Jens Staubrand

Jens Staubrand (born 28 August 1957) is a Danish freelance journalist, author and philosopher (in Danish: Mag.art). Staubrand gained a degree in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen in 1987, with a thesis about Søren Kierkegaard and Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. He has written books and articles in the field of culture and art, and a number of cultural productions. Staubrand is currently head of Stauer Publishing & Agency.

Bibliography

Books
H.C. ANDERSEN Kun en spillemand, ved Jens Staubrand. .[H.C. ANDERSEN Only a fiddler, by Jens Staubrand - the book is ind Danish].
 SØREN KIERKEGAARD Om H.C. Andersens Kun en Spillemand, ved Jens Staubrand. .[SØREN KIERKEGAARD About H.C. Andersens Only a fiddler, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish]
 SØREN KIERKEGAARD Om min forfatter-virksomhed, Synspunktet for min forfatter-virksomhed, Den enkelte, to 'noter' vedrørende min forfatter-virksomhed, ved Jens Staubrand. . [SØREN KIERKEGAARD About my author-business, The viewpoint of my author-business, The individual, two 'notes' about my author-business, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish].
H. C. ANDERSEN Levnedsbog, ved Jens Staubrand. . [H. C. ANDERSEN Levnedsbog (autobiography), by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish].
 SØREN KIERKEGAARD Sygdommen til døden, ved Jens Staubrand. . [SØREN KIERKEGAARD Despair is the sickness unto death, by Jens Staubrand - the books is in Danish].
 SØREN KIERKEGAARD Indøvelse i kristendom, ved Jens Staubrand. . [SØREN KIERKEGAARD Practice in Christianity, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish.]
 H.C. Andersen: Lykke-Peer, ved Jens Staubrand.. [H.C. ANDERSEN Lucky Peer, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish]
 Søren Kierkegaard: Efterskrift til de filosofiske smuler, ved Jens Staubrand  [Postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs, by Jens Staubrand - the books is in Danish]
 Søren Kierkegaard: Abraham's frygt og bæven, ved Jens Staubrand  [Søren Kierkegaard: Abraham's fear and trembling, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 Søren Kierkegaard: Angst, ved Jens Staubrand  [Søren Kierkegaard: [Søren Kierkegaard: Anxiety, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish]
  Jens STAUBRAND: Søren Kierkegaard’s kamp for livet på Frederiks Hospital i København | Søren Kierkegaard's struggle to live at Frederiks Hospital in Copenhagen.  København 2014. . Bogen er på dansk og engelsk | The books is in Danish and English.
 Søren Kierkegaard: Filosofiske smuler eller en smule filosofi, ved Jens Staubrand. København 2014. . [Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical crumbs or a bit of philosophy, by Jens Staubrand]
 KIERKEGAARD Mozarts Figaros Bryllup, Tryllefløjten og Don Juan, ved Jens Staubrand. København 2014. . [KIERKEGAARD Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute,  and Don Giovanni, by Jens Staubrand -  the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Aforismer, Essay om kedsomhed, Essay om sorg hos tre kvinder , ved Jens Staubrand. København 2014. . [KIERKEGAARD Aphorisms, Essay on boredom, Essay on the mourning of three women, by Jens Staubrand - the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD I vinen er sandhed, ved Jens Staubrand  [KIERKEGAARD In wine is the truth, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Gentagelsen-Gentagelsen, ved Jens Staubrand  [KIERKEGAARD Repetition-Repetition, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Kærlighedens Gerninger, ved Jens Staubrand. København 2013. . [KIERKEGAARD Works of Love, by Jens Staubrand – the books is in Danish]
 KIEREGAARD Dagbog om forførelsen af Cordelia Wahl, ved Jens Staubrand, København 2013. . [KIERKEGAARD Diary of seduction of Cordelia Wahl, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 KIEREGAARD Dagbog om forførelsen af Cordelia Wahl, ved Jens Staubrand, København 2013. . [KIERKEGAARD Diary of seduction of Cordelia Wahl, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Min Regine! Søren Kierkegaard og Regine Olsen – en kærlighedshistorie, ved Jens Staubrand. København 2012.  [KIERKEGAARD My Regine! Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen – a love story, by Jens Staubrand – the book is in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Gift dig, gift dig ikke, du vil fortryde begge dele, og andre korte tankevækkende tekster , ved Jens Staubrand. København 2012. [KIERKEGAARD Marry, marry not, and other short thought-provoking texts, by Jens Staubrand – the books is only in Danish]
  KIERKEGAARD Breve og Notater fra Berlin , ved Jens Staubrand, København 2012. [KIERKEGAARD Letters and notes from Berlin - the book is only in Danish]
 KIERKEGAARD Den første Kærlighed og andre tekster om drama, ved Jens Staubrand  [KIERKEGAARD The first Love and other tekst on drama ], 2010. The book is in Danish.
 Søren Kierkegaard’s Illness and Death , 2009. In English and Danish.
 KIERKEGAARD International Bibliography Music Works and Plays. New edition, 2009. In English and Danish.
 ASGER JORN - On the author ASGER JORN and his five books from the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism and INDEX to ASGER JORN’S five books from the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism , 2009. In English and Danish.
 KIERKEGAARD Hør, hør, hør Mozarts Don Juan, ved Jens Staubrand  [KIERKEGAARD Listen. listen, listen to Mozart’s Don Giovann], 2009. The book is in Danish.
 KIERKEGAARD Johannes Forførerens Dagbog, ved Jens Staubrand  [KIERKEGAARD Johannes the Seducer’s Diary], 2009. The book is in Danish.
 KIERKEGAARD  I vinen er sandhed, ved Jens Staubrand  [In wine there is the truth], 2009. The book is in Danish.
 Søren Kierkegaard - International bibliography: music works & plays based on words by Søren Kierkegaard , 1998.
 ASGER JORN aforismer og andre korte tekststykker, ved Jens Staubrand '' [Asger Jorn Aphorisms and Other Short Passages], 1995. The book is in Danish.

Lyrics
 Kierkegaard-lyric: ” Vor Gud, vor frelser ” [Our God, our Saviour], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” Edifying Discourses ” . Music by Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, for soprano, flute, accordion, guitar and cello, 2002. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyrics: ” Til tider er jeg stille ” [Sometimes am I guiet], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” Repetition ”. Music Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, for soprano, flute, accordion, guitar and cello of, 2002. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyrics: ” Når foråret spirer ” [When spring sprouts, selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” Stages on Life's Way ” . Music by Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen, for soprano, flute, accordion, guitar and cello, 2002. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyric: ” Den lidendes Mund ” [The Foot sufferers], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” Repetition ” . Music by Bent Lorentzen, for soprano, cello, flute, accordion and guitar, 2000. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyrics: ” Forbandet være du ” [Cursed be you], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” Either / Or ”. Music by Lars Graugaard, for soprano and cello, 2000. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyrics: ” Min sjæl er spændt som en bue ”  [My soul is tense as a bow], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's  ” The Seducer’s Diary ” . Music by Sven Erik Werner, for soprano, cello, guitar and flute, 1997. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Kierkegaard-lyrics: ” Når bølgerne vugger ” [When the waves cradles], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Soren Kierkegaard's ” The Seducer’s Diary ” . Music by John Frandsen, for soprano, cello, flute and accordion, 1997. The lyric is only in Danish.
 Asger Jorn-lyrics: ” Det banale ” [The banal], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Asger Jorn ” Order of Nature ”, ” Helhesten ” and ” Luck and Chance ” . Music by Niels Viggo Bentzon, for soprano and cello, 1995.
 Kierkegaard, lyrics: ” Johannes Forføreren ” [Johannes the Seducer], selected and prepared texts by Jens Staubrand from Kierkegaard's ” The Seducer’s Diary ” . Music by Niels Viggo Bentzon, for mixed choir, reciter and orchestra, 1990. The lyric is only in Danish.

Other
 Curator of the exhibition 'The author Asger Jorn'; editor and design of the exhibition program and poster, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, autumn 1992.
 Dramatized Søren Kierkegaard's Johannes Seducer's Diary for theatrical use. Has been performed in Denmark and a number of European cities (on countries' languages) : Paris and Rambouillet, Berlin, Oslo, London, Athens, Riga and Stockholm. Om CD in Danish and Greek.
 Dramatized Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen's love story to theatrical use. Has been performed in Denmark.
 The producer of CDs: Søren Kierkegaard Set to Music, Kierkegaard The Seduceres Diary  with music by Sofia Gubaidulina (in Danish) and Kierkegaard The Seduceres Diary  with music by Mozart (in Greek).

