USS Swift (AM-122)

Swift was next routed to Algeria and sailed from Plymouth on 1 August. She arrived at Oran on 6 August and was assigned to the invasion fleet for the assault on southern France, "Operation Dragoon". Swift sortied with the fleet on 10 August and was off the landing beaches in the early morning of D-Day, 15 August. She helped clear the transport area and swept lanes for landing craft. After the troops were ashore, the minesweeper remained on station, sweeping by day and performing antisubmarine and "E-boat" patrol by night. Swift escorted a convoy to Naples, Italy, on 16 October and returned to Golfe de Juan, France. She made daily sweeps up the French Riviera, past the German frontier, to the vicinity of San Remo. The minesweeper returned to Oran on 21 December and joined a convoy bound for the United States which sailed on 28 December 1944.

Swift arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, in mid-January 1945 and entered the navy yard there for an overhaul in preparation for duty in the Pacific. The work was completed on 5 March and, after refresher training, she departed for Miami, Florida, with Sway (AM-120) and Symbol (AM-123). The minesweepers arrived there on 30 March and air-search radar was installed on Swift.

Pacific Ocean operations

The ships departed on 26 April 1945 for the Panama Canal Zone and the U.S. West Coast, arriving at San Diego, California, on 15 May. Swift sailed two days later with Symbol and Threat (AM-124) for Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on the 26th and sailed to Guam six days later. Upon her arrival at Apra Harbor, she was routed onward to Ulithi. Swift stood out of Ulithi on 30 June as an escort for convoy UOK-32 en route to Okinawa and arrived at Kerama Retto on 6 July. She swept mines in the East China Sea from 10 to 15 July and from 13 to 25 August.


USS Swift (AM-122)

Swift sailed from Okinawa on 31 August for Tsugaru Strait, between Honshū and Hokkaidō, Japan, and swept mines there from 7 to 17 September. After an upkeep period at Ominato Bay, Honshū, from the 18th to the 22nd, she swept westward of the strait from 23 September to 13 October. The ship operated out of Ominato until she began clearing the "Klondike" area of the East China Sea from 26 October to 8 November. Swift was overhauled at Sasebo and then, on 26 November, sailed to Kiirin, Formosa, to sweep mines off the northwest coast. On 11 December, she moved to the Pescadore Islands and swept Formosa Strait for 10 days. The minesweeper sailed for Shanghai, China, on 21 December 1945 and arrived there the next day. Swift remained there until early January 1946 when she departed for the west coast of the United States, via Pearl Harbor. She arrived at San Diego, California, in February and was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, in commission, in reserve. Swift was placed out of commission, in reserve, on 4 June 1946.

Second commissioning

On 17 April 1951, it was decided to activate Swift; and she was placed in commission again on 19 December 1951. After overhaul and refresher training, the minesweeper was assigned to Mine Squadron 5 for duty and operated along the California coast until October 1952.

Swift made a voyage to Hawaii from 28 October to 1 December 1952. On 3 February 1953 she stood out of Long Beach, California, en route to the Far East and the Korean war zone. She called at Pearl Harbor in mid-February and arrived at Sasebo, Japan, on 9 March. The ship sailed for Korea and operated in the East Coast Operating Zone and at Hungnam until 28 April. She was in Korea again from 24 May until 25 August, operating between Wonsan, Pusan, and Cheju Do. Swift sailed from Sasebo on 4 September en route to California, via Pearl Harbor.


USS Swift (AM-122)

Swift arrived at Long Beach, California, on 27 September 1953 and conducted local operations along the California coast until October 1954. She deployed to the Far East again from 21 October 1954 to the spring of 1955 when she returned to local operations at San Diego, California. Swift was reclassified from AM-122 to MSF-122, Minesweeper, Fleet (steel hulled) on 7 February 1955.

Decommissioning

She was decommissioned again on 13 December 1955 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Swift was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1972 and scrapped.

Awards

Swift received six battle stars for service in World War II and two for service in Korea.

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

  * Photo gallery of Swift at NavSource Naval History
  * Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 AM-122 USS Swift


Physical premotion

In the theory developed by Domingo Báñez and other 16th and 17th century Thomists, physical premotion (praemotio physica) is a causal influence of God into a secondary cause (especially into a will of a free agent) which precedes (metaphysically but not temporally) and causes the actual motion of its causal power (e.g. a will): it is the reduction of the power from potency to act. In this sense, it is a kind of divine concursus, the so-called concursus praevius advocated by the Thomists.

More broadly, according to this Thomistic theory, physical premotion is the causal influence of any principal cause upon the respective instrumental cause (such as the influence of a scribe upon his pen) by which the instrumental cause is elevated so as to be capable of producing an effect which is beyond its natural powers (e.g., the pen is enabled to write a poem).

In Thomism, the theory of physical premotion helps to explain divine providence (foreknowledge) and universal rulership; on the other hand, it is seen by its critics (chiefly Jesuits defending the alternative theory of Molinism) as leading to theological determinism. Because the proponents of physical premotion are, as Catholics, committed to the freedom of will, their position can be viewed as a form of compatibilism. Whether they really are determinists depends on how strictly the necessity of the connection between a divine decree, the resulting premotion, and the ultimate free act is conceived. The proponents of the theory generally try to avoid resorting to unqualified necessity, their term of choice being "infallibility".

The theory of praemotio physica was applied (1) on natural level, serving both as a theory of concursus ordinarius and as a theory of instrumental causality; (2) on supernatural level, serving as a theory of actual grace.

History

Although claimed by Báñez to have its roots in Aquinas, the theory was first explicitly formulated in Domingo Báñez's Apologia Fratrum Predicatorum (1595),Luis de Molina's Concordia;Diego Álvarez in his De auxiliis.


Physical premotion

A violent controversy ensued between the Dominicans and the Jesuits, leading to a papal intervention). At first (1594) the Pope he simply enjoined silence on both parties so far as Spain was concerned; but ultimately, in 1598, he appointed the Congregatio de Auxiliis for the settlement of the dispute, which became more and more a party one. After holding very numerous sessions, the congregation was able to decide nothing, and in 1607 its meetings were suspended by Paul V, who in 1611 prohibited all further discussion of the question De auxiliis and of discussions about efficacious grace, and studious efforts were made to control the publication even of commentaries on Aquinas Dominican College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), were involved in the controversy. Two Dominican proponents of physical premotion, Diego Alvarez and Tomas de Lemos, were given the responsibility of representing the Dominican Order in debates before Pope Clement VIII and Pope Paul V.

In contemporary analytical philosophy, the opponents of Molinism (such as Robert Merrihew Adams or William Hasker) typically do not subscribe to the Báñezian-Thomist theory of praemotio physica; instead, they maintain libertarian freedom but insist that it excludes the possibility of Molinist middle knowledge. The theory thus remains confined to the ranks of traditional Thomism.

Notable proponents

  * Domingo Báñez (1528–1604)
  * Diego Álvarez (c. 1555–1632)
  * Tomas de Lemos (1540–1629)
  * John of St. Thomas (1589–1644)
  * Joseph Gredt (1863–1940)
  * https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/premotion-physical


United Nations Security Council Resolution 260, adopted unanimously on November 6, 1968, after examining the application of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Equatorial Guinea be admitted.

  * List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 201 to 300 (1965–1971)
  * Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
  * Works related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 260 at Wikisource


Lankasomatidae

Lankasomatidae, is a millipede family in the suborder Heterochordeumatidea of order Chordeumatida. The family includes 11 species belongs to three genera.

Genera

  * Cingalosoma
  * Lankasoma
  * Nepalella


Sarah McNutt

Sarah Jane McNutt (July 22, 1839 – September 10, 1930) was an American physician, notable as the first woman inducted into the American Neurological Association. McNutt was a founder of the Babies' Hospital in New York City, now known as Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, along with her sister Dr. Julia G McNutt. Her mentors and co-workers Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell were some of the first female physicians in the United States. She focused her work on pediatrics, neurology, and medical education.

Early life

McNutt was born in Warrensburg, New York to parents James McNutt and Adaline (Waite) McNutt.Emma Willard Seminary at Troy, where she learned to teach which was her career for several years.

Medical career

Education

In 1877 McNutt graduated from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary.New York Infirmary hospital.Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, shared interests of hers, including pediatrics and neurology.

Teaching

McNutt taught a course in gynecology at the medical college and was an instructor of surgery.New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, which continued physician education through lectures.pathology and disease states, using the morgue to do so.

Pediatrics

McNutt worked for 11 years in the children's department of the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary hospital.ward in any New York hospital. There were only 10 beds dedicated to the pediatric population.

Neurology

In 1884, McNutt was elected the first female member of the American Neurological Association (ANA), at the 10th annual meeting.William A. Hammond, through her work at the medical school and hospital.

At her induction meeting, she presented a paper titled "Provisional Report of a Case of Double Infantile Spastic Hemiplegia."spastic hemiplegia.


Sarah McNutt

McNutt's work on what we now call cerebral palsy was cited in William Gowers' seminal textbook Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. MacDonald Critchley, in his biography of Gowers, wrote that he was not a "rabid misogynist" but thought McNutt had contributed more than any other women at that time.William Osler's book The Cerebral Palsies of Children,A Study of Cerebral Palsies of Early Life, Based Upon an Analysis of One Hundred and Forty Cases by Bernard Sachs' and Frederick Peterson.

Death

McNutt died in Albany, New York on September 10, 1930.

Medical societies

  * New York Academy of Medicine
  * New York County Medical Society
  * State and American Medical Associations
  * Women's Medical Society
  * Women's State Medical Society
      + McNutt was elected 3rd vice president of New York chapter
  * New York Pathological Society
  * Schenectady County Medical Society
  * American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis
  * American Neurological Association (1884-1902)

Works


Kauê

Kauê may refer to:

  * Kauê (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian football player, full name Kauê Caetano da Silva
  * Kauê (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian football player, full name Kauê da Silva, from São Caetano do Sul
  * Kauê (footballer, born 1997), Brazilian football player, full name Kauê da Silva, from São Paulo
  * Kauê (footballer, born 2004), Brazilian football player, full name Kauê Rodrigues Pessanha


René Pijpers

René Antoine Pijpers (15 September 1917 – 22 March 1944) was a Dutch football midfielder who was a member of the Netherlands' squad at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.RFC Roermond he won the KNVB Cup in 1936 alongside his brothers Frans, Harry and Coen.

