal the following year.
Following the trial of Karl Liebknecht for his anti-war activities, Meyer went into hiding together with his comrades Luxemburg and Mehring.
At the end of 1918 the Spartacus League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Meyer was elected as one of the twelve members of the Zentrale (Central Committee) of the new organization.
During the German Revolution of 1918–19, Meyer emerged to serve on the editorial board of Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the official organ of the Communist Party. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany in December 1918 and was elected by the founding congress to the governing Central Committee of the new organization.
In 1920 Meyer was re-elected to the Zentrale and was made a member of the party's Political Bureau. The summer of that same year he attended the 2nd World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow as a representative of the KPD. Meyer reported on the agrarian question to the 2nd Congress, which elected him to the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) and its Presidium.
In 1921, Meyer was elected as a Communist to the Prussian Landtag.
At the August 1921 congress of the KPD, Meyer delivered the keynote speech, the political report of the Zentrale, emphasizing his place as a top leader of the organization.
Meyer returned to Moscow in 1922 as a member of the German delegation to the 4th World Congress of the Comintern. After his return, Mayer became one of the main architects of the "united front" tactics in Germany. The tactics was a reflection on the failed March 1921 uprising, inspired by the "offensive tactics". Instead of minority uprisings, the KPD now sought to build a mass base.
Meyer again delivered the key political report to the KPD's January 1923 party congress, but this time he was not re-elected to the Central Committee. He nevertheless remained an important member of the German Communist Party, returning to the top echelon after a further factional shift in 1925.
In the spring of 1926 Meyer attended the 6th Enlarged Plenum of the Comintern, although he faced personal criticism in that body's discussion of the German question. He returned in November to participate in the 7th Enlarged Plenum of the CI.
Meyer was re-elected to the Central Committee and its Politburo by the 1927 congress of the KPD. He was one of the leaders of the Versöhnler (Conciliator) faction and a political opponent of Ernst Thälmann, whose ascendency to top leadership of the KPD in 1928 effectively spelled the end of Meyer's political career.
Meyer addressed the KPD's 12th Congress in June 1929, but he was removed of all party functions.
Death and legacy
In the winter of 1929–30 Meyer, who had long suffered from tuberculosis, contracted a case of pneumonia. He died on February 2, 1930, at the age of 43 in Potsdam.
At the time of his death Meyer's comrade Paul Frölich remembered Meyer as a "very cool, sober, and deliberate thinker" who was valued for these characteristics during debates over party policies and tactics.
Footnotes
Further reading
Florian Wilde: "Building a Mass Party: Ernst Meyer and the United Front Policy 1921–1922", in: Ralf Hoffrogge / Norman LaPorte (eds.): Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933, London: Lawrence & Wishart, pp. 66–86.
Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917–1923. [1971] John Archer, trans. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006.
"The Decline, Disorientation and Decomposition of a Leadership: The German Communist Party: From Revolutionary Marxism to Centrism," Revolutionary History,'' Vol. 2 No. 3 (Autumn 1989). Part 1. || Part 2.
External links
Ernst Meyer Archive at Marxists.org
1887 births
1930 deaths
People from Ełk County
People from East Prussia
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Communist Party of Germany politicians
German revolutionaries
German Comintern people
People of the Weimar Republic
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National Association of Television Program Executives
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The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) is a professional association of television and emerging media executives. The organization was established in 1963.
NATPE implements its mission by providing members with education, networking, professional enhancement and technological guidance through year-round activities, directories, and events. The organization also offers online services to its membership including a propriety industry networking tool, special partner offers, and educational opportunities.
Historically, it is known for its annual NATPE Market & Conference, which is the American programming market serving the worldwide television community as well as one of the top new media and technology conferences. Amongst those in attendance include media buyers, broadcast and cable networks and channels looking to acquire programming, program distribution companies, financiers, advertisers, technology companies, and content producers.
History
As the medium of television grew up, program directors at local U.S. television stations felt a need for a program specific forum to discuss and resolve the challenges faced as a result of the Prime Time Access Rule, which gave responsibility for programming between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. to local stations and program directors. Encouraged by syndicated programming salesmen, 64 program directors (NATPE’s charter members) named Stan Cohen of WDSU New Orleans temporary president and set about organizing a meeting.
The first formal meeting of the National Associates of Television Program Executives was held in May 1964 at the New York Hilton Hotel and drew 71 registrants. The majority of participants were program directors. During the first two-day meeting in New York, the topics of discussion ranged from “The Network’s Relationship to Local Programming” and “Where Do You Find Talent?” to “Government’s Influence on Programming” and “Successful Formats for Handling Politicians & Political Issues.”
NATPE has changed dramatically over the past 40 years - membership grew from 64 to 210 by 1970; up to 1,206 in 1980; 1,818 in 1990; and to a peak of 3,812 by in January 2000, although membership and conference attendance declined significantly from the "dot-com bust" of 2001. In 2010 NATPE re-branded itself as NATPE Content First, and expanded into actively pursuing new media and technology speakers, exhibitors, and attendees in addition to their customary television members. This effort has allowed NATPE to re-grow and expand much of its membership base.
As an added link between the television industry, the academic community and students, the NATPE Educational Foundation, was formed in 1978. Its mission is to reach out to students by providing hands-on opportunities for them and their teachers in order to help prepare them for a future in television. NATPE’s Educational Foundation, underwritten by membership fees and the support of sponsors and special endowments, provides a number of annual fellowship, grants and prizes to the academic community. Lew Klein, one of the founders of NATPE and an early president of the organization, continues his dedication to the association as president of the Educational Foundation.
In 2019, NATPE signed a partnership deal with China International Television Corporation (CITVC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
Budapest
In 2011, NATPE acquired DISCOP EAST and renamed the event NATPE||Budapest. The market primarily covers the Central and Eastern Europe television industry.
NATPE Budapest 2013 was held at the Sofitel Chain Bridge Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, from June 24–27, 2013.
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Television organizations in the United States
Professional associations based in the United States
Film markets
1963 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1963
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Kite Stories
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Kite Stories is the twentieth solo studio album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1999.
Overview
An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop.
The music on the album is taken from an installation—a show featuring music and visuals—that took place at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, from 11 December 1999 to 6 February 2000.
The installation included a generative music system and a collection of objects chosen for their spatial presence - stones, sand and light sculptures. The original music was composed of eight layers of sound, each one playing on a CD player situated somewhere in the gallery, the sounds from which were all looped, providing an almost infinite variety of sonic possibilities. The music on the CD, at only half an hour in length, is a very much curtailed version of something that lasted for two months.
Eno made the music in his studios in London. He said "I think of shows like this as 'music in more dimensions' or perhaps 'music for more senses' .... a process more similar to painting or collage than conventional music composition. One element in it is nearly 20 years old; most of it was made last week. The music is divided into 8 independent layers, one of which is playing on each CD player. Since these players are not synchronized, the music constantly recombines into different patterns".
The heavily-treated, slowed-down & stretched-out vocals on parts II & III are based on a Japanese ghost-story, Onmyo-Ji, by Reiko Otano and was read by Kyoko Inatome, a waitress from his favorite sushi restaurant. Eno comments "I time-stretched her readings using Sound-Designer software, and then re-pitched the stretched voice using Digitech Studio Vocalist".
"The stars are faraway suns
In the temple of heaven
Another name for it is
The temple of little lights"
The three tracks on this album are also on Music for Installations.
Track listing
Kites I - 8:06
Kites II - 7:34
Kites III - 14:30
Credits
Brian Eno: cover art
Special thanks to:
Marlon Weyeneth: technical assistant to Brian Eno
Catherine Dempsey: organisation (London)
Charmian Norman-Taylor: administration and Japanese-English translation At Kiasma
References
External links
Beep discography entry
Discogs.com entry
Hyperreal report of the Installation
Kiasma homepage
Brian Eno albums
1999 albums
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Hlefi
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Hlefi is a village in the Ho West District of the Volta Region of Ghana.
It is located on the eastern side of the Akwapim Togo mountain range. It is between Anfoeta Gbogame to the south and Kpale Kpalime to the north. Dzolokpuita, the district capital is about 11 kilometres north east of Hlefi. Other places south of Hlefi include Bame, Ghana, Goviefe Todzi and Kpeve, the capital of the South Dayi District. To the west beyond the Akwapim Togo mountain range in a row going towards the north are Woadze, Agate and Have. To the north beyond Anfoeta Gbogame lie Anfoeta Tsebi and Saviefe. Matse is about 12 kilometres to the east.
The people of Hlefi are predominantly Ewe people who speak the Ewe language.
The Battle of Hlefi was fought between the alliance of people of Akwamu and the Anlo Ewe, then led by King Akoto the Akwamuhene against another alliance of Peki (Krepi) led by King Kwadzo Dei and King Howusu of Ho and other Ewes.
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Populated places in the Volta Region
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Knowllward
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Knowllward is a 1928 mansion in the style of a French manor house in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin which was designed by Thomas Van Alyea for Marjorie Montgomery Ward. The home was added to the Architecture and History Inventory of the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1995.
History
The home in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin was designed by Milwaukee-based architect Thomas Van Alyea and Brew City artist George Spinti III, and owned by Marjorie Montgomery Ward Baker: work was completed in 1928. It had of lake frontage on Oconomowoc's Lac LaBelle. The home is known as Knowllward and it is an example of architecture in the style of a French manor house. It is a estate with 30 rooms which took the interior designers and other craftsmen 10 months to complete. An addition was built on the home when Marjorie married Robert Baker. The home has 15 bathrooms and 8 bedrooms, with one of the bathrooms featuring a dog bathtub. There is also a garage for four and one half cars. Cyril Colnik was commissioned for the iron work in the home.
On February 1, 1962, the home became a home for the aged. It was purchased for $300,000 USD and operated by the Lutheran Homes Society. The home was sold to private owners who renovated the mansion in the 1990s. In 1995 the home was added to the Architecture and History Inventory of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) as "800 Lake Rd". The WHS refers to the home as French provincial architecture. In 2017 the Knowllward Mansion was again sold to new owners.
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Houses completed in 1928
French architecture outside France
Houses in Wisconsin
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The Cube (Australian game show)
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The Cube is an Australian television game show competition based on the British series of the same name that premiered on Network Ten on 24 February 2021. It is hosted by comedian Andy Lee.
Format
The game is played in teams of two people with a pre-existing relationship and occurs within a 4m × 4m × 4m transparent Perspex cube. The goal is to complete a series of seven games, each of which awards an increasing amount of prize money, before failing a total of nine times. Games are preselected for each individual contestant before the show to test their mental and physical faculties in various ways. A typical episode consists of two contestants' games; depending on how successful the contestants are and on editing, a contestant's game may split across two episodes.
The contestant begins with nine lives, and loses one for every unsuccessful attempt at a game. The contestant must repeat the game until they either complete it or run out of lives; in the latter case, the game ends and the contestants leave with nothing. When a contestant succeeds, they are shown a preview of the next game and can decide to either stop playing and keep their winnings, or continue and risk the money. During a preview, the game is named and described by a female computer voice and demonstrated by a figure dressed in a full-body jumpsuit and featureless metal mask.
Lee occasionally comments on the difficulty that past contestants have had with a game and notes the average number of lives lost while playing it, in order to help the contestant decide whether to continue or stop. Friends and family members in the audience may offer advice on decision-making and techniques for playing the games. Certain games have specific restrictions added to increase their difficulty, such as a time limit or allowing the use of only one hand. If the contestant violates any such restriction, they immediately lose a life.
The contestant is given two forms of assistance, each of which may be used once. "Simplify" reduces the difficulty of a game, such as by allowing more time or increasing the size of a target zone – though the precise nature of the change is not revealed until after the contestant chooses to use Simplify. Simplify may be used after any unsuccessful attempt. The simplification remains in effect until the contestant either completes that game or runs out of lives. "Swap" allows the contestant to switch places when playing a single-player game. This assistance becomes available after they complete the first game, and can only be used upon the introduction of a new one.
The seventh and final game is worth a jackpot of $250,000; contestants who complete this game are said to have "beaten the Cube".
Production
In December 2020, it was announced that Network Ten had commissioned the series to air in early 2021.
Auditions were open between November 2020 and January 2021. The first series was filmed in January 2021 by ITV Studios Australia. It premiered at 7:30 pm on 24 February 2021.
Prize money
Since the first episode, The Cube has had a prize money structure starting at $2,000 and ending at the $250,000 jackpot. Below is a breakdown of the prize money structure, showing the game number and amount of prize money that can be won for successfully completing that game. If a player loses all their lives at any point during the game, they lose all the money they have accumulated to that point.
Ratings
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Network 10 original programming
2020s Australian game shows
2021 Australian television series debuts
2021 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by ITV Studios
Australian television series based on British television series
Television series impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela%20K%C3%B6lmel
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Michaela Kölmel
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Michaela Kölmel (1956 - 2007) was a German artist and university professor.
Life and work
Michaela Kölmel's artistic work includes drawings, sculptures, site-specific installations as well as interventions in public spaces.
From 1980 to 1986 the artist studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Prof. Hiromi Akiyama and Prof. David Lauer; immediately thereafter, she was awarded the Graduate Scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg.Further scholarships took her to the Cité des Arts in Paris (1992), she received a lectureship at the University of Pforzheim (1995/99) and in Ahrenshoop (2000) funded by the Kunstfonds Berlin. In 2002, Michaela Kölmel became a professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences where she taught the course Interior Design, Sculpture, Drawing and Art History until her death in 2007.
Her work is determined by concept, process and material.Working in the tradition of minimalism of the 1960s, the artist explored complexity found in the simple and elemental. Her work examined the contrast between clear, unspectacular outer and mysterious, luminous inner forms with preferred artistic materials including highly polished copper tubes, stainless steel sheets and mirror glasses.
The artist transformed these materials into wall- and floor-related works. She also used them site-specific to connect spaces with each other and open up unusual fields of perception (Installation MultiMediale 2 and ZKM 1992, Installation Orgelhalle 1994, Installation Galerie Rottloff, 2006). Using materials that reflect light, Michaela Kölmel created complex sensorial spaces of high intensity with simple means; her quiet and dense formal language opens up complex dialogues between the work, the viewer and the space.
In her drawings, the artist replaced the conventional paper and pencil with foil, graphite powder and a cutting knife. Through cuts on the dark gray, slightly shiny graphite surface, she created arrangements of the finest lines. In their relief-like appearance and the special treatment of the materials her graphic works subtly interweave interfaces between dark and light.
Michaela Kölmel's works are part of many notable public collections including the Ministry of Science and Art of Baden-Württemberg, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the and can also be found in numerous private collections such as the and the collection of Reinhold Würth.
Gallery
Selected exhibitions
2019 "LichtSchatten", Solo Show, Karlsruhe Lukaskirche
2012 "gestern-heute-morgen", Group Show, Kunstgebäude Stuttgart (GA)
2011 "Spektral – Diametral", Group Show, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
2009 Group Show, Kunstverein Augsburg,
2004 "Painting and sculpture since 1960", Group Show, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
2000 "Gabriele Münter Prize", Group Show, Frauenmuseum Bonn (GA)
1999 "Kunstmesse Düsseldorf", Solo Show, Galerie Rottloff
1999 "Objekte", Solo Show, Galerie Rottloff
1997 "Förderverein aktuelle Kunst", Solo Show, FAK Münster
1996 "Michaela Kölmel", Solo Show, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
1996 "von der Farbe zum Licht", Group Show, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
1995 Group Show, Galerie Karin Friebe Mannheim
1993 "Sculptura Ulm '93", Group Show, Pro Arte Ulmer Kunststiftung
1992 "MultiMediale 2", Group Show with Karlheinz Bux Karlheinz Bux, ZKM Karlsruhe
References
External link
1956 births
2007 deaths
21st-century German women artists
20th-century German women artists
Artists from Karlsruhe
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences faculty
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The Wretched (film)
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The Wretched is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by the Pierce Brothers. It stars John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, Gabriela Quezada Bloomgarden, Richard Ellis, Blane Crockarell, Jamison Jones, and Azie Tesfai. The film follows a defiant teenage boy who faces off with an evil witch posing as the neighbor next door.
The Wretched had its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 19, 2019, and was released in drive-in theaters and through Premium VOD on May 1, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the amount of films in theaters, it became the first film since Avatar (2009) to top the box office for six consecutive weekends.
Plot
In 1985, Megan arrives at the home of the Gambels to babysit their daughter Ashley. In the basement, she finds Ashley being eaten by an inhuman creature. Terrified, she tries to escape, but Mr. Gambel purposely shuts the door on her. A strange sign is shown on the door.
In the present, Ben Shaw comes to live with his father Liam as his parents are in the middle of a divorce. Liam gives Ben a job working at the marina, where he befriends Mallory. During his shift, he notices Liam kissing a co-worker named Sara. In the woods, Dillon, the son of Liam's neighbor Abbie, finds a tree with the same symbol seen at the Gambel house. He hears what sounds like Abbie's voice coming from the tree, calling to him before Abbie appears. They bring a buck home that they hit, and later that night, something crawls out of the buck's corpse.
Ben investigates strange noises he hears on the roof. He follows the sounds to Abbie's house, but all he finds is an animal. He catches a glimpse of a witch on the porch, but cannot be sure what he saw due to Abbie's husband Ty turning on the porch light. Ben befriends Dillon and makes him promise to tell him if he sees anything strange around his house. That night, Abbie goes to check on her infant son Sam (Dillon's younger brother) in his crib. However, she finds that he disappeared, replaced by a bundle of sticks. She is then attacked by the witch. Ben later notices Abbie walking into the forest with a child.
Ben returns home one night to find Dillon hiding in his house, claiming that there is something wrong with his mother. Abbie comes looking for Dillon, threatening Ben and attempting to get into the house. Ty comes and takes Dillon home. Dillon tells Ty that Abbie is acting weird, but Ty dismisses his concerns. Ben is also concerned that something strange is happening with Abbie. At work, Ben learns that Dillon never showed up for his sailing lesson. When he goes to Dillon's house, Ty denies that he has a son. Later, Abbie whispers something demonic to Ty that makes his ears bleed. She then takes a shower and her body starts to decay.
Ben is suspicious and reads about a witch that is known for possessing people and "feeding on the forgotten". He confides in Mallory, but she does not take him seriously. She slips a taunting note under Abbie's door. Ben sneaks into Abbie's cellar and finds a picture of the family with Ty's face scratched out, along with a picture of Mallory and her sister Lily. He realizes that the witch is after Lily next. He calls Mallory to warn her that Lily is in danger, but Mallory does not remember her sister. Ben rushes to save Lily, but is too late, as the witch has pulled her into her tree. He is knocked out after hitting his head on a rock. Upon returning home, he finds that Liam has called the police due to Ben being missing. Ben attempts to explain what is happening with the neighbors, but is accused of being on drugs. Ben confides in Sara but notices flowers decaying, and realizes she is possessed by the witch. When she tries to attack, he slashes her arm, but the witch makes it look like he attacked Sara for no reason. He is taken into custody. Ben sees Sara whispering in the officer's ear. He tells Liam that Sara is possessed and pleads with him to check the neighbors' cellar. Instead of taking Ben to the station, the officer attempts to drown him at the beach until a dog attacks. The officer shoots the dog and then himself as he realizes that something is controlling him to kill Ben. Meanwhile, Liam finds the dead bodies of Ty and Abbie at their house. Sara attacks Liam and is nearly about to kill him, but Ben arrives and shoots her with the officer's gun. The witch crawls out of Sara's corpse and goes after Ben, but he takes Liam to safety as their house burns down. As a picture of Ben and his family burns, Ben suddenly remembers that he has a little brother, Nathan, implying the witch had made Ben forget about him.
Ben and Mallory go to the tree to rescue their siblings. As Ben rescues Nathan and Lily, Liam arrives and rams his car into the witch. Unfortunately, they are too occupied with Liam's injuries to finish off the witch permanently. Afterwards, Ben and Nathan are leaving to return to their mother's house. Liam says he will stay with his brother while he heals from the witch's attack. Ben and Mallory kiss goodbye, and she puts a flower in his hair before leaving to give sailing lessons. Ben notices the flower is fake, implying that the witch is now possessing Mallory, who is alone with three children.
Cast
John-Paul Howard as Ben Shaw
Piper Curda as Mallory
Jamison Jones as Liam Shaw
Azie Tesfai as Sara
Zarah Mahler as Abbie
Kevin Bigley as Ty
Gabriela Quezada Bloomgarden as JJ
Richard Ellis as Gage
Blane Crockarell as Dillon
Judah Abner Paul as Nathan Shaw
Ja'layah Washington as Lily
Amy Waller as Nora
Ross Kidder as Officer Guthrie
Kasey Bell as Officer Kopitar
Sydne Mikelle as Megan
Tug Cocker as Mr. Gambel
Madelynn Stuenkel as The Wretch
Owen Thomas Pierce as Baby Sam
Kenzie Jones as Ashley Gambel
Ryan Alexander Holmes as Adam
Pamela Gray as Counselor Rutland
Ice as Old Fisherman’s Dog
Production
Filming took place around Omena and Northport, Michigan, near the Pierces' hometown.
Composer, and childhood friend of the Pierce Brothers, Devin Burrows composed the film's score. According to Burrows in a 2020 Nightmare on Film Street interview, he visited the film's shooting locations prior to principal photography, to work the natural influence and inspiration into the music. The trio also worked together on the Pierce Brothers' 2011 film Deadheads.
Release
The film premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 19, 2019. It also screened at the Traverse City Film Festival, and at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. It was released in selected theaters (mainly drive-ins), and through Premium VOD in the United States on May 1, 2020. The film was released in cinemas in the Netherlands on June 25, 2020.
Reception
Box office
The Wretched grossed $1.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $2.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $4.3 million.
Due to limited theater exposure and few films playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wretched was #1 at the box office in its opening weekend, earning $65,908 from 12 theaters. The film finished first again the following weekend with $69,608 at 19 theaters, for a 10-day running total of $165,294. The film remained in first the following four weekends, making $91,975 from 21 drive-in theaters in its third, $215,836 from 59 in its fourth, and $181,000 from 75 in its fifth. It became the first film to top the box office five weekends in a row since Black Panther, which opened in February 2018, although it was noted that Trolls World Tour would have likely come in first over the course of its release had its weekly grosses been made public.
The film then made $207,212 from 99 theaters and crossed the $1 million mark, topping newcomer Becky by $1,415 to remain in first for the sixth straight weekend (the first film since Avatar in 2009 to do so). It was finally dethroned in its seventh weekend, finishing third, behind Becky and Infamous with $148,583.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads, "The Wretched stirs up a savory blend of witch-in-the-woods horror ingredients that should leave genre fans hungry for a second helping from writer-directors Brett and Drew T. Pierce." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 15 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave the film a largely positive review, writing, "Blessed with shivery setups and freaky effects—here, skin-crawling is literal—The Wretched transforms common familial anxieties into flesh, albeit crepey and creeping." Geoff Berkshire of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "What the Pierce brothers lack in flavorful storytelling or compelling characters, they almost entirely make up for in good old-fashioned atmosphere and suspense. The Wretched rarely surprises, but it's well-crafted enough to get under your skin anyway, with an able assist from the creepy camerawork of cinematographer Conor Murphy and unsettling score by Devin Burrows."
Writing for RogerEbert.com, Simon Abrams gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, saying that "unlike Stranger Things, The Wretched is a little too cute about teen angst, and not light enough on its feet to make you want to root for its ostensibly typical adolescent."
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2019 films
2019 horror films
2019 independent films
2010s supernatural horror films
American independent films
American supernatural horror films
Films about child abduction
Films about kidnapping in the United States
Films about missing people
Films about spirit possession
Films about witchcraft
Films shot in Michigan
IFC Films films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
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Isla Fisher
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Isla Lang Fisher (; born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. Born to Scottish parents in Oman, she moved to Australia at age six where she began appearing in television commercials. Fisher came to prominence for her portrayal of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1994–97, for which she received two Logie Award nominations.
After various appearances on television and stage, Fisher made a successful transition to Hollywood with her portrayal of Mary Jane in the 2002 live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo, and has since played prominent roles in films such as Wedding Crashers (2005), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Bachelorette (2012), The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me (both 2013), and Nocturnal Animals (2016). Her other notable credits include Swimming Pool (2001), I Heart Huckabees (2004), London (2005), Wedding Daze (2006), The Lookout, Hot Rod (both 2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Burke & Hare (2010), Visions (2015), Grimsby, Keeping Up with the Joneses (both 2016), Tag (2018), The Beach Bum, Greed (both 2019), and Blithe Spirit (2020). She has also voiced characters in animated films such as Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Rango (2011), and
Rise of the Guardians (2012).
Outside of film, Fisher played a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons of Arrested Development (2013, 2018–19), and currently stars as Mary on Wolf Like Me (2022–present). Fisher has authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book series. She is married to Sacha Baron Cohen, with whom she has three children.
Early life
Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, the daughter of Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher from Scotland. Her father was working as a banker in Oman for the United Nations. Fisher and her family returned to their hometown of Bathgate, Scotland, then moved to Perth, Western Australia, when she was six. She has four brothers, and said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life". She has stated that her "sensibility is Australian", she has a "laid-back attitude to life", and that she feels "very Australian". She considers herself a feminist. Her mother and siblings live in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies' College, Perth. She appeared in lead roles in school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors. At 21, she attended L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theatre and commedia dell'arte.
Career
1985–2001: Early acting credits
Fisher made her first on-screen appearances in commercials on Australian television at the age of 9, and made her professional acting debut in 1993 with two guest-starring roles in the children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. At 18, with her mother's help, she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame. In a 2005 interview with Sunday Mirror, she said that had she not been successful as an actress, she would probably have been a full-time writer.
Between 1994 and 1997, Fisher played Shannon Reed, a young, unconfident bisexual woman who develops anorexia, on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. In a 1996 interview with The Sun-Herald, she spoke of her success and experiences on the show: "I would be stupid to let it go to my head because it could all end tomorrow and I would just fade back into obscurity [...] I like working on Home and Away but it's a heavy workload so I get stressed out a lot. We work about 15 hours a day, including the time it takes to learn lines. I know a lot of people work those sort of hours but I think we really feel it because most of us are young and fairly inexperienced [...] But I am very grateful because it is good experience. It's like an apprenticeship, but we do it in front of 20 million people so all our mistakes are up for the world to see." For her performance in the series, Fisher received nominations for Most Popular New Talent at the 1995 Logie Awards, and for Most Popular Actress at the 1997 ceremony.
After leaving the soap, Fisher enrolled at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the musical Summer Holiday; appeared in the London theatre production of Così, and played an ill-fated member of an elite group of international students in the German slasher film Swimming Pool (2001).
2002–2004: Move to Hollywood
Fisher transitioned to Hollywood in 2002, with the part of the love interest of a cowardly slacker Shaggy Rogers in the live-action film Scooby-Doo. Although Scooby-Doo received negative reviews, the film was a commercial success, grossing US$275.7 million worldwide. On that early stage in her career, Fisher remarked: "I only came out on the back of [the movie] — for the premiere of Scooby Doo. And then, I ended up getting representation and ended up getting a job, almost straight away. So, I was fortunate, in that I didn't have to come out to L.A. and join a queue of however many people, and try to get work. I came in on the back of what was deemed as a big studio movie that had had extraordinary success". She subsequently played supporting roles in the independent film Dallas 362 (2003) and the Australian comedy The Wannabes (also 2003). In his review for the latter, David Rooney of Variety felt that Fisher "adds easy charm and a thinly developed hint of romantic interest", in what he summed as an "uneven but endearing farce about breaking into showbiz". In the comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004), directed by David O. Russell, she played what was described as a "punchy little part", by newspaper The Age.
2005–2009: Breakthrough
Fisher's breakthrough came with the comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, taking on the role of the seemingly sexually aggressive and precocious younger daughter of a politician falling in love with an irresponsible wedding crasher. On her part in the film, she remarked: "It was an interesting character to play, because she was so crazy and lacking in any kind of social etiquette. She doesn't care what anyone thinks." For one particular scene, involving sexual content, she used a body double. "I negotiated that from the beginning, trying to analyse why. I find pornographic violence, just gratuitous and unnecessary than nudity, because there's nothing more peaceful and beautiful". The film was favourably received by critics and made US$285.1 million worldwide. Empire magazine found Fisher to be an "unexpected, scene-stealing joy", and her performance earned her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards and two Teen Choice Awards nominations.
Fisher appeared as a Manhattan party host in the independent drama London (2005), opposite Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. She next starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Daze (2006), with Jason Biggs, playing a dissatisfied waitress who spontaneously gets engaged to a grieving young man. While Wedding Daze opened in second place on its UK opening weekend, the film received mediocre reviews from critics. Nevertheless, Reel Film Reviews found the film to be an "irreverent, sporadically hilarious romantic comedy that boasts fantastic performances from stars Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher". In the thriller The Lookout (2007), opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, Fisher played a woman used by a gang leader to seduce a man with lasting mental impairments. Describing on how she took her character, she said: "[I]t was one of those situations where I read the script and thought, 'This is the take. I don't want to play the cliché femme fatale. I don't want to come in and be the woman with the sexual appetite, who wants to take down this man. I want to come in and make her this big beating heart, and innocent —a woman who has no identity, who knows the man she's with, who doesn't have an agenda'. Because every character in the script has an agenda. I thought how interesting if [my character] doesn't have one if she's a victim of her own kindness. So, that was my starting point". While The Lookout received a limited release, the film was favourably received. The comedy Hot Rod (also 2007), with Andy Samberg, saw Fisher star as the college-graduate neighbour on whom an amateur stuntman has a crush.
Fisher played a copy girl who becomes romantically involved with an ambitious political consultant in the romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe (2008), with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz and Abigail Breslin. Reviewers felt the film was a "refreshing entry into the romantic comedy genre", and The New Yorker wrote that the "interest lies" in the female characters, concluding: "Isla Fisher, short, with thick auburn hair, is a changeable free spirit who keeps [the male lead]—and maybe herself—off balance". Budgeted at US$7 million, Definitely, Maybe was a commercial success, grossing US$55.4 million worldwide. Fisher also voiced a professor in a city of microscopic creatures in the computer-animated comedy hit Horton Hears a Who! (2008), featuring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, among others.
Fisher obtained her first leading film role in the comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), where she played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction. She felt "apprehensive" as she took on her first star vehicle, stating: "I was gobsmacked that anyone would give me my own movie. I am eternally bewildered. Every time I see [producer] Jerry Bruckheimer, I want to shake him and say: 'Are you mad? Why would you put me on a poster?'". Upon its release, the film received lukewarm reviews from critics; while Time Out described her as "silly and adorable", The Christian Science Monitor remarked: "Isla Fisher is such a bundle of comic energy that watching her spin her wheels in the aggressively unfunny Confessions of a Shopaholic counts as cruel and unusual punishment —for her as well as for us". Despite the critical response, the film was a commercial success; it opened with US$15 million on its North America opening weekend and went on to gross US$108.3 million worldwide. Fisher received her third Teen Choice Award nomination.
2010–2013: Mainstream recognition
In the British black comedy Burke and Hare (2010), loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders, Fisher starred opposite Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as a young former prostitute and the love interest of one of the titular characters. The film found a limited audience in theatres, and Variety wrote that "Pegg and Fisher, just about holding up their end of the bargain by delivering the film's portion of sweet romance, are hardly given anything funny to say", as part of an overall mixed reception. Fisher voiced a hot-tempered but good-hearted desert iguana befriending an eccentric chameleon in the 3D animated Western action comedy Rango (2011), featuring Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin and Bill Nighy. The film received positive reviews and made US$245.7 million worldwide. For her role, Fisher won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Animated Female.
Fisher starred in the comedy Bachelorette (2012), opposite Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Rebel Wilson, portraying a ditzy party girl and one-third of a trio of troubled women who reunite for the wedding of a friend who was ridiculed in high school. In its review for the film, Daily Telegraph found Fisher to be "brilliantly slow as a hot mess whose main ambition is to get coked out of her skull". Budgeted at US$3 million, Bachelorette was a commercial success; it grossed US$11.9 million in theaters worldwide and more than US$8 million on VOD. In another voice-over role, Fisher voiced the Tooth Fairy in what she summed up as an "animated Avengers", the film Rise of the Guardians (also 2012), which earned her an Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award nomination for Best Animated Female.
Fisher found mainstream recognition in 2013, with roles in two highly successful films —The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me. The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, directed by Baz Luhrmann and opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, saw her portray an ambitious social climber and the mistress of an upper-class socialite. Fisher described as "surreal" the experience to work for Luhrmann. "He's my dream director. I've only ever had a short list of people I've wanted to work with, and he was at the top of it. I honestly couldn't stop smiling the whole time". While reviewers described her role as brief, the film made US$353.6 million worldwide. Fisher garnered nominations for the Best Supporting Actress award from the AACTA Awards, the Australian Film Critics Association and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Fisher took on a larger role as an escapist and stage magician in the heist thriller Now You See Me, with Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent and Morgan Freeman. The Hollywood Reporter felt that Fisher's portrayal was "loaded with chutzpah", and IndieWire remarked in its review for the film: "[W]hile Fisher and Laurent bring their charm, they still don't quite flesh out underwritten parts". Like The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me grossed more than US$350 million globally.
Also in 2013, Fisher obtained the nine-episode role of an actress in the fourth season of Arrested Development, which was released on Netflix, and appeared opposite Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, and Will Forte in Life of Crime, a film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch, as the mistress of a wealthy man who refuses to pay the ransom for his kidnapped wife. The film received a limited theatrical release and favorable reviews from critics. Fisher, along with the cast of Arrested Development, received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and describing her work on the series as a career highlight, she said: "I've been really fortunate in my career to work with a lot of great people and get a lot of great gigs, but my favourite phone call ever was the Arrested Development one from my agent [...] It was very exciting".
2014–present: Films and writing
In Visions (2015), an independent horror film, Fisher starred as a pregnant woman who begins to experience supernatural manifestations after moving to a vineyard with her husband. Distributed for a limited release in most international markets, Visions was released for VOD in North America, and in its review for the film, Spanish newspaper Reforma wrote: "Predictable and boring, even Isla Fisher, who is usually pretty good, delivers a very boring performance". 2016 saw Fisher star in two action comedy films —Grimsby and Keeping Up with the Joneses. She collaborated for the first time with husband Sacha Baron Cohen in the British film Grimsby, playing the handler of the best MI6 agent, and in Keeping Up with the Joneses, she starred as one half of a suburban couple who begin to suspect their new neighbors are secret agents. Both films were budgeted at over US$35 million, but only made less than US$30 million at the box office.
Based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, Tom Ford's neo-noir thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016) featured Fisher as the blighted wife of a motorist inside a violent novel written by a recently divorced man. The film was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and was an arthouse success. Her third book and first children's novel, Marge in Charge, revolving around a mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who tends to bend the rules, was published in 2016. The book was met with a positive reception; Publishers Weekly noted that "spontaneity and mayhem" reign in the work, while The Daily Express found "the comic tale of [the] anarchic babysitter" to be "perfect for reading aloud". Fisher subsequently authored three follow-ups: Marge and the Pirate Baby, in 2017, Marge and the Great Train Rescue, also in 2017, and Marge in Charge and the Stolen Treasure, in 2018. In 2019, she guest starred in an episode of the tenth season of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2020, Fisher starred in the Walt Disney Pictures film Godmothered, which was released on Disney+ on 4 December of that year.
Personal life
Family
Fisher first met English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen in 2001 at a party in Sydney. They became engaged in 2004 and were married on 15 March 2010 in a Jewish ceremony in Paris, France. The couple have three children, born in 2007, 2010, and 2015. The family once resided in the United States, and London.
Religion
Before marrying Baron Cohen, Fisher converted to Judaism (her husband's faith), saying, "I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything—move into any religion—to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned." She completed her conversion in early 2007, after three years of study. She took the Hebrew name Ayala (), the Hebrew word for a female deer, and has described herself as keeping the Jewish Sabbath.
Philanthropy
In 2014 and 2015, Fisher donated her signed shoes for Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction. In December 2015, Fisher and her husband Baron Cohen donated £335,000 (US$500,000) to Save the Children as part of a programme to vaccinate children in Northern Syria against measles, and the same amount to the International Rescue Committee also aimed at helping Syrian refugees.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
Works and publications
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
People from Muscat, Oman
Actresses from Perth, Western Australia
Australian film actresses
Australian television actresses
Australian voice actresses
20th-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian people of Scottish descent
Scottish emigrants to Australia
Baron Cohen family
Sacha Baron Cohen
Converts to Judaism
Jewish Australian actresses
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq alumni
People educated at Methodist Ladies' College, Perth
Australian expatriate actresses in the United States
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Armando Durim Sadiku (born 27 May 1991) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club UD Las Palmas and the Albania national team.
Born in Cërrik, Elbasan, Sadiku started his career with a local club Fushë Mbreti from where he moved later at the youth ranks of his boyhood club Turbina, and later made his professional debut in the Kategoria e Parë. In the summer of the 2009, he went to Gramozi in the club's first ever top flight season, where he had a breakthrough year, scoring eight goals, which earned him a move to Elbasani. Sadiku played only a half season with Elbasani, since he was banned from Albanian football due to non-sporting behavior. His ban forced him to transfer to Switzerland where he played for Locarno.
Sadiku found his form in Switzerland, netting 54 goals in Swiss Challenge League, and was top scorer in 2012–13 season. In November 2013, he joined top flight side Zürich on a five-year deal. His time there was marred by his lack of playing time and injuries, most notably an injury in May 2014 which left him sidelined for 6 months. He returned the next season but failed to make an impact, scoring only three goals. However he still won the 2013–14 Swiss Cup. Sadiku form improved in the first half of 2015–16 season, scoring eight goals in 18 appearances. Despite being the top scorer of the team at this time, he was sent on loan to fellow relegation strugglers Vaduz, which was dubbed as an "owngoal" by Swiss media.
Sadiku helped Vaduz to retain their top flight status for another season, in addition relegating his parent club. He returned to Zürich in the summer, and was target of top European clubs from Serie A and Bundesliga, but didn't leave due to club's high economical demands. In January 2017, Sadiku was sent on loan again, this time at his former side FC Lugano where he rejoined Paolo Tramezzani.
An Albanian international, Sadiku with 11 goals scored, is his country's active player top goalscorer and 8th in the overall ranking. At youth level, he represented Albania under-19 and under-21 side with whom he scored 6 goals in only 7 appearances, thus being all-time top goalscorer. He made his senior debut in 2012 and was part of UEFA Euro 2016 squad where he scored Albania's first goal at a UEFA European Championship.
Club career
Early career
Born in Cërrik, Elbasan, Sadiku started his youth career at age of 7 with a local club Fushë Mbreti from where he moved later at the youth ranks of his boyhood club Turbina, and later made his professional debut in the Kategoria e Parë whereas he played during the two seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09.
Gramozi
In July 2009, Sadiku completed a transfer to newly promoted Kategoria Superiore side Gramozi, owned by the brother of Albanian oil tycoon Rezart Taci. He made his first top flight appearance on 23 August at the age of 18 in the opening matchday against Shkumbini which ended in a goalless draw, with Sadiku coming on in the second half.
He opened his scoring account on 19 September in matchday 4 versus Skënderbeu, netting a tap-in for the temporary equalizer in an eventual 4–1 away loss. One week later, Sadiku was again on the scoresheet as Gramozi recorded their first ever Kategoria Superiore win by beating Flamurtari.
Sadiku finished his only Gramozi season by scoring 8 goals in 28 league appearances, as Gramori was relegated after only one season.
Elbasani
During the summer transfer window, Sadiku signed for his hometown club Elbasani. During the 2010–11 season first-half he played 14 matches and scored 5 goals. He made his debut with the club on 22 August 2010 during the opening league match against Tirana at home, playing 75 minutes in a 1–1 draw. He scored his first goal of the season in his second appearance six days later, netting a last-minute winner in a 2–1 away win over Bylis.
On 19 December 2010, during the league match against Laçi, Sadiku, who had scored earlier in the match, was sent-off in the 82nd minute. A minute before his dismissal, he scored but was caught offside by the assistant referee Eduard Miho, which enraged Sadiku, who run towards him and pushed away by throat, spitting and also insulted him the process. Disciplinary Committee suspended Sadiku from Albanian football for two years, also fining him. That was his last match in Albanian football, as Sadiku left the club to purchase a career in Switzerland. As it happened with Gramozi in previous season, Elbasani also ranked in the last place and were relegated to Kategoria e Parë.
Locarno
Sadiku moved for the first time aboard in March 2011 where he completed a transfer to Swiss Challenge League side Locarno. The transfer was made official on 13th. He arrived in the morning and even travelled with the side to the away fixture with Schaffhausen. He made his debut later that day, playing for 82 minutes in a 2–1 loss. He opened his scoring account on Switzerland on his third appearance for the club, netting the winning goal against Chiasso on 1 April for a 2–1 win.
However that goal was to open the floodgates of the striker scoring in Switzerland, as he managed a brace against Kriens, and goals versus Aarau and Winterthur, which gave him 9 in 12 appearances as the team barely avoided relegation.
Sadiku begun 2011–12 season on strong fashion, netting twice on the opening day against Wohlen as the match was lost 5–2. He returned to the scoring sheet later on 20 August by scoring a brace in Locarno's 3–0 defeat of Étoile Carouge, giving his side the first win of the season. Then he scored on Swiss Cup round 2 against Wil which was not enough as Locarno was eliminated on penalties after regular time ended 1–1. Sadiku concluded his second Locarno season by netting 19 goals in the championship, being the highest scorer as Locarno finished 9th.
Lugano
On 23 July 2012, Locarno confirmed via their official website the purchase of Sadiku on a three-year contract. With the deal Sadiku would earn CHF200,000 per season.
He made his competitive debut one week later in matchday 3 of championship against Biel-Bienne, netting a brace to lead the team into 4–0 home win. He scored another brace later on 19 August in the 4–1 home win over Wohlen to take his tally up to 4 league goals. Sadiku reached double-figures for the second season in a row on 29 October where he scored his team's only goal in a 1–2 home defeat to Winterthur. Sadiku eventually finished his first Lugano season making 32 league appearances collecting 2849 minutes and netting 20 goals in, to become top scorer as the team finished 7th in the championship, failing to clinch a spot to top flight next season. He also contributed with 2 goals in 2 cup matches.
He started the new season by netting in the 1–3 home defeat to St. Gallen for the 2013–14 Swiss Cup Round 2 which eliminated Lugano from the competition. During the first part of 2013–14 season, Sadiku scored 6 goals in 11 appearances. including a brace in the 3–1 home win over Schaffhausen, before leaving in November.
Zürich
On 13 November 2013, Zürich and Lugano reached an agreement for the transfer of Sadiku for €500,000. The transfer was made official on 1 January 2014 where the player signed a contract until June 2018, taking squad number 11. At Zürich, he found his Albania teammate Burim Kukeli.
Sadiku made his first Swiss Super League appearance on 1 February against Sion where he came in the last minutes. Sadiku scored his first top flight goal on 16 February in the 3–1 home win over Thun.
Later on 26 March, he made another appearance as substitute, entering in the final minutes of extra time of Swiss Cup semi-final match against Thun which finished in a goalless draw which lead the match to penalty shootouts where Sadiku successfully converted his penalty shootout attempt as the team won 5–4. He also played in the final of competition against Basel as Zürich won after extra-time to win their 8th cup in history. This win constituted his first career trophy.
On 10 May 2014, during the league match against St. Gallen, Sadiku entered as substitute in the 70th minute and was injured shortly after, breaking knee ligament which would keep him sidelined for the next 6 months.
Sadiku made his on-field return on 30 November 2014 in 2014–15 Swiss Super League matchday 17 versus Basel where he came as a substitute in a 1–2 home loss. He opened his scoring account for 2014–15 season during the 5–0 win over Cham for Swiss Cup Round 3. He concluded 2014–15 season by scoring 3 goals in 14 league appearances, in addition 1 goal in 1 cup match.
Loan to Vaduz
During the first part of 2015–16 season, Sadiku was used scarcely, and often as a substitute by coach Sami Hyypiä despite being the team's top goalscorer in the league. That lead him to request a loan to another Swiss Super League side in order to play more to be ready to represent Albania in the UEFA Euro 2016 in France. His wish was fulfilled and on 12 January 2016 Sadiku was loaned out to the bottom-side Vaduz until the end of season. During his presentation one day later, Sadiku was allocated squad number 32 and dubbed his Vaduz move as the "right decision". His parent club Zürich was criticized by the Swiss media, which dubbed the loan an "own goal" and an "arrogant" decision.
Sadiku made his debut for the club on 6 February scoring a brace and providing two assists in a 5–2 away win against fellow relegation strugglers Lugano, one of his former sides. On 28 February, he was again on the scoresheet scoring his team's only goal in a 1–1 draw against Grasshopper, giving Vaduz one point.
On 6 April, he scored a brace in the 2015–16 Liechtenstein Cup semi-final match against Eschen/Mauren, helping the team to win the 2–1 and progress to the final. Four days later, Sadiku scored his fourth league goal for Vaduz and also provided an assist during the 3–0 home win against St. Gallen, helping Vaduz to a first success after six consecutive winless league matches. He scored his tenth league goal of the season during the 5–4 away defeat to Young Boys. Vaduz eventually finished 8th which was enough to avoid relegation.
Loan to Lugano
Following arrival of Paolo Tramezzani from Sadiku's national team Albania at Lugano made Sadiku himself to move on loan at FC Lugano making also a return. He made his return debut on 4 February in team's 4–0 away defeat at Basel. Following that, he went on to score in five consecutive league matches, including the winner against St. Gallen, as Lugano become a contenter for a European spot next season. During his time at Lugano, Sadiku formed a fierce partnership with Ezgjan Alioski, as the duo scored 25 goals together. On 7 May, Sadiku scored against Basel and celebrated by taking off his shirt receiving his second yellow card as the match finished in a 2–2 draw. On 21 May, Sadiku scored against Vaduz to open Lugano's way for a 3–0 victory which secured them participation in the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League next season. He finished the second part of the 2016–17 season by scoring 9 times in 16 appearances.
Legia Warsaw
On 12 July 2017, Sadiku joined Polish Ekstraklasa side Legia Warsaw by penning a three-year contract. The transfer fee was undisclosed, but it was reported that Legia paid €1.5 million for his services, making Sadiku the most expensive purchase of Polish football. He was presented two days later, where he was given squad number 99, stating: "I am happy I have signed with such a great club. This is a good step in my career. I hope we will qualify for the Champions League group stage."
Sadiku made his first appearance for Legia on 15 July in the opening Ekstraklasa matchday against Gornik Zabrze, playing in the second half and scoring his team's only goal in a 3–1 away defeat. Eleven days later, Sadiku made his UEFA Champions League debut by scoring a tap-in in a 3–1 away defeat to Astana in the first leg of third qualifying round. Sadiku was on the score-sheet also in his Polish Cup debut on 8 August where he netted in the last moments of the 4–1 win over Wisła Puławy in the round of 32.
Sadiku was sold by Legia on deadline day on 31 January to La Liga outfit Levante for an undisclosed fee. During his time at Warsaw he netted 7 times in 25 official matches.
Levante
On 31 January 2018, in the deadline day, Sadiku was signed by Levante of La Liga for an undisclosed fee. The player signed a contract until June 2020. After several weeks sidelined due to knee injury, Sadiku made his debut for the club on 26 February by starting in the 0–2 loss to Real Betis. By doing so, he became only the second Albanian ever, the first being Valdet Rama, to play in La Liga. On 4 March, in the final minutes of the first half of the match against Espanyol, Sadiku suffered a head-to-head clash with goalkeeper Diego López; he was replaced at half time while López was sent to hospital. Sadiku then underwent surgery on his nose.
He concluded the second part of 2017–18 season by making only six league appearances, scoring no goals in the process. In August 2018, Sadiku suffered a major injury in his left knee while playing in a friendly against Netherlands' Heerenveen. He remained sidelined for the entire first part of 2018–19 season.
Return to Lugano
On 15 January 2019, Lugano announced to have reached an agreement with Levante for the acquisition of Sadiku, who signed until the end of 2018–19 campaign. The contract included a clause, in which the Spanish has the right to rebuy Sadiku in the next transfer window. Club president Enzo Renzetti expressed his delight for the transfer, stating: "I have personally spoke with the boy. He is very motivated and is waiting with impatience to join us."
Loan to Málaga
On 2 September 2019, Sadiku extended his contract with Levante until 2021, and was immediately loaned to Segunda División side Málaga CF.
Erzurumspor
Sadiku transferred to the Turkish club BB Erzurumspor in the Süper Lig, and signed a one-year contract. Throughout a year, he was infrequently used, appeared in only five games without scoring a goal. He was released after a year.
Bolívar
After having an unsuccessful season in Turkey, Sadiku decided to venture to South America where he made history as the first Albanian to play in Bolivia, when he signed for Club Bolívar, a major giant in Bolivian football, in January 23. Two months later, he made history when he appeared in the 2021 Copa Libertadores, the first Albanian to debut in the most prestigious club competition in South America, in a 5–0 thumping of Uruguay's Montevideo Wanderers.
Las Palmas
On 29 July 2021, Sadiku returned to Spain and signed a one-year contract with UD Las Palmas.
International career
Youth teams
Sadiku was called up at the Albania national under-19 football team by coach Ramadan Shehu for a double friendly match against Cyprus U19 on 20 & 21 October 2009. In both games he played as a starter and was substituted off in the second half. He was included in Ramadan Shehu's Albania U19 squad for their 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
In the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Sadiku scored two goals as a second-half substitute against Moldova U21 on 7 September 2011 to earn Albania their first points of the campaign. He then scored twice against Poland in a 3–4 loss for Albania. He followed this up with another two goals in a 2–2 draw with Portugal, taking his tally to 6 goals in his first 7 games for Albania U21.