References

External links
 Publishing & Agency''
 Royal Library in Denmark. Jens Staubrand

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Gary Hargis

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Gary Lynn Hargis (born November 2, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball player who played in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979. He made his lone appearance as a pinch runner in an extra-innings game on the next-to-last day of the season.

See also
Cup of coffee
Phantom ballplayer

References

Further reading

External links
, or Retrosheet, or Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)

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AWQAF Africa

AWQAF Africa (also known or referred to as AWQAF or The Awqaf) serves all countries of Africa: South, North, West, East, and other territorial geography of the continent including its islands in the Indian and Atlantic oceans and Mediterranean Sea, as well as the West Indies.  Awqaf Africa, from time to time, extends its works to all Muslims outside the continent - especially in the Muslim World.  Awqaf Africa carries out its projects in all parts of the world globalizing, as necessary, in the cause of One Human Race under the banner of Islam.

Origin
Awqaf Africa was founded, while studying Postgraduate Degrees in Damascus early 1990s by Sheikh Abu-Abdullah Adelabu, PhD (Damas), a West African Muslim scholar and cleric of Nigerian origin who is the international organization's first al Amir (i.e., president).

Nature and Activities
Awqaf Africa is an international organization which is incorporated in its structure with African Union Muslim working to relieve human suffering amongst the Muslims of Africa - in particular and as a primary objective - and around the world - as necessary.  The aim is projected for all nations of the continent, especially, their Muslim societies where each national society effectuates programmes of Awqaf Africa.  Relief, human dignity, and spiritual uplift remain main goals of the international body. Through education at its Awqaf Africa Muslim Open College in London, the organization seeks the causes of suffering, poverty, and Islamophobia and tries to eliminate them under the amiable banner of Islam.

Education
The organization says it projected the Open College with the aim of providing, particularly, Muslims of African origins with studies and qualifications that enable them to serve themselves and their Muslim communities.  Awqaf Africa's college offers its people an alternative means of learning with maximum flexibility, in order that they can build a program of studies that fits both their personal and community needs and adapt accordingly. Awqaf Africa gives priority to those who serve or intend to serve the Muslim communities through teachings and preachings or administration and career development.  Projects supported by Awqaf Africa include the Muslim portals EsinIslam.com and IslamAfrica.com.

Status
Awqaf Africa is an independent establishment with a firm principle to stay neutral and distance itself from exploitations by politicians, lobbies from prominent business, or affiliations with military struggles.  Awqaf Africa maintains Jihad or Struggling For The Cause of Islam is a faith as well as a duty, and therefore does not champion any struggling other than that of Islam.

References

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Evlagh More

Evlagh More (Irish derived place name, Aibhleach Mór meaning 'The Big Place of Fires' (possibly from lime-burning).) is a townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland.

Geography

Evlagh More is bounded on the west by Evlagh Beg townland, on the east by Aghnacreevy and Drumminnion townlands, on the south by Drumlarah townland and on the north by Cornacrum townland. Its chief geographical features are the Rag River, small streams and forestry plantations. Evlagh More is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 139 acres.

History

The 1609 Plantation of Ulster Baronial map depicts the townland as Eyulagh. A Plantation of Ulster grant dated 1611 spells the name as Evelagh. The 1641 Depositions spell the name as Leuella. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the townland as Evlaghmore. The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Euelaghmore. William Petty's map of 1685 depicts it as Erelaghmore.

From medieval times up to the early 1600s, the land belonged to the McKiernan Clan.

In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 16 August 1611, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, Evelagh to Thomas Jones-Evelagh to Thomas Johnes, gentleman. At Cavan, on 26 July 1642, the aforesaid Thomas Jones and his son William Jones gave the names of rebel leaders in the Cavan Irish Rebellion of 1641, including, inter alia, Laighlen mac Torlough McKernan of Leuella, James mac Laighlen McKernan of same and Hugh mac Laighlen McKernan of same. They also stated- . In a further deposition dated 26 July 1642, the said Thomas Jones of Drumminnion, Kildallan parish stated- .

After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 concluded, the 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists Evlaghmore as belonging to James Thornton. A confirming grant dated 30 January 1668 from King Charles II of England to James Thornton included 1 ½ polls containing 62 acres 1 rood and 8 perches in Evallaghmore.

A marriage settlement dated 7 March 1750 relates to the Faris family with lands in Evlaghmore etc.

In the Cavan Poll Book of 1761, there was one person registered to vote in Evelagh More in the Irish general election, 1761 - George Fairis of Mackan townland. He was entitled to cast two votes. The four election candidates were Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont and  Lord Newtownbutler (later Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough), both of whom were then elected Member of Parliament for Cavan County. The losing candidates were George Montgomery (MP) of Ballyconnell and Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham. Absence from the poll book either meant a resident did not vote or more likely was not a freeholder entitled to vote, which would mean most of the inhabitants of Evlagh More.

The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as Eulagh-more.

The Tithe Applotment Books 1823-1837 list seven tithepayers in the townland.

In 1832 one person in Evelaghmore was registered as a keeper of weapons- Alexander Bothwell who had one sword.

The Evlagh More Valuation Office books are available for May 1838.

On 13 November 1851 the following notice was published- INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT - Thursday, 13th Nov. - The Chief Commissioner sat in the Court, Henrietta-street, Dublin, to-day, for the purpose of selling incumbered property. In the matter of the estates of Williams James Thomas GALBRAITH, owner. Ex parte Morgan CROFTON, petitioner. Lot 1, the house and demesne of Macken, and Drumbinnis, Keilagh, Druminisdill, Drumcartagh, and Drumcannon, county of Cavan, containing £74. 0r. 15p. state measure, held in fee farm, producing a gross annual rental of £484, 11s, 10d., subject to two fee farm rents, one of £131, 18s. 6d., and the other of £62, 6s. 2d. The biddings proceeded from £4000 to £5390, at which sum Mrs. Elizabeth GALBRAITH became the purchaser. Lot 2, the fee simple lands of EVLAGHMORE, containing 140s. 1. 39p. statute measure, and producing an annual rental of £76, 11s, 8d. The first offer was £700., and Mr. W. Galbraith (the owner) was the purchaser for £1000.

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

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there was one family listed in the townland.

In the 1911 census of Ireland, there was one family listed in the townland.

Antiquities

 A lime kiln

References

External links
 The IreAtlas Townland Data Base

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Coroplast (artisan)

A coroplast (or koroplast) was a modeler of terracotta figurines in Greek antiquity.

Coroplastic studies, the study of ancient terracotta figurines, involves the analysis of the types and sources of clays used, the methods of production employed, the chronology, context, distribution and display of the objects, and their social, political, economic, sacred and historical meaning.

A Coroplast's Dump was located at an archaeological site on the north slope of the Areopagus.

See also

 Greek terracotta figurines

References

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Apparatjik

Apparatjik ( ) are a multi-national band formed in 2008. The band is a supergroup that consists of bassist Guy Berryman from Coldplay, guitarist/keyboardist Magne Furuholmen from A-ha, singer/guitarist Jonas Bjerre of Mew and drummer/producer Martin Terefe. The band's name literal translation is "agent of the apparatus". Apparatjik is based on apparatchik, which is a word of Russian origin and is used to describe "an official or bureaucrat in any organization" but has in the past had other meanings, including "Communist agent or spy".

History
The band first came together for a charity album for Survival International called Songs for Survival. The album was produced by Martin Terefe and Molly Oldfield, and the band produced the first track on the album, "Ferreting". This track was used as the theme music for the Amazon series on BBC 2. Subsequently they continued to work together in Magne Furuholmen's studio in Norway, and created more tracks that were periodically made available on their Myspace and YouTube pages. On 30 November, they released the first official track, "Electric Eye", from their then-upcoming album through their website.

Apparatjik's first live performance was at the eleventh edition of club transmediale, an annual festival in Berlin, which took place from 28 January to 7 February 2010. This gig consisted of the band performing inside a specially constructed cube at the WMF on 1 February 2010. The same day saw the release of their debut album, titled We Are Here, for digital download via their official website. Their first public performances took place at the Deutsche Bank towers in Frankfurt from 2–4 March 2011. They have since released further singles, their 4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead extended-play, and on 15 June 2010 they re-released We Are Here on iTunes in standard and deluxe versions.

After playing at the Flø festival in Norway in June, on 23 September 2010, the band played their third concert in London. The cube was transported to the red summer pavilion, designed by Jean Nouvel, when Molly Oldfield brought the group to the Serpentine Galleries, in Hyde Park, London. They were invited by the Serpentine Gallery to play at the Future Contemporaries party.

Apparatjik's first song to be played on BBC Radio 1 was a radio edit of "Datascroller", which aired on 14 June 2010. In November 2010, Magne Furuholmen revealed the promise for "a few very exciting things with [Apparatjik] in 2011" during a BBC Radio 2 interview.