  * FIFA profile


Lagarde, Hautes-Pyrénées

Lagarde (French pronunciation: [laɡaʁd]; Occitan: La Garda) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.

  * Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lagarde (Hautes-Pyrénées).


Narcissus-class frigate

The Narcissus-class frigate was a 32-gun, 18-pounder fifth-rate frigate class of five ships of the Royal Navy. Designed by Surveyor of the Navy Sir John Henslow, the class was created to make use of shipyards that could not construct larger frigates. They were similar in design to the preceding 32-gun frigate class, the Amphion class, but were slightly shorter. Two ships were initially constructed, with a later batch of three being ordered in response to an Admiralty request for the resumption of production of proven frigate designs. The final two ships of the class were cancelled when the shipyard they were being constructed at went bankrupt. Unlike her sister ships, the name ship of the class Narcissus was armed with experimental short 24 pounders rather than 18 pounders.

The ships of the class were not especially fast, slower than the Amphion class, but were well-liked because of their easy sailing qualities and manoeuvrability. The three completed vessels all saw service during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, with key actions including Narcissus at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806 and cutting out USRC Surveyor in 1813, Tartar at the Battle of Alvøen in 1808, and Cornelia at the invasions of Isle de France and Java in 1810–1811. Of the three, Narcissus survived until 1837 serving as a hospital ship, while Tartar was wrecked in 1811 and Cornelia broken up in 1814.

Design

The Narcissus class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates was designed by the Surveyor of the Navy Sir John Henslow and approved by the Admiralty on 13 January 1798.Narcissus class in response to a need to use up smaller timbers available at Deptford Dockyard. The particular slipway earmarked for this first ship fed into a basin with an entrance that was too narrow for large frigates to sail through, necessitating that the design be for a smaller 32-gun frigate.


Narcissus-class frigate

The Admiralty preferred to construct these slightly inferior ships rather than leave shipyard capacity unfilled. Henslow based the class on the Amphion class, another 32-gun frigate design that had been created by the other Surveyor of the Navy, William Rule, for a shipyard on the River Stour that was too shallow for larger vessels.Narcissus class was similar, but slightly shorter and such would prove to be the slower of the two classes.

Construction and armament

The first ship of the class, HMS Narcissus, is recorded by naval historian Rif Winfield as being ordered on 23 November 1797, before the approval, but Robert Gardiner dates the order to the day of the design approval.HMS Tartar, was ordered on 28 January 1800 just as Narcissus was being laid down. With both these vessels in service from July 1801, a break ensued in construction. Three further ships were ordered in 1805 and 1806 when the Admiralty requested that the Navy Board submit proven frigate designs for further construction, of which the Narcissus class was one of three chosen.HMS Cornelia) was completed, as the final two ships of the class were cancelled on 24 June 1806, when the shipyard they were being constructed at went bankrupt.

All ships of the class were constructed to the following dimensions: 142 feet 0+1⁄2 inch (43.3 m) along the gun deck, 118 feet 5 inches (36.1 m) at the keel, with a beam of 37 feet 8 inches (11.5 m) and a depth in the hold of 12 feet 6 inches (3.8 m). They were to measure 885 90⁄94 tons burthen, with a crew of 254 men.Amphion class, the largest ships of their type.18-pounder and two 9-pounder guns.carronades to be placed on the quarterdeck, with a further two 6 pounders and two 24-pounder carronades on the forecastle. An Admiralty Order on 20 June 1801 changed this, with the new supplementary armament being two 9 pounders and eight 24-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, and two each of 9 pounders and 24-pounder carronades on the forecastle.


Narcissus-class frigate

Narcissus's armament was expected to differ from her sister ships. Soon after her launch she was selected to test a new type of short 24 poundergun ports were too small to allow the 24 pounders to elevate properly on their unique gun carriage. They were ordered to be replaced by the original armament on 24 July 1801, before Narcissus began cruising with the experimental guns.Peace of Amiens ending the French Revolutionary Wars in March 1802, it was not considered important to quickly make the change, and eventually Narcissus was instead fully adapted to fit the 24 pounders.Narcissus was the only ship of the class to serve with an armament different to that laid out in the 20 June 1801 Admiralty Order.

The Narcissus-class frigates were never among the fastest ships of their type in the Royal Navy, but were still generally well-regarded at sea. They were recorded as being both weatherly and manoeuvrable.Narcissus's performances on 14 January and 12 March 1812 recorded the ship as capable of reaching between 9 knots (17 km/h) and 12 knots (22 km/h) depending on conditions, which was deemed above average, and noted that at sea the ship was especially comfortable to sail.

Ships

Ship name  Builder                               Ordered           Laid down      Launched      Commissioned            Cost                 Fate                    Ref.
Narcissus  Edward Tippett, Deptford Dockyard     23 November 1797  February 1800  12 May 1801   January 1801            £34,013              Sold January 1837
Tartar     Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury  28 January 1800   August 1800    27 June 1801  July 1801               Unknown             Wrecked 21 August 1811
Cornelia   Simon Temple, South Shields           10 June 1805      May 1806       26 July 1808  November 1808           Broken up June 1814
Siren      William Record, Appledore             16 July 1805      1805?          —             Cancelled 24 June 1806
Doris      William Record, Appledore             6 January 1806    —

Narcissus


Narcissus-class frigate

Narcissus

Narcissus, named after the mytholical Greek beauty Narcissus, was commissioned by Captain Percy Fraser in January 1801.Ross Donnelly, under whom the ship sailed to the Mediterranean Sea in February 1802. For the majority of the year she participated in the blockade of Toulon.Narcissus captured the French 16-gun brig Alcion off Sardinia, and continued to serve off Toulon.HMS Seahorse and HMS Maidstone to destroy a convoy in Hyères Bay.Narcissus joined the Cape of Good Hope Station in April 1805, capturing the French 4-gun privateer Prudent on 29 October, and destroying the French 32-gun privateer Napoleon on 24 December.Battle of Blaauwberg in January 1806, and served at the invasion of the River Plate from June. When Buenos Aires was captured on 2 July, Narcissus was sent home with the captured specie.Charles Malcolm replaced Donnelly in August.

The ship was subsequently sent to serve in the Bay of Biscay, where she captured the Spanish 12-gun schooner Cautela on 18 August 1807.Lorient, and with HMS Naiad she captured the French 16-gun privateer Fanny and French 4-gun privateer Superbe on 16 December.Frederick Aylmer assumed command in July 1809. Narcissus then captured two French 14-gun privateers, Duguay Trouin on 19 January 1810 and Aimable Josephine on 5 February, before being paid off on March 1812. After repairs she was recommissioned under Captain John Lumley and sailed to North America on 29 September. Serving on the Jamaica Station, Narcissus captured the 12-gun brig USS Viper on 17 January 1813, and the American 12-gun privateer Revenge on 30 March. Narcissus' boats then cut out USRC Surveyor from the York River on 12 June. Captain Alexander Gordon took command in 1814, and was in turn replaced by Captain George Crofton in March 1815.

Narcissus was laid up at Deptford Dockyard in June 1816, where she became a receiving ship from 1822. In late 1823 she moved to Woolwich Dockyard to serve as a convict hospital ship. She continued there until she was sold to J. Levy in January 1837.

Tartar

Tartar fights at the Battle of Alvøen


Narcissus-class frigate

Tartar fights at the Battle of Alvøen

Tartar, named after the Tartars, was commissioned by Captain James Walker in July 1801, sailing to join the Jamaica Station in October.Charles Inglis replaced Walker in June 1802, and in 1803 he handed over to Captain John Perkins.blockade of Saint-Domingue, on 25 July Tartar was one of several ships to assist in the capture of the French 74-gun ship of the line Duquesne and French 16-gun ship Oiseau.Tartar's boats capturing the French 10-gun privateer Hirondelle off San Domingo on 31 July.Edward Hawker, under whom Tartar captured the French 18-gun brig Observateur on 9 June 1806. In the following year Captain Stephen Poyntz took command, and the ship was paid off in around October.

After a series of repairs ending in April 1808, Tartar was recommissioned under Captain George Bettesworth. Serving off Denmark, the ship fought the Battle of Alvøen against a Danish schooner and five gunboats on 15 May; Tartar sank one of the gunboats but Bettesworth and one other man were killed.Joseph Baker filled Bettesworth's place, and on 3 November he captured the Danish 7-gun privateer Naargske Gutten. Tartar then captured a Danish 4-gun privateer off Courland with her boats on 15 May 1809 and served impactfully at the Battle of Anholt on 27 March 1811, after which she captured several transport ships.Tartar ran aground on Dago Island; the crew re-floated her but she had sprung a leak that they were unable to fix. Baker beached the ship at Kahar Inlet on 21 August and burned her two days later.HMS Ethalion.

Cornelia

Landings at the invasion of Isle de France

Cornelia, named after the mother of the Gracchi brothers Cornelia, was commissioned by Captain Henry Edgell in November 1808, and on 30 December sailed for the East Indies Station.invasion of Isle de France in November and December 1810, and participated in the invasion of Java in the following year.William Fitzwilliam Owen; Cornelia was paid off in 1813 and went into ordinary at Woolwich Dockyard.broken up at Sheerness Dockyard in June 1814.

Siren and Doris


Narcissus-class frigate

Siren and Doris

Siren and Doris, the latter named after the sea-goddess Doris, were planned as the fourth and fifth frigates of the Narcissus class.Appledore, both ships were cancelled on 24 June 1806 when the shipyard failed. Siren was laid down towards the end of 1805 and the frame had been completed at the time of cancellation, but construction on Doris was never begun.

Notes and citations

  * Clowes, William Laird (1900). The Royal Navy, a History from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. 5. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company.
  * Gardiner, Robert (2000). Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars. London: Chatham. ISBN 1-86176-135-X.
  * Gardiner, Robert (1992). The Heavy Frigate: Eighteen-Pounder Frigates. Vol. 1. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-627-2.
  * Grocott, Terence (2002). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-164-5.
  * Lavery, Brian (1989). Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793–1815. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-521-7.
  * Manning, T. D.; Walker, C. F. (1959). British Warship Names. London: Putnam. OCLC 838607.
  * Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-78346-926-0.
  * Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.


