Jon Peterson (artist)

Jon Peterson is an American artist, most known for his "guerrilla sculpture" in the 1980s and his stylistically eclectic paintings in the 2000s. He was active in the emergence of Los Angeles’s downtown art scene—partly captured in the 1982 documentary, Young Turks—as both an artist and real estate developer. His work has been commissioned by or exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), the San Diego Museum of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston Art Festival, Foundation for Art Resources, and the International Sculpture Conference. It has been discussed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Village Voice, and recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts. Museum director and one-time Artforum critic Richard Armstrong wrote that his outdoor, urban "Bum Shelters" "neatly grafted function and relevance onto the sadly barren tree of public sculpture"; critic Peter Plagens called them "hand-made, subtly irregular riff[s] on Minimalism" that injected social consciousness into "erstwhile formalist work." Reviewers liken his painting practice in the 2000s to the "polymath"-model of Gerhard Richter, interchanging diverse styles and genres as a means to understanding the nature of painting itself. Peterson works and lives in Pasadena, California with his wife, Tanarat, and son, Raymond.

Life and career
Peterson was born in 1945 in Stillwater, Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1968, he worked at General Dynamics, Lockheed and Rockwell, at one point designing helicopters. In 1972, in Los Angeles, he turned to art, eventually studying at Otis Art Institute (MFA, Painting, 1976), with Michael Asher, Miles Forst, Matsumi Kanemitsu and Charles White. In 1976, he rented a cheap ($75 per month for 2,500 square feet) downtown Los Angeles loft in a former garment factory between Skid Row and Little Tokyo, and helped to jumpstart what Peter Plagens called a "scruffily energetic artists’ milieu," documented in Steven Seemayer’s film, "Young Turks." Some Los Angeles writers credit Peterson, Michael Tansey and Seemayer with pioneering the development of the downtown arts district—including the emergence of LACE—after they began renting and subdividing warehouse buildings and subleasing them as live-in studios to artists. In subsequent years, Peterson and Tansey developed several loft projects in the area, including the construction of a 74-unit complex and the 160-unit Little Tokyo complex.

Peterson exhibited actively after leaving Otis, in solo shows at the Newspace (Los Angeles, 1976–1979) and Protetch-McIntosh (Washington DC, 1980) galleries, and group shows at the Laguna Art Museum (1976), San Diego Museum of Art (1980), Houston Art Festival (1983), and LACE (1981, 1985), among others. In 1980, he attracted widespread attention and received a National Endowment of the Arts grant and commissions for a body of outdoor installations that came to be known as “Bum Shelters,” which he installed in New York City's Bowery, Santa Barbara, Washington DC, Madison, Los Angeles, and Houston between 1979 and 1983. In the 2000s, Peterson returned to painting, with exhibits at the LA Artcore and Andlab galleries in Los Angeles, Long Beach City College and SoPas Gallery in South Pasadena. He is represented by Rosamund Felsen Gallery.

In addition to his work as an artist, Peterson has served on the boards of several Los Angeles art organizations, including Inner City Arts, LACE and LARABA (Los Angeles River Arts and Business Association) and was the President and founding member of Downtown Arts Development Association (DADA).

Work
Peterson's early influences included Michael Asher's practice of Institutional Critique—which interrogated conventional art practices, often through temporary works, architectural interventions and performative gestures—and the guerrilla work of artists Maura Sheehan and Judith Simonian. Richard Armstrong described his early work, which included painting, sculpture and installation, as exploring field-situation and body-object relationships and "marked by a consistently cool temperament" toward the effect its non-conventional approaches produced. His later painting is characterized by a more personal exploration that, counterintuitively, he undertakes through a liberal appropriation of diverse historical styles and media imagery.

Early paintings and sculpture
Peterson began as a painter, creating translucent, abstract, grid-based works on large sheets of vellum, as well as site-specific work spray-painted directly on gallery walls. His "Negentropic Spaces" series (1976) used layered vellum sheets with strings and paint sandwiched between; they alternated between flatness and illusionism and recalled the graphs and structural plans of his engineering background. His "Wall Paintings" (1978–82) were dark, atmospheric and mysterious, like backgrounds of Old Masters paintings with affinities to the art of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. This work subverted notions of the art object by eschewing foregrounds and embracing a fluid relationship dependent on chance and improvisation, in which what happened in front of the piece became its subject. Concurrent to his painting, Peterson created lattice- or airframe-like, brightly-colored wood-and-wax sculptures that were architecturally inspired and echoed the grid paintings. Critics suggest that as their scale increased to human proportions, the geometric, cage-like structures suggested absent bodies and enclosure, presaging his "Bum Shelters", as did the wall paintings' blurring of subject and object.

Peterson's "Symbol Paintings" (1983) explored representation and perception and the play of object versus content. Critic Hunter Drohojowska described them as "startling canvasses [of] lovely encaustic, carefully rendered, highly charged symbols: cross, red cross, Star of David and swastika"; they were shown only once, at LACE's "Emblem" show in 1984, where they were removed from the wall and turned around by an offended viewer at the opening. From 1989–1994, Peterson created a series of monumental, monochromatic abstract paintings inspired by the landscapes of J.M.W. Turner. Painted in stark, black and white-pigmented beeswax, the works have been described as transmitting a hazy, dreamlike quality situated between figuration and abstraction and the imaginary and real, reminiscent of Clyfford Still's biomorphic work.

"Bum Shelters" (1979–1983)
Inspired by the guerrilla interventions of other artists, frequent interactions with the homeless population outside his studio, and the idea of "accidental discovery of an artwork," Peterson began constructing plywood, masonite and fiberglass sculptures that might also be used as single-body shelters (e.g., Los Angeles Shelter #4, 1980). He placed the works—which other artists dubbed "Bum Shelters"—in vacant lots and alleys and under bridges of urban areas frequented by the homeless and street populations, anticipating later artist interventions by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Michael Rakowitz. Portable and playfully painted in bright primary colors, they took diverse forms: flattened tubes, a triangular plane with two splayed legs, a small igloo, a curved lean-to, a long wedge supported by converging chain link fences, and tents designed be inflated by subway and underground exhaust grates. In formal terms, critics called them minimal, graceful and interesting; Thomas McEvilley described a Houston Arts Festival-commissioned installation as "an elegant and inviting little structure covered with mirrored rectangles to echo the mirrored style of the emerging skyline."

Reviewers made equal note of the work's conceptual and social implications. Richard Ross, in one of the earliest uses of the term, described in situ works by Peterson, Sheehan and Simonian as "participatory art" that bore "responsibility to the community." Village Voice critic Carrie Rickey observed that the work's blending of architecture and landscape—like that era's “site constructions”—expanded sculpture into the realm of the practical and gave something back, rather than merely appropriating urban suffering. Peter Clothier noted the shelters' transcendence of social barriers, existing as art objects in an (abstract) art tradition and as an "'offering' to a public that would otherwise have spurned the work as irrelevant to their world." Peterson explained, "The site alters the art. Put it in a gallery, and it looks expensive—like a work of art. Put it on skid row, and it becomes a throwaway—yet it is only there that the work is truly useful."

Artforum called Peterson's approach to exhibition, ownership and financing iconoclastic; he exhibited unused structures that were not for sale, models for proposed shelters, and clinically shot, for-sale photographic editions documenting the installation, occupation and use of prior shelters in order to finance the work. However, as Constance Mallinson wrote, ultimate ownership was, “dictated entirely by the ecology of the street—with no attempts at upkeep or replacement—their impermanence underscoring the fragility of life and dystopian dimensions of modern cities." When politicians began considering the shelters as potential solutions to the homeless issue rather than provocations questioning the social order, Peterson decided the work had run its course.