Apparatjik launched a new project called agreeneryouniverse on 11 February 2011. This project invites people across the world to plant a tree, make a picture and upload it to their website. The first 1,000 people in doing so would receive new music as a gift. A download-only single was released on 28 March 2011 called "Combat Disco Music".

On 11 November 2011, Apparatjik released their second album, Square Peg In A Round Hole, as a free iPad application. Four days later it was given away as a gift as part of the agreeneryouniverse project.

The band collaborated with Canadian singer Lowell, who drummer and producer Martin Terefe had been working with beforehand, and released the extended play If You Can, Solve This Jumble (stylized as Apparatjik Presents Lowell: if YOu_ _ caN, 5olve thi5 jumble?)  on 29 October 2012. Each track in the extended play features lead vocals by Lowell.

On 1 February 2020, Apparatjik uploaded a video titled "20 3 20" on their social media, containing a short music clip. It was later posted by the members on their social media accounts. Magne Furuholmen elaborated on the clip on his Instagram account, writing that "the entire song will be out soon,  (on an app most likely)" and that it was part of an ongoing Julia Pastrana project.

Group members
Jonas Bjerre – lead vocals, guitar
Magne Furuholmen – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Guy Berryman – vocals, bass
Martin Terefe – drums, vocals

Discography

Albums
 We Are Here (Released: 1 February 2010)
 Square Peg in a Round Hole (Released: 19 March 2012)

Extended plays
 4 Can Keep a Secret If 3 of Them Are Dead (Released: 21 May 2010)
 If You Can, Solve This Jumble (with Lowell) (Released: 29 October 2012)

Singles

Music videos

References

External links
Official Apparatjik Website
Eye On Committee Website
Official Apparatjik YouTube Page
Apparatchick: Unofficial Apparatjik Fan Site
RunOutGrooves: Apparatjik (discography for collectors)

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Grealish

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

 Jack Grealish (born 1995), footballer who plays for Aston Villa
 Jack Grealish (hurler) , Irish hurler
 Noel Grealish (born 1965), Irish politician
 Tony Grealish (1956–2013), English-born Irish footballer


Emilia Lanier

Emilia Lanier (also spelt Aemilia or Amelia Lanyer, 1569–1645), née Bassano, was an English poet in the early modern era. She was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet, through a single volume of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611).

Reputation
Born Aemilia Bassano, Lanier was a member of the minor gentry through her father's appointment as a royal musician. She was further educated in the household of Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent. After her parents' death, Lanier was the mistress of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, first cousin of Elizabeth I of England. In 1592, she became pregnant by Carey and was subsequently married to court musician Alfonso Lanier, her cousin. She had two children, but only one survived into adulthood.

Lanier was largely forgotten for centuries, but scholarly study of her work has increased dramatically in recent decades. She is now remembered for contributing to English literature through her publishing of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and is considered the first professional female poet in the English language. Indeed she is known as one of England's first feminist writers in any form, and potentially as the "dark lady" of Shakespearean myth.

Biography
Emilia Lanier's life is well documented in her letters, poetry, medical records, legal records, and through sources about the social contexts in which she lived. Researchers have used entries in astrologer Dr Simon Forman's (1552–1611) professional diary, the first casebook kept by an English medical practitioner, which logs interactions with Lanier. She visited Forman many times during 1597 for consultations that incorporated astrological readings, as was usual for the period. The evidence from Forman is incomplete and sometimes difficult to read (often literally, as Forman's poor penmanship has caused critical problems in past scholarship). However, Forman's notes show that she was an ambitious woman, who aspired to rise into the gentry class.

Early life

Church records show that Lanier was baptised Aemilia Bassano at the parish church of St Botolph, Bishopsgate, on 27 January 1569. Her father, Baptiste Bassano, was a Venetian-born musician at the court of Elizabeth I. Her mother was Margret Johnson (born c. 1545–1550), possibly the aunt of court composer Robert Johnson. Lanier had a sister, Angela Bassano, who married Joseph Hollande in 1576, and two brothers, Lewes and Phillip, both of whom died before adulthood. It has been suggested that Lanier's family was Jewish or of partly Jewish descent, but this is disputed. Susanne Woods calls the evidence for it "circumstantial but cumulatively possible". Leeds Barroll says Lanier was "probably a Jew", her baptism being "part of the vexed context of Jewish assimilation in Tudor England."

Baptiste Bassano died on 11 April 1576, when Emilia was seven years old. His will instructed his wife that he had left young Emilia a dowry of £100, to be given to her when she turned 21 or on the day of her wedding, whichever came first. Forman's records indicate that Bassano's fortune might have waned before he died, which caused considerable unhappiness.

Forman's records also indicate that after the death of her father, Lanier went to live with Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent. Some scholars question whether Lanier went to serve Bertie or be fostered by her, but there is no conclusive evidence to confirm either possibility. It was in Bertie's house that Lanier was given a humanist education and learnt Latin. Bertie greatly valued and emphasized the importance of young girls receiving the same level of education as young men. This decision probably influenced Lanier and her decision to publish her writings. After living with Bertie, Lanier went to live with Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, and Margaret's daughter, Lady Anne Clifford. Dedications in Lanier's own poetry seem to confirm this information.

Lanier's mother died when Lanier was eighteen. Church records show that Johnson was buried in Bishopsgate on 7 July 1587.

Adulthood

Not long after her mother's death, Lanier became the mistress of the Tudor courtier and cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon. At the time of their affair, Lord Hunsdon was Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain and a patron of the arts and theatre. Carey was 45 years older than Lanier, and records indicate that Carey gave her a pension of £40 a year. Records indicate that Lanier appeared to have enjoyed her time as Carey's mistress. An entry from Forman's diary reads, "[Lanier] hath bin married 4 years/ The old Lord Chamberlain kept her longue She was maintained in great pomp ... she hath 40£ a yere & was welthy to him that married her in monie & Jewells."

In 1592, when she was 23, Lanier became pregnant with Carey's child, but he paid her off with a sum of money. Lanier was then married to her first cousin once removed, Alfonso Lanier. He was a Queen's musician, and church records show the marriage taking place in St. Botolph's church, Aldgate, on 18 October 1592.

Forman's diary entries imply that Lanier's marriage was an unhappy one. The entry also relates that Lanier was much happier as Carey's mistress than as Alfonso's bride, for "a nobleman that is ded hath Loved her well & kept her and did maintain her longe but her husband hath delte hardly with her and spent and consumed her goods and she is nowe... in debt." Another of Forman's diary entries states that Lanier told him about having several miscarriages. Lanier gave birth to a son, Henry, in 1593 (presumably named after his father, Henry Carey) and a daughter, Odillya, in 1598. Odillya died when she was ten months old and was buried at St Botolph's.

In 1611, Lanier published her volume of poetry, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Lanier, 42 years old at the time, was the first woman in England to declare herself a poet. People who read her poetry considered it radical, and many scholars today refer to its style and arguments as protofeminist.

Older years
After Alfonso's death in 1613, Lanier supported herself by running a school. She rented a house from Edward Smith to house her students, but due to disputes over the rental, was arrested on two occasions between 1617 and 1619. Parents proved unwilling to send their children to a woman with a history of arrest and Lanier's dreams of running a prosperous school were ended.

Lanier's son eventually married Joyce Mansfield in 1623; they had two children, Mary (1627) and Henry (1630). Henry senior died in October 1633. Later court documents imply that Lanier may have been providing for her two grandchildren after their father's death.

Little else is known of Lanier's life between 1619 and 1635. Court documents state that she sued her husband's brother, Clement, for money owed to her from the profits of one of her late husband's financial patents. The court ruled in Lanier's favour, requiring Clement to pay her £20. Clement could not pay her immediately, and so Lanier brought the suit back to court in 1636 and in 1638. There are no records to say whether Lanier was ever paid in full, but at the time of her death, she was described as a "pensioner", i. e. someone who has a steady income or pension.

Emilia Lanier died at the age of 76 and was buried at Clerkenwell, on 3 April 1645.

Poetry

At the age of 42, in 1611, Lanier published a collection of poetry called Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews). At this time it was still highly unusual for an Englishwoman to publish, especially in an attempt to make a living. Emilia was only the fourth woman in the British Isles to publish poetry. Hitherto, Isabella Whitney had published a 38-page pamphlet of poetry partly written by her correspondents, Anne Dowriche, who was Cornish, and Elizabeth Melville, who was Scottish. So Lanier's book is the first book of substantial, original poetry written by an Englishwoman. She wrote it in the hope of attracting a patron. It was also the first potentially feminist work published in England, as all the dedications are to women and the title poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum", about the crucifixion of Christ, is written from a woman's point of view. Her poems advocate and praise female virtue and Christian piety, but reflect a desire for an idealized, classless world.