Self-portrait (Chassériau)

Self-Portrait, or Portrait of the Artist in a Redingote, is an oil-on-canvas painting by French romantic artist Théodore Chassériau, painted in 1835 when the artist was 16. It is housed at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Description and analysis

One of the few self-portraits Chassériau painted, Portrait of the Artist in a Redingote shows him standing and facing left, one hand concealed within his black jacket, a small book held within his other hand, at rest upon a red tablecloth. In the background is a gray-green wall, upon which hangs a palette in the upper left corner. The painter's pose is elegant, and his gaze has been described as "astonishingly young, and at the same time, weary".

Although the painting has been compared to classical and contemporary prototypes—portraits by Raphael, Bronzino, Titian, and Ingres have been cited as inspirations—the painting is consistent with a series of portraits of family members painted by Chassériau in his youth.

  * Musée du Louvre


USS Sylph (PY-12)

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

USS Sylph (PY-12), briefly YP-71, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol yacht from 1940 to 1946.

Construction, acquisition, and commissioning

Intrepid (YP-71), a yacht built in 1929 at Neponset, Massachusetts, by George Lawley & Son, was acquired by the Navy on 16 July 1940. She was renamed Sylph and redesignated PY-12 three days later. After conversion in New York City by the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, she was commissioned on 1 October 1940.

Service history

After commissioning, she remained at New York, assigned to the 3d Naval District to train reserve midshipmen. Soon after America's entry into World War II, Sylph was fitted with sound gear and depth charges and assigned to Tompkinsville, New York, to help patrol for German U-boats. On 10 February 1942, she was reassigned to New London, Connecticut, whence she continued to hunt for submarines. While at New London, Sylph also helped periodically to train sonarmen, a critical personnel need in the Battle of the Atlantic. Future Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine served as a U.S. Navy gunner's mate aboard Sylph during its antisubmarine warfare patrols of the North Atlantic.

In the fall of 1943, Sylph ceased to patrol for submarines. Assigned to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, she gave her full attention to training sonarmen and to the development of equipment and techniques for finding and sinking submarines. In October 1944, Sylph and her unit, the Surface Division of the Atlantic Fleet's Antisubmarine Development Detachment, shifted base to Port Everglades, Florida. She continued to train sonarmen there and assisted in the antisubmarine warfare research effort through the end of World War II.

In September 1945, Sylph was ordered to the Commandant, 6th Naval District, at Charleston, South Carolina. She arrived at Charleston on 8 November and was decommissioned on 19 December. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946, and her hulk was sold by the War Shipping Administration on 31 December 1946.


USS Sylph (PY-12)

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Sylph (ship, 1940).

Photo gallery of USS Sylph (PY-12) at NavSource Naval History


Parish of Numby

Numby, New South Wales is a civil parish of King County, New South Wales.

The parish is at 34°08′54″S 148°58′04″E / 34.14833°S 148.96778°E on the Lachlan River, near Bigga.


United Nations Security Council Resolution 238, adopted unanimously on June 19, 1967, after reaffirming previous resolutions on the topic, the Council extended the stationing in Cyprus of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus for an additional 6 months, now ending on December 26, 1967. The Council also called upon the parties directly concerned to continue to act with the utmost restraint and to co-operate fully with the peacekeeping force.

  * Cyprus dispute
  * List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 201 to 300 (1965–1971)
  * Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
  * Works related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 238 at Wikisource


Lankelly Chase

Lankelly Chase is a British charitable foundation. Founded in 1962, it announced a five-year-plan to distribute all assets and close up operations starting in 2023.

Description and history

Lankelly Chase is a British charitable foundation.Alfred Allnatt with the ambition of refurbishing a Richmond Hill art gallery.

The foundation is based in London, England.

In 2021, the organisation was the United Kingdom's 79th largest charitable foundation by funds disbursed.

Contemporary activities

In 2018, in collaboration with New Philanthropy Capitol, Lankelly Chase published the report Thinking Big: How To Use Theory Of Change For Systems Change. The report was critical of how UK charities failed to address root causes of poverty, favouring quick fixes of the symptoms.

Prior to 2023, Lankelly Chase distributed about £13 million per year to several hundred charities that worked on racial justice, social justice and climate justice. Funding is supported by drawing from a £130 million endowment.

On July 10, 2023,

“We have recognised the gravity of the interlocking social, climate and economic global crises we are experiencing today. At the same time, we view the traditional philanthropy model as so entangled with colonial capitalism that it inevitably continues the harms of the past into the present.

“We acknowledge our role in maintaining this traditional model and know that these times demand bold action from us all in charitable organisations. This is our response.”

£8 million of the giveaway is planned to go to the Baobab Foundation.

  * Official website


Sarah Mikovski

Sarah Mikovski, is a French singer-songwriter based in Lyon.

Career

Mikovski was classically trained at the Maîtrise de la Loire in Montbrison.Conservatoire de Lyon, where she became influenced by jazz and funk. She describes her sound as "poptimistic".

She composes her songs a cappella while walking, and performs as a duo with Ivan Callot, who does the arrangements.pseudonym, she chose a Polish-sounding last name as a way to "break all stereotypes" and create a persona allowing her to have more fun in her shows.

Mikovski is influenced by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Pomme, Camille, and Janelle Monáe.

Mikovski has earned several awards for her music, including the Centre de la Chanson de Paris' grand prize in 2015.

Discography

  * Sarah Mikovski (2014)
  * Ressuscitée (2015)
  * Ma Vie en Rose (2016)
  * Pôle nord (sortie prévue le 14 février 2020)


Kauśīdya

Kausidya (Sanskrit; Tibetan Wylie: le lo) is a Buddhist term translated as "laziness" or "spiritual sloth". It is defined as clinging to unwholesome activities such as lying down and stretching out, and to procrastinate, and not being enthusiastic about or engaging in virtuous activity.

  * One of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings.
  * One of the five faults or obstacles to shamatha meditation within the Mahayana teachings.
  * Closely related to the Pali term thina, that is identified as one of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings

Explanation

Mipham Rinpoche states:

Laziness (kausidya) is to cling to unwholesome activities such as lying down, resting, or stretching out, and to procrastinate, without taking delight in and engaging in what is virtuous. It is the opponent of diligence (vīrya).

The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:

What is laziness (kausidya)? It is an unwilling mind, associated with bewilderment-erring, relying on the pleasures of drowsiness, lying down and not getting up. Its function is to obstruct and hinder one in applying himself to positive things.

Alan Wallace explains that kausidya (lelo in Tibetan) refers to a very specific type of laziness, that is concerned only with virtuous activity. Wallace explains:

[...] lelo in Tibetan, is often translated as ‘laziness,’ but it is much more specific. If a person is working sixteen hours a day, hellbent on earning a whole lot of money with absolutely no concern for virtue, from a Buddhist perspective you could say that person is subject to lelo. A workaholic is clearly not lazy, but such a person is seen as lelo in the sense of being completely lethargic and slothful with regard to the cultivation of virtue and purification of the mind. Our translation of this term is ‘spiritual sloth,’ which we have taken from the Christian tradition, where it is very comparable to the Buddhist notion.


Kauśīdya

Three types

The Mahayana tradition identifies three types of laziness: not wanting to do anything; discouragement; and busyness.

Laziness of not wanting to do anything
  * We'd rather stay in bed half an hour later than get up and meditate.
  * Sakyong Mipham explains this type of laziness from the meditative point of view: "The mind has withdrawn into itself. [...] It feels impossible to do anything. We feel like a snake crawling along the ground."
Laziness of discouragement (or feeling ourselves unworthy)
  * This involves thinking, "I can't do this., or self doubt"
  * Sakyong Mipham states: "We feel discouraged, deflated, or outnumbered by the obstacles that arise in our practice. We take them personally. Our belief in the solidity of obstacles grows, and our belief in our ability to practice shrinks."
Laziness of being busy with worldly things.
  * Tenzin Palmo states: "This is the point—we fill our lives with activities. Many of them are really very good activities but if we are not careful, they can just be an escape. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do good and necessary things, but there has to be breathing in as well as breathing out."
  * Sakyong Mipham states: "Speediness is laziness when we use it as a way to avoid working with our minds."

Antidotes

Main article: Five faults and eight antidotes

Traditional texts identify four antidotes to laziness in the context of meditation practice. Sakyong Mipham identifies these antidotes as follows:


Kauśīdya

* Suppleness: involves being curious, having a sense of appreciation and imagination
  * Trust: develops from experiencing the benefits of meditation practice
  * Aspiration: is trust with a sense of determination
  * Effort: an engaged mind that moves toward the act of meditation.
  * Mental factors (Buddhism)
  * Thina
  * Goleman, Daniel (2008), Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Bantam, Kindle Edition
  * Guenther, Herbert V.; Kawamura, Leslie S. (1975), Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding, Dharma Publishing. Kindle Edition
  * Kunsang, Erik Pema (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1, North Atlantic Books
  * Sakyong Mimpham (2003), Turning the Mind into an Ally, Riverhead Books, pp. 84–101
  * Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (1993), The Practice of Tranquility & Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation, Snow Lion, Kindle Edition
  * Traleg Kyabgon (2001), The Essence of Buddhism, Shambhala
  * Looking into Laziness, by Pema Chodron, Shambhala Sun
  * Three Kinds of Laziness, by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Tricycle
  * Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors


René Ponk

René Ponk (born 21 October 1971 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Football career

In a professional career which lasted 15 years Ponk appeared in Eredivisie games 120 over the course of eight seasons, with FC Utrecht (six) and Sparta Rotterdam (two). He also competed in Spain with SD Compostela for three years, playing 19 matches in his only campaign in La Liga and suffering team relegation.

Ponk retired in June 2009 at almost 38 years of age, after two seasons with HFC Haarlem in the second division. He subsequently worked as a goalkeeper coach.

