R score

An R score is calculated for every course except for physical education taken before fall 2007 or for remedial courses. The final R score is the weighted average of the R score in all courses. In addition, failed courses are given a reduced weight in the overall R score and are weighted at 25% of the credits in the first semester and subsequently at 50%.

History

Failed courses have been given a reduced weight since October 2004. Before the fall 2007 semester, physical education courses were not given an R score. Before July 2017, the R score did not include the IDGZ and used the ISG:

[{\displaystyle {\text{ISG}}={\frac {[{\text{avg. grade results of Secondary 4 and 5 of all students in group}}]-75}{14}}}]

Until July 2017, an additional score of 0.5 was added to the overall R score to a student graduating with an International Baccalaureate degree or a DEC (Diplôme d'études collégiales) en Sciences, Lettres et Arts. The adjustment of the Z score using the IDGZ has made that unnecessary.

Criticism

First-hand experience suggests that the R score is not as good an indicator as it was meant to be. A recurring complaint from students is that the ISG does not seem to be enough to offset the advantage enjoyed by students in weak groups. Such students have the opportunity to obtain grades much higher than the low average of their class, thus earning an elevated Z score, but students in strong groups cannot earn such high Z scores. One possible reason for this is that the ISG for a certain course is based on the average of the grades in all high school courses, which may not correlate to the group's strength in that course as much as the average of the grades of similar courses in high school.

The perceived weaknesses of the R score are particularly worrying, because it is the main and sometimes the only criterion considered by Quebec universities during the admissions process. Since the R score is perceived as an absolute measure of a student's academic performance regardless of their academic rank, differences smaller than 0.5 are often used to discriminate between candidates applying to programs with fixed quotas such as medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and law.


R score

* The R Score: What It Is and What It Does
  * R Score calculator


Pyeongchang Olympic Village

[Olympic rings]
Part of a series on
2018 Winter Olympics
  * Bid process (bid details)
  * Venues
  * Torch relay
  * Marketing (mascots)
  * Broadcasters
  * Opening ceremony (flag bearers)
  * Chronological summary
  * Event calendar
  * Medal table (medalists)
  * World and Olympic records
  * Controversies (Russian doping scandal)
  * Closing ceremony (flag bearers)
  * Paralympics
  * IOC
  * KOC
  * POCOG
  * v
  * t
  * e

Buildings of the Pyeongchang Olympic Village.

The Pyeongchang Olympic Village is a complex of high-rise apartments in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. As an Olympic Village, it hosted the attendees (which included competitors and their coaches) during the 2018 Winter Olympics.


Lagarde

Lagarde may refer to:

Places in France

  * Lagarde, Ariège
  * Lagarde, Haute-Garonne
  * Lagarde, Gers
  * Lagarde, Moselle
  * Lagarde, Hautes-Pyrénées
  * Lagarde-d'Apt, Vaucluse département
  * Lagarde-Enval, Corrèze département
  * Lagarde-Hachan, Gers département
  * Lagarde-Paréol, Vaucluse département
  * Lagarde-sur-le-Né, Charente département

People

  * Lagarde (surname), list of people named Lagarde with Wikipedia articles

Wine

  * Lagarde (winery), Mendoza, Argentina
  * La Garde (disambiguation)
  * Legarde (disambiguation)
  * Garde (disambiguation)
  * LGarde (company)
  * Thompson-LaGarde Tests, a series of military tests that led to the adoption of the .45 ACP Cartridge.


Torneo Argentino C

The Torneo Argentino C (officially Torneo del Interior)Argentine football league system. The competition was organized by the Federal Council (Consejo Federal), an internal organ of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), and was contested by clubs indirectly affiliated to the Association. In other words, the clubs that played in the tournament are affiliated to their local leagues, that in turn are affiliated to AFA.

The tournament was disputed by teams from all around the country, except from Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario and Santa Fe, whose teams are directly affiliated. Teams directly affiliated play in the other regionalised fifth tier, the Primera D Metropolitana.

Teams in the Argentino C played for promotion to the Torneo Argentino B. On the other hand, there is no unique league below this level. Teams were relegated to their original regional leagues.

List of champions


Torneo Argentino C

List of champions

European-styled seasons Season  Winners / Promoted               Also Promoted
2005    Rivadavia (L)                    Crucero del Norte
        Real Arroyo Seco
        9 de Julio (RT)
2006    Deportivo Coreano                Bella Vista (BB)
        Sol de América (F)
        Atenas (RC)                      Colegiales (C)
2007    Liniers (BB)                     Defensores (S)
        Tiro Federal (M)                 Atlético Famaillá
                                         Tres Algarrobos
        Atlético Concepción
2008    Huracán (C)                      Unión (MdP)
        Sportivo del Bono
        Independiente (T)
2009    Unión (VK)                       Boca (RG)
        Ferro Carril Sud (O)
        Origone                          Altos Hornos Zapla
2010    Argentino (25dM)                 Atlético Paraná
        Sarmiento (SdE)
        Huracán Las Heras
2011    Once Tigres                      Jorge Newbery (CR)
        San Martín (F)
        Estudiantes (SL)
2012    Independiente (Ch)               Independiente (N)
        Rivadavia (VT)
        25 de Mayo (La Pampa)
        Argentino de Quilmes (R)
        Argentino Peñarol
        Atenas de Pocito
        Atlético Adelante
        Atlético Amalia
        Atlético Laguna Blanca
        Belgrano (E)
        Camioneros
        Camioneros Argentinos del Norte
2013    CEC                              —
        Coronel Aguirre
        Deportivo Achirense
        Deportivo Tabacal
        Everton (LP)
        Independiente Villa Obrera
        Jorge Newbery (Villa Mercedes)
        Kimberley
        Petrolero Austral
        Resistencia Central
        San Martín (Monte Comán)
        Almirante Brown (Lules)
        Américo Tesorieri
        Atlético Famaillá
        Atlético Pellegrini (Salta)
        Bella Vista (Tucumán)
        Boxing
        Bragado Club
        Colón Junior
        Comercio (Santa Sylvina)
        Comercio Central Unidos
        Defensores de Valeria del Mar
        Defensores de Pronunciamiento
        El Linqueño
        Ferrocarril Roca (Las Flores)
2014    General Belgrano                 —
        Güemes
        Huracán Las Heras
        Independiente (Fernández)
        Jorge Gibson Brown
        La Emilia
        La Salle Jobson
        Libertad (Concordia)
        Luján SC
        Maronese
        San Carlos (La Escondida)
        Sarmiento (CS)
        Social Obrero
        Sportivo Ballofet
        Sportivo Baradero
        Sportivo Peñarol


Torneo Argentino C

* Argentine football league system
  * List of football clubs in Argentina
  * Official site (in Spanish)
  * All-time table of the Torneo del Interior (in Spanish)


Savanna State Forest

The Savanna State Forest is located in Aitkin and Saint Louis counties in the U.S. State of Minnesota. Comprising over 238,000 acres, the forest is bisected by the Upper Mississippi River, and contains Savanna Portage State Park, which preserves a historic trade route connecting the Mississippi River with the upper reaches of the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin.

The forest has white-tailed deer, ruffed grouse, waterfowl, songbirds, and many other species. The most popular species in Big Sandy Lake and other lakes in the forest are bass, panfish, walleye, and northern pike.


Tirando

Tirando is a method of plucking used in classical guitar and flamenco guitar. Tirando is Spanish for "pulling" (in English, it is also called a "free stroke"). After plucking, the finger does not touch the string that is next lowest in pitch (physically higher) on the guitar, as it does with apoyando.


Peter Nwaoboshi

Peter Onyeluka Nwaoboshi (born 1958 in Delta State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian politician.Delta North senatorial district in the Nigerian Senate. He is a senator of the 8th and 9th National Assembly.Abuja as Senator-electAbuja however overturned the decision on 30 May 2019. The lead judge held that the Federal High Court that nullified his election had no jurisdiction over the case.

Personal life and education

Peter Nwaoboshi was born in 1958 in Delta State, Nigeria.West African School Certificate in 1976.University of Benin where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws. He also has a Master of Laws from Delta State University.

Career

Nwaoboshi began his career in 1979 as an aide to Samuel Ogbemudia, Governor of the defunct Bendel State. Subsequently, he was appointed Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation. In 1999, he was also a political adviser to Governor James Ibori. In 2000, he was appointed Commissioner for Agriculture and Special Duties in Delta State where he served in that position till 2006. In 2008, he was appointed State Chairman of the People's Democratic Party in Delta State. He served for a second term as State Chairman in 2012 and in 2014 resigned to run for senate.

In 2015, he was elected into office as a Senator representing Delta North senatorial district in the National Assembly.People's Democratic Party.Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.Delta Central Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.The Punch reported that Nwaoboshi's switch was in preparation for a run for Deputy Governor of Delta State.

Election dispute

On 3 April 2019 a Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Nwaoboshi as Senator-elect for Delta North senatorial district on grounds that he was not validly nominated in the party primaries held by the People's Democratic Party in Delta State.People's Democratic party had unlawfully announced him the winner after he was defeated in the primaries, it was also alleged that Nwoboshi hired thugs to cause a mass scare and stampede when he learnt of his brewing defeat.


Peter Nwaoboshi

On 4 April 2019, Nwaoboshi appealed to the judgement sacking him as senator-elect.Independent National Electoral Commission stating that it was out of its jurisdiction as an Appeal court had already ruled on the case, consequently the Justice Mahmud Mohammed ordered that Independent National Electorate Commission should withdraw the certificate of return issued to Nwaoboshi and reissue a new certificate to Prince Ned Nwoko.Although he is now the Delta North Senator

On 11 May 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission withdrew the certificate of return issued to Nwaoboshi.

Bills sponsored

In 2016, Peter Nwaoboshi sponsored a bill "The Code of Conduct Act Cap C15 LFN 2004 (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (SB 248)". The bill passed its first reading but was never signed or implemented into law.