Later painting series
After focusing largely on family and a health crisis for several years, Peterson returned to painting in 2006 with a new approach. This later work spurns the modernist fixation on a signature style or brand in favor of personal exploration, spontaneity and stylistic heterogeneity. Peterson initially produced direct, naturalistic domestic images and portraits, whose centrally located figures were often based on appropriated images (including mug shots and street fashion images) and influenced by the paintings of Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans. However, with the Africa series (2008–16), his paintings became more semi-abstract, multi-hued and hallucinatory, with Vuillard- and Bonnard-like landscapes and politically inspired canvasses drawn from newspaper photos (e.g., the Arab Spring- and movie-inspired The Battle of Algiers works) depicting featureless, phantasmagorical figures in disorienting patterned and expressionist environments, as in Springtime (2011).

In 2011, Peterson began the "Via Phyllis" series, based on a portfolio of naïve drawings dated from the 1940s to the 1980s by a woman named "Phyllis T." that he purchased at a flea market. He translates her drawings (of celebrities, friends, dolls) into expressionist images that range from humorous to haunting, freakish or surreal, freely mixing a modernist repertoire of geometric shapes, color field bands, and gestural brushwork. Constance Mallinson describes these enigmatic works as "assisted readymades" that "provoke a tension between Modernism’s grand narratives and the personal idealism and quirky visions of the 'other' as denoted by this young woman."

Peterson's "Ellsworth Kelly Series" (2012-8)—inspired by a photograph of artist Ellsworth Kelly standing next to a messy, paint-daubed wall in his studio—features works that emulate the markings on Kelly's wall as a stand-in for painters and painting itself and sometimes resemble Calder’s hanging mobiles or Miró’s abstractions. These markings evolved into the more abstract "Map Paintings" (2017– ), which return to the grids of Peterson's early work; in these, he imposes what appear as mesh-like architectural structures or street plans juxtaposed with faint human figures through washes, gestural marks, wax lines and vivid thick paint overlaid on concrete-colored grounds.

References

External links
 Jon Peterson official website
 Jon Peterson, Rosamund Felsen Gallery
 Jon Peterson: 12 Years of Painting, film by Eric Mihn Swenson

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Lise Mayer

Lise Mayer (born 29 November 1959) is an American born English television and film writer, best known as a creator and co writer of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, alongside Rik Mayall and Ben Elton.

Background
Mayer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to David and Anne Mayer, who met when they were studying drama at Manchester University, where her father was a tutor. Her mother is a theatre PR. She has written for television programmes including The Last Resort, Paramount City, London Underground, The Fast Show, Saturday Zoo and Casualty, and produced Denis Leary's No Cure For Cancer.

She was a writer/consultant for the film The Borrowers, and co writer of Suite 16, Paper Marriage, Flushed Away and The Matchmaker. Books include Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book, People I Have Shot (with ITN cameraman Sebastian Rich), The Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, Go to Bed With Jonathan Ross, Amassed Hysteria and In Search of Happiness (with Angus Deayton).

Personal life
Mayer was in a relationship with her co writer and star of The Young Ones, Rik Mayall.

She has a son, Isaac, with comedian and television presenter Angus Deayton, with whom she was in a relationship from 1991 to 2015.

Her sister, Catherine Mayer, co founded the Women's Equality Party with Sandi Toksvig. She has another sister named Cassie.

References

External links

 BBC Comedy Guide - The Young Ones

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2004 Senior League World Series

The 2004 Senior League World Series took place from August 15–21 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Freehold Township, New Jersey defeated El Rio, California in the championship game.

Teams

Results

Group A

Group B

Elimination Round

References

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Puyallup Public Library

Puyallup Public Library is the public library system serving the residents of Puyallup, Washington. The current Puyallup Public Library, the third in the city’s history, opened August 30, 2002 on the west side of Pioneer Park. The  library contains two floors of materials including books, DVDs, audio books, periodicals, public computers, reading areas, study rooms, and several meeting rooms available to community groups. The library is governed by a 5-member board appointed by the City Manager. It is not affiliated with either the Tacoma Public Library or the Pierce County Library System.

History
The first library in Puyallup was created in 1877 before the town formally existed. The library was run by Eliza Jane Meeker, wife of Puyallup founder Ezra Meeker, who lent books from their home in what is currently Pioneer Park. In 1880 the Puyallup Library Association was created to expand the community service. The association raised $5,000 by local businesses to rent a small room and hire its first librarian.

Carnegie Library

Towards the turn of the century the library required repairs and upgrades, and the town of Puyallup requested funding from Andrew Carnegie for the creation of a new library. In February 15, 1912 Carnegie offered the town $12,500 on the condition they pay an annual 10% upkeep and maintenance fee. The town accepted the grant and the new Carnegie library, designed by Roland E. Borhek in the Georgian style, officially opened on February 11, 1913.

The Carnegie library was in operation until the 1950s when it was deemed by the county to be unsafe due to the bowing of the second floor from the weight of the books. Despite the razing of the building the library system hosted a 100 year celebration of the original library in 2013 and attempted to raise $12,000 to match the original grant for library use.

Modern library
After 50 years, the Carnegie Library was replaced by new  replacement library building paid for by a voter-approved $210,000 bond. Another bond was approved by voters on September 14, 1999 to again reconstruct the library facility, expanding its total size to . This current library opened in 2002. Along with the new renovation the library constructed a local history room, which is opened to the public once a month. The room contains local history back to the founding of the town in the late 1800s, copies of the newspaper from 1903, and other genealogical records from the town's first settlers.

References

External links
Library homepage
Library catalog

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Maria Cristina Vilanova

Doña María Cristina Vilanova Castro de Árbenz (17 April 1915 – 5 January 2009) was the First Lady of Guatemala from 1951-1954, as wife of the Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán.

Biography

Vilanova de Arbenz was born in San Salvador in 1915, where her parents belonged to the society elite.  She received a privileged education in elite European institutions. On a family trip to Guatemala she met the then-colonel Arbenz, and they eventually married there in 1937.

Vilanova was the first wife of a Guatemalan president to attend all of his public functions, and also the first one to perform socially active work. She has been often compared to Eva Perón given that she was also a feminist and had strong influence in the government during her husband's time in office. She was accused, along with her husband, of sympathies to Communism, and of exacting influence over him while in exile.

After her husband died in 1971 in Mexico, Vilanova moved to Costa Rica with her family, where she died in 2009.

Humiliation and exile

After resigning due to the coup organized by the United Fruit Company and the United States Department of State, the Árbenz Vilanova family remained for 73 days at the Mexican embassy in Guatemala, which was crowded with almost 300 exiles.  When they were finally allowed to leave the country, Jacobo Arbenz was publicly humiliated at the airport when the liberationist authorities made the former president strip before the cameras, claiming that he was carrying jewelry he had bought for his wife at Tiffany's in New York City, using funds from the presidency. No jewelry was found during the hour-long interrogation. The Arbenz family then embarked into exile, taking them first to México, then to Canada, where they went to pick up daughter Arabella, and then on to Switzerland via the Netherlands. As a condition for entry, the Swiss authorities asked Arbenz to renounce his Guatemalan nationality, to prevent the ousted president from continuing his resistance in Switzerland. Arbenz refused this request, as he felt that such a gesture would mark the end of his political career. Furthermore, he could not benefit from political asylum, because Switzerland had not yet ratified the 1951 Agreement of the newly created United Nations High Commission for Refugees, designed to protect people fleeing from communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Árbenz and his family ended up instead the victims of an intense, CIA-orchestrated defamation campaign that lasted from 1954 to the triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959. Árbenz's close friend Carlos Manuel Pellecer worked for the CIA, playing a key role in the defamation campaign.