Honours

Utrecht

  * KNVB Cup: 2003–04
  * Johan Cruyff Shield: 2004
  * Stats at Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  * René Ponk at BDFutbol


Lagarde-Enval

Lagarde-Enval (French pronunciation: [laɡaʁd ɑ̃val]; Limousin: La Garda) is a former commune in the Corrèze department in central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Lagarde-Marc-la-Tour.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.   ±%
1901  1,042  —
1962  599    −42.5%
1968  637    +6.3%
1975  576    −9.6%
1982  619    +7.5%
1990  766    +23.7%
1999  748    −2.3%
2008  746    −0.3%

  * Communes of the Corrèze department
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Narcissu: Side 2nd

Screenshot of gameplay in Narcissu -Side 2nd-

Narcissu -Side 2nd- is the prequel to the visual novel Narcissu, produced by Stage-nana. A preview version was sold at Comiket 70 for ¥200, and has since been released for free download. On May 15, 2007 the entire game was released and made available for download on stage-nana's website. The English version was released on March 31, 2010 by Agilis, after "close to 3 years of blood, sweat, and hard work."Nscripter, which supports English text as opposed to Nscripter which in turn, doesn't. Additionally, Side 2nd includes both games' soundtracks accessible from the menu of the game.

The game has been released in English with both games included with the option of picking different translations (being from Agilis and Haeleth). The game is playable in either voiced or unvoiced with unvoiced being preferred by the creator. It has been expressed that there were inconsistencies within the original game such as Setsumi never mentioning Himeko but the original creator asks if the player could "think of that as her just not simply expressing it directly".

In-game illustration were drawn by Goto-P except for an image by Yuuki Tsukasa and an image of Yuka by Kyalme. The staff of Cotton-soft also provided help with the design, system and sound editing.

Plot

The game serves as a prequel to the first game, the plot revolves around Setsumi, the female main character from the original visual novel, and the people and circumstances that formed the character presented in the first game.

Narcissu 2 is set about six or seven years before the events of the original Narcissu, while Setsumi was still just a regular outpatient living at home near the hospital. We meet Himeko, a former 7th floor helper at the hospital. Cheerful and full of energy, no one expected that she would one day be a patient in the same ward that she had spent so much time volunteering at. One summer day, while Setsumi was going to the hospital for an examination, Setsumi meets Himeko, and a long summer begins...

Characters


Narcissu: Side 2nd

Characters

Himeko Shinohara Voiced by: Natsumi Yanase A 23-year-old girl 7th-floor resident who loves cars and looking at maps. She calls herself a "pseudo-Catholic". Setsumi Sakura Voiced by: Rino Ayakawa A quiet 15-year-old girl who befriends Himeko and calls her "Onee-san". Chihiro Shinohara Voiced by: Yuko Goto Himeko's younger sister. A devout Christian believer with a kind personality and a 7th-floor volunteer. Yuka Akishima Voiced by: Yukiko Iwai Himeko's best friend. She's slightly tsundere and girlish, as opposed to Himeko. Little Girl Voiced by: Mamiko Noto A 7th-floor patient that Himeko was charged with. A pure and innocent girl who longs for her parents. Setsumi's mother A bright and cheerful person who works hard to pay for Setsumi's hospital fees.

Gameplay

Narcissu: Side 2nd has minimal gameplay in the traditional sense. Player interaction is limited to clicking to advance the text, graphics and sound, although the game features an 'autoplay' mode that makes even this unnecessary.

Narcissu does not contain any decision points at all unlike a lot of visual novels, because it is a member sub category of visual novel known as kinetic novel.

The characters are portrayed by voice actors who recorded out of their schedules and spare time. Voices are optional however; the game is playable in either voiced or unvoiced mode.

Soundtrack

Below is the soundtrack used in Narcissu: Side 2nd as taken from the game. Many different musicians provided music for the game, some being musicians used in the first game and entirely new musicians.


Narcissu: Side 2nd

No.  Title                                                                             Length
1.   "Narcissus" (Lyrics by Riya, music by Hajime Kikuchi and vocals by Eufonius)
2.   "Rumbling Viaduct 2007" (Composed and arranged by Ebi - sound Union)
3.   "Himeko's Theme" (Composed and arranged by Ebi - sound Union)
4.   "Suppressed Lies" (Composed and arranged by Ryo Mizutsuki)
5.   "Pineapple Tree" (Composed and arranged by Barbarian On The Groove)
6.   "South-Facing Window" (Composed and arranged by Souten)
7.   "Roadster" (Composed and arranged by ONOKEN)
8.   "For Whose Sake" (Composed and arranged by SENTIVE)
9.   "Lamune '79" (Composed by Hitoshi Fujima - Elements Garden, arranged by
     Akira Kannai - TGZ)
10.  "Morning View" (Composed and arranged by Ryo Mizutsuki)
11.  "Narcissus Instrumental Version" (Composed and arranged by Hajime Kikuchi)
12.  "Showery Sky" (Composed and arranged by Ebi - Sound Union)
13.  "Evening Primrose" (Composed by 443, arranged by Nekono Kometto)
14.  "15cm" (Composed by Takashi - Σ-sigma-, music by sin - Σ-sigma-, Vocals by KAKO)

  * stage-nana — Official website (in Japanese)
  * English translation website
  * Thai translation website (in Thai)
  * Vietnamese translation forum (in Vietnamese)
  * Narcissu: Side 2nd at The Visual Novel Database


Maneto

The Maneto is a dog breed native to Andalusia in Spain. It is derived from the medium-sized Andalusian Hound, and is used to hunt rabbits, partridge, quail, and for retrieving ducks from the water. Its legs are short relative to its body, and its ears are triangular and blunt.Real Sociedad Canina de España. The word "maneto" in Spanish indicates an impediment or defect in any of the hands or legs.

  * Dogs portal
  * List of dog breeds
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  * Spanish Club of the Andalusian Hound


Mar Iskhaq Yosip

Mar Iskhaq Yosip is the Assyrian Church Bishop of Northern Iraq and Russia.

  * Assyrian Church of the East
  * Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod


Parish of St. Gabriel and of St. Joseph (New Rochelle, New York)

The Parish of St. Gabriel and of St. Joseph was formed in August 2015 with the merger of the Territorial parish of St. Gabriel on Division Street with the personal parish of St. Joseph on Washington Avenue, both in New Rochelle, NY. St. Gabriel is the parish church. However, St. Joseph "will maintain a regular schedule of Masses and the celebration of other sacraments".

St. Gabriel's

St. Gabriel's, located in southern end of the city of New Rochelle, New York in Westchester County, was founded in 1893 by Mrs. Adrian Iselin and family, longtime residents of New Rochelle. The church was a memorial given by Mrs. Adrian Iselin and endowed by her for the Catholics of New Rochelle.Michael Corrigan.

Architecture

The buildings of the parish are distinctly Norman-English in design. The church was built of rough=hewn slabs of Massachusetts blue granite and limestone with a steeply pitched red tile roof, and two towers with a clock and chimes. The adjacent rectory house was built in a corresponding style.

The interior features salmon colored brick walls, arched hardwood paneled ceilings and mosaic floors. The decoration of the chancel walls is in old gold and is a near perfect reproduction of the chancel of the San Marco Cathedral in Venice. The three chancel windows were designed by Franz Mayer & Co. and represent "the Saviour", "St. Francis de Sales" and "St. Margaret of Scotland". The intricately carved white marble altar is a memorial to Fannie G. Iselin.

St. Paul's features 17 impressive stained-glass windows crafted by Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, The Gorham Company, Franz Mayer & Co. and Heaton, Butler and Bayne.The Education Of The Virgin", "The Annunciation", "The Marriage Of Joseph And Mary" and "The Baptism of Jesus". The complete set of memorial windows were gifts of the seven Iselin children in honor of their mother.

At the time of its construction, St. Gabriel's was one of the most costly houses of worship in the region. The church building, together with the rectory and a home for the Sisters of Charity, it cost $250,000.


A wood-framed mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe by Sviat Makarenko, is enshrined in a small chapel at the rear on the east side of St. Gabriel's Church. It was presented to the parishioners of St. Gabriel's Church by their pastor, Msgr. Patrick V. McNamara, in 2003.

St Joseph's

The personal parish of St. Joseph was founded in 1901 to serve the Italian Catholic community of New Rochelle. A small wooden chapel was built on 4th Street. This was, however, abandoned in 1904, when a new church on Washington Avenue was consecrated by John Cardinal Farley. The building was of red Harvard brick, as was the adjoining rectory. The church, rectory, land and furnishings, costing altogether about $50,000, were the gift of Adrian Iselin, Sr.

A parochial school was established in 1909 and was held in the basement of the church until the red brick school was completed in 1912. A convent was built on 5th Street. Both the school and the convent were gifts of Adrian Iselin's daughter, Countess Georgine Iselin.

The parish held an annual St. Anthony's Feast and Bazaar, complete with a procession of a statue of the saint around the neighborhood.

  * Adrian Georg Iselin - with portrait of donor Eleanora O'Donnnell Iselin
  * St. Gabriel's Historic Stained Glass Windows
  * Former Panoramio image by Roger King


Willem Ritstier

Willem Ritstier

Willem Ritstier (born June 12, 1959) is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2017 Stripschapprijs.


Lankarama

The Lankarama dagoba.

Eth Pokuna (Elephant pond).

Lankarama in a dilapidated state 1927.

Lankarama is a stupa built by King Valagamba, in an ancient place at Galhebakada in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Nothing is known about the ancient form of the stupa, and later this was renovated. The ruins show that there are rows of stone pillars and it is no doubt that there has been a house built encircling the stupa (vatadage) to cover it. The round courtyard of the stupa seems to be 3.0 metres (10 ft) above the ground. The diameter of the stupa is 14 metres (45 ft). The courtyard is circular in shape and the diameter is 406 metres (1,332 ft).

Eth pokuna

The eth pokuna (elephant pond) is an ancient man-made pond situated close to Lankaramaya. It is 159 metres (522 ft) in length, 52.7 metres (173 ft) in width and 9.5 metres (31 ft) deep, with a holding capacity of 75,000 m3 (2,600,000 cu ft) of water.

The water to this pond is supplied from the Periyamkulama Tank through a network of underground canals. These underground canals still work after several hundreds years. This tank was probably used by the monks in the Abhayagiri vihāra (Buddhist monastery), which at one time had over five thousand priests.

  * Atamasthana
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  * This page incorporates content from Dr. Rohan Hettiarachchi's used with permission of website owner.