Corruption allegations

₦322 million fraud and money laundering trial

In April 2018, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Nwaoboshi on charges of fraud and money laundering. The prosecution claimed Nwaoboshi's companies bought a Lagos building for ₦805 million in 2014 with the knowledge that ₦322 million of the payment would be used illegally; Nwaoboshi denied the claims and entered a not guilty plea.

False Asset Declaration

In April 2016, a Sahara Reporters article accused Nwaoboshi of acquiring under suspicious circumstances and then failing to disclose a Lagos property he owns. The home was owned by the Delta State Government before being sold to Nwaoboshi for a suspiciously low price and Nwaoboshi had not declared his ownership as legally required. The report came in the wake of Nwaoboshi sponsoring an amendment intended to weaken anti-corruption laws, and the article claimed that his support may have been in an attempt to stop the Code of Conduct Bureau from trying him.

In June 2019, charges were filed against Nwaoboshi for failing to declare his true assets after an investigation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) which accused Nwaoboshi of failing to disclose his ownership of three Sterling Bank accounts.

NDDC contract scandal


Peter Nwaoboshi

NDDC contract scandal

In June 2020, the Niger Delta Development Commission accused Nwaoboshi of using 11 front companies to defraud the Commission out of ₦3.6 billion worth of contracts in September 2016. The accusation came not long after Nwaoboshi accused Niger Delta Minister Godswill Akpabio of improperly securing project funds when Akpabio was Senate Minority Leader.National Assembly, the accusation against Nwaoboshi was termed "biggest single case of looting of the commission’s resources" by NDDC spokesperson Charles Odili.

Conviction

The Court of Appeal on July 1, 2022, found Nwaoboshi guilty of money laundering and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment alongside two of his companies Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd. The conviction followed an appeal of the previous judgment by a Federal High Court dismissing the submission of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The Appeal Court ruled that there was merit in the application of the EFCC and that Nwaoboshi failed to convince the court that he didn't commit the crime.

  * Peter Nwaoboshi profile


New York Polish Film Festival

Not to be confused with Polish Film Festival.

Film festivals
  * List of film festivals
      + Europe
      + North/Central America
      + Oceania
  * Documentary film festivals
  * Human rights film festivals
  * LGBT film festivals
  * New Media art festivals

New York Polish Film Festival (abbreviated to NYPFF, Polish: Nowojorski Festiwal Filmów Polskich) is a film festival held annually in New York City since 2005. Its mission is to present and promote Polish cinema in the United States, to expose an American audience to Polish films, as well as to offer Polish filmmakers a rare opportunity to showcase their works in a major cultural center such as New York.features, short films, animations and documentaries of Polish filmmakers regardless of the country where films were made. NYPFF is the only annual presentation of Polish films in New York City and the largest festival promoting and presenting Polish films on the East Coast.

Awards

The film festival’s jury grants the "Beyond Borders Award," named in honor of Krzysztof Kieślowski, for the best feature, documentary and short films (only Polish productions and US premieres at the festival are qualified to compete). The audience votes for their choice of the best Polish films and the winners in each category are presented with the "New York’s Audience Award." In 2011, in memory of Elżbieta Czyżewska, an award for best actress was introduced.

  * Cinema of Poland
  * List of famous Poles
  * List of film festivals
  * List of motion picture-related topics (Extensive alphabetical listing and glossary).
  * National Film School in Łódź
  * Outline of film
  * Polish film school
  * Seattle Polish Film Festival
  * Official website
  * New York Polish Film Festival on Facebook
  * New York Polish Film Festival on Twitter
  * Media related to New York Polish Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons


Lankapalle Agraharam

Lankapalli Agraharam is a village in Unguturu mandal, located in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.


Lucas Agüero

Lucas Ezequiel Agüero (born 28 April 1997) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Huracán Las Heras.

Career

Agüero's career began with Godoy Cruz.2017–18 Primera División campaign, a season in which he made his first professional appearances in after being substituted on during fixtures with Arsenal de Sarandí and Estudiantes in March 2018.Tigre in May, as Godoy Cruz finished 2nd in the Primera División table.2019–20 season out on loan in Primera B Nacional with All Boys.Torneo Federal A's Huracán Las Heras.

Career statistics

As of 30 September 2020. Club statistics
Club               Season   League              Cup   League Cup  Continental  Other  Total
Division           Apps     Goals               Apps  Goals       Apps         Goals  Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Godoy Cruz         2017–18  Primera División    2     0           0            0      —      0      0     0      0     2      0
2018–19            0        0                   0     0           0            0      0      0      0     0      0     0
2019–20            0        0                   0     0           0            0      0      0      0     0      0     0
Total              2        0                   0     0           0            0      0      0      0     0      2     0
All Boys (loan)    2019–20  Primera B Nacional  3     0           1            0      —      —      0     0      4     0
Huracán Las Heras  2020–21  Torneo Federal A    0     0           0            0      —      —      0     0      0     0
Career total       5        0                   1     0           0            0      0      0      0     0      6     0

  * Lucas Agüero at Soccerway


R peak

R peak, also written as R-peak and Rpeak, could refer to:

  * In the QRS complex of an electrocardiogram it refers to the maximum amplitude in the R wave
  * In the high performance LINPACK benchmarks of supercomputers it refers to the theoretical peak performance of the system


Pye baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for the Pye family. Both are now extinct.

The Baronetcy Pye of Leckhampstead was created on 27 April 1641 in the Baronetage of England, for Edmund Pye, who had purchased the Manor of Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire in 1628. He was Member of Parliament for Wycombe in 1661. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1673. His daughter Martha married the John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace and their daughter Martha Johnson succeeded her paternal grandmother as 8th Baroness Wentworth.

The Baronetcy of Pye of Hone was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 January 1665 for John Pye of Hone, Derbyshire second son of Sir Robert Pye of Faringdon, Berkshire (1558–1662), Auditor of the Exchequer to James I and Charles I.Clifton Campville, Staffordshire in 1700 and served as Member of Parliament for Derby in 1701. The third Baronet was also Member of Parliament for Derby in 1710. He died unmarried. When his brother, successor as fourth Baronet, also died unmarried in 1734 the baronetcy became extinct.

The Clifton estate was entailed and passed through the female line to Severne and Watkins. When Charles Watkins, Rector of Clifton, died in 1833, the estate reverted to the Pyes of Faringdon, and was inherited by Harry James Pye (1802–1884) (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840), the son of Henry James Pye, Poet Laureate (1790–1813).

Pye of Leckhampstead (1641)

  * Sir Edmund Pye, 1st Baronet (1607–1673)

Pye of Hone (1665)

  * Sir Kenneth John Pye, 1st Baronet (1626–1697)
  * Sir Charles Pye, 2nd Baronet (1651–1721)
  * Sir Richard Pye, 3rd Baronet (1689–1724)
  * Sir Robert Pye, 4th Baronet (1696–1734)
  * A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Joh Burke (1835) pp350–2 Google Books ( Pye of Faringdon and Hone)
  * Dictionary of National Biography Ed. Sidney Lee (2001) pp68–9 Google Books ( Pye of Faringdon)
  * Leigh Rayment's list of baronets


Lagansky District

Lagansky District (Russian: Лага́нский райо́н; Kalmyk: Лаганя район, Laganya rayon) is an administrativeraion), one of the thirteen in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is 4,685.51 square kilometers (1,809.09 sq mi).administrative center is the town of Lagan.2010 Census, the total population of the district was 20,089, with the population of Lagan accounting for 71.3% of that number.

History

The district was established in 1935.Kaspiysky (Russian: Каспи́йский райо́н, lit. "Caspian"; Kalmyk: Каспийск район, Kaspijsk rajon).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Lagansky District is one of the thirteen in the Republic of Kalmykia.town (an administrative division with the administrative center in the town (an inhabited locality) of Lagan) and three rural administrations, which comprise five rural localities.municipal division, the district is incorporated as Lagansky Municipal District.


Lagansky District

* Президент Республики Калмыкия. Приложение к Указу №137 от 25 июня 2002 г. «Реестр административно-территориальных единиц Республики Калмыкия», в ред. Указа №103 от 27 июня 2011 г «О внесении изменений в Реестр административно-территориальных единиц Республики Калмыкия, утверждённый Указом Президента Республики Калмыкия от 26 декабря 2001 г. №235 "Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц Республики Калмыкия"». (President of the Republic of Kalmykia. Appendix to Decree #137 of June 25, 2002 Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Republic of Kalmykia, as amended by the Decree #103 of June 27, 2011 On Amending the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Republic of Kalmykia, Adopted by Decree #235 of the President of the Republic of Kalmykia of December 26, 2001 "On Adopting the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Republic of Kalmykia". ).


Lagansky District

* Народный Хурал (Парламент) Республики Калмыкия. Закон №308-IV-З от 23 ноября 2011 г. «О некоторых вопросах организации местного самоуправления в Республики Калмыкия», в ред. Закона №105-V-З от 6 марта 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статью 13.1 Закона Республики Калмыкия "О некоторых вопросах организации местного самоуправления в Республики Калмыкия"». Вступил в силу по истечении 10 дней со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Хальмг Унн", №214, 24 ноября 2011 г. (People's Khural (Parliament) of the Republic of Kalmykia. Law #308-IV-Z of November 23, 2011 On Various Issues of the Organization of the Local Self-Government in the Republic of Kalmykia, as amended by the Law #105-V-Z of March 6, 2015 On Amending Article 13.1 of the Law of the Republic of Kalmykia "On Various Issues of the Organization of the Local Self-Government in the Republic of Kalmykia". Effective as of after 10 days since the day of the official publication.).


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013)

The Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013) was a professional wrestling tournament event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place from April 12 until April 26, 2013 over the course of two CMLL Super Viernes shows, with the finals on the Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show. The Torneo Gran Alternativa (Spanish for "the Great Alternative tournament) concept sees a Novato or rookie team up with an experienced wrestler for a tag team tournament. The rookie winner is often elevated up the ranks of CMLL as a result of winning the tournament, but there is no specific "prize" for winning the tournament. The tournament was won by rookie Boby Zavala and veteran Rey Escorpión, Escorpión's second tournament win overall.

