Family Groove Company

Family Groove Company is an unsigned American four piece jam bandChicago, Illinois. FGC tours heavily and as of June 2006, they have played in 28 states totaling over 400 shows.

History

Family Groove Company (FGC) started out in January 2001 when Adam Lewis (guitar) and Jordan Wilkow (keyboards) met Janis Wallin (bass) and Mattias Blanck (drums) while studying music at the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles, California.San Diego, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. In Spring 2002, the band released their 10-track debut album, Reachin'.

With the number of markets available to the band limited by the vast expanse of the American west, in the fall of 2002, FGC made the decision to relocate to Chicago, Illinois.Summerfest, the 10,000 Lakes Festival, and Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL.

After playing almost 400 more shows and adding over 50 songs to their playlists since their first release, FGC released their second studio album, The Charmer, on April 25, 2006. The Charmer was recorded at Studio Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois in December 2005 with overdubs in January and February 2006. All that touring produced numerous songs. In all, fourteen songs made the cut and are on the album.

The music

Family Groove Company integrates the groove sensibility developed by James Brown and Herbie Hancock, with the more traditional song structure and consciousness of the hook revolutionized by the Beatles. FGC has avoided the jam band formula of the hip-hop/funk/rock groove combined with endless guitar solos. Their focus has been to supplement their passion for improvisation with an attentiveness to composition. FGC feels that compositional coherence and ingenuity are every bit as important as the "jam" that has come to be the namesake of their genre.

Discography

  * Reachin' (2002)
  * The Charmer (2006)
  * Models and Metrics (2008)
  * Live in Chicago (2008)
  * Through with Tomorrow (2020)
  * Family Groove Company (official site)
  * Family Groove Company collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive


Edgar Arceneaux

Edgar Arceneaux (born 1972, in Los Angeles) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is the co-founder of the Watts House Project, a non-profit neighborhood redevelopment organization in Watts.

Career

Arceneaux received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 1996 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2001 after attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and the Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany, in 2000 and 2001.

He was the director of the Watts House Project from 1999-2012, and officially re-launched the organization in 2007 with Sue Bell Yank through the support of the Hammer Museum's Artist Residency program,Watts residents, artists, community organizers, and scholars. The Watts House Project focuses on renovating residential properties and providing programs and venues for community involvement in the neighborhood around the historic Watts Towers.

In November 2003, the UCLA Hammer Museum exhibited Arceneaux's Drawings of Removal, an installation that combined layered wall drawings, sculptural ephemera, and a makeshift studio in "an ongoing exploration of memory through the medium of drawing".

He was named a United States Artists Fellow in 2007,Whitney Biennial.

In 2016 Arceneaux created Until, Until, Until..., a performance piece recreating and commenting on Ben Vereen's controversial blackface performance at the 1981 inauguration of Ronald Reagan. He has since toured with the piece.

Arceneaux is also an Associate Professor of Art for Roski School of Art and Design at USC; he lives and works in Pasadena, California.

Exhibitions

Arceneaux's work has been exhibited at galleries and museums both nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem,The Kitchen, New York,Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland,Lentos Art Museum, Austria, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum Ludwig in Germany. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles and Nathalie Obadia in Paris.


Dr. Ishola

Ishola Oyenusi (died 8 September 1971), popularly known as Dr. Ishola, was a notorious Nigerian armed robber who was active during the 1970s.modus operandi was carjackings, bank robberies and heists committed during hold-ups.

Trial and execution

Oyenusi together with six other members of his gang were executed on 8 September 1971 by a combined police and armed forces firing brigade.

  * Lawrence Anini
  * Mighty Joe
  * Osifodunrin, Paul Ayodele (December 2007). "5:ARMED ROBBERY AND MURDER IN LAGOS, 1960-2000". Violent Crimes in Lagos, 1861–2000: Nature, Responses, and Impact (Thesis). University of Lagos.


Convoy HG 70

HG 70 was an Allied convoy of the HG (Homeward from Gibraltar) series during World War II. It was attacked by a pack of ten U-boats, without success. All U-boats were beaten off, and they sank no ships of the convoy. Two ships were lost to aircraft; 23 ships arrived safely.

Forces involved

HG 70 comprised 25 ships homeward bound from Gibraltar, many in ballast, or carrying trade goods.commodore was R Adm. EW Leir, in the freighter Polo, and the convoy was protected by a Western Approaches Command escort group, consisting of five corvettes. The convoy escort was augmented during the first few days by the destroyer Avon Vale and the submarine Clyde, and two ASW trawlers. They were joined during the first part of the voyage by the destroyers Boreas and Eridge, and a second escort group from OG 70, comprising the sloop HMS Deptford, destroyers Nestor and Encounter, and the corvette Convolvulus; they were also reinforced at various times throughout the voyage as warships came and went.

Ranged against them was an ad hoc (and unnamed) wolfpack of five U-boats, reinforced with a group of four U-boats returning from a cancelled mission to the South Atlantic, all captained by experienced skippers and all holders of the Knight's Cross.

Action

HG 70 sailed from Gibraltar on 9 August 1941,Spain; these were able to report the convoy's composition, escort strength and departure time. In response U boat Command (BdU) ordered five boats from a northerly patrol line (Group South) to intercept, and diverted four boats returning from a cancelled mission to the South Atlantic, at that time off the Canaries. He also summoned aircraft from KG 40, a unit of Fw 200 "Condors" based at Bordeaux, to patrol and report on the convoys progress.

On 10 August the convoy was sighted by U-79, from Group South, which commenced shadowing, but she was attacked by escorting ships and aircraft. She was driven under and lost contact.


Convoy HG 70

On 11 August the convoy was found again, this time by U-93 from the Canaries group; she was found by an escorting aircraft, bombed and damaged so severely that she had to break off and return to base for repairs. The report from U-93 enabled U-79 to regain contact, and for U-94 from the Canaries group to join; Both were depth-charged heavily by escorts, but remained in contact. A third U-boat, U-331 from South group, also joined, but was also detected and driven off by the escorts, and had to break off due to damage. Also that day HG 70 was attacked by aircraft; two ships, Empire Hurst and Sud, were hit and reported sunk,Sud was still afloat on 14 August when she was found and sunk by Italian submarine MarconiU-126,

On 12 August the convoy was sighted by a patrolling Condor, and another Freetown boat, U-123, joined the pursuit. She too was detected and counter-attacked; Her crew counted 126 depth-charges dropped on them, 36 of them close enough to damage the boat so severely that she too had to return to base for repairs.

Later HG 70 was found by U-109 and U-124, both returning from Freetown. Both U-boats were attacked before they could obtain a firing position. U-109 was driven off, and returned to base with damage; U-124 found it impossible to approach and also broke off the attack.

On 15 August BdU cancelled the operation against HG 70 and the convoy continued on without further incident, arriving at Liverpool on 23 August.

Aftermath

The attack on HG 70 was, for the Germans, a disastrous failure. Ten U-boats had been involved in the operation; none had been able to get close enough to fire on the merchant ships, and four had been so severely handled that h they had been obliged to return to base for repairs. Using radio-detection (HF/DF) to locate the U-boats as they broadcast their sighting reports, and by vigorously attacking any contact to drive them under and thus unable to keep up, the escorts kept the merchant ships in the convoy safe from attack.

The failure prompted BdU to consider loss of morale as a factor, and on their return three of the four older commanders (from the Freetown operation) were moved to shore posts.


Convoy HG 70

Ships involved

Merchant ships

Ships              Flag       Tonnage  Notes
                              (GRT)
Alhama             UK         1352
Baltallinn         UK         1303
Baron Kelvin       UK         3081
Briarwood          UK         4019
British Coast      UK         889
Cara               UK         1760
City of Waterford  UK         1017
Csarda             Panama     3882
Dux                Norwegian  1590
Empire Bay         UK         2824
Empire Brook       UK         2852
Empire Hurst       UK         2852     sunk by aircraft 11 Aug
Empire Kestrel     UK         2674     Rear Comm.
Empire Snipe       UK         2497
Empire Tern        UK         2479
Flaminian          UK         2711
Gothland           UK         1286
Inger Lise         Nor        1582
Lissa              UK         1511
Menapia            UK         902
Philipp M          UK         2085
Polo               UK         1950     Comm. R.Adm EW Leir DSO
Sud                Yug        2589     hit by aircraft 11 Aug
Wallsend           UK         3157     Vice Comm.

Escorts


Convoy HG 70

Escorts

Ship                    Type                        Joined  Left           Notes
HMS Avon Vale (L06)     Hunt-class destroyer        9 Aug   14 Aug
HMS Begonia (K66)       Flower-class corvette       9 Aug   23 Aug
HMS Black Swan (L57)    Black Swan-class sloop      15 Aug  21 Aug         from convoy OG 70
HMS Boreas (H77)        B-class destroyer           11 Aug  13 Aug
HMS Campbeltown (I42)   Town-class destroyer        19 Aug  ?              from convoy OS 3
HMS Clyde (N12)         River-class submarine       9 Aug   11 Aug
HMS Convolvulus (K45)   Flower-class corvette       11 Aug  before 18 Aug  from convoy OG 70,
                                                                           to HG 71
Copeland                Convoy rescue ship          9 Aug   23 Aug         1526 tons
HMS Cossack (F03)       Tribal-class destroyer      14 Aug  ?
HMS Deptford (U53)      Grimsby-class sloop         11 Aug  ?              from OG 70
HMS Duncan (D99)        D-class destroyer leader    15 Aug  19 Aug
HMS Encounter (H10)     E-class destroyer           11 Aug  ?              from OG 70
HMS Eridge (L68)        Hunt-class destroyer        9 Aug   14 Aug
HMS Faulknor (H62)      F-class destroyer           10 Aug  ?              (returning to UK for repair)
HMS Jasmine (K23)       Flower-class corvette       9 Aug   23 Aug
HMS Lady Hogarth        ASW Trawler                 9 Aug   ?
HMS Lady Shirley        ASW Trawler                 9 Aug   ?
HMS Larkspur (K82)      Flower-class corvette       9 Aug   23 Aug
HMAS Nestor (G02)       N-class destroyer           11 Aug  13 Aug         from OG 70;
                                                                           d/c damage 13 Aug
HMS Pimpernel (K71)     Flower-class corvette       9 Aug   23 Aug
HMS Rhodedendron (K78)  Flower-class corvette       9 Aug   ?
HMS Stork (L81)         Bittern class sloop         13 Aug  ?              from OG 71
HMS Wild Swan (D62)     Modified W-class destroyer  11 Aug  15 Aug

German U-boats

U-boat  Type       First contact  Notes
U-79    Type VIIC  10 Aug
U-93    Type VIIC  11 Aug
U-94    Type VIIC  11 Aug
U-109   Type IXB   13 Aug
U-123   Type IXB   12 Aug
U-124   Type IXB   ? 13 Aug
U-126   Type IXC   not found      sank straggler Sud on 14 Aug
U-331   Type VIIC  11 Aug


Convoy HG 70

Italian submarines

Name               Class          First contact  Notes
Guglielmo Marconi  Marconi-class  not found      attacked straggler Sud on 14 Aug and left sinking; claimed by U-126.