8°22′N 80°23′E / 8.367°N 80.383°E


Lists of dystopian works

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The following are lists of dystopian works:

  * List of dystopian comics
  * List of dystopian films
  * List of dystopian literature
  * List of dystopian TV programs
  * List of dystopian music


Kava, Idar

Kava is a village in Idar, India. The population in this village is close to 2500. Shrimati J. P Patel High School is the main high school. This village is surrounded by Arvalli Girimala. As per constitution of India and Panchayati Raaj Act, Kava village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village), who is the elected representative of village. Currently, Sarpanch of Kava is Amitbhai Patel.

The Kava village has a population of 2,374 of which 1,195 are males while 1,179 are females as per Population Census 2011.Gujarat state average of 919. But the child Sex Ratio for the Kava as per census is 869, which is lower than the Gujarat average of 890.

Kava village has lower literacy rate compared to Gujarat state average. In 2011, literacy rate of Kava village was 75.48% compared to 78.03% of Gujarat. Male literacy stands at 86.47% while female literacy rate was 64.56%.

Scheduled Caste (SC) constitutes 19.21% of the total population, while Scheduled Tribes (ST) took up 1.14%.

In terms of employment, 852 people were engaged in work activities. 91.20% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 8.80% were involved in Marginal Work, providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 777 workers engaged in Main Work, 205 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 376 were agricultural labourers.

Census Data (2011)
Particulars          Total   Male    Female
Total No. of Houses  505     -       -
Population           2,374   1,195   1,179
Child (0-6)          327     175     152
Scheduled Caste      456     223     233
Scheduled Tribe      27      13      14
Literacy             75.48%  86.47%  64.56%
Total Workers        852     693     159
Main Worker          777     -       -
Marginal Worker      75      -       -


Kitava

Kitava is one of the four major islands in the Trobriand Islands archipelago group of the Solomon Sea, located in Milne Bay Province of southeastern Papua New Guinea.

Ethnography

The inhabitants of this island and their lifestyle and diet have been the subject of study by researcher Staffan Lindeberg and his colleagues, due to their reported excellent health and traditional diet. Lindeberg et al. have published several works in peer-reviewed journals outlining their discoveries.

  * Trobriand Islands topics
  * Kitava at WikiMapia
  * Health of the Uratu Island Reef, Kitava, Papua New Guinea


Riverside Plaza (Riverside, California)

Riverside Plaza is a 475,000-square-foot (44,100 m2) outdoor mall in Riverside, California originally anchored by a 205,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) Harris Company (later Harris’/Gottschalks) department store along with Montgomery Ward.

After a $12-million renovation in the early 2010s, the center features walkways, fountains, decorative lights and courtyard seats. Today it is anchored by a Regal Cinemas, Forever 21, Trader Joe's, Marshalls, JoAnn Fabrics & Crafts and Nordstrom Rack.

Forever 21 opened first in the empty Harris’/Gottschalks building space, but relocated in 2013 to a space that Borders Books vacated.

33°57′19″N 117°23′26″W / 33.955341°N 117.390678°W


V.D. Chitale

Vishnu Damodar Chitale (1906–1961) was an Indian freedom fighter, nationalist and prominent leader of the Communist Party of India in Poona city.Sanskrit scholar.

Chitale was born on 4 January 1906.Salt Satyagraha. He was also elected a member of the All India Congress Committee.K.M. Ashraf proposed an amendment to the main resolution, calling for 'immediate launching of the struggle' for independence and rejecting any compromise with British rule.

Chitale led the third 1955 satyagrah to Goa, leading a thousand volunteers in a march to demand integration of Portuguese-controlled Goa with India.

Chitale was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the 1957 election, from the Kasba Peth constituency.Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti bloc in the Legislative Assembly.


Manetta

Look up Manetta or manetta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Manetta is a surname and given name. Notable people with this name include:

Surname:

  * Manuel Manetta, "Fess" Manetta (1889–1969), American jazz multi-instrumentalist
  * Manuela Manetta (born 1983), professional squash player who represented Italy
  * Marco Manetta (born 1991), Italian professional footballer

Given name:

  * Manetta Darnall or Linda Darnell (1923–1965), American actress
  * Edgemoor and Manetta Railway, South Carolina shortline railroad
  * Manette (disambiguation)
  * Manetti


Mar Mord

Mar Mord (Persian: مارمرد, also Romanized as Mār Mord and Mār Mard)Khatunabad Rural District, in the Central District of Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 81, in 20 families.


People's Progressive Movement (Malawi)

The People's Progressive Movement (PPM) is a political party in Malawi. At the elections of 20 May 2004, its candidate for president Aleke Banda won 2.5% and the party was part of the Mgwirizano Coalition, that won 27 out of 194 seats. Aleke Banda was the close friend of hastings Kamuzu Banda in 1956. He was among the people who founded the Nyasaland Congress Party. He was also saved as Ministry of Agriculture in the United Democratic Front (UDF) during Bakali Muluzi's time. He left UDF together with Mark Katsonga Phiri and formed their party after there was disagreement with Muluzi about the Presidency of Bingu wa Munthalika.

The PPM was part of the Tonse Alliance to support Lazarus Chakwera for the 2020 Malawian presidential election.


Willem Schellinks

Willem Schellinks (1623–1678) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher of landscapes and marine scenes and also a poet. Willem Schellinks was one of the most widely traveled Dutch artists of his time. He traveled along the Loire and the Seine in 1646, and between 1661 and 1665 he visited England, France, Italy, Malta, Germany and Switzerland, keeping a record of his travels in multiple landscapes and scenic views as well as a journal.

Life

Willem Schellinks was born into a family of artists in Amsterdam. He was the son of a surveyor and the brother of Daniël Schellinks (1627–1701), who was active as an amateur artist. Another brother, Jacob, settled in Southampton, Connecticut Colony and took up whaling. After finishing his studies with Karel Dujardin at the age of about twenty, he traveled to France with Lambert Doomer in 1646.Grand Tour.

Burning of the English fleet at Chatham

Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three volumes, that remained unpublished, but which he kept for friends to read. The painter-engraver Arnoud van Halen acquired these volumes and the Dutch artist biographer Arnold Houbraken was granted permission to read through them himself. This trip, which he began on 14 July 1661, included visits to England, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany and Switzerland. He describes the main sights of the cities he visits. His route home from Italy took him "from Venice to Padua, over Verona, Mantua, Trento, and Munich. In Munich he visited all of the rooms of the newly built Palace of the Bavarian Counts, and he described all of the paintings and statues he saw there. He then continued on to Augsburg, Regensburg, Nuremberg, Hanau, Frankfurt, Worms, Frankenthal, Heidelberg, Speyer, Strasbourg, Breisach, Basel, Zürich, Baden, Bern, Mainz, Cologne, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Cleves, Nijmegen and Utrecht, where he arrived 23 August 1665."

Mountain Landscape with River and Wagon


Willem Schellinks

Mountain Landscape with River and Wagon

Schellinks' hand-written journal, written some years after his travels 1661–1665 and based on his now lost notes, is preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. A transcription made by Schellinks himself is now in the Bodleian Library. The part of the journal covering his trip in England was published in English. The journal forms an important record of the conditions of travel in the 17th century. While Schellinks does not offer many insights into his views on art or approach to landscape painting, his description of the art collections in the Roman palaces would have filled a gap in the Dutch travel literature of his time.Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem, published in Amsterdam between 1649 and 1673.

Work

Willem Schellinks mainly drew and painted Dutch and Italian views, river and harbor scenes, inns or ancient ruins with resting horsemen and hunting parties. He also painted a number of winter scenes. He borrowed liberally from the style of other artists, particularly of the Italianate masters. It is likely that his works are so rare because many of them have been wrongly attributed to other painters. After Schellinks's death, Frederick de Moucheron completed many of his paintings and added figures to them.

La Fontana Nuova, Valletta, Grand Harbour

An important influence on his work was Jan Asselyn. Asselyn was chiefly known as a painter of southern landscapes with ruins, but had in addition developed a new type of winter landscape. Instead of the traditional type of winter landscape, characterized by an addition of planes and crowds of figures, Asselyn painted landscapes in which the compositional elements were limited to a few large motifs and some sparse figures, used only to enliven the scene. His main aim was to give a subtle rendering of the winter atmosphere. These winter landscapes formed an important inspiration for Schellinks' own compositions. The composition City Walls in Winter (Rijksmuseum) was in fact originally attributed to Asselyn. This winter landscape was inspired by Asselyn's composition in an English private collection. Schellinks reinterpretation exaggerated the pathetic connotations.


Willem Schellinks

Schellinks used his earlier drawings of England as the basis for his paintings of the successful 1667 naval raid by the Dutch on the English fleet at Chatham during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. He depicts the moment when the Dutch triumph by showing an English military contingent arriving too late.

Schellinks often collaborated with other artists for whom he painted either the landscapes or the figures. For instance, in the Mountain Landscape with River and Wagon (Getty Museum) he painted the figures in the landscape by the hand of Herman Nauwincx.The country estate of burgomaster Nicolaas Pancras (Amsterdam Museum), he painted the landscape to which Adriaen van de Velde added the figures and animals.

  * Media related to Willem Schellinks at Wikimedia Commons


Lepidobolus

Lepidobolus is a plant genus in the family Restionaceae, described as a genus in 1846.endemic to Australia.

Species
  * Lepidobolus basiflorus Pate & Meney - WA
  * Lepidobolus chaetocephalus F.Muell. - WA
  * Lepidobolus deserti Gilg ex Diels & Pritz. - WA
  * Lepidobolus drapetocoleus F.Muell. - SA, Vic
  * Lepidobolus preissianus Nees - WA
  * Lepidobolus spiralis Meney & K.W.Dixon - WA


Lists of dukedoms

Lists of dukedoms include:

  * List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
      + Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom
  * List of French dukedoms
  * Dukedoms in Portugal
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Between 1879 and 1916, tens of thousands of Indians moved to Fiji to work as indentured labourers, especially on sugarcane plantations. Repatriation of indentured Indians from Fiji began on 3 May 1892, when the British Peer brought 464 repatriated Indians to Calcutta. Various ships made similar journeys to Calcutta and Madras, concluding with Sirsa's 1951 voyage. In 1955 and 1956, three ships brought Indian labourers from Fiji to Sydney, from where the labourers flew to Bombay.

Conditions of return

Indentured Indians wishing to return to India were given two options. One was travel at their own expense and the other free of charge but subject to certain conditions. To obtain free passage back to India, labourers had to have been above age twelve upon arrival, completed at least five years of service and lived in Fiji for a total of ten consecutive years. A child born to these labourers in Fiji could accompany his or her parents or guardian back to India if he or she was under twelve.