Senior team
New Albania senior team coach Gianni De Biasi, called up Sadiku for his first match as a head coach, a friendly against Georgia on 29 February 2012 at Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tbilisi. He made his senior international debut in the game, coming on as an 82nd-minute substitute for goalscorer and fellow debutant Edgar Çani in the 2–1 loss for Albania. He was called up then to Albania's next two friendliest against Qatar and Iran in May 2012, where he played as a second-half substitute in both games, which Albania won them both.
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
For the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, new coach Gianni De Biasi had introduced young forwards into the senior national team to create more competition for places in the team. Young forwards such as Sadiku was among Edgar Çani and Bekim Balaj provided competition for the established and mature internationals which were Erjon Bogdani and Hamdi Salihi. In the opening match against Cyprus for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on 7 September 2012, Sadiku managed to play as a starter among Salihi forming the duo strikers partnership and Sadiku himself managed to score his first international goal. His goal came in the 36th minute after a cross from free-kick in the right side by Alban Meha and it was the opening goal of the game to open Albania's way towards a 3–1 win.
UEFA Euro 2016 campaign
Sadiku was not called regularly during the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying campaign; even when he was part of the squad, he was seen as the third choice by manager De Biasi, ranked behind Cikalleshi and Balaj. He made his first appearance in Group I on 4 September 2015 versus Denmark, replacing Lenjani at 64th minute as Albania took a goalless draw at Telia Parken. In the final matchday against Armenia on 11 October, Sadiku came on at 59th minute and netted 17 minutes later to make the score 3–0; his weak shot inside the box was enough to beat goalkeeper Kasparov after a cross by Roshi. This win cemented Albania the second place in Group I which secured them a place at UEFA Euro 2016, in its first ever appearance at major football tournament.
On 21 May 2016, Sadiku was named in Albania's preliminary 27-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016, and in Albania's final 23-man UEFA Euro 2016 squad on 31 May. He made his first ever UEFA European Championship appearance on 11 June 2016 in the opening Group A match against Switzerland as Albania conceded early and lost 0–1. In the final group match versus Romania eight days later, Sadiku netted a header in the first half to lead the team to a historic 1–0 win; in doing so, he became the first Albanian player to score a goal in the UEFA European Championship and Albania took their first ever win in a major football tournament. It was also Albania's first win over Romania since 1948. Albania finished the group in the third position with three points and with a goal difference –2, and was ranked last in the third-placed teams, which eventually eliminated them.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
For the qualifiers of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, Sadiku's Albania was placed in Group G along with Spain, Italy, Israel, Macedonia and Liechtenstein. On 29 August 2016, he was in the team's for the friendly against Morocco and the opening qualifying match against Macedonia. He played as a second-half substitute in team's goalless draw against Morocco at the newly renovated Loro Boriçi Stadium. On 5 September in the match against Macedonia, Sadiku opened the score with right-footed shoot just outside the box as Albania won 2–1 thanks to a goal in the last minutes. Later that month, Sadiku suffered an injury while playing for Zürich which kept him sidelined for the next two qualifying match against Liechtenstein and Spain in October, which ended respectively with a 2–0 win and 0–2 defeat. He also missed the match at Elbasan Arena against Israel which ended in a 0–3 defeat as Albania was dropped to fourth place.
Sadiku returned to the national team in March for the match against Italy and the friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina. He returned to the field for the match against Italy, entering in the final 23 minutes as Albania suffered another defeat. On 12 June 2017, in the match against Israel at Sammy Ofer Stadium, Sadiku returned to the starting lineup after nine months to score twice in the first half, both long-range strikes, as Albania got their revenge on Israel with a 3–0 away victory.
UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers
On 14 March 2019, Sadiku received an invitation for the opening UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Turkey and Andorra, returning in the national team after one year. On 22 March, he played as a second-half substitute in the first game against Turkey at Loro Boriçi, recording his cap in 361 days. Three days later, new caretaker manager Ervin Bulku decided to start Sadiku in the second game against minnows Andorra; the striker scored in the 21st minute with the open net after benefiting from the wrong clearance of opposition goalkeeper Josep Gómes, paving way to a 3–0 win at Estadi Nacional. It was his 12th international goal, overtaking Hamdi Salihi to become Albania's fourth all-time top scorer.
Sponsorship
In April 2016, Sadiku signed a sponsorship deal with American sportswear and equipment supplier, Nike.
Personal life
Sadiku was born on 27 May 1991 in the municipality of Elbasan Country, Cërrik. His father, Durim, is from Trebisht, Albania and his mother from Podujevo, Kosovo. Sadiku is related to Taulant and Granit Xhaka through his mother. His brother, Sherif Sadiku, is also a professional footballer who plays for Shkumbini in the Kategoria e Parë. Sadiku has cited his role model and favourite footballer the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimović, and is also fan of Italian club Internazionale. Sadiku has a Bulgarian passport.
He is also known to be a supporter of Socialist Party of Albania, having taken part in 2013 and 2017 electoral campaign. On 30 December 2016, Sadiku was named "Honorary Citizen" of Elbasan for his contributions to sports. On 9 January 2018, Sadiku was engaged to Elona, a Kosovo Albanian dentist, which was one of his fans that he met via Facebook.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
. Albania score listed first, score column indicates score after each Sadiku's goal.
Honours
Zürich
Swiss Cup: 2013–14
Vaduz
Liechtenstein Cup: 2015–16
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Elbasan
Association football midfielders
Association football forwards
Albanian footballers
Albania international footballers
Albania under-21 international footballers
Albania youth international footballers
UEFA Euro 2016 players
KS Turbina Cërrik players
KS Gramozi Ersekë players
KF Elbasani players
FC Locarno players
FC Lugano players
FC Zürich players
FC Vaduz players
Legia Warsaw players
Levante UD footballers
Málaga CF players
Büyükşehir Belediye Erzurumspor footballers
Club Bolívar players
UD Las Palmas players
Kategoria Superiore players
Swiss Challenge League players
Swiss Super League players
Ekstraklasa players
La Liga players
Süper Lig players
Bolivian Primera División players
Albanian expatriate footballers
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein
Expatriate footballers in Liechtenstein
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate footballers in Poland
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Bolivia
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Dushore is a borough in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 608 at the 2010 census. Dushore is home to Sullivan County's only traffic light.
History
The first permanent settler in the Dushore area was General Cornwallace Jackson, who settled there in 1825. The community itself, however, was founded by and named for the French navy captain Aristide Aubert Dupetit-Thouars. Dushore was incorporated from Cherry Township in 1859.
Until the incorporation Dushore was known as Jackson's Hollow, Mosier's Hollow and Headleyville. Dushore has always been known as the center of commerce, business and industry in Sullivan County.
Geography
Dushore is located at (41.525227, -76.399924).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and 1.28% is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 608 people, 341 households, and 134 families residing in the borough. The population density was 779.5 people per square mile (304.5/km2). There were 408 housing units at an average density of 523.1 per square mile (204.3/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 98.8% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% some other race, and 0.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.5% of the population.
There were 341 households, out of which 15.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 25.8% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 60.7% were non-families. 54.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 24.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.78 and the average family size was 2.71.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 15.1% under the age of 18, 60.7% from 18 to 64, and 24.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 49.2 years.
The median income for a household in the borough was $26,635, and the median income for a family was $41,563. Males had a median income of $31,042 versus $21,125 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $17,448. About 9.0% of families and 14.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.1% of those under age 18 and 17.1% of those age 65 or over.
First settler was Aristide du Petit Thouars, in 1794; In 1960, the now, Dushore Community Park, was named Du Thouars Park. It was rededicated in the early 1990s and renamed.
Hometown of NASCAR and ARCA driver L. W. Miller.
Media
Dushore is home to four radio stations. WGMF-FM, 103.9 FM and WYSP, 88.1 FM are licensed to Dushore. WPAL, 91.7 FM and WCIS-FM (yet to sign on air) are licensed to nearby Laporte but are located on a tower near Dushore.
The Sullivan Review, a weekly newspaper, has been published in Dushore since 1878.
References
Populated places established in 1794
Boroughs in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
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Vernon John Schuppan (born 19 March 1943) is a retired Australian motor racing driver. Schuppan drove in various categories, participating in Formula One, the Indianapolis 500 and most successfully in sports car racing.
Although he considers himself to be a single-seater driver, Schuppan's biggest career victory was with the factory-backed Rothmans Porsche team when he partnered Americans Hurley Haywood and Al Holbert to win the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans driving the Porsche 956.
In 1984 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the sport of motor racing".
Early career and Formula One
After a successful karting career in which he won numerous Australian state and national titles, Schuppan made the decision to pursue a career in motor racing. He and his wife Jennifer ventured to Great Britain (with a self-imposed 2-year limit of making it big) to allow him to participate in the British Formula Atlantic Championship, which he won, leading to a test with BRM. As BRM's test driver he qualified for the 1972 Belgian Grand Prix at Nivelles-Baulers, but he did not start the race because teammate Helmut Marko commandeered his car, though he did compete in some non-championship races with BRM.
In 1974 Schuppan went to Team Ensign, débuting again in the Belgian Grand Prix where he finished in 15th position. In Monaco he retired on lap four because of an accident. Schuppan was disqualified in both Sweden and the Netherlands; in Sweden because he started illegally from 26th place on the grid and in the Netherlands for receiving a tyre change outside of the pits. Schuppan failed to qualify in France or Britain. He retired in Germany on lap four because of gearbox problems.
In 1975 he raced in one race in Sweden for Embassy Racing With Graham Hill team, retiring from the race with transmission problems. In 1977 Schuppan raced for Surtees, finishing 12th in Britain and a career best seventh in Germany. He finished 16th in Austria, but failed to qualify for his final Formula One race in the Netherlands. Schuppan would later describe Surtees team boss, World Champion John Surtees, as an autocratic owner who "always knew best and wouldn't listen to his drivers" and believes his time with the team was hampered by not being given equal equipment to his teammate Vittorio Brambilla.
Sports cars
Schuppan has had a very successful sports car career, winning the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche's official factory team with Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood in a Rothmans Porsche 956 (#3). Holbert drove the final lap of the race with an overheating (and steaming) engine caused by an airflow blockage to the radiator that cooled the heads, it seized as he crossed the finish line. The second placed car, the #1 Rothmans Porsche of defending winners Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell (driving) was only 17 seconds behind their teammates at the end of 24 hours of racing.
By winning Le Mans in 1983, Schuppan became only the second Australian to win the French classic, following in the footsteps of 1928 winner Bernard Rubin. Although Rubin was born in Australia, Schuppan is often mistaken for being the first Aussie winner.
Schuppan also finished second at Le Mans in 1977 driving a Mirage GR8-Renault turbo with French F1 driver Jean-Pierre Jarier, and second in 1982 in a Rothmans Porsche 956 with Jochen Mass. He also finished third in 1975 with Jean-Pierre Jaussaud in a Mirage GR8-Ford Cosworth DFV.
After winning at Le Mans, Schuppan went on to win the 1983 Japanese Sports-Prototype Championship.
He finished sixth at the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans driving with Jarier and fellow Australian, World Champion Alan Jones making his Le Mans début (and indeed his only start), in a Kremer Racing Porsche 956B after the factory backed Rothmans team boycotted the event over the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's new fuel restriction rules. Initially Porsche were not going to release their drivers for the race, but finally relented less than two weeks before the race and Manfred and Erwin Kremer were more than happy for the defending race winner to join them. Schuppan and Jones fought for the lead in the first few hours of the race with the Lancia LC2 of Bob Wollek and Alessandro Nannini, until the nose of the 956 was damaged by a spinning Roger Dorchy at Mulsanne Corner, losing the team a few laps in repairs. The Kenwood sponsored 956 fought back to be again fighting for the lead, and near the end of the race Jarier was 2 laps down but catching the leading Joest Racing Porsche driven by Klaus Ludwig and Henri Pescarolo (the eventual winners) by over 10 seconds per lap. He then pitted for Schuppan to run the car to the flag. Schuppan got in only one and a half laps before the car broke a conrod with just 90 minutes left to run. As Automobile Club de l'Ouest rules state that for a car to be classified as a finisher it must finish the last lap within a certain time, Schuppan fired up the Porsche and headed out for one last lap and a 6th-place finish.
He had a number of other podium finishes in the World Sports Car Championship, including second in the 1973 and 1982 Spa 1000 km, third in the 1983 and 1984 Fuji 1000 km and third in the 1985 Selangor 800 km race. Schuppan also placed third in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship in 1984, 1985 and 1986.
Other categories
Schuppan competed in three Indianapolis 500 races. These were 1976 (where he won the Rookie of the Year award), 1979 and 1981, with a best result of third in 1981 driving a McLaren-Ford. In all, he started 32 CART and USAC Championship races. He won the 1974 and 1976 Macau Grand Prix races, dominating the 1974 race, winning by four laps.
He also won the 1971 British Formula Atlantic Championship and the Singapore Grand Prix in 1973. He was second in 1972 and also second in the Malaysian Grand Prix in 1972. He raced Formula 5000 in Europe between 1974 and 1975 and in North America 1974-1976 with some success.
In his home country Australia, Schuppan won the 1976 Rothmans International Series run for Formula 5000 cars, driving a Lola T332-Chevrolet. He placed second in the 1976 Australian Grand Prix at Sandown Park in Melbourne driving an Elfin MR8 Chevrolet, only half a second behind winner John Goss in a Matich A53-Repco Holden. He was also runner up in the 1978 Rothmans International Series, driving an Elfin MR8-Chevrolet for fellow South Australian Garrie Cooper, the owner and founder of Elfin Sports Cars and his factory run Ansett Team Elfin.
When Schuppan was regularly returning home to Australia to race he was also a popular choice as a co-driver for top touring car teams such as Allan Moffat Racing, Dick Johnson Racing and the Peter Brock run Holden Dealer Team in the Sandown 400 and Bathurst 1000 races in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His best finish at Bathurst was a fifth place with Dick Johnson in 1978 driving a Ford XC Falcon. He drove for the Holden Dealer Team in 1981, partnering John Harvey in a Holden VC Commodore to 4th place in the Hang Ten 400 after starting the race, but never got to drive the car at Bathurst after a broken front wheel sent Harvey into the guardrail and retirement on lap 37.
Allan Moffat and Schuppan started on pole and were leading the 1976 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 when their XB Falcon GT Hardtop retired with engine failure in lap 87. In a 2013 interview with "Australian Muscle Car" magazine Schuppan told that Moffat's Falcon was the best touring car he ever drove.
Other activities
With Japanese backing, Schuppan produced minimally modified street legal 962 race cars. The first, known as the 962R and registered in the UK as H726 LDP, retained the original bodywork and honeycomb chassis from its racing career. Later a road going evolution of the Porsche 962 called the Schuppan 962CR was developed, using different bodywork than the 962R. At the then price of 195 million yen (US$1.5 million) only six were built.
Failure of payment for two of the cars shipped to Japan coupled with the high cost of the car's construction and worldwide economic recession, forced Schuppan to declare bankruptcy. Schuppan then also co-owned an Indy Lights team with Stefan Johansson, the pair managed the career of New Zealand born driver Scott Dixon until Schuppan and Johansson had a falling out resulting in Schuppan leaving the partnership.
In May 2006, Schuppan was elected into the Club International des Anciens Pilotes de Grand Prix F1, an eminent organisation based in Monaco.
Schuppan also played an important role in bringing Formula One to the city of Adelaide in his home state of South Australia. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone had originally favoured the Australian Grand Prix to be held in Sydney. However, the Premier of South Australia, John Bannon, asked Schuppan (who knew Ecclestone personally) to come and take a look at Adelaide. Ultimately Ecclestone was so impressed the Grand Prix was held in Adelaide for eleven years from 1985 to 1995.
As of 2014, Schuppan lives in Adelaide with Jennifer, his wife of over 45 years. The couple live in a converted warehouse adjacent to the Adelaide Street Circuit which hosted the Australian Grand Prix and currently hosts the Clipsal 500 on a modified version of the circuit for V8 Supercars. Despite his over 40 years of international motorsport, Schuppan describes living in a city as a new experience. He is also a regular supporter of the Targa Adelaide tarmac rally.
Racing record
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American open-wheel racing
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USAC Championship Car
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Indianapolis 500
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
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References
Driver Database stats
Racing Reference Profile
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1943 births
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans winning drivers
Australian Formula One drivers
Australian IndyCar Series drivers
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Living people
People from Whyalla
Racing drivers from South Australia
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Lars Ola Magnus Persson (born 19 December 1970) is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Riksdag for the Sweden Democrats party since 2014.
Persson is a construction worker by trade and is member of the municipal council in Bromölla municipality. He was elected to parliament during the 2014 Swedish general election.
References
1970 births
Living people
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Cocke County, Tennessee
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Cocke County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,662. Its county seat is Newport. Cocke County comprises the Newport, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area.
History
Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Cocke County probably was inhabited by the Cherokee. They were the most recent of a series of indigenous cultures who had occupied this country for thousands of years.
The first recorded European settlement in the county was in 1783 when land near the fork of the French Broad and the Pigeon Rivers was cleared and cultivated. The earliest European settlers were primarily Scots-Irish, Dutch, and Germans who came to the area over the mountains from the Carolinas or through Virginia from Pennsylvania and other northern states.
The county was established by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 9, 1797, from a part of Greene County, Tennessee. It was named after William Cocke, one of the state's first Senators. Located within the Appalachian and Great Smoky Mountains, it had difficult conditions for early settlers.
Like many East Tennessee counties, settled by yeomen farmers, Cocke County was largely pro-Union on the eve of the Civil War. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession referendum on June 8, 1861, the county's residents voted 1,185 to 518 against secession.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which are land and (1.9%) are covered by water. The southern part of the county is located within the Great Smoky Mountains, and the lands are protected by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The northern part of the county is situated within the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The county's highest point is Old Black, which rises to in the Smokies along the county's border with North Carolina. English Mountain, a large ridge that peaks at , dominates the western part of the county.
Cocke County is drained by the French Broad River, which traverses the northern part of the county and forms much of its boundary with Jefferson County. A portion of this river is part of Douglas Lake, an artificial reservoir created by Douglas Dam further downstream. The Pigeon River flows northward across the county and empties into the French Broad north of Newport at Irish Bottoms.
Adjacent counties
Hamblen County (north)
Greene County (northeast)
Madison County, North Carolina (east)
Haywood County, North Carolina (south)
Sevier County (southwest)
Jefferson County (northwest)
National protected areas
Appalachian Trail (part)
Cherokee National Forest (part)
Foothills Parkway (part)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (part)
State protected areas
Rankin Wildlife Management Area (part)
Martha Sundquist State Forest
Major highways
SR 73
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 35,999 people, 14,060 households, and 9,196 families residing in the county.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, 33,565 people, 13,762 households, and 9,715 families were residing in the county. The population density was 77 people per square mile (30/km2). The 15,844 housing units averaged 36 per mi2(14/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 96.16% White, 1.99% African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.33% from other races, and 0.96% from two or more races. About 1.05% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 13,762 households, 29.50% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.10% were married couples living together, 13.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.40% were not families. About 25.70% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.87.
In the county, the population was distributed as 22.80% under the age of 18, 8.30% from 18 to 24, 28.80% from 25 to 44, 26.40% from 45 to 64, and 13.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.80 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $25,553, and for a family was $30,418. Males had a median income of $26,062 versus $18,826 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,881. About 18.70% of families and 22.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.80% of those under age 18 and 18.70% of those age 65 or over.
Communities
City
Newport, county seat
Town and Census Designated Place
Parrottsville
Cosby
Unincorporated communities
Allen Grove
Baltimore
Boomer
Briar Thicket
Bridgeport
Bybee
Cosby
Del Rio
Hartford
Liberty Hill
Midway
Tom Town
Wasp
Notable residents
Ben W. Hooper, governor of Tennessee from 1911 to 1915
Popcorn Sutton, moonshiner
Marshall Teague, actor
In popular culture
The novel Christy and the television series of the same name are based on historical events, people, and localities of Cocke County. The fictional small town of El Pano, where the novel begins, is based on the existing village of Del Rio, Tennessee. The fictional Cutter Gap, where most of the plot unfolds, represents the locale now known as Chapel Hollow. Several area landmarks associated with the story are marked for visitors, including the site of the Ebenezer Mission in Chapel Hollow, which is located off the Old Fifteenth Rd., about from Del Rio.
Politics
Like all of Unionist East Tennessee, Cocke County has been overwhelmingly Republican ever since the Civil War. Since the first postwar election in 1868, Cocke County has voted for every Republican presidential candidate, even supporting William Howard Taft during the divided 1912 election. No Democratic presidential candidate has managed to receive forty percent of the county's vote in this time, although Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1932 landslide got within 0.23 percent of this figure.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cocke County, Tennessee
References
Further reading
Goodspeed Publishing Company, "History of Cocke County", pages 864–867 in History of Tennessee, 1887. Retrieved November 26, 2006.
Walker, E.R. III. Cocke County, Tennessee: Pages from the Past. Charleston: The History Press (2007).
External links
Official site
Cocke County Partnership – Chamber of Commerce
Cocke County Schools
Cocke County, TNGenWeb – genealogy resources
1797 establishments in Tennessee
Populated places established in 1797
Counties of Appalachia
Second Amendment sanctuaries in Tennessee
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Yogamullaval is a 1971 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by C. V. Shankar and produced by U. Parvathibhai. The film stars Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai, Shobha, Baby and C. V. Shankar. The film had musical score by R. K. Shekhar.
Cast
Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
Shobha
Baby
C. V. Shankar
T. S. Muthaiah
Prem Navas
Abbas
Bahadoor
G. K. Pillai
K. P. Ummer
Khadeeja
Meena
Ramankutty
Thodupuzha Radhakrishnan
Vanchiyoor Radha
Vijayalatha
Saroja
Vijayalakshmi
Soundtrack
The music was composed by R. K. Shekhar and the lyrics were written by Sreekumaran Thampi.
References
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1971 films
1970s Malayalam-language films
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Inez Brown Burns (1886-1976) was an underground abortion provider and socialite in San Francisco. She created an extensive West Coast abortion network in the United States, which catered to a range of clients in the early 20th century. It is estimated that her clinic provided about 50,000 abortions in San Francisco and about 150,000 abortions total. In her lifetime, Burns was widely covered in the press, due to her socially unconventional lifestyle, legal troubles, and occupation as an abortion care provider in the pre-Roe v. Wade era.
Early life
On September 5, 1886, Inez Brown Burns (née Ingenthron) was born. The accounts of her birthplace vary, with some sources claiming that she was born in a two-bedroom cardboard shack in the outskirts of Philadelphia, while others say that she was born in San Francisco. According to her biographer, Burns was truly born in a tenement building in the South of Market district of San Francisco. The Philadelphia story was merely a legend told by Burns. At the time, the South of Market neighborhood was comparable to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, due to its gritty warehouses, street gangs, and cramped living spaces.
Her parents were Alice Bell Cross, an American, and Fredrick Ingenthron (b. 1853), a poor German immigrant. Her father, originally from Traunstein, was a cigar maker and an alcoholic. The couple had met in Indiana and lived in Chicago before moving to San Francisco. In 1894, Frederick died, leaving Alice to raise four children as a single parent. Burns had a difficult childhood, and she was forced to leave school at 5 years old in order to work at a pickle factory. Burns taught herself to read, due to her lack of formal schooling.
Early work
As a teenager, Burns found a job as a manicurist at the Palace Hotel. She was admired by many male guests of the hotel, who often sought her services, including Eugene West, a full-time abortion care provider. At the time, West was a "lady's man," according to historians, and three times the age of Burns. He and Burns became lovers, and he reportedly performed some abortions on her. He eventually offered her a job at his abortion clinic, and she worked by his side for years.
In early 20th century, there were strict birth control laws in the United States, resulting in many unintended pregnancies. Furthermore, abortion was illegal, and it was a felony to provide abortion services. In 1872, San Francisco had even adopted an anti-abortion statute. However, a large underground economy of abortion providers existed, which was primarily marketed through word-of-mouth. The doctors, midwives, and specialists who performed underground abortions were rarely arrested, unless the pregnant person died during the procedure. As a result, underground abortion services were fairly common at the time.
At that time, many abortion providers were undertrained, under-equipped, or worked in unhygienic conditions. This led to many abortion-related injuries and deaths.Similarly, West was not without scandal. In 1902, he was charged with dismemberment, after he had thrown the body of a dead patient into the San Francisco Bay. He claimed that he had tried to save the patient from a botched abortion performed by another doctor, and he had been unsuccessful. Furthermore, West had other court appearances, due to malpractice. As written by Riggin, his "incompetence and malpractice routinely kept him in the courtroom."
Following her affair with West, Burns began a relationship with George Washington Merritt, a 42-year old businessman. She became pregnant with a child, while seeing Merritt. It was considered unpleasant and uncomfortable for a pregnant woman to work at an abortion clinic, so Burns then left her job. Before she left, she stole a satchel of medical equipment, as well as bottles of chloroform and quinine, which she took home with her.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake radically altered the city, as many people lost their professions, homes, or loved ones. During the earthquake, Burns quickly ran out of her apartment, grabbing the medical equipment that she had stolen from West's office. Her home had been destroyed in the earthquake, and she found herself among the homeless who camped out in Golden Gate Park. However, in this environment, Burns found a business opportunity. She began to perform abortions for other campers in the park in Sharon Meadow, and news of her talents soon spread.
Following the devastation of the earthquake, Burns briefly left San Francisco for Pittsburgh. In 1910, she returned to San Francisco on the Southern Pacific Railroad for a new life. By that point, she was mother with two sons, Bobby and George, but she only returned with one of her children (Bobby). When her sister, Nellie, asked about George, Inez said, "I’ll send for George later," although she apparently never did. The boy remained with his father, George Merritt, in Pennsylvania.
Abortion clinic
In San Francisco, Burns quickly became known as a skilled abortion provider. In 1922, she opened her first abortion clinic in a 2-story building, located at 327 Fillmore Street. The clinic had multiple people on staff, including nurses, a blood technician, and a janitor. It was designed to feel pleasant and inviting, with Persian carpets, Chippendale chairs, oil paintings, and crystal chandeliers. The reception room had Burns' business cards in a copper bowl, where she was described as only a "Designer." The clinic had one operating room, which included surgical devices, a bowl, and a basin. Other rooms had beds for recovering patients. The backyard had large, concrete incinerators, where the staff would burn the fetal remains.
Perhaps due to the prior scandals of West, Burns was particularly concerned with health and hygiene. The operating instruments at the clinic were always sterilized and she employed trained anesthetics. When patients left the clinic, they were given detailed instructions for aftercare. If they experienced any complications, the clinic would cover any related costs. Consequently, the clinic had very few problems related to malpractice of complications.
The clinic had various arrangements to address the illegal nature of the work. Trapdoors were installed, in case of police raids, and the clinic paid kickbacks to the San Francisco Police Department (reportedly $400/day by the 1940s), which enabled the clinic to stay open. Burns made sure to have a minimal paper trail. She did not keep detailed records of her appointments, and she carefully stored her money in various safes and compartments rather than in a bank.
The clinic was considered clean, efficient, and discreet, and business quickly grew. An average of 20-30 women were serviced per day, and they paid between $75 and $200 per abortion. The clients were both wealthy and poor, but Burns barely provided discounts, as she was primarily interested in the financial aspects of the business (rather than political or philosophical reasons). Clients of the clinic included housewives, celebrities, and athletes, and it was common for women to be waiting when Burns opened the doors in the morning. The majority of her clients were married, middle-class and wealthy women, and some did not tell their husbands that they were pregnant and/or that they had sought out abortion services. Hollywood studios sent contract actresses to her clinic, and the Olympic skater Sonja Henie reportedly visited her clinic.
The clinic network eventually spanned the West Coast, with services extending from Seattle to San Diego. At her peak, Burns was making at least $50,000 per month through the clinic. By 1924, Burns was able to purchase a home at 274 Guerrero Street, where she stored much of her cash. That year, she married Charles A. Granelli, a stylish and handsome Italian playboy. Over time, she acquired a range of properties, including a house in Atherton and a 800 acre ranch (known as "Burns Ranch") in La Honda, amidst the Santa Cruz Mountains. Burns drove around in a chauffeured limousine. She hosted famously raucous parties on Wednesday nights, especially at Burns Ranch, which attracted politicians, prostitutes, policemen, and health care professionals. Some attendants of her parties included Pinky Lee, Dwight Fiske, Burl Ives, and a magician named Gali-Gali. During this period, she became a source of social fascination in gossip headlines, particularly due to her flamboyant lifestyle. She eventually left Granelli. In 1932, she married Joseph Burns, a California Assemblyman, who she met at one of her parties. She took his last name.
In 1945, Burns claimed that she made about 1 million dollars per year, but about half of that money went to kickbacks and bribes.
Raids and legal issues
The abortion clinic suffered many police raids during its existence. The first raid was in 1936, when police stormed the Fillmore Street location and arrested a maid and a janitor, whom they called "vagrants." However, the clinic was not shut down and Inez was not arrested. Two years later, in 1938, the clinic was raided again, when a patient had informed the police that Inez had performed an abortion. The police questioned 10 women in the waiting room, and they arrested Burns and Margie Silver, a nurse. A few weeks later, Burns and Silver were released when the police were unable to acquire formal complaints from the clinic's clients. It was repeatedly difficult for the police to find formal evidence and charges for the clinic, as most women did not want to share that they had received an abortion.
In 1939, Burns was charged with tax evasion. She settled it in 1940 by paying a $10,000 fine.
In the following decade, Burns faced some of her greatest legal challenges, when Pat Brown became District Attorney in 1943. He had run a campaign to rid the city of vice and police corruption. A few years later, on September 23, 1945, a young woman had visited San Francisco's Central Emergency Hospital, requesting treatment after a recent abortion. The woman was questioned and it was determined that she had received an abortion at the Fillmore Street clinic. The next day, two undercover police officers were instructed to watch over the location. They found no incriminating evidence or activity, but a police raid was still conducted on September 26th at 9:40am. By the time the police arrived, Burns had fled the flat with her husband, another women, and various documents in a bag. They had driven away in a limousine. With this news, Police Inspector Frank Ahern drove to Inez's home on Guerrero Street, where he discovered $289,217 in cash, and a piece of paper (that Burns reportedly tried to first swallow) that detailed her revenues. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was notified and Burns was immediately arrested.
Following the arrest of Burns, the police and legal forced clamped down on the clinic. Yet another raid was conducted, where police found notebooks with extensive financial records. They learned that the clinic had performed about $500,000 worth of abortions in 1944. Then, Burns and seven clinic employees were charged with conspiracy to commit abortion and violation of state medical laws. Burns pled not guilty before a grand jury. The jury members could not agree on her guilt, despite a large amount of evidence supplied by the prosecution.
On Sep. 26, 1946, Burns was convicted of performing illegal abortions. She served two years and seven months at Tehachapi Women's Prison. She later had convictions for tax evasion and served additional prison sentences. In total, Burns paid about $800,000 in back taxes.
Death
Inez spent the final years of her life with her husband, Joe, at a nursing home in Moss Beach, California. She died on January 25, 1976 at 87 years old, and a few years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade (1973). Although she was very wealthy as a middle-aged woman, she was destitute in her old age, most likely due to the multiple tax evasion charges brought against her.
References
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Taiwan Coal Mine Museum
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The Taiwan Coal Mine Museum () is a museum about coal mining in Pingxi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
History
The museum used to be the coal mining site during the later stage of Pingxi Era of Tai-Yiang Mining Inc called the New Pingxi Mine. It was first opened in 1965 and the first coal extracted was done in 1967. In 1997, the mining activity was halted due to the more competitive price from imported coal to Taiwan. With the help from railway enthusiasts and other associates that cared about the coal mining industry, Mr. Gong Yung-tsang began to create buildings in this historical site and created the museum in 2001 with the storing ground became the museum entrance.
After decades of mining, the site produced tons of abandoned overburden rocks which created a 140 meters high rock mountain. Due to the lack of vegetation growth to grasp firm holds of the gravel, the side of the rock mountain tumbled in July 2005, which created ''The Abandoned Rock Mountain’’.
Exhibitions
Mine locomotive
Large-scale mining machinery
Small-scale exhibition hall
Simulated pit
Transportation
The museum is accessible within walking distance northeast from Shifen Station of the Taiwan Railways.
See also
List of museums in Taiwan
Mining in Taiwan
References
2001 establishments in Taiwan
Coal museums
Former coal mines in Taiwan
Industry museums in Taiwan
Museums established in 2001
Museums in New Taipei
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Lyle Stewart
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Lyle Eldon Stewart is a Canadian provincial politician. He is a current Saskatchewan Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
Stewart has been involved in politics since the 1970's. He served as the executive assistant to Colin Thatcher, the MLA for Thunder Creek and a former Liberal who had crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives prior to that party winning power in the 1982 election. After Thatcher was imprisoned for the 1983 murder of his wife Stewart twice sought the PC nomination, first for the ensuing by-election in 1985 and again for the 1986 general election. On both occasions, he was defeated by Rick Swenson.
After the riding switched back to the Liberals following the 1995 election, Stewart joined the new Saskatchewan Party which had essentially replaced the scandal-ridden PC's as the largest centre-right party in the province. This time, he defeated Swenson for the nomination. Stewart then unseated incumbent Liberal Gerard Aldridge in the 1999 general election. Stewart represented the constituency of Thunder Creek until its abolition in 2016. Stewart was subsequently elected in Lumsden-Morse, a new electoral district encompassing most of the former Thunder Creek constituency.
Stewart has been the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation since May 25, 2012, a role he maintained following the August 23, 2016 cabinet shuffle. He has been a member of the Executive Council of Saskatchewan since 2007, previously serving as the Minister for Enterprise and Innovation. On August 9, 2018, he announced he was resigning from Cabinet due to health concerns. In late 2020 Stewart was named Legislative Secretary to the Premier responsible for Provincial Autonomy and also the role of Provincial secretary.
Electoral record
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1951 births
Members of the Executive Council of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Party MLAs
21st-century Canadian politicians
Canadian ranchers
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Indra Dassanayake
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Indra Dassanayake (1943 – September 2019) was a Sri Lankan academic, emeritus professor in Hindi, an internationally acclaimed scholar, and was one of the pioneers in introducing and promoting Hindi-language and North Indian culture in Sri Lanka through educational institutions. On 26 January 2020, she was conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri award which is one of the highest Indian civilian awards coinciding with the 71st Republic Day of India.
Career
She pursued her higher education at the University of Lucknow and became professionally fluent with the Hindi-language. After returning from India, she introduced the Hindi-language in Sri Lankan education system. She was also a renowned professor of Hindi at the Kelaniya University. She also contributed to re-establish the Department at the Kelaniya University in 1995. She also participated in the first World Hindi Conference in 1975 which was held in Nagpur.
Honours
In 1983, Indra was awarded the "Saraswathie Award" by the greatest Hindi poetess named Mahadevi Varma at the World Hindi Convention held at New Delhi for the outstanding service rendered to the development of Hindi Language in Sri Lanka and extending the bilateral cultural ties between two countries.
In 2007, Indra was awarded the prestigious Dr. George Grierson Award by Her Excellency the President of India Mrs Prathibha Patel Pratibha Patil for the distinguished service rendered on the propagation of Hindi Language in Sri Lanka. This award was given to her for the year 2005 during the World Hindi Conference in New Delhi on 18 December 2007.
In 2018, she was conferred with the "Doctor Of Literature" by the University Kelaniya, Sri Lanka for representing academic symposiums for 50 years, held in different countries and not only engaging in the educational excursions doing language exploration and globally acquiring academic accomplishments but also fully utilising her acquired expertise for the betterment of the entire university system.
In 2020, on the Republic Day of India, she was honoured with the prestigious Padma Shri award, by the Government of India, for her contribution to North Indian Literature & Education in Hindi. It was also the first instance where a Sri Lankan was honoured with the prestigious award since 2002.
References
1941 births
2019 deaths
Sri Lankan educators
Academics of the University of Kelaniya
University of Lucknow alumni
Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education
Sri Lankan expatriates in India
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Mir Ali Sher Qaune Thattvi
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Mir Ali Sher Thattavi, Qaune (b.1728 - d.1788) was a Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. It has been said that he composed his first verses of poetry while still a boy, he studied the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri and later began to write essays independently. Thereafter began a career as a scholar, poet and historian. He went on to produce a great number of works under the pen-name Qani, on a variety of topics, including: the works of Al-Ghazali, Rumi. His most prominent work was the Gift of the Generous (Tuhfatul karaam) was his most famous work it dealt with a compendium of the lives of Sufis from the times of Muhammad until the late 12th/18th century, an account of the martyrs of Karbala, and a work of general history.
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Historians from the Mughal Empire
Mughal Empire
People from Thatta District
Persian-language poets
Persian Muslim historians of Islam
1728 births
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Jenny Morrison
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Jennifer Morrison (née Warren; born 8 January 1968) is an Australian former registered nurse and the wife of Scott Morrison, who served as prime minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022.
Early life and career
Morrison was born in Sydney on 8 January 1968. She grew up in Peakhurst, in Sydney's southern suburbs. She was accepted into a university course in costume and theatre design, but deferred and chose to study nursing instead, becoming a registered nurse. She later managed a childcare centre and worked in retail.
Marriage and children
Morrison met her future husband when they were both 12 years old, on a church youth group outing. They began a relationship in senior high school, although they attended different schools, and married in 1990 at the age of 21. She has spoken publicly about their difficulties in conceiving a child. She underwent multiple rounds of IVF and surgery to treat severe endometriosis. They eventually had two daughters, the first of whom was born when she was 39.
Public life
Morrison has stated she was as "shocked as anyone" when her husband became prime minister in August 2018. They chose Kirribilli House in Sydney as their primary residence, although she continued to drive her daughters to their school in the Sutherland Shire. In a May 2019 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, she stated that she would "probably be less political than maybe the spouses that have gone before me", and that she would model herself on Zara Holt. Morrison has worn Australian designers in her public appearances and was described by Carla Zampatti as "a wonderful Australian fashion ambassador".
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1968 births
Australian nurses
Living people
People from Sydney
Scott Morrison
Spouses of prime ministers of Australia
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Joseph Wirthlin
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Joseph Wirthlin may refer to:
Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008), American apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Joseph L. Wirthlin (1893–1965), American presiding bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Geoff Cottrill
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Geoff Cottrill (born July 4, 1963) is an American marketer who currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Top Golf. He formerly held top positions at Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Converse. He is the father of the musical artist Clairo.
Career
Cottrill is currently serving as CMO at Top Golf. He is also the co-founder of MARVIN. Cottrill has also held the position of Vice President at Starbucks Entertainment Hear Music in Seattle, Washington. Between 2007 and 2016, he was Chief Marketing Officer of Converse, a subsidiary of Nike, Inc. In 2014, he was appointed vice-chair of Grammy Foundation, a non-voting philanthropic organization dedicated to raising money for music preservation and music education. The organization created the Music Educator of the Year Award. Between 2015 and 2017, he was president of American operations at MullenLowe Group.
In 2010, he was named one of Brandweek's "Marketers of the Year".
Personal life
Cottrill resides in Atlanta, Georgia and on Cape Cod with his wife, and professional children’s fashion photographer, Allie Cottrill. Cottrill is the father of the musical artist Clairo. According to The New York Times, her record label signing was made possible by her father's connection to Jon Cohen, co-founder of The Fader and an executive at the publication's marketing agency, Cornerstone. His role in the launching of his daughter's professional career attracted scrutiny from some online communities with regard to the singer's authenticity.
References
External links
American marketing people
Starbucks people
Nike, Inc. people
1963 births
Living people
Coca-Cola people
Florida State University alumni
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Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi (1887–1948), also known as Sadr ul-Afazil, was a twentieth-century jurist, scholar, mufti, Quranic exegete, and educator. He was a scholar of philosophy, geometry, logic and hadith and leader of All India Sunni Conference. He was also a poet of na`at.
Early life
He was born on 1 January 1887 (21 Safar 1300 AH) in Moradabad, India. His father was Mu'in al-Din. His family originally came from Mash'had, Iran. Sometime during the rule of King Aurangzeb, they travelled from Iran to India, where they received a land grant from the ruling monarchy. They eventually reached Lahore and settled near Abul-Hasanat'.
Muradabadi memorised the Qur'an by the age of 8. He studied Urdu and Persian literature with his father and studied Dars-i Nizami with Shah Fadl Ahmad. He subsequently earned a degree in religious law (ifta') from Shah Muhammad Gul and pledged allegiance to him.
Religious Activities
Allama Naeemudin wrote in defense of Prophet Muhammad’s knowledge of the unseen, in addition to works attacking “Wahhabism,” and thereby quickly gained acceptance among Sunni Barelvi scholars. He also developed a reputation as a skilled debater, taking on Deobandis and others as his opponents.
One of his first moves was to found the Jamia Naeemia Moradabad (around 1920/1338), long-lasting legacy which became a regional center of Sunni Barelvi activities.
He organised conferences, debates and door to door programmes under the Jama’at-e-Raza-e-Mustafa (JRM), to control and reverse, the wave of re-conversions which was threatening the Muslim community in the wake of the Shuddhi movement. He through JRM successfully prevented around four hundred thousand re-conversions to hinduism specially in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh and in Rajasthan.
He was elected as Nazim-e-AIa (General Secretary) of All India Sunni Conference AISC in 1925 at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad. AISC under him arose as a response to the Deobandi-dominated Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind (JUH). An important resolution passed against the Nehru Committee Report which was described as dangerous for the interests of the Muslims and also targeted Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind leadership as “working like puppets in the hands of the Hindus.
Allama Naeem Uddin took part in Islamic movements and was also a part of the Khilafat Committee, an organization aimed at strengthening the Sultanate in Turkey, which had existed since the beginning of the Ottoman era. He taught students and gave lectures.
He visited Agra, Jaipur, Kishan Garh, Gobind Garh, Hawali of Ajmer, Mithar and Bharatpur to protest the 'Shuddhi Movement' which was viewed as a threat to Islam in the region. In 1924 (1343 Hijri), he issued the Monthly 'As-Sawad-al-Azam' and supported the Two nation theory at All India Sunni Conference.
After the separation of Pakistan from British India on 18 September 1948, Muradabadi delivered a speech at the opening of the All India Sunni Conference. He contributed to the passing of the resolution for a separate Muslim state at Minto-Park (Lahore Resolution). He was the Chief Organizer at the Banaras Conference held in 1942.
Death
Muradabadi fell ill while preparing a book and died on 18 Dhu al-Hijjah 1367 AH (13 October 1948). His last words were لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱللَّٰهِ (lā ʾilāha ʾillā -llāhu muḥammadun rasūlu -llāhi). His shrine is located near the mosque of Jamia Naeemia in Muradabad.
Works
He wrote fourteen books and numerous treatises, including Khaza'in-al-Irfan, which is the Tafsir (Exegesis) of Kanz al-Iman based on a translation of the Qur'an by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi in Urdu. He also left a collection of poems called Riyaz-e-Naeem (Garden of Comfort).
Muradabadi's works include:
Tafsir Khaza'in-al-Irfan
Naeem ul Bayan Fi Tafseer ul Quran
Alkalimatul Ulya Li Ilai Ilm Ul Mustafa
Atyab al-Bayan Radd-e-Tafwiyatul Iman A lengthy rebuttal on Ismael Delvi's Taqwiya-tul Iman
Muzalim e Najdiya
Aswat ul Azab ala Qawamie Al-Qibab
Adab-ul-Akhyar
Sawaneh Karbala
Seerat-e-Sahaba
At-tahqiqat li daf' al-Talbisat
Irshad Al-Anam Fi Mehfil al Mawlid wal Qiyam
Kitab-ul-Aqa'id
Zaad ul Haramain
Al-Mawalat
Gulban e Ghareeb Nawaz
Shahrah Shahrah Miata Amil
Paracheen Kal
Fanne Sipah Giri
Shahrah Bukhari (Incomplete)
Shahrah Qutbi (Incomplete)
Riyaz e Naeem
Kashf ul Hijab Masail Aysal ul Sawab
Faraid ul Noor Fi Jarah Ul Quboor
Deewan-e-Urdu
He was a successor of Ahmad Raza Khan and Sayyad Muhammad Ali Hussain Shah al-Kicchochawi.
References
External links
Sunni Islam
Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Hanafis
Barelvis
1887 births
1948 deaths
Quranic exegesis scholars
Indian male poets
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
People from Uttar Dinajpur district
20th-century Indian poets
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Freaks: You're One of Us () is a 2020 German superhero film directed by Felix Binder, written by Marc O. Seng and starring Cornelia Gröschel, Tim Oliver Schultz and Wotan Wilke Möhring. An unofficial superhero-themed homage to the 1932 film Freaks, the film is a cooperation between ZDF's Das Kleines Fernsehspiel and the streaming platform Netflix.
It was released on 2 September 2020.
Plot
Wendy works in a diner and lives with her husband and son in an unnamed suburb in Germany. When she meets the homeless Marek, her life changes. He advises her to stop taking the pills that her psychiatrist prescribes for her. She takes them because of an event in her childhood where she was inexplicably involved in the death of the school principal. He also says to her "You are one of us," then jumps off a highway bridge and is run over. The next evening she meets Marek again, who is unharmed. This convinces her to stop taking the pills.
After she leaves the diner after her next shift, she is attacked. She discovers her powers and hurls her attackers into the air for several meters. Then she uses her skills and threatens her boss to get a promotion. Her colleague Elmar, who also has powers, sees this.
Together they try to get to the bottom of the origin of their abilities and discover a government conspiracy. The government attempts to lock away people with abilities and drug them to suppress the forces.
Cast
Cornelia Gröschel as Wendy Schulze
Tim Oliver Schultz as Elmar Mund
Wotan Wilke Möhring as Marek
Nina Kunzendorf as Dr. Stern
Frederic Linkemann as Lars Schulze
Finnlay Berger as Karl Schulze
Gisa Flake as Angela
Ralph Herforth as Gerhart
Thelma Buabeng as Chantal
References
External links
2020 films
2020s superhero films
Teen superhero drama films
German-language Netflix original films
German superhero films
2020s German films
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Giorgi Latso
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Giorgi Latso (born Giorgi Latsabidze, , ; 15 April 1978) is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. He is listed on the list of famous alumni from USC Thornton School of Music. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Latso has served on the faculty of many of the most prestigious festivals and is increasingly in demand for his insightful masterclasses at leading universities across the globe. Many of his students are prize winners of international piano competitions.. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and studies
Latso was born in Tbilisi (Georgia) where he started studying the piano at the age of six. He made his public debut at age eight. He was admitted at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where he eventually became a pupil of Rusudan Chojava. In 2004, he obtained a master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Latso pursued doctoral studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under the mentoring of Stewart L. Gordon.
Career
He has appeared at major festival venues in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Mannheim, Florence, Lisbon, Beijing, Honolulu, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival and Monte-Carlo Piano Masters, among others, and has performed as a recitalist throughout the world. His concerts often feature his own compositions and virtuoso transcriptions.
After his performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto at WUK Kulturhaus, he was described in the Austrian press as "...a technically brilliant pianist imbued with a poignant lyricism and genuine profundity." England Rhinegold Classical Magazine said his recording of Debussy's Préludes showed "...extraordinary imagination and a musical tone rarely heard.
Latso composed the score for the film Waltz-Fantasy for which he won an award at the Bologna Film Festival in Italy in 2000. His compositions also include Variations on a Theme of J. S. Bach and Cyber Moment for violin and piano, which was commissioned and world premiered by the composer in Wigmore Hall, London in 2010.
Among Latso's recordings are Chopin's 24 Études, 24 Preludes and four Scherzos; J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations; Liszt's 12 Transcendental Études; and Debussy's Preludes, Book 2.
He has worked with musicians including Ernest Fleischmann, Christian Altenburger, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Jansug Kakhidze, David L. Wen, Irmina Trynkos, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Ivo Pogorelić, Yundi Li, Freddy Kempf and Joaquín Soriano, etc.
Latso gave several benefit concerts, including concerts held in the National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei City, Vienna Ehrbar Concert Hall, Teatro Colón in Bogota, Guido-Feger Concert Hall under the patronage of Princess Marie Aglaë of Liechtenstein. Volksblatt wrote: "Within the romantic repertoire you can with full justification call him a magnificent pianist and a magician of impeccable technique".
Latso has recorded a CD of the complete works for piano and violin by composer Ignatz Waghalter for Naxos Records, with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Irmina Trynkos and Alexander Walker.
He has given broadcast performances on both radio and television in the United States, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Latso was listed in the 65th edition of Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Art 2011. Since 2011 he has been a member of Pi Kappa Lambda.
In 2012, he was invited by Pope Benedict XVI to his residence in Vatican City to perform the Mozart piano concerto No. 21 with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Latso made his debut at the Berliner Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin in 2012, and debut at the Slovak Philharmonic concert hall in Bratislava in 2014.
2013, he was invited by Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, to move to Vienna, where he resided until 2019. He gave masterclasses and lectures at universities nationwide. Latso regularly serves on competition jury panels and has been a conference artist for several music teachers associations. From 2015 to 2018 he was a guest professor at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. Latso has been giving masterclasses for years at some of the world’s most prestigious music schools including the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, National University of Colombia Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Vienna Conservatory of Music, Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Tokyo University of the Arts.