  * Blair, Clay (2000) [1996]. Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters 1939–1942. Vol. I (Cassell ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-304-35260-9.
  * Hague, Arnold (2000). The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945. ISBN 1-86176-147-3.


Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network

In Athens, Greece a grassroots wireless community network called the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) was established in 2002. This network utilizes the latest wireless technologies to foster connectivity between individuals and various services. By August 2010, the network had grown to include 1,120 backbone nodes, with over 2,900 client computers actively linked to it. Additionally, there exists an association-club called awmn, further supporting the network's objectives.

Cultural and geographical context

Although the network began in Athens, the capital of Greece, its activities are no longer limited to the single city. It covers a geographical area (110 km from North to South and 85 km from West to East) with the most southern point being Palaia Epidavros (Epidaurus) and the most northern point being the town of Nea Artaki on the island of Euboea.Aegina, Salamina and the regions surrounding Athens are also connected to the network.

Recently the island of Euboea connected with more links with AWMN for redundancy purposes and the next stage will be to join the wireless 'islets' located in Corinth, Lamia (city) and Volos. There are also plans to reach even more remote cities of Greece such as Patras.

This yearwlan slovenija network in Slovenia with the vision to connect all the wireless communities of Europe into one network.

Project history

AWMN was formed as a community back in 2002. Due to tremendous problems with broadband services in Greece in 2002 the number of such services available to home users was extremely limited. It was mainly due to this problem that AWMN was founded as an alternative broadband network, which allowed its users to experience real broadband services.

However, after a short period from its birth AWMN started to change. An increasing number of people started to have an interest in the network, expressing their interest in joining this project. The number of network nodes started to grow exponentially, and the network's character changed from an alternative telecom network to a social network of people based on their interest in the IT/Telecom sector.


Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network

The network was always something alternative to just pure internet access medium. While now users and backbone nodes owners live in a much more mature broadband environment, they have not stopped being excited and active in the AWMN network. More services are emerging and more uses of high speed symmetrical broadband are being found, tested, developed and freely enjoyed by the users for the users.

The objectives of the project include the following:

  * Creating, developing and maintaining a Wireless Community Network which will provide broadband services to its members.
  * Developing technologies based on wireless and digital telecommunications.
  * Educate the public on the use of wireless and digital communications
  * Promote and encourage volunteerism and active participation.

The association in August 2010 has around 67 members.network neutrality rules.

The community

Users are categorised as backbone nodes and AP client nodes. The backbone nodes are nodes routing data that have no origin and destination themselves.

The network is a mosaic of people from varying ages and educational backgrounds including IT and telecommunications professionals, radio amateurs, IT students and technology enthusiasts. All are driven by a strong community spirit and contribute on a voluntary basis.

Technology

AWMN makes extensive use of the IEEE 802.11 set of standards and operates on the 2.4 GHz (mainly for the Open APs) and 5.4 GHz (for the backbone links) license-free ISM frequency bands. Over the last few years, AWMN has tested (and later used in production environments) equipment from a huge variety of vendors.

The routing protocol used by the network is BGP. Efforts have been made to move towards new, more adaptive, experimental protocols such as OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N. Some members of the AWMN community have contributed feedback and code to many Linux routing projects.

Homemade equipment is encouraged. Many workshops have been held so that members can become familiar with constructing their own aerials and cables. Additionally, the community regularly organizes seminars to educate aspiring network administrators on wireless technologies, protocols, routing and Linux, in the conditions of an operational large-scale network.

A wide variety of software is used in the network but AWMN services rely heavily on Open-source software, Linux (or other free Unix variants).

Solutions and services


Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network

Solutions and services

Nowadays the services provided by the network have evolved to a full-featured internal VoIP network, High Definition streaming services, game servers, file sharing services, hundreds of users/nodes webpages, network statistics services, routing, network monitoring, weather stations, VPN servers and just about anything and any service that someone would come across on the Internet.

A highlight to mention is the WiND project (WiND) project. As a large-scale network and community, AWMN has the need for a central management tool to display important node details. WiND is a Web Application targeted at Wireless Community Networks, such AWMN which has been created by members of AWMN. WiND provides a front-end interface to a database where information of the nodes can be stored, such as position details, DNS, IP addressing and a list of provided network services.

  * List of wireless community networks
  * The association site
  * YouTube Video Presentation


Downtown Grand

The Downtown Grand, formerly the Lady Luck, is a hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, owned by CIM Group and operated by Fifth Street Gaming. The Downtown Grand is the centerpiece of Downtown3rd, a new neighborhood and entertainment district in downtown Las Vegas.

Facility

Set on 6.27 acres (2.54 ha) at 3rd Street and East Ogden Avenue, the Downtown Grand initially had two hotel towers: to the east, the 18-story Casino Tower built in 1985 with 295 rooms, and to the west, the 25-story Grand Tower with 334 rooms. The East Tower is connected to the ground level casino.Hogs and Heifers Saloon.

History

Honest John's (1961-1968)

  * The original business was a news stand and barber shop located in Ogden Square Shopping Center. Honest John's became a full-time casino in 1964, operated by Andy Tompkins, who would eventually become the founder of Lady Luck.

Lady Luck (1968–2006)

  * 1968: Former Honest John's reopens as Lady Luck. Casino building expanded in 1979.
  * Tower 1 (17 floors) opened in 1986; Tower 2 (24 floors) opened in 1989.
  * In 2000 the Lady Luck was acquired by Isle of Capri Casinos.
  * On June, 2002 it was purchased by Steadfast AMX who turned two floors into timeshares.
  * On May 13, 2005 it was purchased by the Henry Brent Company for $24 million.
  * On May 16, 2005 plans were announced for a major renovation and expansion of the property to begin early in 2006.

Closing and renovations (2006–13)

On February 11, 2006 the hotel and casino, but not the timeshares, closed for remodeling; the property was expected to be closed for nine to twelve months but financing collapsed.

On June 12, 2007 the casino was acquired by CIM Group for over $100 million.

Workers tearing down portions of the casino for renovation in October 2012.


Downtown Grand

Workers tearing down portions of the casino for renovation in October 2012.

In July 2008 the city was investigating rezoning the nearby land containing the transit center to unrestricted gaming. With the transit center relocated, the land would be available for development.Oscar Goodman applauded the attempt to re-invigorate the plans to renovate the Lady Luck: "For the past several years I have seen a rotting corpse. The Lady Luck structure has been a blight."

As of July 2009, Goodman once again said in a council meeting that "The Lady Luck is a disaster," and then called the skeletal structure a "carcass". Las Vegas city leaders wanted CIM to raze the unfinished structure at Fourth Street and Stewart Avenue and do a better job of keeping sidewalks and landscaping clean near the site. CIM had until late December 2009 to begin a $100 million renovation of the Lady Luck; otherwise, it would potentially lose an offer from the city which would hand over land around the proposed nearby Mob Museum.

On July 23, 2009, some demolition work started on a 4-story concrete building adjacent to the main resort. This work was completed in accordance with the city's request for CIM to raze the condemned structure.

On March 15, 2010, CIM made an agreement with city officials to have the renovations completed by December 31, 2011. There was the potential that the hotel/casino would reopen in 2012, five years after its originally scheduled reopening in 2007.

In October 2011, plans were announced to rename the Lady Luck as the Downtown Grand.

Downtown Grand (2013–present)

Downtown Grand in 2015

Downtown Grand opened on October 27, 2013.boutique hotel and casino with 24,085 sq ft (2,237.6 m2) of casino space,

In January 2019, construction began on a 495-room hotel tower.topped off in February 2020.augmented reality art pieces.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Downtown Grand.
  * Official website

36°10′19″N 115°08′30″W / 36.1719°N 115.1418°W


Gibside

Gibside is an estate in the Derwent Valley in North East England. It is between Rowlands Gill, in Tyne and Wear, and Burnopfield, in County Durham, and a few miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Gibside was previously owned by the Bowes-Lyon family. It is now a National Trust property. Gibside Hall, the main house on the estate, is now a shell, although the property is most famous for its chapel. The stables, walled garden, Column to Liberty and Banqueting House are also intact.

History

The Blakiston family acquired the estate by marriage in about 1540. Sir William Blakiston (1562–1641) replaced the old house with a spacious mansion between 1603 and 1620. Both the Royal (King James I of England) coat of arms and the Blakiston coat of arms are seen over the entrance of the old Hall.Sir William Bowes (1657–1707) of Streatlam Castle (now demolished).

Until 1722,County Durham. However, after that date the acquisition through marriage of the Blakiston estate of Gibside gave the Bowes family an even greater influence in the north of the county and a share in the immense wealth that was to be acquired from the coal trade. The Blakiston estate included some of the area's richest coal seams.

In 1767 the granddaughter of Sir William Bowes – the "Bowes heiress" Mary Eleanor Bowes – married John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who changed his surname to Bowes due to a provision in her father's will that any suitor had to take the family name. This was a device to continue the Bowes lineage in the absence of a male heir.


Gibside

After the split inheritance dispute following the death of John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, in 1820, it belonged to his legitimated son John Bowes until his death in 1885 (he is buried in the Gibside chapel), when under the entail it reverted to his cousin the 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. It had been the main residence of John Bowes' mother, Mary Milner, by then Dowager Countess of Strathmore, and her second husband, the politician Sir William Hutt (who had been John Bowes' tutor), and remained in his ownership until his death in 1882.

18th-century additions

Gibside Chapel, at the end of a long avenue of trees.

Improvements to Gibside carried out by the Bowes-Lyon family in the 18th and early 19th centuries included landscaping, Gibside Chapel, built between 1760 and 1812, the Banqueting House, a column of Liberty, a substantial stable block, an avenue of oaks and several hundred acres of forest. The top floor of the main house was remodelled as a giant parapet in 1805.

The chapel reflects the Calvinist leanings of the family, and though nominally Anglican, the interior is dominated by a huge and centrally placed "three-decker" pulpit. There is a house for the minister/chaplain nearby. Some holders of the position would not have been able to hold a Church of England parish living, on account of their views. The leading Palladian architect James Paine is attributed with most of the work of the 1750s and 1760s.