After being spurned by Switzerland, the Árbenz family moved to Paris, and then to Prague. Czechoslovak officials were uncomfortable with his stay, unsure if he would demand compensation for the poor quality of Second World War-era arms that they had sold him in 1954. After only three months, he moved again, this time to Moscow, which proved to be a relief from the harsh treatment he received in Czechoslovakia. Arbenz tried several times to return to Latin America, and was finally allowed to move to Uruguay in 1957 (Arbenz joined the Communist Party in that year), living in Montevideo from 1957 to 1960. Uruguay had been supportive throughout the Guatemalan revolutionary process, and became home to the two former presidents of the so-called Guatemalan Democratic Spring.  Arbenz's predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, had been in Montevideo on several prior occasions, establishing himself there between 1958 and early 1959, when he accepted a university position in Venezuela; he expressed his views through a number of newspaper articles he penned.  On the other hand, Arbenz and his family, who arrived in mid-1957, had a very different experience: his communist ties, especially with José Manuel Fortuny, and forced passage through Czechoslovakia, the USSR and China, aroused suspicions.

When the National Party took power in Uruguay in late 1958, the situation worsened for Arbenz there. In 1960, after the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro invited Árbenz to Cuba, which Árbenz Guzmán readily agreed to.

Suicide of Arabella

In October 1965, Arabella Arbenz met Mexican bullfighter Jaime Bravo Arciga, who at that time was at his peak and was about to start a tour of South America; Arabella took advantage of this and fled with him to Colombia. While in Bogotá on October 5, 1965, Arabella tried to convince Bravo Arciga not to continue as a bullfighter, fearing for his life. After an afternoon where Bravo Arciga had been gored, he went to a luxurious gentlemen's club in the Colombian capital. Arabella phoned the place pleading to talk to Bravo Arciga, but he ignored her, as he was totally inebriated and in a foul mood after the goring. Dejected, she shot herself.

Bravo Arciga contacted Jorge Palmieri in Mexico via telephone, and asked him to take charge of funeral arrangements. Palmieri, who had great influence in the Mexican government at the time, obtained approval to bury Arabella in the Pantheon of the National Association of Actors of Mexico, since she had worked in an experimental film a few months earlier. Palmieri also received concessions allowing Arbenz, his wife, and children to travel to Mexico for the funeral.

Arabella's death was a huge blow to both the bullfighter and Jacobo Arbenz: both would die within five years of her death.

Settlement with the Guatemalan Government

In 2011, with a written agreement, the Guatemalan State recognized its international responsibility for "failing to comply with its obligation to guarantee, respect, and protect the human rights of the victims to a fair trial, to property, to equal protection before the law, and to judicial protection, which are protected in the American Convention on Human Rights and which were violated against former President Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, his wife, María Cristina Vilanova, and his children, Juan Jacobo, María Leonora, and Arabella, all surnamed Arbenz Villanova."

Gallery

See also

 Operation PBSUCCESS
 Arabella Arbenz
 Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán

Notes and references

References

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Fatma Samoura

Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura (born 9 September 1962 in Senegal) is a Senegalese former diplomat and senior executive. She was appointed as the first female Secretary General of FIFA by President Gianni Infantino on 13 May 2016 and assumed her post on 20 June 2016. Previously she worked in various positions at the United Nations. In 2018 Forbes ranked her Number 1 in their Most Powerful Women in International Sports list and the BBC listed her as one of their 100 women.

Career
After joining the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 1995, she served as Country Director for WFP in Djibouti and Cameroon and also worked at the WFP headquarters in Rome.  She covered numerous complex emergencies, including Kosovo, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, and Timor-Leste (East Timor).

On 1 November 2007, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in consultation with the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes, appointed her as Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator (DHC) for eastern Chad.  She was based in the town of Abéché, located approximately 80 kilometres west of the border with the Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region.  Chad currently hosts over 280,000 refugees and over 170,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), most of whom are in the eastern region, and she was tasked with working for their return.  The official's functions consist in providing support and guidance to a team composed of seven United Nations agencies and over 40 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in eastern Chad.

FIFA
In June 2016 she assumed the role of FIFA Secretary General responsible for overseeing the commercial and operational side of the organization.  She replaced Markus Kattner, who was implicated in corruption.

Within months of landing the job, a controversy erupted in the United Kingdom over the rules forbidding the wearing of  remembrance poppy symbols by players. Samoura declared on 3 November 2016 that England, Scotland and Wales would be punished if they wore the poppy on Remembrance Day, as FIFA classes it as a political symbol. "Britain is not the only country that has been suffering as a result of war", she said. "Syria is an example. My own [African] continent has been torn by war for years. The only question is 'why are we doing exceptions for just one country and not the rest of the world?'" UK Prime Minister Theresa May condemned FIFA and told Parliament that Samoura's decision was "utterly outrageous".

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Samuel Downing

Samuel Downing (19 January 1883 – 1974) was an English association footballer who played for a number of teams including Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea.

Career
Downing's career started at Willesden Town, but spent time at Willesden Green and Park Royal football clubs before being transferred to West Hampstead. He moved to Queens Park Rangers in 1903 where he scored a hat-trick on his debut against Swindon Town.

He moved to Chelsea in April 1909, where he was part of the team that made it to the semi final of the 1910–11 FA Cup and was promoted to the Football League First Division in 1911–12 when they finished second in the Second Division.

After retiring from professional football, he became a cricket coach.

Honours

Chelsea
Football League Second Division second-place promotion – 1911–12

References
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Football at the 1991 Island Games

The 1991 Island Games in Åland was the 2nd edition in which a men's football (soccer) tournament was played at the multi-games competition. It was contested by 8 teams.

The Faroe Islands won the tournament for the second time.

Participants

Group phase

Group 1

Group 2

Placement play-off matches

7th place match

5th place match

3rd Place Match

Final

Final Rankings

Top goalscorers

6 goals
  Jens Erik Rasmussen

5 goals
  Adam Greig

4 goals
 Chris Hamon

3 goals
 Karl Kreutzmann

External links
Official 1991 website

1991
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1568 in France

Events from the year 1568 in France

Incumbents
 Monarch – Charles IX

Events
February to March – Siege of Chartres
23 March – Peace of Longjumeau

Births

11 February – Honoré d'Urfé, novelist (died 1625).

Full date missing
Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, noblewoman (died 1629)
Nikolaus Ager, botanist (died 1634)

Deaths

Full date missing
Charlotte de Laval, noblewoman (born 1530)
Pierre Bontemps, sculptor (born c. 1505)
Antoine Héroet, poet

See also

References

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Yaminuechelys

Yaminuechelys is an extinct genus of chelid turtle from Argentina. The genus first appeared during the Late Cretaceous, and then becomes extinct during the Late Paleocene.

Species
The genus contains the following two species:
 Y. gasperinii  - Late Cretaceous Allen, Anacleto, La Colonia Formations, Argentina
 Y. maior  - Tiupampan Salamanca and Roca Formations, Argentina

References

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Ménil-la-Horgne

Ménil-la-Horgne  is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

See also
Communes of the Meuse department

References

Menillahorgne


Melissa Lord

Melissa Lord (born June 24, 1997) is an American tennis player.

Lord made her WTA main draw debut at the 2017 Bank of the West Classic in the doubles draw partnering Carol Zhao.

Lord plays college tennis at Stanford University.

References

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Abaninath Mukherji

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Margarita de Ochoa

Margarita de Ochoa was a Spanish film editor who worked on around fifty films during her career including Calle Mayor (1956).