Influences
Source analysis shows that Lanier draws on work that she mentions reading, including Edmund Spenser, Ovid, Petrarch, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Agrippa, as well as protofeminists like Veronica Franco and Christine de Pizan. Lanier makes use of two unpublished manuscripts and a published play translation by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. She also shows a knowledge of stage plays by John Lyly and Samuel Daniel. The work of Samuel Daniel informs her Masque, a theatrical form which has been identified in her letter to Mary Sidney and which resembles the Masque in The Tempest.

Poems
The title poem "Salve Deus Rex Judæorum" is prefaced by ten shorter dedicated poems, all for aristocratic women, beginning with the Queen. There is also a prose preface addressed to the reader, containing a vindication of "virtuous women" against their detractors. The title poem, a narrative work of over 200 stanzas, tells the story of Christ's passion satirically and almost entirely from the point of view of the women who surround him. The title comes from the words of mockery supposedly addressed to Jesus on the Cross. The satirical nature of the poem was first emphasized by Boyd Berry. Although the topics of virtue and religion were seen as suitable themes for women writers, Lanier's title poem has been viewed by some modern scholars as a parody of the Crucifixion. This argument is made because Lanier approaches it with imagery of the Elizabethan grotesque, found, for instance, in some Shakespeare plays. The views expressed in it have been interpreted as "independent of church tradition" and utterly heretical, though other scholars like A. L. Rowse view Lanier's conversion as genuine and her passionate devotion to Christ and to his mother as sincere. Still, comparisons have been made between Lanier's poem and religious satires that scholars have studied in Shakespearean works, including the poem The Phoenix and the Turtle and many of the plays.

In the central section of Salve Deus Lanier takes up the Querrelle des Femmes by redefining Christian doctrine of 'The Fall', and attacking Original Sin, which is the foundation of Christian theology and Pauline doctrine about women causing it. Lanier defends Eve and women in general by arguing that Eve is wrongly blamed for Original Sin and no blame attached to Adam. She argues that Adam shares the guilt, as he is shown in the Bible as being stronger than Eve, and so capable of resisting the temptation. She also defends women by noting the dedication of Christ's female followers in staying with him through the Crucifixion and first seeking him after the burial and Resurrection.

In Salve Deus, Lanier also draws attention to Pilate's wife, a minor character in the Bible, who attempts to prevent the unjust trial and crucifixion of Christ. She also notes the male apostles that forsook and even denied Christ during His Crucifixion. Lanier repeats the anti-Semitic aspects of the Gospel accounts: hostile attitudes towards the Jews for not preventing the Crucifixion – views which were the norm for her period.

There is no scholarly consensus on the religious motivation of the title poem. Some maintain it is a genuinely religious poem from a strong, female angle. Others have seen it as a piece of clever satire. Although there is no agreement on intent and motive, most scholars note the strong feminist sentiments throughout the entire Salve Deus Rex Judæorum.

Lanier's book ends with the "Description of Cookham," commemorating Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland and her daughter Lady Anne Clifford. This is the first published country-house poem in English (Ben Jonson's better known "To Penshurst" may have been written earlier but was first published in 1616.) Lanier's inspiration came from a stay at Cookham Dean, where Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, lived with her daughter Lady Anne Clifford, for whom Lanier was engaged as tutor and companion. The Clifford household possessed a significant library, some of which can be identified in the painting The Great Picture, attributed to Jan van Belcamp. As Helen Wilcox asserts, the poem is an allegory of the expulsion from Eden.

Feminist themes
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum has been viewed by many as one of the earliest feminist works in English literature. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski in an article, "Writing Women and Reading the Renaissance," actually calls Lanier the "defender of womankind". Lewalski believes Lanier initiates her ideas of the genealogy of women with the first few poems in the collection, as dedications to prominent women. This follows the idea that "virtue and learning descend from mothers to daughters".

Marie H. Loughlin continues Lewalski's argument in "'Fast ti'd unto Them in a Golden Chaine': Typology, Apocalypse, and Woman's Genealogy in Aemilia Lanier's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" by noting that the genealogy of women began with Eve. Loughlin is of the opinion that Lanier is advocating the importance of knowledge of the spiritual and the material worlds in women's connection. Lanier seems to argue that women must focus on the material world and their importance in it, to supplement their life in the spiritual world. The argument derives from Lanier's seeming desire to raise women up to the level of men.

Dark Lady theory

The Sonnets
Some have speculated that Lanier was Shakespeare's "Dark Lady". The identification first proposed by A. L. Rowse has been repeated by several authors since. The Dark Lady speculation appears in David Lasocki and Roger Prior's book The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument makers in England 1531–1665 (1995) and in Stephanie Hopkins Hughes. Although the colour of Lanier's hair is not known, records exist in which her Bassano cousins were referred to as "black", a common term at the time for brunettes or persons with Mediterranean colouring. Since she came from a family of Court musicians, she fits Shakespeare's picture of a woman playing the virginal in Sonnet 128. Shakespeare claims that the woman was "forsworn" to another in Sonnet 152, which has been speculated to refer to Lanier's relations with Shakespeare's patron, Lord Hunsdon. The theory that Lanier was the Dark Lady is doubted by other Lanier scholars such as Susanne Woods (1999). Barbara Lewalski notes that Rowse's theory has deflected attention from Lanier as a poet. However, Martin Green argued that although Rowse's argument was unfounded, he was correct in saying that Lanier is referred to in the Sonnets.

Playwrights, musicians and poets have also expressed views. The theatre historian and playwright Professor Andrew B. Harris wrote a play, The Lady Revealed, which chronicles Rowse's identification of Lanier as the "Dark Lady". After readings in London and at the Players' Club, it received a staged reading at New Dramatists in New York City on 16 March 2015. In 2005, the English conductor Peter Bassano, a descendant of Emilia, suggested she provided some of the texts for William Byrd's 1589 Songs of Sundrie Natures, dedicated to Lord Hunsdon, and that one of the songs, a setting of the translation of an Italian sonnet "Of Gold all Burnisht", may have been used by Shakespeare as the model for his parodic Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. The Irish poet Niall McDevitt also believes Lanier was the Dark Lady: "She spurned his advances somewhere along the line and he never won her back.... It's a genuine story of unrequited love."

Tony Haygarth has argued that a certain 1593 miniature portrait by Nicholas Hilliard depicts Lanier.

Plays
John Hudson points out that the names Emilia in Othello and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice coincide with mentions of a swan dying to music, which he sees as a standard Ovidian image of a great poet. He asserts that the "swan song" may be a literary device used in some classical writings to conceal the name of an author. However, the notion that a dying swan sings a melodious "swan song" was proverbial, and its application to a character need not prove the character is being presented as a poet. So the evidence remains inconclusive and perhaps coincidental.

Furthermore, Prior argues that the play Othello refers to a location in the town of Bassano, and that the title of the play may refer to the Jesuit Girolamo Otello from the town of Bassano. The character Emilia speaks some of the first feminist lines on an English stage and could thus be seen as a contemporary allegory for Emilia Lanier herself, while the musicians in both plays, Prior argues, are allegories for members of her family.

Hudson further believes that another "signature" exists in Titus Andronicus, where there are an Aemilius and a Bassianus, each holding a crown. Each mirrors the other's position at the beginning and end of the play, as rhetorical markers indicating that the two names are a pair, and book-end the bulk of the play.

In popular culture
The play Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, produced in London in 2018, is a "mock history" piece with a feminist message, in which Lanier rebukes Shakespeare for "lift[ing] her words".

See also

Lanier family tree
The Dark Lady Players

Notes

References
David Bevington, Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky (1998).
John Garrison, 'Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the Production of Possibility.' Studies in Philology, 109.3 (2012) 290-310.
Martin Green, 'Emilia Lanier IS the Dark Lady' English Studies vol. 87, No.5, October (2006), 544-576.
John Hudson, Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier: The Woman Behind Shakespeare's Plays? (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2014).
John Hudson, 'Amelia Bassano Lanier: A New Paradigm', The Oxfordian 11 (2008): 65–82.
Stephanie Hopkins Hughes, 'New Light on the Dark Lady' Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, 22 September (2000).
David Lasocki and Roger Prior, The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument makers in England 1531–1665 (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995).
Peter Matthews, Shakespeare Exhumed: The Bassano Chronicles, Stanthorpe: Bassano Publishing, 2013.
Ted Merwin, 'The Dark Lady as a Bright Literary Light' The Jewish Week, 23 March (2007) 56-7.
Giulio M. Ongaro 'New Documents on the Bassano Family' Early Music vol. 20, 3 August (1992) 409–413.
Michael Posner, 'Rethinking Shakespeare' The Queen's Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 2 (2008) 1–15.
Michael Posner, 'Unmasking Shakespeare', Reform Judaism Magazine, 2010.
Roger Prior, 'Jewish Musicians at the Tudor Court' The Musical Quarterly, vol. 69, no 2 .Spring, (1983), 253–265.
Roger Prior, 'Shakespeare's Visit to Italy', Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 9 (2008) 1–31.
Michelle Powell-Smith, 'Aemilia Lanyer: Redeeming Women Through Faith and Poetry,' 11 April 2000 on-line at Suite101.
Roger Prior 'Jewish Musicians at the Tudor Court' The Musical Quarterly, vol. 69, no 2 .Spring, (1983), 253–265.
Ruffati and Zorattini, 'La Famiglia Piva-Bassano Nei Document Degli Archevi Di Bassano Del Grappa,' Musica e Storia. 2 December 1998.
Julia Wallace, 'That's Miss Shakespeare To You' Village Voice, 28 March – 3 April (2007) pg 42.
Steve Weitzenkorn, Shakespeare's Conspirator: The Woman, The Writer, The Clues, CreateSpace, 2015.
Susanne Woods, Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. New York: Oxford University Press (1999).