History

Starting in 1994 the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up a novato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-elimination tag team tournament.El Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament" and became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2013. The 2013 Gran Alternativa tournament was the 19th overall Gran Alternativa tournament. All tournaments have been held in Arena México.

Tournament background

The tournament features 15 professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers teaming up, some of which may be involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines while others are simply paired up for the tournament. Wrestlers portray either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or fan favorites (Técnicos in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes. The tournament format follows CMLL's traditional tournament formats, with two qualifying blocks of eight teams that compete on the first and second week of the tournament and a final match between the two block winners. The qualifying blocks were one-fall matches while the tournament finals will be a best two-out-of-three falls tag team match. Each qualifying block started with all 8 Novatos competing in a "seeding" battle royal to determine the brackets for the block.


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013)

2013 Gran Alternativa participants Block    Rookie              Veteran
Block A  Taurus              Averno
Block A  Oro Jr.             Mascara Dorada
Block A  Hombre Bala Jr.     Atlantis
Block A  Stigma              La Mascara
Block A  Guerrero Negro Jr.  Último Guerrero
Block A  Disturbio           Volador Jr.
Block A  Robin               Maximo
Block A  Akuma               Mephisto
Block B  Soberano Jr.        La Sombra
Block B  Sensei              Rush
Block B  Herodes Jr.         El Terrible
Block B  Boby Zavala         Rey Escorpión
Block B  Espanto Jr.         Mr. Niebla
Block B  Camaleón            Brazo de Plata
Block B  El Cholo            Rey Bucanero
Block B  Leono               Blue Panther

Out of all the Novato participants only Hombre Bala Jr. and Boby Zavala had participated in the Gran Alternativa tournament before, having both participated in the 2012 version. Hombre Bala Jr. had teamed up with Marco Corleone, only to lose in their first match to the team of Atlantis and Tritón.Rey Bucanero, but had also lost in the first round, to the team of Dragon Lee and Rush.Novato group even though they were not truly rookies, having been professional wrestlers for over a decade each and having used their current ring characters in CMLL since 2005 and 2007 respectively.

Tournament results

  First round                                                                                Quarter-finals      Semi-finals      Final

  1            Stigma and La Mascara


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013)

First round                                                                                Quarter-finals      Semi-finals      Final

  1            Stigma and La Mascara

  16           Taurus and Averno                      W
               Taurus and Averno

                                                      Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis           W
  8            Akuma and Mephisto

  9            Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis           W
               Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis           W

                                                      Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero
  5            Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero  W

  12           Oro Jr. and Mascara Dorada
               Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero  W

                                                      Disturbio and Volador Jr.
  4            Robin and Maximo

  13           Disturbio and Volador Jr.              W
               Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis

                                                      Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión          W
  6            Soberano Jr. and La Sombra             W

  11           Herodes Jr. and El Terrible
               Soberano Jr. and La Sombra             W

                                                      Rush and Sensei
  3            El Cholo and Rey Bucanero

  14           Sensei and Rush                        W
               Soberano Jr. and La Sombra

                                                      Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión          W
  7            Leono and Blue Panther

  10           Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión          W
               Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión          W

                                                      Espanto Jr. and Mr. Niebla
  2            Espanto Jr. and Mr. Niebla             W

  15           Camaleón and Brazo de Plata

Super Viernes events

April 12, 2013


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013)

Super Viernes events

April 12, 2013

No.  Results                                                                                Stipulations
1    Mercurio, Pequeño Nitro and Pequeño Olímpico defeated Acero, Aéreo, Fantasy                                                       Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
2    Goya Kong, Luna Mágica and Silueta defeated La Comandante, La Vaquerita and Tiffany                                               Best two-out-of-three falls six-woman tag team match
3    Rey Cometa defeated Namajague by disqualification                                                                                Lightning match (One fall, 10 minute time-limit match)
4    Disturbio and Robin defeated Hombre Bala Jr., Guerrero Negro Jr., Stigma, Taurus, Oro Jr., Akuma                                  Gran Alternativa 2013 Block A "Seeding" Battle Royal
5    Taurus and Averno defeated Stigma and La Mascara                                                                                Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
6    Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis defeated Akuma and Mephisto                                                                          Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
7    Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero defeated Oro Jr. and Mascara Dorada                                                         Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
8    Disburbio and Volador Jr. defeated Robin and Maximo                                                                               Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
9    Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis defeated Taurus and Averno                                                                           Gran Alternativa 2013 quarter final match
10   Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero defeated Distubio and Volador Jr.                                                           Gran Alternativa 2013 quarter final match
11   Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis defeated Guerreo Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero                                                       Gran Alternativa 2013 semi-final match
12   La Sombra, Marco Corleone and Shocker defeated Mr. Águila and Los Revolucionarios del Terror (Dragón Rojo Jr. and Rey Escorpión)  Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match

April 19, 2013


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2013)

April 19, 2013

No.  Results                                                                                Stipulations
1    Pequeño Black Warrior and Pequeño Violencia defeated Electrico and Pequeño Halcón                                                          Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match
2    El Hijo del Signo and Disturbio defeated Metálico and Molotov                                                                              Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match
3    Místico La Nueva Era and Averno defeated Valiente, Rey Cometa, Guerrero Maya Jr., Fuego, Volador Jr., Tiger, Sangre Azteca and Namajague   10-man Torneo cibernetico qualifying match for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship
4    Espanto Jr. and Camaleón defeated Sensei and Herodes Jr. and Soberano and El Cholo and Leono and Boby Zavala                               Gran Alternativa 2013 Block B "Seeding" Battle Royal
5    La Sombra and Soberano Jr. defeated Herodes Jr. and El Terrible                                                                            Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match\
6    Rush and Sensei defeated El Cholo and Rey Bucanero                                                                                Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
7    Rey Escorpión and Boby Zavala defeated Blue Panther and Leono                                                                              Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
8    Mr. Niebla and Espanto Jr. defeated Camaleón and Brazo de Plata                                                                            Gran Alternativa 2013 first-round match
9    Soberano Jr. and La Sombra defeated Rush and Sensei                                                                                Gran Alternativa 2013 quarter final match
10   Rey Escorpión and Boby Zavala defeated Mr. Niebla and Espanto Jr.                                                                          Gran Alternativa 2013 quarter final match
11   Rey Escorpión and Boby Zavala defeated La Sombra and Soberano                                                                              Gran Alternativa 2013 semi-final match
12   Atlantis, Diamante Azul and Shocker defeated Mr. Águila and Los Guerreros del Infierno (Último Guerrero and Euforia) by disqualification.  Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match

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No.  Results                                                                                Stipulations
1    El Hijo del Signo and Los Guerreros Tuareg (Arkangel de la Muerte and Skándalo) defeated Metálico, Sensei and Soberano Jr. – two falls to one  Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
2    Los Hijos del Averno (Ephesto and Mephisto) and El Felino defeated Ángel de Oro, Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr. – two falls to one                Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
3    Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión defeated Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis – two falls to one                                                         Gran Alternativa 2013 semi-final match
4    Rey Cometa defeated Namajague – two falls to one                                                                                Best two-out-of-three falls Luchas de Apuestas, hair vs. hair match
5    Averno defeated Místico La Nueva Era – two falls to one                                                                                Best two-out-of-three falls match for the vacant Mexican National Welterweight Championship
6    Último Guerrero, Volador Jr. and El Terrible defeated Máscara Dorada, Rush and La Sombra by disqualification – two falls to one                Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match


Self-portrait (disambiguation)

Look up self-portrait in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A self-portrait is a picture made by the person that it depicts.

Self Portrait or Self-Portrait may also refer to:

Visual arts

See also: Category:Self-portraits
  * Self-Portrait (Beccafumi)
  * Self-Portrait (Giovanni Bellini)
  * Self-Portrait (Paul Bril)
  * Self-portrait (Chassériau)
  * Self-portrait (David)
  * Self-Portrait (Dou, New York)
  * Self-Portrait (Dürer, Madrid)
  * Self-Portrait (Dürer, Munich)
  * Self-portrait (Thomas Eakins)
  * Self-Portrait (Frick, Rembrandt)
  * Self-Portrait (Artemisia Gentileschi)
  * Self-portrait (Giorgione)
  * Self-Portrait (El Greco)
  * Self-portrait (Hans Holbein the Younger)
  * Self-Portrait (Jordaens)
  * Self Portrait (Kramskoi)
  * Self-Portrait (Lampi)
  * Self-portrait by Judith Leyster
  * Self-portrait (Raphael)
  * Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Altman)
  * Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Florence)
  * Self-portrait (Rembrandt, Indianapolis)
  * Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Wallace Collection, London)
  * Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Louvre)
  * Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Vienna)
  * Self-Portrait (Rubens, Antwerp)
  * Self-Portrait (Rubens, London)
  * Self-portrait (Tartaglia)
  * Self Portrait (Tintoretto)
  * Self-Portrait (Titian, Berlin)
  * Self-Portrait (Titian, Madrid)
  * Self-portrait (van Dyck, 1613-14)
  * Self-portrait (van Dyck, 1640)
  * Self-Portrait (van Hemessen)
  * Self-Portrait (Simon Vouet)

Music


Self-portrait (disambiguation)

Music

  * Self Portrait (Ruth Copeland album) (1970)
  * Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album) (1970)
  * Self Portrait (Lalah Hathaway album) (2008)
  * Self Portrait (Hitomi album) (2002)
  * Self-Portrait (Jay-Jay Johanson album) (2008)
  * Self Portrait (Raymond Lam album) (2012)
  * Self Portrait (Junko Onishi album) (1998)
  * Self Portrait (Loma Prieta album) (2015)
  * "Self Portrait", a 1975 song by Rainbow from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
  * Self-Portrait (Suho Album) (2020)

Other uses

  * Self-Portrait (film), a 1969 film by Yoko Ono
  * Self Portrait, an autobiography by Che Guevara
  * Self-Portrait (book), a 2019 book by Celia Paul
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USS T. A. Ward

USS T. A. Ward was a 284-ton schooner was purchased by the Union Navy during the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

T. A. Ward was initially assigned by the Union Navy for blockade duty in the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America; however, because of a change in Union strategy, she was redesignated a mortar gunboat, and outfitted with a powerful 13-inch mortar which could fire up onto high riverbank targets, which regular guns could not reach.