The Banqueting House was built in 1746, and is an early example of Gothic Revival architecture, of the early form often called "Gothick". It has now been restored and is available for letting by the Landmark Trust, who now own it.

Column to British Liberty

The front entrance to the house in 2010

A large monument, originally called the "Column of British Liberty", now usually just the "Column to Liberty", was begun in the 1750s by the hugely wealthy Sir George Bowes, reflecting his Whig politics. Set at the top of a steep hillock, the monument itself is a Doric order column, and topped by a standing bronze female figure, originally gilded, carrying a cap of liberty on a pole.


Gibside

Later history

The Bowes-Lyon family had other major country houses, Glamis Castle in Scotland, and Streatlam Castle, County Durham, relatively close to Gibside.

The house became vacant in the 1920s after the Bowes-Lyon family sold some of its properties to pay death duties. The building was stripped of its fixtures and fittings, with many of the fireplaces and other items being transferred to Glamis Castle.Grade II* listed building statusHeritage at Risk Register.

Parts of the grounds have been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, including a forest garden.

The chapel and Long Walk have been in the National Trust's ownership since 1965, and an additional 354 acres (1.43 km2) of the grounds were acquired in 1993. The Banqueting House has been in the ownership of the Landmark Trust since 1981, the building having been restored from a derelict shell. The stables now house a learning and discovery centre.

Women's Land Army girls were billeted at Gibside during World War I.

Gallery

  * [The Banqueting House]
    The Banqueting House
  * [Another view]
    Another view
  * [The Column to Liberty]
    The Column to Liberty
  * [The top of the column, the figure seen from behind.]
    The top of the column, the figure seen from behind.
  * [Centrally-placed three-decker pulpit at Gibside Chapel, a private chapel on the Calvinist edge of Anglicanism.]
    Centrally-placed three-decker pulpit at Gibside Chapel, a private chapel on the Calvinist edge of Anglicanism.
  * [Interior of the Chapel]
    Interior of the Chapel
  * [The Column to Liberty can be seen from the porch of Gibside Chapel]
    The Column to Liberty can be seen from the porch of Gibside Chapel
  * [Shell of the Orangery]
    Shell of the Orangery
  * [The Stables]
    The Stables
  * [Side of the Stable block]
    Side of the Stable block
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gibside.
  * Gibside information at the National Trust
  * 3D model of Gibside Chapel


Gibson's Hill

54°25′48″N 6°20′13″W / 54.430°N 6.337°W

Corcreeny Orange Hall and Gibson's Hill Gospel Hall

Gibson's Hill or Corcreeny (from Irish: Corr Chríonaigh, meaning 'round hill of dry branches')village in the townland of Corcreeny in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, about 1.5 km from Lurgan. It lies on the main Lurgan to Gilford road.2001 Census it had a population of 186 people.Craigavon Borough Council area.

The village has limited community facilities. Lakeview House, to the east, and the area around it, are an attractive landscape and historic feature. It is a two-storey, late-19th-century house, approached through a beech tree avenue.

  * List of villages in Northern Ireland


Eşmepınar, Çayırlı

Eşmepınar is a village in the Çayırlı District, Erzincan Province, Turkey.Kurds of the Kurêşan tribe and had a population of 78 in 2021.


John Morris (historian)

John Robert Morris (8 June 1913 – 1 June 1977) was an English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain. He is best known for his book The Age of Arthur (1973), which attempted to reconstruct the history of Britain and Ireland during the so-called "Dark Ages" (350–650 AD) following the Roman withdrawal, based on scattered archaeological and historical records. Much of his other work focused on Britain during this time.

Biography

Morris read modern history at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1932 to 1935, and served in the Army during the Second World War. After the war, he held a Leon Fellowship at the University of London and a Junior Fellowship at the Warburg Institute. In 1948 he was appointed Lecturer in Ancient History at University College, London. He worked in India in 1968 and 1969 as a lecturer for the Indian University Grants Commission, before returning to UCL to become Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, a post he held until his death.

In 1952 Morris founded the historical journal Past & Present, which he edited until 1960, and remained chairman of the editorial board until 1972. He was one of the writers, along with A. H. M. Jones and J. R. Martindale, of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, a biographical dictionary of the years 284–641, the first volume of which was published in 1971. He also instigated the publication of a new edition of the Domesday Book, and edited the Arthurian Period Sources series. His last book was Londinium: London in the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1982.

Morris was a socialist and anti-war campaigner. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1935 as a Labour Party candidate, and was for a time secretary to the Labour MP George Strauss. He was a founder-member of the Committee of 100, an anti-war group founded by Bertrand Russell in 1960, and was later involved in the Institute for Workers' Control.

In 1975 Morris wrote the script "Domesday Republished" for the Look, Stranger BBC-TV series.

Morris died on 1 June 1977 in London.

The Age of Arthur


John Morris (historian)

The Age of Arthur

The Age of Arthur (1973) was the first attempt by a professional historian to build a picture of Britain during the period 350–650, when King Arthur (whom Morris accepts as an authentic historical personage) was supposed to have lived. The book is not, however, exclusively about Arthur, but rather about the history of Celtic Britain during that era. The book also includes detailed chapters on Brittany on the grounds that its Celtic population which came from migrations from "Greater Britain" meant that "Little Britain" (Brittany) was as much heir to Roman Britannia as were England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

Although popular with the public, the book was heavily criticised in professional historical circles, severely damaging Morris's academic reputation in the eyes of many of his peers. David Dumville launched a famously scathing attack on Morris's methodology;J. E. Caerwyn Williams, described it as "an outwardly impressive piece of scholarship", it went on to argue that this apparent scholarship "crumbles upon inspection into a tangled tissue of fact and fantasy which is both misleading and misguided".James Campbell, were more generous, but still considered that the Age of Arthur was so misleading and full of problems that it was really only of use to professional historians who could sort the interesting ideas from the flights of fantasy.

Selected works


John Morris (historian)

Selected works

  * Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, ed. with A. H. M. Jones and J. R. Martindale:
      + Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1971) from 260 to 395
      + Volume 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1980) from 395 to 527
  * Arthurian Period Sources series, ed. John Morris:
      + The Age of Arthur: Volume 1: Roman Britain and the Empire of Arthur (London: Phillimore)
      + The Age of Arthur: Volume 2: The Successor States (London: Phillimore)
      + The Age of Arthur: Volume 3: Church, Society and Economy (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 1: Introduction, notes and index (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 2: Annals and Charters (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 3: Persons (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 4: Places and Peoples and Saxon Archaeology (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 5: Genealogies and texts (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 6: Studies in Dark-Age History (London: Phillimore)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 7: Gilda, The Ruin of Britain and Other Documents (London: Phillimore, 1978)
      + Arthurian period sources, vol. 8: Nennius: British History and the Welsh Annals (London & Chichester: Phillimore, 1980)
  * Londinium: London in the Roman Empire (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982)


Family Fracas

"Family Fracas" is the 19th episode of the third season–and the 41st episode overall–of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers. It was written by Holly Schlesinger and directed by Don MacKinnon.United States on April 14, 2013.

Plot

While the Belchers are on their way to the movie theater, their car breaks down and Jimmy Pesto takes advantage of the situation to mock Bob relentlessly. Leaving the car at the roadside, they decide instead to see the taping of a television show at the local studio. Bob runs across Chuck Charles, with whom he has a history (see "Beefsquatch"), and who is now the host of Family Fracas, a game show styled after Double Dare that offers a new minivan as its grand prize. Over Chuck's objections, and spurred on by Linda and the kids, Bob agrees to let his family compete against the reigning champions.

The Belchers win game after game, to Chuck's dismay, but receive only a 5-gallon bucket of "Fracas Foam" (an orange slimy substance dumped onto the losing family) after each victory due to Louise's spinning of the prize wheel. Jimmy and his family challenge and defeat them, winning the minivan, and the Belchers return home. Watching a viral video of the final round, Bob becomes convinced that Chuck rigged it in Jimmy's favor and confronts Harry, the producer of Family Fracas. Harry arranges for the Belchers to sue Jimmy and Chuck on Pam's Court, a court show presided over by Chuck's bitter ex-wife Pam.

Bob has no direct evidence of any cheating until Gene realizes that an overhead camera in the Family Fracas studio may have recorded it. Pam orders Chuck to bring in the videotape from that camera, but he destroys it instead (Not wanting his show to get canceled like last time). Without any evidence to support Bob's claims, Pam is forced to rule in favor of Jimmy and Chuck. As the Belchers walk home from the studio, they find Jimmy trying in vain to change a flat tire on his new minivan. Bob decides to help, despite mockery from both Jimmy and the rest of the Belchers.

Reception


Family Fracas

Reception

Rowan Kaiser of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−, saying "The inability for the Belchers to make progress renders "Family Fracas" relatively disappointing overall. Although it certainly has its funny moments, they don't coalesce into a full episode because the failures become so predictable. The Belchers may deserve fame, and fame could even be good for them in their world, but it's best for us viewers in our world that they stay unrecognized in theirs."Animation Domination that night, beating The Cleveland Show but losing to Family Guy.

  * "Family Fracas" at IMDb


Edgar Backhouse

Edgar Norman Backhouse (13 May 1901 – 1 November 1936)cricketer, who made one first-class appearance for Yorkshire in 1931, and another for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1932. Backhouse was born in Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire, England, and was a right-handed batsman and left arm medium pace bowler.

Playing for Yorkshire against the Rest of England in the Champion County match at The Oval in September 1931, Backhouse bowled four overs for four runs, as the Rest were bowled out for 124 by Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity. He was bowled by Bill Voce for two runs, batting at number 10 in his only innings, and was not asked to bowl again when the Rest compiled 290 second time around in a drawn game.

His second and final first-class match was scarcely more successful, when he turned out the following year at Lord's for the MCC against Kent. He was out for 0 and 1, but did take three wickets for 130 in Kent's mammoth 431. He beat captain Arthur Chapman to have him stumped by Franklin for 72, dismissed B.H. Valentine in the same manner for 45 and then bowled W.H. Ashdown for 7. His labours were in vain as Kent won the match by 10 wickets. This was not his first appearance at Lord's as, in 1927, he had taken four wickets playing for the Young Professionals against the Young Amateurs, in a non first-class fixture.

He went on to play Minor Counties cricket for Staffordshire between 1934 and 1936.

He died in a motor accident in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in November 1936, at the age of 35.

  * Cricinfo Profile
  * Cricket Archive Statistics


Liferent

"Fiar" redirects here. For the Italian avionics firm, see FIAR.