Due to the high cost of returning at their own expense, most indentured immigrants returning to India left Fiji around ten to twelve years after arrival. Indeed, just over twelve years passed between the voyage of the first ship carrying indentured Indians to Fiji (the Leonidas, in 1879) and the first ship to take Indians back (the British Peer, in 1892).

Repatriation

Given the steady influx of ships carrying indentured Indians to Fiji up until 1916, repatriated Indians generally boarded these same ships on their return voyage. The total number of repatriates under the Fiji indenture system is recorded as 39,261, while the number of arrivals is said to have been 60,553. Because the return figure includes children born in Fiji, many of the indentured Indians never returned to India.

Direct return voyages by ship ceased after 1951. Instead, arrangements were made for flights from Sydney to Bombay, the first of which departed in July 1955. Labourers still travelled to Sydney by ship.

List of ship charters to India


Name of ship  Date of departure  Calcutta arrivals            Madras arrivals         Total arrivals  Legend
British Peer  3 May 1892         464 (260m 111w 35b 43g 15i)                          464             m  Men
Hereford      25 June 1892       24                                                   24              w  Women
Moy           28 April 1893      529 (317m 133f 34b 31g 17i)                          529             b  Boys
Ems           5 May 1894         576 (312m 148f 38b 42g 36i)                          576             g  Girls
Hereford      16 July 1894       447 (277m 125f 41b 28g 21i)                          447             i  Infants
SS Virawa     14 May 1895        608 (347m 147f 38b 40g 36i)                          608
Erne          14 May 1896        675 (371m 170f 55b 50g 29i)                          675
Moy           15 June 1898       393 (273m 65f 25b 19g 13i)                           393
Avon          10 August 1899     328 (213m 66f 20b 15g 14i)                           328
Ganges        12 September 1899  33 (24m 5f 2b 2g)                                    33
Elbe          23 July 1900       405 (245m 87f 28b 31g 14i)                           405
SS Fazilka    2 July 1901        515 (298m 107f 45b 44g 33i)                          515
SS Fazilka    5 July 1902        479 (291m 90f 44b 41g 13i)                           479
Arno          15 September 1903  549 (325m 114f 63b 52g 25i)                          549
Arno          19 August 1904     366 (211m 91f 34b 37g 20i)                           366
SS Virawa     26 July 1905       341 (193m 64w 31b 36g 17i)                           341
SS Fazilka    1 May 1906         321 (221m 71f 13b 12g 4i)                            321
SS Fazilka    10 February 1907   533 (316m 96w 56b 42g 23i)   63 (34m 21f 4b 1g 3i)   596
SS Fazilka    1 May 1907         26 (15m 8f 2g 1i)            21 (14m 6f 1g)          47


SS Sangola    30 March 1908      606 (363m 115f 42b 60g 26i)  87 (51m 24f 6b 3g 3i)   693
SS Sangola    11 February 1909   60                           54 (30m 15f 1b 3g 5i)   114
SS Sangola    16 March 1910      351 (245m 63f 18b 14g 8i)    20 (12m 6f 1b 1g)       371
SS Santhia    30 April 1910      18 (14m 4f)                  23 (13m 5f 1b 3g 1i)    41
SS Sutlej     8 July 1911        545 (408m 78f 30b 21g 9i)    102 (66m 24f 7b 2g 3i)  647
SS Sutlej     7 October 1911     53 (34m 12f 2b 2g 3i)        8 (3m 4f 1g)            61
SS Sutlej     9 May 1912         616 (383m 108f 47b 59g 20i)  103 (54m 34f 7b 6g 2i)  719
SS Ganges     28 February 1913   681                          126                     807
SS Chenab     8 March 1914       675                          264                     801
SS Chenab     22 June 1914       321                          33                      354
SS Mutlah     13 May 1915        473                          95                      568
SS Chenab     6 September 1916   486                          242                     728
Ganges I      7 June 1920        844                          303                     1,147
Ganges II     30 August 1920     1046                         82                      1,128
SS Ganges     12 November 1920   892                          239                     1,131
SS Torilla    18 December 1920   1134                         105                     1,239
SS Ganges     12 February 1921   1444                         149                     1,593
SS Ganges     24 May 1921        1000                         214                     1214
SS Ganges     7 June 1920        695                          241                     936
SS Ganges     12 November 1920   799                          166                     965
SS Torilla    18 December 1920   1808                         93                      1,901
Ganges        12 February 1921   974                          100                     1,074
Ganges        24 May 1921        996                          178                     1,174
SS Chenab     22 November 1921   739                          249                     988


SS Chenab     22 November 1921   739                          249                     988
SS Sutlej     6 June 1922        512                          454                     966
SS Chenab     27 December 1922   565                          372                     937
Ganges        6 November 1923    411                          560                     971
SS Sutlej     20 December 1924   558                          464                     1,022
Unknown       25 January 1926    701                          487                     1,188
SS Ganges     31 January 1927    528                                                  528
Ganges        26 February 1927   514                          582                     1,096
SS Sutlej     21 April 1928      530                          442                     972
SS Sutlej     8 July 1929        365                          286                     651
SS Sutlej     16 March 1930      346                          305                     651
SS Ganges     7 September 1931   103                          171                     274
Ganges        14 May 1932        76                           93                      169
Ganges        30 August 1933     136                          112                     248
SS Ganges     22 August 1934     78                           45                      123
SS Elephanta  14 November 1935   82                           80                      162
SS Ganges     24 December 1936   105                          66                      171
SS Ganges     21 April 1938      109                          86                      195
SS Ganges     20 September 1939  56                           65                      121
MV Orna       3 August 1947      106                          52                      158
SS Selma      13 May 1945        12                           7                       19
MV Orna       5 March 1948       29                           32                      61
MV Orna       18 August 1948     70                           50                      120
MV Orna       8 July 1949        95                           47                      142
Unknown       28 March 1950      53                           22                      75
SS Sirsa      17 May 1951        34                           12                      46
                                                              Total                   39,157


List of ship charters to Sydney

The following ships brought labourers to Sydney.

Name of ship  Flight departure  Number of departures
Strathmore    25 July 1955      25
Stratheden    29 November 1955  68
Strathnaver   24 July 1956      12
              Total             105

  * Girmityas
  * List of Indian indenture ships to Fiji
  * Indian indenture system


Kitaura Station (Kōchi)

Kitaura railway

Kitaura Station (北浦停留場, Kitaura-teiryujo) is a tram station in Kōchi, Japan.

Lines

  * Tosa Electric Railway
      + Gomen Line

Adjacent stations

«                      Service  »
Tosa Electric Railway
Ino Line
Ryōseki-dōri           -        Funato

33°34′23″N 133°36′13″E / 33.573194°N 133.603556°E


Riverside Park (stadium)

For other baseball parks with this name, see Riverside Park (disambiguation).

Riverside Park

Riverside Park is the name of a former baseball ground located in Buffalo, New York, United States. The ground was home to the Buffalo Bisons baseball club of the International Association in 1878, and the National League from 1879 through 1883.

Although first used in 1878, its name as known to historians first surfaced in 1882. One local newspaper, employing that era's typical built-in editorializing, stated "The Directors have dubbed the ballgrounds 'Riverside Park.' The name is not appropriate, but it will do." [Buffalo Commercial, April 29, 1882, p.3] (The ballpark was at least 1,000 feet from the Niagara River bank.)

Located on a block bounded by Fargo Avenue (southwest), Rhode Island Street (northwest), West Avenue (northeast), and Vermont Street (southeast), Riverside Park was the first ballpark to be used by the major league Bisons. The stadium was demolished at the request of its owner, Alexander Culbert, who wanted to redevelop the property. The Bisons moved to Olympic Park for the 1884 season and beyond. The rectangular block is today part of the residential neighborhood of Prospect Hill.

42°54′25″N 78°53′35″W / 42.907021°N 78.893133°W


Two Thumbs Up (film)

Two Thumbs Up is a 2015 Hong Kong-Chinese action comedy film directed by first-time director Lau Ho-leung and starring Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark Cheng, Christie Chen and Philip Keung.

Plot

On 5 April 2014, Twitch released a plot synopsis of the film:

Lucifer and his gangsters dress their minibus to resemble a police vehicle, and pose as policemen for a robbery. Police Officer Tsui sensed "criminal intent." Without police orders, he investigates these gangsters. At the robbery the gangsters engage in a gunfight against the real criminals, who kill randomly. Lucifer and his men are infuriated. They may wear police costumes and use toy guns, but their passion is real. Sensing their righteous passion, Tsui decides to side with the impostors and their 16-passenger EU vehicle. Lucifer and his men re-discover the bond they felt when they used to battle together. Finally, Tsui, Lucifer and the gang defeat the criminals, showing Tsui that anyone can be a hero, and righteousness resides within us all.

Cast

  * Francis Ng as Lucifer (盧西發)
  * Simon Yam as Chow Tai-po (周大寶)
  * Leo Ku as Officer Tsui On-leung (徐安良)
  * Patrick Tam as Johnny To (杜忡尼)
  * Mark Cheng as Lam Tung (林東)
  * Christie Chen as Robber Girl
  * Philip Keung as Chief of Robbers
  * Rock Ji as Robber A
  * Jie Zhuang as Ice Cream Lady
  * Jamie Cheung as Tsang Ching-yee (曾靜儀)
  * Siu Yam-yam as Wild Boar Aunt (野豬婆婆)
  * Jack Kao as Warden
  * Law Wing-cheung as Bowling Alley's Owner
  * Alan Mak as Tsui Po-on (徐步安)
  * Felix Chong as Inspector of Police
  * Mark Wu as Cup Noodle Father
  * Dayo Wong as Cheung Po-keung (張寶強) (scenes removed from final cut)

Production

Principal photography for Two Thumbs Up started on 15 January 2014 where a blessing ceremony was held in which the cast and crew attended.

Release


Two Thumbs Up (film)

Release

On 24 March 2014, a press conference for Two Thumbs Up was held at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival where its teaser trailer was unveiled.Hong Kong International Film Festival which ran from 23 March to 6 April 2015

Box office

The film opened third place at its debut and during the first six days of release in Hong Kong, Two Thumbs Up grossed HK$5.90 million.¥20.84 million RMB at the Chinese box office.