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Discussion of the identification of Lanier as the Dark Lady
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2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

The Junior women's race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the L'Institut Équestre National in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 29, 2003.  Reports onf the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals,  for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

Race results

Junior women's race (6.215)

Individual

Teams

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

Participation
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See also
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 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race

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Anticla tarasia

Anticla tarasia is a moth in the Bombycidae family. It was described by Schaus in 1929. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

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Pierre van der Linden

Pierre van der Linden (born 19 February 1946) is a Dutch drummer and songwriter.

Biography
Van der Linden was influenced by his childhood hero Buddy Rich. He finds inspiration in French philosophers and classical composers of the twentieth century. For drumming, he is influenced by Tony Williams and Elvin Jones. Van der Linden practises his drumming technique each day, at least one hour on his practise pad. He avoids modern tuning and prefers to use open tuning, closer to a jazz than a rock drummer, and adopts a mix of matched grip and traditional grip. Away from music, van der Linden enjoys painting and writing poetry.

In the 1990s he joined the free jazz group Advance Warning and played on four albums: Cut the Crap, Regroovable, Hot House, and HiFi Apartment. He also recorded in a trio with organist Herbert Noord and tenor saxophonist Rinus Groeneveld, and rated the album Dare to Be Different as one that he was particularly proud to play on.

Discography
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Lewinski

Lewinski () is a surname of Polish origin. Notable people with the surname include:

 Ed Lewinski (1918–1962), American professional basketball player
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 Jorge Lewinski (1921–2008), twentieth-century Polish-British photographer and soldier
 Thomas Lewinski (–1882), nineteenth-century American architect

See also
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Further reading

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Litorisediminivivens

Litorisediminivivens is a Gram-negative and aerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Rhodobacteraceae with one known species (Litorisediminivivens gilvus).

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Z-tube

The Z-tube is an experimental apparatus for measuring the tensile strength of a liquid.

It consists of a Z-shaped tube with open ends, filled with a liquid, and set on top of a spinning table. If the tube were straight, the liquid would immediately fly out one end or the other of the tube as it began to spin. By bending the ends of the tube back towards the center of rotation, a shift of the liquid away from center will result in the water level in one end of the tube rising and thus increasing the pressure in that end of the tube, and consequently returning the liquid to the center of the tube. By measuring the rotational speed and the distance from the center of rotation to the liquid level in the bent ends of the tube, the pressure reduction inside the tube can be calculated.

Negative pressures, (i.e. less than zero absolute pressure, or in other words, tension) have been reported using water processed to remove dissolved gases. Tensile strengths up to 280 atmospheres have been reported for water in glass.

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Xudun

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Winterborne Monkton

Winterborne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies close to the A354 road between the county town Dorchester,  to the north, and the coastal resort Weymouth,  to the south. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 50.

Winterborne Monkton village consists of a few houses and a church. The hill fort of Maiden Castle stands to the northwest.

References

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Burashan

Burashan (, also Romanized as Būrāshān; also known as Borāshān,(in Turkish)) is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 124, in 35 families.

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Jeff Jordan (venture capitalist)

Jeff Jordan is an American venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz and the former President and CEO of OpenTable.

Education
Jordan graduated from Amherst College with a BA in Political Science and Psychology and received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Early career
From 2004 to 2006, Jordan was the president of PayPal. Prior to that, Jordan was senior vice president and general manager at eBay North America for five years, where he ran eBay.com and led eBay’s acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com.  Before eBay, Jordan held various executive roles at Hollywood Entertainment (CFO) and The Walt Disney Company.

Jordan was President and CEO of OpenTable from 2007 to 2011. In May 2009, OpenTable’s initial public offering raised $31.4 million, giving the company a market capitalization of $432 million. OpenTable shares rose 72 percent during its first day of trading on NASDAQ and its IPO was considered an “extremely healthy” one during the economic recession.

Jordan also serves on the board of directors for OpenTable, Wealthfront and Zoosk. In June 2017, he joined the Cadre board, a real estate investing company Andreessen Horowitz is investing in. He's also been an active investor and adviser in Silicon Valley for several years, with involvements in Pure Digital (the maker of the Flip Video camera later acquired by Cisco), Hotwire.com (acquired by Expedia), Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly) and CafePress (which went public in 2012).

Andreessen Horowitz
Jordan became Andreessen Horowitz’s fifth general partner in June 2011. In July 2011, Jordan led Airbnb’s $112 million Series B funding from a group of investors including Andreessen Horowitz; he also serves on their board. Jordan’s additional board seats on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz include Belly, Circle, Tilt.com, Fab.com, Instacart, Lookout, Twice, Walker & Co., 500px, Accolade and Pinterest. Jordan also oversees the firm’s investments in Fanatics, Julep  and zulily.

Philanthropy
In April 2012, Jordan along with Andreessen Horowitz General Partners Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, John O’Farrell, Scott Weiss, and Peter Levine pledged to give half of their lifetime income from venture capital to charity.

Personal life
Jordan married Stanford classmate Karen Shishino.

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Caroline Duffy

Caroline Duffy is a beauty queen from York who won the Miss Earth United Kingdom competition in 2008, an annual beauty pageant in the United Kingdom promoting environmental awareness.

Miss Earth England 2008
Duffy, from Penyghent Avenue in Burnholme, beat off competition from 48 other finalists to scoop first place in the English final of the planet-saving pageant. After representing the Yorkshire and the Humber region, she will represent England in the international Miss Earth final in the Philippines.

The 21-year-old, who is a member of Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature, and also has an adopted orang-utan, said she was thrilled to have won. At Saturday’s UK final in Royal Leamington, contestants had to complete various challenges before the judges, and outline their environmental credentials. Caroline’s presentations included a speech about saving the rainforest, and talks about her own work locally. For winning the UK final, she also got a crown, a custom-made designer bag from recycled car number plates complete with swarovski crystals, and £10,000 prize.

The former Fulford School student currently works as a volunteer teaching assistant at St Aelred’s RC Primary School, and as a volunteer at Low Moor community allotments with local children, helping them grow their own fruit and vegetables. Caroline was one of three York contestants who represented the Yorkshire and Humber region in Saturday’s final, with Gemma Hale, 21, and Rebecca Geldard, 20, also taking part.

Miss Earth 2008
Duffy is expected to participate in the 8th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, which will be held on November 9, 2008 in the Philippines. About 100 delegates are expected to arrive on October 19, 2008, and all of them will tour different places in Bali, Indonesia; Guam and the Philippines. The pageant will be broadcast live via ABS-CBN in the Philippines and to more than 80 countries worldwide via Star World, The Filipino Channel and other partner networks.

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Bassus of Lucera

Saint Bassus of Lucera (; c 40/50–118) was a Christian martyr and saint, and traditionally the first bishop of Lucera in Apulia, Italy. He is the patron saint of Termoli.

Legend
One of the earliest Christian communities is believed to have been established in Lucera. The legend of the saint relates that in about the year 60 Saint Peter passed through and put Bassus at the head of the nascent bishopric. Bassus was martyred under Trajan in 118.

His feast day is 5 December.

Disagreements on identity
There is some controversy regarding the identity of Bassus, in that there is potential confusion between Saint Bassus of Lucera and Saint Bassus of Nice (or Nicaea), who was also a bishop and martyr and whose feast day also falls on 5 December, although his martyrdom took place at Nice in about 250. There may also be confusion with a certain Saint Dasius of Dorostoro, also known as Bassus.