Selected filmography
 Whirlwind (1941)
 Unknown Path (1946)
 Black Jack (1950)
 Under the Sky of Spain (1953)
 The Beauty of Cadiz (1953)
 Plot on the Stage (1953)
 The Devil Plays the Flute (1953)
 The Red Fish (1955)
 Calle Mayor (1956)
 The Tenant (1957)
 Sonatas (1959)
 Sound of Horror (1964)

References

Bibliography
 Mira, Alberto. The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. Wallflower Press, 2005.

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Felix Dennis

Felix Dennis (27 May 1947 – 22 June 2014) was an English publisher, poet, spoken-word performer and philanthropist. His company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom. In more recent times, the company added lifestyle titles such as its flagship brand The Week, which is published in the UK and the United States.

Early life
Felix Dennis was born on 27 May 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of a part-time jazz pianist who ran a tobacconist's shop. He grew up poor in northeast Surrey, for a time living in his grandparents' tiny terrace house in Thames Ditton, not far from his birthplace, with his mother, Dorothy, and brother Julian. A place with "no electricity, no indoor lavatory or bathroom ... no electric light, but gas and candles".

In 1958, he passed his 11+ exam to enter St. Nicholas Grammar School in Northwood Hills, Middlesex. His first band, the Flamingos, was formed with friends at school.

In 2006, Dennis said in an interview with Oliver Marre of The Observer newspaper:

In 1964, Dennis moved into his first bedsit at 13 St Kildas Road, Harrow, earning rent playing in R&B bands and working as a window display artist in department stores. Briefly working as a sign-painter, he also enrolled at Harrow College of Art.

Career

Publishing

OZ
In 1967, Dennis began to work as a street seller, selling copies of the underground counterculture OZ magazine on the streets of London's Kings Road. The magazine printed a mixture of left-field stories, discussions of drugs, sex and contentious political stories. He then gained an informal apprenticeship in magazine design with Jon Goodchild, OZ's first art director, who later moved to Rolling Stone in California.

After passing out at a friend's party, he woke up in a flat shared by several young women in Walsingham Mansions on the Fulham Road and moved in, paying rent by cleaning the flat. What would become a massive collection of 1960s and 1970s graphic art began in a small way with the posters of Martin Sharp, one of the originators of OZ magazine.

In 1969, Dennis wrote a world exclusive for OZ, the first ever review of Led Zeppelin's debut album. He was quickly promoted to co-editor and became involved in the longest conspiracy trial in English history over the infamous "Schoolkids OZ" issue. While Richard Neville was on holiday, Jim Anderson and Dennis had invited fifth-  and sixth-form kids to edit the issue. They included a sexually explicit Rupert the Bear cartoon strip, which proved too much for the authorities and resulted in the arrest of Anderson, Neville and Dennis, who were charged with "conspiracy to corrupt public morals". The OZ offices in Princedale Road, Notting Hill, and the homes of its editors were repeatedly raided by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad.

Dennis recorded a single with John Lennon to raise money for a legal defence fund.

At the conclusion of the trial, the "OZ Three", defended by John Mortimer, were found not guilty on the charge of "Conspiracy to deprave and corrupt the Morals of the Young of the Realm", but were convicted on two lesser offences and sentenced to imprisonment. Dennis received a more lenient sentence than his co-defendants because he was, in the opinion of the judge, "much less intelligent" and therefore less culpable. These convictions were later quashed on appeal. Dennis later told author Jonathan Green that on the night before the appeal was heard, the OZ editors were taken to a secret meeting with the Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, who told them that they would be acquitted if they agreed to give up work on OZ. It is alleged that MPs Tony Benn and Michael Foot had interceded on their behalf.

Underground comix
In 1973, following acquittal by the Court of Appeal, Dennis went on to found his own magazine publishing company.  When OZ closed down the following year the cOZmic was continued by Dennis and his company, Cozmic Comics/H. Bunch Associates (which published from 1972 to 1975). UK-based cartoonists published by Dennis included Edward Barker, Michael J. Weller, Dave Gibbons, Bryan Talbot, and Brian Bolland.

With the rising popularity of martial arts with the film Enter the Dragon, Dennis's Kung-Fu Monthly became a success just two years after the OZ trial, making over £60,000 in its first year.

Computer magazines
Dennis was the second publisher of Personal Computer World which he later sold to VNU, and established MacUser which he sold to Ziff Davis Publishing in the mid-eighties. In 1987, he co-founded MicroWarehouse, with Peter Godfrey and Bob Bartner, a company that pioneered direct IT marketing via high quality catalogues. The computer mail order company eventually went public on the NASDAQ in 1992. At the time it had 3500 employees in 13 countries with worldwide sales in 2000 of $2.5 billion. It was sold to a private investment group in January 2000.  This created the bulk of Dennis' personal wealth. Dennis launched further successful IT titles Computer Shopper and PC World.

1990s and 2000s
In 1995, Dennis Publishing created Maxim, a title that began on the back of a beer mat and became the world's biggest selling men's lifestyle magazine and global brand. In 1996, Dennis acquired a majority stake in what is now Dennis Publishing's flagship brand The Week which is published in the UK and US and translates to a global circulation of over 700,000 (ABC audited). Over the following years it purchased the remainder of shares from original founder Jolyon Connell and Jeremy O'Grady. 2003 saw the purchase of IFG Limited (I Feel Good) from Loaded founder James Brown. The purchase involved titles Viz, Fortean Times and Bizarre being added to the Dennis Publishing stable.

In June 2007, Dennis sold his US magazine operation, which published the magazines Blender, Maxim and Stuff to Alpha Media Group for a reported US$250 million although exact details were never disclosed.

In 2008, Dennis Publishing established digital magazines iGizmo, iMotor and Monkey along with the purchase of The First Post from the Kensington-based First Post Group for an undisclosed sum. The award-winning online magazine which gained a D&AD nomination for viral marketing was headed-up by former Daily Telegraph editor Mark Law and Evening Standard editor Nigel Horne. This title later morphed into The Week.

, Dennis remained the sole owner of Dennis Publishing, with offices in both London and New York City. It then held over 50 magazine titles, digital magazines, websites and mobile sites in the UK including The Week, Auto Express, PC Pro,  CarBuyer and Viz. The Week continued to be published in the US alongside Mental Floss magazine.

Writing and performance
In 2001, while at hospital, Dennis wrote his first poem on a post-it note. Within a year, he wrote his first book of verse A Glass Half Full, published by Hutchinson in the UK. The launch of this book was accompanied by the first of Dennis's UK-wide poetry reading tours entitled "Did I Mention the Free Wine?". Audiences were offered fine French wine from Dennis's personal cellar while watching him perform his poetry on stage. Dennis's poetry was featured on radio interviews and in the national press, and was the subject of television documentaries in both the UK and US.

In October 2003, Dennis appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), along with RSC actors, reading from his work at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. With the second publication of A Glass Half Full, by Random House in the US in 2004, Dennis embarked on a 15-date coast-to-coast tour of the US (including another RSC performance in New York). The same year Lone Wolf, Dennis's second book of verse came out, again accompanied by a fourteen-date UK tour.

In 2006, Dennis wrote a best-seller on how he became a multi-millionaire in How to Get Rich. As well as anecdotes from his life, the book describes his crack cocaine addiction and admission to spending over $100 million on drugs and women.
2010 saw the release of Dennis's follow-up to wealth creation book, 88 The Narrow Road, republished in 2011, as How To Make Money.