2013, Latso formed The Latsos Piano Duo with his wife Anna Fedorova-Latso. Since then, they have been performing four-hands piano recitals and concertos for two pianos worldwide as a piano duo and have appeared at musical centres and festivals as well as in scholarly conferences in Europe, Russia, America, and Asia. One of their concert presentation, held at the historic Doheny Estate & Gardens Beverly Hills as part of the Music in the Mansion Series, was filmed by Beverly Hills Warner Cable Television and live-streamed on BHTV10 Channel. The duo supports the mission of charities by organizing and performing benefit concerts. They offer concert performances for non-profit organizations and institutions that serve underprivileged communities, children with special needs, hospital patients, and the elderly. In May 2019 with National Solidarity Fund and The Embassy of Georgia to the Republic of Austria, they performed gala charity concert supporting children and young people suffering from oncological disease in Georgia.
His 2020 performance with National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Teatro Colón was reviewed in the Diario gratuito ADN Colombia as: ″...his piano playing that combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism sometimes sounds as mighty as the 100 member orchestra. Latsos' clarity of articulation, his warm, soft-grained tone, and his virtuosity was so formidable as to be unnoticeable.″
In April 2021 Giorgi Latso is being named an honorary Ambassador of the Los Angeles Philharmonic International Committee. In 2022 he received International Adjudicator Award 2022 at the Asia Pacific International Arts Festival, Book of Records, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Influences
Latso has mentioned the following pianists as having inspired him: "Of those whom I heard on the stage, I'd like to name first of all Maria João Pires. Judging by the records, it was Rachmaninoff, Sofronitsky, and Lipatti. As to aesthetics, I feel most close to Vladimir Horowitz."
Honors & Awards
Yehudi Menuhin Federation Competition in Salzburg, Austria
Young Artist International Piano Competition in Los Angeles
Ennio Porrino International Competition in Italy
Rubinstein International Competition in France
Beverly Hills National Auditions
Vladimir Spivakov Award (Moscow virtuosi) in 2001
Georgian Presidential Prize in 1999/2002,
German Marion Dönhoff Trust Award in 2002, DAAD,
German Academic Exchange Award in 2004
Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Academic Achievement Recognition of Excellence Award in 2004
Herbert Batliner Trust Award in 2005
USC Keyboard Studies Department Award in 2007 and 2011
American philanthropist Carol Hogel Music Scholarship in 2008
H.S.H. Princess Marie Aglaë of Liechtenstein
Honoured as a Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons in New York City in January 2013
Honorary member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic International Committee, 2021
International Adjudicator Award, Asia Pacific International Arts Festival, Book of Records, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2022
Teaching career
Latso has presented master classes and concert performances throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and United States. His musical career includes being a concert pianist and collaborative artist, a professor and an international juror. From 2007 until 2010, he served as president to the USC chapter of the MTNA at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. In 2010, Latso served as chairman for the International Piano Performance Examination Committee in Taiwan, (Republic of China). He has taught at the University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific University, at Glendale Community College. He held professorship from 2013-2020 at the Vienna Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria.
In the United States he is a frequent presenter at state and local conferences of Music Teachers National Association, universities, and local music teaching groups.
Recordings
Latso has participated in numerous recordings and television productions, including DVDs and CDs of compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg.
His recordings include:
2005: DVD: ; DVD documentary on Latsabidze in Salzburg, K-TV Austria.
2006: DVD: Original music score composed by Latsabidze for the film Twilight's Grace, Los Angeles.
2008: CD: Johannes Brahms: The Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. Hurb Production Studio.
2009: CD: Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben; Debussy: Ariettes oubliées. IG Initiatives LLC
2009: CD/DVD: Latsabidze: The Recital; Onward Entertainment, Los Angeles.
2010: DVD: The IG-Duo performs works by Szymanowski, Brahms, Bizet-Waxman, Latsabidze. Red Piranha Films. Wigmore Hall, UK.
2010: CD/DVD: Giorgi Latsabidze plays Claude Debussy; 12 Préludes (Book II). Charismartist Int. Rec.
2011: DVD: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467. Taiwan Production
2011: CD/DVD: Frédéric Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16. Goyette Records Co.
2011: CD: Giorgi Latsabidze: The Composer & Transcriber. Rhapsody Library Records
2012: CD: Waghalter, I.: Violin Concerto / Rhapsody / Violin Sonata (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Trynkos, Latsabidze, A. Walker). Naxos Records
2013: DVD: documentary: Piano for Piggies and Hubbard Hall Project General Films, New York.
2014: CD: Latso plays Debussy's Estampes & Images (1ere série). Ross Management & Productions.
2016: CD: Chopin: 4 Scherzi.
2017: CD: Giorgi Latso - "Der Pianist".
2019: "The Latsos Piano Duo" - Documentary film featured by Beverly Hills Warner Cable Television.
Performances are available via social networking sites of Latso's interpretation of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21; Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Liszt's 12 Transcendental Études, Horowitz's Carmen Variations (White House Edition), Claude Debussy's Préludes (Book II), Sousa-Horowitz-Latsabidze's "The Stars and Stripes Forever".
References
External links
Latso's official website
Duo The Latsos official website
Latso on Steinway Artist's page
Piano Faculty at Vienna Conservatory, Austria
USC Notable Keyboard Studies Alumni
University of Southern California alumni
Thornton School of Music alumni
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni
American film score composers
University of Southern California faculty
Azusa Pacific University faculty
Classical pianists from Georgia (country)
1978 births
Living people
Musicians from Tbilisi
Georgian emigrants to the United States
American classical pianists
Male classical pianists
American male pianists
American people of Georgian (country) descent
21st-century classical pianists
American male film score composers
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century American pianists
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Thomas Vincent Dunlea (19 April 1894 – 22 August 1970) was an Irish-Australian Catholic priest known for his involvement in charitable works.
Early life
Dunlea was born in Ballina, Ireland, to Michael and Bridget Dunlea. He attended primary school in Killaloe and High School at Mount St Joseph’s Monastery in Roscrea. In 1914 he entered the College of Mount Melleray, a Cistercian seminary. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 20 June 1920.
Missionary in Australia
In 1920 he set off on the arriving in Sydney, Australia in December.
Some of his appointments were:
1921 Mary Magdalene parish, Rose Bay
1922 Sutherland, Surrey Hills
1932 Newtown, Enfield, Golden Grove, Hurstville
1934 Sutherland
1951 Chaplain, Matthew Talbot Hostel for destitute men
1952-68 Hurstville
Founding of Boys' Town
In 1939 he started Boys' Town (Engadine), New South Wales based on Father Flanagan's Boys Town, Nebraska, USA.
Involvement with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
In the late 1940s he was working among alcoholics with Dr Sylvester Minogue and Archibald McKinnon of the Darlinghurst reception house. For a time the pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous group met in the Boys' Town city office and at other locations found by Dunlea. A bush camp for alcoholics and a residential 'Christmas House' (opened on Christmas Day 1945) both collapsed, which seemed to prove that a controlled environment was not the answer to alcoholism. Boys' Town fund-raising functions had sharpened Dunlea's own drinking problems and he came to recognize that he himself was an alcoholic. In 1950 he took a year's leave of absence to wander around Australia.
On his return, Dunlea became chaplain to the Matthew Talbot Hostel for destitute men. There his listening kindness was given full stretch. In 1952 he went to Hurstville as parish priest, devoting his time to A.A., to a new organization for people with psychiatric problems, Recovery Group, as well as to a menagerie of odd animals.
'When Tom Dunlea doesn't take an interest in stray dogs any longer', he said, 'you'll know that he's had it'.
He died on 22 August 1970 in Lewisham Hospital and was buried in Woronora cemetery. The congregation which attended his reburial at Boys' Town on 7 September included a pet sheep and a stray dog.
Recognitions
In 1965 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He also received the Jewish Cross of Honour and the Papal Cross of Honour Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
When Fr. Chris Riley started a detox centre, he named it the Dunlea Adolescent Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Program.
In 2010 the name of Boys' Town (Engadine) was changed to the Dunlea Centre.
References
McSweeney, J. A welcome on the mat. OMP Publishers 2004.
Austen, M.; Richardson, M., Father Dunlea and Those with a Drinking Problem, Engadine, New South Wales, 1987.
Coleman, D., Priest of the Highway, Sydney, 1973.
Halliday, D., Father Dunlea's Approach to Dealing with Young People in Difficulties, Engadine, New South Wales, 1987.
McKinnon, A., They Chose Freedom, Bonnell's Bay, New South Wales, c.1985.
Edmund Campion, 'Dunlea, Thomas Vincent (1894–1970)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 56–57.
External links
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Siobhan Dowd, British children's writer (died at age 47)
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Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, London-born Canadian fashion designer (died at age 71)
Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (died at age 76)
Joan Eardley, Scottish artist (died at age 42)
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Julie Ege, Norwegian actress (died at age 64)
Lorraine Elliott, Australian politician (died at age 70)
Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (died at age 32)
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Margaret Ewing, Scottish politician (died at age 60)
Judith Campbell Exner, American author (died at age 65)
Oriana Fallaci, Italian writer and journalist (died at age 77)
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Sandra Feldman, former president of the American Federation of Teachers (died at age 65)
Kathleen Ferrier, British opera singer (died at age 41)
Kristina Fetters, American convicted murderer (died at age 34)
Harriet Fier, American magazine editor (died at age 67)
Saint Lucy Filippini, Italian Catholic nun and educator (died at age 69)
Lesley Fitz-Simons, Scottish actress (died at age 51)
Kaci Kullmann Five, Norwegian politician (died at age 65)
Jean Bodman Fletcher, American architect (died at age 50)
Karen Wynn Fonstad, American cartographer (died at age 59)
Char Fontane, American actress and singer (died at age 55)
Mary Lou Forbes, American journalist and commentator (died at age 83)
Syvilla Fort, American dancer and choreographer (died at age 58)
Lacey Fosburgh, American author (died at age 50)
Karen Fraction, American actress, dancer and model (died at age 49)
Kay Francis, American film star (died at age 63)
Margaret Frazer, American historical novelist (died at age 66)
Marti Friedlander, New Zealand photographer (died at age 88)
Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (died at age 80)
Loie Fuller, French-based American dancer and choreographer (died at age 65)
Margaret Furse, British costumer (died at age 63)
Irina Gabashvili, Soviet gymnast (died at age 48)
Bea Gaddy, American politician (died at age 68)
Helen Gahagan, American actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) politician (died at age 79)
Jane Garrett, Australian politician (died at age 49)
Sophie Germain, French mathematician (died at age 55)
Rebekah Gibbs, British actress (died at age 41)
Margaret Gibson, Canadian novelist (died at age 57)
Louan Gideon, American actress and musician (died at age 58)
Marie-Suzanne Giroust, French painter (died at age 38)
Barbara Gittings, LGBT activist (died at age 74)
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American author (died at age 63)
Arlene Gottfried, American photographer (died at age 66)
Kate Greenaway, British illustrator (died at age 55)
Vanessa Greene, British-American television producer and screenwriter (died at age 63)
Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish nationalist writer and landowner (died at age 80)
Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (died at age 57)
Anne Grommerch, French politician (died at age 45)
Alvaleta Guess, American actress, singer and musical theatre performer (died at age 40)
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Kipp Hamilton, American actress (died at age 45)
Virginia Hamilton, American novelist (died at age 67)
Shelley Hamlin, American golfer (died at age 69)
Emma Hannigan, Irish author (died at age 45)
Sarah Harding, English singer, model and actress (died at age 39)
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Cathy Harvin, American politician (died at age 56)
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Ángela Hernández, Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist (died at age 31)
Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (died at age 79)
Regine Hildebrandt, German biologist and politician (died at age 60)
Jacqueline Hill, British actress (died at age 63)
Sylvia Hitchcock, Miss USA and Miss Universe 1967 (died at age 69)
Klara Pölzl Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (died at age 47)
Nina Hoekman Ukrainian-born Dutch draughts player and coach (died at age 49)
Anita Hoffman, American writer (died at age 56)
Judy Holliday, American actress and comedian (died at age 43)
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Faith Hubley, American artist and animator (died at age 77)
Karina Huff, British actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond) and television personality (died at age 55)
Diana Hyland, American actress (died at age 41)
Trina Schart Hyman, American children's book illustrator (died at age 65)
Jill Ireland, British actress (died at age 54)
Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (died at age 62)
Alice James, American diarist (died at age 43)
Rita Henley Jensen, American journalist, founder of Women's eNews (died at age 70)
Jocelyne Jocya, French singer-songwriter and children's rights advocate (died at age 61)
Connie Johnson, Australian activist and cancer research fundraiser (died at age 40)
Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and orator (died at age 51)
Puma Jones, American singer (died at age 36)
Vivien Jones, British award-winning professional lacrosse player and physical education teacher (died at age 59)
June Jordan, American academic, educator, poet and author (died at age 62)
Helen Kane, American actress and singer (died at age 62)
Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress
Kaori Kawamura, Japanese female singer (died at age 38)
Christine Kay, American journalist and editor (died at age 54)
Nikhat Kazmi, Indian writer and film critic (died at age 53)
Helen Keane, American music producer and manager (died at age 73)
Caron Keating, Northern Irish television personality/presenter (died at age 41)
June Keithley (aka June Keithley-Castro), Filipino actress and activist (died at age 66)
Dorothea Kent, American film actress (died at age 74)
Margaret Kilgallen, American artist (died at age 33)
Angela King, Jamaican diplomat and human rights activist (died at age 68)
Kathleen "Kat" Kinkade, a founder of the Twin Oaks experimental utopian community near Charlottesville, Virginia (died at age 77)
Anne Kirkbride, British actress (died at age 60)
Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times journalist (died at age 46)
Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress and television presenter (died at age 34)
Susan G. Komen, American breast cancer activist (died at age 36)
Sylva Koscina, Italian film actress (died at age 61)
Lynne Kosky, Australian politician (died at age 56)
Kris Kovick, American writer, cartoonist and LGBT rights activist (died at age 50)
Gabriela Kownacka, Polish actress (died at age 58)
Irene Kral, American jazz singer (died at age 46)
Rose Kushner, American journalist and advocate for breast cancer patients (died at age 60)
Jewel Lafontant, American politician and activist (died at age 75)
Joy Langan, Canadian politician and writer (died at age 66)
Joi Lansing, American actress (died at age 43)
Jennifer Lash aka "Jini Fiennes"; British artist (died at age 55)
Peg Lautenschlager, American attorney, politician, and activist (died at age 62)
Frances Lear, Lear magazine publisher (died at age 73)
Violette Leduc, French novelist and memoirist (died at age 65)
Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish feminist writer and poet (died at age 62)
Elisabeth Leseur, French diarist (died at age 47)
Andrea Levy, English novelist (died at age 62)
Lhasa, aka Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died at age 37)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, American opera singer (died at age 52; see); her younger sister, Alexis, died from the disease six years earlier (in 2000)
Laura Cha-Yu Liu, American judge (died at age 49)
Megan Lloyd George, British politician, daughter of Prime Minister David Lloyd George (died at age 64)
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (died at age 74 from cardiac arrest related to breast and bone cancers)
Barbara Loden, American actress, stage/film director, and model (died at age 48)
Victoria Longley, Australian actress (died at age 49)
Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (died at age 58)
Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA (died at age 67)
Cynthia Lufkin, American philanthropist and cancer research advocate, Co-Chairman of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (died at age 51)
Cassie Mackin, American television journalist and correspondent (died at age 43)
Sarah Maguire, English poet and translator (died at age 60)
Ruth Maleczech, American actress (died at age 74 from breast cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Linda Kay Manns, American model and businesswoman (died at age 43)
Agnes Mary Mansour (born Josephine A. Mansour), American biochemist (died at age 73)
Maja Maranow, German actress (died at age 54)
Vera Maretskaya, Russian actress and gourmand (died at age 72)
Michele Marsh, American television journalist and news anchor (died at age 63)
Blessed Marie-Azélie Martin, French laywoman and mother of St Thérèse de Lisieux (died at age 45)
Shirley Ardell Mason, American artist (died at age 75)
Helene Mayer, German world champion Olympic fencer (died at age 42)
Linda McCartney, American singer, activist; wife of Sir Paul McCartney (died at age 56)
Helen McCrory, English actress (died at age 52)
Hattie McDaniel, Academy Award-winning American actress; 1st African-American to win an Academy Award (died at age 57)
William (Bill) McGhee, American actor (also suffered from colon and prostate cancers; died at age 76)
Olga A. Méndez, American politician (died at age 82)
Dame Helen Metcalf, British educator and politician (died at age 57)
Sylvia Millecam, Dutch actress (died at age 45)
Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician and academic (died at age 40)
Yūko Mizutani, Japanese actress, voice artist, narrator, and singer (died at age 51)
Mary Ann Mobley, American actress, television personality and 1959 Miss America (died at age 77)
Kathryn Morrison, American politician (died at age 71)
Karen Montgomery, American actress and film producer (died at age 66)
Charlotte Moorman, American cellist (died at age 57)
Claire Morissette, Quebec-based Canadian activist and cycling advocate (died at age 57)
Jean Muir, English fashion designer (died at age 66)
Karen Muir, South African competitive swimmer (died at age 60)
Joan Patricia Murphy, American politician (died at age 79)
Sue Napier, Australian politician; first woman Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition Party (died at age 62)
Melissa Nathan, British novelist (died at age 37)
Phyllis Nelson, American singer (died at age 47)
Dame Olivia Newton-John, UK-born Australian actress, singer and businesswoman (died at age 73)
John W. Nick, American male breast cancer patient and activist in whose name The John W. Nick Foundation was established (died at age 58)
Jerri Nielsen, American physician who famously biopsied and treated herself for breast cancer in Antarctica (died at age 57)
Marni Nixon, American singer, voice artist, and actress (died at age 86).
Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress (died at age 52)
Eileen O'Connell, Nova Scotian politician (died at age 53)
Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony), National Book Award- winning American poet, writer and educator (died at age 62)
Siobhán O'Hanlon, Northern Irish Sinn Féin official and former PIRA member (died April 11, 2006)
Gayle Olinekova, Canadian marathon runner and bodybuilder (died at age 50)
Jenny Olsson, Swedish cross-country skier (died at age 32)
Katherine O'Regan, New Zealand politician, M.P. (National Party), and government minister (died at age 71)
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, French noblewoman (died at age 68)
Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist and author (died at age 57)
Vikki Orvice, British journalist (died at age 56)
Elizabeth Owens, German-born American stage actress (died at age 77)
Grace Paley, American poet, writer and political activist (died at age 84)
Polixeni Papapetrou, Australian photographer (died at age 57)
Sarah Parkinson, British actress, writer, and television and radio producer (died at age 41)
Lily Parr, English football player (died at age 73)
Edith Pechey, aka Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson; one of the first British female medical doctors; also a women's rights activist (died at age 63)
Ellen Pence, American sociologist and social activist against domestic violence (died at age 63)
Susan Peretz, American film and television actress (died at age 64)
Nancy M. Petry, American psychologist (died at age 49)
Ruth Picardie, British writer (died at age 33)
Heather Pick, American television news reporter & cancer/diabetes awareness activist (died on November 7, 2008)
Kelly Preston, American actress and model (died at age 57)
Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Finnish female athlete/sprinter (died at age 49; see)
Barbara Pym, British author (died at age 66)
Dina Rabinovitch, British writer and journalist (died at age 44)
Irma Rangel, American politician, died of inflammatory breast cancer (died at age 71)
Raylene Rankin, Canadian singer (died at age 52)
Elayne Rapping, American critic and author (died at age 77)
Lynn Redgrave, Academy Award-nominated British-American stage, film and television actress/singer (died at age 67)
Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (died at age 66)
Wendy Richard, British actress (died at age 65)
Minnie Riperton, American singer, mother of American actress Maya Rudolph (died at age 31)
Cokie Roberts, American journalist, pundit, and television personality (died at age 75)
Toby Robins, Canadian actress, television personality/journalist (died at age 55)
Rod Roddy, American radio and television announcer (died at age 66; also suffered from colon cancer)
Ann Marie Rogers, British activist who won a lengthy legal battle against the British NHS to get people with cancer access to the drug Herceptin (died at age 57)
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress, singer and songwriter (died at age 44)
Roxie Roker, American stage and television actress, mother of American singer/songwriter Lenny Kravitz (died at age 66)
Kate Ross, American lawyer and mystery writer (died at age 41)
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, American psychologist, academic and educator (died at age 72)
Rosalind Russell, American film actress (died at age 69)
Caroline St John-Brooks, British journalist and academic (died at age 56)
Sandra Sakata, American fashion designer and retailer (died at age 57)
May Sarton, Belgium-born American poet, novelist, and memoirist (died at age 83)
Screechy Peach, American singer-songwriter (died at age 47)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American academic (died at age 58)
Irene Mayer Selznick, American theatrical producer (died at age 83)
Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, Mistress of the Robes to Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died at age 55)
Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan-British author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry (died at age 83)
Susan Sheridan, English actress and voice artist (died at age 68)
Carol Shields, Canada-based U.S. author (died at age 68)
Yumiko Shige, Japanese sailor (died at age 53)
Rochelle Shoretz, American civil servant, founder of Sharsheret (died at age 42)
Marjorie Shostak, American anthropologist (died at age 51)
Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (died at age 45)
Hollis Sigler, American artist and educator (died at age 53)
Ricky Silberman, American conservative activist who co-founded the Independent Women's Forum (died at age 69)
Morag Siller, Scottish TV and film actress, voice-over artist and radio presenter (died at age 46)
Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (died at age 49)
Tara Simmons, Australian musician (died at age 34)
Susan Raab Simonson, American stage actress and theatre producer (died at age 37)
Naomi Sims, American model, businesswoman and author (died at age 61)
Ingrid Sischy, South African magazine editor and critic (died at age 63)
Sister Dora (born Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison), 19th-century British humanitarian; Anglican nun and nurse (died at age 46)
Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of U.S. President John Adams (died aged 48)
Katarzyna Sobczyk, Polish singer (died at age 65; see)
Soraya (full-name Soraya Raquel Cuevas Gharib), Colombian-American singer, songwriter, guitarist, arranger, and record producer, as well as breast cancer advocate (died aged 37)
Jo Spence, British photographer (died at age 58)
Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (died at age 47)
Dusty Springfield, British songwriter/singer (died at age 59)
Srividya, also known as Sreevidya, Indian film actress (Tamil and Malayalam languages; died at age 53)
Deborah Lynn Steinberg, American-British academic, author, educator and sociologist (died at age 55)
Heather Stilwell, Canadian anti-abortion activist and politician (died at age 66)
Athena Starwoman, astrologer, columnist for Vogue and Woman's Day, and television commentator
Kaye Stevens, American singer and actress (died at age 79)
Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (died at age 50)
Pat Stevens, American actress (died at age 64)
Lynne Stewart, American activist and lawyer (died at age 77 from complications of cancer and a series of strokes)
Rose Pastor Stokes, American writer, feminist and socialist (died on June 20, 1933)
Marie Stopes, Scottish author and birth control advocate (died at age 78)
Susan Strasberg, American actress (died at age 60)
Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (died at age 66)
Barbara Strauch, American author and reporter (died at age 63)
Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn, American world surfing champion (died at age 47)
Jacqueline Susann, American writer (died at age 56)
Deborah Sussman, American graphic designer and artist (died at age 83)
Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (died at age 50)
Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress and singer (died at age 55)
Jennie Faulding Taylor, British missionary to China (died at age 60)
Melanie Tem, American author (died at age 65)
Empress Theodora, empress of the Byzantine Empire and wife of Emperor Justinian I (died before the age of 50)
Betty Thompson, Canadian television presenter/personality (died at age 60)
Penny Thomson, Scottish stage/television director (died at age 56)
Jane Tomlinson, British athlete; fund raiser for cancer charities (died at age 43)
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, American psychologist and educator (died at age 66)
Margaret Tor-Thompson, Liberian political activist and biblical scholar (died in her 40s)
Marietta Peabody Tree, American socialite and political activist (died at age 74)
Louise Troy, American stage and television actress (died at age 60)
Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic mezzo-soprano (died at age 54)
Harriet Van Horne, American columnist and writer (died at age 77)
Danitra Vance, American actress (died at age 40)
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (died at age 70); also suffered from bone cancer as a result of metastasis.
Amelyn Veloso, Filipino journalist and broadcaster (died at age 43)
Victoria, Princess Royal, German Empress and Queen of Prussia by her marriage to Frederick III; daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
Elvie Villasanta, Filipina actress and comedian (died at age 85)
Janice Voss, American engineer and NASA astronaut (died at age 55)
Margaret Walker, American poet, writer and academic (died at age 83)
Tricia Walker, British author (died at age 53)
Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth (died at age 61)
Pat Ward, American politician; Iowa State Senator from 2004 until her death in 2012 (died at age 55)
Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, American television executive and former assistant New Jersey state treasurer (died at age 76)
Angela Webber, Australian writer and comedian (died at age 52)
Mary Ann Coady Weinand, American psychiatrist (died at age 47)
Andrea West, Australian teacher and politician (died at age 57)
Anne Wexler, American lobbyist and political advisor (died at age 79)
Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and writer (died at age 70)
Dolly Wilde, Anglo-Irish socialite and niece of Oscar Wilde; diagnosed with breast cancer in 1939, died two years later
Rebecca Wilson, Australian sports journalist (died at age 54)
Thelma Wood, American sculptor (died at age 69)
Gretchen Wyler, American actress, singer and dancer (died at age 75)
Chen Xiaoxu, Chinese actress and Buddhist nun (died at age 41)
Kim Yale, comics writer and editor (died at age 43)
Yao Beina, Chinese singer, also known as Bella Yao (died at age 33)
Kay Yow, North Carolina State women's basketball coach (died at age 66)
Laura Ziskin, American film and television producer, and cancer activist (died at age 61)
Judith D. Zuk, American conservationist, horticulturist and environmentalist (died at age 55)
Death attributed to other causes
Bella Abzug, American lawyer, politician and women's movement leader; had been battling breast cancer for a number of years before developing heart disease, which claimed her life; however, it was never publicly disclosed if the cancer had become advanced or metastasized, or what stage it was; called for grassroots action to stop the environmental pollution fueling the cancer epidemic; refused to call herself a breast cancer survivor, saying, "I'm a breast cancer fighter, and that's what we all must be if we are going to change things" (died at age 77)
Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer, died of kidney cancer (on January 21, 2019, aged 93)
Frances Bavier, American actress, died of congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis, with supporting factors being breast cancer, arthritis, and COPD (died eight days before her 87th birthday)
Shirley Temple Black, Academy Award-winning child actress and diplomat (former United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia), said to have been (in 1973) the first well-known public figure to publicly announce her breast cancer diagnosis (died at age 85 from COPD)
Erma Bombeck, American columnist and author; had breast cancer and was later diagnosed with adult polycystic kidney disease and died during a kidney transplant
Eileen Brennan, American film, musical theatre, stage and television actress; survived breast cancer but later diagnosed with bladder cancer (died at age 80)
Edward Brooke, American former U.S. Senator (R-MA); died of natural causes at age 95 in 2015
Fanny Burney, English novelist; survived breast cancer (died at age 88)
Madame Chiang, politician, painter; First Lady of the Republic of China as wife of Generalissimo, later President Chiang Kai-shek (she died of natural causes in New York at age 105)
Julia Child, American WWII intelligence agent, later best known as "The French Chef" television cook; survived breast cancer and died of natural causes (died at age 91)
Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American opera singer; died of natural causes in 2012 after surviving two bouts with breast cancer more than 50 years earlier (died at age 90)
Flick Colby, American dancer, choreographer, founder member of Pan's People; died of bronchopneumonia
Nellie Connally, American widow of former Texas Governor John Connally; survived breast cancer and died of natural causes (died at age 87)
Linda Cook, American actress (diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992; died from undisclosed causes in 2013)
Ruby Dee, American stage, film and television actress (died at age 91 from natural causes in 2014)
Delia Derbyshire, English pianist; composer of electronic music and musique concrète (died from renal failure at age 64 while recovering from surgery)
Diana Douglas, British-American actress; survived breast cancer but died of an unspecified cancer at age 92 on July 3, 2015 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California
Betty Ford, United States First Lady; survived breast cancer (died at age 93 following a stroke)
Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress; survived breast cancer (died at age 93)
France Gall, French singer (died at age 70 from an infection complicated by cancer of undisclosed nature)
Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress; apparently survived breast cancer following a double mastectomy; causes of death per one of her biographies were kidney and stomach failure and pneumonia; died in 1990 (died at age 84)
Paulette Goddard, American actress; apparently survived breast cancer, but died at her villa in Porto Ronco, Switzerland from heart failure under respiratory support due to emphysema (died at age 79)
Rosalie Gower, Canadian nurse, civil servant and city councillor; died of a stroke
Ruth Mosko Handler, American creator of Barbie and Nearly Me prosthetics; she survived breast cancer in the 1970s (died following colon cancer surgery at age 85)
Julie Harris, Academy Award-nominated, Emmy and multiple Tony Award-winning American film, stage and television actress, survived breast cancer (died at age 87 in 2013 from heart failure, following several strokes)
Alma Reville, Lady Hitchcock, English-American actress and assistant film director, wife of film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock; survived breast cancer (died at age 82 of natural causes)
Connie Johnson, Australian philanthropist who suffered from bone cancer at age 11, uterine cancer at age 22 and finally breast cancer at age 33 (died at age 40 in 2017 of liver cancer).
Jennifer Jones, Academy Award-winning American film actress; survived breast cancer (died at age 90 from natural causes)
Carolyn Kaelin, American surgeon and breast cancer researcher; survived breast cancer that was first diagnosed in 2003; died of glioblastoma multiforme in 2015 at age 54
Vera Katz, American politician (first woman Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives; 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon); later diagnosed with adenosarcoma; died of leukemia in 2017 at age 84
Jean Keene, "Eagle Lady" of Homer, Alaska, American activist; she underwent a mastectomy in 1994 and was labeled as a "breast cancer survivor" (died at age 85 on January 13, 2009 from undisclosed causes)
Kathy Keeton, South African-born and bred Penthouse publisher; wife of publisher/collector Bob Guccione; died from complications during surgery on an intestinal obstruction after having first treated herself with hydrazine sulfate, reportedly reducing the size and number of tumors (died at age 58)
Evelyn Lauder, American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and breast cancer awareness activist (died at age 75 from ovarian cancer)
Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (died at age 64), suffered with breast cancer as well as angina pectoris, asthma and other ailments, so it is impossible to know what role the cancer played as the deciding cause of death
Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist, entertainer and singer; survived breast cancer, but died in 1998 from uterine cancer (died at age 65)
Myrna Loy, American actress, had a double mastectomy; died during surgery for undisclosed causes (died at age 88)
Arlene Martel, American actress and dancer, primary cause of death given as complications from cardiac bypass surgery but she had also been battling breast cancer over the last five years of her life (died at age 78)
Jan Maxwell, American actress and singer, died from meningitis complicated by breast cancer (died at age 61)
Rue McClanahan, American actress; survived breast cancer, but died in 2010 following a stroke (died at age 76)
Susannah McCorkle, American singer; survived breast cancer but suffered for many years from depression and committed suicide in 2001 at age 55 by leaping off the balcony of her apartment in Manhattan
Jane McGrath, wife of Australian cricket champion Glenn McGrath; a cancer support campaigner and activist who was originally diagnosed with breast cancer, later bone cancer (declared in remission), but died, aged 42, from complications during brain cancer surgery
Charlotte Mitchell, English actress (died of pneumonia, after suffering from breast cancer and myeloma, in 2012, aged 85).
Anna Moffo, Italian-American singer and operatic soprano who died from a stroke after grappling with complications of breast cancer for a decade (died at age 73)
Kitten Natividad, Mexican adult film actress and model (died in 2022, aged 74, reportedly from kidney failure)
Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American stage and film actress who survived breast cancer but died due to a coronary thrombosis in 1945 (died at age 66)
Jocelyn Newman, Australian barrister, solicitor, Senator for Tasmania and government minister who survived breast and uterine cancers (died in 2018, aged 80, from Alzheimer's disease)
Phyllis Newman, American television and musical theatre actress, singer (died in 2019, aged 86, of a lung disorder)
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, Tennessee politician who worked for legislation to benefit breast cancer patients following her own diagnosis in the 1980s (died in 2009, aged 86, after a fall)
Minnie Pearl, born Sarah Ophelia Colley, American Grand Ole Opry star, country comic, singer & philanthropist, who died in 1996 of complications from a stroke (died at age 83)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother survived both colon and breast cancer, roughly two decades apart, although both were kept secret during her lifetime; the cancer incidences did not become public knowledge until an official biography was published in 2009, seven years after her death from natural causes at age 101.
Claire Rayner, British nurse, journalist, and activist. She also suffered from Grave's disease. She never recovered from emergency intestinal surgery she received in May 2010, and died in hospital on October 11, 2010, aged 79.
Nancy Reagan, former U.S. First Lady (died from congestive heart failure in 2016, aged 94)
Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer who received the title "Europe's First Lady of Jazz" at the 1960 French jazz festival of Juan-les-Pins (died from a stroke in 2013, aged 88)
Fiona Richardson, Australian politician and officeholder. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, she went into remission and returned to parliament. In 2017, she announced she had several tumours. It was unclear if the breast cancer recurred or if it was a different cancer (died at age 50).
Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller, American socialite and wife of former N.Y. Governor and U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (died following a short illness in 2015, aged 88)
Dame Rosemary Rue, British physician and one-time regional general manager/medical officer of the Oxford Regional Health Authority. She died of bowel cancer at age 76.
Jean Simmons, Academy Award-nominated British-American film, stage, musical theatre and television actress; treated apparently successfully for breast cancer, but died from lung cancer in 2010 (died at age 80)
Susan Sontag, American author, initially diagnosed with advanced or metastatic breast cancer, who died in 2004 at age 71 from a form of leukemia traceable to the massive doses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy she had received decades earlier for her breast cancer; she was also diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer shortly before her death, which, however, did not appear to play any role in her demise
Gloria Stuart, Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress and artist, successfully treated for breast cancer (died in 2010, aged 100)
Henny van Andel-Schipper, Dutch-born woman who was the "World's Oldest Person" from May 29, 2004, until her death on August 30, 2005; successfully treated for breast cancer at age 100 (died at age 115 of an unrelated gastric cancer)
Linda Tripp, American former federal government employee who played a significant role in the impeachment proceedings against then President Bill Clinton (died at 70 from pancreatic cancer in 2020)
Barbara Vucanovich, American politician (R-NV), the first woman to represent Nevada in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1983 to 1997 (died at 91 from natural causes in 2013)
Marcia Wallace, American comedic and voice actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons) and memoirist died at age 70 on October 25, 2013 (seven days shy of her 71st birthday), due to complications from pneumonia, according to her son, Michael Hawley, who stated his mother was cancer free at the time of her death; her longtime friend Cathryn Michon told Deadline Hollywood that Wallace "passed at 9pm last night due to complications from breast cancer of which she was a long and proud survivor and advocate for women and healing", according to The Mirror (UK); it is unclear which is more accurate.
Mary Wickes, American actress, suffered from numerous ailments in the last years of her life including kidney failure, massive gastrointestinal bleeding, severe hypotension and ischemic cardiomyopathy, with contributing causes listed as anemia, and breast cancer (stage unknown). She was hospitalized due to respiratory problems at UCLA Medical Center, where she reportedly broke her hip after a fall, prompting surgery. She died of complications following that surgery on October 22, 1995, age 85.
Mickey Wright, American LPGA Tour professional golfer, died of a heart attack in 2020.
See also
List of people with breast cancer
References
Breast cancer
Breast cancer
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Kyle Simon Lockwood JP (born 1977) is a New Zealand architectural designer based in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for leading the successful campaign for the Government of New Zealand to reintroduce the duration of the New Zealand passport to ten years, and for designing the two flags that came first and second, in the first New Zealand flag referendum. He also successfully lobbied for the introduction of the popular 18+ (now Kiwi Access) card.
Lockwood's Silver Fern Flag design was voted in as the official Preferred Alternative New Zealand Flag in the first referendum, in March 2016 the existing Flag of New Zealand won the second referendum.
Since December 2020, Lockwood has served as a Justice of the Peace in the state of Victoria.
Early life
Lockwood was born in 1977 in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, Simon Lockwood, represented New Zealand in underwater hockey, and was team captain. As the team used the silver fern as their symbol, Lockwood grew fond of this symbol. His mother is Barbara Lockwood. He is descended from Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki Māori. His early life was also influenced by his grandparents, Kathy and Walter Lockwood, who were both born in the United Kingdom, and served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force respectively. During World War Two, Walter Lockwood served as a Chindit behind Japanese enemy lines in Burma. Kyle attended Lyall Bay School and Evans Bay Intermediate School in the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie. After high school at Rongotai College, he volunteered in the New Zealand Army before working for the Wellington City Council for four years in the building consent department. In 1999 he attended Massey University and studied architectural technology, graduating in 2001.
Flag designs
In one of the lectures at Massey University, the topic of attaching flagpoles to buildings came up, and Lockwood started sketching a flag. He considered a Union Jack but thought that a silver fern was more appropriate, and added the Southern Cross from the current New Zealand flag. Lockwood put the design away and published it about three years later in 2003. The flag design won a competition in July 2004 run by The Hutt News. The flag appeared on Campbell Live in 2005 and won an online poll that included the present national flag. In January 2014, then Prime Minister, John Key, announced that a binding flag referendum could be held with in conjunction with the 2014 general election. Whilst the date for the September 2014 election was missed, the New Zealand flag referendums went ahead and five of Lockwood's flags made it into an initial long list of 40 flags. Despite a UMR poll predicting a vote of 35%, the Silver Fern Flag gained a significant minority in the second referendum with 43.2% of the vote, whilst the existing flag won with 56.6% of the vote.
After the second referendum, the flag continued to make appearances in the International media. In the first New Zealand cricket test against Zimbabwe on 28 July 2016, the flag was featured in the opening graphics sequence, The flag is also still seen flying from flagpoles around New Zealand, Kip Colvey a prominent US/NZ football player, appeared in Fairfax media on 26 December 2016, in front of the flag.
Lockwood's silver fern design featured in the prototype livery of the 'Electron' rocket in Rocket Lab's New Zealand space program, The first Electron rocket was launched in 2017. The silver fern design is also featured in the New Zealand Walk of Fame in Orewa, Auckland, which was originally dedicated in September 2016. The design was also used after New Zealand's victory in the America's Cup, to welcome Pete Burling, and his Emirates Team New Zealand, at victory parades which were held in New Zealand's main cities throughout July 2017.
Passport campaign
In November 2005, when the New Zealand Government reduced the validity of the New Zealand passport from ten years to five, the move was unpopular with the New Zealand travelling public. Lockwood's interest in the matter was raised when he witnessed a young mother refused travel for herself and her child because there were less than six months left on the mother's five-year passport. Lockwood set up a Facebook page called "Bring Back 10 Year NZ Passports" in January 2013 and a website nzten.com, which attracted much attention. The media picked up on the initiative during January 2013 and the first article appeared in Fairfax Media on 20 January.
The group submitted the Petition of Kyle Lockwood with 15,900 signatures to parliament on 4 December 2013. Prior to the 2014 general election Lockwood successfully negotiated with all main political parties to adopt ten-year passport policy. The then prime minister, John Key, gave his first indication that a return to a 10-year validity period could be considered, in May 2014. An official review of the validity period was announced in August 2014, a month before the general election. Law changes were passed, and after 30 November 2015, 10-year passports were available again for New Zealanders.
Lockwood is regularly interviewed by media regarding passport matters, in January 2021, the Dominion Post asked whether he supported recommendations that passports be renewed in pandemic settings, Lockwood suggested that some sort of a discount should be offered by Government, as an incentive to renew, before an inevitable rush on passports occurred once borders were opened for international travel. Lockwood was also interviewed by Newshub on 9 September 2022 after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, as there was concern that passport validity may be affected due to NZ passports being issued in the name of Her Majesty, Lockwood commented that passport validity will not be affected.
18+ card campaign
In 1998 Lockwood successfully campaigned the New Zealand Government for a photographic evidence of age card to be made available to those who do not possess a driver licence or passport. At the time driver licences in New Zealand did not include a photograph and the legal age to purchase alcohol in New Zealand was 20 (or 18 if accompanied by a parent) Lockwood noted that many young New Zealanders who appeared to be under 25 were refused access to bars and clubs or could not purchase alcohol elsewhere unless they presented a valid passport.
Lockwood appeared before the Justice and Law Reform Parliamentary Select Committee on the Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill and argued that a photographic ID was necessary for those that do not hold a driver licence or passport. the committee recommended that an evidence of age card be made official and after the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1999 was gazetted the Hospitality NZ 18+ Card Evidence of Age Document was made available to New Zealanders and overseas citizens alike who do not wish to use a passport to purchase alcohol in New Zealand.
While originally developed as a means for younger people to prove they were over 18, the card grew in popularity amongst older people who do not have a driver licence or passport, who were looking for a cost-effective, nationally recognised form of photo ID. In recognition of the growing popularity of the 18+ card, and to better facilitate access to goods and services for everyone, across all sections of society in New Zealand, and to verify proof of age and identity throughout New Zealand, from 14 January 2019, the 18+ card was renamed the Kiwi Access Card.
Justice of the Peace
In December 2020 Lockwood was appointed as a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Victoria by Governor Linda Dessau. In Victoria a JP is an honourable individual who has a commitment to provide honorary justice services, including certified copies, certifying true identity, witnessing statutory declarations and affidavits, and attesting powers of attorney for members of the community. Lockwood became a JP after finding there was a shortage of Justices of the Peace in his local area in Melbourne, his great aunt also served as a JP in New South Wales.
References
External links
Passport campaign page on Facebook
Official website of the passport campaign
Official website of the silver fern flag campaign
1977 births
Flag designers
Living people
New Zealand architects
New Zealand expatriates in Australia
People from Melbourne
Massey University alumni
Political activists
People from Wellington City
People educated at Rongotai College
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Flash Gordon is a 1996 animated television series based on the sci-fi comic strip of the same name. The character, who had been around in the comics pages since Alex Raymond created him in 1934, had recently starred in several film serials, a 1980 feature film, and two earlier cartoon series — The New Adventures of Flash Gordon and Defenders of the Earth.
Synopsis
In the series, the dashing blond hero was regressed to his teenage days, and he employed a hoverboard. As in previous versions, he teamed up with Dale Arden (also a teenager) and balding, bespectacled scientist Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale are children of United States Air Force personnel. Flash's parents were U.S. astronauts who were in space during Ming the Merciless’ initial assault on Earth, and barely escaped his dimensional worm hole and the "space torpedoes" used by Ming's forces. The trans-dimensional portal was placed there by Ming the Merciless, despot emperor of the planet Mongo, who hoped to provide open access for his invading armies. In this series, Ming had reptilian characteristics, and seemed to have a human wife, who was long dead (it was implied in some episodes that she had gone to Earth).
When the Airforce escort sent to bring Flash and Dale to a secure location is knocked unconscious mid-flight, Dale and Flash manage to crash land the small aircraft they are on board in a marshy area with no one hurt in the crash. Flash and Dale set out to find help for the pilot and come across the laboratory of Dr. Zarkov. Zarkov mistakes them for two crew members that were supposed to bring him an important piece of his near completed inter dimensional rocket craft. Flash and Dale unknowingly are brought along for the experiment and by the time anyone realizes the mistake it is too late, the three are brought aboard Ming's ship. Once there they become aware of Ming's plans, and Ming takes a dislike to Flash immediately. With help from Ming's daughter Princess Aura the three earthlings manage to free a child prisoner of Ming's, escape and destroy his portal generator, closing the wormhole to Earth. Without the part Zarkov was expecting, and with the portal closed, Flash and crew were stuck on the Mongo side. The rest of the show follows the earthlings adventures as they discover other nearby planets with anti-Ming factions and put together a loose coalition, determined to overthrow Mongo's evil emperor and return Princess Thundar, Flash, Dale, and Zarkov to their native planets and restore Mongo to independence and freedom from Ming's cruelty.
Characters
Alex "Flash" Gordon: The blond, teenage hero of the series. He is charismatic, daring, and always ready to impress Dale Arden (which doesn't always succeed). He met Dale during a skateboard contest, shortly before Ming's army attempted its first invasion on Earth. The name "Alex" is specific to this version.
Dale Arden: Flash's dark-haired love interest, she is far removed from the original damsel in distress, being on the contrary courageous and sarcastic. She does have feelings for Flash, but also tends to refuse him just as much when things don't go her way. Like Flash, she is quite adept at skateboarding.
Doctor Hans Zarkov: Flash and Dale's elderly, balding scientist ally. He met the pair during Ming's first invasion attempt of Earth and traveled with them to Mongo as part of his own experiments before being stuck after they destroyed the portal. Zarkov is brilliant, but extremely pessimistic and cowardly. He is normally unwilling to put himself in danger, no matter what. He is in direct rivalry with Sulpha, Ming's head scientist.
Ming the Merciless: The militant ruler of Mongo, he supposedly has recently conquered many neighbor worlds, and now wants to invade Earth. Ming bears reptilian characteristics, just like the rest of his army, and whether or not his species was primeval to Mongo is unclear. His ruthless temper contrasts with his unconditional love for his daughter Aura. He once had a wife named Rosaura, supposedly dead since long ago.
Princess Aura: Ming's teenage daughter who is half-reptilian/half-human. Unlike her father, Aura is more sympathetic to the people of Mongo's plight and goes out of her way to help Flash and his friends, but will not engage in any treason against Ming. Despite Ming's dissatisfaction in how Aura does not follow his example of being deceitful and manipulative, Aura is very good at playing people for her own needs.
General Lynch: Ming's sniveling, incompetent second-in-command. Lynch doesn't have much to explain in Ming's decisions, and just carries out the orders, attempting to have the job done by brute force and failing most of the time. Still, he is no less evil than his Emperor, and if Ming was not here, his schemes would be just as bad, if not worse.
Kobalt: Ming's top mercenary, Kobalt is a Pantheron. He has a sort of rivalry with Lynch.
Sulpha: Ming's female Dragon head scientist, charged with designing his weapons and ships. She is fully brilliant due to a binary brain, and is in a fierce rivalry with Doctor Zarkov for being the greatest scientist on Mongo. Sulpha is the last of her species, which was more than likely exterminated by Ming. She has a soft side in spite of her grumpy demeanor, with arguable loyalties, serving Ming but all the same hating him, and often helping out Flash and his allies when they're in a pinch.
Talon: Flash' most prominent and gung-ho ally and Prince of the Birdmen of Hawk City, a species of winged human-like beings. Talon is a brave and enthusiastic man.
Thundar: Another one of Flash' loyal allies, Thundar is a female Lionid, coming from a species of felinoids. She is an impetuous and excellent fighter, expert at hand-to-hand combat. She is based on Prince Thun of the Lion People from previous versions.
Prince Barin: Renegade Prince of Arboria, first hostile to Flash and his friends. He nonetheless ends up joining them in their battle against Ming.
Production and series run
A multinational co-production, Flash Gordon came into weekly YTV, syndication and Channel 4 in Fall 1996. 26 episodes were produced.
Cast
Voice talent:
Lawrence Bayne as Prince Barin, General Arden, Chump
Tyrone Benskin as Kobalt
Dana Brooks as Sulpha
Rob Cowan as Prince Harek
Lexa Doig as Dale Arden
Shirley Douglas as Queen Kayla
Allegra Fulton as Queen Mardana
Tracey Hoyt as Princess Aura
Lorne Kennedy as Ming The Merciless, Ijad
Ray Landry as General Lynch, Frank Gordon
Julie Lemieux as Catherine Gordon
Marjorie Malpass as Electra
Andy Marshall as Prince Talon, King Vultan
Toby Proctor as Flash Gordon
Rino Romano as Jake
Ron Rubin as Trog Queen
Alison Sealy-Smith as Captain Valkyrie
Paul Shaffer as Dr. Hans Zarkov
Adrian Truss as Snurr
Krista White as Thundar
Lisa Yamanaka as Katie
Episode list
References
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Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars is a sprint car racing video game by the now defunct Ratbag Games. It is the second game of the dirt track racing series by Ratbag, which includes Dirt Track Racing (DTR), Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars, and Dirt Track Racing 2 (DTR2).
Background
Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars, or DTRSC for short, was one of the first authentic sprint car, dirt track racing simulations in the video game market.
Game modes
Single-player
Career
In the Career Mode, players race through their careers, earning money to upgrade their cars. Success brings more money, and sponsors, which help pay the bills. Unlike in most other racing games, players can enter any division of racing they choose. The higher the series, the stronger the competition, so a player in the first or second season usually will not advance beyond the B-Main in the top flight of Sprint Car Racing. The only restrictions are that only one race can be entered per weekend, and the track selected being within an unlocked distance from a racer's garage.
Quick Action
In the Quick Action Mode, players race against computer artificial intelligence (AI) players in regular races consisting of heats and features in short mode, or full racing programs consisting of hot laps, qualifying, heats, semi-features (B-, C-, D-Mains), and features (A-Mains).
Multiplayer
In Multiplayer Mode, players could race other players from all over the world via GameSpy Client-Servers, which have since been shut down.
Movie maker
Software included in Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars allows for the exporting of video clips of game action in AVI format. This is the first game in the Ratbag DTR franchise that allows movies to be exported from the game.
Unsupported features
One of the most used unsupported features is the ability for users to create skins, cars, and tracks easily with outside software. Some players have even found software that allows them to change the .DE2 files to create entirely new cars and tracks, instead of just renaming existing cars.
Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
Ratbag Games: Last version of Ratbag Games official website reproduced by Australian video game website Sumea for archives purposes.
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The 2022 Judo Grand Slam Baku will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 4–6 November 2022.