Service history

Schooner T. A. Ward was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 9 October 1861. While the vessel was being fitted out for blockade duty, she was selected for service in the mortar flotilla being established by Comdr. David Dixon Porter to support Flag Officer David G. Farragut's impending attack on New Orleans, Louisiana. The schooner was armed with a 13-inch seacoast mortar weighing over eight and one-half tons. Two 32-pounders were also installed to give her a low-trajectory punch. The ship was manned by a crew from the receiving ship USS North Carolina and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 17 January 1862, Lt. Walter W. Queen in command. Late in January, the schooner sailed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, carrying supplies for schooners USS George Mangham and USS Adolph Hugel. From that port, she proceeded to Key West, Florida, where Porter's flotilla was assembling. Early in March, she proceeded thence to Ship Island, Mississippi, the staging point for Farragut's invasion of the South.

Gulf coast operations


USS T. A. Ward

Gulf coast operations

In mid-March, the schooners sailed to Pass a l'Outre where they were towed across the bar into the Mississippi River on the 18th. Once inside, they waited almost a month while Farragut's steamers labored to get the West Gulf Blockading Squadron's deep-draft ships over the bar and into the river and while other preparations were made for Farragut's attack on the South's greatest city. On 15 April, revenue cutter USS Harriet Lane towed T. A. Ward up the Mississippi River to a position just out of range of the Southern guns in Fort St. Phillip and Fort Jackson. There, the crews camouflaged their ships with bushes and tree branches. On the morning of the 18th, Lt. Queen, who also commanded the flotilla's second division, had the schooner towed upstream to a predesignated position on the northeast shore of the river less than 4,000 yards from Fort Jackson. Almost immediately, the guns of the fort opened fire on the schooners which, in turn, began lobbing shells into the Confederate stronghold.

Early in the action, a near miss upset several barrels of gunpowder in T. A. Ward's magazine but fortunately did not detonate the explosives. One-half hour later, a shot struck the schooner, damaging her rigging as it smashed through several bulkheads before leaving the vessel through a hole in T. A. Ward's side a few inches above her waterline. Queen then ordered his division to drop downstream a few hundred yards where the schooner's gunners resumed the bombardment as her crew began to repair the damage. The shelling continued for six days and nights. It reached a crescendo in the wee hours of 25 April to distract the gunners in the Southern forts as Farragut's fleet raced upstream past the Confederate strongholds to take New Orleans. The following day, New Orleans fell; but Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson held out until the 28th when they finally surrendered to Porter. On 6 May, T. A. Ward retired to Ship Island which the mortar flotilla used as a base for blockade operations to cut off Confederate commerce in the Gulf of Mexico while awaiting Farragut's return from the Mississippi to join in an attack on Mobile, Alabama.


USS T. A. Ward

Early in June, their blockade duty was interrupted by orders which sent the flotilla back up the Mississippi River to support Farragut in an attack on Vicksburg, Mississippi, which he had been directed to undertake by President Abraham Lincoln. A shortage of steamers in the lower river delayed the flotilla's ascent of the river, but the mortar schooners were on station below Vicksburg on 28 June, in time to bombard the Confederate batteries which guarded the river at that point while Farragut's deep-draft warships dashed past the Southern guns to join Flag Officer Charles H. Davis' Western Flotilla in the upper river. While Farragut's daring foray past Vicksburg was tactically successful, it was brought to naught strategically by the Union Army's want of sufficient troops to take and hold the river fortress. Thus, after a fortnight's inconclusive operations with Davis, Farragut—supported again by the mortar boats—dashed once more under the Confederate guns and retired downstream to New Orleans.

East coast operations

Meanwhile, events had occurred near Richmond, Virginia, which beckoned T. A. Ward back to the U.S. East Coast. General George B. McClellan's drive up the Peninsula toward the Confederate capital had been halted by General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the Seven Days campaign, and the Union's Army of the Potomac was beleaguered in a bridgehead at Harrison's Landing on the northern bank of the James River. As a result, in an effort to save the imperiled Northern troops, Federal Army leaders in Washington asked U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles for all possible naval support in the James. In compliance, the Union Secretary of the Navy ordered most of Porter's mortar boats back to Hampton Roads, where T. A. Ward and her sisters arrived on the last day of July.


USS T. A. Ward

By this time, however, the greatest danger to the Union Army had passed; and the mortar vessels were repaired before resuming active operations. When back in top fighting trim, T. A. Ward was assigned to the Potomac Flotilla which was then protecting Union communications with Washington, D.C. by water and attempting to stop Confederate traffic across the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia. Her first contact with the enemy came on the night of 3 and 4 October near Blakistone Island, Maryland, when she captured a large man-of-war boat which was attempting to slip back to Virginia under cover of darkness. The next night, she took two more boats attempting to run the blockade from Breton and St. Clement's Bays. Later in the month, the ship sailed to the Rappahannock River for blockade duty. On 29 October, a party from T. A. Ward helped to put out a fire in the American merchant ship Alleghanian, which had been set ablaze by a group of Virginians.

By mid-November, the schooner was back on station in the Potomac and captured the sloop G. W. Green; a seine boat; and six prisoners near St. Jerome's Creek, Maryland. She continued to serve in the Potomac Flotilla until transferred to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron early in the summer of 1863. T. A. Ward arrived at Hampton Roads on 5 July and soon was stationed off Wilmington, North Carolina, where she served on blockade duty into the autumn. On 26 September, orders from Washington directed her to proceed to waters off Charleston, South Carolina, for duty with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. On 17 October 1863 at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, boat crews from the schooner destroyed Southern merchant schooner Rover, before that blockade runner could slip to sea laden with cotton. Three days later, a party from T. A. Ward went ashore to reconnoiter and obtain fresh water; but it was surprised by Confederate cavalry. Ten of the Union seamen were captured.


USS T. A. Ward

On 12 April 1864, boats from T. A. Ward and USS South Carolina seized the blockade-running steamer Alliance, which the night before had run aground on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, laden with glass, liquor, and soap. On 16 August 1864, a boat expedition from USS Saratoga and T. A. Ward captured some 100 prisoners and a large quantity of arms during a daring raid into McIntosh County, Georgia. The Union landing party also destroyed a salt works and a bridge across the South Newport River on the main road to Savannah, Georgia. Between the 23d and the 25th of the same month, men from these two ships engaged Confederate pickets along Georgia's Turtle River. T. A. Ward spent the autumn and early winter undergoing repairs at Port Royal, South Carolina; but, by New Year's Day 1865, she was on blockade duty off Charleston, and she served in nearby waters through the end of the Civil War. In June 1865, she was detached and sailed north. The schooner arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 15 July 1865, was decommissioned there on 22 July 1865, and was sold on 25 September 1865.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.


Operation Cleanslate

During World War II, Operation Cleanslate was the occupation of Russell Islands about sixty miles northwest of Guadalcanal by the United States on 21 February 1943. The Japanese had captured the islands in January 1943 but abandoned them after only two weeks. A coastwatcher reported on 11 February that Japanese forces had left the islands.

Background

Located 25 miles from Guadalcanal, Russell Islands had no part in the operations there, until occupied by Japanese forces on January 1943, to use them as a staging post for the evacuation of Guadalcanal. Reportedly, their presence there was very short-lived, and on 11 February they had left the islands.

After securing Guadalcanal, Admiral William Halsey Jr. ordered the occupation of the Russells, both to develop the islands for future operations and to prevent the Japanese from using them against American forces.

Landings

Forces assigned to take the islands comprised around 10,000 men, including the 43rd Army Division and the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion. Though the target was undefended, there was still some risk of being discovered and attacked while en route, or a landing of enemy forces to dispute the islands. Neither of the possible threats materialised, so the invasion was over in a mere six hours, without engaging the enemy.

Aftermath

The base, Naval Base Banika Island, was attacked after the invasion by Japanese planes, from March to July 1943, but the raids could not prevent the building of a large base, with two airfields, a radar station and diverse naval facilities. The base was used in the invasions of New Georgia, Northern Solomon Islands and Bismarck Islands. It was still in operation at the time of the landings in Okinawa, but it was already being dismantled.

  * www.historyofwar.org: "Operation Cleanslate".

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  * www.ibiblio.org: "Epilogue: Occupation of the Russells".


Newspaper digitization

Newspaper digitization is the process of converting old newspapers from analog form into digital images. The most common analog forms for old newspapers are paper and microfilm. Digitized images of newspaper pages are typically (though not always) analyzed with OCR software in order to produce text files of the newspaper content. Newspaper digitization is a special case of digitization in general.

Newspapers preserve a rich record of the past, and since the advent of digital media, many institutions across the world have begun to digitize them and make the digital files publicly available. However, over 90% of newspapers remained unscanned in 2015.

Successful newspaper scanning is a complex activity. Although scanning from paper is possible, microfilm scanning is cheaper and good microfilm has been called “the single most critical factor in the success of newspaper digitization.”

The cost of storing printed newspapers and the relatively low demand for originals after microfilming and scanning means that printed newspapers, once microfilmed or scanned, have often been thrown out. Some people feel that this is a loss for researchers, or simply that there is a poignancy when the paper reading experience disappears. Author Nicholson Baker went so far as to create a paper newspaper archive, which he called the American Newspaper Repository, in order to preserve paper newspapers that would otherwise be discarded.