Liferent, or life-rent, in Scots law is the right to receive for life the benefits of a property or other asset without the right to dispose of the property or the asset.fee simple, the owner is termed the fiar.Fiars Prices, another term in Scots law.

Examples

  * If a man held a liferent on arable land with a house, he could, for the rest of his life, live in the house and cultivate the land, keeping the income for himself. He could not transfer the land or house to another person.
  * A liferent might be set by law (as when someone died, it would apply to the surviving spouse); or it might be set as a private arrangement between individuals.


Convolvulus fernandesii

Convolvulus fernandesii is a species of plant in the family Convolvulaceae. It is endemic to the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal.


Athens–Lavrion Railway

Athens–Lavrion Railway (Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή Λαυρίου - Αγίων Αναργύρων) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line connecting downtown Athens with Eastern Attica and the mining town of Lavrion in Greece.

Attica Railways (1882–1926)

The contract between the Greek government and the Hellenic Company of Lavrion Metallurgies was signed in 1882. The line would be 76 kilometres (47 mi) long, with a branch line from Heraklion to Kifissia. A new company, Attica Railways (Greek: Σιδηρόδρομοι Αττικής), was founded to take over the new line.

The line from AttikiKifissia (a northern suburb) was opened on 2 February 1885 and was later extended further north to Strofyli. The main line to Lavrion was officially opened on 20 June 1885, although the section Keratea–Lavrion was in limited use before that date.

In 1889 the line was extended by 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) towards the center of Athens, to a station located at Lavrion Square, near Omonoia Square. The section between Lavrion Square and Attica remained in use until 1926, when it was replaced by a tram line.

The section from Athens (Lavrion Square) to Heraklion was 9.2 kilometres (5.7 mi) long, 56.8 kilometres (35.3 mi) from Heraklion to Lavrion, and 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) between Heraklion and Strofyli. All sections were single track, with passing loops at most stations.

The main rolling stock depot and repair workshop were located at Attiki station, with additional facilities at Lavrion.

A short (273 metres (299 yd)), single-track spur branched off at a junction located one kilometre (1,100 yd) beyond Heraklion station, followed by a 90° right curve and ending at Kalogreza or Nea Alexandreia station.


Athens–Lavrion Railway

In 1910 Attica Railways were taken over by the Hellenic Electric Company.

Rolling stock

A Tubize locomotive with an Athens–Lavrion train at Thorikon bridge (1888)

The passenger service to Lavrion consisted of two trains in each direction per day. The trains were hauled by Tubize 0-6-2T steam locomotives, delivered between 1885 and 1889. Between 1900 and 1925 ten 2-6-0T locomotives were procured in four batches: one from Vassiliadis Works in Piraeus, and the remaining nine from Krauss in Germany. Two additional Tubize 0-6-2T locomotives were bought from Thessaly Railways in 1919 and were converted to 2-6-2T.

Part of Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (1929–1962)

Attica Railways

since 1931
                      Piraeus
Lavrion Square
Victoria              Athens
Attiki
Kato Patissia         Kato Liosia
Ano Patissia
Nea Ionia             to Peloponesse

Irakleio

Kalogreza             Amarousion
Halandri              Kifissia
Gerakas               Strofyli
Kantza                Dionyssos
Cambas Winery
Liopesi
Koropi
Markopoulon
Kalyvia
Koyvarades
Keratea
Daskaleio
Spiliazeza
Thoriko
silver mines

Lavrion

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In 1926 the lines to Lavrion and Kifissia was taken over by the Electric Transport Company, a member of Power and Traction Finance Company. In 1929 the line from Heraklion to Lavrion was transferred to the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (SPAP).

Under SPAP operation service to Lavrion departed from Athens Peloponnese Station. SPAP trains initially used the Attiki to Heraklion section without stopping at intermediate stations until 1931, when SPAP constructed a line from the station of Kato Liossia (later Agioi Anargyroi) to Heraklion. Between 1929 and 1931 SPAP trains would access the Lavrion line at Attiki station using a temporary short connection crossing the standard gauge line north of Athens Central ("Larissis") station.


Athens–Lavrion Railway

SPAP took possession of the ten 2-6-0T (Vassiliadis/Krauss) locomotives while the remaining ones were used by IEM for the Attiki–Kifissia–Strofyli service.

In 1944 the line was damaged and wasn't reopened until 1952, with three trains in each direction on weekdays and an extra passenger train on weekends. Service was provided by Uerdingen/MAN railbuses.

The line was closed to passenger traffic in 1957, due to political lobbying by private bus owners.the new Athens–Thessaloniki highway and the line was abandoned.

Preservation

Small sections of the line survive at various locations. Museum railways of Attica Co. (Greek: Εταιρεία Μουσειακών Σιδηροδρόμων Αττικής or Greek: ΕΜΣΑ), a preservation society in the form of a non-for-profit company, maintains two small sections each 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, one near Kalyvia and one near Keratea.

Reopening

In 2016 a nine-station, 32-kilometre (20 mi) extension of the Athens Suburban Railway beyond Koropi station was announced. The extension to Lavrio will connect 300,000 more people to the rail network at a cost of €350 million.

  * Lavrion Square-Strofyli railway
  * Attica Railways
  * Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways


Kollankoil

Kollankoil is a panchayat town in Erode district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,


Gibson, Wisconsin

Gibson is a town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,352 at the 2000 census.

Communities

  * Fisherville is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of Cherney Road and Fisherville Road.
  * Larrabee is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of WIS 147 and County Road Q.
  * Melnik is an unincorporated community located on Melnik Road north of County Road Y.
  * Zander is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of County Road Q and Zander Road.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.3 square miles (91.5 km2), of which 35.3 square miles (91.3 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2) (0.25%) is water.

Demographics

As of the censuspopulation density was 38.3 people per square mile (14.8/km2). There were 495 housing units at an average density of 14.0 per square mile (5.4/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.96% White, 0.07% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, and 0.74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.52% of the population.

There were 471 households, out of which 39.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.5% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.4% were non-families. 15.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87 and the average family size was 3.23.


Gibson, Wisconsin

In the town, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 116.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 117.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $48,438, and the median income for a family was $52,500. Males had a median income of $34,750 versus $26,339 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,885. About 1.6% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.3% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

  * Steven Avery, convicted of homicide after being exonerated of an earlier crime by DNA evidence
  * James Baumgart, Wisconsin State Senator
  * Adolph Strouf, Wisconsin State Representative
  * Town of Gibson


Gibril Faal

Gibril Faal OBE (born 10 October 1967) is a British-Gambian business and development executive. In 2014, he was appointed OBEQueen's Birthday Honours List for services to international development, following a nomination by the Department for International Development (DfID). He is a visiting professor in practiceLondon School of Economics (Institute of Global Affairs). He was one of the global leaders who spoke at the 19 September 2016 UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants,Global Compact on Migration.GFMD Summit in Istanbul in October 2015.United Nations General Assembly.

Education

A social entrepreneur and multi-disciplinary practitioner with an eclectic professional background, Gibril was educated at Serekunda Primary School in the Gambia (1973–79) and attended grammar school and Sixth Form at Gambia High School (1979–86). He then studied at five universities in London. He has a Combined Honours bachelor's degree in law, Finance & Management and postgraduate degrees in Development Studies and Environmental Sciences. He also had professional training in Ethical Investment, Economic History, Policy Analysis, Transport and Urban Management, Environmental and Quality Management.

Business and social enterprise

Gibril has been a director of GK PartnersDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills). Their work included the development of social enterprise business models, different forms of social investment schemes and legislation for Community Interest Companies in the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004.

Gibril established his first business in 1993 supporting SMEs, social enterprises, charities and voluntary organisations. He worked in corporate law, business and financial management, organisational development and quality assurance. Since the early 1990s, he has directly supported hundreds of companies and organisations across a wide and diverse range of sectors. In 2003, he received special commendation from the board of the then London Business Support Network.

He was a special adviser to the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance (IIBI),Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Institution of Environmental Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.

International development

Gibril is a board member and vice chair of BondDFID’s Global Poverty Action Fund and the EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative.


Gibril Faal

Between 2000 and 2005, Gibril was an associate lecturer with The Open University, teaching on the MSc course in Global Development Management. In 2003, he founded RemitAid™Trevor Manuel (then South African Finance Minister) was on the panel that advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown on the agenda for the Gleneagles G8 Summit. On 2 July 2005, on behalf of AFFORD, Gibril hosted the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai as guest speaker at the African Diaspora and Development Day (AD3). Prof Maathai later became a supporter of the RemitAid™ proposal. In 2008, Gibril organised the introduction of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to Francophone Africa. The event in Dakar was attended by Dr Ibrahim and four board members of the Foundation.

In 2006, he undertook the independent evaluation of the non-academic impact of University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the EC Directorate General International Cooperation and Development (Devco). He leads professional assignments on policy development and international negotiations. His recent work in global policy advocacy was in relation to the Financing for DevelopmentSustainable Development Goals (SDG) negotiations. He is a Senior Research Associate with the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC).

In 2013, he published a handbook entitled Understanding and Influencing Policy: Advocacy Handbook for Diaspora and Small Organisations Working in International Development.World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies,Chatham House,Oxford and Cambridge.

Public service

Since 1998, Gibril had been appointed to various public functions in the UK by the Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary of State for International Development. He served as Treasurer of the Panel of Independent custody visitor in Lambeth (Brixton). He was part of the group that advised both the Home Secretary and Metropolitan Police Commissioner on putting custody visiting on a legislative footing and giving responsibility to Police Authorities. This led to the promulgation of Section 51 of the Police Reform Act 2002.


Gibril Faal

Between 1988 and 1997, Gibril was a volunteer youth leader at Pedro Youth Club in Hackney,Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (organised by the African Union, UNESCO and the Brazilian Government), he made a keynote presentation on "A New Definition and Classification of the African Diaspora". This informed his 2010 Chatham House presentation on "Historical & Developmental Perspectives on the African Diaspora".

In 2010/11, Gibril was a patron of the National Portrait Gallery, advising NPG and supporting the fundraising effort to acquire the 17a33 painting (portrait) of the freed slave Job Ben Solomon.abolition of the slave trade in the UK, he designed a historical education programme on "slave-scholars" and wrote a paper entitled "Ayuba Sulayman Jallow: The Life of a Gambian Slave-Scholar". Gibril assisted dozens of start-ups to become effective contributors in the cultural and creative industries sector. These include Omnibus Clapham

Gibril has been actively involved in public service and campaigns for social justice all his life.Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development FORWARD (a pioneering anti-FGM charity) from 2007 to 2014. As a teenager in the early 1980s, he was involved in youth and student mobilisations in Gambia. He also gave lectures in support of the work of the Gambia Anti-Apartheid Society. In 1986, he was appointed trainee Clerk of Court at the Supreme Court of the Gambia, where he worked for a puisne judge. In 1987, he became a Clerk at Kanifing Magistrates’ Court and progressed to manage the semi-rural Brikama Magistrates’ Court, working with a travelling magistrate. Beyond his formal multidisciplinary roles, Gibril provides informal advice and guidance to government officials and leaders in the public, private and civil society sectors around the world.