Prize money
The sums written are per medalist, bringing the total prizes awarded to €154,000. (retrieved from: )
References
External links
2022 IJF World Tour
2022 Judo Grand Slam
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Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "dumb". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy – a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants.
Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features. Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.
Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941, where it was met with generally favorable reviews. However, it has also been criticized for racist stereotyping of black people. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".
A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019, though it was neither critically nor commercially successful.
Plot
While a large circus spends the off-season in the "Winter Grounds" in Florida, a flock of white storks delivers babies to the animals. One elephant, Mrs. Jumbo, does not receive her baby, and keeps scanning the sky. The circus sets out on a new tour, and a belated stork catches up with the moving train and drops off the expected baby elephant, Jumbo Junior. The other elephants are initially delighted, until they see the baby has far-oversized ears, and promptly nickname him "Dumbo". However, Mrs. Jumbo shows her baby great care and love, defending him from the teasing of the other elephants.
Dumbo, clumsy due to his ears, is made into a sideshow attraction. When some rowdy boys started to bully Dumbo and his ears, Mrs. Jumbo spanks their leader and throws hay bales at them. Circus staff remove Dumbo from the pen, and Mrs. Jumbo flies into a rage, eventually dousing the ringmaster in a water tub. She is subsequently deemed mad and locked in a cage. Dumbo is blamed for the incident and shunned by the other elephants.
Timothy, a mouse that travels with the circus, befriends Dumbo and decides to make him a star. He whispers in the ringmaster's ear while the latter sleeps, and convinces him to try a new stunt with Dumbo as the top of a pyramid of elephants. However, Dumbo trips on his ears during the show and knocks over the pyramid, injuring the other elephants and bringing the big top crashing down. After this, the other elephants exile Dumbo completely, and he is put in with the clowns' firemen act, regularly jumping from a "burning building" prop into a vat of pie filling. Despite his newfound popularity, he hates the job and becomes depressed.
Timothy decides to take Dumbo to see Mrs. Jumbo, but they cannot see each other's faces and can only intertwine trunks. Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their fireman act by dangerously raising the platform Dumbo jumps from. In celebration of the plan, they drink champagne, and a bottle of it falls into a water vat. Dumbo, crying after visiting his mother, gets the hiccups, so Timothy takes him to the vat for water. Both of them get drunk, and hallucinate pink elephants.
Dumbo and Timothy are later discovered asleep high up in a tree by Dandy Crow and his friends. Initially making fun of Timothy's assertion that Dumbo flew with his ears while drunk, the crows are soon moved by Dumbo's sad story. They decide to help Timothy, giving him a "magic feather" to help Dumbo fly. Holding the feather, Dumbo does indeed take off a second time, and he and Timothy return to the circus with plans to surprise the audience.
During the clowns' act, Dumbo jumps off the platform and prepares to fly. He drops the feather, but Timothy assures him it was only a psychological aid, and Dumbo successfully flies about the big top, much to the delight of the public. Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. Jumbo is freed. She and Dumbo are given a private coach on the train, and the crows wave goodbye to the elephants as they travel away.
Voice cast
The voice actors are uncredited for their roles in the film.
The title character is Dumbo, the nickname given to Jumbo Jr. He is an elephant who has huge ears and is able to use them to fly, carrying what he thinks of as a magic feather. Like Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gideon in Pinocchio, and Tootles in Peter Pan, Dumbo does not have a word of spoken dialogue.
Edward Brophy as Timothy Q. Mouse, an anthropomorphic mouse who becomes the only friend of Dumbo, along with the crows, after his mother is locked up and does his best to make Dumbo happy again. He teaches Dumbo how to become the "ninth wonder of the universe", and the only flying elephant in the world. He is never mentioned by name in the film, but his signature can be read on the contract in a newspaper photograph at the finale.
Verna Felton as Elephant Matriarch, the well-meaning but pompous leader of the elephants who is initially cold toward Dumbo. Felton also voices Mrs. Jumbo, Dumbo's mother, who speaks only once in the film to give Dumbo's name.
Cliff Edwards as Dandy Crow (previously named Jim Crow on the original model sheets), the leader of a group of crows. Though he initially jokes and ridicules Timothy's idea that Dumbo can fly, he hears Dumbo's tragic history and becomes determined to help Dumbo fly for real. He is never mentioned by name in the film.
Herman Bing as The Ringmaster, who, though not truly evil, is a strict, greedy, and arrogant man who exploits workers and animals. The Ringmaster later appears as an outright villain in the video game Disney's Villains' Revenge.
Sterling Holloway as Mr. Stork, Dumbo's carrier stork seen at the beginning of the film.
Margaret Wright as Casey Junior, the sentient 2-4-0 tender locomotive hauling the circus train.
The Hall Johnson Choir as Crow Chorus
Hall Johnson as Deacon Crow
James Baskett as Fats Crow
Nick Stewart as Specks Crow
Jim Carmichael as Dopey Crow
The King's Men as Roustabout Chorus
Noreen Gammill as Elephant Catty
Dorothy Scott as Elephant Giddy
Sarah Selby as Elephant Prissy
Billy Bletcher as Clown
Malcolm Hutton as Smitty
John McLeish as the narrator
Production
Development
Dumbo is based upon a children's story written by Helen Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl, with illustrations by Helen Durney. The children's book was first brought to the attention of Walt Disney in late 1939 by Kay Kamen, the studio's head of merchandise licensing, who showed a prototype of the Roll-A-Book that included Dumbo. Disney immediately grasped its possibilities and heartwarming story and purchased the rights to it.
Originally it was intended to be a short film; however, Disney soon found that the only way to do justice to the book was to make it a feature-length film. At the time, the foreign markets in Europe had been curtailed due to World War II, which caused Pinocchio and Fantasia to fail at the box office. With the film's modest budget, Dumbo was intended to be a low-budget feature designed to bring revenue to the studio. Story artists Dick Huemer and Joe Grant were assigned to develop the plot into a feature-length film. From January 22 to March 21, 1940, they wrote a 102-page script outline in chapters, much like a book, an unusual way of writing a film script. They conceived the stork-delivery and the pink elephants sequences and had Dumbo's mother renamed from "Mother Ella" to "Mrs. Jumbo". They riffed on elephants' fear of mice by replacing a wise robin named "Red" found in the original story with the wisecracking mouse character, Timothy. They also added a "rusty black crow", which was later expanded into five. Regardless of this, very little was changed from the original draft. In March 1940, a story team headed by Otto Englander translated the outline into story sketches.
Animation
From Disney's perspective, Dumbo required none of the special effects that had slowed down production and grew the budgets of Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi. When the film went into production in early 1941, supervising director Ben Sharpsteen was given orders to keep the film simple and inexpensive. As a result, the character designs are simpler, background paintings are less detailed, and a number of held cels (or frames) were used in the character animation. Although the film is more "cartoony" than previous Disney films, the animators brought elephants and other animals into the studio to study their movement.
Watercolor paint was used to render the backgrounds. Dumbo is one of the few Disney features to use the technique, which was also used for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and regularly employed for the various Disney cartoon shorts. The other Disney features used oil paint and gouache. 2002's Lilo & Stitch, which drew influences from Dumbo, also made use of watercolor backgrounds.
Disney animators' strike
During a story meeting for Bambi on February 27, 1940, Disney observed that Dumbo was "an obvious straight cartoon" and that the animators that were assigned on Bambi were not appropriate for the look of Dumbo. Animators such as Art Babbitt and Ward Kimball were considered for the film. For that reason, less experienced animators were brought on to animate the characters. Kimball recalled that Disney approached him in a parking lot about Dumbo and summarized the entire story in five minutes. "And listening to him tell that story," Kimball noted, "I could tell that the picture was going to work. Because everything sounded right. It had a great plot." In spite of this, Bill Tytla, who was one of the studio's top animators, animated the title character, but admitted that "it was in the nature of the film to go very fast and get it out in a hurry." To speed up production, Disney used photostats of story sketches instead of full layout artwork for the film, and had experienced animators to supervise the younger, less experienced animators assigned on the film.
Production on the film was interrupted on May 29, 1941 when much of the Disney animation staff went on strike. Kimball chose to not to strike, but his close friend Walt Kelly, who was an assistant animator helping him on the crow sequence, left the studios shortly after for reasons unrelated to the strike.
The clowns' requests to get a raise from their boss is a reference to the Disney animators that went on strike in 1941 (during the creation of the film), demanding higher pay from Walt himself. Moreover, the clowns, or at least their silhouettes, are caricatures of those animators.
Music
Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace scored the film while Ned Washington wrote the lyrics to the songs. For their work on the score, Churchill and Wallace won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Churchill and Washington's work on "Baby Mine" also garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Songs
Original songs performed in the film include:
Release
Dumbo was completed and delivered to Disney's distributor, RKO Radio Pictures, on September 11, 1941. RKO initially balked at the film's 64-minute length and asked Disney to add another ten minutes. Disney refused, "No, that's as far as I can stretch it. You can stretch a thing so far and then it won't hold. The picture is right as it is. And another ten minutes is liable to cost five hundred thousand dollars. I can't afford it." The film was re-released in theaters in 1949, 1959, 1972, and 1976.
Television broadcast
Dumbo had its television premiere on September 14, 1955, albeit severely edited, as an installment of the Disneyland television show. The film was shown unaltered on September 17, 1978, as part of a two-night salute to the program's 25th anniversary.
Home media
Along with Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo was the first of Disney's canon of animated films to be released on home video. The film was originally released on June 26, 1981 on VHS and Betamax, which was followed with a release on Laserdisc and CED in June 1982. It was again re-released on VHS and Betamax as part of the Walt Disney Classics series on November 6, 1985. The film was re-released on VHS and Laserdisc on July 12, 1991. It was followed by another re-issue on VHS and Laserdisc on October 28, 1994 as a part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. On October 23, 2001, a 60th Anniversary Edition was released in VHS and DVD formats.
In 2006, a "Big Top Edition" of the film was released on DVD. A 70th Anniversary Edition of the film was released in the United States on September 20, 2011. The 70th Anniversary Edition was produced in two different packages: a 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and a 1-disc DVD. The film was also released as a movie download. All versions of the 70th Anniversary Edition contain deleted scenes and several bonus features, including "Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo" and "The Magic of Dumbo: A Ride of Passage," while the 2-disc Blu-ray version additionally includes games, animated shorts, and several exclusive features. The film was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 26, 2016 to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
Reception
Box office
Despite the advent of World War II, Dumbo was still the most financially successful Disney film of the 1940s. After its October 23 release, Dumbo proved to be a financial miracle compared to other Disney films. The simple film only cost $950,000 () to produce, half the cost of Snow White, less than a third of the cost of Pinocchio, and certainly less than the expensive Fantasia. Dumbo eventually grossed roughly more than $1.3 million () during its original release. The film returned a profit of $850,000.
Critical reception
Variety wrote that Dumbo was "a pleasant little story, plenty of pathos mixed with the large doses of humor, a number of appealing new animal characters, lots of good music, and the usual Disney skillfulness in technique in drawing and use of color." Cecelia Ager, writing in PM, called Dumbo "the nicest, kindest Disney yet. It has the most taste, beauty, compassion, skill, restraint. It marks a return to Disney first principles, the animal kingdom—that happy land where Disney workers turn into artists; where their imagination, playfulness, ingenuity, daring flourish freest; where, in short, they're home."
Bosley Crowther, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote that the film was "the most genial, the most endearing, the most completely precious cartoon feature film ever to emerge from the magical brushes of Walt Disney's wonder-working artists". Time wrote: "Like story and characters, Dumbos coloring is soft and subdued, free from picture-postcard colors and confusing detail—a significant technical advance. But the charm of Dumbo is that it again brings to life that almost human animal kingdom where Walter Elias Disney is king of them all." Harrison's Reports praised the film as "one of Walt Disney's most delightful offerings. Technically, it is excellent; the color is exceptionally good. The story itself is pleasing; it combines comedy with human appeal. The only fault is that occasionally the action slows down."
Additionally, Time had originally scheduled to run a story with an appearance cover for "Mammal of the Year" (a play on its annual "Man/Person of the Year" honor) on December 8, 1941. However, the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 of that year had postponed it, and the story was later published on December 29.
Among retrospective reviews, film critic Leonard Maltin stated that Dumbo is his favorite of Disney's films and he described it as "one of Walt Disney's most charming animated films". In 2011, Richard Corliss of Time named the film as one of the 25 all-time best animated films. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average score of . The website's consensus reads "Dumbo packs plenty of story into its brief runtime, along with all the warm animation and wonderful music you'd expect from a Disney classic." Metacritic has assigned a weighted score of 96 out of 100 for Dumbo based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Controversy
The film has been criticized for racist stereotypes of black people. The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (2018) notes that "All of the circus laborers are African American, the only time that blacks are seen in any great number in the entire movie." Film scholar Richard Schickel, in his 1968 book The Disney Version, argued that the group of crows in the film were African American stereotypes. The lead crow, voiced by white actor Cliff Edwards in an imitation of Southern African American dialect, was named "Jim Crow", after the pre-Civil-War minstrel character. The term had become a pejorative term for African Americans, and commonly referred to racial segregation laws, and the character's name was changed in the 1950s to "Dandy Crow" in attempt to avoid controversy. The other crows were voiced by African American actors and singers of the popular all-black "Hall Johnson Choir", including actors James Baskett (Song of the South) and Nick Stewart (The Amos 'n' Andy Show). Ward Kimball, the chief animator of the crows, used famous African-American dancers Freddie and Eugene Jackson as live-action reference for the characters. The personalities and mannerisms of the crows—specifically their fast-paced, back and forth dialogue—were inspired by the backchat found on the band records of Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. Karina Longworth, exploring the history of Song of the South in her podcast You Must Remember This, discussed the basis of the crows in minstrel show culture, as part of a wider use of minstrel culture by Walt Disney.
Some however have defended the characters of the Crows. In his 1973 book The Disney Films, film historian and critic Leonard Maltin argued that the crows "are undeniably black, but they are black characters, not black stereotypes. There is no denigrating dialogue, or Uncle Tomism in the scene, and if offense is to be taken in hearing blacks call each other 'brother', then the viewer is merely sensitive to accuracy." Animation historian John Canemaker felt that the crows were amongst the very few characters in the film that sympathize and are empathetic with Dumbo's plight since being a marginalized ethnic group themselves, they can relate to Dumbo as a fellow outcast. He further added the crows "are the most intelligent, the happiest, the freest spirited characters in the whole film." In 1980, film critic Michael Wilmington referred to the crows as "father figures", self-assured individuals who are "obvious parodies of proletarian blacks", but comments, "The crows are the snappiest, liveliest, most together characters in the film. They are tough and generous. They bow down to no one. And, of course, it is they who teach Dumbo to fly."
In 2017, Whoopi Goldberg expressed the desire for the crow characters to be more merchandised by Disney, "because those crows sing the song in Dumbo that everybody remembers." In 2019, Floyd Norman, the first African-American animator hired at Walt Disney Productions during the 1950s, defended the crows in an article entitled Black Crows and Other PC Nonsense.
The crows and Timothy Q. Mouse were not included in the 2019 live-action/CGI remake of Dumbo. In 2019, it was reported that an edited version of the animated film without the crows would be featured on the forthcoming Disney+ service. However, the film does appear on Disney+ uncensored, with an advisory in the synopsis warning "it may contain outdated cultural depictions." In 2021, the film was one of several that Disney limited to viewers 7 years and older on their service Disney+, citing similarity of the crows' depictions to "racist minstrel shows".
Awards and nominations
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
"Baby Mine" – Nominated
2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated
2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
Nominated Animation Film
Media and merchandise
Dumbo's Circus
Dumbo's Circus is a live-action/puppet television series for preschool audiences that aired on The Disney Channel in the 1980s. Unlike in the film, Dumbo spoke on the show. Each character would perform a special act, which ranged from dancing and singing to telling knock knock jokes.
Books
Walt Disney's Dumbo: Happy to Help: () A picture book published by Random House Disney, written by Liane Onish and illustrated by Peter Emslie. It was published January 23, 2001. This paperback is for children aged 4–8. Twenty-four pages long, its 0.08 of an inch thick, and with cover dimensions of 7.88 x 7.88 inches.
Walt Disney's Dumbo Book of Opposites: () A book published in August 1997 by Golden Books under the Golden Board Book brand. It was written by Alan Benjamin, illustrated by Peter Emslie, and edited by Heather Lowenberg. Twelve pages long and a quarter of an inch thick, this board edition book had dimensions of 7.25 x 6.00 inches.
Walt Disney's Dumbo the Circus Baby: () A book published in September 1993 by Golden Press under the A Golden Sturdy Shape Book brand. Illustrated by Peter Emslie and written by Diane Muldrow, this book is meant for babies and preschoolers. Twelve pages long and half an inch thick, this book's cover size is 9.75 x 6.25 inches.
Theme parks
Dumbo the Flying Elephant is a popular ride that appears in Disneyland, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Park (Paris), and Hong Kong Disneyland. It is located in Fantasyland.
The Casey Jr. Circus Train is an attraction found at Disneyland and Disneyland Paris.
In June 2009, Disneyland introduced a flying Dumbo to their nighttime fireworks show, in which the elephant flies around Sleeping Beauty Castle while fireworks synched to music go off.
Casey Junior is the second float in the Main Street Electrical Parade and its versions. Casey, driven by Goofy, pulls a drum with the parade logo and Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
Video games
The Ringmaster appears as one of four villains in the 1999 PC game Disney's Villains' Revenge. In the game, the Disney Villains alter the happy endings from Jiminy Cricket's book; in particular, the Ringmaster forces Dumbo to endlessly perform humiliating stunts in his circus. In the end, the Ringmaster is defeated when he is knocked unconscious by a well-aimed custard pie.
Dumbo appears in the popular PlayStation 2 game Kingdom Hearts released in 2002 in the form of a summon that the player can call upon in battle for aid. Sora, the protagonist, flies on Dumbo while he splashes enemies with water from his trunk. Dumbo reprises his role as a summon in the follow-up game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance.
Cancelled sequel
In 2001, the "60th Anniversary Edition" DVD of Dumbo featured a sneak peek of the proposed sequel Dumbo II, including new character designs and storyboards. Robert C. Ramirez (Joseph: King of Dreams) was to direct the sequel, in which Dumbo and his circus friends navigated a large city after being left behind by their traveling circus. Dumbo II also sought to explain what happened to Dumbo's father, Mr. Jumbo. Dumbo's circus friends included the chaotic twin bears Claude and Lolly, the curious zebra Dot, the older, independent hippo Godfry, and the adventurous ostrich Penny. The animals were metaphors for the different stages of childhood. Dumbo II was supposed to be set on the day immediately following the end of the first Dumbo movie. John Lasseter cancelled Dumbo II, soon after being named Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006.
Live-action adaptation
On July 8, 2014, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a live-action adaptation of Dumbo was in development. In the same announcement, Ehren Kruger was confirmed as the screenwriter, as well as co-producer with Justin Springer. On March 10, 2015, Tim Burton was announced as the director. On January 11, 2017, it was reported that Will Smith was in talks to star in the remake as the father of some children who befriend Dumbo. That same day, it was revealed that Tom Hanks had reportedly been offered to play the film's villain. The following month, it was announced that Smith would not be starring in the film. Smith had apparently passed on the project due to a disagreement over salary and scheduling as well as to star in Bad Boys for Life, however, went on to play the role of the Genie in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin. In March 2017, it was reported that Eva Green was in talks to play a trapeze artist. Following this announcement, Danny DeVito was cast as a ringleader named Medici. Two weeks later, it was reported that Colin Farrell had entered negotiations to play the role of Holt, which was originally offered to Will Smith. On April 4, 2017, Michael Keaton, Burton's former frequent collaborator, entered talks to star as the villain. Keaton confirmed his involvement with the film on June 26, 2017. Filming took place at Cardington Studios in Bedfordshire, England. On July 15, 2017, Disney announced the casting for all of the principal roles and that the film would be released on March 29, 2019. DeObia Oparei, Joseph Gatt and Alan Arkin also play new characters created for the film.
See also
Seeing pink elephants
Roles of mothers in Disney media
References
Citations
General sources
External links
Helen R. Durney collection at Syracuse University - the original sketches for the Dumbo Roll-a-Book.
1941 animated films
1941 films
1940s American animated films
1940s children's fantasy films
1940s musical fantasy films
1940s English-language films
American children's animated fantasy films
American children's animated musical films
Animated films about friendship
American musical fantasy films
Animated films about animals
Circus films
Dance animation
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Animated films based on children's books
Films directed by Bill Roberts
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The architecture of Yugoslavia was characterized by emerging, unique, and often differing national and regional narratives. As a socialist state remaining free from the Iron Curtain, Yugoslavia adopted a hybrid identity that combined the architectural, cultural, and political leanings of both Western liberal democracy and Soviet communism.
Interwar modernism
Yugoslav architecture emerged in the first decades of the 20th century before the establishment of the state; during this period a number of South Slavic creatives, enthused by the possibility of statehood, organized a series of art exhibitions in Serbia in the name of a shared Slavic identity. Following governmental centralization after the 1918 creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, this initial bottom-up enthusiasm began to fade. Yugoslav architecture became more and more dictated by an increasingly concentrated national authority which sought to establish a unified state identity.
Beginning the 1920s, Yugoslav architects began to advocate for architectural modernism, viewing the style as the logical extension of progressive national narratives. The Group of Architects of the Modern Movement, an organization founded in 1928 by architects Branislav Đ Kojić, Milan Zloković, Jan Dubovy, and Dusan Babic pushed for the widespread adoption of modern architecture as the "national" style of Yugoslavia to transcended regional differences. Despite these shifts, differing relationships to the west made the adoption of modernism inconsistent in Yugoslavia WWII; while the westernmost republics of Croatia and Slovenia were familiar with Western influence and eager to adopt modernism, long-Ottoman Bosnia remained more resistant to do so. Of all Yugoslavian cities, Belgrade has highest concentration of modernist structures.
Socialist realism (1945–48)
Immediately following the Second World War, Yugoslavia's brief association with the Eastern Bloc ushered in a short period of socialist realism. Centralization within the communist model led to the abolishment of private architectural practices and the state control of the profession. During this period, the governing Communist Party condemned modernism as "bourgeois formalism," a move that caused friction among the nation's pre-war modernist architectural elite.
Modernism (1948–92)
Socialist realist architecture in Yugoslavia came to an abrupt end with Josip Broz Tito's 1948 split with Stalin. In the following years the nation turned increasingly to the West, returning to the modernism that had characterized pre-war Yugoslav architecture. During this era, modernist architecture came to symbolize the nation's break from the USSR (a notion that later diminished with growing acceptability of modernism in the Eastern Bloc). The nation's postwar return to modernism is perhaps best exemplified in Vjenceslav Richter's widely acclaimed 1958 Yugoslavia Pavilion at Expo 58, the open and light nature of which contrasted the much heavier architecture of the Soviet Union.
Spomeniks
During this period, the Yugoslav break from Soviet socialist realism combined with efforts to commemorate World War II, which together led to the creation of an immense quantity of abstract sculptural war memorials, known today as spomenik
Brutalism
In the late 1950s and early 1960s Brutalism began to garner a following within Yugoslavia, particularly among younger architects, a trend possibly influenced by the 1959 disbandment of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne. Brutalism's growing influence in the nation was most prominently exemplified in reconstruction efforts of Skopje following a destructive 1963 earthquake. Japanese architect Kenzo Tange played a key role in pushing for Brutalism in the city, going so far as to propose a full redesign of Skopje in the style.
The architecture of the city is compiled in Kenzo Tange's Masterplan of Skopje City 1963 with a collaboration led by the UNs teams of international architects.
Decentralization
With 1950s decentralization and liberalization policies in SFR Yugoslavia, architecture became increasingly fractured along ethnic lines. Architects increasingly focused on building with reference to the architectural heritage of their individual socialist republics in the form of critical regionalism. A notable example of this shift is the Juraj Neidhardt and Dušan Grabrijan's seminal 1957 publication Architecture of Bosnia and the way into modernity () which sought to understand modernism through the lens of Bosnia's Ottoman heritage.
Growing distinction of individual ethnic architectural identities within Yugoslavia was exacerbated with the 1972 decentralization of the formerly centralized historical preservation authority, providing individual regions further opportunity to critically analyze their own cultural narratives.
In popular culture
Yugoslav architecture, particularly that of monuments, has attracted increased public attention in recent years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers released a series of photographs documenting dilapidated World War II monuments and memorials in Yugoslavia. In July 2018 MoMA opened a 6 month exhibition entitled "Toward a Concrete Utopia" that provided visitors with a large collection of images, architectural models, and drawings from Yugoslav architecture from 1948 to 1980. Meanwhile, American researcher and author Donald Niebyl has been working since 2016 to create an online educational resource to explore and catalog the history of Yugoslav monuments and architecture, titled "Spomenik Database".
Gallery
See also
Architecture of Serbia
Architecture of Kosovo
Architecture of Croatia
Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Architecture of Montenegro
Architecture of North Macedonia
Architecture of Slovenia
References
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Spomenik Database
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Wasteland is a science fiction open world role-playing video game developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1988. The game is set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic America destroyed by a nuclear holocaust generations before. Developers originally made the game for the Apple II and it was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. It was re-released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2013 via Steam and GOG.com, and in 2014 via Desura.
Critically acclaimed and commercially successful, Wasteland was intended to be followed by two separate sequels, but Electronic Arts dropped claims of Fountain of Dreams being a sequel and Interplay's Meantime was canceled. The game's general setting and concept became the basis for Interplay's 1997 role-playing video game Fallout and the Fallout series. inXile Entertainment released a sequel, Wasteland 2, in 2014, and Wasteland 3 was released in 2020. A remastered version of the game titled Wasteland Remastered was released on February 25, 2020, in honor of the original game's 30th anniversary.
Gameplay
Wastelands game mechanics are based on those used in the tabletop role-playing games, such as Tunnels and Trolls and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes created by Wasteland designers Ken St. Andre and Michael Stackpole. Characters in Wasteland have seven attributesstrength, intelligence, luck, speed, agility, dexterity, and charismathat allow the characters to use different skills and weapons. Experience is gained through combat and skill usage. The game generally lets players advance using a variety of tactics: to get through a locked gate, the characters could use their picklock skill, their climb skill, or their strength attribute; or they could force the gate with a crowbar or a LAW rocket.
The player's party begins with four members and can grow to as many as seven by recruiting citizens and wasteland creatures. Unlike other computer role-playing games of the time, these non-player characters might at times refuse to follow the player's commands, such as when the player orders the character to give up an item or perform an action. The game is noted for its high and unforgiving difficulty level. The prose appearing in the game's combat screens, such as phrases saying an enemy is "reduced to a thin red paste" and "explodes like a blood sausage", prompted an unofficial PG-13 sticker on the game packaging in the U.S.
Wasteland was one of the first games featuring a persistent world, where changes to the game world were stored and kept. Returning to an area later in the game, the player would find it in the state the player left it, rather than being reset, as was common for games of the time. Since hard drives were still rare in home computers in 1988, this meant the original game disk had to be copied first, as the manual instructed one to do.
Another feature of the game was the inclusion of a printed collection of paragraphs that the player would read at the appropriate times. These paragraphs described encounters, conversations and contained clues. Because disk space was at a premium, it saved on resources to have most of the game's story printed out in a separate manual rather than stored within the game's code itself. The paragraph books also served as a rudimentary form of copy protection; someone playing a copied version of the game would miss out on story elements and clues necessary to progress. The paragraphs included an unrelated story line about a mission to Mars intended to mislead those who read the paragraphs when not instructed to, and a false set of passwords that would trip up cheaters.
Plot
In 2087, generations after the devastation of a global nuclear war in 1998, a remnant force of the United States Army called the Desert Rangers operates in the Southwestern United States, acting as peacekeepers to protect fellow survivors and their descendants. A team of Desert Rangers is assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in nearby areas. Throughout the game, the rangers explore the remaining enclaves of human civilization, including a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas.
As the group's investigation deepens, the Rangers discover evidence of a larger menace threatening to exterminate what is left of humankind. A pre-war artificial intelligence operating from a surviving military facility, Base Cochise, is constructing armies of killer machines and cybernetically modified humans to attack human settlements with the help of Irwin Finster, the deranged former commander of the base. Finster has gone so far as to transform himself into a cyborg under the AI's control. The AI's ultimate goal is to complete Finster's "Project Darwin" and replace the world's "flawed" population with genetically pure specimens. With help from a pre-war android named Max, the player recovers the necessary technology and weapons in order to confront the AI at Base Cochise and destroy it by making the base's nuclear reactor melt down.
Development
In an interview with Hartley and Patricia Lesse for MicroTimes in 1987, game director Brian Fargo said that Interplay started work on the game in 1986. He also said the game was created on the Apple II, as it was equally important to him as the Commodore 64. Fargo described the game as a hybrid of the Ultima series and The Bard's Tale, with a post-apocalyptic setting similar to the Mad Max film series. As to the combat, Fargo stated that it resembled that of The Bard's Tale and contained additional strategy elements, including the ability to split or disband the party and change the player's character point-of-view.
In later interviews, Fargo said Wasteland came about after the success of The Bard's Tale and Interplay's desire to make another role-playing game for Electronic Arts separate from a sequel to the game. He added that the setting was inspired by his love for Mad Max 2 and post-apocalyptic fiction. While searching for a gameplay system for their new game, they came across the system of Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes. Its author Michael Stackpole was announced as the writer for Wasteland in 1987.
Alan Pavlish was the lead developer of the game, writing it in Apple II machine language and programming the game to react to player choices. Ken St. Andre said Fargo's pitch to him was for a post-nuclear holocaust game that allowed for weapons capable of inflicting area effect damage to be used and the map be modified "on the fly". Fargo said the game was in development for five years.
Writing
St. Andre stated that Interplay wanted to make a best-seller that would elevate the team's reputation. He added that the story-writing process took more than a year, mostly due to feeding various scenarios into the game to see how it would react. According to him, he and Stackpole wanted to create something new with the story.
The original plot was supposed to be similar to Red Dawn, with Russians occupying the United States and fighting against Americans engaged in liberating their nation. St. Andre eventually decided to change this and pitched a new story involving killer robots wanting to wipe out and replace humanity, calling it a sort of cross between The Terminator and Daffy Duck, with Fargo accepting this new storyline. The game's location was chosen due to St. Andre's familiarity with the area and ability to ensure the locations of real-world places were accurate in the game.
Release
The game was copyrighted in 1986. Close to release, Interplay insisted that it be labeled PG-13. Wasteland was originally released in 1988 for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and IBM compatibles. The IBM version added an additional skill called "Combat Shooting" which could be bought only when a character was first created. Wasteland was re-released as part of Interplay's 10 Year Anthology: Classic Collection in 1995, and also included in the 1998 Ultimate RPG Archives through Interplay's DragonPlay label. These later bundled releases were missing the original setup program, which allowed the game's maps to be reset while retaining the player's original team of Rangers.
Reception
Computer Gaming World cited Wastelands "ease of play, richness of plot, problem solving requirements, skill and task system, and graphic display" as elements of its excellence. Scorpia favorably reviewed the game in 1991 and 1993, calling it "really the only decently-designed post-nuke game on the market". In 1992, the magazine wrote the game's "classic mix of combat and problem-solving" was the favorite of its readers in 1988, and that "the way in which Wastelands NPCs related to the player characters, the questions of dealing with moral dilemmas, and the treatment of skills set this game apart." In 1994, the magazine cited Wasteland as an example of how "older, less sophisticated engines can still play host to a great game".
Orson Scott Card gave Wasteland a mixed review in Compute!, commending the science fiction elements and setting, but stating that "mutant bunnies can get boring, too ... This is still a kill-the-monster-and-get-the-treasure game, without the overarching story that makes each Ultima installment meaningful." However, James Trunzo praised the game in the November 1988 issue of Compute!, citing its non-linear design and multiple puzzle solutions, the vague nature of the goal, and customizable player stats.
Julia Martin's review for Challenge favorably recommended the game for those into RPGs and adventure games, comparing it to Twilight: 2000, praising its combat system, choices and for differing from the usual sword-and-fantasy genre. She called the game well done and stated it offered hours of fun. She also criticized having to insert the primary "A" disk in order to play the game after copying it from four disks, the game's save system, and characters starting out with useless items.
The game was a hit and sold around 250,000 units on release. Computer Gaming World named Wasteland the Adventure Game of the Year in 1988. The game received the fourth-highest number of votes in a 1990 survey of the magazine's readers' "All-Time Favorites". In 1993, Computer Gaming World added Wasteland to its Hall of Fame, rated it as the ninth-best PC video game of all time in 1996 for introducing the concept of the player's party "acting like the 'real' people." In 2000, Wasteland was ranked as the 24th-best PC game of all time by the staff of IGN, who called it "one of the best RPGs to ever grace the PC" and "a truly innovative RPG for its time."
According to a retrospective review by Richard Cobbett of Eurogamer in 2012, "even now, it offers a unique RPG world and experience ... a whole fallen civilisation full of puzzles and characters and things to twiddle with, all magically crammed into less than a megabyte of space." In another retrospective article that same year, IGN's Kristan Reed wrote that "time has not been kind to Wasteland, but its core concepts stand firm."
Legacy
Sequels and spiritual successor
Wasteland was followed in 1990 by a less-successful intended sequel, Fountain of Dreams, set in post-war Florida. The game neither contained any of the code from Wasteland nor involved any of the staff that worked on it. Electronic Arts eventually decided to downplay its connection to Wasteland, and said it was not a sequel in 2003. Interplay worked on Meantime, which was advertised as a spiritual successor to Wasteland and did not take place in the same universe. Coding of Meantime was nearly finished and a beta version was produced, but the game was canceled as the Apple II market declined.
Interplay has described the first Fallout game as the spiritual successor to Wasteland. According to IGN, "Interplay's inability to prise the Wasteland brand name from EA's gnarled fingers actually led to it creating Fallout in the first place." There are Wasteland homage elements in Fallout and Fallout 2 as well.
Fargo's inXile Entertainment acquired the rights to the franchise from Electronic Arts in 2003. The studio developed and published Wasteland 2 in 2014. The game's production team included original Wasteland designers Alan Pavlish, Michael Stackpole, Ken St. Andre and Liz Danforth, and was crowdfunded through a Kickstarter campaign. In 2016, inXile announced a crowdfunding campaign Fig to develop Wasteland 3. It was released in August 2020.
Re-release
In an August 2013 Kickstarter update for Wasteland 2, project lead Chris Keenan announced that they had reached an agreement with Electronic Arts to release the original Wasteland for modern operating systems. He added that it will be given for free to backers of Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter, in addition to being made available for purchase on GOG and Steam. The re-release was designed to run on higher resolutions and added a song by Mark Morgan, higher resolution portraits, the ability to use the original game's manual in-game and the paragraph book's text, and expanded the save-game functionality.
In November of that year, Keenan announced that the re-release titled Wasteland 1: The Original Classic had gone gold, and had been submitted to GOG and Steam for approval. In response to the player feedback, inXile included the ability to turn off smoothing, including the manual in tooltips, swapping and tweaking portraits while making it work on Mac OS X and Linux. Those who backed Planescape: Torment and received Wasteland 2, also received the re-release for free.
The Original Classic edition was released on November 8, 2013, and was downloaded more than 33,000 times before its general availability. On November 12, the game was released on GOG. The next day, the game was also released on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux. On March 11, 2014, it was released for Desura.
Remaster
inXile Entertainment announced a remastered version in honor of the original's 30th anniversary, to be produced by Krome Studios. During E3 2019, Brian Fargo announced it was coming to both Windows and Xbox One. He also released screenshots of the game. On January 23, 2020, the release date was revealed as February 25. It was released on GOG, Steam and Microsoft Store. The graphics and sounds were completely overhauled and the game uses 3D models. In addition, it features voiced lines and new portraits for characters. The "remastered" edition also includes cross-save support
and Xbox Play Anywhere support.
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Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy or Mozgovoi (, ; 3 April 1975 – 23 May 2015) was a commander of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine. He was the leader of the pro-Russian Prizrak Brigade and also served as "judge" on the "People's Court", notorious for issuing controversial death sentences. In 2020 he was found guilty posthumously by a separatist court of a murder-for-money of a family, which also resulted in the crippling of a ten year old child. He was assassinated in Donbas, with conflicting reports on who was responsible.
Biography
Mozgovoy was born in the village of Nizhnyaya Duvanka, Svatove Raion, Luhansk Oblast located in the eastern part of Ukraine. Mozgovoy grew up in Svatove township where he participated in a local choir, the Svatove Cossacks. Just before the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, (the "Russian Spring") Mozgovoy was a guest worker, employed as a cook in Saint Petersburg. In 2014, during conflict in eastern Ukraine, he became commander of the military formation "Prizrak" (Ghost). Unofficially, his armed group was known as the Antratsyt Cossacks. Mozgovoy was allied with Igor Girkin, the Donetsk People's Republic minister for defense. He was known for infighting with other Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) rebels. Mozgovoy had contact with the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and the leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov.
Prior to his death, Mozgovoy's Prizrak brigade had been having supply issues due to his refusal to join the formal LPR power structure. It had dwindled from 3,000 fighters to several hundred. Mozgovoy and two of his colleagues, Andrey Kozlov and Anna Samelyuk, decided to move into politics and, with the assistance of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), sent an application to Kiev to register the political party Narodnoye vozrozhdeniye (National Renewal). It was sent to Kiev instead of to Lugansk as a proper legal process did not yet exist in the LPR for the registration of political parties. The application was received by Ukraine's Ministry of Justice on May 5, and accepted by May 8, thus becoming the first and only political party registered by Ukraine that originated in one of the breakaway rebel territories, and the only one that Ukraine would recognize legally according to the Minsk II peace agreement. On May 8, there was an international anti-fascist forum in the city of Alchevsk in the LPR, which included around 100 attendees, including OSCE members. By the evening, the registration of the new party had become widely known among the attendees. The following day, the LPR authorities denied Mozgovoy permission to stage a May 9 Victory Day parade.
Death
Mozgovoy was killed in a car ambush on the road between Luhansk and Alchevsk, nearby village called (Perevalsk Raion), on Saturday, May 23, 2015. The attack on Mozgovoy's motorcade consisted of a roadside bombing followed by machine-gun fire. The first reported death toll was said to be 7 people. Press secretary Anna Samelyuk, a driver, and six bodyguards were also killed.
Two months prior to his death, Mozgovoy had survived a similar assassination attempt in the same area. He was said to be dismissive of threats to his life.
The LPR press service attributed the attack to undefined "saboteurs". Surviving leaders of the Prizrak Brigade stated that Ukrainian commandos were responsible, and they called on their supporters to not spread false rumors. Anton Gerashchenko, the adviser to the Ukrainian minister for internal affairs, claimed Mozgovoy was assassinated by Russian GRU special forces. Mozgovoy's supporters widely believed that Igor Plotnitksy the head of the LNR at the time was responsible for his death.
On May 23, 2016, a statue of Mozgovoy was erected in Alchevsk, Ukraine.
In 2020 a court in the unrecognized Luhansk People’s Republic determined that Mozgovoy and fellow Prizrak brigade member Aleksandr Kostin had planned and commanded the 2014 ambush and murder of a family for cash. Oleh and Iryna Burykhin were shot dead in their car, and their ten-year-old daughter Liza was left an invalid from her wounds.
Controversy
In October 2014 he presided over a so-called "people's court" () that issued a death sentence against a suspect accused of rape by asking the audience to raise hands. Answering questions from the audience afterward, Mozgovoy said that he ordered his patrols to "arrest any woman found sitting in a pub or cafe".
The statement that caused the controversy was:
After the statement caused a significant critical response in Russian media, he had to explain that he said that because he thought that women "should care about their safety", that the intention of the statement was to make people think about morals and that he was not going to arrest anyone. Despite this, in an interview to Novaya Gazeta on 17 November 2014, Mozgovoy claimed that "young girls who need to give birth to children so that there is no demographic crisis are ruining their bodies instead", underlining that "in the old days was it generally forbidden for a girl to sit at the table [...] Because she is a mother first and foremost. But what kind of mother will she be if she ruined her body with alcohol, and now also with drugs?".
See also
Separatist forces of the war in Donbas
Alexander Bednov
Gennadiy Tsypkalov
Arsen Pavlov
List of unsolved murders
Valery Bolotov
Mikhail Tolstykh
Alexander Zakharchenko
References
External links
Official website
Mozgovoy poetry
Mozgovoy performs a song "My little daughter" in Ukrainian language
Aleksei Mozgovoy at the Novorossiya Information agency
(eng subs) Militia brigade "Ghost" takes oath to Novorossia 09/09/14
Ukraine crisis: Inside pro-Russia militia training camp. BBC News. 19 May 2014
1975 births
2015 deaths
Don Cossacks
Male murder victims
People from Svatove Raion
People murdered in Ukraine
People of Anti-Maidan
People of the Luhansk People's Republic
Pro-Russian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
Pro-Russian people of the war in Donbas
Military personnel killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War
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Altillac (; ) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Altillacois or Altillacoises.
Geography
Altillac is a large commune located in the central massif of the Dordogne in eastern Nouvelle-Aquitaine (previously the smaller Limousin region until 2016), almost on the border with Occitania (previously Midi-Pyrénées). It was formerly called Xaintrie.
It is located some 30 km south-east of Brive-la-Gaillarde, 130 km south-west of Clermont-Ferrand, and about 180 km east of Bordeaux. Access to the commune is on road D940 which goes to the village just 1 km east of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne then continues south through the commune to Biars-sur-Cère. The D116E branches south-east from this road to join the D14 east of Gagnac-sur-Cère. There is also the D116 coming from Brivezac in the north and the D41 highway to La Chapelle-Saint-Géraud in the north-east.
The Dordogne river forms the western boundary of the commune with some streams from the commune flowing into it including the Ruisseau du Suquet. The eastern border of the commune is formed by the Ruisseau d'Orges which flows south into the Ceres river. The northern border is formed by the Ruisseau de Chauvac which flows west into the Dordogne. The Ruisseau de Laumond on the eastern side also flows east into the Orges as does the Ruisseau de Malaval in the south.
There are quite a number of villages and hamlets in the commune. These are:
Andole
Courbignac
Esclaux
Fontmerle
Freyssignes
Gramond
Guilles
L'Aumond
L'Aussac
La Borderie
La Bourelle
La Majorie
La Palide
La Poujade
La Poulvélarie
La Veyssière
Le Rodal
Le Sagrier
Le Treil
Les Escures
Paliole
Siran
History
Altillac was the seat of a Viguerie under the Carolingian dynasty.
On 28 May 1942, the regional prefect of Limoges requisitioned land from the Chateau of Doux to create an internment centre for Jewish families.
Heraldry
Administration
List of Successive Mayors of Altillac:
Population
Culture and heritage
Civil heritage
The Chateau du Doux was built in 1904-1906 from plans by Jean-Louis Pascal. Influenced by the style used in Deauville, it is built in the style of Xaintrie, the nearest town, to serve as a luxury hotel. It is built above a valley and offers views of the surrounding landscape. Different styles are used for the window frames: simple windows, large curved bayss with stone latticework, cross windows, skylights, and capucine passantes. It used local materials to allow it to have a regional air: stones of various colours and a slate roof. Inside, the woodwork is Art Nouveau.
On the other side of the valley is the Doux domain where large farm buildings have been built: huge barns/stables on two levels with many barns built in imitation of small farms, which form a semblance of a hamlet, a henhouse, and a bread oven. All buildings - the hotel and the farm buildings - are certified as heritage of the 20th century.
The Dolmen de la Borderie - a Neolithic Dolmen in good condition.
Religious heritage
The Church of Saint-Etienne (14th century) is registered as an historical monument. It was built in 1528 except for the bell tower which dates back to the 14th century. The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
A set of Baptismal fonts
Covers for the Baptismal fonts (1700)
Bowls for the Baptismal fonts (12th century)
The panelling in the Choir (1676)
6 Bas-reliefs (1676)
The panelling on the walls (1676)
Personalities
Notable personalities linked to the commune include:
Jean-Antoine Marbot, born 7 December 1754 in Altillac – 19 April 1800: French divisional general and politician. Father of generals Adolphe and Marcellin Marbot
Adolphe Marbot, born 22 March 1781 in Altillac – 2 June 1844: French maréchal de camp (brigadier general)
Marcellin Marbot, born 18 August 1782 in Altillac – 16 November 1854: French lieutenant-général (divisional general), author of the famous Memoirs of General Marbot
Marcel Conche, born 27 March 1922 in Altillac - 27 February 2022: French philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne
See also
Communes of the Corrèze department
References
External links
Altillac official website
Altillac on the old National Geographic Institute website
Altillac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
Altillac on the 1750 Cassini Map
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In Greek mythology, Eurydice (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη Eurydikē "wide justice", derived from ευρυς eurys "wide" and δικη dike "justice) was a queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus, founder of Ilium. She was the daughter of Adrastus and the mother of King Laomedon of Troy and possibly, of Themiste, Telecleia and Tithonus. In some accounts, Batia, daughter of Teucer was said to be the consort of Ilus but if the family tree recorded by Apollodorus is correct, Batia could hardly have been the wife of Ilus, since she was his great-grandmother. According to Hyginus, the wife of Ilus was called Leucippe, otherwise unknown.
Notes
References
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Queens in Greek mythology
Women in Greek mythology
Characters in Greek mythology
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald (born 15 November 1958) is an Australian actor, screenwriter and television director, who lectures in Screen and Media Studies at Australia's University of New England.
Filmography
As actor
Breaker Morant (1980) – Lt. George Witton
The Last Outlaw (1980, TV mini-series) – Tom Lloyd
I Can Jump Puddles (1981, TV series) – Alan Marshall / Narrator
Outbreak of Love (1981, TV series) – Alan Marshall / Narrator
We of the Never Never (1982) – Jack
Fighting Back (1982) – John Embling
The Dean Case (1982, TV movie) – George Dean
The Boy Who Had Everything (1984) – Vandervelt
The Flying Doctors (1985–1986, TV series) – David 'Gibbo' Gibson
The More Things Change... (1986) – Barry
The Shiralee (1987, TV mini-series) – Tony
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988) – Brian
Rikky and Pete (1988) – Adam
Evil Angels (1988) – Tipple
The Four Minute Mile (1988, TV movie) – Denis Johannson
Police State (1989, TV movie) – Gary Crooke
R.F.D.S. (1993, TV series) – Dr. Sebert Blitho
Spider & Rose (1994) – Robert Dougherty
Dead Heart (1996) – Les
The Adventures of Sam (1997, TV series) – Captain Billy Branscombe (voice)
Pitch Black (2000) – Paris P. Ogilvie
The Three Stooges (2000, TV movie) – Jules White
Border Patrol (2000, TV movie) – Dr. Roderick Helms
The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004, TV series) – Dr. Thayer
The Boys Are Back (2009) – Tim Walker
Home and Away (2010, TV series) – Snr Detective Gordon Eaves
Crownies (2011) – David Sinclair, SC
Not Suitable for Children (2012) – Dr. McKenzie
The Wolverine (2013) – Attorney #1 (uncredited)
Janet King (2014) – David Sinclair, SC
Truth (2015) – Louis Boccardi
Hunters (2016, TV series) – Truss Jackson
Rake (2016, TV series) – Mandel
Dance Academy: The Movie (2017) – ICU Dr Kelly
Pimped (2018) – Michael Hanson
Harmony (2018) – Mr. Lenox
Pine Gap (2018, TV mini-series) – Rudi Fox
Thirteen Lives (2022) – Vernon Unsworth
Director
Twisted Tales (1996, TV series)
Water Rats (1996, TV series)
McLeod's Daughters (2001, TV series)
Home and Away (2006, TV series)
Out of the Blue (2008, TV series)
Independent work
The Last Man Hanged (1993 film) (Writer, actor, director)
See also
List of University of New England (Australia) people
References
External links
1958 births
Australian male film actors
Living people
Male actors from Adelaide
National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni
University of New England (Australia) faculty
20th-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian male actors
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Praptham
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Praptham () is a 1971 Indian Tamil-language film, directed and produced by Savitri. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Savitri and Srikanth. The film's score was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. Actress Chandrakala made her Tamil debut in this movie. The film was a remake of the Telugu film Mooga Manasulu.
Cast
Sivaji Ganesan as Kannan
Savitri as Radha
S. V. Ranga Rao as Zamindar
M. N. Nambiar as Raju
Srikanth as Ramu/Thiyagarajan
Chandrakala as Gowri
Nagesh as Ponnan
C. K. Saraswathi as Rama
Senthamarai as Church Father
Natarajan
S.R. Janaki as (Kannan's mother)
Soundtrack
References
External links
1971 films
Indian films
Tamil remakes of Telugu films
1970s Tamil-language films
Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan
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Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (1926–1989)
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The Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (the Samastha) was the principal Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in northern Kerala. It was organised in the aftermath of the 1921 Mappila Uprising as a response to the growing Salafi Movement movement in Kerala. The body witnessed an organisational division during the late 1980s, resulting in the presence two separate Shafi'i scholarly bodies in northern Kerala (the E. K. and A. P. groups).
The E. K. group, headed by Sayed Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal, is headquartered at Chelari, near the University of Calicut. Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar is the current General Secretary of the All India Sunni Jamiat-ul-Ulema (the A. P. group).
A forty-member 'mushawara' is the high command body of both Sunni organisations. The administration of Islamic education in Kerala is not managed by Government of Kerala. The two Sunni bodies run thousands of mosques, madrasas (institutions where children receive basic Islamic education) and Arabic Colleges (the equivalent of north Indian madrasas). They run regular Malayalam and English medium arts-and-science and technology ("professional") colleges also.