More recent newspapers may have been "born digital," meaning that they were printed from computer files rather than by letterpress or phototypesetting.

Finding aids and metasearch engines

  * Worldwide list of online newspaper archives, maintained at Wikipedia.
  * Worldwide list of newspaper digitization projects at the Center for Research Libraries, International Coalition on Newspapers.
  * Elephind, a website that provides a free metasearch service for several large collections (mostly Australian and American).
  * Digital reformatting
  * Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert, "Microfilm, paper, and OCR: issues in newspaper digitization" Microform & Imaging Review, 33, 2 (2003): 59-67. (Early review of newspaper digitization.)
  * Edwin Klijn, "The current state-of-art in newspaper digitization: a market perspective" D-Lib Magazine, 14, 1-2 (January–February 2008).
  * Center for Research Libraries, "The state of the art: a comparative analysis of newspaper digitization to date", 10 April 2015.


Lankascincus sripadensis

Lankascincus sripadensis, also commonly known as the Sripada forest skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka.

  * http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Lankascincus&species=sripadensis
  * http://eol.org/pages/23672828/overview
  * Two new species of Skinks from Sri Lanka


Sarah McInerney

Sarah McInerney (born 2 April 1981) is an Irish radio and TV presenter and reporter, notable for her work with RTÉ, TV3 / Virgin Media One and Newstalk, and a print journalist, notably having worked with the Sunday Tribune and The Sunday Times. From County Galway and with a degree in journalism from Dublin City University, she co-presents RTÉ's main commute-time radio programme, Drivetime, and RTÉ's flagship current affairs TV programme, Prime Time.

Early life and education

Born to two school teachers, and growing up in Barna, County Galway, McInerney attended Salerno Girls Secondary School in Salthill, Galway. She completed a degree in journalism at Dublin City University in 2003. She has since said that this was by mistake, as she really wanted to learn how to write fiction. Her course included a term at Boston University studying fiction writing, but her lecturer did not recommend a career as a general creative writer but as a playwright or actor.

Career

In the course of completing her journalism degree, McInerney completed a work placement at the Sunday Tribune in 2003, in the second week of which she co-wrote a front-page piece, appearing with her name in the by-line. She has since said that she found that she was well-prepared for the work, and after a few weeks, loved it.Sarah in the City, and then also as a news reporter.Sunday Times,

After 15 years in print journalism, McInerney began to be invited to broadcast panel discussions,Newstalk as co-host of their main weekday "drive time" programme, going freelance.News Broadcaster of the Year national award but after about a year the programme was abruptly moved to a one-hour weekend slot, and she and her co-host left the station within a few months.Fintan O'Toole in an Irish Times piece, which accused Newstalk of sexism.

McInerney joined the current affairs unit at TV3 (now Virgin Media One), sometimes substituting for leading presenters such as Vincent Browne, a mentor of hers, on television, and taking on her own current affairs programme on Sundays.Wicklow Mountains, and worked on a documentary for the BBC.


Sarah McInerney

McInerney moved to RTÉ Radio One, presenting a major daily current affairs show, Today with Sarah McInerney, from May to August 2020, and then moving to co-present the primary evening commute programme Drivetime from September 2020. In March 2021 it was announced that McInerney would additionally become co-presenter of RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme, Prime Time, along with Fran McNulty, joining veteran Miriam O'Callaghan,

Personal life

McInerney is married to Thomas, an actuary, and they have two sons.Sutton, a northern suburb of Dublin.

McInerney was given an Alumni Award by her alma mater, DCU, in 2018.Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland.

  * Extensive interview with Roisin Ingle of the Irish Times, April 2021


R v Andrews

R v Andrews, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 870 is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the freedom of expression under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is a companion case to R v Keegstra. The Court upheld the criminal provision that prohibits communicating statements that wilfully promote hatred.

Background

Donald Andrews was the leader of a white supremacist political group known as the Nationalist Party of Canada and Robert Smith was the party secretary. Together they were in charge of the party's bi-monthly magazine called the National Reporter which made claims against the Jewish and black peoples. Both Andrews and Smith were charged with "unlawfully communicating statements, other than in private conversation, which willfully promoted hatred against an identifiable group" contrary to s. 319(2) of the Criminal Code.

At trial they were found guilty for promoting hatred. On appeal to the Court of Appeal for Ontario Justice Cory found that section 319(2) violated section 2(b) of the Charter but could be justified under section 1.

The question before the Supreme Court was

 1. whether s. 319(2) of the Criminal Code violated section 2(b) of the Charter, and if so, whether the violation was justifiable under section 1.
 2. whether s. 319(3)(a) of the Criminal Code violated section 11(d) of the Charter, and if so, whether the violation was justifiable under section 1.

The court held that section 319(2) and 319(3)(a) violated the Charter but were saved under section 1.

Reasons of the court

Chief Justice Dickson, writing for the majority, upheld the Criminal Code provisions. Dickson looked to his opinion in R. v. Keegstra and applied the reasoning from the decision came to the same conclusion that the law should be upheld.

  * List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Dickson Court)
  * Full text of Supreme Court of Canada decision at LexUM and CanLII
  * case summary at mapleleafweb.com


Jerome Myers

Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 – June 19, 1940) was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people.Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult life in New York City. Myers worked briefly as an actor and scene painter. He then studied art for a year at Cooper Union followed by study at the Art Students League over a period of eight years where his main teacher was George de Forest Brush. In 1896 he went to Paris, but only stayed a few months, believing that his main classroom was the streets of New York's Lower East Side. His strong interest and feelings for the new immigrants resulted in over a thousand drawings, as well as paintings, etchings and watercolors that depicted their lives outside of the tenements which were their first homes in America.

In a 1923 magazine article he explained why cities were his greatest source of inspiration:

All my life I had lived, worked and played in the poorest streets of American cities. I knew them and their population and was one of them. Others saw ugliness and degradation there, I saw poetry and beauty, so I came back to them. I took a sporting chance of saying something out of my own experience and risking whether it was worthwhile or not. That is all any artist can do.

Life and career

Early years

Backyard 1888, oil on board


Jerome Myers

Early years

Backyard 1888, oil on board

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Jerome Myers was one of Abram and Julia Hillman Myers' five children. His brother, Gustavus Myers, later became a prominent muckraking journalist, socialist activist, and historian. As their father was often absent, the Myers children were raised by their mother and eventually lived in Trenton, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From time to time, the siblings were placed in foster homes when their mother was ill. Given these family hardships, Myers began taking odd jobs at a young age, living in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving on to New York City. Arriving in Manhattan in 1886 at the age of nineteen, Myers worked for several years as a scene painter and later for the Moss Engraving Company, where he reproduced photographic negatives. During this time he began attending evening art classes at Cooper Union and the Art Students League. Even then, his interest in urban subjects was evident. Myers' earliest oil painting, Backyard (1888), depicting a clotheslines silhouetted against distant tenements, is today thought to be one of the first paintings exemplifying Ashcan School subject matter in America.Morris and Essex Canal, Myers made his first sale to the woman who lived on the boat. The price was two dollars.

Becoming a professional artist

Market in Paris, 1920, oil on canvas

In 1895, Myers found work in the art department of the New York Tribune. With savings of two hundred and fifty dollars from this job, he traveled to Paris in 1896. Upon his return to New York City, with only twenty dollars left, he rented, for seven dollars a month, a studio at 232 West 14th Street in a former five-story mansion, "equipped with a skylight and converted to the use of artists."James Speyer. As an early critic for the New York Globe stated: "Myers' reputation dates from that purchase."Exhibition of Paintings Mainly by New Men, among the twenty artists included were Robert Henri, John French Sloan, and Myers, showing their works together for the first time.

Summer in Manhattan

Night in Seward Park, 1919, oil on canvas


Jerome Myers

Night in Seward Park, 1919, oil on canvas

For Jerome Myers, summer in Manhattan provided particular opportunities for depicting immigrant life in the urban landscape. The hot weather brought the tenement dwellers out into the streets and parks of the city. By July 1906, Myers' reputation as an artist depicting the life of the people on the Lower East Side was such that a New York Times reporter was assigned to him, beginning at five o'clock one morning, to observe the artist capturing likenesses of the adults at work and children at play. To walk through the East Side with Myers, the reporter noted, "turning off here and there to glance at some particular house or group of people, ... [was] to receive an impression of a joyous life lived in the open air for much the same reason as people live in that fashion in Europe—because their homes are not as comfortable as the streets."

Later years

Myers won the Altman Prize for Street Shrine in 1931 and again in 1937 for City Playground. He was awarded the National Academy's Carnegie Prize in 1936 and the Isidor Medal in 1938. In 1934 the Metropolitan Museum of Art had purchased the painting Street Group from the Municipal Art Exhibition in Rockefeller Center. The New York Herald Tribune reported:

The Tambourine. This oil painting from 1905 was one of the 90 works shown in the Jerome Myers Memorial Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1941.

the painting by Mr. Myers is of a group of women standing talking in a somber street, with children playing about them. Mr. Myers considers it typical of his work, and says it is the sort of scene he most enjoys to paint. "Old streets and old houses and the people who live in them," he explained. "I am trying to catch the New York that is passing," he said. "I painted that down on Delancey Street seven or eight years ago and already the scene has changed in spirit. I want to get it before it is gone."

Twenty two years earlier, in 1912, the Metropolitan had made its first purchase of a Myers painting, The Mission Tent. The June 1913 Metropolitan Museum Bulletin wrote:


Jerome Myers

Jerome Myers for several years has been showing New Yorkers the artistic possibilities of what is perhaps the unique part of the city's scenes. He has discovered these subjects for himself and treats them in his own way. It is never the exciting moments of street life that move him, only the daily happenings, the usual things that all may see. Boys and girls playing in the square, the crowd at a recreation pier, an organ-grinder followed by a troop of dancing children, old people whom the night freshness lures to the park-bench or the wharf, a religious festival in Little Italy—these are his favorite themes and he renders them with loving sincerity and a profound appreciation of their significance.