Five more poetry books have followed, When Jack Sued Jill: Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times, Island of Dreams, Homeless in my Heart. and Tales From The Woods At the end of 2008, Dennis again toured the UK and Ireland, 12-date tour coinciding with the release of Homeless in my Heart.

Both the 2008 and a further 21-date 2010 Did I Mention the Free Wine? tour were filmed and the footage used by Endemol for a one-off documentary Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet. During production in early 2012, Dennis was diagnosed with throat cancer. As a result, production halted while he underwent treatment. During this time, Dennis compiled Love, Of A Kind, After his operation and radiotherapy Dennis gave a TV interview with broadcaster Jon Snow. This was incorporated into the final cut of Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet, aired on Sky Arts HD in 2012. In 2013 Dennis launched the 30-date Did I Mention The Free Wine? - The Cut-Throat Tour to support the publication of Love, Of A Kind. The two-part tour covered the UK, Ireland and the continent during the summer and autumn months.

In the media
Dennis was credited with having been the first person to say the word "cunt" on live British television. On 7 November 1970, during an edition of David Frost's The Frost Programme, Frost referred to guest Jerry Rubin as a "reasonable man", Dennis, sitting in the audience, jokingly shouted out that Rubin was the "most unreasonable cunt I've ever known in my life".

In 2003, Dennis was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show, and was the subject of CBS's 60 Minutes in the US. He had appeared as the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, hosted by Kirsty Young, first broadcast on 12 August 2007.

In an interview with Ginny Dougary published in The Times in 2008 Dennis said that in the early 1980s he had killed a man, who had been abusing a woman he knew, by pushing him off a cliff. Dennis later said he had been talking "a load of hogwash" while drunk.

In 2012, Dennis was the subject of Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet, produced by Endemol UK, and appeared on Sky Arts HD. He appeared on BBC Breakfast television in 2013, to talk about his life and poetry tour.

Dennis' influence continues to be heard in the media, being credited with mentoring and inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs including Netgems founder Benjamin Clark.

Tree planting
In 1995, Dennis planted his first small wood near Dorsington, Warwickshire. Subsequently, he conceived the idea of establishing a large native broadleaf forest, and founded The Forest of Dennis Ltd, a registered charity in 2003, which changed its name to The Heart of England Forest Ltd in 2011. Its mission is "the plantation, re-plantation, conservation and establishment of trees for the benefit of the public, together with the education of the public by the promulgation of knowledge and the appreciation of trees".

The charity at present employs no full-time staff, but owns and manages over 500 acres of woodland, much of it newly planted. Over 3,000 acres have been planted; in excess of 1,000,000 saplings have been planted to date. The forest also includes a small percentage of ancient woodland. Trees include native varieties of Oak, Ash, Lime, Beech, Hornbeam, Hazel, Field Maple, Aspen, Hawthorn, Willow, Alder, Black Poplar, Holly, Wild Cherry, Rowan and occasional stands of Scots pine, along with numerous shrubs and bushes. Where possible, saplings are sourced from locally collected seed. The planting of saplings will continue indefinitely with the aim of eventually providing between 10,000 and 20,000 acres. Dennis bequeathed a reported 80% of his fortune to ensure that the project will continue. The forest will eventually be opened to the public along with providing educational facilities for schools as well as provide green burial services to the local area.
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On Friday, 20 September 2013, Dennis planted the scheme's millionth tree, an oak sapling, at a ceremony attended by local residents, council members, forestry officials and employees.

Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize

From 1999 to 2013 he sponsored a prize for the best final-year undergraduate dissertation at the Warwick University History Department.

Bronze sculptures
Dennis had one of the largest private collections of original bronze sculpture held in his purpose-built Garden of Heroes and Villains. It contains more than 40 sculptures, life and a quarter in size, which include early man attacking a woolly mammoth, Galileo, Einstein, Winston Churchill, Crick and Watson, and more recent "heroes" such as Stephen Hawking, and is open to the public once a year as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

Mandalay Estate Mustique
In 1994 Dennis purchased 'Britannia Bay House' on Mustique from English rock star David Bowie who had the villa built in 1989. The villa was renamed to the equally unsuitable "Mandalay" by Dennis, but he was keen to preserve the original influence of design from Bowie.

While staying at Mandalay Estate, Dennis wrote:

A ball of fire is spilling in the sea
The empty sky flamingo-pink and grey
Cicada songs creak out the end of day
A choir of tree-frogs whistle: "Come to me!”

In 2014 Dennis worked successfully on a programme with the St Vincent and the Grenadines government to give every secondary school pupil a laptop, totalling 12,500.

After his death, the estate was reportedly sold for £14 million to entrepreneur Simon Dolan. Press reports say that the estate can now be rented for the first time ever, for a reported $40k dollars a week. The Writers Cottage that was added by Dennis and where he wrote some of his poetry is now a bedroom.

Death
Dennis died of throat cancer at his home in Dorsington, Warwickshire, on 22 June 2014, aged 67.

Awards and accolades

1991: Marcus Morris Award.
2002: Fellow of the National Library for the Blind in recognition of his continued support for that charity. Accordingly, many of Dennis's books are released as talking books and in Braille.
2004: Fellow of the Wordsworth Trust.
2008: Mark Boxer Lifetime Achievement Award from British Society of Magazines.
2009: Belsky Award by Society of Editors & Portrait Sculptors.
2010: Made Honorary Consul to his adopted country, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
2013: Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Media Awards.

References

External links

 Heart of England Forest project

 Marsha Rowe, "Felix Dennis obituary", The Guardian, 23 June 2014.

 Felix Dennis: Odes to vice and consequences (TED2004)
 "Is he the world's smartest magazine publisher?" Flashes & Flames, 28 August 2012.

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Paraceto

Paraceto is a genus of Chinese and Korean araneomorph spiders in the Trachelidae family, first described by C. Jin, X. C. Yin & F. Zhang in 2017.  it contains only two species.

References

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East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party

The East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party (; ) was an Uyghur communist party and armed separatist group in Xinjiang. It was founded in 1969 or earlier during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and was the largest armed separatist group in the Xinjiang conflict before its dissolution in 1989.

The ETPRP's goal was to initiate a second Revolution of the Three Districts to establish an independent Marxist-Leninist Uyghur state in the Xinjiang region, with help from the Soviet Union. Support from the Soviets increased during the Sino-Soviet split and subsequent border dispute.

History
The ETPRP was founded in 1969 or earlier in Xinjiang, China. It was made up of mainly Uyghurs, but also had a small number of Kazakh fighters. According to Chinese historian Zhang Yuxi, the ETPRP may have been established secretly in 1963. Former members of the ETPRP claimed that the party had around 60,000 members and 178 underground branches in 1969; however, this had not been verified by a third-party.

After a failed insurrection in 1969, the ETPRP gradually weakened due to the arrests of most of their armed fighters and many of their members going into exile. The ETPRP blamed the Soviets for their "lack of commitment" to their cause. The party disbanded in 1989.

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Domingo Betanzos

Domingo Betanzos (died September 1549 at Valladolid) was a Spanish Dominican missionary to New Spain, who participated in the "Spiritual Conquest", evangelizing the indigenous.

Life
A native of León in Spain, he first studied jurisprudence at Salamanca, then became a Benedictine and lived as a hermit on the island of Ponza for five years. He then joined the Dominicans, who had established themselves on Hispaniola (Santo Domingo) in 1510. Betanzos went there four years later. At the time he went to Mexico in 1526, he was over 45 years old.

In 1516 he, with several other Dominicans, wrote a letter to Las Casas on the rapid disappearance of the Indians of the Antilles, concerning the numbers of the aboriginal population, and the excesses thought to have been committed by the Spaniards. In 1526, Betanzos went to Mexico, one of the first Dominicans; and he is considered the founder the Dominican province of Santiago de México.  According to Franciscan fray Gerónimo de Mendieta, Betanzos did not know any native language and had little to do with Indians, his time being absorbed by administrative duties.