Ordinary Sunnis of Kerala are largely identified with either the "E. K." or the "A. P." group.
History
Early years
Samastha Kerala Jamiat-ul-Ulema, or the Samastha, was organised in 1926 as a response to the growing Salafi movement in Kerala.
A nascent form of the Ulema was formed in Kozhikode in 1925. This was organised by Maulana Pangil Ahmad Kutti Musliyar and Varakkal Ba Alavi Mullakkoya Tangal with K. P. Muhammad Miran Musliyar as the President and Parol Husain Maulavi as the Secretary. The Ulema was formally constituted on 26 June 1926 at Town Hall, Kozhikode.
Timeline
1925 — a nascent form of the Ulema formed at Valiya Juma Masjid, Kozhikode.
1926 June 26 — S. K. J. U. formed at Kozhikode Town Hall in the presence of Sayyid Shihabuddin Cherukunjikkoya Thangal
1927 Feb 7 — First conference at Tanur in the presence of Liyauddeen Hazrath (Nalir Bakhiyath)
1929 Dec — S. K. J. U. published its first periodical al-Bayan.
1932 June — Pangil Ahmad Kutti Musliyar appointed as the President of S. K. J. U. (succeeding Varakkal Mullakkoya Tangal)
1934 Nov 14 — S. K. J. U. officially registered by law at Kozhikode district registrar office.
1951 March 24 — Paravanna Mohiyadheen Kutty Musliyar appointed as S. K. J. U. General Secretary
1951 Sep 17 — Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidhyabhyasa Board (S. K. I. M. V. B) formed
1954 April 26 — S. K. J. U. formed a youth wing under its fold "Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Samgham (SYS)"
1965 — Jamia Nooriyya Arabiyya established at Pattikkad (near Perintalmanna).
1978 — Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar forms Jamia Markazu Saquafathi Sunniyya at Karanthur, near Kozhikode.
1989 — Organisational division.
Educational activities
Madrasa in Kerala refers to institution where children receive basic Arabic language and Islamic instruction. Both E. K. and A. P. organisation manage thousands of Kerala madrasas with millions of enrolled students (the Salafi movement-oriented organisations also manage madrasas in Kerala). Thousands of teachers are also registered with these madrasas. The organisations also run a chain of Arabic Colleges in Kerala (equivalent of north Indian madrasas).
Both organisations are running regular Malayalam and English medium arts-and-science and technology ("professional") colleges also (inlcuding some outside the Kerala state).
Publications (till 1989)
The Samastha is known for publishing a short-lived Malayalam monthly magazine in the late 1920s. The periodical — known as al-Bayan — was first printed in 1929 (Arabic-Malayalam script). The magazine reinvented itself in Malayalam Script for a short period in the 1950s.
al-Bayan (1929, 1950)
Sunni Times or Sunni Voice (1964)
Muslim (1987)
A. P. and E. K. organisations
The two 'traditional' Sunni organisations are named after the initials of leading scholars of each wing. Both of them were the leading scholars of Samastha Kerala Jamiat-ul-Ulema, until they were divided in 1989. Led by A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar some members separated themselves from the mushawara in 1989, forming a parallel organisation.
The E. K. group is named after E. K. Aboobacker Musliyar (1914 - 1996).
The A. P. group is named after A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (born 1939).
Current Sunni bodies
References
External links
Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (E. K. Group)
Samastha Kerala Sunni Vidyabhyasa Board (A. P, Group)
Sunni Islam in India
Islam in Kerala
Samastha
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2019 Paradise Jam Tournament
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The 2019 Paradise Jam was an early-season men's and women's college basketball tournament. The tournament, which began in 2000, was part of the 2019-20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and 2019-20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played at the Sports and Fitness Center in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nevada won the men's tournament defeating Bowling Green. in the women's tournament [2019–20 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team|South Carolina]] won the women's Reef division, and Louisville won the Island division.
* – Denotes overtime period
Men's Tournament
Non–Bracketed games
Bracket
Women's Tournament
The women's tournament was played from November 28–20. The women's tournament consists of 8 teams split into two 4-team, round-robin divisions: Island and Reef.
Island Division
Reef Division
References
Paradise Jam Tournament
Paradise Jam Tournament
Paradise Jam Tournament
Paradise Jam
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1923 in animation
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Events in 1923 in animation.
Films released
Unknown date:
Day at the Park (United States)
Martha (United States)
On the Air (United States)
Wedding Bells (United States)
1 January – Felix the Ghost Breaker view (United States)
14 January – Colonel Heeza Liar And The Ghost (United States)
15 January – Felix Win's Out view (United States)
1 February – Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective (United States)
8 February – The Einstein Theory of Relativity (United States)
17 February – The Traveling Salesman (United States)
23 February – Farmer Al Falfa's Bride (United States)
11 March – Colonel Heeza Liar's Burglar (United States)
22 March – One Hard Pull (United States)
8 April – Day by Day in Every Way (United States)
15 April – Felix Tries for Treasure view (United States)
27 April – Amateur Night on the Ark (United States)
1 May – Felix Revolts view (United States)
12 May – Springtime (United States)
15 May – Felix Calms His Conscience (United States)
1 June – Felix the Globe Trotter (United States)
3 June – Colonel Heeza Liar In The African Jungles (United States)
15 June – Felix Gets Broadcasted view (United States)
1 July – Felix Strikes it Rich view (United States)
8 July – Colonel Heeza Liar In Uncle Tom's Cabin (United States)
15 July – Felix in Hollywood view (United States)
19 July – Marathon Dancer (United States)
1 August – Felix in Fairyland view (United States)
5 August – Colonel Heeza Liar's Vacation (United States)
15 August – Felix Laughs Last (United States)
30 September – Felix and the Radio (United States)
16 October – Alice's Wonderland (United States)
1 November – Colonel Heeza Liar's Forbidden Fruit (United States)
9 November – Farmer Al Falfa's Pet Cat (United States)
15 November – Felix Fills a Shortage (United States)
1 December:
Colonel Heeza Liar, Strikebreaker (United States)
Felix the Goat-Getter (United States)
15 December – Felix Goes A-Hunting view (United States)
Births
January
January 8: Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (voice of Cool Cat, Colonel Rimfire, Merlin the Magic Mouse, and Second Banana in Looney Tunes, the Joker in The Adventures of Batman and The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Drac, Hagatha, Ghoulihand, Batso, Ratso, and Icky in Groovie Ghoulies, Koko the Clown in Out of the Inkwell).
January 19: Bob McFadden, American actor (Franken Berry in the Monster Cereals commercials, Snarf in ThunderCats), (d. 2000).
January 21: Paul Kligman, Romanian-born Canadian actor (voice of J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man, and Donner in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), (d. 1985).
January 22: Fred Peters, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), (d. 2018).
January 24: Vlado Kristl, Yugoslavian-Croatian film director and animator (Don Kihot), (d. 2004).
January 29: Andrea Bresciani Slovenian-Italian animator and comics artist (Hanna-Barbera), (d. 2006).
February
February 17: Kathleen Freeman, American actress (voice of Mrs. Crackshell in DuckTales, Mrs. Gordon in As Told By Ginger, Ma Mayhem in Batman Beyond, Old Woman in Shrek), (d. 2001).
February 18: Allen Melvin, American actor (voice of Magilla Gorilla), (d. 2008).
February 24: Fred Steiner, American composer and conductor (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Tiny Toon Adventures), (d. 2011).
March
March 6: Ed McMahon, American announcer, game show host, comedian and actor (voiced himself in The Simpsons, Family Guy, Pinky and the Brain, Duck Dodgers, Engineer's Henchman in Bruno the Kid, Eugene Oregon in Cow and Chicken, Announcer in The Angry Beavers, Tug Boat Captain Hero in Higglytown Heroes), (d. 2009).
March 16: Joyce Carlson, American artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2008).
April
April 13: Don Adams, American actor and comedian (voice of Tennessee Tuxedo in Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, the title character in Inspector Gadget, Gadget Boy in Gadget Boy & Heather, Principal Hickey in Pepper Ann, himself in The New Scooby-Doo Movies), (d. 2005).
April 16: Walter Bien, American film producer (Tom and Jerry, Rod Rocket), (d. 2008).
April 20: Tito Puente, American musician, songwriter, bandleader and record producer (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"), (d. 2000).
April 24: Red Coffey, American comedian and actor (voice of Quacker in Tom & Jerry), (d. 1988).
April 25:
Grant Munro, Canadian animator and film director (Neighbours), (d. 2017).
Paul Whitsun-Jones, Welsh actor (voice of Mr. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol), (d. 1974).
April 28: Dorris Bergstrom, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera, The U.S. of Archie, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, The Lord of the Rings, Warner Bros. Animation, The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, The Chipmunk Adventure), (d. 2020).
April 30: Al Lewis, American actor (voice of the Godfather in Coonskin), (d. 2006).
May
May 1: Ion Popescu-Gopo, Romanian graphic artist, animator and film director (Scurtă Istorie, The White Moor, Gopo's Little Man), (d. 1989).
May 9: Gino Gavioli, Italian comics artist and animator (Gamma Film, Ulisse e l'Ombra, Caio Gregorio er guardiano der pretorio, Il vigile, Babbut, Mammut e Figliut, Derby, Capitan Trinchetto, Joe Galassia, Serafino spazza antennino, Tacabanda, Cimabue), (d. 2016).
May 20: Steve Krantz, American film producer and writer (Spider-Man, Fritz the Cat, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic), (d. 2007).
May 27: Alfonso Wong, Chinese comics artist and animator (Old Master Q), (d. 2017).
May 29: Harry Everett Smith, American experimental filmmaker (Early Abstractions, Heaven and Earth Magic), (d. 1991).
June
June 14: Władysław Nehrebecki, Polish animator and television director (Bolek and Lolek), (d. 1978).
June 30: Carl Ritchie, American actor (voice of Bert the Turtle in Duck and Cover), (d. 2015).
July
July 5: Eunice Macaulay, British animator and film producer (Special Delivery), (d. 2013).
July 8: Val Bettin, American actor (voice of Dr. David Dawson in The Great Mouse Detective, the Sultan in Aladdin, Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Bishop in Shrek), (d. 2021).
July 13: Norma Zimmer, American actress (voice of White Rose in Alice in Wonderland), (d. 2011).
July 25: Allan Lurie, American actor (voice of Mezmaron in Pac-Man, Uglor in Space Stars), (d. 2015).
July 26: Jan Berenstain, American children's book author and illustrator (co-creator of The Berenstain Bears), (d. 2012).
July 28: Ray Ellis, American record producer, arranger, conductor and composer (Filmation, Spider-Man, Eight Crazy Nights), (d. 2008).
July 31: Kent Rogers, American actor (voice of Beaky Buzzard and Junior Bear in Looney Tunes, continued voice of Woody Woodpecker), (d. 1944).
August
August 9: John Stephenson, American actor (voice of Mr. Slate in The Flintstones, continued voice of Doggie Daddy, voice of Dr. Benton Quest in the first 5 episodes of Jonny Quest, numerous roles in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Fancy Fancy in Top Cat, Huffer, Windcharger, Thundercracker, Alpha Trion, and Kup in The Transformers), (d. 2015).
August 29:
Peg Dixon, Canadian actress (voice of Mrs. Claus and Mrs. Donner in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Betty Brant in Spider-Man), (d. 2015).
Jean Ache, French animator and comics artist (L'Émule de Tartarin, Callisto le petite nymphe, Anatole Fait Du Camping), (d. 1985).
September
September 8: Gloria Wood, American actress and singer (voice of Nelly in Nelly's Folly, Suzy Sparrow in Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom), (d. 1995).
September 29: Stan Berenstain, American children's book author and illustrator (co-creator of The Berenstain Bears), (d. 2005).
October
October 4: Charlton Heston, American actor (narrated Energy: A National Issue, Noel, and Hercules, voice of Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur), (d. 2008).
October 7: Břetislav Pojar, Czech puppeteer, animator and film director (To See or Not to See, Balablok), (d. 2012).
October 21: Walerian Borowczyk, Polish film director and animator (Renaissance, Jeux des Anges, Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal, Les Astronautes), (d. 2006).
October 30: Herschel Bernardi, American actor (voice of Charlie the Tuna and The Jolly Green Giant), (d. 1986).
November
November 19: Mike Sekowsky, American comics artist, writer and animator (Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1989).
December
December 1:
Dick Shawn, American actor and comedian (voice of Snow Miser in The Year Without a Santa Claus), (d. 1987).
Morris, Belgian comics artist and animation director (co-director of Daisy Town and The Ballad of the Daltons), (d. 2001).
December 2: Miroslav Štěpánek, Czech animator, film director, sculptor, screenwriter, illustrator and graphic designer (Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát, aka Hey Mister, Let's Play!), (d. 2005).
December 6: Maury Laws, American composer (Rankin/Bass), (d. 2019).
December 7: Ted Knight, American actor (voice of Black Manta in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Commissioner Gordon, The Penguin, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, and The Mad Hatter in The Adventures of Batman, narrator and The Flash in Super Friends), (d. 1986).
December 12:
Bob Barker, American retired television game show host (voice of Bob Barnacle in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sanctuary!", voiced himself in the Futurama episode "The Lesser of Two Evils", and the Family Guy episodes "Screwed the Pooch", "Fat Guy Strangler" and "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing").
Bob Dorough, American jazz musician, songwriter and composer (Schoolhouse Rock), (d. 2018).
December 23: Jimmy Weldon, American actor (voice of Yakky Doodle in The Yogi Bear Show).
Specific date unknown
Jack Keil, American advertising executive (creator and voice of McGruff the Crime Dog), (d. 2017).
References
External links
Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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Wang Junkai
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Wang Junkai (, born 21 September 1999), also known as Karry Wang, is a Chinese singer and actor. He was a trainee of TF Family since 2010 and debuted as the leader of TFBOYS in 2013. He is one of China's wealthiest people born after 1990, with a personal net worth of 248 million yuan (US$36 million) as of December 2016.
Early life and education
Junkai was born in Chongqing, China. Junkai grew up mostly under his grandparents' care due to his parents' busy work schedules. His father works as a taxi driver while his mother works as a hairdresser. In late 2010, he became one of the trainees under the TF Entertainment, and becoming the only trainee later then.
Prior to his debut, Junkai participated in TF Family's mini album I Don't Want to Change. He has released several cover songs online, and participated in audition programs. In particular, his cover of "Onion" (originally by Aska Yang) received attention and was covered by several news outlets. He officially debuted as a member of TFBOYS on August 6, 2013, at the age of 13 alongside Roy Wang and Jackson Yee.
In 2017, he was enrolled into the Beijing Film Academy after having passed the college entrance examination; which received much media fanfare.
Career
In 2016, Wang released his first solo single "Ode to A Tree", which he took part in composing. In July, Wang released his second solo single, "Memory in Ferris Wheel" as part of the soundtrack of web series Finding Soul. The OST reached number 1 on the Billboard China V Chart for 3 consecutive weeks. The same year, Wang had a supporting role in Zhang Yimou's film The Great Wall.
He released his third single "Homeward" in January 2017, produced by Li Ronghao. "Homeward" was named as one of the Top 10 Songs at the Fresh Asia Chart Festival 2017. In April, he joined the cast of variety program Give Me Five. The same year, Wang was named as the Chinese promotional ambassador for the film Kingsman: The Golden Circle and released the theme song "Become a Gentleman". In September, Wang released a single titled "Karry On" as part of as eighteenth birthday celebration. He then starred in the Chinese film adaptation of popular Japanese novel Miracles of the Namiya General Store, which premiered in December 2017. He sang the theme song of the film, titled "Train in the Mist" with Li Jian. Wang won the Golden Phoenix Awards for Best Newcomer with Namiya.
In 2018, Wang starred in the youth adventure drama Eagles and Youngster. The same year, it was announced that he will star in the fantasy animated film L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2.
In 2019, Wang starred in the film Bureau 749 directed by Lu Chuan.
On 1 November 2019, Wang held his first solo concert called Karry's Dream Concert 2019 in Cadillac Center.
Other activities
Wang held the Guinness World Record Holder for having "the most reposted Weibo post" in 2015.
In March 2017, Wang was invited by Nike to take part in the design process of the new Air Max sneakers.
In June, Wang made his walkway debut for fashion house Dolce & Gabbana during the Men's Spring/Summer 2018 fashion shows in Milan.
The same year, Wang became the youngest male celebrity to grace the front cover of Harper's Bazaar and L'Officiel Hommes.
In December 2017, Wang was announced as the global brand ambassador for Swatch. In the same month, it was announced that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will work with Visa China and Wang, to bring to the public tailor-made "Galaxy·Karry Wang" credit card.
On 21 November 2018, Wang severed his ties with Dolce & Gabbana, ultimately ending his role as the ambassador for the brand after the Shanghai event controversy.
In August 2019, he appeared as a special guest with Ashin at Mayday's concert (Mayday 2019 Just Rock It!!!"蓝| BLUE) held at Beijing National Stadium, performing "Onion" with the band.
Social activities
In March 2017, Wang was appointed as one of the "Special Envoy of Youth Action" for "World Life Day", a joint campaign by the United Nations Environment Programme, International Fund for Animal Welfare and The Nature Conservancy.
On his 18th birthday, Wang announced the set up his own charity foundation – "Kindle Blue Fund". Its first project is to build a library for children who lived in the mountain area.
In April 2018, Wang was appointed by United Nations Environment Programme as the UN Environment National Goodwill Ambassador.
In 2019, Wang ranked 12th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list.
In 2020, Wang ranked 10th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list.
Discography
Filmography
Film
Television series
Variety show
Awards and nominations
Forbes China Celebrity 100
References
External links
Wang Junkai's Weibo
1999 births
Living people
Chinese idols
Chinese child singers
Chinese male child actors
Chinese male film actors
Chinese male television actors
Chinese Mandopop singers
21st-century Chinese male actors
Singers from Chongqing
Male actors from Chongqing
21st-century Chinese male singers
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Chicken is a 2015 British drama film directed by Joe Stephenson. It is based on the play of the same name by Freddie Machin.
Plot
The film follows Richard (Scott Chambers), a fifteen-year-old boy with learning difficulties who lives in a shabby caravan with his older brother, Polly. Life for the siblings is harsh, with the engaging, nature-loving teenager yearning for stability. Richard frequently finds himself on the wrong side of Polly's destructive, often violent moods.
Richard finds it easier to communicate with animals – none more so than his beloved hen, Fiona. He forms a strong friendship with rebellious seventeen-year-old Annabel, whose family have recently acquired the farmland on which the brothers live. A growing conflict with the new landowners will lead to a situation that severely tests Richard's natural optimism, as the world of privilege collides with the brothers' precarious, marginalized existence.
In recent adaptations of the film, they removed the section of the film where the disabled kid ate a dead chicken
Cast
Scott Chambers as Richard
Morgan Watkins as Polly
Yasmin Paige as Annabell
Kirsty Besterman as Mrs. Rickson
Stuart Keil as Mr. Rickson
Freddie Machin as Scrap Yard Owner
Gina Bramhill as Tara
Alf Raines as Pub Landlord
Johnny Vercoutre as Pub Customer
Adrian Bouchet as Bill
Rose Williams as Lil
Ben Mars as Kevin
Michael Culkin as McClint
Danny Steele as Electrician
Alex Murphy as Bloodied Man
Release
Chicken had its world premiere on 27 June 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film had its international premiere in competition at the 2015 Busan International Film Festival, followed by screenings at the New Hampshire International Film Festival, Giffoni International Film Festival, Cine A La Vista International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Schlingel International Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival. It eventually received a limited theatrical release in the UK on 20 May 2016.
It was then acquired by MUBI UK, and had its British TV premiere on FilmFour April 2017. It received its DVD and Blu-ray release by Network on 18 September 2017.
Reception
Critical reception
Chicken received positive reviews and holds a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 critic reviews. Leslie Felperin of The Guardian gave the film 3/5 stars and said "first-time director Joe Stephenson elicits lively, empathic performances from his small cast." Mark Kermode rated the film at four out of five stars stating that Scott Chambers' performance is "superb". Anna Smith of Empire magazine gave the film a rating of four stars, responding that the film is "an enjoyable, involving British Drama with and impressive turn from newcomer Scott Chambers. With a three-star rating from Cath Clarke of Time Out, she commented that Chicken is "an impressively acted British Drama about a young man with learning difficulties." CineVue praised the film and mentioned that it is "the sort of British indie which restores faith in cinema".
Accolades
Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature — Joe Stephenson (New Hampshire Film Festival 2015)
Silver Griffoni Award for Best Film - Generation 18+ (2nd Prize) — Joe Stephenson & B Good Picture Company (Giffoni Film Festival 2016)
Award for Best Film — Chicken (Cine A La Vista International Film Festival 2016)
Scott Chamber's performance as Richard got a Special Critic's Circle mention (Dublin International Film Festival 2016)
The film was shortlisted for Best Director (Joe Stephenson) and Best Newcomer (Scott Chambers) by the British Independent Film Awards.
References
External links
2015 films
2015 drama films
British drama films
British independent films
English films
Films set in England
Films about intellectual disability
Films about friendship
Incest in film
2010s English-language films
2010s British films
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"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is a power ballad by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in October 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album Open Up and Say... Ahh!. The band's signature song, it is also their only number-one hit in the US, reaching the top spot on December 24, 1988, for three weeks. It also charted at number 11 on the Mainstream Rock chart. It was a number 13 hit in the UK. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was named number 34 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s", number 100 on their "100 Greatest Love Songs" and number seven on MTV and VH1 "Top 25 Power Ballads". Billboard ranked the song number five on their list of "The 10 Best Poison Songs".
Background and writing
In an interview with VH1's Behind the Music, Bret Michaels said the inspiration for the song came from a night when he was in a laundromat in Dallas waiting for his clothes to dry, and called his girlfriend on a pay phone. Michaels said he heard a male voice in the background and was devastated; he said he went into the laundromat and wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as a result.
Critical reception
Jerry Smith, reviewer of British music newspaper Music Week, described this song as "over-wrought ballad, but it makes a change from their ponderous metal posturing".
Music video
The music video to "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was directed by Marty Callner. It starts out with a forlorn Bret Michaels in bed with a young woman, they both look unhappy. He gets up, does the heavy sigh that is at the start of the song and walks away to play the acoustic guitar, the video then goes into video clips of the band's tour. The same young woman is seen driving a Thunderbird in the rain (two different times), listening to "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" on the car's radio. The video was shot at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and in an empty warehouse nearby. The video ends with Michaels playing the last of the song on his acoustic guitar and walking away.
Legacy
The song has been seen as a glam metal classic, being ranked on multiple "best of" lists.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
All-time charts
Certifications
Cover versions
In early 2013, composer Bret Michaels recorded a duet with the country music singer Loretta Lynn. It can be found on his album Jammin' with Friends. He performed an acoustic version in the episode "Happy Endings" of TV series Revolution.
References
1980s ballads
1988 singles
1988 songs
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Bret Michaels songs
Cashbox number-one singles
Capitol Records singles
Glam metal ballads
Hollywood Records singles
Miley Cyrus songs
Music videos directed by Marty Callner
Poison (American band) songs
Song recordings produced by Tom Werman
Songs about flowers
Songs about heartache
Songs written by Bobby Dall
Songs written by Bret Michaels
Songs written by C.C. DeVille
Songs written by Rikki Rockett
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Max Hansen (tenor)
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Max Hansen (22 December 1897 – 12 November 1961), also known as 'The Little Caruso', was a Danish singer, cabaret artist, actor, and comedian.
Biography
Hansen was born Max Josef Haller in Mannheim, Imperial Germany as an illegitimate child to the Danish actress Eva Haller and a Jewish father, by other sources a Swedish Officer Schürer von Waldheim. He grew up with foster-parents at Munich, where he first appeared at the Cabaret Simplizissimus at the age of 17. In 1914 he moved to Vienna and appeared in several smaller theatres as a singer and comedian.
In 1924, Hansen created the tenor role of Baron Kolomán Zsupán in Gräfin Mariza at Hubert Marischka's Theater an der Wien in Vienna. This production moved to the Metropoltheater in Berlin after 900 performances. In Berlin he founded the Kabarett der Komiker with Paul Morgan and Kurt Robitschek. Hansen was engaged by Max Reinhardt for his revival of Offenbach's La belle Hélène and by Erik Charell for his production of Lehar's The Merry Widow. Hansen's greatest stage success was in creating the role of Leopold the waiter in Ralph Benatzky's operetta-musical The White Horse Inn, a part he also undertook in Richard Oswald's 1926 silent movie.
In 1932, Hansen satirised Adolf Hitler as a homosexual with his song "War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt?" ("Have you ever been in love with me?"), which caused the bitter hate of the Nazis. In contrast, he also parodied the opera and operetta soprano Gitta Alpár (in drag) in a film recording dating from the same year. He returned to Vienna in 1933 and worked again at the Theater an der Wien. In 1936 he met Zarah Leander on a Scandinavian tour and engaged her as his stage partner at Vienna. After the Anschluss that brought Austria to the German Reich in 1938, Hansen emigrated to Denmark, where he founded his own theater at Copenhagen. Richard Tauber had written an operetta 'Franz im Glück' for him, which was due to be performed at the Theater an der Wien in the 1938/39 season; but the Anschluss in March 1938 put paid to that.
In 1951 he returned to Germany and was successful once again singing the role of Leopold the waiter (The White Horse Inn) in Hamburg and at Berlin's Theater am Nollendorfplatz. In 1953 Hansen moved back to Copenhagen, where he died in 1961.
Hansen was married to Austrian actress Lizzi Waldmüller and after 1939 to Britta Hansen. He had four children. His daughter Ann-Mari Max Hansen, born in 1949, and his son Max Hansen Jr., born in 1954, are both actors.
In 2004 the German director Douglas Wolfsperger portrayed Hansen in his documentary "War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt?"
Filmography
References
External links
Max Hansen at cyranos.ch
Pictures of Hansen at Virtual-history.com, accessed 24 June 2011
1897 births
1961 deaths
German expatriates in Austria
German male film actors
20th-century German male opera singers
German male silent film actors
German people of Danish descent
Musicians from Mannheim
20th-century German male actors
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Corazón traicionado
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Corazón traicionado (Betrayed heart) is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Martín Hahn and produced by RCTV. The series stars Yelena Maciel, Cristóbal Lander, Norkys Batista and Caridad Canelón.
Corazón traicionado began airing in Honduras on 14 August 2017. On September 22, 2017, the telenovela debuted in Africa on the channel Eva dubbed in English and Portuguese.
Plot
Lorena García discovers that her husband Guillermo is a hit man who has recently been involved in the attempted assassination of Marco Aurelio Corona, a prestigious lawyer in Caracas. After a failed attempt, Guillermo and his boss kidnap her 5-year-old son and force her to work as a nurse taking care of Marco Aurelio at his family house so that she can kill him if she wanted to see her son again. She comes face to face with Alberto, Marco Aurelio's son, who was her past love when she was a teenager working at his family's country house.
Cast
Main
Yelena Maciel as Lorena García
Cristóbal Lander as Alberto Corona Sotillo
Norkys Batista as Malena Corona Sotillo
Caridad Canelón as Gertrudis Sotillo de Corona
Also starring
Julio Alcázar as Don Lucio Trejo
Aroldo Betancourt as Marco Aurelio Corona
Estefanía López as Carmen Ramírez
Gonzalo Velutini as Claudio Corona
Saúl Marín as Alfonso Valeria
Josette Vidal as Virginia Ramírez
Patricia Amenta as Patricia Santana
Claudio de la Torre as Pablo Miranda
Ángel Casallas as Ricardo Trejo Sotillo
Carmen Alicia Lara as Isabel Miranda
Ángel David Díaz as Guillermo Páez
Oriana Colmenares as María Bonita Echeverri
Milena Santander as Paulina Sotillo de Trejo
Margarita Hernández as María Lourdes Echeverri
Catherina Cardozo as María Balbina Echeverri
Violeta Alemán as Nilda Páez
Juan Carlos Gardié as Pedro Lobo
Mariú Favaro as Norma Ríos
Alejandro Díaz Iacocca as Elvis Trejo Sotillo
Xavier Muñoz as Comisario Omar González
Graziella Mazzone as María Ángeles Echeverri
Luigi Luciano Bonilla Dileonardo as José Pablo Miranda Corona
Fernando E. Márquez Aristiguieta as Ignacio Páez García
Production
In October 2015, it was announced that Martín Hahn was writing a new telenovela to be produced by Radio Caracas Television. Production of Corazón traicionado started on November 23, 2015.
References
External links
Venezuelan telenovelas
RCTV telenovelas
2017 Venezuelan television series debuts
2018 Venezuelan television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
2017 telenovelas
Television shows set in Caracas
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Tsumitoka batsutoka
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is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Keralino Sandorovich.
Awards
31st Yokohama Film Festival
Won: Best Supporting Actress - Sakura Ando
References
2009 films
Films directed by Keralino Sandorovich
Japanese films
2000s Japanese films
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Ujong Blang Beach
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Ujung Blang beach is one of a famous beach in Lhokseumawe. Ujung Blang beach stretch of the river estuary Cunda (kuala cangkoi) covering four region namely Ujung Blang village, Ulee Jalan village, Hagu Barat Laut village, and Hagu Tengah village.
Ujung Blang beach is named after the village where the beach is located. Meaning "Sawan Blang" own in Aceh is "convulsions" ends and means "Blang" means or stretch of farm fields. Because at first, Lhokseumawe region consists of acreage of rice fields, marshes, and vacant land.
Sunrise view in this beach has its own nuances. Visitors are presented a view of the fishing activity a day - a day.
External links
Bappeda Kota Lhokseumawe
Government Lhokseumawe
Facebook Link Kota Lhokseumawe
Beaches of Indonesia
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Xu Zhimo
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Xu Zhimo (, , Mandarin: , 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern Chinese poetry.
Biography
Xu Zhimo has several names. He is best known as (Wu IPA: , Wu pinyin: Zhi Tsymu; Mandarin IPA: , Mandarin pinyin: Xú Zhìmó, Wades-Giles: Hsü Chih-mo), while he is born as (Mandarin pinyin: Xú Zhāngxù) with the courtesy name (Mandarin pinyin: Yǒusēn).
Xu was born in Haining, Zhejiang and graduated from Hangzhou High School, a school known for its fame in Southern China. He married Zhang Youyi in 1915 and proceeded to attend Peiyang University in 1916 (now Tianjin University) to study law. In 1917, he moved to Peking University (PKU) due to the law department of Peiyang University merging into PKU. In 1918, he traveled to the United States to earn his bachelor's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he took up a major in political and social sciences, along with a minor in history. Shortly afterward, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York to pursue a graduate degree in economics and politics in 1919. He left New York in 1921, having found the States "intolerable", to go study in England at King's College, Cambridge, where he fell in love with English Romantic poetry like that of Keats and Shelley. He was also influenced by the French romantic and symbolist poets, some of whose works he translated into Chinese. In 1922 he returned to China and became a leading figure of the modern poetry movement. In 1923, he founded the Crescent Moon Society, a Chinese literary society that was part of the larger New Culture Movement, believing in "art for art's sake" and often engaging in running debates with the "art for politic's sake" (Chinese Communist Party-driven) League of the Left-Wing Writers. When the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China, Xu Zhimo served as one of his oral interpreters. Xu was also renowned for his use of vernacular Chinese; he was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry. He worked as an editor and professor at several schools before his death on 19 November 1931, dying in a plane crash near Tai'an, Shandong while flying on a Stinson Detroiter from Nanjing to Beijing. He left behind four collections of verse and several volumes of translations from various languages.
Love affairs
Xu Zhimo's various love affairs with Zhang Youyi, Lin Huiyin, and Lu Xiaoman are well known in China. Xu married Zhang Youyi, (the sister of the politician Zhang Junmai) on 10 October 1915. This was an arranged marriage that went against Xu's belief in free and simple love. Although Zhang gave birth to two sons, Xu still couldn't accept her. While in London in 1921, Xu met and fell in love with Lin Huiyin (the daughter of Lin Changmin). He divorced Zhang in March 1922. Inspired by this newly found love, Xu wrote a large number of poems during this time. Lin and Xu became close friends. However, she was already betrothed to Liang Sicheng by his father. Xu's last lover was Lu Xiaoman, who was married to Wang Geng, a friend of Xu. The marriage had been arranged by her parents and she felt trapped in this loveless marriage. When Xu and Lu met, they quickly bonded over the similarity of their respective experiences with arranged marriages. When it came to be known that they were in love, both were scorned by their parents and friends. Lu divorced her husband in 1925 and married Xu the next year. Their honeymoon period did not last long however and Lu gradually became more and more depressed. Because Lu was wasteful and Xu's parents refused to lend them money, Xu had to take several jobs in different cities to keep up with the lifestyle Lu desired. She was widowed when Xu died in an airplane crash.
Xu was also romantically linked to American author Pearl S. Buck and American journalist Agnes Smedley.
In an obituary, writer Wen Yuan-ning commented that Xu's "relations with women are exactly like [Percy Bysshe] Shelley's. Let no woman flatter herself that Tse-mo has ever loved her; he has only loved his own inner version of Ideal Beauty."
Airplane crash
On 19 November 1931, Xu Zhimo prepared to leave Nanking to attend a lecture given by Lin Huiyin at a university in Peking. He boarded a China Airways Federal Stinson Detroiter, an aircraft contracted by Chunghwa Post to deliver airmail on the Nanjing-Beijing route. However, when the flight arrived in the Jinan area, the flight encountered severe fog, leaving the pilot with no clear view to land. The plane descended into the mountainous area below unnoticed as both the pilots were looking for the course according to the map. When the aircraft was aiming to turn left to go back to the course again, it hit the peak of a mountain and broke off the right wing. The plane spun out of control and crashed into the mountains near Tai'an City, in Shandong province. Xu Zhimo, who suffered from fatal cerebral trauma and several cuts on his body, was killed instantly as well as one of the two pilots. The first officer however, survived the initial impact, but also perished due to protracted rescue.
The accident was attributed to both pilots' misjudgement of the flight's altitude as well as their failure to recognize the terrain.
However, it was rumoured that the death of Xu Zhimo was murder, but this was confirmed to be untrue.
Cambridge poem
Xu Zhimo's best-known poem is Zaibie Kangqiao (), variously translated into English as "On Leaving Cambridge", "Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again", "Goodbye Again, Cambridge", "Leaving the Revisited Cambridge" etc. To commemorate Xu, in July 2008, a stone of white Beijing marble was installed at the Backs of King's College, Cambridge (near the bridge over the River Cam).
The one used here (by permission) was translated by Guohua Chen and published in the University of Cambridge's 800th anniversary book, and differs from the one quoted in the carvings of the Xu Zhimo Friendship Garden added around the Memorial stone by King's College in 2018.
References
Further reading
"Cambridge college love letter tree cuttings sent to China", BBC News September 2018
Encyclopædia Britannica 2004, 2005 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, article – "Hsü Chih-mo", now available online as Xu Zhimo
Chen, Shan, "Xu Zhimo". Encyclopedia of China, first ed.
"The Late Mr. Hsu Tse-mo: A Child," Wen Yuan-ning and others, Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2018), pp. 45–47.
External links
Xu Zhimo. A Portrait by Kong Kai Ming at Portrait Gallery of Chinese Writers (Hong Kong Baptist University Library).
1897 births
1931 deaths
Republic of China poets
Modern Chinese poetry
Republic of China translators
Hangzhou High School alumni
Columbia University alumni
Clark University alumni
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
National University of Peking alumni
French–Chinese translators
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in China
Tianjin University alumni
Writers from Jiaxing
20th-century Chinese translators
Poets from Zhejiang
20th-century Chinese poets
People from Haining
University of Shanghai alumni
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Sergei Yesenin
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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (; {{OldStyleDate|3 October|1895 21 September – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for "his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhoodno idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation."
Biography
Early life
Sergei Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in Ryazan Governorate of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. His father was Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873–1931), his mother's name was Tatyana Fyodorovna (nee Titova, 1875–1955).
Both his parents spent most of their time looking for work, father in Moscow, mother in Ryazan, so at age two Sergei was moved to the nearby village Matovo, to join Fyodor Alexeyevich and Natalya Yevtikhiyevna Titovs, his relatively well-off maternal grandparents, who essentially raised him.
The Titovs had three grown-up sons, and it was they who were Yesenin's early years' companions. "My uncles taught me horse-riding and swimming, one of them... even employed me as hound-dog, when going out to the ponds hunting ducks," he later remembered. He started to read aged five, and at nine began to write poetry, inspired originally by chastushkas and folklore, provided mostly by the grandmother whom he also remembered as a highly religious woman who used to take him to every single monastery she chose to visit. He had two younger sisters, Yekaterina (1905–1977), and Alexandra (1911–1981).
In 1904 Yesenin joined the Konstantinovo zemstvo school. In 1909 he graduated from it with an honorary certificate, and went on to study in the local secondary parochial school in Spas-Klepiki. From 1910 onwards, he started to write poetry systematically; eight poems dated that year were later included in his 1925 Collected Works. In all, Yesenin wrote around thirty poems during his school years. He compiled them into what was supposed to be his first book which he titled "Bolnye Dumy" (Sick Thoughts) and tried to publish it in 1912 in Ryazan, but failed.
In 1912, with a teacher’s diploma, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader's assistant at Sytin's printing company. The following year he enrolled in Chanyavsky University to study history and philology as an external student, but had to leave it after eighteen months due to lack of funds. In the University he became friends with several aspiring poets, among them Dmitry Semyonovsky, Vasily Nasedkin, Nikolai Kolokolov and Ivan Filipchenko. Yesenin’s first marriage (which lasted three years) was in 1913 to Anna Izryadnova, a co-worker from the publishing house, with whom he had a son, Yuri. 1913 saw Yesenin becoming increasingly interested in Christianity, biblical motives became frequent in his poems. "Grisha, what I am reading at the moment is the Gospel and find a lot of things which for me are new," he wrote to his close childhood friend G. Panfilov. That was also the year when he became involved with the Moscow revolutionary circles: for several months his flat was under secret police surveillance and in September 1913 it was raided and searched.
Life and career
In January 1914, Yesenin's first published poem "Beryoza" (The Birch Tree) appeared in the children's magazine Mirok (Small World). More appearances followed in minor magazines such as Protalinka and Mlechny Put. In December 1914 Yesenin quit work "and gave himself to poetry, writing continually," according to his wife. Around this time he became a member of the Surikov Literary and Music circle.
In 1915, exasperated with the lack of interest in his work in Moscow, Yesenin moved to Petrograd. He arrived at the city on 8 March and the next day met Alexander Blok at his home, to read him poetry. He received a warm welcome and soon became acquainted with fellow-poets Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early literary career, describing him as "a gem of a peasant poet" and his verse as "fresh, pure and resounding", even if "wordy". The same year he joined the Krasa (Beauty) group of peasant poets which included Klyuyev, Gorodetsky, Sergey Klychkov and Alexander Shiryayevets, among others. In his 1925 autobiography Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. It was Klyuyev who introduced Yesenin to the publisher Averyanov, who in early 1916 released his debut poetry collection Radunitsa which featured many of his early spiritual-themed verse. "I would have eagerly relinquished some of my religious poems, large and small, but they make sense as an illustration of poets' progress towards the revolution," he would later write. Yesenin and Klyuyev maintained close and intimate friendship which lasted several years.
Later in 1915, Yesenin became a co-founder of the Krasa literary group and published numerous poems in the Petrograd magazines Russkaya Mysl, Ezhemesyachny Zhurnal, Novy Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, Golos Zhizni and Niva. Among the authors he met later in the year were Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Gumilyov and Anna Akhmatova; he also visited painter Ilya Repin in his Penaty. Yesenin's rise to fame was meteoric; by the end of the year he became the star of St Petersburg's literary circles and salons. "The city took to him with the delight a gourmet reserves for strawberries in winter. A barrage of praise hit him, excessive and often insincere," Maxim Gorky wrote to Romain Rolland.
On 25 March 1916, Yesenin was drafted for military duty and in April joined a medical train based in Tsarskoye Selo, under the command of colonel D.N. Loman. In 22 July 1916, at a special concert attended by the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (the train's patron) and her daughters, Yesenin recited his poems "Rus" and "In Scarlet Fireglow". "The Empress told me my poems were beautiful, but sad. I replied, the same could be said about Russia as a whole," he recalled later. His relationships with Loman soon deteriorated. In October, Yesenin declined the colonel's offer to write (with Klyuyev) and have published a book of pro-monarchist verses, and spent twenty days under arrest as a consequence.
In March 1917, Yesenin was sent to the Warrant Officers School but soon deserted Kerensky's army. In August 1917 (having divorced Izryadnova a year earlier) Yesenin married for a second time, to Zinaida Raikh (later an actress and the wife of Vsevolod Meyerhold). They had two children, a daughter Tatyana and a son Konstantin. The parents subsequently quarreled and lived separately for some time prior to their divorce in 1921. Tatyana became a writer and journalist and Konstantin Yesenin would become a well-known soccer statistician.
Yesenin supported the February Revolution. "If not for [it], I might have withered away on useless religious symbolism," he wrote later. He greeted the rise of the Bolsheviks too. "In the Revolution I was all on the side of the October, even if perceiving everything in my own peculiar way, from a peasant's standpoint," he remembered in his 1925 autobiography. Later he criticized the Bolshevik rule, in such poems as "The Stern October Has Deceived Me". "I feel very sad now, for we are going through such a period in [our] history when human individuality is being destroyed, and the approaching socialism is totally different from the one I was dreaming of," he wrote in an August 1920 letter to his friend Yevgeniya Livshits. "I never joined the RKP, being further to the left than them," he maintained in his 1922 autobiography.
Artistically, the revolutionary years were exciting time for Yesenin. Among the important poems he wrote in 1917–1918 were "Prishestviye" (The Advent), "Preobrazheniye" (Transformation, which gave the title to the 1918 collection), and "Inoniya". In February 1918, after the Sovnarkom issued the "Socialist Homeland is in Danger!" decree-appeal, he joined the esers' military unit. He actively participated in the magazine Nash Put (Our Way), as well as the almanacs Skify (Скифы) and Krasny Zvon (in February his large poem "Marfa Posadnitsa" appeared in one of the latter). In September 1918 Yesenin co-founded (with Andrey Bely, Pyotr Oreshin, Lev Povitsky and Sergey Klychkov) the publishing house Трудовая Артель Художников Слова (the Labor Artel of the Artists of the Word) which reissued (in six books) all that he had written by this time.
In September 1918, Yesenin became friends with Anatoly Marienhof, with whom he founded the Russian literary movement of imaginism. Describing their group's general appeal, he wrote in 1922: "Prostitutes and bandits are our fans. With them, we are pals. Bolsheviks do not like us due to some kind of misunderstanding." In January 1919, Yesenin signed the Imaginists' Manifest. In February he, Marienhof and Vadim Shershenevich, founded the Imaginists' publishing house. Before that, Yesenin became a member of the Moscow Union of Professional Writers and several months later was elected a member of the All-Russian Union of Poets. Two of his books, Kobyliyu Korabli (Mare's Ships) and Klyuchi Marii (The Keys of Mary) came out later that year.
In July–August 1920, Yesenin toured the Russian South, starting in Rostov-on-Don and ending in Tiflis, Georgia. In November 1920, he met Galina Benislavskaya, his future secretary and close friend. Following an anonymous report, he and two of his Imaginist friends, brothers Alexander and Ruben Kusikovs, were arrested by the Cheka in October but released a week later on the solicitation of his friend Yakov Blumkin. In the course of that year, the publication of three of Yesenin's books were refused by publishing house Goslitizdat. His Triptych collection came out through the Skify Publishers in Berlin. Next year saw the collections Confessions of a Hooligan (January) and Treryaditsa (February) published. The drama in verse Pygachov came out in December 1921, to much acclaim.
In May 1921, he visited a friend, the poet Alexander Shiryaevets, in Tashkent, giving poetry readings and making a short trip to Samarkand. In the fall of 1921, while visiting the studio of painter Georgi Yakulov, Yesenin met the Paris-based American dancer Isadora Duncan, a woman 18 years his senior. She knew only a dozen words in Russian, and he spoke no foreign languages. Nevertheless, they married on 2 May 1922. Yesenin accompanied his celebrity wife on a tour of Europe and the United States. His marriage to Duncan was brief and in May 1923, he returned to Moscow. In his 1922 autobiography, Yesenin wrote: "Russia's recent nomadic past does not appeal to me, and I am all for civilization. But I dislike America intensely. America is a stinking place where not just art is being murdered, but with it, all the loftiest aspirations of humankind. If it's America that we are looking up to, as [a model for our] future, then I'd rather stay under our greyish skies... We do not have those skyscrapers that's managed to produce up to date nothing but Rockefeller and McCormick, but here Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and Lermontov were born."
In 1923, Yesenin became romantically involved with the actress Augusta Miklashevskaya to whom he dedicated several poems, among them those of the Hooligan's Love cycle. In the same year, he had a son by the poet Nadezhda Volpina. Alexander Esenin-Volpin grew up to become a poet and a prominent activist in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s. Since 1972, till his death in 2016, he lived in the United States as a famous mathematician and teacher.
As Yesenin's popularity grew, stories began to circulate about his heavy drinking and consequent public outbursts. In autumn 1923, he was arrested in Moscow twice and underwent a series of enquiries from the OGPU secret police. Fellow poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, wrote that, after his return from America, Yesenin became more visible in newspaper police log sections than in poetry.
More serious were the accusations of anti-Semitism against Yesenin and three of his close friends, fellow poets, Sergey Klytchkov, Alexei Ganin and Pyotr Oreshin, made by Lev Sosnovsky, a prominent journalist and close Trotsky associate. The foursome retorted with an open letter in Pravda and, in December, were cleared by the Writers' Union burlaw court. It was later suggested, though, that Yesenin's departure to the Caucasus in the summer of 1924 might have been a direct result of the harassment by the NKVD. Earlier that year, fourteen writers and poets, including his friend Ganin, were arrested as the alleged members of the (apparently fictitious) Order of the Russian Fascists, then tortured and executed in March without trial.
In January–April 1924, Yesenin was arrested and interrogated four times. In February, he entered the Sheremetev hospital, then was moved into the Kremlin clinic in March. Nevertheless, he continued to make public recitals and released several books in the course of the year, including Moskva Kabatskaya. In August 1924 Yesenin and fellow poet Ivan Gruzinov published a letter in Pravda, announcing the end of the Imaginists.
In early 1925, Yesenin met and married Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (1900–1957), a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. In May, what proved to be his final large poem Anna Snegina came out. During the year, he compiled and edited The Works by Yesenin in three volumes which was published by Gosizdat posthumously.
Death
On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. His last poem Goodbye my friend, goodbye (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) according to Wolf Ehrlich was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his blood.
According to his biographers, the poet was in a state of depression and committed suicide by hanging.
After the funeral in Leningrad, Yesenin's body was transported by train to Moscow, where a farewell for relatives and friends of the deceased was also arranged. He was buried 31 December 1925, in Moscow's Vagankovskoye Cemetery. His grave is marked by a white marble sculpture.
A theory exists that Yesenin's death was actually a murder by OGPU agents who staged it to look like suicide. The novel Yesenin published by Vitali Bezrukov is devoted to this version of Yesenin's death. In 2005, a TV serial Sergey Yesenin based on this novel (with Sergey Bezrukov playing Yesenin) was shown on Channel One Russia. Facts tending to support the assassination hypothesis were cited by Stanislav Kunyaev and Sergey Kunyaev in the final chapter of their biography of Yesenin.
Enraged by his death, Mayakovsky composed a poem called To Sergei Yesenin, where the resigned ending of Yesenin's death poem is countered by these verses: "in this life it is not hard to die, / to mold life is more difficult." In a later lecture on Yesenin, he said that the revolution demanded "that we glorify life." However, Mayakovsky himself would commit suicide in 1930.
Cultural impact
Yesenin's suicide triggered an epidemic of copycat suicides by his mostly female fans. For example, Galina Benislavskaya, his ex-girlfriend, killed herself by his graveside in December 1926. Although he was one of Russia's most popular poets and had been given an elaborate state funeral, some of his writings were banned by the Kremlin during the reigns of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikolai Bukharin's criticism of Yesenin contributed significantly to the banning. Only in 1966 were most of his works republished. Today Yesenin's poems are taught to Russian schoolchildren; many have been set to music and recorded as popular songs. His early death, coupled with unsympathetic views by some of the literary elite, adoration by ordinary people, and sensational behavior, all contributed to the enduring and near mythical popular image of the Russian poet.
Ukrainian composer Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko (1919-2005) set several of Yesenin’s poems to music.
Bernd Alois Zimmermann included his poetry in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter (Requiem for a Young Poet), completed in 1969.
The Ryazan State University is named in his honor.