Carnegie Hall in 1899, showing the added towers where Myers had his studio

Not only was the sale to the Metropolitan a great honor then, but it also provided him with enough money to move his family from their small studio into a more spacious one in the new Carnegie Hall.

Myers died in his Carnegie studio on June 19, 1940, after a series of illnesses complicated by an injury sustained from a fall. He was 73.Artist In Manhattan. In their obituary for Myers, published in July 1940, The Art Digest wrote:

Though Myers later achieved wide honors—he was elected to the Academy and awarded such important prizes as the Altman, the Carnegie and the Isidor Medal—he suffered from neglect in recent years. Forgotten, for the most part, were Myers' distinctive contributions to our native art and the battles he has fought for art freedom.

In April–May 1941 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City held the Jerome Myers Memorial Exhibition with over 90 of his paintings, drawings and etchings lent by museums throughout the United States as well as private collectors. The oil paintings exhibited ranged from his 1905 The Tambourine to a self-portrait completed in 1939, the year before his death.Ethel Myers whom he had married in 1905 and their daughter, the dancer Virginia Myers. Following her husband's death Ethel devoted much of her time to furthering his artistic reputation. She lectured on his work throughout the United States, under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts from 1941 to 1943 and maintained the Jerome Myers Memorial Gallery in New York City for a number of years.

Gallery


Jerome Myers

Gallery

  * [Band Concert Night, 1910, oil on canvas]
    Band Concert Night, 1910, oil on canvas
  * [Wonderland, 1921, oil on canvas]
    Wonderland, 1921, oil on canvas
  * [Waiting for the Concert, 1921, oil on canvas]
    Waiting for the Concert, 1921, oil on canvas
  * [Evening on the Pier, 1921, oil on canvas]
    Evening on the Pier, 1921, oil on canvas

Museums holding Jerome Myers' work


Jerome Myers

* Addison Gallery of American Art
  * Arkansas Arts Center
  * Arkell Museum
  * Art Gallery of Hamilton
  * Art Institute of Chicago
  * Barnes Foundation
  * Blanton Museum of Art
  * Boston University
  * Brooklyn Museum of Art
  * Butler Institute of American Art
  * Carnegie Museum of Art
  * Claremont Colleges
  * Cleveland Museum of Art
  * Columbus Museum (Georgia)
  * Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio)
  * Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  * Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  * Corcoran Gallery of Art
  * Currier Museum of Art
  * Delaware Art Museum
  * Denver Art Museum
  * Detroit Institute of Arts
  * Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College
  * Everson Museum of Art
  * Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  * Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
  * Georgia Museum of Art
  * Greenville County Museum of Art
  * Heckscher Museum of Art
  * Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
  * High Museum of Art
  * Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College
  * Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  * Hood Museum of Art
  * Hunter Museum of American Art
  * Huntington Library
  * Indianapolis Museum of Art
  * Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
  * Joslyn Art Museum
  * Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
  * Kennesaw State University
  * Library of Congress
  * Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  * Maier Museum of Art
  * Mead Art Museum
  * Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
  * Metropolitan Museum of Art
  * Milwaukee Art Museum
  * Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  * Montclair Art Museum
  * Museum of Art at Brigham Young University


Jerome Myers

* Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
  * Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
  * Museum of the City of New York
  * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  * Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
  * Muskegon Museum of Art
  * Nashville Parthenon
  * National Academy of Design
  * National Gallery of Art
  * National Portrait Gallery (United States)
  * Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  * New Britain Museum of American Art
  * New York Historical Society
  * New York Public Library
  * Norton Museum of Art
  * Philadelphia Museum of Art
  * Phillips Collection
  * Portland Art Museum
  * Princeton University Art Museum
  * Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University
  * Saint Joseph College
  * Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  * Seattle Art Museum
  * Sheldon Museum of Art
  * Smithsonian American Art Museum
  * Southern Illinois University
  * Spencer Museum of Art
  * Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
  * Syracuse University
  * Telfair Museum of Art
  * Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
  * University of Iowa Museum of Art
  * University of Wyoming
  * Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  * Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
  * Westmoreland Museum of American Art
  * Williams College Museum of Art
  * Whitney Museum of American Art
  * Wichita Art Museum
  * Yale University Art Gallery
  * Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
  * Media related to Jerome Myers at Wikimedia Commons
  * Video: Artist In Manhattan on YouTube
  * Video: Jerome Myers Visits The Burlesque on YouTube


Lagar of Diogo Fernandes Faleiro

The Lagar of Diogo Fernandes Faleiro (Portuguese: Lagar de Diogo Fernandes Faleiro) is an ancient winepress, hewn from riverbank rocks, situated in the civil parish of Santo Espírito in the municipality of Vila do Porto, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

History

A view of either bank of the Ribeira de Aveiro (with the lagar centred), showing the waterfall of Aveiro in the right background

The delineated watercourse, with vineyards on either side

Constructed after 1579 by Diogo Fernandes Faleiro, the press was known for producing 11,000 litres (2,900 US gal) of wine annually.

As the chronicler Gaspar Frutuoso described him:

The same Diogo Fernandes Faleiro has made in his vineyard, in the middle of cliffs, a lagar of just rock, very well made, where he produces all his wine, and the same, in the year 1579 (which can not be passed without silence, a work so praised), is very sterile, as others were...

This property-owner was integral in the Azorean colonization of Brazil, supporting the immigration of family members and impoverished local residents to Brazil during the 16th century. Frutuoso also expanded its owner, stating his philanthropic works associated with early migration:

...that the islanders were so afflicted and poor, that they could not stay [on the island], he saw some of his relatives in similar distress, persuaded them that if, they wanted to get out of their misery, and if, they wanted to move to Brazil,...he would provide them with all necessities for their boat, 200,000 reis, [this] even as he was not rich, he was able to do this great charity, without notable work or expense from his estate, helping them and, in addition to the said expenditure, with his diligences and his preoccupation, on boarding animating them with great fervour and charity.

Architecture

The lagar and the terraces along the ravine bank (including gate)


Lagar of Diogo Fernandes Faleiro

The lagar and the terraces along the ravine bank (including gate)

The lagar is located at the mouth of the Ribeira de Aveiro, in the village of Maia, on the southwestern coast of the island. It is situated at the base of a high cliff, where the waterfall of Aveiro cascades to the ravine floor, then on to the sea.

The wine-press is an archaic form hewn from a large boulder and rocks along the ravine's left bank. It is identifiable for the roughly square basin that was used to collect and press grapes, with an opening from where the juice was extracted.

  * Frutuoso, Gaspar (2005), Saudades da Terra, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada, ISBN 972-9216-70-3


Verkhnyaya Zaimka

Verkhnyaya Zaimka (Russian: Верхняя Заимка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 616 as of 2010.

Geography

Verkhnyaya Zaimka is located 53 km east of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kichera is the nearest rural locality.


Self-medication (disambiguation)

Look up self-medication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses unprescribed drugs to treat untreated and/or undiagnosed ailments.

Self-medication may also refer to:

  * Self Medication (album), a 2008 album by the Slackers
  * "Self-Medication" (The Venture Bros.), an episode of The Venture Bros
  * Zoopharmacognosy, self-medication in animals
  * Self Medicated, a 2005 film by Monty Lapica


USS Syrma

USS Syrma (AK-134) was a Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.

Built in New Orleans, Louisiana

Syrma (AK-134), ex-SS Andres Almonaster (MC hull 2455), was laid down on 10 January 1944 by the Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, Louisiana; launched on 19 February 1944; sponsored by Mrs. James L. Wallace; acquired by the Navy on 20 March 1944; and commissioned on 21 March 1944.

World War II operations

Syrma was acquired from the War Shipping Administration on a bareboat charter and converted to naval use as an auxiliary cargo ship by the Todd-Galveston Drydock Co., Galveston, Texas, from 27 March to 12 August 1944. She sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, the next day and arrived there on the 20th to begin her shakedown cruise. She was in the yard from 26 to 31 August for a short availability period and sailed with a convoy on 3 September. Her orders were modified five days later to proceed independently to Gulfport, Mississippi. Syrma loaded cargo there from 10 to 14 September and moved to New Orleans to complete loading.

Pacific Theatre operations

Syrma, moved to Mobile, Alabama, where she took AFD-29 in tow and sailed for Panama on the 23d. She arrived at the Panama Canal Zone on 30 September; remained there until 9 October; and continued on to Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 31 October and remained in the islands until 25 November when she got underway for San Francisco, California. The cargo ship arrived there on 4 December 1944 and got underway for Portland, Oregon, the same day. Syrma remained there until 28 January 1945 when she departed for San Francisco. She loaded cargo from 1 to 9 February and sailed for Manus Island on the 10th with YF-619 in tow.

Supporting troops on Tarawa


USS Syrma

Supporting troops on Tarawa

Syrma arrived at Seeadler Harbor on 7 March; unloaded her cargo and tow; and began the return voyage to San Francisco on the 23d. She arrived on 13 April and remained there until 8 June when she sailed for Hawaii with YF-738 in tow. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 18 May, released the tow, and sailed the next day for Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. Tarawa was reached on the 28th. The ship unloaded her cargo and took on deck cargo for the Marshall Islands and left the next day.

End-of-war operations

Syrma operated in the Marshalls from 1 July to 12 August when she stood out for San Francisco, arriving there on the 26th. On 28 September, the ship again headed westward en route to Guam. She arrived at Apra Harbor on 18 October and departed Guam on 10 November for the east coast of the United States. The Panama Canal was transited on 9 December, and Syrma arrived at Norfolk on the 20th.

Post-war decommissioning

The remainder of December 1945 was spent in preparing the ship for inactivation. Syrma was decommissioned on 8 January 1946, returned to the War Shipping Administration on the 11th, and struck from the Navy List on 21 January 1946.