Notes

Sources
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Pseudo-monotone operator

In mathematics, a pseudo-monotone operator from a reflexive Banach space into its continuous dual space is one that is, in some sense, almost as well-behaved as a monotone operator. Many problems in the calculus of variations can be expressed using operators that are pseudo-monotone, and pseudo-monotonicity in turn implies the existence of solutions to these problems.

Definition

Let (X, || ||) be a reflexive Banach space. A map T : X → X∗ from X into its continuous dual space X∗ is said to be pseudo-monotone if T is a bounded operator (not necessarily continuous) and if whenever

(i.e. uj converges weakly to u) and

it follows that, for all v ∈ X,

Properties of pseudo-monotone operators

Using a very similar proof to that of the Browder-Minty theorem, one can show the following:

Let (X, || ||) be a real, reflexive Banach space and suppose that T : X → X∗ is bounded, coercive and pseudo-monotone. Then, for each continuous linear functional g ∈ X∗, there exists a solution u ∈ X of the equation T(u) = g.

References

  (Definition 9.56, Theorem 9.57)

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Lora Yakovleva

Lora Grigoryevna Yakovleva (or Lora Jakovleva) (; April 21, 1932, Perm) is a Russian woman International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the second ICCF Women's World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1977.

External links
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Reuben Yem

Reuben Yem (born 29 October 1997) is a professional Nigerian footballer who currently plays for Belgian club K.A.A. Gent as a defender.

Club career

AS Trenčín
Yem made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for AS Trenčín against iClinic Sereď in August 5, 2018.

References

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List of mayors of Gorizia

The Mayor of Gorizia is an elected politician who, along with the Gorizia's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Gorizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The current Mayor is Rodolfo Ziberna, a member of the centre-right party Forza Italia, who took office on 26 June 2017.

Overview
According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Gorizia is member of the City Council.

The Mayor is elected by the population of Gorizia, who also elects the members of the City Council, controlling the Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government.

Since 1994 the Mayor is elected directly by Gorizia's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Kingdom of Italy (1918–1946)
The office of Mayor of Gorizia was established in 1918 and it was elected by the City's Council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils, replacing them with an authoritarian Podestà chosen by the National Fascist Party. The office of Mayor was restored in 1945 during the Allied occupation.

Timeline

Italian Republic (since 1946)

City Council election (1948–1994)
From 1948 to 1994, the Mayor of Gorizia was elected by the City's Council.

Direct election (since 1994)
Since 1994, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Gorizia is chosen by direct election.

Timeline

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Margaret Wilson (disambiguation)

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Margaret Wilson may also refer to:
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Margaret Wilson (novelist) (1882–1973), American novelist
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944), First Lady of the United States, daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
Margaret Wilson (tennis) (fl.1930s), Australian former tennis player
Margaret Bush Wilson (1919–2009), American activist
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John I, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg

John I, Count of Sponheim (born before 1206; died 1266) was a German count. He belonged to the house of Sponheim and ruled the county of Sponheim from 1218 to 1266. He inherited the county of Sayn.

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Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is a documentary released to theaters in 2012. It consists of the original 70 minute interview that Steve Jobs gave to Robert X. Cringely in 1995 for the PBS documentary, Triumph of the Nerds.

Background

The original interview that Jobs gave to Cringely for Triumph of the Nerds lasted about 70 minutes. Of those 70 minutes, only about 10 were used in Triumph of the Nerds. When Jobs gave this interview in 1995, he was still "two years away from retaking the Chief Executive role at Apple and beginning a run that would transform the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker from loser to leader in the digital economy. At the time of the interview Jobs was one such loser himself: his company, NeXT was stumbling, and rival Bill Gates had taken Apple's ideas and used them to seize control of the personal computer industry."

According to Cringely the original D1 video tape master was lost in shipping in 1995.  When Steve Jobs died in 2011, Triumph of the Nerds director Paul Sen found in his garage a PAL VHS copy of the original unedited interview. Sen informed Cringely that he found this copy and discussed the possibility of releasing it as an independent film. Cringely then contacted Landmark Theatres co-owner Mark Cuban to see if a screening would be possible. Dubbed The Lost Interview, the 70 minute interview screened at 17 theaters around the United States and was later released on DVD in 2012.

Critical response
The Lost Interview received a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes (6 fresh reviews).  Robert Koehler of Variety describes it as Jobs at "40, and with an outlook of observing Apple from afar (he had been booted out of the company by Sculley a decade prior and had subsequently founded NeXT)." He is thus "able to bring a perspective he couldn’t have provided at a younger age. Moreover, this p.o.v. [sic] wouldn’t have been possible soon after the interview, since Jobs sold NeXT to Apple six months later and became Apple CEO a year after that." Roger Ebert gave it three stars and noted that "it's raw material for a film, in the form of Jobs speaking in close-up. It's a tribute to the singular popularity of Steve Jobs that he's probably the only talking head people would pay to watch for more than an hour."

Further reading
 Brian Caufield. "Robert X. Cringely On His 'Lost Interview' With Steve Jobs." Forbes, 11 November 2011.

See also
Triumph of the Nerds

Notes

External links
 The Lost Interview Official Website

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Mike Opat

Michael Joseph Opat (born March 25, 1961) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. He serves on the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, the governing body for the largest county in Minnesota, with more than 1.25 million residents and an annual budget of $2.4 billion. Opat represents District 1 (out of 7 districts), an area that includes more than 170,000 residents and encompasses six suburban cities: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, New Hope, Osseo, and Robbinsdale. In his time on the County Board, Opat has led, among other initiatives, policy and governance changes at Hennepin County Medical Center, numerous advancements in public infrastructure including the revitalization of the Humboldt Greenway, reconstruction of Highway 100 in the northern suburbs, construction of the new Brookdale library, the construction of Target Field and expansion of the Twin Cities area transit network, including the planned Bottineau Light Rail line along County Road 81 through the northern part of the county.

Opat has been described as one of the "most aggressive local government leaders", and said he considered a bid for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) nomination for governor of Minnesota in the 2010 election.

Early life, education, and career
Opat was born on March 25, 1961 in North Minneapolis to mother Joan and father Harold Opat, an Ironworker. Opat attended the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities while working full-time at the Hennepin County Adult Correctional Facility, also known as the county "workhouse", and coaching basketball. After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in business in 1983, he continued at the workhouse as a Correctional Officer. In 1987, Opat was awarded the Minnesota Correctional Officer of the Year award by the Minnesota Corrections Association, which he says motivated him to apply to the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. After gaining his Masters of Public Policy from Harvard in 1989, Opat was promoted to Shift Supervisor and worked three more years at the workhouse before running for public office in 1992.

Hennepin County Board

1992 election
Branded a "political novice," Opat decided to run for Hennepin County Commissioner in 1992, declaring that the incumbent, John Derus, was motivated by self-interest. Derus, one of Minneapolis's most durable politicians of the time, crushed Opat at the DFL nominating convention. But Opat emerged from the fall primary trailing Derus by only 173 votes, out of nearly 19,000 cast. Opat won the general election, and Derus graciously conceded. Opat credited that first victory to fortuitous timing and a team of about 200 volunteers who did it "because they wanted to, not because they had to."

Opat was elected as the Chair of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners in January 2009, replacing Randy Johnson, a Republican who had been the board's chair since 2004.  He went on to chair the board for a total of nine (9) years.

2010 gubernatorial election
Saying that the 2010 gubernatorial election "will be won or lost in the suburbs," Opat, whose Hennepin district is 90 percent suburban, has said he is considering entering the race. Arguing that DFLers in the Legislature had "missed the point" in 2009, Opat has argued for pragmatism in electing a Democratic governor, saying that candidates at either end of the political spectrum aren't likely to be particularly effective at building consensus and governing. And the DFL needs to widen its base, he said. "We need to connect; we have to have a clear message about the DFL philosophy in 2009. Given the economic crisis, our neighbors are hurting, regardless of their political views."

Policies and priorities
Opat describes himself as a "lifelong Democrat," and is a member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party.

He endorsed then Senator Barack Obama via a letter to the Star Tribune in January 2008, saying the election was "the most important" in his lifetime. He cited the importance of Obama's domestic agenda to improve our infrastructure through road and transit initiatives, as well as the prospects of reasonable immigration policy. Opat's district includes more Liberian immigrants than anywhere in Minnesota.

Health care and human services

HCMC and Governance
Between 1997 and 2003, HCMC lost about $17 million annually in federal and state support and was unable to continue making significant investments in new technology, facilities maintenance and employee compensation. In addition, uncompensated care cases were increasing, putting more demand on HCMC's services. In 2004, Opat led the charge for a change in the governing structure of HCMC, which, as Hennepin County's hospital, was governed by the County Board.