Tomás de Berlanga almost immediately claimed that it belonged to his newly founded province of Santa Cruz with the provincial seat at Santo Domingo. Betanzos went to Spain in 1531 and obtained from the Holy See the independence of his foundation. He also established the Dominican Province of Guatemala.

As Provincial of Mexico in 1535, he organized missions among three Indigenous groups stocks: the Nahua people, the Mixtec people, and the Zapotec people. He returned to Spain in 1549, and died in September of the same year at Valladolid. The Bishopric of Guatemala was tendered to Betanzos, but he declined it.

In his classic work on the evangelization of Mexico, French scholar Robert Ricard called Betanzos zealous, "an impetuous character, not well balanced, but not without intelligence" with a passionate temper.

A portrait of Betanzos on amatl (maguey paper) was held in the church of Tlazcantla, Tepetlaostoc (Mexico).

Views
In his letter of 1516, he acquiesced in the views of his brethren of the order on the question of Indian policy. In the "Opinion" (Parecer) given by him in 1541, and approximately repeated in 1542, just as the New Laws limiting the encomienda in  the Indies were to be promulgated under the influence of Las Casas, he took an entirely different attitude. He quietly gave his opinion in a sense diametrically opposed to the measures Las Casas pressed upon the Government.

Betanzos was an intimate friend of distinguished Franciscans of Mexico – Archbishop of Mexico Fray Juan de Zumárraga, Fray Toribio de Benavente Motolinia, and others, who did not harmonize with Las Casas. When the Franciscans established the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco to educate elite Nahua men for the Christian priesthood, Betanzos objected to the Council of the Indies, calling into question the rationality of the Indians. Betanzos had questioned the ability of the Indians to understand doctrine sufficiently even to be baptized, which obviously would preclude their being trained for the priesthood. Betanzos argued that training an indigenous priesthood was a thoroughly bad idea because Indians would lack understanding and authority to preach and to teach and would spread heresy; and pulling out all the stops, he argued that teaching Indians Latin would allow them to expose the ignorance of [European] priests.

Betanzos's theological doubt about Indians' rationality was music to the ears of Spanish settlers wishing to exploit them. The Franciscan supporters of the establishment of a colegio to train Indian men for the priesthood pushed back against the Dominican's doubts.

Betanzos was in accord with the other mendicant orders (Franciscans and Augustinians) that they were not interested in reaping material benefit from the Indians, and did not require the payment of tithes (usually a ten percent tax on agriculture); Betanzos declined four Indian towns offered to the order.

He is credited with the authorship of an addition to the "Doctrina" of Fray Pedro de Córdoba which appeared in 1544, in collaboration with Franciscan Juan de Zumárraga.

References

Attribution
 The entry cites:
Ycazbalceta, Coleccion de Documentos para la Historia de Mexico (Mexico, 1866), I;
Domingo de Betanzos, Parecer;
Documentos ineditos de Indias, VII;
Carta a Bartolome de las Casas;
Mendieta, Historia ecclesiastica Indiana, 1599 (Mexico, 1870);
Davila Padilla, Historia de la fundacion y discurso de la provincia de Santiago de Mexico (2d ed., Brussels, 1625);
Beristain, Biblioteca Hispano-americana setentrional (Mexico, 1816), I;
Remesal, Historia de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chyapa y Guatemala de la Orden de Santo Domingo (Madrid, 1619); the same book is also known as, Historia general de las Indias Occidentales y particular de la gobernacion de Chiapas y GuatemalaTeatro ecclesiastico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias occidentales (Madrid, 1649);
Diccionario de Historia y Geografia (Madrid, 1865), I.

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Incidental catch

In fishing, incidental catch is that part of the catch which was not originally targeted, but was caught and retained anyway. It can be contrasted with discards, which is that part of the catch which was not originally targeted, but was caught and returned to the sea, and bycatch, which is for all the species caught apart from the targeted species.

The operational definitions used by the FAO for incidental catch and other related catches are as follows:

 Target catch: The catch of a species or species assemblage which is primarily sought in a fishery, such as shrimp, flounders, cods
 Incidental catch: Retained catch of non-targeted species
 Discarded catch (usually shortened to discards): That portion of the catch returned to the sea as a result of economic, legal, or personal considerations.
 Bycatch: Discarded catch plus incidental catch.

Notes

References

 Johnson, Douglas H; Shaffer, Terry L and Gould, Patrick J (1990) Incidental Catch of Marine Birds in the North Pacific High Seas Driftnet Fisheries U.S. Geological Survey.
 Valdemarsen, John W Incidental catch of seabirds in longline fisheries UN Atlas of the Oceans: Fishery Technology Service.

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Maya jaguar gods

The pre-Columbian Maya religion knew various jaguar gods, in addition to jaguar demi-gods, (ancestral) protectors, and transformers. The main jaguar deities are discussed below. Their associated narratives (part of Maya mythology) are still largely to be reconstructed. Lacandon and Tzotzil-Tzeltal oral tradition are particularly rich in jaguar lore.

The Maya people saw the jaguar's attributes as a strong and powerful creature, as well as its easily recognizable coat, and incorporated it into their mythology. Many gods were portrayed as jaguars, or at least had characteristics not unlike jaguars, due to their powerful nature.

The Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire and War 'Night Sun'

The Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire is recognizable by a 'cruller' around the eyes (making a loop over the nose), jaguar ears, and fangs. He personifies the number seven, which is associated with the day Akʼbʼal  ('Night'). Usually called 'Jaguar God of the Underworld', he has been assumed to be the 'Night Sun' - the shape supposedly taken by the sun (Kinich Ahau) during his nightly journey through the underworld - by reason of having the large eyes and filed incisors that also occur with the sun deity, and of sometimes evincing a k 'in infix. The deity's hypothetical aspect of a nocturnal sun (that is, a subterranean fire) should perhaps be connected to his proven association with terrestrial fire. He is often represented on incense burners and connected to fire rituals, while his 'cruller' may represent a cord used in making fire with a stick (Taube). Moreover, vases in codical style show him, captured, about to be burnt with torches. The nocturnal sun hypothesis is complicated by this very incident, and even more so by the fact that the fiery jaguar deity is identified with a star (or perhaps a constellation or planet). The god's other sphere of influence is war, witness for example the stereotypical presence of his face on war shields.

God L

God L is one of the oldest Mayan deities, and associated with trade, riches, and black sorcery, and belongs to the jaguar deities: he has jaguar ears, a jaguar mantle and lives in a jaguar palace. Some take him to be the main ruler over the Underworld. In that sense, he would have to be considered the true "Jaguar God of the Underworld".

The Jaguar Goddess of Midwifery and War
The aged goddess of midwifery, curing, and war Ix Chel, belongs to the jaguar deities. She has jaguar ears and claws and can show the looped cruller element and the large eye of the Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire (Birth Vase), suggesting that she might be a spouse to this deity.

The Jaguar Patron of the War Month of Pax
The patron deity of the month of Pax has jaguar paws above his ears, a removed lower jaw, and vomits blood. In 16th-century Yucatán, rituals held in the month of Pax centered on the war leader and the puma deity, Cit Chac Coh. Particularly scenes on pottery show the Pax deity to be intimately associated with war and human sacrifice. He presides over the transformation of a child into a jaguar (see below) and performs a sacrificial dance around the captured Rain Deity (Chaac). Personified as a tree, he witnesses the shooting of the Principal Bird Deity and equally of a Vulture King by Hun-Ahpu.