Multilanguage editions
Anna Snegina (Yesenin's poem translated into 12 languages; translated into English by Peter Tempest)
Works
The Scarlet of the Dawn (1910)
The high waters have licked (1910)
The Birch Tree (1913)
Autumn (1914)
Russia (1914)
A Song About a Dog/The B*tch (1915)
I'll glance in the field (1917)
I left the native home (1918)
Hooligan (1919)
Hooligan's Confession (1920) (Italian translation sung by Angelo Branduardi)
I am the last poet of the village (1920)
Prayer for the First Forty Days of the Dead (1920)
I don't pity, don't call, don't cry (1921)
Pugachev (1921)
Land of Scoundrels (1923)
One joy I have left (1923)
A Letter to Mother (1924)
Tavern Moscow (1924)
Confessions of a Hooligan (1924),
A Letter to a Woman (1924),
Desolate and Pale Moonlight (1925)
The Black Man (1925)
To Kachalov's Dog (1925)
Who Am I, What Am I (1925)
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye (1925) (His farewell poem)
References
External links
Collection of Sergey Yesenin's Poems in English:
Sergey Yesenin. Collection of Poems
Sergey Yesenin. Collection of Poems. Bilingual Version
The Fugue Aesthetics of J.H. Stotts: Esenin, Footnotes for a Triptych at blogspot.com (Bio and English translation)
Sergey Yesenin's Autobiography. (English translation)
Biography, photos and poetry (Russian)
Yesenin's poetry (Russian)
Yesenin's museum in Viazma (Russian)
Alexander Novikov sings songs based on Yesenin's poetry (10 songs in WMA format
The Dark Man (English translation)
Farewell My Friend (English translation)
The Poems by Sergey Esenin (English)
1895 births
1925 deaths
1925 suicides
People from Rybnovsky District
People from Ryazan Governorate
Russian male poets
Moscow State University alumni
Suicides by hanging in the Soviet Union
Suicides by hanging in Russia
Former Old Believers
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
20th-century Russian poets
20th-century Russian male writers
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Abraham Hasbrouck may refer to:
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791–1879), US Representative from New York
Abraham E. Hasbrouck, New York assemblyman 1869 and 1870; see 93rd New York State Legislature
Abraham J. Hasbrouck (1773–1845), US Representative from New York
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Mastiff is the third novel in Tamora Pierce's Provost's Dog trilogy, about a young Provost guard-woman in a fantasy kingdom called Tortall. The novel, as with all the Beka Cooper books, is written in first person diary form. The actual diary is said to be written in a mixture of Dog code and Beka's personal code.
Plot Introduction
Three years have passed since Beka Cooper almost died in the sewers of Port Caynn, and she is now a respected member of the Provost's Guard. But her life takes an unexpected turn when her fiancé is killed on a slave raid. Beka is faced with a mixture of emotions as, unbeknownst to many, she was about to call the engagement off.
It is as Beka is facing these feelings that Lord Gershom appears at her door. Within hours, Beka, her partner Tunstall, her scent hound Achoo, and an unusual but powerful mage are working on an extremely secretive case that threatens the future of the Tortallan royal family, and therefore the entire Tortallan government. As Beka delves deeper in the motivations of the criminals she now Hunts, she learns of deep-seated political betrayal and corruption. These are people with power, money, and influence, and they are able to hire the most skilled of mages, well versed in the darkest forms of magic, all of which makes them nearly impossible to identify.
This case—a Hunt that will take her to places she's never been before—will challenge Beka's tracking skills beyond the city walls, as well as her ability to judge exactly whom she can trust with her life and her country's future.
Plot summary
The book opens in the beginning of June 249 H.E. at the funeral of Holborn Staftstall, Beka Cooper's fiancé and a five-year Dog of the Jane Street kennel. All the Dogs realize that Holborn's impetuous nature got him killed in the line of duty. Beka feels guilty both that she wasn't able to influence him to be more careful and that she was on the verge of ending their relationship. Rosto, the Rogue of Corus and friends, takes care of her that evening.
The next morning, Beka's companion Pounce, a constellation in the form of a cat, wakes her before dawn. Lord Gershom, Beka's patron and the Lord Provost of Tortall, comes with the news that she and her scent hound Achoo are needed on a Hunt. Her partner Matthias Tunstall is at the Peregrine Dock, who will join the Hunt. All that is known is that the Hunt calls for utmost secrecy, a small team, and a scent-hound. A mage magics the Peregrine ship to bounce off the waves, allowing for very fast trips; the ride is so rough that all passengers and crew are tied to bunks/part of the ship, and all but a couple crew members are made to sleep. The ship stops at Blue Harbor to pick up Master Farmer Cape, a Provost's mage unknown to Beka and Tunstall.
The group heads to the Summer Palace, indicating the king is involved as the royal family has been in residence there for a week and a half. The palace is heavily damaged, with many people burned, sword hacked, stabbed, and some even found melted. During the attack, the four-year-old Prince Gareth was kidnapped while the king and queen were away for the evening. Both parents are devastated by the events and reveal that King Roger III is at odds with the Chancellor of Mages (and many other mages and lords) over licensing and taxing mages as well as increasing the taxes on his nobles after the bread riots on 247 H.E. Master Farmer indicates that the protection spells of the palace, which the Chancellor came to renew last month, had instead been shredded. The personal mages of the king and queen, Ironwood and Orielle, were unaware of this damage and are further insulted by the presence of Farmer, as he is not a court mage.
Beka finds laundry with the prince's scent on it and she and Achoo track his trail. They arrive at the beach, where Master Farmer shows he has great talents by creating a light within stones with quartz crystals (for use as a torch) and found two ships recently sunk under the water. Master Farmer, Ironwood, and Orielle raise the ships to shore. Beka and Tunstall search the woods nearby, where Achoo finds the prince's scent again, only for it to end at a riverbank, near the remains of several melted people.
Lord Gershom and Master Farmer, accompanied by guards and Pounce, find Beka's group and are relieved to learn the prince didn't go down in the ships. Beka and Tunstall are given horses and they head back to the palace to consult with the king. Rain comes, which was magicked, and weakens the scent trail of the prince. The royals are informed of the progress before everyone heads to bed. Beka awakes to take Achoo out and finds Tunstall and Master Farmer cooking, as most servants are dead and none of the court know how.
Beka and Achoo head back to the beach, to investigate the ships that were raised. Tunstall finds Beka and Achoo at the ships, where they discover that one of the ships was a slave ship. They also discover powerful mages at work.
Tunstall and Beka are sent to Port Caynn; Farmer later joins them and so does the lady knight Sabine of Macayhill (also Tunstall's lover) joins the Hunt, though Tunstall is still in charge. They receive a lead for their hunt from a Birdie and are taken via Peregrine ship to Arenaver. As soon as the group docks, Achoo finds the scent again and the hunt continues into the Marshlands, where trail ends at burned down bridge.
After making camp, they then go into village for help getting across the water. The locals are distrustful, but recommend to hire Ormer to take them across the water, which takes four days. At the other side of the Marshlands, Ormer heads back to the village and Achoo picks up the scent of Prince Gareth again near the burned bridge. The trail leads them to a trap which Farmer disarms.
Achoo leads them into Queensgrace Castle where the cult of the Gentle Mother has a strong following. Beka and Achoo explore while Tunstall and the rest of the Hunt submit to the orders of the Lord of Queensgrace. Beka encounters a few Birdies who help the Hunt, and Beka discovers some of the conspirators and their plan to kill the king, queen, and Prince Gareth in order to place Prince Baird on the throne with the support of the Crown Mages and assorted nobles.
Leaving Queensgrace, Beka finds the four-leafed insignia of the conspiracy on Farmer's bag and begins to fear there must be a traitor in the group within the Hunt. Beka and the team encounter a variety of traps as they continue to track Prince Gareth. Beka, Tunstall, Sabine, and Farmer get kidnapped by some bandits and mages who had taken part in the kidnapping of Prince Gareth, and all are led to Halleburn Castle where the conspiracy is based. Beka and Farmer get tortured for information, while Sabine turns to the cause of the conspiracy with the promise of marrying Prince Baird and keeping Tunstall as a consort. Farmer gets placed in Beka's cell; they orchestrate an escape to find and rescue Prince Gareth, and they make plans to marry when the hunt is over. Beka and Pounce finds Prince Gareth who is being kept as a kitchen slave, then Farmer catches up, and Sabine, Tunstall, and Nomalla the lady knight of Halleburn rejoin the group declaring their loyalty to King Roger III.
The group leaves Halleburn together easily, and then the group splits in the midst of a fight so Beka and Gareth continue on alone. Then, Beka encounters Tunstall alone and discovers his plan to marry Sabine by becoming Lord Provost to King Baird. Beka and Tunstall fight, and Beka wins, keeping Tunstall alive to face the Magistrates for treason. Sabine, Farmer, and Nomalla reveal themselves to Beka having heard his plans and treason, and Sabine ties Tunstall to a tree so he must face the Magistrates. The new group loyal to King Roger III then returns to the place where Achoo guards Prince Gareth. The next morning, an army attacks Halleburn with mages. Farmer had gotten a message to his master: "Halleburn." Farmer determines that the army is on the side of King Roger III, and that Halleburn, Queensgrace, and Aspen Vale are all being sieged to stamp out the rebellion.
The king announces that both Prince Gareth and Beka's wish was for the end of the slave trade, which he has them sign as witnesses a proclamation ending enslavement in Tortall. With children no longer able to be sold into slavery, it should end within two generations, as current slaves pass away.
Characters
Rebakah (Beka) Cooper
The main protagonist of the series, Beka narrates the novel from first-person perspective. A determined, strong young woman in her twenties with icy blue-gray eyes and the ability to communicate with the souls of dead people and dust spinners as part of her service to the Black God of death.
Pounce
Beka's cat who has black fur and unusual purple eyes, Pounce is actually the constellation known as the Cat. He can speak and communicate telepathically when he chooses.
Achoo Curlypaws
Achoo is a loyal scent hound for the Provost's Guard in the Lower City. She and Beka have been partners since the events in Bloodhound, and have come to an understanding beyond the commands taught by Phelan of the Provost's Guard: a mangled form of a language known as ‘Kyprish’, the native tongue of the Copper Isles. Lord Gershom has selected her and Beka to come to the hunt.
Matthias (Mattes) Tunstall
The partner of Beka and Achoo. Mattes was one of Beka’s old training partners during her Puppyhood in Terrier. He is six feet and three inches tall, and Beka describes him as prickly and having an owlish look. Throughout the book, Lady Sabine of Macayhill is his lover. Lord Gershom has selected him to join the Hunt for Prince Gareth.
Farmer Cape
A mage of prodigious skill, Farmer hides the bulk of his magical ability by acting silly and untrained. Farmer works for the Provost's Guard in Blue Harbor as a mage. Lord Gershom has selected him to join the Hunt for Prince Gareth. Farmer develops a strong attraction to Beka, and then learns to love her as the story progresses. They end up engaged at the end, much to the horror of Rosto and the glee of Aniki and Kora.
Lady Sabine of Macayhill
A lady knight of Tortall, Sabine is an experienced warrior and a true knight. A lady of noble birth, she is related by blood or marriage to most noble households in Tortall. Lord Gershom has selected her to join the Hunt for Prince Gareth.
Lord Gershom of Haryse
A nobleman and the Lord Provost of Tortall under King Roger III of Conté, who trusts him explicitly. Lord Gershom is also Beka's patron and adoptive father. He is in charge of the hunt for Prince Gareth.
King Roger III of Conté
The current king of Tortall in the time of Beka. King Roger III is in his forties, and was known as "Randy Roger" during the time of his first marriage to Princess Alysy of Gala for his philandering. He has changed his ways since his marriage to Princess Jessamine of Barzun, and thanks to her has begun taking an interest in the running of his country. He dotes on his young, beautiful wife and their son Prince Gareth.
Queen Jessamine of Conté
The current queen consort of Tortall in the time of Beka, Queen Jessamine is in her twenties and is known for being a great beauty. A kind mother, Queen Jessamine adores her only son Prince Gareth and her husband King Roger III. She takes an active interest in the politics and governance of Tortall and encouraged her husband to do the same.
Crown Prince Gareth of Conté
A young lad of four, Prince Gareth is the heir to the throne of Tortall. He has blond hair, pale and tender skin, and a gentle demeanor.
Clara (Clary) Goodwin
Beka’s watch Sergeant. Replaced Kebibi Ahuda.
References
2011 American novels
2011 fantasy novels
American fantasy novels
Tortallan books
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride is a 1940 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Winston Miller, based on a story by Betty Burbridge and Connie Lee, the film is about a singing cowboy who inherits a meat-packing plant and must face stiff competition from a beautiful business rival.
Plot
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) work on a ranch owned by Ann Randolph (June Storey). Gene is unaware that he has just inherited the Belmont Packing Company. While Gene and Frog take the cattle to market, Gene has an argument with Ann who fires them both, giving them one of the steers as back pay. Later the local sheriff, seeing a Randolph steer in the possession of the two cowboys, arrests Gene and Frog on suspicion of cattle rustling. Attorney Henry Walker (Forbes Murray), who has been searching for the singing cowboy, finally locates Gene at the jail and informs him of his inheritance.
After being released from jail, Gene takes possession of the Belmont Packing Company. Ann, who owns a rival packing company, had plans to merge the two companies under her ownership. Now she is dismayed to learn that the man she just fired is now her main business competitor. Ann's conniving general manager and fiancé, Donald Gregory (Warren Hull), convinces her to feign romantic interest in Gene and sweet talk him into selling his company to her. At first the plan appears to work, and Gene agrees to Ann's offer and signs a contract of sale. Later, when he learns that Gregory plans to close the plant putting all his employees out of work, Gene tears up the contract and decides to stay in the packing business.
Gene soon learns that his biggest business challenge is having enough cattle to fill the distribution demands. He initiates a campaign to convince the ranchers to sell their stock to his Belmont Packing Company, and soon the contracts start coming in. Ann responds with her own campaign, however, appealing to ranchers with a "helpless woman" routine. When he notices her success, Gene changes tactics and starts a new campaign, singing to the ranchers and organizing parades in an effort to win their business, and the campaign succeeds.
Unable to compete with legitimate business approaches, Gregory orders his men to use violence to stop the singing cowboy. Ann's little sister Patsy (Mary Lee), who has a crush on Gene, overhears Gregory's men plotting to dynamite the dam and flood the valley. After she warns Gene of Gregory's scheme, Gene rides off and intercepts Gregory's henchmen before they can plant their explosives. Soon after, Gregory is indicted for sabotage, and Gene and Ann form a business alliance as well as a romantic relationship.
Cast
Gene Autry as Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
June Storey as Ann Randolph
Mary Lee as Patsy Randolph
Warren Hull as Donald Gregory
Forbes Murray as Attorney Henry Walker
Joe McGuinn as Henchman Martin
Joe Frisco as Haberdasher
Isabel Randolph as Miss Spencer
Herbert Clifton as Butler Andrews
Mildred Shay as Stewardess
Si Jenks as Sheriff
Cindy Walker as Singer with The Pacemakers
The Pacemakers as Singers
Slim Whitaker as Rancher (uncredited)
Champion as Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Production
Filming and budget
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride was filmed June 28 to July 12, 1940. The film had an operating budget of $74,965 (equal to $ today), and a negative cost of $74,443.
Stuntwork
Joe Yrigoyen (Gene Autry's stunt double)
Jack Kirk (Smiley Burnette's stunt double)
Nellie Walker (June Storey's stunt double)
Filming locations
Chatsworth Railroad Station, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Corriganville Movie Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA
Agoura Ranch
Lake Hemet, Riverside County, California, USA
Palmdale, California, USA
Soundtrack
"Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) by Mary Lee
"Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride" by Gene Autry, Mary Lee, and June Storey
"When the Work's All Done This Fall" (D.J. O'Malley) by Gene Autry
"Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" (Fred Hall, Arthur Fields) by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette in jail
"Woodpecker Song" (Eldo Di Lazzaro, Bruno Cherubini, Harold Adamson) by Gene Autry and Mary Lee
"That Was Me by the Sea" (Smiley Burnette) by Smiley Burnette
"Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail" (Charles Kenny, Nick Kenny) by Gene Autry
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin) by Cindy Walker, Mary Lee with The Pacemakers and Others
"On the Range" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin) by Gene Autry and Cowhands
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
1940 films
1940 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Republic Pictures films
Films scored by Raoul Kraushaar
Films directed by Frank McDonald
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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The 2018 season was the New England Patriots' 49th in the National Football League (NFL), their 59th overall and their 19th under head coach Bill Belichick. The Patriots entered the season as two-time defending AFC champions.
The Patriots' losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions in Week 2 and 3 marked the franchise's first back-to-back double-digit losses since 2002. After this slow 1–2 start, the Patriots improved to 7–2 after Week 9. Following a notable Week 14 loss to the Miami Dolphins, the Patriots could not match their 13–3 record from 2017. A defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15 meant the Patriots had lost five games for the first time since 2009. After a win over the Buffalo Bills in Week 16, the Patriots clinched the AFC East for the tenth consecutive season, surpassing the Dallas Cowboys (1975–1983) and the Indianapolis Colts (2002–2010) for the most consecutive playoff appearances. New England went undefeated at home with a Week 17 win over the New York Jets in which they clinched a first-round bye, and wrapped up the regular season with an 11–5 record that gave them the AFC's 2nd seed in the postseason. Despite their five losses, the team achieved the rare distinction of going unbeaten against teams that qualified for the playoffs.
The 2018 Patriots became the second team ever in the four major American sports leagues to win at least 10 straight division titles, joining Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves (1991–2005, excluding the strike-shortened 1994 season). The Patriots also secured their 16th-straight 10-win season, tying the San Francisco 49ers' league record streak, set from 1983–98. Notable records set during the season include QB Tom Brady achieving the record for most career passing touchdowns (including playoffs).
In the playoffs, the Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Chargers in the Divisional round, 41–28, to advance to the AFC Championship game for a record eighth straight season. The Patriots defeated the Chiefs, 37–31 in overtime, to advance to the Super Bowl for a third straight year, becoming only the third team in NFL history to appear in three or more consecutive Super Bowls (joining the 1971–73 Miami Dolphins and 1990–93 Buffalo Bills). In Super Bowl LIII, they faced the Los Angeles Rams in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI, in which the Patriots defeated the then-St. Louis Rams 20–17. The Patriots won the rematch as well by a score of 13–3 to win their sixth Super Bowl, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl championships in NFL history.
As of 2022, this is the last time the Patriots appeared in the Divisional Round.
Offseason
On February 5, 2018, the Detroit Lions hired Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia to serve as head coach.
On February 6, the Indianapolis Colts announced hiring Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as their new head coach. The next day, McDaniels abruptly rejected the offer citing personal reasons, and decided to stay a part of the Patriots' organization. The controversy surrounding this decision led McDaniels' then-agent Bob LaMonte to terminate their professional relationship.
Roster changes
Free agents
Unrestricted
Restricted
Signings
Released/Waived
Retirements
Trades
On March 10, the Patriots traded their 2019 third-round selection to the Cleveland Browns for defensive tackle Danny Shelton and Cleveland's 2018 fifth-round selection (No. 159 overall).
On March 15, the Patriots traded their 2018 sixth-round selection (No. 205) to the Cleveland Browns for cornerback Jason McCourty and Cleveland's 2018 seventh-round selection (No. 219 overall).
On March 18, the Patriots traded their 2018 fifth-round selection (No. 159) to the Oakland Raiders for wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson and a 2018 sixth-round selection (No. 210 overall).
On April 3, the Patriots traded wide receiver Brandin Cooks and their 2018 fourth-round selection (No. 136) to the Los Angeles Rams for their first-round (No. 23) and sixth-round (No. 198) selections.
On April 28, the Patriots traded their third-round selection (95th overall) to San Francisco in exchange for San Francisco's fifth-round selection (143rd overall) and offensive tackle Trent Brown.
On August 31, the Patriots traded safety Jordan Richards to the Atlanta Falcons for a 2020 conditional seventh-round pick.
On September 17, the Patriots traded a conditional fifth-round selection to the Cleveland Browns for wide receiver Josh Gordon.
Draft
Draft trades
The Patriots traded Brandin Cooks and their fourth-round selection (136th overall) to Los Angeles in exchange for their 23rd and sixth-round (No. 198) selections.
The Patriots traded quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to San Francisco in exchange for San Francisco's second-round selection (43rd overall).
The Patriots traded their second-round selection (43rd overall) to Detroit in exchange for Detroit's second and fourth-round selections (51st and 117th overall).
The Patriots traded their second-round selection (51st overall) to Chicago in exchange for Chicago's fourth-round selection (105th overall) and their 2019 second-round selection.
The Patriots traded their second and fourth-round selections (63rd and 117th overall) to Tampa Bay in exchange for Tampa Bay's second-round selection (56th overall).
The Patriots traded their third-round selection (95th overall) to San Francisco in exchange for San Francisco's fifth-round selection (143rd overall) and offensive tackle Trent Brown.
The Patriots traded their fourth-round selection (105th overall) to Cleveland in exchange for Cleveland's fourth and sixth-round selections (114th and 178th overall).
The Patriots traded their fourth-round selection (114th overall) to Detroit in exchange for Detroit's 2019 third-round selection.
The Patriots traded their fourth-round selection (131st overall) to Philadelphia in exchange for cornerback Eric Rowe.
The Patriots traded the fifth-round selection they acquired from Cleveland (131st overall) to Oakland in exchange for Oakland's sixth-round selection (210th overall) and wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.
The Patriots traded their third-round selection in 2019 to Cleveland in exchange for Cleveland's fifth-round selection (159th overall) and defensive tackle Danny Shelton.
The Patriots traded their fifth- and seventh-round selections (168th and 270th overall) to Seattle in exchange for defensive end Cassius Marsh.
The Patriots traded their sixth-round selection (198th overall) to Kansas City in exchange for Kansas City's seventh-round selections (233rd and 243rd overall).
The Patriots traded their sixth-round selection (205th overall) to Cleveland in exchange for Cleveland's seventh-round selection (219th overall) and cornerback Jason McCourty.
The Patriots traded their seventh-round selection (233rd overall) to Philadelphia in exchange for Philadelphia's seventh-round selection (250th overall) and their 2019 seventh-round selection.
The Patriots traded their seventh-round selection (249th overall) to Cincinnati in exchange for linebacker Marquis Flowers.
The Patriots traded cornerback Justin Coleman to Seattle in exchange for Seattle's seventh-round selection they acquired from Philadelphia (250th overall).
Undrafted Free Agents
Suspensions
Wide receiver Julian Edelman was suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances. Edelman, who missed the entire 2017 season due to a torn ACL suffered during the preseason, unsuccessfully appealed the suspension, and returned to the Patriots' roster for the team's Week 5 Thursday Night game vs. the Indianapolis Colts on October 4.
On December 20, 2018, Wide receiver Josh Gordon was suspended indefinitely for violating the terms of his reinstatement under the league's substance abuse policy. This is the second time Gordon was suspended indefinitely by the league.
Staff
Final roster
Preseason
Regular season
Schedule
The Patriots' schedule was announced on April 19.
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Game summaries
Week 1: vs. Houston Texans
With the win, the Patriots started 1–0.
Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars
The Patriots faced the Jaguars in a rematch of the previous season's AFC Championship Game. The Patriots started off well, reaching Jaguars territory in just four plays, but the drive stalled, and Stephen Gostkowski missed a 54-yard field goal attempt. With great field position, the Jaguars raced 56 yards in 9 plays, scoring on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Blake Bortles to Donte Moncrief for the early lead. After a three-and-out, Patriots' punter Ryan Allen pinned the Jaguars back at their own 16-yard line. The Jaguars took the ball and cashed in, marching 84 yards on just 7 plays, with Bortles hitting Keelan Cole on a 24-yard touchdown pass, extending the Jags lead to 14–0. After stopping the Jaguars early in the second quarter, the Patriots drove 83 yards in over 8 minutes, but were forced to settle for a 29-yard field goal, trimming the deficit to 14–3. However, the Patriots defense was gashed again, with the Jags racing 75 yards, concluding with Bortles 4-yard touchdown pass to Austin Seferian-Jenkins and a 21–3 Jaguars lead with 0:09 seconds remaining in the half. The Jags started right where they left off, taking the opening drive of the second half all the way to the Patriots 10, but were held to a 28-yard field goal by Josh Lambo. After another Patriots punt, Bottles hit D. J. Chark for a 13-yard gain to the Jaguars 49, but Stephon Gilmore forced him to fumble with Duron Harmon recovering at the Jags 46. With the excellent field position, the Patriots finally reached the endzone with Brady finding Chris Hogan for a 7-yard touchdown pass to cap off the 46-yard drive, trimming the deficit to 24–10. After a Jaguars three-and-out, the Patriots drove all the way to the Jags 28, but settled for a 46-yard field goal, making the score just 24–13. Bortles made his only real mistake on the next drive, throwing an interception to Kyle Van Noy at the Jags 25 early in the fourth quarter. The Patriots were set up perfectly, it appeared to be a vintage Brady comeback, but on 3rd down, Dante Fowler stripped Brady and recovered the resultant fumble at the Jags 32. The Patriots forced a Jaguars punt and had another shot, but went three-and-out. On the next play from scrimmage for Jacksonville, Bottles hit Dede Westbrook for a 61-yard touchdown pass, extending the lead to 31–13. The Patriots marched 75 yards in 8 plays on their next drive with Brady connecting with Hogan again for a 29-yard touchdown pass, making the score 31–20; however, by now less than 4 minutes remained in the game. The Jags ran out the rest of the clock to win the game, their first ever regular season victory over the Pats, while the Patriots fell to 1–1.
Week 3: at Detroit Lions
After a Patriots three-and-out opened the game, the Lions marched 65 yards in 12 plays, taking over 7 minutes off the clock and facing only one 3rd down before settling for a 38-yard field goal by Matt Prater. After another Patriots three-and-out and set up with good field position, the Lions marched 60 yards in over 5 minutes to score on a 4-yard pass from Matthew Stafford to Kenny Golladay. Stafford completed all 5 pass attempts on the drive for 44 yards and the Lions didn't even face a 3rd down. The Patriots offense continued to appear lifeless with another three-and-out. Meanwhile, the Lions' efficiency shined again by slowly moving 71 yards, converting three 3rd downs and eating over seven more minutes off the clock, before settling for a 25-yard field goal, upping the Lions lead to 13–0. After 9 plays for 13 yards on their first three drives combined, the Patriots marched 57 yards to the Lions' 18, settling for a 36-yard field goal and trailed 13–3 at halftime. On 3rd down, just over a minute into the third quarter, Stafford was intercepted by linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley at the Patriots 48. The Patriots look excellent on their next drive, racing 52 yards in just 7 plays with Brady hitting James White for a 10-yard touchdown, trimming the deficit to 13–10. The Lions continued their clock-draining game plan on their next drive, tracking 75 yards in over six minutes and converting three 3rd downs before Stafford bombed Marvin Jones Jr. for a 33-yard touchdown, pushing the score to 20–10 late in the 3rd quarter. After a Patriots' punt, the Lions drove all the way to the Patriots' 14, but settled for a 32-yard field goal, increasing their lead to 23–10 a few minutes into the fourth quarter. Two possessions later, from the Patriots' 43, Brady heaved a desperation pass that was intercepted by Darius Slay, who returned it 34 yards to the Lions' 49, but an illegal block penalty sent the ball back to the 19. After a Lions' punt, the Patriots turned the ball over on downs. The Lions closed out the scoring with a 30-yard field goal, making the final score 26–10. The Patriots drove to the Lions' 40, but the clock expired.
With the loss (their first to Detroit since the 2000 season), the Patriots fell to 1–2 for the first time since the 2012 season. The Lions were able to blanket the Patriots' receivers, stifling the Patriots' offense. The Lions had an excellent balanced attack with 159 yards rushing to go along with 255 yards passing from Stafford. The Patriots newest acquisition, superstar wide receiver Josh Gordon, was inactive for the game. Ironically, the Patriots' last loss to the Lions in 2000 was also Tom Brady's first ever NFL game, where he only appeared in the final seconds and completed one-of-three passes for 6 yards in a 34–9 loss.
Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins
After taking the opening kickoff, a 22-yard pass from Ryan Tannehill to Kenny Stills helped the Dolphins reach midfield. On 2nd-and-7 from midfield, Dolphins offensive lineman Daniel Kilgore was flagged for holding, killing the drive, and the Dolphins punted. Starting at their own 24, the Patriots reached as far as the Dolphins 1-yard line, but were forced to settle for a 20-yard field goal and a 3–0 lead. After a Dolphins punt, the Patriots gave it right back when Brady was intercepted at the Dolphins 36 by Bobby McCain. The Dolphins went three-and-out, but the Patriots drove 67 yards to score on Brady's 55-yard touchdown pass to Cordarrelle Patterson, extending the Patriots lead to 10–0. Both teams punted on their next drive, but midway through the 2nd quarter, Tannehill fumbled the snap with Kyle Van Noy recovering for the Patriots at the Dolphins 22. On the very next play, James White scampered to the end zone on a 22-yard run, giving the Patriots a 17–0 lead which was their largest of the season to this point. The Dolphins offense continued to go in reverse on another three-and-out. The Patriots responded by converting four 3rd downs on a 15-play, 85-yard drive, scoring with Brady's 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Phillip Dorsett to go up 24–0 with 0:17 seconds remaining in the first half. After both teams punted on their initial second-half possession, the Patriots marched 59 yards in just over five minutes, with Brady capping off another touchdown drive with his 14-yard touchdown pass to White, blowing the game open with a 31–0 lead. The Dolphins reached the Patriots 45 on their next possession, but Tannehill's desperation pass was intercepted at the 10-yard line by J. C. Jackson. The Patriots hot streak continued with a 12 play, 90-yard drive, scoring on a 12-yard touchdown run from rookie running back Sony Michel, his first career rushing touchdown. After yet another three-and-out from the Dolphins, the Patriots drove to the Dolphins 32, but Brady was intercepted at the Dolphins 14 by Minkah Fitzpatrick who returned it 11 yards to the Dolphins 25. With Tannehill pulled from the game, old Patriots' nemesis Brock Osweiler led the Dolphins 75 yards in 7:30, scoring on his 6-yard touchdown pass to Frank Gore, making the score 38–7 with less than three minutes remaining in the game. The Patriots ran the rest of the clock out to end the game. With the exception of the two turnovers, the Patriots dominated the Dolphins in every aspect of the game, outgaining them 446–172 and holding the ball for 14 minutes longer. Tom Brady threw for 274 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. Michel had his best game of the season to date with 25 carries for 112 yards and a touchdown. White had the best day overall with 16 touches for 112 total yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns. The Patriots avoided a 3-game losing streak for the first time since 2002 or a 1–3 start for the first time since their 2001 Super Bowl-winning season.
Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts
The Patriots faced the Colts on Thursday Night Football, with Brady hoping to remain undefeated against Andrew Luck.
The Patriots took the opening kickoff and marched 75 yards in over 6 minutes, scoring on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to Cordarrelle Patterson for the early lead. The next possession ended in a punt for both teams, but on the Colts' second possession, they drove from their own 6 to the Patriots 20, but ageless wonder Adam Vinatieri missed a 38-yard field goal attempt off the left upright. The Patriots took advantage off the missed opportunity and raced 72 yards to score on Brady's 1-yard touchdown run, extending the Patriots' lead to 14–0 early in the second quarter. The Colts drove to the Patriots 36 on their next drive and Vinatieri redeemed himself with a 54-yard field goal. After both teams punted on their resultant drive, the Patriots raced 68 yards to score on a 6-yard touchdown pass from Brady to James White for a 21–3 lead. Following this, Luck was intercepted at the Patriots 49 by Patrick Chung who returned it 2 yards to the 49 of the Colts with less than a minute remaining in the first half. With the excellent field position, the Patriots reached the Colts' 27 and took a commanding 24–3 lead into halftime after a 45-yard field goal from placekicker Stephen Gostkowski. Early in the third quarter, Chester Rogers returned a punt from Ryan Allen 33 yards to Patriots 35. It took the Colts just 4 plays to score on a 14-yard pass from Luck to Eric Ebron, trimming the deficit to 24–10. The Patriots drove to the Colts 30 on their next drive, but Matthias Farley intercepted Brady's pass at the 23 and returned it 7 yards to the Colts' 30. But four plays later, Jordan Wilkins fumbled after a 9-yard catch with Devin McCourty recovering for the Patriots at midfield. The Patriots drove to the Colts' 25, but the turnover streak continued when Brady was intercepted at the Colts' 4 by Najee Goode who returned it 16 yards to the Colts' 20. The Colts proceeded to drive 80 yards in 10 plays with Luck finding Erik Swoope for a 13-yard touchdown pass, trimming the Patriots' lead to a thin 24–17 early in the fourth quarter. However, any hope for a Colts comeback died when the Patriots marched 75 yards to score on a 34-yard touchdown bomb from Brady to Josh Gordon, widening the Patriots lead to 31–17. Any chance of a miraculous comeback died on the Colts' next drive when Luck was intercepted at the Patriots 38 by Jonathan Jones who returned it 28 yards to the Colts' 34. On the very next play, Sony Michel scored on a 34-yard touchdown burst, putting the game out of reach with a 38–17 Patriots lead. The Colts turned the ball over on downs on their next drive, but after forcing the Patriots to punt, marched 60 yards to score on Luck's 1-yard touchdown pass to Ebron. The Patriots ran out the rest of the clock to win the game 38–24.
Tom Brady completed 34/44 passes for 341 yards and 3 TDs but threw 2 interceptions while Michel ran the ball 18 times for 98 yards and a touchdown. Andrew Luck threw for 365 yards and 3 TDs but threw 2 costly interceptions.
Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs
With the win, the Patriots improved to 4–2.
Week 7: at Chicago Bears
With the win, the Patriots improved to 5–2.
Week 8: at Buffalo Bills
With the win, the Patriots improved to 6–2. Devin McCourty's interception return marked the first defensive touchdown for the Patriots since the 2015 season, breaking a league-leading 40-game drought.
Week 9: vs. Green Bay Packers
Rematch between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady. With the win, the Patriots improved to 7–2. This was the first game of the season where the Patriots defense did not record an interception, after recording at least one in each of their first eight games.
Week 10: at Tennessee Titans
This was the Pats' first loss to Tennessee in 16 years; coincidentally, it was also at Nissan Stadium (then known as Adelphia Coliseum). The blowout loss ended the Pats' six-game winning streak as they fell to 7–3. It was also the Pats’ first time meeting with former players Malcolm Butler and Dion Lewis since leaving the Pats to join the Titans in free agency.
Week 12: at New York Jets
With the win, the Patriots improved to 8–3.
Week 13: vs. Minnesota Vikings
With the win, the Patriots improved to 9–3.
Week 14: at Miami Dolphins
The Patriots lost to the Dolphins on a last second lateral at the end of regulation. With the heartbreaking loss, the Patriots fell to 9–4 for the first time since 2006.
Week 15: at Pittsburgh Steelers
This was the Pats' first loss to Pittsburgh for the first time since 2011 with a final score of 10–17. With the loss, the Patriots fell to 9–5 for the first time since 2008.
Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills
After receiver Josh Gordon left the team and was later suspended, the Patriots relied on their run game and defense against Buffalo. The Pats clinched their 10th straight AFC East title with the win (though in the event of a loss to Buffalo, Miami's loss to Jacksonville also would've clinched the division for New England), improving their record to 10–5, and for the second time this season, denied a 3-game losing streak for the first time since 2002. With the Houston Texans' loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Patriots moved to the #2 seed in the AFC, and would have the chance to secure a playoff bye with a win in the following week's game. Tom Brady eclipsed 4,000 yards at the same time as Philip Rivers, becoming the third and fourth quarterback in NFL history to reach 4,000 yards in 10 seasons or more, joining Peyton Manning & Drew Brees.
Week 17: vs. New York Jets
The Pats finish the 2018 season undefeated at home, and an 11–5 record overall, their first in 10 years and with the win, the Patriots clinched a 1st round bye for the 9th straight year.
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Schedule
Game summaries
AFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. (5) Los Angeles Chargers
AFC Championship: at (1) Kansas City Chiefs
Super Bowl LIII: vs. (N2) Los Angeles Rams
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The Christmas Is Here Tour (stylized Christmas Is Here! Tour) was the eighth concert tour by American a cappella group Pentatonix to promote their seventh studio album, Christmas Is Here!. The tour began on November 25, 2018 in Grand Prairie, and concluded on December 22, 2018 in New York City.
Background and development
On September 20, 2018, the group announced they were releasing Christmas Is Here!. With announcement was a limited 17 date tour.
A review of the Sugar Land performance stated "People could not stop cheering for the a cappella group. Pentatonix brought Christmas to life in November."
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Collonges-la-Rouge (, literally Collonges the Red; ) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.
History
The monks of Charroux Abbey founded a priory in the 8th century which attracted a population of peasants, craftsmen and tradesmen who lived and prospered around its fortified walls. The welcoming of pilgrims for Compostelle through Rocamadour was a lasting source of profit. In 1308, the viscount of Turenne granted the village a right to high, medium and low jurisdiction, permitting it to govern the birth of lineages of prosecutors, lawyers and notaries. The enclosure soon became too small to contain the entire population, and faubourgs were created. Following the French wars of religion, the reconstruction of the nobility's fortune coincided with the viscount's rise in power.
After selling the viscounty in 1738, and after the French Revolution which caused the destruction of the priory buildings, the village regained a short-lasting prosperity at the beginning of the 19th century. Later on, its population slowly decreased and the village was transformed into a stone quarry.
At the beginning of the 20th century, some villagers created the association Les Amis de Collonges (The Friends of Collonges) and eventually obtained the classification of the entire village as a historical monument in 1942.
Population
Its inhabitants are called Collongeois.
Sights
Collonges-la-Rouge is entirely built with red sandstone. Its existence is proven since the 8th century thanks to the donation of the count of Limoges of the parish to the monastery of Charroux.
The village is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) association, and is actually where this association was created. It is one of the most visited sites in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Civil architecture
The marketplaces date back to the 16th and 17th centuries, and the covered passage is listed as a historical monument.
Houses
Maison de la Sirène, possesses a vaulted porch and dates back to the 16th century. It belonged to Henry de Jouvenel, one of writer Colette's husbands. It is listed as a historical monument. A 3 franc postage stamp representing the Maison de la Sirène was issued on July 3, 1982
A priory, built in the 16th century, has been a historical monument since July 4, 1951 for its facade with balcony and its roof
the ancient sisters' house, built in the 16th century, has been a historical monument since July 4, 1951. Rue de la Barrière (Barrière Street)
16th-century Bonyt house is a historical monument for its facade, roof and spiral staircase;
Boutang du Peyrat house, with parts from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, is a historical monument. The protected elements are a window with preserved Louis XIII woodwork, a 17th-century entrance door, a wooden chimney, its facade and roof
16th-century Julliot house is a historical monument for its facade, roof and entrance stairs
Dey house is a historical monument
A 16th- and 18th-century house on the Place de la Halle is a historical monument for its facade, loggia, and roof
Poignet house has a 17th-century window listed as a historical monument.
Salvant et Vallat house is also a historical monument.
Official buildings
The ancient court of the Châtellerie (16th century) has been a historical monument since December 13, 1978
The ancient town hall (with parts from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries) has its facade, roof, and stone chimney listed as national monuments since January 4, 1951
Castles, hotels and noble houses
Manoir de Vassinhac (14th and 16th centuries), with elements of fortifications, is a historical monument
Château or hôtel du Friac or de Beaurival (hôtel de Beaurival), 15th century, is a historical monument since December 17, 1926
Château de Benge, with parts from the 16th and 18th centuries, was listed as a historical monument by the orders of September 23, 1953 and March 18, 1954
Castel Maussac, 15th and 16th centuries, has been a historical monument since December 17, 1926
Château du Breuil
Château du Martret, with parts from the 16th and 19th centuries, is a historical monument
Manoir de Beauvirie, 16th century, is a historical monument
Château de Beauregard, 15th century, has been a historical monument since December 17, 1926
Military architecture
The fortified wall dates back to the 14th century. The doors of the ancient priory and of the church are both listed as historical monuments.
Religious art
The Saint-Pierre church, dating from the 11th, 12th and 15th centuries, with its romance curved steeple (one of the oldest of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region), was fortified during the 16th-century French wars of religion. Its remarkable gates are decorated with a 12th-century tympanum carved in white stone (contrasting with the red stone of the rest of the village), representing the ascension of Christ dominating his mother and the 11 apostles. It was hidden during the wars of religion and only replaced in 1923.
The main altar, painted in blue and gold, is composed of a 19th-century altar, a partly 17th-century tier, an 18th-century tabernacle, and an altarpiece reconstructed in the 19th century with elements two centuries older. It was listed as a national treasure and restored in 1984-1985.
The altar (wooden and painted in gold) of the southern chapel represents the Passion and dates back to the end of the 17th century. It is also listed as a historical monument.
The wooden fence of the chapel, with a central turnstile, dating back around the turn of the 18th century, is decorated with coquilles, volutes and sculpted acanthus leaves. It is listed.
The 16th-century wooden statue of Christ, was discovered in 1971. It is a historical monument, with two other statues of the Virgin Mary, from the 17th or 18th century. A wooden Christ on the cross dates back to the 17th century, and is listed. The whole church has been a historical monument since 4 April 1905.
See also
Communes of the Corrèze department
References
Communes of Corrèze
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Leo V the Armenian (, Leōn ho ex Armenias; 775 – 25 December 820) was Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 813 to 820. A senior general, he forced his predecessor, Michael I Rangabe, to abdicate and assumed the throne. He ended the decade-long war with the Bulgars, and initiated the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He was assassinated by supporters of Michael the Amorian, one of his most trusted generals, who succeeded him on the throne.
Life
Leo was the son of the patrician Bardas, who was of Armenian descent (according to Theophanes Continuatus, Leo was also of Assyrian that is Syrian descent). Leo served in 803 under the rebel general Bardanes Tourkos, whom he deserted in favor of Emperor Nikephoros I. The Emperor rewarded Leo with two palaces, but later exiled him for marrying the daughter of another rebel, the patrician Arsaber. On the other hand, a contemporary source says that one general Leo of the Armeniakon theme was punished for his humiliating defeat by the Arabs during which he also lost the salaries of his thematic units (a modern scholar suggests that this Leo is not the same as the emperor). Punishment also included deprivation of his military rank, beating and hair cutting.
Reign
Recalled by Michael I Rangabe in 811, Leo became governor of the Anatolic theme and conducted himself well in a war against the Arabs in 812, defeating the forces of the Cilician thughur under Thabit ibn Nasr. Leo survived the Battle of Versinikia in 813 by abandoning the battlefield, but nevertheless took advantage of this defeat to force the abdication of Michael I in his favor on 11 July 813. In a diplomatic move, he wrote a letter to Patriarch Nikephoros in order to reassure him of his orthodoxy (Nikephoros being obviously afraid of a possible iconoclast revival). One month later, during his entrance to the Palace quarter, he kneeled before the icon of Christ at the Chalke Gate. A further step in preventing future usurpations was the castration of Michael's sons.
With Krum of Bulgaria blockading Constantinople by land, Leo V had inherited a precarious situation. He offered to negotiate in person with the invader and attempted to have him killed in an ambush. The stratagem failed, and although Krum abandoned his siege of the capital, he captured and depopulated Adrianople and Arcadiopolis. When Krum died in spring 814, Leo V defeated the Bulgarians in the environs of Mesembria (Nesebar) and the two states concluded a 30-year peace in 815. According to some sources, Krum participated in the battle and abandoned the battlefield heavily injured.
With the iconodule policy of his predecessors associated with defeats at the hands of Bulgarians and Arabs, Leo V reinstituted Iconoclasm after deposing patriarch Nikephoros and convoking a synod at Constantinople in 815. The Emperor used his rather moderate iconoclast policy to seize the properties of iconodules and monasteries, such as the rich Stoudios Monastery, whose influential iconodule abbot, Theodore the Studite, he exiled.
Leo V appointed competent military commanders from among his own comrades-in-arms, including Michael the Amorian and Thomas the Slav. He also persecuted the Paulicians. When Leo jailed Michael for suspicion of conspiracy, the latter organized the assassination of the Emperor in the palace chapel of St. Stephen on Christmas Eve, 820. Leo was attending the matins service when a group of assassins disguised as members of the choir due to sing in the service suddenly threw off their robes and drew their weapons. In the dim light they mistook the officiating priest for the Emperor and the confusion allowed Leo to snatch a heavy cross from the altar and defend himself. He called for his guards, but the conspirators had barred the doors and within a few moments a sword stroke had severed his arm, and he fell before the communion-table, where his body was hewed in pieces. His remains were dumped unceremoniously in the snow and the assassins hurried to the dungeons to free Michael II. Unfortunately for them Leo had hidden the key on his person, and since it was too early in the morning to find a blacksmith Michael was hastily crowned as emperor with the iron clasps still around his legs. Leo's family (including his mother and his wife, Theodosia) was exiled to monasteries in the Princes' Islands. His four sons (including ex co-emperor Symbatios) were castrated, a procedure so brutally carried out that one of them died during the "operation".
Even sources vehemently hostile to Leo (Theophanes Continuatus, Patriarch Nikephoros) acknowledge his competence in managing state affairs. Unfortunately, as with all iconoclast emperors, his actions and intentions cannot be easily reconstructed due to the extreme bias of the iconodule sources (there are no surviving contemporary iconoclast sources of any kind).
Children
All known children of Leo V are traditionally attributed to his wife Theodosia, a daughter of the patrician Arsaber. Genesius records four sons:
Symbatios (Συμβάτιος), renamed Constantine, co-emperor from 814 to 820. Castrated and exiled following the assassination of his father.
Basil. Castrated and exiled following the assassination of his father. Still alive in 847, recorded to have supported the election of Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople.
Gregory. Castrated and exiled following the assassination of his father. Still alive in 847, recorded to have supported the election of Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople.
Theodosios (died in 820). Died soon after his castration.
Anna, who married Hmayeak, a Mamikonian prince (died c. 797), by whom she had Konstantinos, an officer at the court of Emperor Michael III.
Possible descendants
Nicholas Adontz in his book The age and origins of the emperor Basil I (1933) expressed a theory that Leo V and Theodosia were ancestors of Basil I. The theory was partly based on the account of his ancestry given by Constantine VII, a grandson of Basil I, as well as the accounts given by Theophanes Continuatus. Basil I, according to these accounts, was a son of peasants. His mother is named by Constantine VII as "Pankalo". The name of his father was not recorded, but the names Symbatios and Constantine have been suggested; both were names used by the eldest sons of Basil, with eldest sons of Byzantines typically named after their grandfathers. The paternal grandfather of Basil is named as Maiactes. The paternal grandmother was not named but was identified as a daughter of "Leo", a citizen of Constantinople. Adontz identified this Leo as Leo V, which would make Leo V and Theodosia great-grandparents of Basil I. Adontz also suggested Constantine VII had made a mistake in the generations separating Maiactes and Basil. This suggests that Basil was a great-grandson of Maiactes and not old enough to have seen the wars with Krum of Bulgaria, which would make Leo V and Theodosia fourth-generation ancestors of Basil.
The theory has been accepted by several genealogists, including Christian Settipani in his search for descent from antiquity. The name "Anna" has been suggested for the daughter of Leo V and Theodosia, because it was given to daughters of Basil I, Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VII and Romanos II--almost every emperor that would claim descent from this woman.
See also
List of Byzantine emperors
References
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Manapullikavu is a Hindu temple located in Palakkad city, Kerala of India. The temple is most famous for the annual festival that takes place in the temple known as Manappullikavu Vela. Manapullikavu is also a major residential area in Palakkad city comprising apartments and residential colonies. Manappulikavu is ward 27 of Palakkad Municipality.
Sree Manappully Bhagavathy Temple is situated in Palakkad city, Kerala . It is on the Palakkad–Chittur road and hardly 200 meters away from the National Highway 544 .Earlier the temple was under the private ownership of ‘Kenath Family’. Now the temple is under Malabar Devaswom Board (MDB). Kariyannur Manakkal Bavathrathan Namboothiripad of Pattambi is the Thanthri (Head Priest) of the temple now.
Sri Manappully Bhagavathy Temple has a very ancient history. It is believed that the temple originally belonged to Sri Mattappilly Bhadrakali Mana, a famous Kerala Brahmin family of Kerala. Numerous Bhrahmin families living on the banks of Holi River Sokanasini (Bharathapuzha) used to perform ‘Yagas’ on the river bed. Thus the area came to be known as ‘Yaga-kara’ which later came to be known as ‘Yakkara’. The eastern part of Yakkara where the temple is located, is called East Yakkara and the other side as ‘West Yakkara’. It is believed that the ‘Moolasthanam’ of Bhagavathy was at West Yakkara and it was subsequently shifted to the present Sanctum Santorum of the East Yakkara temple. (It is believed that a saintly Brahmin of Yagakkara conducted his prayers in his kitchen which is also called as ‘madappalli’. It is considered that in the course of time and usage, the area came to be known as "Manappulli").
Sree Manappulli Bhagavathi is Bhadrakaali and was born out of the sacred "Jada" of Lord Shiva during Dakshayaga. She is black in colour, with four hands, each one having Soolam, Kapalam, Gadkam and Khedam. She is with three eyes, two ‘Dhamshtram’, with ‘Pattudayada’ and valuable ornaments. The Prathishta is in ‘Shanta Bhava’. During ‘Chandattam’ ceremony She turns to ‘Rudra Bhava’ and becomes ‘Shanta Swaroopini ‘after accepting the ‘Kadummadura Payasa Nivedyam’. She is believed to satisfy the desires, hopes and aspirations of her true devotees and also protect them from all evils.
According to a legendary myth about the temple, an Asura called Neelan was disturbing the people with his misdeeds and became a menace to them. The people, complained about this to Parasuraman and he in turn sought a remedy from Lord Paramasiva. Paramasiva incarnating his female personality to Bhadra Kali and sent her to Akamalavaram to kill Neelan. After killing Neelan, Kali became Manappulli Bhagavathy showering prosperity to her devotees.