  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  * Photo gallery of Syrma at NavSource Naval History


Physical verification

Physical verification is a process whereby an integrated circuit layout (IC layout) design is verified via EDA software tools to ensure correct electrical and logical functionality and manufacturability. Verification involves design rule check (DRC), layout versus schematic (LVS), XOR (exclusive OR), antenna checks and electrical rule check (ERC).

Design Rule Check (DRC)

Main article: Design rule checking

DRC verifies that the layout meets all technology-imposed constraints. DRC also verifies layer density for chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP).

Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)

Main article: Layout Versus Schematic

LVS verifies the functionality of the design. From the layout, a netlist is derived and compared with the original netlist produced from logic synthesis or circuit design.

XOR check

This check is typically run after a metal spin, where the original and modified database are compared. This is done to confirm that the desired modifications have been made and no undesired modifications have been made by accident. This step involves comparing the two layout databases/GDS by XOR operation of the layout geometries. This check results a database which has all the mismatching geometries in both the layouts.

Antenna check

The antenna basically is a metal interconnect, i.e., a conductor like polysilicon or metal, that is not electrically connected to silicon or grounded, during the processing steps of the wafer.antenna effect. Antenna errors can be cured by adding a small antenna diode to safely discharge the node or splitting the antenna by routing up to another metal layer and then down again.

The antenna ratio is defined as the ratio between the physical area of the conductors making up the antenna to the total gate oxide area to which the antenna is electrically connected.

Electrical Rule Check (ERC)

ERC verifies the correctness of power and ground connections, and that signal transition times (slew), capacitive loads and fanouts are appropriately bounded.

  * Well and substrate areas for proper contacts and spacings thereby ensuring correct power and ground connections
  * Unconnected inputs or shorted outputs.


Physical verification

Gates should not connect directly to supplies; connection should be through TIE high/low cells only. ERC checks are based upon assumptions about the normal operating conditions of the ASIC, so they may give many false warning on ASICs with multiple or negative supplies. They can also check for structures susceptible to electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage.

  * Clein, D. (2000). CMOS IC Layout. Newnes. ISBN 0-7506-7194-7
  * Kahng, A. (2011). VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure, ISBN 978-90-481-9590-9, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9591-6


Newspaper endorsements in the 1900 United States presidential election

Newspapers made endorsements of candidates in the 1900 United States presidential election. Incumbent President William McKinley was the Republican candidate, and William Jennings Bryan the Democratic candidate, a rematch of the 1896 election.

Newspaper                   1900 Endorsement        Largest Reported Circ.  Endorsement       State              1896 Endorsement            Notes
                                                                            date
New York Herald             William McKinley        75,000+                 1900              New York           (blanks = to be filled in)
New York World              William McKinley        75,000+                 1900              New York
New York Evening Post       William McKinley        23,244                  1900              New York
Brooklyn Eagle              William McKinley        20,000+                 1900              New York
The New York Times          William McKinley        20,000+                 November 4, 1900  New York           William McKinley
Chicago Tribune             William McKinley        75,000+                 1900              Illinois           William McKinley
Country Topics              William McKinley        89,000+                 1900              Parts Unknown      William McKinley
Baltimore Sun               William Jennings Bryan  20,000+                 1900              Maryland           William McKinley
The Arizona Republican      William McKinley        4,129                   1900              Arizona Territory  William McKinley
Canton Repository           William McKinley        6,563                   1900              Ohio               William McKinley
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung   William McKinley        20,000+                 1900              New York                                       Prominent German-language paper.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette  William Jennings Bryan  1,000+                  1900              Indiana


Lankasoma brincki

Lankasoma brincki is a species of millipedes in the family Lankasomatidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.


Sarah McLachlan Live

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Live is a 1992 live recording by Sarah McLachlan, not to be confused with the 2004 Live Acoustic EP. It documents a concert that McLachlan performed in September of that year in Harbourfront, Toronto, and was released on CD in October. All of the songs originally appeared on McLachlan's 1991 album Solace, except "Ben's Song", which is from her 1988 release Touch. Although labelled an EP, a format that usually has a short running time and only a few tracks, this release runs more than 30 minutes, above the length threshold of being a full album.

This album was released as a limited edition, which included a condensed version of McLachlan's 1991–1992 tour program; all copies released by the label have sold out. It is now considered a collector's item. It is the first of several live albums McLachlan has released to date.

Track listing

No.  Title                    Writer(s)                   Length
1.   "Drawn to the Rhythm"    Sarah McLachlan             5:15
2.   "Back Door Man"          McLachlan                   4:50
3.   "Home"                   McLachlan                   5:45
4.   "Lost"                   McLachlan                   6:23
5.   "I Will Not Forget You"  McLachlan, Darren Phillips  5:55
6.   "Black"                  McLachlan                   5:05
7.   "Ben's Song"             McLachlan                   4:59

Musicians

  * Sarah McLachlan: Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  * Stephen Nikleva: Electric Guitar
  * Brian Minato: Bass
  * David Kershaw: Keyboards, Background Vocals
  * Kim Linekin: Keyboards, background vocals
  * Ashwin Sood: Drums, percussion, background vocals


R v Adams

For the 1957 case, upheld in Bland, that allows a doctor to hasten death with a drug if primary intention is properly the ease of suffering, see R v Adams (1957).


R v Adams

Criminal law
Elements
  * Actus reus
  * Mens rea
  * Causation
  * Concurrence
Scope of criminal liability
  * Accessory
  * Accomplice
  * Complicity
  * Corporate
  * Principal
  * Vicarious
Severity of offense
  * Felony
  * Infraction (also called violation)
  * Misdemeanor
Inchoate offenses
  * Attempt
  * Conspiracy
  * Incitement
  * Solicitation
Offences against the person
  * Assassination
  * Assault
  * Battery
  * Castration
  * Child abuse
  * Criminal negligence
  * Defamation
  * Domestic violence
  * False imprisonment
  * Harassment
  * Home invasion
  * Homicide
  * Human trafficking
  * Intimidation
  * Kidnapping
  * Menacing
  * Manslaughter (corporate)
  * Mayhem
  * Murder
      + felony
  * Negligent homicide
  * Regicide
  * Invasion of privacy
  * Robbery
  * Slavery
  * Stalking
  * Torture

Sexual offenses
  * Adultery
  * Bigamy
  * Child sexual abuse
  * Cybersex trafficking
  * Fornication
  * Homosexuality
  * Incest
  * Indecent exposure
  * Masturbation
  * Obscenity
  * Prostitution
  * Rape
  * Sex trafficking
  * Sexual assault
  * Sexual slavery
  * Voyeurism
Crimes against property
  * Arson
  * Arms trafficking
  * Blackmail
  * Bribery
  * Burglary
  * Embezzlement
  * Extortion
  * False pretenses
  * Forgery
  * Fraud
  * Gambling
  * Intellectual property violation
  * Larceny
  * Payola
  * Pickpocketing
  * Possessing stolen property
  * Robbery
  * Smuggling
  * Tax evasion
  * Theft
  * Trespass to land
  * Vandalism, Mischief
Crimes against justice
  * Compounding
  * Malfeasance in office
  * Miscarriage of justice
  * Misprision
  * Obstruction
  * Perjury
  * Perverting the course of justice
Crimes against the public
  * Apostasy
  * Begging
  * Censorship violation
  * Dueling
  * Genocide
  * Hostage-taking
  * Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking)
  * Miscegenation
  * Piracy
  * Terrorism
  * Usurpation
  * War crimes
Crimes against animals
  * Cruelty to animals
  * Wildlife smuggling
  * Bestiality
Crimes against the state
  * Lèse-majesté
  * Treason
  * Espionage
  * Secession
  * Sedition
  * Subversion
Defences to liability
  * Automatism
  * Consent
  * Defence of property
  * Diminished responsibility
  * Duress
  * Entrapment
  * Ignorantia juris non excusat
  * Infancy
  * Insanity
  * Justification
  * Mistake (of law)
  * Necessity
  * Provocation
  * Self-defence
Other common-law areas
  * Contracts
  * Evidence
  * Property
  * Torts
  * Wills, trusts and estates
Portals
  * Law
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R v Adams

R v Adams [1996] EWCA Crim 10 and 222, are rulings in the United Kingdom that banned the expression in court of headline (soundbite), standalone Bayesian statistics from the reasoning admissible before a jury in DNA evidence cases, in favour of the calculated average (and maximal) number of matching incidences among the nation's population. The facts involved strong but inconclusive evidence conflicting with the DNA evidence, leading to a retrial.

Facts

A rape victim described her attacker as in his twenties. A suspect, Denis Adams, was arrested and an identity parade was arranged. The woman failed to pick him out, and on being asked if he fitted her description replied in the negative. She had described a man in his twenties and when asked how old Adams looked, she replied about forty. Adams was 37; he had an alibi for the night in question, his girlfriend saying he had spent the night with her. The DNA was the only incriminating evidence heard by the jury, as all the other evidence pointed towards innocence.

Judgment

Use of Bayesian analysis in the court

The DNA profile of the suspect fitted that of evidence left at the scene. The defence argued that the match probability figure put forward by the prosecution (1 in 200 million) was incorrect, and that a figure of 1 in 20 million, or perhaps even 1 in 2 million, was more appropriate. The issue of how the jury should resolve the conflicting evidence was addressed by the defence by a formal statistical method. The jury was instructed in the use of Bayes's theorem by Professor Peter Donnelly of Oxford University. The judge told the jury they could use Bayes's theorem if they wished. Adams was convicted and the case went to appeal. The Appeal Court judges noted that the original trial judge did not direct the jury as to what to do if they did not wish to use Bayes's theorem and ordered a retrial.

At the retrial the defence team again wanted to instruct the new jury in the use of Bayes's theorem (though Prof. Donnelly had doubts about the practicality of the approach).questionnaire was produced which asked a series of questions such as:


R v Adams

* "If he were the attacker, what's the chance that she would say he looked nothing like the attacker?"
  * "If he wasn't the attacker what's the chance that she would say he looked nothing like the attacker?"