The Aged Jaguar Paddler

One of two aged deities associated with the base date of the Long Count and steering the canoe with the Tonsured Maize God has a jaguar headdress and is connected to Night, like the Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire. (The other Paddler God is an aged form of the sun deity apparently connected to Daylight.)

The Jaguar Twin Hero
In the Mayan book of creation, Popol Vuh, the story of the Hero Twins is told. Hunahpu and Xbalanque’s story involves them going through a going through a series of tests and trials, going through five different houses. They are Dark House, Razor House, Cold House, Jaguar House and Bat House. This is one of the earliest mentions of jaguars in a religious text. Also, Xbalanque’s “god markings” are patches of jaguar skin. This denotes his affinity and association with the jaguar.

Jaguar Protectors and Jaguar Transformers

Less clearly classifiable as deities are jaguar protectors (perhaps ancestors) and jaguar transformers. The Water Lily Jaguar (so called because of the water lily on its head) is both a giant jaguar protector, looming large above the king (e.g., Tikal wooden lintel 3, temple I), and a transformer often shown amidst flames.

Jaguar Baby
A specific and as yet unexplained transformation into a jaguar involves a male child with jaguar ears and a jaguar tail (the so-called Jaguar Baby) shown in a transformational somersault. This Jaguar Baby can assume the features of the Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire.

See also
Jaguars in Mesoamerican culture
Tezcatlipoca

Notes

References
Finamore, David, and Stephen Houston (eds.), The Fiery Pool. New Haven: Peabody Essex Museum in association with Yale U.P., 2010.
Mary Miller and Karl Taube, The Gods of Ancient Mexico and the Maya. Thames and Hudson.
David Stuart, 'The Fire Enters His House': Architecture and Ritual in Classic Maya Texts', in Houston, Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture (1998): 373-425.
Karl Taube, The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1992.

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Halfway, Illinois

Halfway, Illinois was an unincorporated community in northeastern Williamson County, Illinois located about halfway between the county seat of Marion and Corinth. A post office operated from 1895 to 1911 in a country store.

It is not to be confused with the later Halfway in Williamson County on Illinois Route 37 between Marion and Johnston City.

Geography
The store was located almost on the township line in Section 25, Township 8 South, Range 3 East of the Third Principal Meridian in what's known today as Lake Creek Precinct. Today the area is the intersection of Edwards Road (the old road to Corinth) and Dwina Road that runs along the township line.

History
Joseph H. Williams opened the post office 5 February 1895. Henry W. Rogers became postmaster two years later on 3 August 1897, but Williams took over the job again on 1 December 1897. He sold out to James Chadwell who updated the country store with a new stock of goods. Chadwell's daughter then became post master 20 May 1899. The elder Chadwell and his business partner John Leander Roberts, a Corinth store keeper, sold the store to the Albert and Nicholas G. Riggs. Albert became post master 14 June 1905. When nearby Pittsburg, Illinois opened up, Albert moved there and became that town's postmaster. Nicholas took over for Albert at Halfway and became postmaster 8 Dec. 1905. Operations discontinued on 15 December 1911. The area is now served by the Pittsburg Post Office.

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Abraham George Kallarakkal

Abraham George Kallarakkal (born 1934) is an Old Testament Biblical scholar with major contribution to Old Testament research. Kallarakkal is well-versed in Hebrew and Peshitto and researched at the University of Hamburg under Klaus Koch and Manfried Dietrich.

During 1963-1965, George pursued postgraduate studies in Old Testament leading to Master of Theology at one of the affiliated seminaries of the Senate of Serampore College (University).

Abraham George was Professor of Old Testament at the Orthodox Pazhaya Seminary, an institution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College.

Writings
 1973, The Peshitto Version of Daniel: A Comparison with the Massoretic Text, the Septuagint and Theodotion
 1981, Prathyasakiranangal (in Malayalam),
 1987, The Rays of Hope: An Introduction to the Old Testament,

References

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List of Phi Beta Sigma conclaves

The list of Phi Beta Sigma conclaves includes actual, proposed, and forthcoming international conventions of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity (ΦΒΣ). Founded on January 9, 1914 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

The Conclave is the legislative power of Phi Beta Sigma. During a conclave year, delegates representing all of the active chapters from within the seven regions of the fraternity meet in the chosen city. The conclave-or fraternity convention- is currently held biannually and usually hosted by the Graduate chapter(s) of the chosen city. The host city is chosen through a selection process in which each of the eligible region nominates a city and a formal bid is submitted. As of 2009, Phi Beta Sigma has held over 95 conventions in various cities throughout the United States The fraternity held its first conclave in Washington, D.C. on December 20, 1916.

Conclave

The Conclave is the legislative power of Phi Beta Sigma. During a conclave year, delegates representing all of the active chapters from within the seven regions of the fraternity meet in the chosen city. The conclave-or fraternity convention- is currently held biannually and usually hosted by the Graduate chapter(s) of the chosen city. During the convention, members of the General Board – the administrative body of the fraternity-are elected and appointed. The general board may act in the interest of the fraternity when the conclave is not in session. In addition, seminars, social events, concerts, an international Miss Phi Beta Sigma Pageant, Stepshow, and oratorical contests are also held during the week-long conference. Throughout the years, notable individuals such as George Washington Carver, and Dr. Carter G. Woodson were speakers at past conclaves.

Host city selection process

The conclave—or fraternity convention—is currently held biannually and usually hosted by the graduate chapter(s) of the chosen city. The host city is chosen through a selection process in which each eligible region nominates a city and a formal bid is submitted. The region in which the current conclave is being held is ineligible for submitting a bid for the succeeding conclave.

List of conclaves

Notes
a.  Preferably does not include scheduled Pre-Conclave and Post-Conclave activities

b.  No conclaves were held in 1917 & 1918 due to World War I.

c.  No conclaves were held in 1931 & 1932 due to the Great Depression.

d.  No conclaves were held in 1942 & 1943 due to World War II.

References

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Dorcadion czegodaevi

Dorcadion czegodaevi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Mikhail Leontievich Danilevsky in 1992. It is known from the Caucasus.

References

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List of number-one hits of 2019 (Italy)

This is a list of the number-one hits of 2019 on Italy's Singles and Albums Charts, ranked by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI).

Chart history

See also
 2019 in music
 List of number-one hits in Italy

References

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Taylan Susam

Taylan Susam (born November 18, 1986) is a Turkish-Dutch composer of experimental music. He is a member of the Wandelweiser group, which has been described by The New Yorker as "an informal network of twenty or so experimental-minded composers who share an interest in slow music, quiet music, spare music, fragile music."

Biography
Susam grew up in Amsterdam, where he attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium. He studied composition with Martijn Padding and Yannis Kyriakides at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and privately with Antoine Beuger and Samuel Vriezen, among others.

His compositions have been performed in more than a dozen countries, at such venues as the Experimental Sound Gallery Saint Petersburg, Galerie Mark Müller, Glenn Gould Studio, Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk, Hafnarborg, ISSUE Project Room, Kid Ailack Art Hall, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Kunstraum, Magna Plaza, Maison des Jeunesses
Musicales, SMART Project Space, St Anne and St Agnes, The Stone, REDCAT, and at festivals such as Ostrava Days, November Music, Dark Music Days, Transit, the ISCM Pan Music Festival, and the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival.

Performers of Susam's music have included Quatuor Bozzini, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Chronophonie, Ensemble Sisyphe, Incidental Music, Nordic Affect, S.E.M. Ensemble, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, Dante Boon, Erik Carlson, Eve Egoyan, Eva-Maria Houben, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Taku Unami, and Daan Vandewalle. Along with colleagues Daniel Brandes, Johnny Chang and Sam Sfirri, Susam belongs to a younger generation of Wandelweiser composers.