Eşmepınar, Çıldır

Eşmepınar is a village in the Çıldır District, Ardahan Province, Turkey.Karapapakhs.


John Morley (died 1622)

Sir John Morley (c. 1572 – December 1622) of Halnaker, Sussex was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622.

Life

Ruins of Halnaker House, West Sussex

Morley was the son of wealthy merchant John Morley of Halnaker and London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1586 and entered Inner Temple in 1587. He succeeded to the estate of Halnaker on the death of his father in 1587 and added to the estate by purchase. In 1601, he was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham and knighted on 23 July 1603. In 1604 he was elected MP for Chichester and re-elected in 1614. In 1621 he was elected MP for New Shoreham again.

Morley died at the age of about 50 between 21 and 27 December 1622. He had married Cicely Caryll, daughter of Sir Edward Caryll of Harting; they had two sons and two daughters.


Fangyi

Fangyi dated to the 12th century BCE (Shang dynasty)

A fangyi (Chinese: 方彜; Wade–Giles: fang-i; 'square bronze') is a type of Chinese ritual bronze container typical of the Shang and early to middle Zhou periods of Bronze Age China (circa 1800-900 BCE). It takes the shape of a square or rectangular casket with a cover that resembles a hip roof, surmounted by a knob of a similar hipped appearance. The lower edge is typically indented with a semi-circular notch.

They are usually lavishly decorated, often with taotie patterns representing mythological beasts. They were sometimes connected to create a twin container or oufangyi. Their form differed somewhat over time; those produced during the Shang typically had straight bodies, those of the early Zhou bulge at the sides and mid-Zhou ones have handles that look like an elephant's trunk.

Fangyi appear to have evolved from pottery vessels in the Neolithic period and were also carved from white marble during the Shang. They first appeared in bronze either at the start of the Yinxu period (13th-11th century BC) or during the 14th century transition between the Erligang culture and the Yinxu. They disappeared in the middle part of the Western Zhou period.

They are believed to have been used to hold ritual food offerings, though it is also possible that they could have been used to hold wine.grave goods, and have been found in tombs such as that of the 13th century BC queen Fu Hao.

Many fangyi were inscribed with very early forms of Chinese writing, generally representing the names of the owners of the vessels or the ancestors to whom they were dedicated. The inscriptions usually appear on the interior walls or floors of the vessels and on the undersides of the lids. They were cast into the bronze rather than being incised into the metal. The highly pictographic form of the shorter Shang-era inscriptions later developed into lengthier inscriptions by the time of the Zhou, with more standardised written characters often commemorating events involving the individual who had commissioned the vessel. Fangyi thus represent an important source for ancient Chinese history and the development of the Chinese writing system.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fangyi (vessel).
  * 3D model of a fangyi held at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer-Sackler Gallery


Edgar Bain

Edgar Collins Bain (September 14, 1891 – November 27, 1971) was an American metallurgist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, who worked for the US Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked on the alloying and heat treatment of steel; Bainite is named in his honor.

He was born near LaRue, Ohio to Milton Henry (of Scottish descent) and Alice Anne Collins Bain. He graduated with a B.S. from Ohio State University in 1912. He received his M.S. in 1916 and his Ph.D. in 1919 both from Ohio State.Functions of the Alloying Elements in Steel, published by ASM International.Edgeworth, Pennsylvania.

He was elected in 1923 a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

  * National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir


Lifen Zhang

Lifen Zhang (born in 1962) is a Chinese journalist, author and broadcaster.

Biography

Born in Shanghai, China, Lifen received his BA degree in Journalism (1984) at Fudan University, Shanghai, where he had also taught for a few years. He came to Britain to pursue postgraduate studies in 1988 on winning the Sino-British Friendship Scholarship; then obtained his PhD in Mass Communications (1994) at University of Leicester, England. His first book, Wondering by the End of Century (co-authored) was published in 1988.

Upon completing his doctorate, Lifen worked for 10 years at the BBC as assistant producer for TV, producer, senior producer, presenter, news/current affairs editor and senior journalism-production trainer for the BBC World Service.

Lifen Zhang is associate editor, Financial Times, and founding editor for FTChinese.com,

Lifen was a visiting scholar at Department of Journalism, the National Chengchi University, Taipei, in 2003. He is also member of the International Advisory Committee for Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University.

In early 2010, Lifen is visiting professor at Dept of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University.

He sits on the Executive Committee of the Great Britain-China Centre (GBCC) based in London.

Also, he is on the advisory board of OMFIF where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.

Awards

He has received various journalism awards including a National Reportage Prize in China in 1988 and the BBC Onassis Travel Award in 2001.


Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds., Wiley, 1996, ISBN 0-471-13561-5) is a book composed of a collection of factual articles on space colonization, several from recognized experts in the field.

The articles range from colloquial to fairly technical, occasionally deriving results after a series of calculus equations. Their subject matter ranges from colonization of the inner Solar System to the outer Solar System and interstellar colonization, and from novel application of well-understood engineering principles, to speculative physics theories. It includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin; other notable authors include Robert L. Forward, Martyn J. Fogg, and Christopher McKay. The book is also notable for including a publication of Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct mission architecture (first formulated in 1990), which was soon expanded into a book of its own, The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, and which provided the impetus for the founding of the Mars Society.

Contents


Contents

  * Introduction, Stanley Schmidt
  * Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth
      + "Comes the Revolution...", G. Harry Stine
      + "The Hypersonic Skyhook", Robert Zubrin
  * Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System
      + "Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet", Robert Zubrin and David A. Baker
      + "Inward Ho!", Stephen L. Gillett
      + "Colonizing the Outer Solar System", Robert Zubrin
      + "Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud", Richard P. Terra
      + "Alien Life Between Here and the Stars", Robert L. Forward
  * Part Three: Creating New Worlds
      + "Terraforming Mars", Robert Zubrin and Christopher P. McKay
      + "A Planet Dweller's Dreams", Martyn J. Fogg
      + "Astrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth", Martyn J. Fogg
  * Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel
      + "To the Stars!", Gordon R. Woodcock
      + "The Magnetic Sail", Robert Zubrin
      + "The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost", John G. Cramer
      + "The Negative Matter Space Drive", Robert L. Forward
      + "The Economics of Interstellar Commerce", Warren Salomon


Adetus griseicauda

Adetus griseicauda is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1872.


Edmund Sheriffe

Edmund Sheriffe was a priest and academic in the 15th century.

Sheriffe was a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1458; Rector of Little Billing from 1467; Archdeacon of Stow from 1471Master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge from 1472, holding all four positions until his death on 29 September 1475.


Borgofranco sul Po

Borgofranco sul Po (Lower Mantovano: Bufranch) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) southeast of Milan and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Mantua.

Borgofranco sul Po borders the following municipalities: Bergantino, Carbonara di Po, Magnacavallo, Melara, Ostiglia, Borgo Mantovano.


Gibril Sankoh

Gibril Sankoh (born 15 May 1983) is a Sierra Leone former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

Club career

Sankoh played in Freetown at Royal Stars and was selected for the Sierra Leone national football team at the age of 17, but would not make his debut. In 2000, he was forced to flee since he had the same surname as rebel leader Foday Sankoh, even though he is not related to him. He arrived in The Netherlands by boat and ended up in an asylum seekers' centre in Rijsbergen. After moving to Heemskerk, he went to play at De Kennemers in Beverwijk. There he was scouted for Stormvogels Telstar.

In the 2004–05 season Sankoh made the transfer to FC Groningen after having played seventeen games for Stormvogels Telstar. In the 05/06 season, Sankoh became a fixture of 'the Pride of the North' and contributed significantly to its success in the following season. In the playoffs of the 2006–07 season, Sankoh scored his first goal for Groningen in the home game against Feyenoord, which was won 2–1. Partly because of this goal, Groningen reached the final of the playoffs. In May 2010, it was announced that Sankoh had to leave FC Groningen after six seasons. His expiring contract was not renewed.

Sankoh was contracted by FC Augsburg from the 2010–11 season, where he signed for two years. This started in the 2. Bundesliga, but followed after a year of promotion to the Bundesliga. He played less and in his third year at the club even less. In February 2013 he switched to the Chinese Henan Jianye FC.


Gibril Sankoh

Sankoh returned to the Netherlands in July 2015. He completed training courses with his old team FC Groningen and with PEC Zwolle. In July, he signed a contract until mid-2016 with Roda JC Kerkrade, which had just been promoted to the Eredivisie. He had included in his contract the possibility to exchange the club for another after half a season. After half a year, he left the club to return to China. He went to play football with second divisionist Meizhou Kejia F.C., where he signed a contract for two years. After six months without a club, he played for ACV in mid-2018 till the end of mid-2019.

Sankoh is currently assistant coach

International career

On 8 September 2012, at the age of 29, he made his debut for the West African nation in a qualification match against Tunisia for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The Leone Stars were just slightly eliminated and Sankoh got a red card in the second match against the same team on 13 October.

Honours

Henan Jianye

  * China League One: 2013
  * Gibril Sankoh at National-Football-Teams.com
  * Gibril Sankoh at Soccerway
  * Gibril Sankoh at fussballdaten.de (in German)


Eğribük

This article is about a beach in Mersin Province. For the village in Amasya Province, see Eğribük, Suluova.

Seen from the northwest

The beach

Eğribük (also known as Barbaros bay or Tahta Liman) is a small Mediterranean bay with ruins in the beach, in south Turkey.

Eğribük is in the Silifke ilçe (district) of Mersin Province at 36°16′10″N 33°48′29″E / 36.26944°N 33.80806°E It is at the end point in the canyon of the Akdere creek. The sea is to the east of the bay. It is connected to Turkish state highway D.400 which is between Mersin and west Turkey by a lane of about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). Its distance to Silifke is 30 kilometres (19 mi) and to Mersin is 115 kilometres (71 mi).

The bay which is not on the highway is a rather secluded recreation spot with a natural beach. In the middle of the beach there are some ruins. The ruins belong to Palaiai (old city). Although there are very few ruins, the underwater survey reveals that most of Palaiai ruins are submerged in the water. necropolis area in the shrubbery to the west of the beach. Judging from the grave types it is believed that Palaiai was a Roman town.