Opat led the adoption of a task force's proposal to transfer day-to-day management of the hospital from the County Board to Hennepin Healthcare Systems Inc., a nonprofit governing board composed of doctors, local professionals, health-care executives and two county commissioners (Opat and Randy Johnson). Opat, in advocating the new arrangement said that it would "...let the hospital manage its labor costs more efficiently, move more nimbly in a competitive health care market, raise money for crucial capital investments and even seek out profitable new lines of business to subsidize its public mission." The Board adopted the proposal, and retained the power to review the hospital's operating mission every year. In addition, Hennepin County remains the ultimate financial backstop for the hospital and underwrites its "uncompensated care" losses.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune's editorial board called the new governance proposal "...a serious effort to solve a problem that no one else wants to acknowledge." The change went into effect in January 2007. HCMC once had a national reputation as a Level 1 Trauma Center, teaching, and safety-net hospital. In addition it has been recognized in excellency for oncology, pregnancies, burn treatment, hyperbaric medicine and obstetrics, and has consistently earned a spot on U.S. News and World Report''s list of best hospitals.

Teen pregnancy prevention
Opat has said that preventing teen pregnancy "should be the county's first priority," and he has been an advocate for county funding of public school health and sex-education teachers who teach comprehensive pregnancy prevention. In defending the county spending, he has cited the 1,200 teen pregnancies a year in Hennepin County, and how they result in more expensive county services.
The number of births to teenage mothers in northwestern Hennepin County has increased sharply - from an average of 270 births in 1995–2003, to over 310 births in both 2004 and 2005.

In May 2003, for his efforts in preventing teen pregnancy, Opat was awarded "Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting" (MOAPPP)'s Policymaker of the Year award.

Developmental disabilities
In his 2009 State of the County address, Opat said that Hennepin County can never forget that it must be the face and the voice of the most vulnerable people — the poor, sick, aged, developmentally disabled, blind, deaf and hard-of-hearing. Opat is the legal guardian of his brother, who is developmentally disabled, and has served on the Minnesota Special Olympics Board of Directors. "We have to announce when help for the mentally ill or chronically homeless is threatened," he added "Our obligation is to minimize our clients' pain and preserve their independence and dignity as best we can."

Public infrastructure

Bottineau Boulevard Transit
see also Bottineau Boulevard Transitway

Bottineau Boulevard, also known as County Road 81, is a transport corridor that extends between Downtown Minneapolis and North Minneapolis through the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities including; Golden Valley, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Osseo, Brooklyn Park and Maple Grove. In addition, Bottineau extends through the rapidly growing communities of Dayton, Rogers, and Hassan Township. The corridor has been continuously growing in traffic and population, with predictions showing a 30% increase in population between 2000 and 2025.

Home to a major hospital (North Memorial), North Hennepin Community College, Hennepin Technical College, a railway, two lakes, three creeks, and a major regional park, Bottineau was chosen in the "Metropolitan Council 2030 Transportation Policy Plan" as a corridor to advance for development as a busway.

However, due to the success of the METRO Blue Line Light Rail and lobbying by Opat, as well as the evolution of land use on the corridor, the mode choice was designated as a light rail transit corridor.

CTIB

In April 2008, the Hennepin County Board voted to enter into a joint powers agreement with Anoka County, Dakota County, and Ramsey County to form the Counties Transit Improvement Board (CTIB). These counties adopted a 0.25% sales tax that is used to fund expansion of metropolitan transit projects, including light rail and commuter rail. The board named Opat and Commissioner Peter McLaughlin as Hennepin County's representatives on CTIB. On the same day, Opat offered two amendments to the board, acting as the Hennepin County Regional Rail Authority (HCRRA), one of which named the Bottineau, Central, and Southwest corridors as "priority transit corridors" for Hennepin County. The other directed a property tax cut of more than 50% subsequent to the enactment of the sales tax.

In 2017, as permitted in the CTIB bylaws, the organization was dissolved so that the county could pursue its preferred transit priorities.  Hennepin County is thus working to build two light rail transit lines.

Victory Memorial Drive

Guided by the legislatively created Victory Memorial Drive Task Force, which is co-chaired by Opat and Commissioner Mark Stenglein, and the principles of the Park Board's Victory Memorial Drive 2005 Master Plan, Hennepin County has programmed $3.5 million in its capital budget toward:
 Restoring the historic street grid and parkway, and extending the green space.
 Revitalizing the flagpole plaza.
 Adding historic gateway monuments and entrances to the parkway at Humboldt Avenue North on the east, and Lowry Avenue North on the south.
 Removing or replanting elm trees, using multiple species that are resistant to Dutch Elm disease, and restoring the rank-and-file grid that is at the heart of the memorial.
In 2009, the Minnesota State Legislature awarded $1 million in the Omnibus Bonding Bill for the project, as well as $40,000 in the "Omnibus Cultural and Outdoor Resources Finance Bill" for parks and trails.

REPP
Opat also launched the Roadside Enhancement Partnership Program, designed to beautify the pedestrian areas near roadways, including streetscapes, sidewalks, landscaping, masonry and public art.

Humboldt Greenway/Shingle Creek Parkway
The Humboldt Greenway project is the revitalization of the Shingle Creek and Lind-Bohanon neighborhoods by changing the character of Humboldt Avenue North to a landscaped greenway. Opat is credited for leading the revitalization for the avenue in the mid-1990s. Opat insisted the new neighborhood should offer home buyers a variety of housing that would be affordable to middle-class residents, provide enhanced views of Shingle Creek, and fit into the scale of homes found on Victory Memorial Drive. In 2000, work began to remove about 212 existing single family homes and replace them with about 270 new single family homes and townhomes, building value and enhancing the existing tax base through investment in parks and improved infrastructure. "I think the results are great, especially the public open spaces," Opat has said. "Humboldt Avenue is terrific, after we gave it a curving look, streetscaping and bike paths. There's better storm water runoff, too. We've even gotten the railroad to clean up its part of the area."

In 2002, Commonbond Communities opened the first of 235 housing units, named Shingle Creek Commons. The Commons is a 75-unit retirement living community, which addressed the needed supply in the area for senior rental housing.

In 2008, Kingsley Commons was completed on the Greenway, featuring 25 units, and becoming one of the nation's first apartment buildings designed to provide independent living to people with multiple sclerosis.

At some point in 2019, all lots available along the Greenway will be developed.  The revitalization will then be complete.

Public safety

Productive Day
In 1994 Opat launched the "Productive Day" initiative which required inmates serving longer than a 15-day sentence at the Hennepin County Adult Correctional Facility to work or go to school for at least 8 hours per day. More than 100 employees participated in planning and implementing the change into one that emphasized work and education, rather than just "doing time." Opat cited the need to "motivate residents to develop skills, habits and abilities necessary to successfully integrate into the community and...gain economic self-sufficiency upon release" as a driving principle behind this initiative.

Crime
In November 2007, while outside his home in Robbinsdale, Opat was attacked by two assailants, one of whom wielded a sawed off shotgun. He was hit with the butt of the gun, then knocked down, kicked, and punched. While lying in the alley, Opat grabbed the gun barrel and broke free, running to safety. He lost his vehicle, his wallet, and his cellphone, but escaped with only minor injuries. The car was recovered, but the assailants have not been identified.

In his 2009 State of the County address, Opat proposed an initiative to form a crime lab work group to examine crime lab services, such as DNA analysis and identification in Hennepin County, and make recommendations for the efficiencies of the services of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the City of Minneapolis Police Department.

Minnesota Twins ballpark

In 2006, Commissioner Opat led the effort with the Minnesota Twins to finance and build the new outdoor ballpark in downtown Minneapolis. This was despite the fact that "Public opinion polls have shown that a majority of Minnesotans don't favor public financing for stadiums."  It was scheduled to open in April 2010.

Construction
"I am proud that we are building this important public amenity at a time when jobs are crucial," Opat has said "It's the first of many investments on the new edge of downtown Minneapolis, and will pay many dividends into the future."

Chairmanships

2001–2003
Since his election, Opat was a frequent critic of Chairman Randy Johnson, and was a behind the scenes competitor for the chairmanship four times between 1992 and 2000. Opat did eventually unseat him as Board Chairman in 2001, following a 5–2 board vote.

2009–2015
The board unanimously elected Opat chairman once more in January 2009 and through 2015.

2009 State of the County Address
In April 2009, in what was called a "powerful performance by an unlikely star in Minnesota politics," Opat gave the "2009 State of Hennepin County Address" at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. Noting the "bleak times" for public institutions like Hennepin County with many low-income residents, Opat stated that "the state of Hennepin County is challenged, but not imperiled," and he urged the County to lead new innovations and public investments.