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations
Ceremony                                      Category               Recipient     Outcome
35th Hong Kong Film Awards                    Best Screenplay        Lau Ho-leung  Nominated
Best New Director                             Lau Ho-leung           Nominated
3rd China International Film Festival London  Best Supporting Actor  Leo Ku        Won
Best New Director                             Lau Ho-leung           Won

  * Two Thumbs Up at IMDb


Maneuverability

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Mar Lodj

Camp on the island of Mar Lodj (Senegal). 2007

Mar Lodj is an island in Senegal located in the Sine-Saloum region near Ndangane, and forty kilometers from Joal-Fadiouth.

  * Media related to Mar Lodj at Wikimedia Commons
  * Mar Lodj travel guide from Wikivoyage

14°03′N 16°40′W / 14.050°N 16.667°W


People's Progressive Movement

People's Progressive Movement can refer to:

  * People's Progressive Movement (Barbados)
  * People's Progressive Movement (Cayman Islands)
  * People's Progressive Movement (Malawi)
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Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech

Willem Buytewech's Merry Company 1620

The Leiden anatomical theatre during a dissection.

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591/92 – September 23, 1624) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem” (Jolly or spirited William).

Life

Buytewech was born and died in Rotterdam. He was the son of Pieter Jacobsz, a cobbler and candlemaker. He learned his trade in Haarlem, where he became a member of the artists' guild (Haarlem Guild of St. Luke) in 1612, together with Hercules Segers and Esaias van de Velde.Frans Hals, who was a member of this guild since 1610, had much influence on Buytenwech's work, as shown by the many drawings that the latter made after Hals's paintings. After his marriage on November 10, 1613, with Aeltje van Amerongen, of a patrician family, he returned to Rotterdam. There Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh was one of his pupils.

Buytewech was primarily a graphic artist, mostly of landscapes and genre pieces, but occasionally also of biblical and allegorical themes. Of his paintings only eight have survived to this date, all genre pieces, most depicting merry companies. Merry Company on a Terrace (1616) is in the collection of the Mauritshuis, the Hague.Merry Company (1620) is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

He died at age 32 or 33 of unrecorded causes. His son Willem Willemsz Buytewech (1625–1670), born after his death, would become a painter as well. It is suggested that Herman van Swanevelt could have been his pupil.

Media related to Willem Pietersz. Buytewech at Wikimedia Commons

  * Gary Schwartz on the Merry Companies
  * http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/b/buytewec/biograph.html
  * About his son
  * The Maps of Willem Buytewech
  * Works and literature at PubHist


Lepidochrysops chala

Lepidochrysops chala is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Tanzania and Zambia.

Adults are attracted to flowers of low-growing plants. They are on wing from August to early October.

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Lists of dragons

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Rain's a Comin'

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Jesus Freak Hideout

Rain's 'A Comin' is the second album released by Children 18:3. Christian music website Jesus Freak Hideout named Children 18:3's upcoming project as the website's fourth most anticipated album of the year.

After recording the album, Children 18:3 briefly toured Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota with former Korn guitarist Brian Head Welch in April 2010.

The album peaked at #23 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart during July 2010.

Track listing

 1. Rain's 'A Comin' - 1:42
 2. Cover Your Eyes - 2:09
 3. The Cruel One - 2:41
 4. Whispering - 1:08
 5. Hey Driftwood (Tides) - 4:04
 6. Oh Bravo - 3:12
 7. Oh Honestly - 3:01
 8. Wonder I - 3:12
 9. Stronger - 3:34
10. Jack 'O' Lantern Dreams - 2:09
11. Lost So Long - 4:51
12. The Last Laugh - 1:36

Personnel

  * David Hostetter, Jr. – vocals, guitar
  * Lee Marie Hostetter – bass guitar, vocals, backing vocals
  * Seth Hostetter – drums


Kitazume

Kitazume (written: 北爪) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Hiroyuki Kitazume (北爪 宏幸, born 1961), Japanese animator, manga artist and illustrator
  * Kengo Kitazume (北爪 健吾, born 1992), Japanese footballer
  * Michio Kitazume (北爪 道夫, born 1948), Japanese classical composer and conductor
  * Yayoi Kitazume (北爪 やよひ, born 1945), Japanese composer


Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies

The Thai Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies Examination Board at Wat Bowonniwet Vihara

The logo of the Thai Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies Examination Board

The Sanam Luang National Dhamma Studies Examination Curriculum is a three tier system used throughout Thailand for training in theoretical knowledge about Buddhism. The curriculum is run in tandem with the nine-tiered Pahrian Thamm curriculum for Pali Studies. The curriculum offers two slightly different sets of examination papers

 1. Nak Thamm designed for the ordained Sangha i.e. Buddhist monks, novices and nuns)
 2. Thammaseuksa designed for lay Buddhists.

Tuition for the Nak Thamm and Thammaseuksa curricula and the examinations themselves take place throughout Thailand annually. Thammaseuksa tuition and examinations are also held in some Thai temples outside Thailand.

Origins


Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies

Origins

The Dhamma Studies examination system was introduced by King Mongkut (Rama IV) during the time he was ordained as a monk Bhikkhu Vajirañāṇo before he succeeded to the throne with the objective that monks could learn about monastic conduct more conveniently by studying translations of it in Thai language rather than Pali. He started writing Nak Thamm texts since the time he became abbot of Wat Bovornives in 1892. The examination system became more widespread as of 1905 because new laws exempted novices from military service if they had nak thamm qualifications. The first centralized examinations were held on 27 March 1911 at Wat Bovornives, Wat Mahathat Yuwaratrangsarit and Wat Benchamabophit. The following year, the curriculum reached its present quad-partite form of Dhamma analysis [dhammavipaaka], life of the Buddha [buddhabravat], essay writing based on Pali proverbs [kae kratoo thamm] and monastic discipline [vinai]. In 1912, three grades of advancement were set in the examinations - elementary [tree] for monks in their first five years of ordination, intermediate [toh] for those who had been monks 5–10 years and advanced [ayk] for monks of ten vassas and over. The nak thamm curriculum was adapted for the laity as thamma seuksa at the behest of the Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Luang Jinavorasirivattana from 1929 onwards.

Present day

Presently Phraphromuni [Chand Phromagutto](Pali Grade 9) of Wat Bowonniwet is the chief examiner for the Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies Examination Curriculum and presides over a national examination board for this curriculum. The board is authorized as an organ of the Thai Sangha Supreme Council and hence the whole monastic community of Thailand. Within Thailand, hundreds of thousands take the examinations annually. Since it is encouraged for the men ordaining for the Buddhist lent take the elementary nak thamm examination before leaving the robe, the elementary nak thamm examinations are generally held in mid-October - the intermediate and advanced nak thamm and all thamma seuksa examinations being held in mid-November.

International uptake


Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies

International uptake

One initiative of the 19th Supreme Patriarch Somdej Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana was to have many of the thamma seuksa textsThamma seuksa examinations are now held in Europe, the northern states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States of America. The Dhammakaya Movement in the United Kingdom was the first to introduce thamma seuksa examinations to Europe in 2006. The different continents of the world each have a particular time of the year when they organize their thamma seuksa examinations to allow invigilators from Thailand to make the rounds. For Europe the examinations are held in mid-June.

  * Pāli Canon
  * Pariyatti
  * Dhamma Society Fund
  * Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
  * Mahamakut Buddhist University
  * International Buddhist Studies College
  * List of Sāsana Azani recipients
  * Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
  * Monastic examinations (Myanmar)
  * Monastic schools in Myanmar
  * Pirivena, monastic colleges in Sri Lanka


Multiple description coding

Multiple description coding (MDC) in computing is a coding technique that fragments a single media stream into n substreams (n ≥ 2) referred to as descriptions. The packets of each description are routed over multiple, (partially) disjoint paths. In order to decode the media stream, any description can be used, however, the quality improves with the number of descriptions received in parallel. The idea of MDC is to provide error resilience to media streams. Since an arbitrary subset of descriptions can be used to decode the original stream, network congestion or packet loss — which are common in best-effort networks such as the Internet — will not interrupt the stream but only cause a (temporary) loss of quality. The quality of a stream can be expected to be roughly proportional to data rate sustained by the receiver.

MDC is a form of data partitioning, thus comparable to layered coding as it is used in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. Yet, in contrast to MDC, layered coding mechanisms generate a base layer and n enhancement layers. The base layer is necessary for the media stream to be decoded, enhancement layers are applied to improve stream quality. However, the first enhancement layer depends on the base layer and each enhancement layer n + 1 depends on its subordinate layer n, thus can only be applied if n was already applied. Hence, media streams using the layered approach are interrupted whenever the base layer is missing and, as a consequence, the data of the respective enhancement layers is rendered useless. The same applies for missing enhancement layers. In general, this implies that in lossy networks the quality of a media stream is not proportional to the amount of correctly received data.

Besides increased fault tolerance, MDC allows for rate-adaptive streaming: Content providers send all descriptions of a stream without paying attention to the download limitations of clients. Receivers that cannot sustain the data rate only subscribe to a subset of these streams, thus freeing the content provider from sending additional streams at lower data rates.

The vast majority of state-of-the art codecs uses single description (SD) video coding. This approach does not partition any data at all. Despite the aforementioned advantages of MDC, SD codecs are still predominant. The reasons are probably the comparingly high complexity of codec development, the loss of some compression efficiency as well as the caused transmission overhead.


Multiple description coding

Though MDC has its practical roots in media communication, it is widely researched in the area of information theory.

A related technology is layered coding, which also produces multiple compressed streams, but with a hierarchy between these streams.

  * V. K. Goyal, "Multiple Description Coding: Compression Meets the Network," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 74–94, Sept. 2001.
  * R. Puri and K. Ramchandran, “Multiple description source coding through forward error correction codes,” IEEE Proceedings Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar, CA, October 1999.
  * A. Farzamnia, S. K. Syed-Yusof, N. Fisal, and S. A. Abu-Bakar, "Investigation of Error Concealment Using Different Transform Codings and Multiple Description Codings," Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 63, pp. 171–179, 2012.
  * Ilan Sadeh, "The rate distortion region for coding in stationary systems", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, vol. 6, No. 1, 123-136, 1996.