The Palghat district where the temple is situated, has mainly paddy cultivation as the main occupation of the people. The district is called the ‘Rice Bowl’ of Kerala. The social and cultural customs of the people are, therefore, one way or other, connected with paddy cultivation. They believe that the Goddesses of ‘Kavu’ (temple) protect them in their ‘Thattakam’ (meaning the area where they live, surrounds the ‘Kavu’). The people make offerings to the Goddesses in their ‘Thattakam’ in the form agricultural produces having bearing on the seasonal agriculture. The people prayed for good harvest and as an offering for this, they celebrates ‘Kathir’ in the third Friday of the Malayalam month of ‘Vrichikam’. On this day, a procession carrying ‘Sarodam’, in a very ornately decorated form is taken out in the evening from the premises of Lord Muniyappan temple, situated at the southern side of the Bhagavathy temple and it culminates at the Manappully Bhagavathy temple at dusk, passing through the streets of Manappullikavu Nair Thara. Another procession from Kenathuparambu, also joins the procession at the Manappullikavu junction and culminates at the temple. An attractive part of this ‘Kathir’ is the procession carrying decorative umbrellas made of palm leaves tied to freshly cut bamboo poles accompanied by ‘drum beating’. The Kathir literally announces the ensuing ‘Vela’ festival. The procession also carries ‘Kathir Koodu’, small balls made of tender palm leaves containing freshly plucked ‘Nel kathir’ (paddy bunches) which are distributed to all the houses in the area and hung in the front yard of each house till the next ‘Kathir’. These practices continue to be observed even now with great pomp and show. After the ‘Kathir’, the next preparatory function of the Vela is ‘Kanyar’ (Kodiyettam), which is performed on the first Friday of the Malayalam Month ‘Kumbam’. The huge freshly cut bamboo pole (flag post) with a typical flag - Koora is hoisted in front of the temple with rituals. This declares and denotes the ensuing Manappully Bhagavathy Vela.
Festivals
Sree Manapullikavu Vela
Some of the major festivals here are Vishu, Onam, Diwali & the great Manapulli Vela. This place is also well known for its temple processions, which would be normally conducted with nearly seventeen tuskers in minimum. The Manapulli Vela is glorified also by the firework displays, panchavadya-performances, Kathakali, Ootam Thullal, Katha Prasangam and various other cultural arts.
As mentioned, the Vela is celebrated between last week of February and first week of March based on the Malayalam Calendar year. ‘Kanyar’ is conducted on the Ist Friday of the Malayalam month ‘Kumbam’ and the Vela is invariably conducted on the 14th day after ‘Kanyar’ (Kodiyettam). A Vela Committee is constituted for the proper conduct of the Vela Festival. The entire expenditure for the festival is met from donations received from the devotees. After the Kodiyettam, many cultural events are organised in the evenings for 14 days culminating on the day of Vela, by renowned folk/cultural artists of the state which attract huge crowds. Lot of devotees from various places come and worship Bhagavathy on Vela day. The Vela day starts early with special poojas and in the afternoon, Bhagavathy starts her vela procession. It is considered that on the invitation extended by the ‘Desakkar’ (locals) with ‘Upacharam Chollal’, Bhagavathy comes out of the ‘Sanctum Sanctorum’ for the ‘Vela Procession’, mixing up with her devotees for uniting her ‘Thattakam’ and eliminating all the evils. It is noted that on Vela day, neither the usual ‘Deeparadhana’ nor the ‘Athazhapuja’ is performed, as Bhagavathy is celebrating Vela with the ‘Desakkar’. The ‘Deeparadhana and ‘Athazhapuja’ of Vela day will be performed on the next day after ‘Sudhi’ (cleansing ceremony). The ‘Chaandh Abishekam’, one of the important pooja during the Vela day, attracts flocks of devotees. ‘Vedikettu’ (Fireworks) is also an important attractive element of the festival which takes place in the late evening when the Vela procession reaches back to the temple from Fort Maidan and also in the early morning. Bhagavathy is very fond of fire works as she is considered to be born from the Jada of Paramasiva with fire and thunder. On the Vela day the ‘nada’ is opened only after Karimarunnu is lit in front of Bhagavathy’. Annadanam’ (offering of food) is conducted in which thousands of devotees take part. The day of Vela is declared as a local holiday by the government which shows the importance of the festival.
Other significant features of the Vela is the other Velas from other desams (areas) such as West Yakkara, Vadakkanthara, Vennakkara, and Koppam which also congregate at the Fort Maidan. While the East Yakkara Manappullikavu Vela remains separate at the fort entrance gate when the ‘Panchavadyam’ is in full swing. The East Yakkara Manappulli Bhaghavathy Vela consisting of the famous caparisoned Elephants, folk arts, Panchavadyam etc., reach back to the temple. Plenty of chariots (Bullock carts and other motorised vehicles) also form part of the Vela procession. When the Vela return to the temple, the ‘Panchavadyam’ reaches its mesmerising peak making the people literally dance and jump. After this, the spectacular fireworks starts, leaving the huge crowd spellbound. A vast sea of humanity assembles at the temple premises to witness this spectacular show.
After the Fireworks, the renowned ‘Pandimelam’ performed by hundreds of eminent artists begins. At midnight stage programmes will be performed. Early morning, the ‘Raavela’ starts. The highlight of ‘Raavela’ is lighting of ‘Kambam’. ‘Kambam’ is considered as ‘Paramasivas’ Jada and lighting it with ‘Karimarunnu’ makes symbolic representation of Bhadrakalis’ ulpathi. After this, Bhagavathy enters the Temple. The ‘Kanyar’ pole is plucked by Elephant to mark the end of the festival. Sudhi is performed as Bhagavathy was outside the shrine with the devotees to celebrate her Vela. ‘Eeduvedi’ announces the conclusion of Vela.
It is believed that after the evening Aarthi Bhagawathy goes to the Moolasthanam which is behind the present main temple (2 km) and returns to the Main Temple in the Morning.
Also the Easwara Pooja for Bhairavar is very special and by performing Muttu at Bhairavar keeps the Evil forces away - The Ultimate Protection.
Manappalli Bhagawathy is the family deity and so followers perform the Pooja and do an offering before starting any function such as marriage; after the marriage the newlyweds go to the temple and take the blessings.
See also
Manappullikavu Vela
Temples of Kerala
References
External links
Temples of Manapullikavu :- http://www.palakkadtemples.blog.co.in/manapullikkavu
Maps of manapullikavu :- http://wikimapia.org/sys/exp_kml/?id=1470189&l=0&v=21012900
Hindu temples in Palakkad district
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Foxborough Public Schools is the public school district serving Foxborough, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. it enrolled 2590 students.
Schools
Foxborough Public Schools operates five schools: 3 elementary schools (2 that are K-4 and 1 that is PreK-4), a middle school (5-8) and a high school (9-12).
Burrell Elementary School is a PreK-4 Elementary School enrolling 311 students as of 2018. Headed by Michele McCarthy, the Burrell Elementary School is the 2nd largest elementary school in the Foxborough Public Schools system and the 4th largest school overall in the Foxborough Public Schools system by number of students enrolled. The school has a cafeteria with full kitchen services, an auditorium, a gymnasium (all 3 are separate from each other) and a library with a wide selection of books. There are 2 playgrounds, one for 1st and 2nd graders and one for 3rd and 4th graders. There are fields in back (one baseball diamond and one softball field) and woods with trails that are only used when permitted by faculty.
Taylor Elementary School is a K-4 Elementary School enrolling 224 students as of 2018. Headed by Peter Regan, the Taylor Elementary School is the smallest elementary school and the smallest school overall in the Foxborough Public Schools system by number of students enrolled. The school boasts a cafeteria with full kitchen services that is separate from the 1/2 gym and 1/2 auditorium. In an interesting design (some may say flaw), some classrooms are on the perimeter of the gym with doors out to the gym instead of the hallway. The Taylor has one playground with basketball courts.
Igo Elementary School is a K-4 Elementary School enrolling 369 students as of 2018. Headed by Michael Stanton, the Igo Elementary School is the largest elementary school in the Foxborough Public Schools system and the 3rd largest school overall in the Foxborough Public Schools system by total number of students. The school boasts a cafeteria with full kitchen services, a gymnasium and an auditorium (all separate) plus a playground with acres of field space. The Igo Elementary School building used to house Foxborough High School as etched into stone on the schools exterior walls.
John J. Ahern Middle School (commonly referred to as Ahern Middle School or "The Ahern") is a 5-8 Middle School enrolling 842 students as of 2018. Headed by Kerryn Frazier, the Ahern Middle School boasts a cafeteria with full kitchen services, 2 gymnasiums with locker rooms, a 1/4-mile track with football field, an auditorium with sound and lighting equipment, a TV Studio used by the Ahern Broadcasting Club, smart boards or projectors in every classroom and a large library with a classroom for lessons taught in the library. The Ahern Middle School is the only middle school in the Foxborough Public Schools system and the largest school in the Foxborough Public Schools system as of 2014 based on total students enrolled. The Ahern Middle School is the newest building in the Foxborough Public Schools system, given a massive addition and re-model completed in 2000. The addition included the current 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade wings and a new gymnasium. New in 2013, most of the school was outfitted with wireless internet for students and faculty on top of the 8 computer labs and the at least 2 computers in every classroom.
Foxborough High School is a 9-12 High School enrolling 813 students as of 2018. Headed by Principal James Donovan and Assistant Principal Joseph Scozzaro, Foxborough High School boasts a cafeteria with full kitchen services, a newly renovated gymnasium with locker room facilities, an auditorium, a new Turf Football Field, Soccer Fields, Baseball Fields, Frisbee Golf Course, parking for faculty and students and classrooms with a wide range of amenities (some science classes have laboratory spaces). Foxborough High School is the only high school in the Foxborough Public Schools system and is the second largest school in the Foxborough Public Schools system by total number of students enrolled. 9% of graduates go on to education programs after graduating, 75% to 4 year college and university programs and 15% to 2 year college and community college programs. On top of that many go on to more programs after graduation from those programs (medical school, law school etc.).
Demographics
As of 2021, the racial breakdown of students enrolled in Foxborough Public Schools is 78.4% White, 6.3% African American/Black, 6.8% Hispanic, 4.7% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0.4% American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 3.2% Mixed Race (non-hispanic). 34.9% of students enrolled have high needs, and 20.2% of students have disabilities.
Administration and Funding
Foxborough Public Schools is headed by Superintendent Amy Berdos and a school committee of 5 members: Rob Canfield (Chair), Tina Belanger (Vice Chair), Katie Adair, Beverly Lord and Stephen Udden. Foxborough Public Schools is funded by the Town of Foxborough and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Foxborough Public Schools uses the Common Core State Standard and currently participates in the MCAS Assessment (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System).
Mascot and Teams
Foxborough High School has many sports teams that are all represented by the mascot the Warrior. Foxborough High School is the Home of the Foxboro Warriors. Foxboro High School is in the Hockomock League. Teams offered by Foxborough High School are: Golf, Baseball (V/FR,) Baseball (JV), Boys Basketball (V/JV/F), Boys Lacrosse (V/JV), Boys Soccer (V / JV), Boys Tennis, Cheering, Cross Country Field Hockey (V / JV), Football (V), Football (JV), Football (F), Girls Basketball (V/JV/F), Girls Lacrosse (V/JV), Girls Soccer (V / JV), Girls Soccer (F), Girls Tennis, Ice Hockey, Middle School Basketball, Softball (V/JV), Spring Track, Swimming, Volleyball (JV / V / F), Winter Track and Wrestling.
Sources
References
External links
https://foxborough.k12.ma.us/
School districts in Massachusetts
Education in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing
Foxborough, Massachusetts
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In mechanics, a diaphragm is a sheet of a semi-flexible material anchored at its periphery and most often round in shape. It serves either as a barrier between two chambers, moving slightly up into one chamber or down into the other depending on differences in pressure, or as a device that vibrates when certain frequencies are applied to it.
A diaphragm pump uses a diaphragm to pump a fluid. A typical design is to have air on one side constantly vary in pressure, with fluid on the other side. The increase and decrease in volume caused by the action of the diaphragm alternately forces fluid out the chamber and draws more fluid in from its source. The action of the diaphragm is very similar to the action of a plunger with the exception that a diaphragm responds to changes in pressure rather than the mechanical force of the shaft.
Pressure regulators use diaphragms as part of their design. Most uses of compressed gasses, for example, in gas welding and scuba diving rely on regulators to deliver their gas output at appropriate pressures. Automotive fuel systems frequently require fuel-pressure regulators; this is true of many fuel injection systems as well as in vehicles fueled with liquefied petroleum gas (autogas) and compressed natural gas.
See also
Gas engine
Hybrid vehicle
References
Mechanics.
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The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners is a state agency of Nevada that regulates and administers licenses to physicians, practitioners of respiratory care, physician assistants, and perfusionists who wish to practice in Nevada. The agency is headed by a board, with its current president being Rachakonda D. Prabhu. The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. It is a member of the Federation of State Medical Boards.
History
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners was first formed in 1975 for the purpose of ensuring that the health practitioners practicing in the state are licensed to do so and to provide a judicial process in the event of medical malpractice. When this law was passed, the board was only responsible for the licensing of physicians and physicians’ assistants. Only in 2001 was the board granted the ability to license and oversee practitioners of respiratory care, and in 2009 the board was also granted the authority to license and oversee perfusionists.
Structure
The Board of Medical Examiners that leads the agency consists of nine members, all selected by the Governor of Nevada. Every member must be a resident of Nevada, and at least six of the members must have a license to practice medicine in Nevada, with at least five years of experience practicing in the state. Members of the board can serve for a maximum of two full terms, with each term spanning a four-year period.
Aside from the board of medical examiners, the agency also has three active advisory committees: Physician Assistant Advisory Committee, Practitioner of Respiratory Care Advisory Committee, and Perfusionist Advisory Committee.
References
External links
Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners
State agencies of Nevada
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Álora is a municipality in southern Spain which is part of the province of Málaga (Andalusia). Located c. 40 km from Málaga, on the right bank of the river Guadalhorce and on the Córdoba-Málaga railway, within the comarca of Valle del Guadalhorce. It is a typical pueblo blanco, a whitewashed village nestled between three rocky spurs topped by the ruins of the castle.
The municipality covers an area of 169 km2 that covers a wide territory in which the large landforms of Málaga are located. The hills are occupied by cereal, olive and oak trees and orchards of fruit and vegetables that cover the valley floor. Its population is 13,436 inhabitants, according to the INE census of 2008.
Álora's history dates back to prehistoric times in the Hoyo del Conde, a little over a kilometer from the city. The ecological environment (hunting, water, natural protection) favored this presence until the Turdetanis of Tartessos and the Phoenicians discovered the commercial potential of the area. The latter built the foundations of the castle, which the Romans would take advantage of by fortifying it.
The inhabitants are known as Perotes.
Adjective
There are several versions of the origin of the term "perote," while it is best known for being the first alderman Don Pero, in time immediately after the reconquest by the Catholic Monarchs, hence the name of the area "The Perocia".
Geography
Álora is the crown in the Valle del Guadalhorce between three hills on the right bank of the Guadalhorce river and on the railway route between Málaga and Seville, Córdoba or Granada. The towers of its castle, lookouts for the movement of people and goods to the inner lands, in the realms of Bobastro, stand over the town which is sheltered discretely between two small headlands and Mount Hacho (559 m).
It is spread over a vast territory in which are located the major landforms of Málaga. To the north of Arco Calizo Central is the natural setting of El Chorro, the Sierra de Huma (1,191 m) and the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, where the famous Caminito del Rey is found (so called because it was inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII).
To the west, the Sierra de Aguas (949 m) extends to these lands and the mountain complex of Serranía de Ronda, a landscape of pine forests extending from the Guadalhorce river to the road that joins Álora with Carratraca.
History
The area was settled since prehistorical times, and was exploited for its commercial position by Tartessos and by the Phoenicians, who most likely built the castle. The Romans, after their conquest of Spain, restored the fortress and had here a municipium known as Iluritanum, as attested by an inscription dating to 79 BC.
The fortress was further enlarged by the Visigoths and, above all, the Moors, who conquered it early during their conquest of Spain. Álora became a stronghold of the rebellious Umar ibn Hafsun, semi-independent lord of Bobastro in the time of the emirate of Córdoba. The Christians of northern and central Spain attempted numerous times to conquer the town, but were successful only in 1484.
Álora enjoyed a period of prosperity during the 16th and 17th centuries, and in 1628 it became autonomous from the commune of Málaga. In the 20th century much of the population emigrated, especially to Argentina and, starting from the 1960s, Germany, Australia and Switzerland.
Main sights
Álora's castle was built by the Phoenicians and then expanded under Roman rule. In the 5th century the castle was virtually destroyed by the Visigoths, but was rebuilt under the Moors; remnants of this era still remain, namely the decorative steel door and the traditional Arab mirador.
Other sights include:
church and convent of Nuestra Señora de Flores (16th century)
Iglesia de la Veracruz (16th century)
church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, located on the site of the castle's mosque. It houses a crucifix by José Navas Parejo.
chapel of St. Brigida (16th century)
chapel of Las Torres (15th century), in late Gothic style
Local transport
The best way to access Álora from Málaga is the Cercanías (commuter or suburban) railway Line 2, which runs up the valley of the Guadalhorce river from Málaga Centro-Alameda via the mainline station at Málaga María Zambrano to Álora, taking about forty minutes for the forty kilometre journey with six other intermediate stations. For visitors arriving from the airport, Cercanías Line 1 runs frequently to Málaga Victoria Kent or María Zambrano, where connections may be made to Line 2.
Buses run by Málaga Metropolitan Transport Consortium (Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano del Área de Málaga) are the main form of transport around the town of Álora and the villages of the metropolitan area.
References
External links
Tourist Information for the El Chorro, Camino del Rey and Gudalhorce reservoirs in English
Alora City Council Website
Municipalities in the Province of Málaga
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Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy is a pirate video game developed by Stickman Studios and published by Blitz Arcade. It was released on December 6, 2008 for Microsoft Windows.
Gameplay
In Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy, the player takes the role of captain of one of the pirate ships. The single-player mode consists of up to 50 missions that follow a captain rookie, who joins a group of pirates named the Golden Buccaneers.
Reception
On its release, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics, with an aggregate score of 68/100 on Metacritic.
References
External links
Official website
2008 video games
Windows games
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Dine Alone Records is a Canadian and American independent record label, founded in St. Catharines and Toronto by Joel Carriere. The label is now based in Toronto, Nashville and Los Angeles.
History
Dine Alone was born out of founder Joel Carriere's home in St. Catharines, Ontario. After years working various positions in the Canadian music industry and building his own cultural website and promotional company, Carriere launched Dine Alone Records in 2005. With a name drawn from the songs "Dine Alone" by the post-hardcore band Quicksand, and a set of founders who had ties to the North American heavy music scene, Dine Alone worked with artists such as The Fullblast, Johnny Truant, City and Colour and Attack in Black.
Dine Alone quickly expanded its roster from the early days of City and Colour, Arkells, and Bedouin Soundclash to over 50 national and international artists. Dine Alone Records was named the number one independent label and the number four label overall in Canada in Nielsen Soundscan's 2013 year-end report. In 2013, the label expanded into Nashville and furthermore, to Los Angeles in 2014.
In 2015, Dine Alone Records launched a series of events and projects to celebrate their tenth anniversary, including 'Wax on Wheels' – the label's official mobile record shop. Dine Alone Records was named Canadian Independent of the Year at The Canadian Music Industry Awards for the second year in a row in May 2015.
Current roster
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Aero Flynn
Alexisonfire
Amityfalls
The Amazing
The Apache Relay
At the Drive-In
Attack in Black
Brendan Benson
BRONCHO
Bryan Bryne
Vanessa Carlton
Cerebral Ballzy
City and Colour
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs
The Cult
The Dandy Warhols
DBOY
Dashboard Confessional
Delta Spirit
Dinosaur Bones
Dune Rats
The Dirty Nil
The Dodos
DZ Deathrays
Edwin Raphael
FIDLAR
Field Report
Fine Points
Fly Golden Eagle
FREEMAN
Gateway Drugs
Hannah Georgas
The Get Up Kids
Glass Towers
Grade
Noah Gundersen
HBS
Heartless Bastards
Helicon Blue
Hey Marseilles
Hey Rosetta!
High Ends
The Howlin' Brothers
Ivan & Alyosha
JEFF the Brotherhood
The Jezabels
Jimmy Eat World
Kopecky
Langhorne Slim & The Law
Legend of the Seagullmen
Lieutenant
Lucius
The Lumineers
Marilyn Manson
James Vincent McMorrow
Miami Horror
Moneen
Dave Monks
Monster Truck
Music Band
NOBRO
Kate Nash
New Swears
Brendan Philip
PHOX
Pickwick
Quicksand
Chuck Ragan
Respire
Rumba Shaker
Saints & Sinners
Say Anything
Say Yes
Walter Schreifels
The Sheepdogs
Shovels & Rope
Single Mothers
Sleepy Sun
Sol Cat
Solids
Spain
Sparta (band)
Spanish Gold
Spencer Burton
Streets of Laredo (band)
Swervedriver
Tokyo Police Club
Twin Forks
Violent Soho
We Are Scientists
The Weeks
Wintersleep
Wool
The Wytches
You+Me
Yukon Blonde
Zeahorse
Alumni
Arkells
Augustines
Bedouin Soundclash
Billy Bragg
Black Lungs
Brant Bjork
Casey Baker and the Buffalo Sinners
Caveman
Chains of Love
Children Collide
Clear Plastic Masks
Cloud Control
Cunter
Daniel Romano
Data Romance
Deer Tick
Dispatch
Doldrums
Eagulls
Elliot Moss
Empire Air
Gaz Coombes
Great Bloomers
Hacienda
Hanni El Khatib
Hot Hot Heat
Johnny Truant
k-os
Library Voices
Little Comets
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Marilyn Manson
Neon Indian
Parlovr
Seaway
Simone Felice
Sleepercar
Songs from a Room
The Civil Wars
The End
The Fullblast
The Golden Dogs
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
We Barbarians
Words Left Unsaid
Affiliated companies
Dine Alone has founded three sister labels, based out of the label's Toronto headquarters. In 2013, Dine Alone launched New Damage Records – a developing aggressive rock label (Canadian home to Cancer Bats, Counterparts, KEN mode, Silverstein, Misery Signals, Heart Attack Kids, Architects etc.). 2014 saw the unveiling of Haven Sounds – a hip-hop/EDM and remix label, which signed L.A.-based MOORS, featuring hip-hop artist and actor Lakeith Stanfield. In 2018, Dallas Green (Alexisonfire/City and Colour), launched Still Records as an "imprint" of Dine Alone.
Dine Alone Foods was co-founded with Jordan Hastings (Alexisonfire, Say Yes) and features sauces made in Canada. The line features three flavours, including a classic Southern Blues BBQ sauce, a sweet smoky Northern Soul chipotle BBQ sauce and a spicy Rock N' Roll hot sauce. The sauces are currently distributed through Whole Foods and featured on menus of Toronto eateries such as Let's Be Frank, Boots and Bourbon, The Dog and Bear, and the Hogtown Smoke food truck.
Partnerships and services
In 2012, Dine Alone partnered with Warner Music Canada to provide marketing services for The Sheepdogs' self-titled album. Additionally, Dine Alone has partnered with Sony Music Canada to provide marketing services in Canada for You & Me's debut album, rose ave..
Dine Alone has partnered with Volu.me in order to act as the first to employ iBeacon technology in a concert setting.
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Canadian independent record labels
Alternative rock record labels
Record labels established in 2005
2005 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 2005
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John Milton Oskison (1874–1947) was a Native American author, editor and journalist. His fiction focused on the culture clash that mixed-bloods like himself faced.
Early life and career
Oskison was born the son of John (English) and Rachel Crittendon (part-Cherokee) Oskison in Cherokee Nation. He attended Willie Halsell College in Vinita, where he met and befriended Will Rogers.
Oskison was an undergraduate at Stanford, where he was president of the Stanford Literary Society. He graduated in 1898, and was Stanford's first Native American graduate. He attended Harvard for graduate school. But after one year, his short story "Only the Master Shall Praise" won a competition held by The Century Magazine, and he became a professional writer.
He became an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post. He married Florence Ballard Day in 1903. In 1904 his short story "The Greater Appeal" won the Black Cat Prize.
Later life and career
Oskison switched to Collier's Weekly in 1907, and became their financial editor in 1910.
Oskison served with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. In 1920, still in France, he and his wife divorced. On his return to the U. S., Oskison married Hildegarde Hawthorne, a novelist. He did not resume his position with Collier's, but instead became an independent writer.
Oskison wrote four novels, one novelized biography (of Sam Houston), one history with commentary (on Tecumseh), and part of an autobiography. During the Depression, he edited a WPA project on Oklahoma. At the time of his death, his fourth novel and his partial autobiography were in manuscript form only. His daughter donated Oskison's papers to the University of Oklahoma. His papers were rediscovered in 2007, and were subsequently published.
Publications
Tributes
In 1995, Stanford established the John Milton Oskison Writing Competition, held annually.
In 2008, a crater on Mercury was named after him.
External links
Western American Literature Research: John Milton Oskison
References
1874 births
1947 deaths
Stanford University alumni
Native American writers
Members of the Society of American Indians
Cherokee Nation people
Collier's
United States Army personnel of World War I
20th-century Native Americans
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C2HNO2 is the chemical formula of one of a number of compounds:
Carbonocyanidic acid
Formyl cyanate
(Hydroxyimino)ethenone HONCCO
2-Nitrosoethenone ONC(H)CO
Oximide
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Jamie Jacobs (born 3 December 1997) is a Dutch football player. He plays for SC Cambuur.
Club career
He made his Eerste Divisie debut for Jong AZ on 18 August 2017 in a game against FC Den Bosch.
He moved to SC Cambuur in July 2019.
Personal life
He is the brother of fellow professional footballer Joey Jacobs.
References
External links
1997 births
People from Purmerend
Living people
Dutch footballers
SC Cambuur players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Association football midfielders
Jong AZ players
Footballers from North Holland
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The Look of Silence
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The Look of Silence (, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. Executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Andre Singer. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.
Overview
A middle-aged Indonesian man, whose brother was brutally murdered in the 1965 Indonesian Communist Purge, confronts the men who carried out the killings. Out of concern for his safety, the man is not fully identified in the film and is credited only as "anonymous," as are many of the film's crew positions. Some shots consist of the man watching (what seems to be) extra footage from The Act of Killing, which includes video of the men who killed his brother. He visits and interviews some of the killers and their collaborators—including his uncle—under the pretense of an eye exam. Although none of the killers expresses any remorse, the daughter of one of them is clearly shaken when she hears, apparently for the first time, the details of the killings.
Also interspersed, there are scenes of his elderly mother and his almost deaf and blind father.
Release
The film was screened in the official competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (FEDEORA), as well as the Human Rights Nights Award. Since then, it has gone on to win multiple awards, including Best World Documentary (Cinephile Prize) at the Busan International Film Festival, the Grand Prize (DOX Award) at CPH:DOX, the prize for Best Documentary at the Starz Denver Film Festival, a Danish Arts Council Award for outstanding achievement in filmmaking, and the Best Film Award at the One World human rights documentary film festival.
On 10 November 2014, 2,000 people came to the official and public premiere of the film in Jakarta. On 10 December 2014, International Human Rights Day, there were 480 public screenings of the film across Indonesia. The screenings of the film in Indonesia has been sponsored by the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia and the Jakarta Arts Council.
It was selected for screening in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015.
In February 2016, Oppenheimer, along with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, screened the film for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and their House counterparts, officials from the Department of State, and members of the White House National Security Council staff. Oppenheimer hoped the Oscar buzz the film was generating would pressure the US government to formally acknowledge its collusion in the killings.
After its theatrical release, the film aired on US television as part of the PBS series POV.
Reception
Critical response
The Look of Silence received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 96% approval rating, and an average rating of 8.8/10, based on 136 reviews. The website's critical consensus states, "The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking – yet just as terribly compelling – companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing". On Metacritic, the film has a 92 out of 100 rating based on 29 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". On 14 January 2016, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Awards and nominations
As of March 2016, The Look of Silence has won 70 international awards, including the following:
References
External links
The Look of Silence at POV
2014 documentary films
2014 films
American documentary films
American sequel films
British documentary films
British sequel films
Danish documentary films
Danish sequel films
Documentary films about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966
Dutch documentary films
Dutch sequel films
Films set in Indonesia
Films set in the 1960s
Films shot in Indonesia
Finnish documentary films
Finnish sequel films
French sequel films
German documentary films
German sequel films
Indonesian documentary films
Indonesian sequel films
2010s Indonesian-language films
Israeli documentary films
Israeli sequel films
Plaion
Norwegian documentary films
Norwegian sequel films
Venice Grand Jury Prize winners
Best Documentary Bodil Award winners
Best Documentary Robert Award winners
2010s American films
2010s British films
2010s German films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Davis%20Cup%20Europe/Africa%20Zone%20Group%20I
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2018 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
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The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 2018 Davis Cup.
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were three different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Play-offs, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2019.
Participating nations
Seeds:
All seeds and received a bye into the second round.
Remaining nations:
Draw
First round
South Africa vs. Israel
Ukraine vs. Sweden
Austria vs. Belarus
Second round
Czech Republic vs. Israel
Sweden vs. Portugal
Slovakia vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Russia vs. Austria
First round play-offs
Ukraine vs. Portugal
Russia vs. Belarus
2nd round play-offs
Portugal vs. South Africa
Slovakia vs. Belarus
References
External links
Official Website
Europe/Africa Zone Group I
Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone
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Loop de Loop (Flip Flop Flyin' in an Aeroplane)
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"Loop de Loop (Flip Flop Flyin' in an Aeroplane)" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was written by Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, and Carl Wilson. It was originally recorded between the late 1960s and 1970s. In 1998, Jardine finished the song for its release on Endless Harmony Soundtrack.
"Sail Plane Song"
"Loop de Loop" was originally written by Brian and Carl Wilson under the titles "Sail Plane Song" (written on the tape box) and "Glide Plane Song" (written on the tape leader). The group recorded a version at their private studio on June 8, 1968 during the early sessions for their album 20/20. Relative to later versions, the instrumentation was bare, featuring only drums, bass, guitar, organ, and piano played by the band members. According to biographer Peter Ames Carlin,
Reworkings
Following the recording of "Sail Plane Song", Al Jardine reworked the arrangement and rerecorded the song from scratch at Sunset Sound Recorders on March 5 and 6, 1969. Further recording was made at the band's studio at a later date. On his contribution to the song, now titled "Loop De Loop," Jardine commented,
His additions to the instrumentation included timpani, cymbals, string bass, tack piano, Fender Rhodes, several guitars (including one processed through a Leslie speaker), ukulele, tambourine, glockenspiel, horns, woodwinds, Moog synthesizer, and other sound effects. Capitol A&R director Karl Engemann drafted a memo, dated May 16, 1969, that mentioned that he was enthused about "Loop de Loop (Flip Flop)" being the band's next single.
After the release of Sunflower, band engineer Stephen Desper assembled a collection of songs consisting mostly of outtakes deemed suitable for a follow-up LP, which he labelled "Second Brother Album". The selections included "Loop de Loop". Band manager Jack Rieley rejected the selections, describing "Loop de Loop" as "forgettable". He later stated that his growing involvement with the group's songwriting process had attracted the ire of Jardine, Mike Love, and Bruce Johnston, who "tried to force me to march into Mo Ostin's and sell him on their 1969 track 'Loop De Loop'. I refused and Brian, Dennis, and Carl backed me up."
According to music historian Brad Elliot, the track was left unreleased due to Jardine's dissatisfaction with his lead vocal. In late 1977, the song was rewritten as "Santa's Got an Airplane" for the band's unreleased album Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys. This version used the same backing track as "Loop de Loop", but different vocals to reflect the new Christmas-themed lyrics. The writing was credited to Jardine, Brian, and Love.
In July 1998, Jardine returned to the song once more, rerecording his vocals at The Red Barn studio in Big Sur.
Release history
In August 1998, the original "Sail Plane Song" recording and Jardine's newly-remixed version of "Loop de Loop" were released for the compilation Endless Harmony Soundtrack.
In September 1998, "Santa's Got an Airplane" was released for the compilation Ultimate Christmas.
In 2013, an alternate mix of "Sail Plane Song" was released for the compilation Made in California.
In 2018, an alternate mix of "Sail Plane Song" was released for the compilation I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions.
In 2021, the 1969 mix of "Loop de Loop" was released for the compilation Feel Flows.
Personnel
Per Brad Elliot.
"Sail Plane Song"
Al Jardine – guitar
Bruce Johnston – organ
Brian Wilson – piano
Carl Wilson – bass
unknown – drums (likely Dennis Wilson)
References
External links
The Beach Boys songs
Song recordings produced by Al Jardine
1960s songs
Songs written by Al Jardine
Songs written by Brian Wilson
Songs written by Carl Wilson
Year of song unknown
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2021–22 Welsh Cup
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The 2021–22 FAW Welsh Cup was the 134rd season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales. The New Saints were the competition's winners, the eighth time they had triumphed.
Changes to the competition
Ahead of the first matches of the cup, the Football Association of Wales announced that for the 2021–22 season there would the following changes:
There will no longer be any extra-time with matches ending in a tie going straight to a penalty shoot-out;
An extended Round of 64 will be been introduced, meaning that Round 2 will see all twelve Cymru Premier clubs directly enter the competition alongside half of the Tier 2 clubs who did not enter in the Round 1 stage;
Introduction of a seeding system for Round 2 to encourage more encounters between larger and smaller clubs;
Changes to prize money awarded which will award money to all clubs winning matches from the start of the tournament including qualifying rounds;
Introduction of a coefficient ranking system to assist with byes and seeding in future editions of the cup.
First qualifying round
The first qualifying round matches were announced on 11 June and played on 9 and 10 July.
North
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Second qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round was made on 12 July 2021 and the matches were played on 23 and 24 July.
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First round
The draw for the first round, which took place on 26 July, saw 8 clubs from the Cymru North and 8 from the Cymru South join the competition. Matches took place on 13, 14 and 15 August.
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Second round
The second round of the competition saw the remaining eight clubs from each of the Cymru North and Cymru South, as well as all 12 Cymru Premier clubs join the competition. The draw took place on 16 August with ties played on 3 and 4 September 2021.
Six clubs from tier four remained at the start of this round of the competition as the lowest ranked clubs, but all were eliminated by clubs from higher divisions. Bala Town's 17–1 victory over Brymbo equalled the record for the biggest margin of victory in a Welsh Cup tie.
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Third round
The draw took place on 6 September with ties played on 24 and 25 September 2021. Four clubs from tier three progressed from round two as the lowest ranked remaining clubs, with three of them gaining home ties.
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Fourth round
The draw took place on 27 September. Saltney Town, the only remaining club from the Ardal Leagues (tier 3), were drawn at home to Cymru Premier side Aberystwyth Town. Ties were played on 15 and 16 October 2021. The upset of the round was Colwyn Bay's defeat of higher league Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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Quarter-finals
The quarter-final draw took place on 18 October with matches played on 19 February 2022. Colwyn Bay's excellent run in the competition continued, this time beating Cymru Premier champions Connah's Quay Nomads 2–0 away.
Notes
Semi-finals
The draw took place on 21 February. Semi-final ties will be played at neutral venues on 18 and 20 March 2022. The match dates and venues were announced on 4 March. The first semi saw Penybont reach their first Welsh Cup final, beating Bala Town on penalties whilst the second saw the recently confirmed Cymru Premier champions TNS beat this season's giant-killers Colwyn Bay 1–0.
Notes
Final
The final was played on 1 May 2022 at the Cardiff City Stadium. The New Saints won the competition for the eighth time, going three goals up with two scored by Jordan Williams before Penybont scored two goals in the final five minutes of the match.
Notes
References
2021-22
2021–22 European domestic association football cups
Cup
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Monica Kim
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Monica Kim is a German -born Canadian singer-songwriter who had a hit in Columbia.
Life
Kim was born in Germany in 1947 and grew up in Stuttgart, immigrating with her parents to Canada in 1952. At 30 her husband bought her a piano. Kim's first audiences were church members and then she branched out to create her own recordings and to perform in hotel lounges and concert halls.
In 1989 Kim spent four years performing in Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. After her return to Canada in 2002, Kim began to teach vocals.
In 2008 KAB Productions released Kim's CD, Dreams Can Come True
Discography
Dreams Can Come True (2008)
Television appearances
1983 - Weekend with the Stars
1982 - Backstage CHCH-TV, Performance, Interview with Global TV News, Variety Club Telethon, Weekend with the Stars
1981 - The Alan Thicke Show 4 appearances
1980 - Bob McLean Show
1979 - CBC Television Special
References
External links
Monica Kim's Webpage
KAB Productions - Canadian Music Production and Promotion
Canadian women singers
German emigrants to Canada
German people of Canadian descent
Canadian performers of Christian music
Musicians from Ontario
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens
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Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens is the joint athletics program for Pomona College and Pitzer College, two of the Claremont Colleges. It competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) of the NCAA Division III. Its mascot is Cecil the Sagehen. Its primary rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas, the joint team of the three other undergraduate Claremont Colleges.
Sports
There are 11 women's and 10 men's teams.
History
Pomona College's first intercollegiate sports teams were formed in 1895.
The college was one of the three founding members of the SCIAC in 1914, and its football team played in the inaugural game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1923, losing to the University of Southern California Trojans. Between 1946 and 1956, Pomona joined with Claremont Men's College (CMC) to compete as Pomona-Claremont. In 1970, Pomona began competing with Pitzer College (then seven years old) on an interim basis, and the arrangement became permanent two years later.
The Sagehens ranked 14th out of 438 Division III schools and 2nd among SCIAC schools in the 2021–2022 Division III NACDA Directors' Cup, which ranks athletics programs and awards points relative to their finish in NCAA championships. The water polo, track and field, women's soccer, and women's tennis teams are regarded as particularly strong.
Facilities
Pomona-Pitzer's primary indoor athletics facility is the Liliore Green Rains Center for Sport and Recreation, built in 1989 and located near the center of Pomona's campus. It is undergoing renovation that is expected to be completed by 2022. The Rains Center is complemented by various outdoor facilities, mostly located within the naturalistic eastern portion of Pomona's campus known as the Wash.
Nickname and mascot
The official mascot of the teamPomona-Pitzer Sagehens is Cecil the Sagehen, a greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). The bird is a large ground-dweller native to the western United States (although not Southern California), and is distinguished by its long, pointed tail and complex lek mating system. It is named after the sagebrush on which it feeds.
Pomona-Pitzer is the only team in the world to use the Sagehen as a mascot, and it is often noted for its goofiness. Rather than in the grouse's natural brown and white colors, the mascot is rendered in the team's official colors, blue (for Pomona) and orange (for Pitzer).
The precise origin of the nickname is unknown. Pomona competed under a variety of names in its early years, including "the Blue and White" and "the Huns". The first known appearance of "Sagehens" was in a 1913 issue of The Student Life newspaper, and in 1918 it became the sole nickname. Later Pomona-Claremont began using it, and it is now the nickname for the combined Pomona-Pitzer team. The first known reference to "Cecil" was made in the 1946 Metate (Pomona's yearbook).
Rivalry
The Sagehens' primary rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas, the joint team of the three other undergraduate Claremont Colleges. The rivalry is known as the Sixth Street Rivalry, referring to the street that separates the teams' athletics facilities. Historically, Pomona had a rivalry with the Occidental College Tigers.
Notable athletes
References
External links
Coverage of the Sagehens in The Student Life
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Joe Courtney (politician)
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Joseph David Courtney (born April 6, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2007. His district encompasses most of the eastern third of the state, including Norwich and New London. A member of the Democratic Party, Courtney served as the Connecticut state representative for the 56th district from 1987 to 1995 and Vernon town attorney from 2003 until 2006.
Early life and education
Courtney grew up in suburban Hartford. In 1975, he graduated from Tufts University. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1978.
Early career
After graduating from law school, Courtney worked as a public defender for three years. He became a partner in the law firm Flaherty, Meisler and Courtney, and also served as Town Attorney in Vernon, Connecticut, where he lives.
From 1987 to 1994, Courtney served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing Connecticut's 56th district. He chaired the Public Health and Human Service Committee and oversaw the Blue Ribbon Commission on Universal Health Insurance. In 1994, Connecticut Magazine honored him for his bipartisan efforts in the state house.
In 1998, after four years out of office, Courtney made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor. In 2002, he ran for Congress against incumbent Republican Rob Simmons. Courtney did not announce his candidacy or raise money until September 2001; by that time, Simmons had more than $500,000 in campaign funding. Simmons defeated Courtney in the November election, 54% to 46%.
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
2006
Courtney challenged Simmons again in 2006, in a race that political strategists projected would be very close. Courtney was declared the winner on Election Day; initial tallies showed him ahead by 167 votes, out of more than 242,000 votes. Under Connecticut law the race qualified for an automatic re-canvass because the winning margin was less than 0.5%. When the recount concluded on November 14, Courtney had 91 votes more than Simmons. The Washington Post later said that the final margin was 83 votes. It was the tightest congressional race of 2006.
2008
Courtney's 2008 Republican challenger was the former commanding officer of the Naval Submarine Base New London, Sean Sullivan. Courtney won the election by a two-to-one margin.
On May 21, 2008, Courtney announced his endorsement of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama for president.
2010
Courtney was reelected, defeating Republican Janet Peckinpaugh, Green Party nominee Scott Deshefy, and Libertarian write-in Dan Reale.
2014
Courtney defeated Republican Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh, a business owner and radio show host from New London, Connecticut.
2016
In 2016, Courtney defeated Republican Daria Novak, Green Party candidate Jonathan Pelto and Libertarian Dan Reale. Novak co-hosted a weekly cable television show, "American Political Zone", and a nationally syndicated radio show, "Vernuccio-Novak Report."
2018
In April 2018, Dan Postemski, an Iraq War veteran and chair of the Hampton Republican Town Committee, announced his plans to challenge Courtney in the 2018 election. Postemski said that he wanted "to bring common sense to budgeting" and that he was "a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment" and would "fight to the death to save it." In a reference to Courtney's participation in a gun-control sit-in, Postemski said, "Joe Courtney has literally sat down on the job, right on the floor of the House. That’s not how a leader makes change." Courtney was reelected by more than 20 points.
Tenure
In August 2009, Courtney was criticized for holding a teleconference with voters about health care instead of an in-person town hall. Richard Hanley, graduate journalism director at Quinnipiac University, complained that part of Courtney's job "is to wade into the muck of the process as it is, not as we would like it to be."
Courtney has branded himself as bipartisan and has blamed various government crises on failure to "support a real compromise." In 2012, he said that though recent budget cuts to education were a "little heavy" and the Budget Control Act "ham-handed," he voted for them in a spirit of compromise. "It took guys like me to cross the aisle and make sure we didn't fall off the tracks there as a country," Courtney said.
After seeing Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln in February 2013, Courtney wrote Spielberg a letter pointing out that although the film showed Connecticut House members voting against the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, in fact the state's entire congressional delegation had supported the amendment. He asked Spielberg for some kind of acknowledgment of the error, perhaps on the DVD. "It's important that people be aware who saw this movie that we were a state that lost soldiers, were staunch supporters of Lincoln in both elections and, in the case of the Democrat from New Haven, actually voted against his party in support of the amendment," said Courtney, who made his letter public. "The state's good name, I personally feel, was tarnished a bit." His criticism, in the words of the Washington Post, "played well back home in Connecticut", where it occasioned "a number of grateful newspaper editorials", but "set off alarms in showbiz circles: Ballots had just gone out to Oscar voters. Was the congressman trying to influence the Academy Awards in favor of another contender?" The Post noted that "Courtney had a debt to Ben Affleck", who had campaigned for him and whose film Argo was up against Lincoln for Best Picture.
In March 2015, after receiving two phone calls at home from scammers impersonating IRS agents demanding payment of owed taxes, Courtney warned his constituents to be wary of such scams.
A golf game Courtney played with President Obama was highlighted on NPR in June 2015.
In response to purported Republican hostility toward Muslims, Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz urged Democratic members of Congress to invite Muslims as their guests to Obama's State of the Union address in January 2016. Accordingly, Courtney invited Mohammed Qureshi, president of the Baitul Aman Mosque, an Ahmadiyya house of worship in Connecticut. The invitation garnered considerable media attention.
Political positions
Taxes
In a statement responding to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Courtney called it "one gigantic gift for corporations and the wealthiest Americans in exchange for next to nothing for average middle-class and working families."
Gun control
Along with other members of Congress who demanded that the House pass stricter gun-control legislation, Courtney took part in a sit-in on the House floor on June 22, 2016.
Health care
In 2010, Courtney was the leading voice in the House against the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-dollar health plans, part of the funding proposed for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Iraq War
In March 2008, Courtney called U.S. policy in Iraq "two-headed." While the Bush administration asked troops "to serve and sacrifice on behalf of Iraq's fledgling government," Iraqi leaders were friendly with Iran. "The White House," he wrote, "needs to work with Congress to construct a reasonable long term security agreement with Iraq that address Iraq's relations with Iran."
Iran nuclear deal
On August 6, 2015, Courtney issued a statement in support of Obama's Iran deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. "I believe that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is the best option for our nation and the international community to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons capability," he wrote.
When President Trump decided to withhold certification of the Iran nuclear agreement, Courtney issued a statement in which he claimed that Trump's move "directly contradicts the opinion of our nation's highest military leadership" and "puts us at odds with our closest allies such as the U.K., France and Germany, and undermines our country's ability to credibly execute a multilateral diplomatic resolution of the crisis in the Korean peninsula."
Military
Courtney is known for his success at delivering funding for his district's submarine bases, and has acquired the nickname "Two-Sub Joe" for having made possible the construction of two new submarines. In 2016, the Hartford Courant endorsed him primarily because he had "brought home defense jobs."
Trump travel ban
In March 2017, Courtney protested Trump's revised executive order temporarily restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries. He maintained that America's "moderate allies from Muslim-majority nations" had "repeatedly warned President Trump that these rash orders damage our standing to lead the anti-ISIS coalition" and that the executive order would result in a "backlash...overseas." Courtney added that the U.S. is "a nation of opportunity and a nation of immigrants, and this blanket ban on entry from six nations could mean that best and the brightest from those countries, and other Muslim-majority countries will no longer view the United States as an option for making a better life. This ban is not only a prize propaganda tool for terrorists who want to hurt us, it hurts American prestige abroad, and harms American businesses, schools, and institutions that rely on the hard work of immigrants from around the world, including these six countries."
Committee assignments
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces
Committee on Education and the Workforce
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions subcommittee
Higher Education and Workforce Training subcommittee
Before the 112th Congress, Courtney served on the Committee on Education and Labor with membership on the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Caucus memberships
Congressional Arts Caucus
Afterschool Caucuses
Blue Collar Caucus
Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus
Veterinary Medicine Caucus
Personal life
Courtney tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2020.
References
External links
Congressman Joe Courtney official U.S. House website
Joe Courtney for Congress
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21st-century American politicians
Connecticut Democrats
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Living people
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
People from Vernon, Connecticut
Politicians from Hartford, Connecticut
Public defenders
Tufts University alumni
University of Connecticut School of Law alumni
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Nivairoalhi
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Nivairoalhi is a 2019 Maldivian film written and directed by Moomin Fuad. Produced by Niuma Mohamed under NiuXo Films, the film stars Yoosuf Shafeeu, Aminath Rishfa, Zeenath Abbas, Ahmed Saeed, Nashidha Mohamed, and Ahmed Azmeel. The film was released on 3 January 2019.
Premise
Mana (Niuma Mohamed) and Riffath (Yoosuf Shafeeu) are a modern dual-career couple, much to the disappointment of their parents, who look forward to a grandchild. Mana returns for a study break from abroad and Riffath observes a distinctive change in her behavior. The relationship between the couple is affected by Mana's mood swings.
Cast
Niuma Mohamed as Mana Rasheed
Yoosuf Shafeeu as Riffath Abdul Rahman
Ahmed Asim as Moosa "Hardy" Haidhar
Aminath Rishfa as Dr. Shehenaz
Ahmed Azmeel as Hassan
Mariyam Shakeela as Arifa, Mana's mother
Aminath Rasheedha as Waheedha, Riffath's mother
Ismail Zahir as Abdul Rahman, Riffath's father
Zeenath Abbas as Nafeesa
Nashidha Mohamed as Ainth
Ahmed Saeed as Anwar
Ahmed Ziya as Doctor
Mariyam Haleem as Hardy's mother
Ajnaz Ali
Ahmed Asif
Mariyam Zoya Hassan as Nuha (Special appearance)
Mariyam Shifa (Special appearance)
Aminath Eshal Rasheed
Development
The film was announced on 20 October 2017 at a grand event held to celebrate Niuma Mohamed's twenty-year career. Releasing the first look of the film, Mohamed declared her "onscreen retirement" and indicated the film to be her last, though she would "still continue to serve in the industry behind the camera". A thirty-second teaser was released on 22 November 2017, featuring a demoralized Mohamed shattering a drinking glass by continuously hitting it on his forehead. Mohamed had earlier worked with director Moomin Fuad in the segment "Baiveriyaa" from the unreleased anthology film Hatharu Halha, which was the first Maldivian anthology film project.
It was earlier projected that filming would begin on 25 January 2018, but it was delayed, citing the need for Mohamed to "gain weight to showcase the perfect physique of the character". Filming commenced on 17 June 2018 on R. Inguraidhoo, for a ten-day schedule. All indoor shots were completed during this schedule and filming for outdoor shots began on 11 July 2018 in Male'. An ensemble cast including Yoosuf Shafeeu, Aminath Rishfa, Zeenath Abbas, Ahmed Saeed, Nashidha Mohamed, Ahmed Azmeel, Mariyam Shakeela, Aminath Rasheedha, and Mariyam Haleem were announced in a promotional event held on 10 April 2018.