These questions were intended to allow the Bayes factors of the various pieces of evidence to be assessed. The questionnaires had boxes where jurors could put their assessments and a formula to enable them to produce the overall odds of guilt or innocence. Adams was convicted once again and again an appeal was made to the Court of Appeal. The appeal was unsuccessful but the Appeal Court ruling was highly critical of the appropriateness of Bayes's theorem in the courtroom.

Statistical analysis of DNA

The only evidence against Adams was the DNA evidence. His age was substantially different from that reported by the victim, the victim did not identify him and he had an alibi which was never disproved. The 1 in 200 million match probability calculation did not allow for the fact that the perpetrator might be a close relative of the defendant – an important point, since the defendant had a half-brother in his 20s whose DNA was never tested.

Court guidelines for using statistical evidence in DNA cases

The Court of Appeal after the appeal wrote the guidelines for the way that match probabilities should be explained to jurors. Judges should say something along the lines of the following.


R v Adams

"Suppose the match probability is 1 in 20 million. That means that in Britain (population about 60 million) there will be on average about 2 or 3 people, and certainly no more than 6 or 7, whose DNA matches that found at the crime scene, in addition to the accused. Now your job, as a member of the jury, is to decide on the basis of the other evidence, whether or not you are satisfied that it is the person on trial who is guilty, rather than one of the few other people with matching DNA. We don't know anything about the other matching people. They are likely to be distributed all across the country and may have been nowhere near the crime scene at the time of the crime. Others may be ruled out as being the wrong sex or the wrong age group."
  * English law
  * R v Doheny and Adams [1997] 1 Crim App R 369
  * Text of first Court of Appeal Judgement on BAILII.
  * Text of second Court of Appeal Judgement on BAILII.
  * "Appealing Statistics", Significance, 2(1):46–48, 2005 March.


René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez (Born in 1957 in Havana) is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New York City).

History

René Peña graduated from the University of Havana with a specialization in English. He took his first pictures with his family camera at the age of eight years but has never had any formal training. His work focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His need for contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighbourhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.

Although sometimes compared to Robert Mapplethorpe, he cites as his influences photographers Eduardo Moñoz Ordoqui and Marta Maria Perez Bravo (both of whom focus on black-and-white photography). As of late, René Peña has been experimenting with colour photos, as well as with digital cameras.

Solo exhibitions

  * René Peña: Fotografías, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana (2002)
  * René Peña: Introspectiva, Casa de los Tiros, Granada, Spain (2002)
  * Manmade Materials, Suyama Space, Seattle.
  * Black + White in Color (w/ Cirenaica Moreira). Couturier Gallery. Los Angeles, USA. (2012)

Collective exhibitions


René Peña

Collective exhibitions

  * Cuba 1960-2000 Sogno e realtà, Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy (2002)
  * Latin American Artist Photographers from the de Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania (2001)
  * Passionately Cuban, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany, New York (2001).
  * Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art, Havana-Pittsburgh-New York City-Cambridge, Ma. (2010-2012)
  * Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba (2013)
  * First national Festival of Video Art at The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (2001)
  * www.havana-cultura.com
  * www.medaid.org
  * www.cubangallery.net
  * www.artfacts.net
  * www.artnet.com
  * www.soycubano.com
  * www.worthpoint.com
  * www.panamericanart.com
  * www.afrocubaweb.com
  * www.rene-pena.com


Laganosuchus

Laganosuchus is an extinct genus of stomatosuchid crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from Niger and Morocco and date back to the Upper Cretaceous.

Discovery

The name means "pancake crocodile" from the Greek λαγανον, laganon ("pancake") and σοῦχος, souchos ("crocodile") in reference to the shallow depth of the skull, which is characteristic of all stomatosuchids. It has been nicknamed "PancakeCroc" by Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson, who first described the genus in a monograph published in ZooKeys in 2009 along with other Saharan crocodyliformes such as Anatosuchus and Kaprosuchus.

The type species is L. thaumastos (meaning 'the astonishing pancake crocodile' from Greek θαυμαζω, thaumazo "I astonish" in reference to its unusual form) from the Cenomanian-age Echkar Formation in Niger, holotype MNN IGU13. A second species, L. maghrebensis (making a reference to the place of discovery), is known from the Kem Kem Beds in Morocco, which are also Cenomanian in age; its holotype is UCRC PV2.

Description

Life restoration of L. thaumastos


Laganosuchus

Description

Life restoration of L. thaumastos

Both species of Laganosuchus are known only from their lower jaws, those of L. thaumastos almost complete save for the left retroarticular process and those of L. maghrebensis only from a fragment of the dentary bone. L. thaumastos had a total jaw length of 838 mm and a jaw length from tip to articular facet of 750 mm, of which 490 mm actually bore teeth. Across the jaws, the total width of the lower jaw ranged from around 140 mm at the symphysis to 240 mm at the articular facets, widening fairly evenly all the way along. All the teeth were simple straight spikes, with the first pair the largest and the rest of the teeth decreasing in size towards the back of the mouth. Each side of the mouth bore 24 teeth, relatively evenly spaced save for the sixth and seventh, the dental alveoli of which have merged. Each side of these jaws is gently bowed outwards horizontally, curving more strongly towards the symphysis of the two dentary bones from the seventh alveolus forwards. The symphysis itself is relatively small and weak compared to other crocodyliforms, suggesting a very weak bite, although the bones are fully fused. The jaws are also bowed slightly, curving downwards from the articular facet and then back upwards to the symphysis of the jaws. Each of the dentary bones is very slender, only about 22 mm wide even at the slightly thickened 'chin' of the symphysis. While L. thaumastos has a small crest running along the lingual side of the dentary to thicken it, this feature is not present in L. maghrebensis. The splenial is a very thin sheet of bone in both species; it stretches much of the way along the lower jaws, but does not participate in the symphysis as the dentary does. The anterior end of the splenial differs between the two species; in L. thaumastos it is bifurcated, whereas in L. maghrebensis the anterior end of the splenial comes to a simple point.


Laganosuchus

Although the posterior end of the lower jaw is not preserved in L. maghrebensis, in L. thaumastos the coronoid process is rugose, low and broad transversely, thickened by the surangular on the lingual side of the jaw, possibly signifying the attachment of powerful muscles to close the long, heavy jaws - a task that would be difficult underwater due to the large surface area between them. The external mandibular fenestra is very much reduced, forming little more than a slit. There is an unusually small adductor fossa just in front of the saddle-shaped articular facet of the glenoid; on the right side this saddle-shaped facet has irregular edges and shows some signs of bone disease, for unknown reasons. The retroarticular process is triangular in cross-section with slightly concave sides. Both the angular and the prearticular bones have thin posterior rami that entirely overlap the articular laterally and medially, leaving only the top and bottom faces of the articular open.

L. thaumastos has the first two teeth in each dentary tilted forwards, and these would probably have projected out from the mouth below matching teeth in the premaxilla. Between each alveolus, the dorsal margin of the alveolar row forms a ridge that slopes downwards labially in concave depressions between the alveoli, probably indicating strongly interdigitating teeth that fitted together to form a kind of 'fish trap'. Most of the teeth are broken or missing, but a few were being replaced when the specimen died and have so been preserved in their crypts; they are straight, perfectly symmetrical spikes with no ornamentation, carinae or recurvature. In L. maghrebensis, however, the fourth tooth in the dentary is slightly larger than the first and there is no procumbency of the first dental alveoli, so its front teeth would not have projected forwards in the same fashion.

Holotype dentary of L. maghrebensis


Laganosuchus

Holotype dentary of L. maghrebensis

Both species of Laganosuchus would have been between 4 and 6 metres in total length, a comparatively large proportion of which would have been the large flattened head. It is possible that they had gular sacs beneath their throats, just as their relative Stomatosuchus may have done, but there is no fossil evidence either to support or disprove this theory. The jaws would have been unable to be opened or closed at speed or with much power due to their length relative to all the possible muscles that could be used to close them.

Paleobiology

According to Sereno and Larsson, L. thaumastos was an approximately 6 m (20 ft) long, squat fish-eater with a 1 m (3.3 ft) flat head.

  * Laganosuchus in the Paleobiology Database


Verkhnyaya Vereya

55°13′43″N 42°06′24″E / 55.22861°N 42.10667°E

Verkhnyaya Vereya (Russian: Ве́рхняя Вере́я) is a rural locality (a selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of the work settlement of Vilya in jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Vyksa in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

The village largely burned down on July 29, 2010 due to the wildfires which broke out across European Russia.Vyksa.


Self-own

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USS Swift (AM-122)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Swift.

USS Swift (AM-122) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

The second U.S. Naval vessel to be so named, Swift was laid down on 27 June 1942 by John H. Mathis & Company, Camden, New Jersey. The ship launched on 5 December 1942, sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Sheedy, and commissioned on 29 December 1943. Swift held her shakedown cruise at Little Creek, Virginia, and on 11 February 1944 entered the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard for alterations.

Atlantic Ocean operations

Upon completion, Swift sailed to New York City to await the formation of a convoy. The convoy was formed and sailed, with Swift as escort, on 25 March for England. It arrived at Falmouth, England on 19 April, and Swift proceeded to Plymouth, England, where she reported to Naval Forces, Europe, for duty. She operated out of Plymouth and Torquay, England, until the end of May.

As a unit of Mine Division (MinDiv) 18, Swift sailed from Torquay, on 5 June for Normandy, France, where she began sweeping mines off the Utah Beachhead. She swept mines from dawn to dusk and acted as "E-boat" patrol at night. On D + l (7 June) Tide (AM-125) was mined and sunk while being towed by Swift. Swift remained there until 17 June when she returned to Plymouth, England. Seven days later, she returned to France to aid in sweeping a lane for battleships so they could bombard Cherbourg and returned to England.