Shireen Benjamin

Shireen Benjamin (born 8 September 1988 in London, England) was crowned Miss West Africa 2009/10, representing Sierra Leone, at the pageant in London where she became the second holder of the title.

  * Miss West Africa


Mountain wolf (disambiguation)

Look up mountain wolf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The Dhole or mountain wolf (Cuon alpinus) is a canid species native to Asia.

Mountain wolf may also refer to:

  * Northern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus irremotus)
  * Southern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus youngi)
  * Cascade mountain wolf (Canis lupus fuscus)
  * Mogollon mountain wolf (Canis lupus mogollonensis), an extinct subspecies of gray wolf
  * Wolf mount (disambiguation)
  * Rocky Mountain wolf (disambiguation)


People's Press Printing Society

The People's Press Printing Society (PPPS) is a readers' co-operative with the purpose of owning and publishing a left-wing, British, daily newspaper. The co-operative was established in 1945, with shares sold at £1. Originally the paper was titled the Daily Worker, but the publication was re-launched as the Morning Star in 1966.

On 6 January 1946, at the Albert Hall in London, Bill Jones, the leader of the London busmen's trade union, handed over the formal document of transfer to William Rust (editor of the Daily Worker). Ownership of the Daily Worker was transferred from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to the PPPS, with CPGB retaining editorial and political control of the paper until in 1951, the Daily Worker Co-operative Society was established to act as the nominal publishers of the paper.

The Daily Worker Co-operative Society became the Morning Star Co-operative Society which later became bankrupt and the sole ownership for the publication of the Morning Star fell under the People's Press Printing Society. The People’s Press Printing Society has a difficult financial existence, making a £41,179 loss in 2013 and a £1,137 surplus in 2014.

Publications other than the Morning Star

  * 32 Questions on the freedom of the press. OCLC 83666530
  * Science in the atomic age ..., 1947 OCLC 48116435
  * William Rust, The people rule in Yugoslavia OCLC 70486395
  * Eudoras Joannides, Inside free Greece : exclusive reports of the Greek situation from Evdos Joannides OCLC 29106948/ OCLC 83899756
  * Alan Winnington, I saw the truth in Korea ... facts and photographs that will shock Britain!, 1950 OCLC 29770700/ OCLC 24843675
  * E. P. Thompson, The struggle for a free press, 1952 OCLC 19959607
  * Derek Kartun, USA '53; the truth behind Eisenhower, 1953 OCLC 11696827/ OCLC 60699631
  * People's Press Printing Society records at National Library of Wales


Willem Schouten

Willem Cornelisz Schouten (c. 1567 – 1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.

Biography

Route of the 1615–1616 voyage

Willem Cornelisz Schouten was born in c. 1567 in Hoorn, Holland, Seventeen Provinces.

On July 1, 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and his younger brother Jan Schouten sailed from Texel in the Netherlands, in an expedition led by Jacob Le Maire and sponsored by Isaac Le Maire and his Australische Compagnie in equal shares with Schouten. The expedition consisted of two ships: Eendracht and Hoorn.Terra Australis. A further objective was to explore a western route to the Pacific Ocean to evade the trade restrictions of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Spice Islands. In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn, which he named after the recently destroyed ship Hoorn,Hoorn, after which the lost ship was named, the town in which Schouten himself was born. Schouten named the strait itself "Le Maire Strait". Jan Schouten died on 9 March 1616 after the expedition left Juan Fernández.Tuamotu Islands, including Puka-Puka, Manihi, Rangiroa and Takapoto, followed by Tafahi, Niuafoʻou and Niuatoputapu in the Tonga Islands, and Alofi and Futuna in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.New Ireland and New Guinea and visited adjacent islands, including what became known as the Schouten Islands before reaching Ternate in September 1616.Eendracht completed the navigation and returned to the Netherlands on July 1, 1617.

Although he had opened an unknown route (south of Cape Horn) for the Dutch, the VOC claimed infringement of its monopoly of trade to the Spice Islands. Schouten was arrested (and later released) and his ship confiscated in Java. On his return he would sail again for the VOC, and on one of these trips he died off the coast of Madagascar in 1625.

Abel Tasman later used Schouten's charts during his exploration of the north coast of New Guinea.


Willem Schouten

First publications

The ship De Eendracht encounters a catamaran in 1618

Schouten described his travels in the Journal, published in a Dutch edition at Amsterdam in 1618 and soon translated into several other languages.

  * Dutch edition: Journael ofte beschrijvinghe van de wonderlijcke reyse, gedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn, in de Jaren 1615. 1616. en 1617: hoe hy bezuyden de straet van Magellanes een nieuwe passagie ofte strate, tot in de groote Zuyd-zee, ontdeckt, ende voort den geheelen aerdt-kloot omgezeylt heeft: wat eylanden, vreemde volcken en wonderlijcke avontueren hem ontmoet zijn. Amsterdam: Willem Jansz. 1618.
  * French edition: Journal ou Description du marveilleux voyage de Guilliaume Schouten ... Amsterdam: Willem Jansz. 1618.
  * English edition: The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by Willem Cornelison Schouten of Horne. Shewing how South from the Straights of Magelan in Terra Delfuego: he found and discovered a newe passage through the great South Seaes, and that way sayled round about the world. London: Imprinted by T.D. for Nathanaell Newbery. 1619.
  * German edition: Journal, oder Beschreibung der wunderbaren Reise W. Schouten auss Hollandt, im Jahr 1615–17 ... Frankfurt am Main. 1619.
  * Latin edition: Novi Freti, a parte meridionali freti Magellanici in Magnum Mare Australe Detectio. Diarium vel descriptio laboriosissimi et molestissimi itineris, facti a Guilielmo Cornii Schoutenio annis 1615–17... Amsterdam: Janson. 1619.


Willem Schouten

Among historians, including A. L. Rowse, there is no consensus about the authorship of this Journal. Schouten has got the credit for it, and thus the voyage has come down to us under his name. The Dutch, French, German and Latin texts all have nine engraved maps and plates, which are not present in the English version, The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage.

Notes and footnotes

  * Barreveld, Dirk J. Tegen De Heeren Van De VOC – Isaac Le Maire En De Ontdekking Van Kaap Hoorn. The Hague: Sdu Publishers. Uitgeverij 2002.
  * Bolyanatz, Alexander H. "Where Is Claes Pietersz Bay? An Episode in the History of the Sursurunga of New Ireland", in Ethnohistory 45:2 (1998), p. 319–47
  * Edward Duyker (ed.) Mirror of the Australian Navigation by Jacob Le Maire: A Facsimile of the 'Spieghel der Australische Navigatie ...' Being an Account of the Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten 1615–1616 published in Amsterdam in 1622, Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1999, pp. 202, ISBN 1-875567-25-9.
  * Quanchi, Max (2005). Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810853957.
  * Bartelds, Schouten, Willem Cornelisz., in Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, vol. 7, A.W. Sijthoff, Leiden 1927. pp. 1117–18. (in Dutch)
  * "Schouten, Willem Cornelis" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.


Lepidochrysops delicata

Lepidochrysops delicata is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Malawi and Mozambique.

Adults migrate from November to December.

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Lists of downloadable PlayStation 2 games

These are articles listing games previously released for the PlayStation 2 console that were later made available for download from the PlayStation Store for play on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. For lists of the games available by console, see:

  * List of PlayStation 2 Classics for PlayStation 3
  * List of PlayStation 2 games for PlayStation 4


Rain, Part 3

Rain, Part 3 is a live EP from Planetshakers. This album was released on 9 August 2019 by Planetshakers Ministries International and Venture3Media.

Critical reception

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Cross Rhythms
Louder Than the Music

Lins Honeyman gave the EP a score of six out of ten for Cross Rhythms.Louder Than the Music.

Track listing

No.            Title                          Length
1.             "My Reason" (live)             4:33
2.             "Fall on Me" (live)            3:46
3.             "God Is on the Throne" (live)  7:52
4.             "Rain Your Glory Down" (live)  9:07
Total length:  24:44


Kitayama Station (Ehime)

Kitayama Station (喜多山駅, Kitayama-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "U12".

Lines

Although Kitayama Station is officially on the Uchiko Line, JR Shikoku runs it operationally as part of Yosan Line and as such it only carries the "U" prefix common to other Yosan line stations. It is located 236.1 km from the beginning of the Yosan line at Takamatsu.Matsuyama while westbound local trains terminate at Iyo-Ōzu or Yawatahama. Connections with other services are needed to travel further east of Matsuyama or further west of Iyo-Ōzu/Yawatahama on the line.

Layout

The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. There is no station building, only a shelter on the platform for waiting passengers. A ramp leads up to the platform from the access road.

History

The station was opened on 1 February 1920 as a station of the private Ehime Railway (愛媛鉄道, Ehime Tetsudō), a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) light railway line from Wakamiya Junction (若宮連絡所, Wakamiya-renraku-sho), near Nagahama-machi (the present Iyo-Nagahama) to Uchiko. On October 1, 1933, the line was nationalized and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over and operated the station as part of the Ehime Line (愛媛線, Ehime-sen). On October 6, 1935, after the track had been re-gauged to 1,067 mm, the station became part of the Uchiko Line. Subsequently, Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, undertook the construction of the Uchiko branch of the Yosan Line which involved building a new stretch of track from Mukaibara to Uchiko. The station became part of this branch on 3 March 1986. It was still designated as a station on the Uchiko Line but was now operated as part of the Yosan Line. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.


Kitayama Station (Ehime)

Surrounding area

  * Japan National Route 56
  * List of railway stations in Japan
  * Station timetable

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Multiple discriminant analysis

For other uses of this acronym, see MDA (disambiguation).

Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) is a multivariate dimensionality reduction technique. It has been used to predict signals as diverse as neural memory traces and corporate failure.

MDA is not directly used to perform classification. It merely supports classification by yielding a compressed signal amenable to classification. The method described in Duda et al. (2001) §3.8.3 projects the multivariate signal down to an M−1 dimensional space where M is the number of categories.

MDA is useful because most classifiers are strongly affected by the curse of dimensionality. In other words, when signals are represented in very-high-dimensional spaces, the classifier's performance is catastrophically impaired by the overfitting problem. This problem is reduced by compressing the signal down to a lower-dimensional space as MDA does.

MDA has been used to reveal neural codes.

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