Jakob Hecker

Jakob Hecker (1897 - 1969) was a German landscape painter.

Biography

Jakob Hecker was born in Stuttgart and worked most of his life in Munich. Before settling in Munich, he mostly painted Black Forest subjects. Later on, he focused on alpine landscapes. His initially detailed and romantic painting style, developed traits of modernism in many of Hecker's later alpine scenes. Some of his paintings have also been reproduced as artistic postcards by several art publishers, in the 1930s and 1940s.

  * List of German painters


Fangsi

Fangsi (Chinese: 房寺镇) is a town in Yucheng, Dezhou, in northwestern Shandong province, China.


Edgar Barnhart

Edgar Vernon Barnhart (September 16, 1904 – September 14, 1984) was an American professional baseball pitcher. Barnhart played in one game for the St. Louis Browns on September 23, 1924.

  * Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference


Lifering

Lifering may refer to:

  * Lifebuoy
  * LifeRing Secular Recovery


Islands of Britain

Islands of Britain may refer to:

  * British Isles, the archipelago off north-western Europe
  * British Islands, a term referring collectively to the United Kingdom, along with a group of territories with constitutional links to the country
  * List of islands of the British Isles
  * List of islands of the United Kingdom
  * Islands of Britain (TV series)
  * British Isles naming dispute
  * Terminology of the British Isles


Adetus leucostigma

Adetus leucostigma is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1880.


Eisenia

Wikispecies has information related to Eisenia.

Eisenia may refer to:

  * Eisenia (alga), a brown alga genus
  * Eisenia (annelid), an earthworm genus


Borgohain

Borgohain (Ahom language: Chao Thao Lung) was the second of the two original counselors in the Ahom kingdom. He was selected by the Ahom king from members of the Ahom nobility (Satgharia Ahom), who vowed not to fight for the position of Ahom kingship, rather act as a guide to the Ahom king in matters of administering his province in an efficient manner (King Maker).The other original counsellor is the Burhagohain. Both the positions existed from the time of the first Ahom king, Sukaphaa. After the first major expansion of the Ahom kingdom, the Sadiya province was initially given to the Borgohain to administer.Thao-mung Bo-ngen (Sadiyakhowa Gohain).Dikhou river to Kaliabor on the south bank. In later times, he administered the region east of Burai on the north bank,Borbarua was given the charge of territories between Sadiya province to Kaliabor.

List of Borgohains


Borgohain

List of Borgohains

  * Thao Mong Kang Ngan
  * Ta-Phi-Khun Borgohain
  * Ta-Ph-Kun Borgohain
  * Tya-Tan-Bin Borgohain
  * Phra-Sheng-Mong Borgohain
  * Kali-Kham Borgohain
  * Ton-Kham Borgohain
  * Kham-Shen Borgohain
  * Khampet Borgohain
  * Guimela Borgohain
  * Piling Borgohain
  * Leshai Borgohain
  * Banrukia Langisong Borgohain
  * Sengmung Borgohain
  * Laluk Borgohain
  * Jabang Borgohain
  * Madurial Laithapana Borgohain
  * Kamalakanta Borgohain
  * Harinath Borgohain
  * Thanunath Borgohain
  * Dihingia Khamchang Borgohain
  * Khamcheng Borgohain
  * Numali Brogohain
  * Madurial Barjana Borgohain
  * Bailung Borgohain
  * Madurial Bishnunarayan Borgohain
  * Madurial Nirbhoynarayan Borgohain
  * Gangaram Borgohain
  * Narahari Borgohain
  * Gait, Sir Edward Albert (1963). A History of Assam. Thacker, Spink.
  * Bhuyan, Surya Kumar (1964). Satsari Buranji(2nd ed.) (in Assamese).
  * Gogoi, Jahnabi (2002). Agragian system of Medieval Assam. ISBN 9788170229674.
  * Barua, G.C. (1939). Ahom Buranji.


Black and Mormon

Black and Mormon is a 2004 book edited, with an introduction, by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith. It is a collection of articles about Black people and Mormonism, race and the LDS priesthood, and the experience of Black Mormons.

The editors claim the Church "needs to forthrightly confront its past history of racial exclusion and discrimination."

Contents

  * 1. "The "Missouri Thesis" Revisited: Early Mormonism, Slavery, and the Status of Black People" by Newell G. Bringhurst
  * 2. "The Traditions of Their Fathers: Myth versus Reality in LDS Scriptural Writings" by Alma Allred
  * 3. "Two Perspectives: The Religious Hopes of "Worthy" African American Latter-day Saints before the 1978 Revelation" by Ronald G. Coleman and Darius A. Gray
  * 4. "Spanning the Priesthood Revelation (1978): Two Multigenerational Case Studies" by Jessie L. Embry
  * 5. "Casting Off the "Curse of Cain": The Extent and Limits of Progress since 1978" by Armand L. Mauss
  * 6. "African American Latter-day Saints: A Sociological Perspective" by Cardell K. Jacobson
  * 7. ""How Do Things Look on the Ground?" The LDS African American Community in Atlanta, Georgia" by Ken Driggs
  * 8. "Unpacking Whiteness in Zion: Some Personal Reflections and General Observations" by Darron T. Smith

Response

Publishers Weekly called it "one of the most far-reaching studies of black Mormons to date."

  * Black and Mormon at the publisher's website


Eğriyamaç, Tunceli

Eğriyamaç (Kurdish: Muskirage) is a village in the Tunceli District, Tunceli Province, Turkey.Kurds of the Kirgan tribe and had a population of 40 in 2021.

The hamlets of Değirmendere, Deke, Dere, Doğanay and Dolupınar are attached to the village.


Jakob Friedrich Ludovici

Jakob Friedrich Ludovici (1671, Wacholzhagen near Treptow – 1723, Gießen) was a German jurist.

Ludovici studied law in Stargard, Königsberg and Halle. Appointed a professor extraordinary in 1701, he became a full professor in 1711. In 1721 he was appointed privy councillor, vice chancellor and Professor Juris primarius at the University of Gießen.

Works

  * Untersuchung des Indifferentismi Religionum, 1700
  * Delineatio historiae juris divini, naturalis et positivi universalis, 1701
  * Einleitung zum Lehns-Proceß, 1718 (E-Copy)


Achiltibuie

Achiltibuie (/ˌæxɪltɪˈbuːi/; Scottish Gaelic: Achd Ille Bhuidhe or Field of the yellow-haired boylinear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west. Loch Broom and the Summer Isles lie to the south. Located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ullapool as the crow flies. Achiltibuie is the central community of a series of townships and communities stretching from Culnacraig, through Badenscallie and Polglass (where the community hall, the primary school and the Piping School Cafe are located), Polbain, and Reiff to Achnahaird.

History

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

Smokehouse

For a time the Summer Isles Smokehouse attracted visitors.

Hydroponicum

The Hydroponicum, a facility for growing fresh fruit and vegetables indoors using hydroponics, was built in the village in the 1980s by Robert Irvine, then owner of the Summer Isles Hotel. The Hydroponicum was known for growing exotic fruit such as bananas all year round. It attracted up to 10,000 visitors a year until it was sold in 2007 to a company based in the Isle of Man. New greenhouses have since been built apart from the original hydroponicum buildings, and the new owners continue to grow fruit and vegetables for local businesses and residents. A community buyout attempt in 2011 by the Coigach Community Development Company fell through when the site's sellers pulled out.

Notable residents

  * Tom Longstaff (1875-1964), mountaineer.
  * Lucy Irvine (b. 1956), writer, lived very briefly in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.
  * de:Reiner Luyken (b.1951), former foreign correspondent of the German weekly paper Die Zeit

Notable recent achievements

'Coigach Community Rowing' the crew members of which coastal rowing club are all local, won the World St. Ayles Skiff Rowing Championships in July 2013 and a mixed crew from the club won the Alan Spong Trophy for 1st Mixed crew 4-oar rowing at the Thames Great River Race in September 2013.


Achiltibuie

The Brochs of Coigach designed by SBA Architects Ltd were shortlisted in 2011 for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. They are two unique buildings landscaped into a hillside. They were Regional Finalist of the Civic Trust Awards 2013.

Cultural connections

The Roman epic movie The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009. The main location was Fox Point, Old Dornie. The Pictish village which was constructed at Fox Point was used on most days of the filming. Other sites included Achnahaird beach where a horse chase was filmed and Loch Lurgainn.

The village and its residents featured in The Wee Mad Road (2008) by Jack and Barbara Maloney.

Achiltibuie is also the setting of a humorous German book about Scotland by Reiner Luyken, Schotten dicht (2015) published by Ullstein Verlag, Berlin.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Achiltibuie.
  * Achiltibuie Tourist Association
  * Coigach Genealogy


Edgar Baird

Edgar Albert Baird, ONL (May 28, 1911 – May 1, 2005) was a businessman born in Campbellton in the Dominion of Newfoundland. Baird was the founder of the Newfoundland chapter of the Junior Forest Rangers, and worked in the forestry and aviation industry where he was Chief Woods Ranger for Newfoundland, responsible for forest fire protection initiatives for Newfoundland and Labrador.

As superintendent of the Newfoundland Forestry Unit, Baird led a battalion of 960 foresters to Scotland in 1940, the largest single battalion ever to leave the province. In 1941 he signed up with the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

Following the war, Baird led a group of local residents who were lobbying to form a new town site in what would become Gander. He was later appointed the first chairman of the Gander Local Improvement District and built the first private dwelling in Gander in 1951. Both a Gander street and local trail are named in his honour.

In 1961, Baird volunteered as fire boss during the great forest fire that devastated Bonavista North.

He was invested as a member of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2004.

  * List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
  * List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
  * The Gander Beacon Obituaries, May 2005
  * Biography from Order of Newfoundland and Labrador


Lifesaving at the 2001 World Games – Men's beach flags

The men's beach flags in lifesaving at the 2001 World Games took place on 26 August 2001 at the Iwaki Island Park in Iwaki, Japan.

Competition format

A total of 25 athletes entered the competition. The best five athletes from each heat advances to the final.