Opat proposed three new initiatives:
 A framework for the county to award up to $2 million each year in capital grants for youth activities in Hennepin, as part of the ballpark project.
 An Urban Lakes Initiative that would address the water quality of badly impaired lakes in the county's inner-ring suburbs. Opat cited recent water-quality tests that gave either a "D" or "F" to 25 lakes in the county, and proposed partnering with cities and water management groups to seek grants to make major improvements.
 A crime lab workgroup composed of public safety experts to examine crime lab services in the county and study options for combining the crime labs of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the Minneapolis Police Department and make recommendations this fall to the Hennepin County Board.
A local blogger said the address as demonstrated "a progressive in command of his message and in sync with his constituents."

Controversy
Mike Opat is a defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought forth by Kevin and Valerie Holler.

Comments by Opat and Stenglein "might be read specifically as intending to damage the Hollers' reputation and to shame them into selling the property," wrote a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals. Reports the Star Tribune.

The Minnesota Appeals Court decision can be found on the mn.gov website: http://mn.gov/lawlib/archive/ctapun/2014/opa131014-020314.pdf

Hennepin County Attorney's office disagreed with the three judge panel of the Court of Appeals and petitioned the Supreme Court of Minnesota for further review. The petition was denied (April 15, 2014; number 19 of 37).

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Acrolepia marmaropis

Acrolepia marmaropis is a moth of the  family Acrolepiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1919. It is found in South America.

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Osiecko, Lubusz Voivodeship

Osiecko  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bledzew, within Międzyrzecz County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately  west of Bledzew,  west of Międzyrzecz,  south of Gorzów Wielkopolski, and  north of Zielona Góra.

History
The settlement was first mentioned as Magnum Oszec in a 1312 deed, when the area around Bledzew was temporarily under the rule of the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg in the west. From about 1320 until the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, Osiecko belonged to the Greater Polish Poznań Voivodeship. In 1360 it was a possession of the Cistercian abbey at Zemsko. Located immediately at the border with the Brandenburgian New March region, it was one of the westernmost localities of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

It was incorporated into the Meseritz district of South Prussia in the course of the 1793 Second Partition. After the Franco-Prussian Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, it was part of the Poznań Department in the newly established Duchy of Warsaw. Upon the 1815 Vienna Congress, Osiecko belonged to Kreis Birnbaum in the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen, from 1887 to Kreis Schwerin. After World War I, Oscht with the Posen-West Prussia frontier region remained with the German Weimar Republic according to the Treaty of Versailles.

Osiecko returned to the Republic of Poland after World War II as stipulated by the Allied Potsdam Agreement and the German population was expelled. Today the village has a population of about 420.

References

Osiecko


Could It Be

Could It Be may refer to:

 "Could It Be" (Georgina & Paul Giordimaina song), 1991 Eurovision Song Contest entry
 "Could It Be" (Charlie Worsham song)
 "Could It Be", song by the Bee Gees, from The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs
 "Could It Be",  2000 single by Jahiem from the album Ghetto Love
 "Could It Be", song by Staind from 14 Shades of Grey


Coresi

Coresi (also known as Diaconul Coresi) (d. 1583, Brașov) was a Romanian printer of the sixteenth century. He was the editor of some of the earliest printed books in the Romanian language.

Biography

Coresi first became active at Târgovişte, but then moved to Braşov, where he started printing books not only in Church Slavonic, but also in Romanian. He first learned the art of printing from Dimitrije Ljubavić, who was himself working for the Metropolitanate of Wallachia.

List of books printed by Coresi

Tetraevanghelul (1561)
Întrebare creştinească (Catehismul) (1561–1562)
Liturghierul (1570)
Psaltirea (1570)

References

  P. P. Panaitescu, Începuturile şi biruinţa scrisului în limba română, Bucharest, Editura Academiei, 1965, pp. 133–163.
  Ion Gheţie, Al. Mareş, Originile scrisului în limba română, Bucharest, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1985.
  Ion Gheţie, Al. Mareş, Diaconul Coresi şi izbânda scrisului în limba română, Bucharest, Editura Minerva, 1994.
  Istoria limbii române literare. Epoca veche (1532-1780) (coordonator Ion Gheţie), Bucharest, Editura Academiei Române, 1997.
  Ion Gheţie, Al. Mareş, De când se scrie româneşte?, Bucharest, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2001.

See also

First Romanian School

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2002 Swedish Open

The 2002 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Båstad in Sweden and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 55th edition of the tournament and ran from 8 July until 14 July 2002. Third-seeded Carlos Moyá won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Carlos Moyá defeated  Younes El Aynaoui 6–3, 2–6, 7–5
 It was Moyá's 2nd singles title of the year and the 9th of his career.

Doubles

 Jonas Björkman /  Todd Woodbridge defeated  Paul Hanley /  Michael Hill 7–6(8–6), 6–4
 It was Björkman's 5th title of the year and the 34th of his career. It was Woodbridge's 4th title of the year and the 76th of his career.

References

External links
 Official website
 ATP tournament profile

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Jake Mosser

Jake Mosser is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Andy Wilson in Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! in 2008.

Filmography

Film

TV shows

References

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Murray Browne

Murray Browne (born 20 January 1963) is a former Australian Rules Football player for  and  in the Victorian Football League. His son Alex also played in the AFL for Essendon.

Browne played 53 games for Collingwood between 1981 and 1985, and Fitzroy in 1986. Playing mainly as a Defender he kicked a total of 6 career goals.

He is a former President of the Collingwood Past Players Association and former Past Player Director of the AFL Players Association (AFLPA). Opp

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Saint-Nicolas, Liège

Saint-Nicolas () is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liege. It is effectively a part of the greater Liège conurbation stretching west from Liège city centre towards Liège airport. As of January 1, 2006 Saint-Nicolas had a total population of 22,666. The total area is 6.84 km² which gives a population density of 3,313 inhabitants per km². It has the highest population density of any Belgian municipality outside the Brussels-Capital Region.

Since 1977 the municipality comprises the old municipalities of Montegnée, Saint-Nicolas, and Tilleur.

Notable people
Well known natives include
 Sandra Kim, singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 held in Bergen, Norway, 1986
 Mario Barravecchia, singer
 Roberto Bisconti, football player
 Georges Theunis, Prime Minister of Belgium, 1921-25, 1934-35.

See also
 List of protected heritage sites in Saint-Nicolas, Belgium

References

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Sylvia Walton

Sylvia Jane Walton,  (née Collis) (born 16 January 1941) was Chancellor of La Trobe University (2006–2011), Principal of Tintern Grammar (1982 - 2005) and Principal of St Catherine’s School from 2007 to 2013.

Biography
The daughter of Ronald Ferguson Collis (1914-2001), and Ellen Betty Collis (1917-2009), née Moroney, Sylvia Walton holds a BA, MA and Dip Ed from Sydney University and a B Ed from La Trobe University.  In 2011 she was awarded a Doctor of Education (honoris causa) in recognition for her outstanding leadership as Chancellor and council member of La Trobe University, and in addressing issues of access in higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Walton was principal of Tintern Schools in Ringwood from 1982 to 2005. In 1999 she established Southwood Boys Grammar School as a complementary school to Tintern.

Walton was Principal of St Catherine's School from 2007 to 2013.

Walton was Chancellor of La Trobe University from 2006 to 2011. The University established the Sylvia Walton Scholarship and the Sylvia Walton Equity and Diversity Annual Public Lecture in recognition of her outstanding leadership at the University. In 2014 the University named the Sylvia Walton Building in her honour. The Australian College of Educators Victorian branch holds an annual Sylvia Walton oration.

Honours and awards
1998 Sir James Darling Medal for Education (across Primary, Secondary and Tertiary areas) Australian College of Educators (Vic)
2000 Paul Harris Medal for Services to Rotary Student Programmes
2003 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)  for service to education at secondary and tertiary levels, particularly through research into specialised curriculum and training programmes, as an administrator, and as a contributor to the development of education policy in both government and non-government sectors.
2004 - Distinguished Alumni Award (M.L.C. Burwood, Sydney)
2007 - ACEL Gold Medal. The most prestigious award conferred by the Australian Council for Educational Leaders is the Gold Medal.
2014 Victorian Honour Role of Women

References

External links
Sylvia Walton entry in The Australian Women's Register

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Lewis Christon

Lewis John Christon (born 24 January 1989 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender without a club.

Christon was a highly rated graduate of Wycombe Wanderers's youth academy and signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2006. He spent the end of the 2007–08 season on loan at AFC Wimbledon. He was released by the club by mutual consent on 5 January 2009.

References

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Official Wycombe Profile

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Sørgattet

Sørgattet is a strait in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It runs between Reuschhalvøya and Danes Island, and forms the southern entrance to Smeerenburgfjorden. Moseøya in Sørgattet has a rich birdlife and is protected as a bird sanctuary.

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