Soundtrack
The first song from the film, "Reydhanve Mendhanve Dhandhen", sung by Mira Mohamed Majid and Falih Adam, was released on 21 September 2018. Two promotional songs were released prior to the film's release: Zoya's "Maa Rangalhu Vaaney" and Mira Mohamed Majid's "Sihuru Fadhavi Kamana". The latter, directed and edited by Aishath Rishmy and Ravee Farooq, was shot over eight days and was an instant hit upon release.
Release
The film was initially planned to be released on Mohamed's birthday, 20 October 2018. However, the team later accelerated the release date to 19 October 2018 based on fan requests, before pushing it back for an early-2019 release. On 27 September 2018, Mohamed confirmed that dubbing for the film was halted since she was suffering from laryngitis. Hence, the release date of the film was postponed to January 2019.
Response
Nivairoalhi received mostly positive reviews from critics. Aishath Maaha of Dho? favored the performance of the lead actors, particularly praising Ahmed Asim's work. She also mentioned the "neat arrangement" of its screenplay, though she pointed out its "weak ending", saying it was unsatisfactory. Similar sentiments were echoed from Aminath Luba of Sun, who called Asim "outstanding", while other cast members were thought to be "excellent". Luba also found the scene arrangement to be "gripping", while also calling the film's ending "weak".
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2019 films
Maldivian drama films
Films directed by Moomin Fuad
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Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (; born 2 January 1968) is a Russian billionaire and an industrialist. Deripaska enriched himself on previously state-owned assets that were privatized in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He is the founder of Basic Element, one of Russia's largest industrial groups, and Volnoe Delo, Russia's largest charitable foundation. He was the president of En+ Group, a Russian energy company, and headed United Company Rusal, the second-largest aluminium company in the world, until he quit both roles in 2018.
He has been characterized as a victor in the "aluminium wars" in Russia during the 1990s, which were frequently violent conflicts between businesspeople to obtain state-owned assets. In 2000, Deripaska founded Rusal, the result of a partnership between Sibirsky Aluminium and Roman Abramovich's Millhouse Capital. In 2007, Rusal merged with SUAL Group and Glencore International AG to form UC Rusal, with Deripaska as chairman.
He was once Russia's richest man, but lost a substantial part of his fortune amid the 2007–08 financial crisis. As of June 2022, his wealth was estimated by Forbes at $3.2 billion, making him the 920th richest person in the world. Deripaska bought himself Cypriot citizenship (and therefore EU citizenship) in 2017.
He was placed under U.S. sanctions in 2018 for reasons relating to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia. Deripaska was one of seven oligarchs sanctioned by the British government over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, including asset freezes and travel bans. He also has called for peace in Ukraine.
Education and early career
Early life
Deripaska was born to a Jewish family in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Soviet Russia and grew up in Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai. His parents came from Kuban. Deripaska grew up on the family's small farm, where from the age of 5 or 6, he learned how to live off the land from his grandparents, who primarily raised him after his widowed mother, an engineer, had to leave to find work. Deripaska credits his grandparents for teaching him the discipline of hard work along with farming. Both his grandfathers fought in the Second World War. His maternal grandfather returned to Russia after the war ended. His paternal grandfather Timofey Deripaska (1918-1945) was killed in battle and buried in a mass grave in Austria—in his memory, Deripaska built a Russian Orthodox Church in the town Laa an der Thaya.
Deripaska's first job was at the Ust-Labinsk plant where his mother worked. At age 11, he became an electrician's apprentice doing maintenance on electrical motors. His talent for math allowed him to enroll at the physics faculty of Moscow State University in 1985. One year into his studies, he was conscripted into the armed forces and served in the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces in the Trans-Baikal district of Siberia from 1986 to 1989.
Education
In 1993, Deripaska graduated with honors in physics from Moscow State University; however, the collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced academic funding, making it impossible for him to continue his studies as a theoretical physicist. There were no available stipends or grants for students. "We had no money. It was an urgent and practical question every day. How do I earn money to buy food and keep studying?" he recalls. In 1996, he earned a master's degree from the Plekhanov University of Economics.
Early career
At the age of 25, teaming up with fellow physicists, engineers and rocket scientists, Deripaska set up his first metal trading company, VTK. He adopted a systematic, scientific approach to commodity trading. "I represented companies that were buying and selling raw materials", Deripaska said. Deripaska undertook export arbitrage, buying metal at low Russian prices and selling it abroad at significantly higher international market prices. Deripaska traded primarily through the Baltic state of Estonia, as the Russian system of export licenses was in disarray. "I started my business at an unusual moment in history. The country in which I was born and raised had disappeared, although the new country was not fully formed. The first one gave me an excellent education; the second one gave me the chance of success", Deripaska recalled in an interview with Metal Bulletin.
He used nearly all his arbitrage and trading profits to acquire his initial package of shares in the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter in Southern Siberia. Between 1993 and 1994, Deripaska bought vouchers and shares in Sayanogorsk, and accumulated a 20% stake in the factory, becoming the biggest individual shareholder after the Russian State—to the annoyance of the plant's Communist-era bosses.
In 1994, Deripaska became director general of the plant at the age of 26. In 1997, he founded Sibirsky (Siberian) Aluminium Group, which in 2000 merged with Roman Abramovich's Millhouse Capital to create RUSAL. In 2003, businesses led by Deripaska increased their stake in those companies under common management to 75% by acquiring half of the interest managed by Millhouse Capital. In 2004, the consolidation of RUSAL's ownership by companies related to Deripaska was completed with the acquisition of the remaining 25% equity interest in RUSAL managed by Millhouse Capital.
Business growth
RUSAL went on to become the largest aluminium producer in the world, until the China Hongqiao Group surpassed it in 2015. In 2010, under Deripaska's leadership, Rusal became the first Russian company to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Beyond metals, which remain at the core of his diversified industrial holding, Deripaska has acquired stakes in a wide range of companies in various sectors, including energy, manufacturing, commercial vehicles, auto components, financial and insurance services, leasing businesses, construction, aviation, and agriculture. Among his assets are a Siberian power company , that is Russia's biggest private energy company; he ownes 10% of Ingosstrakh, one of Russia's largest insurance companies; GAZ Group, a producer of cars, trucks and buses, founder of agricultural business (Kuban Agro Holding). He established a transport company to run airports in the Krasnodar region, including Sochi and Krasnodar.
All these assets form part of the diversified investment and industrial group Basic Element.
Basic Element built several Olympic facilities for 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including the Coastal Olympic Village, Imeretisnkiy sea port, Doubler of Kurortny Avenue in Sochi, renovation of the Sochi International Airport. The total investments account for over $1.4 billion.
Career
Deripaska was named businessman of the year in 1999, 2006, and 2007 by Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
Troubles with US travel
In July 2006, whilst Deripaska was involved in a bid to buy the Daimler Chrysler Group, it was reported that the United States canceled his entry visa; the unnamed official declined to give a reason for the revoking of the visa. The Wall Street Journal reported that it could have been because Deripaska has been accused of having links to organized crime in Russia and cited as their sources two unnamed U.S. law enforcement officials. The New York Times reported on 27 August 2018 that the visa had been revoked on concerns Deripaska might attempt to launder money through real estate transactions. Deripaska had received a multiple-entry visa in 2005; a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman refused to comment. Lobbying on his behalf had been done by former Senate Republican leader and 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole and his law firm, Alston & Bird, Senate records show. Alston & Bird was paid about US$260,000 in 2005 for work on "Department of State visa policies and procedures" tied to Deripaska.
In 2009, Deripaska was again allowed entry and visited the United States twice. The Wall Street Journal reported that according to two unnamed FBI administration officials, Deripaska met with agents regarding a continuing criminal probe, the details of which were not known or reported. During Deripaska's visits, he met with leading management figures from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The aluminum company that Deripaska headed, United Company RUSAL, was in preparations for an initial public offering. The easing of Deripaska's visa issues, which were an issue for possible investors, helped to reassure bankers. The State Department has never said why it revoked his visa and refused to comment on his 2009 visits. The visits were arranged outside of the usual process as the U.S. continues to have concerns about Deripaska's business associations. Deripaska has repeatedly denied a connection to any organized crime and said business rivals have caused the visa to be revoked by smearing him. When interviewed by the BBC in July 2009, Deripaska said that the authorities in the United States had been attempting to blackmail him by revoking his visa and thus affecting possible investors in a negative way and thereby hoping to push Deripaska into cooperating with them.
NBC News reported in October 2021 that Russia had recently given Deripaska diplomatic status, allowing him to enter the U.S. with immunity.
Lawsuit against Morgan Stanley
In 2015, Deripaska filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing the bank of using insider information to short sell the businessman's $1.5 billion investment in shares of Canadian-based Magna International in 2008.
In May 2007, Magna International chairman Frank Stronach announced that Deripaska was becoming a strategic partner in Magna.
In 2007, Deripaska's Veleron investment vehicle acquired stock in Magna through a $1.2 billion loan from BNP Paribas, with Magna shares serving as collateral. Morgan Stanley was involved in the deal through a swap agreement with BNP Paribas where the US bank assumed the risks of the loan in return for a fixed payment from Paribas.
In September 2008, Magna's stocks plummeted, hit by the global economic downturn. BNP issued a $93 million margin call to Veleron. Morgan Stanley, in turn, learned that Veleron was unlikely to meet the call and sold the stock short. Deripaska claimed that Morgan Stanley abused its duties and engaged in unlawful insider trading that resulted in significant financial damage to Veleron, estimated at $15 million to $25 million.
The New York jury determined in November 2015 that Morgan Stanley had "acquired inside information and traded on it despite a duty to keep it confidential and not trade on it", finding as well that Morgan Stanley did not have the intent to defraud Veleron. Veleron strongly disagreed with and said it would file an appeal.
Basic Element
Deripaska is the founder of Basic Element, a diversified investment group established in 1997 which has been managing investments in the following sectors: energy, metals and mining, machinery, financial services, agriculture, construction, and aviation. The major investments under Basic Element management included stakes in United Company RUSAL (the world's largest aluminium and alumina producer), GAZ Group (an automotive company), Aviakor aircraft manufacturer, EuroSibEnergo (ЕвроСибЭнерго (an energy supply company) Glavmosstroy (Главмосстрой) (a construction company) Kuban Agroholding (an agricultural company) and Basel Aero (an aviation business comprising the three largest airports in the Krasnodar territory, and a joint venture with Changi Airports International). Basic Element has been managing Deripaska's investments into companies in Russia, the CIS countries, Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe and Latin America, which employ as many as 250,000 people. Strikeforce Mining and Resources (SMR) is also controlled by Basic Element.
En+ Group
The group was formed in 2006, with Deripaska as president and controlling shareholder. The En+ Group is a diversified mining, metals and energy group. It owns a majority stake in UC Rusal (48.13%) and in EuroSibEnergo. En+ also holds interests in SMR, one of the world's largest ferromolybdenum producers.
In 2017, it reported adjusted core earnings of $2.3 billion on revenues totaling $9.8 billion. In November 2017, En+ was listed on the London Stock Exchange raising $1.5 billion.
Metals and mining
RUSAL
United Company RUSAL is the world's second largest aluminium company. It was the largest until it was overtaken by China Hongqiao Group in 2015. In 2019, Rusal was overtaken by China's Chalco as the second biggest listed producer of aluminium. As of 2018, UC RUSAL accounts for 5.8% of the world's primary aluminium output and 6.2% of the world's alumina production. The company employs over 62,000 in twenty countries on five continents.
In order to ensure a stable supply of alumina to its smelters, several mergers and acquisitions were accomplished by RUSAL under Deripaska. At the beginning of the 2000s, RUSAL acquired bauxite mines in Guinea, a country with the world's largest bauxite reserves. Subsequently, RUSAL acquired a stake in an alumina refinery in Australia. At Deripaska's behest, in 2007, RUSAL, SUAL Group, one of the world's top 10 aluminum producers; and Glencore International AG, the Swiss natural resources group, merged their assets to form United Company RUSAL, the world's largest aluminum and alumina producer.
After the merger with Glencore, bauxite and alumina assets in Jamaica, Italy and Ireland were added to RUSAL's portfolio. These transactions converted RUSAL from a company with few supplies of the raw material bauxite into a vertically integrated corporation.
In parallel, Deripaska invested significantly in the operational improvement of smelters inside Russia. He said, "We consolidated the industry, and located bauxites that do not exist in Russia. We established the company that became the leader of industry in less than twelve years. But to become the number one aluminium producer in the world, we had to improve our operations practice. To apply the best practices in the world, we looked at Toyota, which had utilized a precise, deep and well thought-through process for almost thirty years of operations."
Deripaska himself has been an active supporter of Japanese production efficiencies made popular by the "Toyota Way." RUSAL smelters have adopted the concept of kaizen, which means continuous improvement and involves training workers in standardized production techniques. "It's important to change both the company's mind set and reporting lines", Deripaska said. "Instead of top-down management, you should understand everything is in the hands of your operator and empower that operator to drive efficiencies and improvements directly on the factory floor."
Under Deripaska's leadership, RUSAL constructed and commissioned Khakas aluminium smelter outside of Sayanogorsk in Russian Siberia. The Khakas facility was the first aluminium smelter built in post-Soviet Russia (since 1985). The smelter, with an annual capacity of 300,000 tonnes, is currently one of the most technologically advanced in the world. The company also undertook large-scale modernization projects at a number of its facilities, including the Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk aluminium smelters.
In the middle of the financial crisis, Deripaska returned in 2009 to RUSAL as CEO to lead the company through the debt restructuring process. "I worked 16-hour days. We were in default, although none of the parties involved wanted to call it default." As part of contingency measures, Deripaska cut costs at RUSAL by 25% in 2009. By December 2009, Deripaska reached a final agreement with over 70 Russian and international lenders to refinance US$17 billion of debt.
In 2017, Rusal issued two Eurobonds to finance its debts. The first one, worth $600 million, was issued in February, followed by the second one in April, worth $500 million. Also in February, plans were announced to sell 10 billion yuan worth of seven-year onshore bonds to finance purchases in China. This made Rusal the first foreign company to offer panda bonds on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The company also agreed on a pre-export finance mechanism with international lenders worth $1.7 billion for debt refinancing.
In 2013, Deripaska was awarded the "Aluminium Industry Ambassador Award" in the Metal Bulletin Awards for Excellence for his "great influence within the global aluminium industry and the wider market".
Deripaska stepped down from RUSAL in May 2018 the day after seven board members and the chief executive resigned. The move was part of a deal with the US Treasury to get U.S. sanctions removed from the company. As part of that deal, in February 2019 it was announced that Deripaska had reduced his ownership stake in EN+ to below 50% in order to obtain sanctions relief.
Cherney lawsuit
Michael Cherney brought legal action against Deripaska in the Commercial Court of the High Court in London. Cherney sought a declaration that he was the beneficial owner of 20% of RUSAL stock which, he claimed, Deripaska held in trust for him. The claim was denied. On 3 May 2007, Justice Langley ruled that Deripaska had not been properly served, and that the court had no jurisdiction to try the claim as Deripaska did not live in England or Wales.
On 3 July 2008, Justice Christopher Clarke ruled that the case should be tried in England, although "the natural forum for this litigation is Russia", because, he held, "risks inherent in a trial in Russia...are sufficient to make England the forum in which the case can most suitably be tried in the interest of both parties and the ends of justice". On 22 July 2008, he granted Deripaska the right to appeal. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rejected the appeal on 31 July 2009.
At a June 2011 case management conference, the judge deferred a decision on whether Cherney would be allowed to give evidence by video link from Israel rather than appear in person. An outstanding arrest warrant issued by Interpol meant that the British would detain him if he travelled to the UK. In late July 2011, the High Court ruled to allow Cherney to give evidence at the trial by video link from Israel, and also set trial for April 2012. Deripaska denied that Cherney was owed any stake in RUSAL, and asserted payments made to Cherney had been for unavoidable "protection" at a time when violence was sweeping the region and posed an existential threat to any profitable business in the country. In an interview with The Telegraph, Deripaska said he was one of the few who worked to clean up Russian industry and provided support to law enforcement agencies. However, in this early chaotic period paying protection money to criminal gangs was inescapable, as revealed in court testimony.
In September 2012, Cherney terminated his UK lawsuit against Deripaska.
Energy
EuroSibEnergo
EuroSibEnergo controls and manages 18 power plants with a combined installed energy capacity of 19.5 GW, including 15 GW provided by hydrogeneration. The company produces approximately 9% of all electricity in Russia and is also the leader in the Siberian energy market, with a market share totaling 41%. Some of EuroSibEnergo's key clients include the largest aluminum plants in Russia. The company owns large fuel resources, which satisfy over 85% of the coal needs of its thermal power and boiler plants. Its coal reserves amount to 1.26 billion tons, with annual coal production exceeding 12 million tons.
En+ Group, of which EuroSibEnergo is a subsidiary, is investing in a joint venture with China's largest hydroelectric power generation company China Yangtze Power Co to build new power plants in Siberia, primarily hydroelectric ones, with a total capacity of up to 10 GWt.
Machinery
Russian Machines
Russian Machines corporation was established in 2005 and unites Deripaska's machine building assets. It comprises industrial and engineering assets in the following industries: automotive OEM (GAZ Group), automotive components (RM-Systems), rail industry (RM Rail), aircraft OEM (Aviacor), road construction (RM-Terex) and agricultural machinery (AGCO-RM).
Russian Machines Corporation manages 24 facilities located across 12 regions in Russia.
In September 2017, Deripaska entered into a joint venture through his Russian Machines () with AGCO called AGCO-RM SPIC project ().
GAZ Group
In 2000, Deripaska started acquiring machine building assets. His first acquisition was Nizhny Novgorod-based Gorkovsky Automobile Plant (GAZ), which was previously a government-run company. In 2005, GAZ Group was established by combining the businessman's machine building assets.
The Russian automotive conglomerate, GAZ Group, comprises 18 manufacturing facilities in eight regions of Russia, as well as sales and service organizations. GAZ Group produces light and medium commercial vehicles, heavy trucks, buses, cars, road construction equipment, power units, and automotive components.
In March 2019, GAZ Group asked the Russian government for $468 million in support claiming that US sanctions placed on Deripaska could cut production by almost 40% in the second half of that year.
Airports
Basel Aero, a joint venture between Changi Airports International, Basic Element and Sberbank of Russia, is a company-operator the Sochi, Krasnodar and Anapa airports.
These airports handle more than 7% of the total passenger flow in Russia. Sochi International Airport was the main gateway to Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and successfully serviced the guests and participants of the Games.
In October 2014, Sochi was granted open skies status, meaning that any foreign carrier may pick up and drop off passengers and cargo with no restrictions on aircraft type, frequency, and regardless of interstate agreements.
Financial services
Deripaska personally holds 10% of Ingosstrakh's ordinary shares. The company is a leading insurer of complex risks such as insurance for ship owners, ship hull insurance, insurance against aviation and space-related risks, and insurance of transportation companies. Ingosstrakh has 83 branches in Russia and the company's offices operate in 220 Russian towns and cities.
Agribusiness
In 2011, Deripaska established Kuban Agroholding, a 75,000-hectare agribusiness in the Krasnodar region. The company integrates two dairy farms, а 16,000 pig capacity breeding complex, three elevators with non-recurrent grain storage capacity of more than 270,000 tonnes, three-seed plants, a sugar factory and the Sunrise horse breeding farm, specializing in the breeding of English thoroughbred horses. It is one of the top-20 largest agribusinesses and top-5 most efficient land users in Russia.
Kuban Agroholding is one of the few agrocompanies in Russia involved in embryo transfer technology that allows for the reproduction of high-yielding milk cows out of less productive recipients.
The company has gained significant media attention about its corn-seeding program, deploying several dozen corn brands selected by its genetic specialists.
According to Forbes in June 2019, Deripaska's Kuban land bank was the fourteenth largest in Russia.
Other roles
In 2004, Deripaska was appointed by the President of Russia to represent the country in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council (ABAC). He has been Chairman of ABAC Russia since 2007. Deripaska is the vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, chairman of the executive board of the Russian national committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Council, an agency of the Russian government.
He has been a permanent participant at World Economic Forum sessions since 2007, when RUSAL became a WEF strategic partner.
Charitable and other activities
Deripaska sits on the board of trustees of the Bolshoi Theatre, and has financed ballet performances like Flames of Paris, La Sylphide, and Paquita as well as operas like The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Carmen, and Wozzeck.
In 2020 during the pandemic he donated money to construct hospitals in Siberia.
Volnoe Delo
In 1998, Deripaska established a charitable foundation in Russia, Volnoe Delo. The fund supports initiatives in Russia aimed at developing education and science, preserving spiritual and cultural heritage, and improving standards in public health. Since 1998, Deripaska claims to have invested in more than 500 charity programs in 50 regions of Russia. Volnoe Delo has supported research activities in the 2,550-year-old city of Phanagoria since 2004. More than $10 million has been allocated to Phanagoria fieldwork over the past 14 years. Today, Phanagoria is one of the best-equipped archeological sites in Russia and has a scientific and cultural center, equipment and technology for above-ground and underwater excavation, as well as a team of specialists involved in the excavation process. In 2014, Volnoe Delo foundation launched a programme for students' early career guidance and professional training—JuniorSkills. The first, pilot, championship on professional skills, JuniorSkills Hi-Tech, was held in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg in 2014, part of the nationwide championship on cross-industry blue-collar professions in high-tech "WorldSkills". In 2020 during the pandemic of COVID-19 it bought new ambulances and sent them to twelve Russian towns in Siberia and the Urals.
Other
Deripaska is also a member of the International Council at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
During the West African Ebola virus epidemic Deripaska personally initiated construction of the Centre for Epidemic and Microbiological Research and Treatment in the Guinean Kindia province. The centre was designed and constructed by RUSAL specialists with the assistance of Rospotrebnadzor scientists (RUSAL has invested $10 million).
He sits on the board of trustees of the School of Business Administration, the School of Public Administration, and the School of Economics at Moscow State University as well as the School of Business Administration at St. Petersburg State University. Deripaska is a co-founder of the National Science Support Foundation and the National Medicine Fund. In 1999, he was awarded the Order of Friendship, a state award of the Russian Federation.
In February 2014, Deripaska financed the construction of makeshift kennels to house stray dogs that had been abandoned by construction workers after completing work on the Sochi Olympic Village.
In October 2015 Deripaska called for governments not to agree to the Paris climate accords, arguing that countries like India and China needed to contribute more to avoid competition problems.
As part of a public relations campaign, he said in April 2021 that Rosstat (Federal State Statistics Service) data showing that there are 17.8 million poor people living below the country's subsistence minimum was wrong, and that the correct number was about 80 million.
Investigations
Spanish investigation
Deripaska and Iskander Makhmudov (head of UGMK) were asked by Spanish police to answer questions in relation to a money-laundering enquiry.
While Deripaska had been interrogated previously as a witness in Spain and England and by the FBI about money laundering, he was never charged with any crimes.
On 25 January 2010, the Financial Times published a story titled "Rusal: A lingering heat" exploring Deripaska's business relations with Sergei Popov and Anton Malevsky, alleged heads of Russian organized crime groups. Deripaska has accused Michael Chernoy of using Malevsky and the Izmailovskaya syndicate to extort US$250 million from him as part of a protection racket. However, Deripaska has himself been accused of having similar links to Malevsky, who, with his brother Andrei, owned a 10% stake in Deripaska's company. Deripaska denies the claims.
In November 2011, Spain's High Court sent the criminal cases against Deripaska to the Russian General Prosecutor's office because the root of the cases is Russian.
Terra Services Ltd
Deripaska-linked U.K. company Terra Services Ltd was raided in December 2018.
Political relationships
Vladimir Putin
Deripaska is known for his close ties with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Their relationship became visibly strained amidst Deripaska's financial struggles in 2009. In an incident broadcast on Russian television, Putin visited a stalled cement factory owned by Deripaska and berated its management. He forced Deripaska to sign a contract promising to pay nearly $1 million in unpaid wages. Their relationship recovered, however, and Deripaska has been described as "Putin's favorite industrialist". Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables from 2006 described Deripaska as "among the 2–3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis" and "a more-or-less permanent fixture on Putin's trips abroad". In an 2011 interview with The Globe and Mail, Kinross Gold CEO Tye Burt, who knows Deripaska, said "I believe Russia recognizes Oleg's major role in building a renewed economic base in a broad range of domestic businesses and rejuvenating ailing companies and infrastructure."
Comments on Putin's invasion of Ukraine
On 27 February 2022, the third day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Deripaska posted on Telegram: "Peace is very important! Negotiations need to start as soon as possible!" The following day, he addressed the economic situation posed by Western sanctions in a series of posts:
"I really want clarifications and intelligible comments on the economic policy for the next three months," Deripaska said, adding that the Russian central bank's decision to dramatically hike interest rates and force companies to sell foreign currency are the "first test of who will actually be paying for this banquet". "It is necessary to change the economic policy, [we] need to put an end to all this state capitalism," he added. Referring to Moscow's earlier annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and the subsequent introduction of Western sanctions, he warned that "unlike 2014, it will not be possible to sit this out now".
In February 2022 Deripaska said that the war in Ukraine would bring 200 years of damnation to Russia.
On 28 June in a press conference held for that purpose at a Moscow university Deripaska said repeatedly it would be a "colossal mistake" and a "colossal error" for Russia to destroy Ukraine with its military offensive and termed as "war", a word that is effectively banned in Russia in the context of the invasion of Ukraine. He thinks the war on Ukraine is completely mad, and said that the sanctions are of course more harmful for the Russian economy than the West: "The debt markets are closed, the capital markets are closed, foreign owners are expropriated; it is a major upheaval."
Nathaniel Rothschild and Peter Mandelson
Deripaska is a friend of Nathaniel Rothschild, a major investor in both Glencore and United Company RUSAL. Together Deripaska and Rothschild hosted George Osborne and Peter Mandelson on Deripaska's yacht in Corfu in the summer of 2008. Osborne was then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a friend of Rothschild from school and university. Peter Mandelson has reportedly maintained private contacts over several years with Deripaska.
News of the contacts sparked criticism because, as European Union Trade Commissioner, Mandelson had been responsible for decision to cut aluminium tariffs from 6 to 3%, a decision that had benefited Deripaska's Company RusAl. Mandelson insisted that he had never discussed aluminium tariffs with Deripaska. On 26 October 2008 the Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague claimed the "whole country" wanted "transparency" about Mandelson's previous meetings with Deripaska. In response, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Mandelson's dealings with Deripaska had been "found to be above board". Mandelson said that meeting business figures from "across the range" in emerging economies was part of his brief as EU Trade Commissioner. On 29 October 2008, while Mandelson was on a ministerial visit to Moscow, it was alleged in the British press that Valery Pechenkin, the head of security at Deripaska's company Basic Element, organised a swift entry visa for Mandelson when he came to Moscow to visit Deripaska in 2005.
Paul Manafort
On 22 March 2017, the Associated Press published a report alleging that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former presidential campaign manager, negotiated a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska to promote Russian interests in politics, business, and media coverage in Europe and the United States, starting in 2005. Both Deripaska and Manafort confirmed working together in the past, but rejected the contents of the AP story. Manafort argued that his work had been inaccurately presented, and that there was nothing “inappropriate or nefarious" about it.
Responding to the allegations, on 28 March 2017, Deripaska published open letters in the print editions of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in which he denied having signed a $10 million contract with Manafort in order to benefit the Putin government. He also stated willingness to testify before the United States Congress about these allegations, and argued that the accusations were part of "the negative context of current US-Russian relations." Congressional sources cited by The New York Times said lawmakers declined Deripaska's request after he had asked for immunity from criminal prosecution. Unnamed officials argued that "immunity agreements create complications for federal criminal investigators".
On 15 May 2017, Deripaska filed a defamation and libel lawsuit against the Associated Press in U.S. District Court in D.C., arguing that the report falsely claimed that Deripaska had signed a contract with Manafort to advance the goals of the Russian government. The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2017 on the grounds that Deripaska had not disputed "any material facts" in the story by the Associated Press.
While Manafort served within the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, it is alleged that Manafort, via Kyiv-based operative Konstantin Kilimnik, offered to provide briefings on political developments to Deripaska. Behaviors such as these were seen by writers at The Atlantic as an attempt by Manafort "to please an oligarch tied to" Putin's government.
Navalny video
In February 2018, Alexei Navalny published a video about a meeting between Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko on a yacht traveling near Norway. According to Navalny, Deripaska probably served as a middle man between the Russian government represented by Prikhodko and Paul Manafort during Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Prikhodko denied the allegations, accusing Navalny of "mixing the facts" about his "friend" Deripaska, Donald Trump and Paul Manafort, while also voicing his wish to have talk with Navalny as a "man with a man".
A day after the video was published the Roskomnadzor added the video to the Federal List of Extremist Materials, thus making accessing the video illegal for all Russian citizens. It also ordered YouTube to remove seven videos and Instagram to take down 14 points that were cited in the investigation; neither YouTube nor Instagram had responded as of 12 February 2018. According to a Roskomnadzor representative who spoke to Vedomosti, a "court injunction of this sort against content hosted on Instagram and YouTube is unprecedented for Russia". The New York Times noted that this may presage a "more aggressive approach by the Russian government" to control online activities.
Vashukevich recordings
In March 2018, fearing her own death while incarcerated in Bangkok, Anastasia Vashukevich, a Belarusian escort who claimed to have an intimate history with Deripaska, claimed to have over 16 hours of audio recordings she said could shed light on possible Russian interference in American elections. She offered the recordings to American authorities in exchange for asylum, but was deported and arrested in a Russian airport. Vashukevich said the recordings from August 2016 include Deripaska discussing the United States presidential election with three English-speakers who Vashukevich believed were American. "Deripaska had a plan about elections", Vashukevich said. In court, Vashukevich apologized to Deripaska, and said Russian agents visited her in jail to urge her to cease public statements about him. The New York Times argued that her claims might be easily dismissed were it not for the Navalny video. Deripaska denies an intimate history with Vashukevich.
Sanctions
U.S. sanctions
In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on Deripaska and 23 other Russian tycoons and officials. The statement of the United States Department of the Treasury said that Deripaska "ha[d] been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering".
In October 2018, the U.S. Treasury announced it had extended until 12 December a deadline for the full imposition of sanctions against Rusal and its parent company En+ Group, pending the review of the proposals presented by En+ Group to the U.S. government that would see Deripaska reduce his stake in En+ to below 45 per cent from around 70 per cent.
In January 2019, the U.S. Treasury lifted the sanctions on companies formerly controlled by Deripaska. Sanctions on Deripaska himself remained in effect. In April 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department nonetheless allowed Deripaska to transfer 10.5 million shares of his holding company En+ Group to a trust fund for his children as part of a divorce settlement with his ex-wife Polina Yumasheva, which had been finalized before the sanctions were put in place. The deal to have U.S. sanctions removed from En+ Group was brokered by Greg Barker, a UK legislator, who in February 2019 went on to be appointed chairman of En+ Group.
In March 2019, Deripaska sued the United States, alleging that it had overstepped its legal bounds in imposing sanctions on him and made him the "latest victim" in the U.S. probe into Moscow's alleged election interference. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the suit in June 2021, ruling it lacked merit.
September 29, 2022 U.S. The Attorney's Office accused Deripaska of sanctions evasion. According to the prosecutor's office, the businessman, through Gracetown Inc. illegally used the US financial system to service real estate objects owned by him. In this he was assisted by the hired two women of Olga Shriki, who operated in the United States, and Natalia Bardakova, who led her from Russia. They are also charged with violating US sanctions. Chriqui was arrested on 29 September. All three «are charged with one count of conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison», the statement says.
UK sanctions
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Deripaska was sanctioned by the British government which involved freezing his assets and a travel ban.
Australian sanctions
On 18 March 2022, Australia added Deripaska to its sanctions list.
European Union sanctions
On 8 April 2022, the EU added Deripaska to its sanctions list, freezing his assets and imposing a travel ban in all member states.
Personal life
Deripaska was married to Polina Yumasheva, the daughter of Boris Yeltsin's top adviser Valentin Yumashev and stepdaughter of Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana. While Yeltsin was president, Deripaska's close ties put him in Yeltsin's inner circle, dubbed "The Family". Deripaska and Yumasheva were married from 2001 to 2018. The Deripaskas have two children: a son, Pyotr (born 2001), and daughter, Maria (born 2003). Deripaska practices yoga, swimming, horseback riding, and hiking. At his home near Moscow, he has seven horses and six dogs.
In March 2018, it was reported that Deripaska had successfully purchased Cypriot citizenship in 2017 under Cyprus' "golden visa" that generates billions of revenue for the island nation. According to documents seen by The Guardian, Deripaska's first attempt to become a citizen of a country in the EU was unsuccessful because of a preliminary inquiry into his activities in Belgium. The inquiry was dismissed in 2016.
In 2009, Deripaska's ranking fell to No. 164, with Forbes stating: "[H]e may not withstand collapsing markets and heavy debts".
In 2010, however, his estimated $10.7 billion fortune allowed him to rise to No. 57 of the World's Billionaires list. According to Forbes magazine, he removed the heads of his two largest companies and personally negotiated with the Russian government, banks, and other creditors to restructure his loan obligations. Deripaska himself in 2007 was reported to have consistently said that the estimate of his wealth was exaggerated, that it did not completely account for the amount of debt he incurred, and that he should be ranked far below the top ten on the list of the Russian billionaires.
Forbes estimated his fortune at $3.3 billion in 2015, $5.2 billion in 2017, and $3.3 billion in 2019.
In June 2022, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $3.2 billion.
Deripaska's Cypriot registered company Edenfield Investments acquired the Grade II listed Hamstone House in the St George's Hill district of Weybridge, Surrey, in 2001. Deripaska has owned the Haft mansion near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., through a company incorporated in Delaware since 2006.
Deripaska also has a mansion in Belgravia.
A 2022 dossier published by the German newspaper Die Zeit accused Deripaska of sexual relations with underage girls in different countries.
See also
List of Russian billionaires
Mueller report
Russian oligarchs
Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (July 2016–election day)
Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2017)
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2017)
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2018)
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2018)
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019)
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2020–2021)
References
External links
Deripaska's profile and assets on Russian Asset Tracker
1968 births
Living people
People from Dzerzhinsk, Russia
Russian businesspeople in metals
Russian oligarchs
Russian billionaires
Moscow State University alumni
Basic Element (company)
Kuban Cossacks
Russians associated with interference in the 2016 United States elections
Cypriot billionaires
Naturalized citizens of Cyprus
GAZ Group
People named in the Paradise Papers
Russian individuals subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
Russian individuals subject to the European Union sanctions
Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions
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Tropical Grasslands was a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia which was formed in 1963. The journal was established in 1967 and was discontinued in 2010 when the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia closed due to declining membership. It covered ecological and agricultural aspects of grasslands. Archived digital copies of articles are available for free online. The founding editor-in-chief was N.H. Shaw and the final editor was Lyle Winks.
In 2012, a new peer-reviewed scientific journal, Tropical Grasslands – Forrajes Tropicales, covering research on tropical pastures and forages was established as an initiative of scientists from Australia and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. It succeeds the Spanish-only journal Pasturas Tropicales, published from 1979 to 2007, and Tropical Grasslands. Lyle Winks, the former editor of Tropical Grasslands, is the new journal's English editor; Rainer Schultze-Kraft is in charge of submissions in Spanish.
References
External links
Tropical Grasslands – Forrajes Tropicales
Agricultural journals
Ecology journals
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Defunct journals
Grasslands of Australia
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies
Publications established in 1967
Publications disestablished in 2010
English-language journals
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Cloudwatt was a core initiative of Project Andromède, one of France's periodic attempts at building a local computer industry. Project Andromède was announced in 2009 as a governmental desire for French-controlled cloud computing, with the goal of spending €285 million (US $338 million) in "cloud souverain" ("sovereign cloud" in English).
Overview
The launch of Cloudwatt was a part of the Andromède project initiated in 2009 to promote France in the cloud computing market.
Cloudwatt was established on September 6, 2012 as a subsidiary of Orange S.A., with the government of France and French military contractor Thales as secondary shareholders. Patrick Starck became the CEO of the company.
On October 2, 2012, Fleur Pellerin, Minister responsible for SMEs, Innovation and the Digital Economy, participated in the Cloudwatt press conference. It specified the government's commitment to cloud computing.
In 2013, Cloudwatt chose US-based Juniper Networks as a supplier to ensure French data sovereignty. Commercial sales began in 2014, and were expected to reach €500 million per year. The company developed a Dropbox-like storage service targeting small businesses and organizations, which was advertised on TV in 2013.
On March 20, 2015, Orange bought the company out the other investors. On January 1, 2016, Cloudwatt merged with Orange Business Services through its subsidiary Orange Cloud for Business.
Despite government subsidies of €75 million, after two years, the project had revenues of just €6 million. At the end of July 2019, the platform announced to its customers the cessation of its activity, scheduled for January 31, 2020. The users were advised to switch to the Flexible Engine public cloud platform. On February 1, 2020, all services were terminated and clients were advised that their data was deleted.
Assets
Cloudwatt had a capital of 225 million euros with the distribution of funds as follows: 44.4% for Orange, 22.2% for Thales, 33.3% for Caisse des Dépôts.
On January 13, 2015, Orange and its subsidiary Orange cloud for business announced the intention to buy back all of Cloudwatt.
Since March 2015, Orange held 100% of the capital of Cloudwatt.
See also
Dirigisme
Plan Calcul
Minitel
Quaero
External links
Official website
References
French companies established in 2012
French companies disestablished in 2020
Defunct software companies of France
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Elaine Yih-Nien Hsiao is an American biologist who is Professor in Biological Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers the microbes that impact human health. She was a 2022 Laureate for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
Early life and education
Hsiao was an undergraduate student in microbiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating she moved to California Institute of Technology, where she focused on neurobiology in the laboratory of Paul Patterson. At CalTech, she studied the neuroimmune system, and the molecular mechanisms that underpin disorders in neurodevelopment.
Research and career
Hsiao moved to the research groups of Rustem F. Ismagilov and Sarkis Mazmanian. In 2015, Hsiao joined the UCLA Brain Research Institute as an assistant professor. She was made an associate professor in 2020. Hsiao is interested in microbes and how they regulate brain development and behavior. These microbes impact the brain by serving as moderators for neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, and are involved with complicated neurological behaviors. Alterations in the levels of these neuro-active molecules are involved in autism and Parkinson's disease.
Hsiao investigated how the maternal microbiome impacts fatal brain development. She found that depleting the microbioata of a maternal gut damaged fetal brain development, altering the specific genes which are switched on and how axons between neurons formed. She showed that there were fewer axons which connect the thalamus to the cortex, and gave rise to sensory impairments.
In 2013, Hsiao delivered a TEDx talk on how microbes can alter brain function.
Awards and honours
2014 Forbes 30 Under 30
2015 Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 Life Sciences Excellence Award
2018 Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award
2018 New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Neuroscience Investigator
2019 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award – Excellence in Research, Assistant Professor
2021 Scialog Fellow
2022 New York Academy of Sciences (Takeda Pharmaceuticals) Innovators in Science Award in Gastroenterology
2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
Selected publications
References
Living people
American women neuroscientists
University of California alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of California faculty
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Kelly Marsh-Taitano, is a Guamanian politician who is was a member of Democratic and senator in the 35th Guam Legislature. A member of the majority party, Marsh-Taitano was selected as Assistant Majority Leader by her colleagues and chaired the Committee on Heritage and the Arts, Parks, Guam Products, Hagatna Revitalization, Self-Determination, and Regional Affairs.
Early life
Kelly Marsh-Taitano was born on December 24, 1964 to her parents Gaynell Bob Marsh and Catherine Ann Becker.
Biographical Note
Kelly Marsh-Taitano earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology and a Master of Arts in Micronesian Studies from the University of Guam in Mangilao, Guam. Marsh-Taitano earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Heritage Studies from Charles Sturt University in Albury-Wodonga, Australia, in 2013.
Prior to her election to the Guam Legislature, Kelly Marsh-Taitano worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guam.
Marsh-Taitano is married to Tyrone Taitano and resides in Asan, Guam.
Entry into public life
Marsh-Taitano ran for the incoming 35th Guam Legislature in 2018. She placed 10th in the Democratic primary election in August, advancing to the general election. She placed 11th in the general election in November, earning a seat in the legislature.
Marsh-Taitano sought reelection for the 36th Guam Legislature in 2020. She advanced to the general election by default since Guam's 2020 primary election was canceled due to COVID-19. In the November general election, she placed 16th, narrowing missing the ability to gain a seat in the incoming legislature.
Kelly Marsh-Taitano is running for the seat in the 37th Guam Legislature in 2022. The primary election is set for August 27th, 2022. Her placement in the primary will determine if she moves forward to the general election.
See also
Guam Legislature
Democratic Party of Guam
References
External links
Guam Legislature's official website
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Charles Sturt University alumni
Guamanian Democrats
Guamanian women
Guamanian women in politics
Living people
Members of the Legislature of Guam
University of Guam alumni
1964 births
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is a fictional gendarmerie-style information security and intelligence department from Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga and anime series. In the franchise, its jurisdiction exists under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In some translations, the name is given as Public Safety Section 9. In the original film, it is known as the Shell Squad or Security Police Section 9. In the original publication of the manga, it was known as Mobile Armored Riot Police Section 9. Regardless of translation, when spoken of by the characters, it is simply referred to as Section 9.
The Section-9 is composed of former military officers, forensics scientists, and police detectives; these agents answer only to the Chief Director and the Prime Minister of Japan. Most information about Section 9 remains highly classified; the Ministry of Home Affairs does not comment on the details of its activities. The public at large is unaware that Section 9 even exists, though the National Diet and other security forces sections are generally aware of them as a black operation unit. This allows Section-9 to operate independently from governmental oversight, cutting through red tape and bureaucracy.
Many of Section-9's functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the American FBI, the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. Their structure was based on the German GSG-9. Due to cross-training exercises in the past with the British Special Air Service's (SAS) 22nd Regiment, which also included personnel exchanges, Section 9's structure has been partially influenced by the British SAS.
History
Public Security Section 9 was established as a search and rescue organization; its mission statement has evolved to meet the demands of an uncertain and changing world characterized by invisible enemies who can destabilize entire countries from a simple reach of their keyboard, and by a blurring of the lines—between war and politics, combatants and civilians, crime and terrorism—have become increasingly irrelevant.</ref>
Officially billed as an international organization, it is actually a covert counter-terrorist network and anti-crime unit operating in the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. The organization is modeled on the idea that counter-terrorism traditionally consists of two interlocking areas: "pre-" and a "post-incident". With its unique organizational structure, Section 9 is empowered and expected to handle both areas, removing bureaucracy and logistics that might otherwise slowdown the process. Its operatives are allowed to act with or without government consent as they are almost unknown to the public eye.
In particular, Section 9 and its members are among the best counter-fourth generation cyberwarfare operatives in the country, and as a result usually end up involved in cybercrime cases relating to cybernetic lifeforms and the Internet, such as hacking and cyberterrorism. Even though Section 9 team is the "crème de la crème" of military prowess, there is a competitiveness with the other Section teams as well.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Major Motoko Kusanagi is dispatched by Section 9 to spy on a building in New Port City. A foreign power conspires to recruit a domestic programmer to fix the Project 2501 "bug." The team moves in while Major activates her thermoptic camouflage. The foreign official refuses to return the programmer, while Kusanagi moves in and kills him.
Stand Alone Complex
Season 1
During the investigation of the Laughing Man case, Major Kusanagi poses as the Laughing Man in order to uncover a conspiracy against Serano Genomics, a nanotechnology (micro machine) company owned by the Japanese government. After higher-ranking government officials uncover information about the Section 9 investigation, the government disbands the agency and declares war on them.
In preparation for an attack on their headquarters by the Umibozu's shock troopers and their Type 303 Armed Suit robots, all remaining Section 9 members barricade themselves into the building and fight the invaders with heavy weaponry. Failing that, they assemble a diversion and escape through a passage in the sewers of New Port City. They are all eventually captured, with the Major apparently killed.
Togusa spends the next three months wondering what happened to the rest of Section 9 before encountering Batou. The whole thing turns out to have been Aramaki's plan, sacrificing Section 9 in order to leave the prime suspect wide-open to arrest, investigation, and prosecution. Everyone, including the Major is fine, and Aramaki is in the process of rebuilding and securing funding for the newly-reborn Section 9, which happens in 2nd GIG.
Season 2
The second season starts with Section 9 non-existent in an official capacity due to an amendment to the Special Forces Bill. The first episode involves a hostage situation in which nine terrorists, who call themselves the Individual Eleven, are holed up in the Chinese Embassy, demanding a swift change in the Refugee Action Policy. They demand the freedom of the refugees from the stand point that refugees drain the country. The previous Japanese Prime Minister issued a temporary bill that allowed for the entrance of refugees into certain zones, but the bill was never repealed. Because the new Prime Minister, Kayabuki, plans to repeal the policy soon, she has to act quickly on the terrorists before their demands become known in order to ensure it doesn't appear that she was caving in to the terrorists' pressure.
Section 9 is promised full reestablishment, and the approval of their new budget proposal that includes the reinstatement of think tanks (Tachikomas), on the condition that there are no hostage casualties in the process of stopping the terrorists before the press blackout runs out. From this point on the 2nd season goes on to focus on the refugee issue from multiple perspectives, along with providing additional background information on almost all of the characters.
A new group emerges in this season, The Individual Eleven. This group first appears in the premiere episode as a group of Individual Eleven "copycats" take hostages in the Chinese Embassy. Later in the series it is revealed that the Individual Eleven's true intentions were to harm the wellbeing of refugees that had taken shelter in Japan at the end of World War IV. This group destroys itself in a public display of mutually assisted suicide among the members. Only one survives, Hideo Kuze, who then sides with the refugees and confounds Section 9 as to his motives.
Solid State Society
Section 9 is radically reformed after the Major leaves in order to pursue investigations of her own. The section has increased in size, and is now run by Togusa because Batou declined the position. Solid State Society initially focuses on the cyberbrain suicides of members of a terrorist organization that gained asylum in Japan. This case leads to the discovery that around twenty thousand children may have been abducted. The mastermind behind the crimes is known as "The Puppeteer," and is classified as a Super Wizard Class Hacker.
Arise
Arise is an alternate universe telling of the formation of Section 9. Major Kusanagi, an ex-army hacker, is recruited by Aramaki and charged with putting together a team to deal with high level hacking threats. Over the course of the series, while pursuing her own personal investigation, she encounters and works with (sometimes double crossed by) all of the original team members. At the end of the series she offers them positions on her team. A notable change is that Togusa is involved from the beginning rather than being recruited some time after the team's formation.
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
According to Tawanda Manyimo, part of what makes the Section 9 group so interesting is they aren't controlled by the government. "We are able to cut through red tape and bureaucracy it seems," he said "Who doesn’t want that? We can actually just do what we want, in essence. And we answer to essentially to Aramaki and the Major, so we’re almost a rogue renegade, but not quite. And I think that’s a unique position because in the world, there is a lot of political intrigue."
Location
Public Security Section 9 is located in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama-shi (also known as New Port City). The exact location of Section 9's headquarters is held as top-secret and is only known by the Japanese government and Section 9 employees. Their building is known to the public as a false security company.
Section 9 Headquarters facilities include a rooftop helipad, underground car park, Operator-managed control room, cyber-warfare and information gathering room, holding cells, meeting rooms and Tachikoma/Fuchikoma/Uchikoma workshop.
Members
Section 9's operatives are versatile, quiet professionals: trained in various methods ranging from criminal investigation, cybercrime-criminology, and digital forensics to unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, information operations, cyberwarfare, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and special operations.
Agents
AI personnel
References
Further reading
Fictional law enforcement agencies
Fictional paramilitary organizations
Fictional counterterrorism organizations
Ghost in the Shell
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Offered for Singles () is a 1984 romantic comedy directed by Samson Samsonov and written by Arkady Inin.
Plot
Vera Golubeva, a textile mill worker, lives in a dormitory for women. In her spare time she plays matchmaker for the other women. Although she does this informally and for free, Vera goes at it professionally: studying the personals in the newspapers, she sends marriage proposals throughout the Soviet Union, and carefully selects suitors. But Vera herself is lonely: walking with brides in their weddings, she has already forgotten to dream about her own family happiness.
One day, in the strictly female dormitory appears a new Commandant, Viktor Petrovich - a picturesque former sailor. At some point in the past a woman left him, and from that point on he has regarded women with the utmost suspicion. At first he fights against the way things are done in the dormitory and tries to close Vera's marriage bureau. But eventually, Viktor begins to understand that Vera is the woman he has been looking for all his life.
Cast
Natalya Gundareva as Vera Nikolayevna Golubeva
Aleksandr Mikhailov as Victor Petrovich Frolov, commander
Tamara Syomina as Larisa Evgenievna, educator
Yelena Drapeko as Nina
Frunzik Mkrtchyan as Vartan
Viktor Pavlov as Ilya Belenky
Elena Mayorova as Ira Sanyko
Awards
The film won prizes CCF in Kyiv (1984) and the International Film Festival in Chamrousse (1985)
Natalya Gundareva - best actress in 1984 in a poll of the magazine Soviet Screen
References
External links
Soviet romantic comedy films
1984 romantic comedy films
1984 films
Films directed by Samson Samsonov
Mosfilm films
Soviet films
Russian romantic comedy films
Russian films
Soviet teen films
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