Results

Heats

Heat 1 Rank  Athlete             Nation                          Note    Heat 2 Rank  Athlete             Nation                          Note
1     Jason O'Pray        [Australia] Australia           Q              1     Danilo Mollari      [Italy] Italy                   Q
2     Waleed Damon        [South Africa] South Africa     Q              2     Lutz Heimann        [Germany] Germany               Q
3     Renaat Dreesen      [Belgium] Belgium               Q              3     Hidenobu Tadano     [Japan] Japan                   Q
4     Maik Hofmann        [Germany] Germany               Q              4     Luke Turner         [Australia] Australia           Q
5     Sergio González     [Spain] Spain                   Q              5     Stephen Short       [Australia] Australia           Q
      Ryan Cox            [United Kingdom] Great Britain                       Freek Lemmens       [Belgium] Belgium
      Alessandro Giraldo  [Italy] Italy                                        Daan Pelders        [Netherlands] Netherlands
      Takuya Iritani      [Japan] Japan                                        Bart Geerts         [Belgium] Belgium
      Hugo Byman          [Netherlands] Netherlands                            Bart Laumen         [Netherlands] Netherlands
      Federico De Marco   [Italy] Italy                                        Nick Polkinghorne   [United Kingdom] Great Britain
      Futoshi Kikuchi     [Japan] Japan                                        Graeme Willcox      [South Africa] South Africa
      Ryan Brown          [United Kingdom] Great Britain                       Matthias Löwenberg  [Germany] Germany
      Jonathan del Amo    [Spain] Spain

Final

Rank                             Athlete          Nation
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Sergio González  [Spain] Spain
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Waleed Damon     [South Africa] South Africa
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Hidenobu Tadano  [Japan] Japan
4                                Lutz Heimann     [Germany] Germany
5                                Maik Hofmann     [Germany] Germany
6                                Renaat Dreesen   [Belgium] Belgium
7                                Luke Turner      [Australia] Australia
8                                Jason O'Pray     [Australia] Australia
9                                Stephen Short    [Australia] Australia
10                               Danilo Mollari   [Italy] Italy

  * Results on IWGA website


Charles Lucas (cricketer, born 1853)

Charles James Lucas (25 February 1853 – 17 April 1928) was an English cricketer active from 1876 to 1882 who played for Middlesex and Sussex. He was born in Clapham Common and died in Pimlico. He appeared in twelve first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled roundarm right arm fast. He scored 237 runs with a highest score of 38 and took seven wickets with a best performance of three for 17.


Adetus striatopunctatus

Adetus striatopunctatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1940.


Eisenlohr

Eisenlohr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * August Eisenlohr (1832–1902), German Egyptologist
  * Friedrich Eisenlohr (1805–1854), German architect and university professor
  * Ulrich Eisenlohr (born 1950), German classical pianist
  * Eisenlohr–Bayuk Tobacco Historic District, historic tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


Borgoratto Mormorolo

Borgoratto Mormorolo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km south of Milan and about 30 km south of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 415 and an area of 16.0 km².

Borgoratto Mormorolo borders the following municipalities: Borgo Priolo, Fortunago, Montalto Pavese, Ruino.

Demographic evolution


Black and Gold (disambiguation)

"Black and Gold" is a 2008 song by Sam Sparro.

Black and Gold may also refer to:

  * Black and Gold (book), a 1987 book by Anthony Sampson
  * "Black and Gold" (Cornish song), a Cornish folk song
  * Black + Gold, a 2007 EP by Sam Sparro
  * "Black & Gold", a song by Sivert Høyem featured in the opening sequence of the Norwegian television show Okkupert
  * Anarcho-capitalism, symbolized by black and gold
  * A nickname for the American Pittsburgh Steelers football team, based on their black and gold team colors
  * Black-and-gold tanager, bird found in Colombia
  * Black-and-gold cotinga, bird found in Brazil
  * Black Gold (disambiguation)


Eşen, Kastamonu

Eşen is a village in the Kastamonu District, Kastamonu Province, Turkey.


Jesmonite

Simon Fujiwara's A Spire (2015), in cast jesmonite, at the University of Leeds

Jesmonite is a composite material used in fine arts, crafts, and construction. It consists of a gypsum-based material in an acrylic resin. It was invented in the United Kingdom in 1984 by Peter Hawkins.

Usage

Jesmonite is a versatile material and is used in several ways. It is typically used for creating sculptures and other three-dimensional works, but can be used with other materials as a ground for painting. It can be used as a surface material in building and construction. It is considered an attractive alternative to other resin-based materials, such as polyester and fiberglass. It can be used for casting and laminating.

Besides its popularity in sculpture, jesmonite is popular in other areas where casting and moulding are common, such as architectural stone and plasterwork that has a requirement to be very lightweight, taxidermy, archaeology, and palaeontology.

A 2016 Financial Times article described jesmonite's increasing use in interior design, seeing it as a natural-looking alternative to plastic for "high-end" goods.London Design Fair.

Properties

Jesmonite is considered durable, flame resistant, and resistant to impact. It can be used to fabricate both small and large objects. When mixed, it accepts colored pigments and metal powders. Its surface can be finished to resemble plaster, stone, metal, and wood.

Jesmonite is considered a low-hazard material. The finished composite emits no toxic fumes. The mixing process requires no harmful solvents. However, the mixing should be performed with rubber gloves, eye protection, and dust mask, and should take place in a well-ventilated area. Cleanup is performed with water.

2012 Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant

In the 2012 Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, the ornate prow sculptures on the Royal barges Gloriana and MV Spirit of Chartwell were carved and moulded in Jesmonite and decorated with gold leaf. These included dolphins, relief plaques and Old Father Thames.

A Spire


Jesmonite

A Spire

A Spire is a cast jesmonite sculpture by British-Japanese sculptor Simon Fujiwara, commissioned to stand outside the new Laidlaw Library of the University of Leeds, England, in 2015. The lower sections incorporate particles of coal, to acknowledge the city's early industries, and the upper stages show cables and leaves reflecting today's digital and natural world. The 9-metre-tall (30 ft) cylindrical form relates to two nearby church spires on Woodhouse Lane.

  * Jesmonite official website
  * Jesmonite Palestine Distributor website Woodberg
  * Jesmonite North America Distributor website
  * Jesmonite Middle East Distributor website Resinarthub


Arturo Mezzedimi

Arturo Mezzedimi (19 June 1922 – 30 May 2010) was an Italian architect who worked principally in East Africa and the Middle East. He designed more than a hundred buildings in the Horn of Africa, among them Addis Ababa City Hall and Africa Hall,planned more than twenty urban centres in Ethiopia.Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.


Edgar Baitzel

Edgar Baitzel (17 May 1955 – 11 March 2007) was a German opera director and artistic administrator.

Born in Koblenz, Baitzel spent the first part of his career in Europe working on the staffs of several notable opera companies, including the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Bavarian State Opera, the Opéra de Nice, and the Theater der Bundesstadt Bonn. In November 2001 he joined the staff of the Los Angeles Opera (LAO) as the director of artistic operations. He was appointed the LAO's artistic director in May 2003 and then the company's chief operating officer in February 2006.

Baitzel's tenure at the LAO was marked by a significant expansion of the company's performance schedule and financial improvement. He also forged strong artistic partnerships with several notable directors, including David Cronenberg, Achim Freyer, William Friedkin, Garry Marshall, Maximilian Schell, and Julie Taymor. He was also responsible for commissioning several world premiere's for the LAO, including Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra (2003), Elliot Goldenthal's Grendel (2006), and Howard Shore's The Fly (2008). Having never retired, he died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 51.


Kitale massacre

The Kitale massacre was a mass murder that occurred at a farm near Kitale, Kenya Colony on 12 May 1929, when a native named Mogo killed twelve people and wounded another with a spear. The perpetrator was subsequently arrested and sentenced to death.

Massacre

For six years Mogo, a native Sebei, had worked as a squatter on a farm about six miles from Kitale that was owned by a European named Weller. When other workers at the farm raised allegations against him that he was a wizard and used black magic, Mr. Weller refused to renew his contract when it ran out on 11 May 1929, and ordered him to leave the farm.

Mogo went to his hut and stayed there, brooding, until the afternoon of 12 May, when he seized a spear and killed his wife and baby. He then went to the hut of a man with whom he had a quarrel previously, killed the man and grievously injured another native who was trying to apprehend him.

Mogo next proceeded to his daughter's hut with the intent of killing her, fatally stabbing on his way an old woman carrying wood and entering another hut where he murdered two women and two children. Arriving at his daughter's hut he found her absent, and while searching for her in the surrounding area he attacked a group of men herding cattle. Eventually Mogo located his daughter, who was herding goats, and chased her into a forest, where he killed her.

Mr. Weller was alerted early on and went to the scene of the murders. He armed two natives on the farm with rifles and ordered them as well as his spear armed Maasai herdsmen to stop the murderer, while he would go to alert police and bring a doctor, but they were too afraid to engage Mogo because of his supposed supernatural powers.

When Mr. Weller returned with police they scoured the area until they found Mogo, who was preparing his livestock to move off the farm. He willingly led police to the spots where he had murdered his victims, six women, three men, and three children, demanded collecting his due wages, and was then taken to prison.


Kitale massacre

During his trial Mogo admitted to having committed the murders and tried to justify them by showing that others had called him a wizard and that his wife had refused him food and intercourse. He was declared sane, found guilty of the murder of one of his victims, a woman named Kasenwa, and sentenced to death by hanging. His appeal at the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa was dismissed.


Cock-a-Doodle Doo

Cock-a-Doodle Doo is a 1939 picture book by Berta and Elmer Hader. The story is about a rooster who has been raised by ducks and decides to try and find others like him. The book was a recipient of a 1940 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations.


Adetus obliquatus

Adetus obliquatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1948.


Gub (Kinawley)

Gub (Irish derived place name Gob, meaning 'The Headland') is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

Geography

Gub is bounded on the west by Dunglave, Gortmore, Gortnaleg and Moherreagh townlands and on the east by Cullion (Kinawley) and Finaghoo townlands. Its chief geographical features are mountain streams; forestry plantations; a spring well and dug wells. Finaghoo is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 158 statute acres.

History

Up until the 19th century, Gub formed part of Dunglave townland and was known as 'Upper Dunglave', so its history is the same as Dunglave until then.

The Tithe Applotment Books 1834 spell the name as Gubb or Upper Dungleave.


Gub (Kinawley)

On 23 March 1850 The Incumbered Estates Commission sold part of the Hassard estate, including Gub, on 29 April 1853 as follows-Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, Notice to Claimants and Incumbrancers. In the Matter of the Estate of Francis Hassard, of Rockwood, in the County of Cavan, Owner, ex-parte William Thompson, Petitioner, Whereas, by an absolute Order, bearing date of the 23rd day of November, 1849, it was ordered, that the Lands of Rockwood, otherwise Tiercahan, situate in the Barony of Tullaha and County of Cavan; Gortnaleg, Upper and Lower, situate in same barony and county; Newtown, formerly part of Tiercahan, above-mentioned; Dunglave; Tonyquin; Gortmore; Gub, also called Gub Wallace; Maugherea, otherwise Moherre, otherwise Moherra; Finahoo; Cullion, otherwise Tawneanagra; All situate in the Barony of Tullaha and County of Cavan, should be sold for the purpose of discharging the incumbrances thereon. Now, all Persons claiming Estates or Interests on the said Premises, who may object to such Order are hereby informed that the Commissioners will hear any applications which any other person may desire to bring before them, on Notice, to be served at the Office, 14 Henrietta-Street, Dublin, within One Calendar Month from the date hereof. And all Persons claiming Charges or Incumbrances on the said Premises, or any part thereof, are required to lodge a brief statement of the Particulars thereof at the said Office, within two Calendar Months from the date hereof, and also to send their respective Addresses, in order that they may receive notice at what time and in what manner their claims should be established. Dated this 23rd day of March, 1850. S.Woulfe Flanagan, Secretary John Collum, Solicitor for the Petitioner, having the Carriage of the Sale--Offices, 70, Talbot-street. Dublin and Enniskillen.


Gub (Kinawley)

The Incumbered Estates Commission sold part of the Hassard estate, including Gub, on 29 April 1853 as follows- Final notice to Claimants. Incumbered Estates Commission. In the Matter of the estate of Francis Hassard, Esquire, Owner, Ex-parte Adam Thompson, Executor of William Thompson, Petitioner. Take Notice, that the Commissioners have Sold the Lands of Rockwood, otherwise Tiercahan (Lower), Tircahan (Upper), Gertaleg (Upper), Dunglave (part of), Tonyquin, Newtown, Gortmore, Cullion, otherwise Tawneanagra, Gub or Gub Wallace, Finagho, or Finahoo, and Magherea otherwise Mohers, situate in the Barony


Gub (Kinawley)

in the Barony of Tullyhaw, and County of Cavan, And the Draft Schedule of Incumbrances being lodged in the Office of the General Clerk, if any person have a claim not therein inserted, or any objection to said Schedule, particularly in respect of the Deeds mentioned in the Schedule hereto, or any lien on the purchase money, a statement, duly verified, of the particulars of such claim, objection, or lien, must be lodged by such person in said Office, on or before the Fourteenth day of June next, and on the following Monday at the Hour of eleven


Gub (Kinawley)

Hour of eleven o'Clock A.M., Mountifort Lougfield, L.L.D., one of the Commissioners, will give directions for the final settlement of said Schedule. And you are to take notice, that, within the time aforesaid, any person may file an objection to any demand reported to you in the Draft Schedule. Schedule referred to by the foregoing notice: -- Deed dated 2nd June, 1759, being a Mortgage For £1500 by John Enery to William Crookshank. Deed dated 7th May, 1760, being an annuity granted to one Francis Enery, until the consideration money, £2000, paid off.


Gub (Kinawley)

paid off. Deed dated 1st October, 1763, whereby a term of years was created to raise £3,000, which was subsequently appointed to one Catherine Enery. Deed dated 21st December, 1771, being a Mortgage for £1,975 16s., by John Enery to George Tandy. Dated 29th day of April, 1853 Henry Carey, Secretary. {seal} John Collum, Solicitor, having carriage of the proceedings, 70, Talbot-street, Dublin.


Gub (Kinawley)

Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists nine landholders in the townland.

The landlord of Gub in the 1850s was Robert Hutton.

Census

Year  Population  Males  Females  Total Houses  Uninhabited
1841  32          21     11       5             0
1851  58          30     28       6             0
1861  51          26     25       7             0
1871  25          15     10       4             0
1881  24          12     12       4             0
1891  24          11     13       4             0

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there were six families listed in the townland.

In the 1911 census of Ireland, there were seven families listed in the townland.

Antiquities

Stone bridges over the streams

  * The IreAtlas Townland Data Base


Eisenstein reciprocity

In algebraic number theory Eisenstein's reciprocity law is a reciprocity law that extends the law of quadratic reciprocity and the cubic reciprocity law to residues of higher powers. It is one of the earliest and simplest of the higher reciprocity laws, and is a consequence of several later and stronger reciprocity laws such as the Artin reciprocity law. It was introduced by Eisenstein (1850), though Jacobi had previously announced (without proof) a similar result for the special cases of 5th, 8th and 12th powers in 1839.

Background and notation

Let [m>1] be an integer, and let [{\mathcal {O}}_{m}] be the ring of integers of the m-th cyclotomic field [{\mathbb {Q}}(\zeta _{m}),] where [\zeta _{m}=e^{{2\pi i{\frac {1}{m}}}}] is a primitive m-th root of unity.

The numbers [\zeta _{m},\zeta _{m}^{2},\dots \zeta _{m}^{m}=1] are units in [{\mathcal {O}}_{m}.] (There are other units as well.)

Primary numbers

A number [\alpha \in {\mathcal {O}}_{m}] is called primaryunit, is relatively prime to [m], and is congruent to a rational (i.e. in [\mathbb {Z} ]) integer [{\pmod {(1-\zeta _{m})^{2}}}.]

The following lemma[{\mathcal {O}}_{m}] are analogous to positive integers in [\mathbb {Z} .]

Suppose that [\alpha ,\beta \in {\mathcal {O}}_{m}] and that both [\alpha ] and [\beta ] are relatively prime to [m.] Then


Eisenstein reciprocity

* There is an integer [c] making [\zeta _{m}^{c}\alpha ] primary. This integer is unique [{\pmod {m}}.]
  * if [\alpha ] and [\beta ] are primary then [\alpha \pm \beta ] is primary, provided that [\alpha \pm \beta ] is coprime with [m].
  * if [\alpha ] and [\beta ] are primary then [\alpha\beta] is primary.
  * [\alpha ^{m}] is primary.

The significance of [1-\zeta _{m}] which appears in the definition is most easily seen when [m=l] is a prime. In that case [l=(1-\zeta _{l})(1-\zeta _{l}^{2})\dots (1-\zeta _{l}^{{l-1}}).] Furthermore, the prime ideal [(l)] of [\mathbb {Z} ] is totally ramified in [{\mathbb {Q}}(\zeta _{l})]

[(l)=(1-\zeta _{l})^{{l-1}},]

and the ideal [(1-\zeta _{l})] is prime of degree 1.

m-th power residue symbol

Main article: Power residue symbol

For [\alpha ,\beta \in {\mathcal {O}}_{m},] the m-th power residue symbol for [{\mathcal {O}}_{m}] is either zero or an m-th root of unity:

[\left({\frac {\alpha }{\beta }}\right)_{m}={\begin{cases}\zeta {\mbox{ where }}\zeta ^{m}=1&{\mbox{ if }}\alpha {\mbox{ and }}\beta {\mbox{ are relatively prime}}\\0&{\mbox{ otherwise}}.\\\end{cases}}]


Eisenstein reciprocity

It is the m-th power version of the classical (quadratic, m = 2) Jacobi symbol (assuming [\alpha ] and [\beta ] are relatively prime):

  * If [\eta \in {\mathcal {O}}_{m}] and [\alpha \equiv \eta ^{m}{\pmod {\beta }}] then [\left({\frac {\alpha }{\beta }}\right)_{m}=1.]
  * If [\left({\frac {\alpha }{\beta }}\right)_{m}\neq 1] then [\alpha ] is not an m-th power [{\pmod {\beta }}.]
  * If [\left({\frac {\alpha }{\beta }}\right)_{m}=1] then [\alpha ] may or may not be an m-th power [{\pmod {\beta }}.]

Statement of the theorem

Let [m\in {\mathbb {Z}}] be an odd prime and [a\in {\mathbb {Z}}] an integer relatively prime to [m.] Then

First supplement

[\left({\frac {\zeta _{m}}{a}}\right)_{m}=\zeta _{m}^{{{\frac {a^{{m-1}}-1}{m}}}}.]

Second supplement

[{\displaystyle \left({\frac {1-\zeta _{m}}{a}}\right)_{m}=\left({\frac {\zeta _{m}}{a}}\right)_{m}^{\frac {m+1}{2}}.}]

Eisenstein reciprocity

Let [\alpha \in {\mathcal {O}}_{m}] be primary (and therefore relatively prime to [m]), and assume that [\alpha ] is also relatively prime to [a]. Then


Eisenstein reciprocity

[\left({\frac {\alpha }{a}}\right)_{m}=\left({\frac {a}{\alpha }}\right)_{m}.]

Proof

The theorem is a consequence of the Stickelberger relation.

Weil (1975) gives a historical discussion of some early reciprocity laws, including a proof of Eisenstein's law using Gauss and Jacobi sums that is based on Eisenstein's original proof.

Generalization

See also: Artin reciprocity

In 1922 Takagi proved that if [K\supset {\mathbb {Q}}(\zeta _{l})] is an arbitrary algebraic number field containing the [l]-th roots of unity for a prime [l], then Eisenstein's law for [l]-th powers holds in [K.]

Applications

First case of Fermat's Last Theorem

Assume that [p] is an odd prime, that [x^{p}+y^{p}+z^{p}=0\;\;] for pairwise relatively prime integers (i.e. in [\mathbb {Z} ] ) [x,y,z] and that [p\nmid xyz.\;\;]

This is the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem. (The second case is when [p\mid xyz.\;]) Eisenstein reciprocity can be used to prove the following theorems

(Wieferich 1909) [2^{{p-1}}\equiv 1{\pmod {p^{2}}}.\;\;]

The only primes below 6.7×1015 that satisfy this are 1093 and 3511. See Wieferich primes for details and current records.

(Mirimanoff 1911) [3^{{p-1}}\equiv 1{\pmod {p^{2}}}.]


Eisenstein reciprocity

Analogous results are true for all primes ≤ 113, but the proof does not use Eisenstein's law. See Wieferich prime#Connection with Fermat's Last Theorem.

(Furtwängler 1912) [r\mid x,\;\;\;r^{{p-1}}\equiv 1{\pmod {p^{2}}}.]

(Furtwängler 1912) [r\mid (x-y),\;\;\;r^{{p-1}}\equiv 1{\pmod {p^{2}}}.]

(Vandiver) [p>3,] then [x^{p}\equiv x,\;y^{p}\equiv y] and [z^{p}\equiv z{\pmod {p^{3}}}.]

Powers mod most primes

Eisenstein's law can be used to prove the following theorem (Trost, Ankeny, Rogers). Suppose [a\in {\mathbb {Z}}] and that [l\nmid a] where [l] is an odd prime. If [x^{l}\equiv a{\pmod {p}}] is solvable for all but finitely many primes [p] then [a=b^{l}.]