Taylan Susam is also known as a performer of experimental music. He appears as a conductor on an overview CD of Philip Corner's music on New World Records and as a clarinetist in Radu Malfatti's düsseldorf vielfaches released through Malfatti's label b-boim. Susam organized the concert series leaf sound / wave sound (named after a Robert Lax poem) in 2007, presenting six concerts of experimental music. In the same year, he performed Tom Johnson's Kirkman's Ladies on a positive organ in the foyer of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2014, Susam delivered a version of John Cage's Lecture on Nothing in Amsterdam's Perdu theater.

In 2007, he collaborated with dancer-choreographer Katharina Maschenka Horn to create the performance triptych august 1973, based on painter Francis Bacon's work of the same title. In the same year, he was invited, along with John Lely, to work with Fluxus artist Ben Patterson to curate a night of performances in Ostrava's Philharmonic Hall. He has also collaborated with poets Oswald Egger and Samuel Vriezen.

A retrospective of Susam's work was presented in 2013 at the Los Angeles performance space the wulf. Recordings of his compositions appear on three CDs released by the British label Another Timbre and a new recording of his solo piano music has been announced by pianist Dante Boon. His music was also included in mixtapes released by FACT Magazine and WQXR (both compiled by Julia Holter).

Music

In her 2016 study Experimental music since 1970, musicologist Jennie Gottschalk interprets Susam's use of silence as "a potentiality that includes all sounds." Critic Richard Pinnell, in a review of Susam's 2009 ensemble piece for maaike schoorel, adds: This music, typical of the Wandelweiser collective of composition that Susam is a member of, has a wonderful stillness to it, and yet the little islands of soft sounds that do appear, as simple as they are, seem to harbour whole worlds of sound and timbre.
Daniel Barbiero, writing for Avant Music News, describes a recording of the same piece as an "[embodiment] of an almost metaphysical dialogue between activity and non-activity."

Susam's earlier work is marked by the use of random numerals as a means of notation. In these scores, such numerals have served to indicate anything from the number of sounds to be played within a span of time (for maaike schoorel, for anthony fiumara) or the duration of a rest or an unspecified pitch (for sesshū tōyō), to which player should play ever so slightly louder than the others (for blinky palermo). The score of his for louis couperin, inspired by the tradition of the unmeasured prelude, consists of nothing but two rows of numbers indicating the fingerings to be used by a keyboard player. According to composer and musicologist Daniel James Wolf, [t]he notation in [Taylan Susam's] pieces is radically concentrated, often to just a bit of prose and a field of random numbers or single pitches on staves. He's interested in some very basic elements of music—intonation, continuity, contrasts between sounds and silences—and this radical concentration is anything but a naive response to those elements.

In 2009, Susam began working on his nocturnes, composing a one-page nocturne every day. Musical Toronto describes Susam's nocturnes as follows: "The modal arc of this piece traverses the entire keyboard, note by isolated note. The meditative questioning of this night music invites an almost existential concentration." In another review, the piece is said to "[defy] the daily movement we experience toward and away from nighttime, as if night simply were, unchanging and unrelenting in its night-ness." Susam himself has described this piece as a musical exploration of "how our souls are affected by our sometimes faint and doubtful perception of the world."

In contrast with the nocturness descending melodic lines suggestive of harmonic modulation, the 2014 piece tombeau, dedicated to the memory of his friend Martijn Teerlinck and commissioned by November Music, consists of slow, downward arpeggiated harmonies, out of which fragments of melody seem to emerge.

Many of Susam's titles are dedications to specific individuals (among them, Blinky Palermo, Sesshū Tōyō and Louis Couperin). This is meant, in part, to reflect his commitment to composing for a certain "someone" rather than for an anonymous "everyone." Susam's approach here has been likened to poet Frank O'Hara's personism.

Selected worksSoloPiano
 for james tenney, 2006
 for louis couperin, 2009
 nocturnes, 2009–
 preludes, 2010–
 for john mcalpine, 2013
 tombeau, 2014
Other
 for jürg frey, clarinet, 2006
 for john eckhardt, double bass, 2007
 for andré o. möller, any instrument (with electronics), 2008
 for sesshū tōyō, any instrument, 2009Ensemble'''
 for joseph kudirka, 2006
 for anthony fiumara, 2006
 for blinky palermo, 2006
 for anthony fiumara, 2007
 for chiyoko szlavnics, 2007
 for sesshū tōyō, 2008
 for antoine beuger, 2009
 for maaike schoorel, 2009
 for sam sfirri, 2010
 string quartet (for victor kal), 2010
 for john lely'', 2011

References

External links

 Taylan Susam at Edition Wandelweiser

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Apollo House (Croydon)

Apollo House is a 22-storey high-rise office building at 36 Wellesley Road in the London Borough of Croydon, London, England. In common with a neighbouring building Lunar House and others developed by Harry Hyams, the building's name was inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Like Lunar House, Apollo serves as the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office in the United Kingdom. The buildings at one time hosted the headquarters of the Property Services Agency (PSA), along with other 1960s office blocks, including those forming part of the Whitgift Centre. The PSA also had offices in central London, and a regional network of offices throughout the UK. Up until 2008, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Services section were based on floors 17 and 18.

References

External links

"Apollo House", SkyscraperNews.com.

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Paul Bradshaw (journalist)

Professor Paul Bradshaw is an online journalist and blogger, who leads the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism at Birmingham City University. He manages his own blog, the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM. He has written for journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, The Guardian's Data Blog, Nieman Reports and the Poynter Institute in the US. From 2010-2015 he was also a Visiting Professor at City University's School of Journalism in London. Since 2015 he has worked with the BBC England data unit.

Bradshaw is the author of the Online Journalism Handbook, co-written with former Financial Times web editor Liisa Rohumaa,<ref>{{Cite web | last = McAthy | first = Rachel | title = 'Online innovator to leave university post after 'complicated decision |publisher= Journalism.co.uk | date = 20 July 2010 | url = http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/20/online-innovator-to-leave-university-post-after-complicated-decision/ | accessdate = 30 July 2010 }}</ref> and also co-wrote the 3rd edition of Magazine Editing with John Morrish. He has also self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and Snapchat and contributed to books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed), Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship; Face The Future; Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives; Specialist Reporting; Data Journalism: Mapping the Future; and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.

Adrian Monck ranked Bradshaw second in his list of "Britain's Top Ten Journo-Bloggers" (2007),. He was placed thirty-sixth in the Birmingham Post'''s "Power 50" list of 2009 and listed again in the Media section of the 'Power 250' list in 2016. He has been listed in Journalism.co.uk's list of the leading innovators in journalism and media and Poynter's most influential people in social media.

In 2010 he was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year and in 2011 ranked 9th in PeerIndex's list of the most influential UK journalists on Twitter. In 2016 he was part of a team that won the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards.

Bradshaw is also a graduate of Birmingham City University (then the University of Central England), where he studied media from 1995 to 1998.

One of Bradshaw's MA students was Lyra McKee.

See also
 Wiki journalism

References

External links

 Online Journalism Blog
 Help Me Investigate
 Birmingham City University page
 City University London page

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Dylan Alcott

Dylan Martin Alcott,  (born 4 December 1990) is an Australian wheelchair basketballer, wheelchair tennis player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, known colloquially as the Australian "Rollers". At the age of 17 he became the youngest Australian "Rollers" wheelchair basketball gold medal winner for wheelchair basketball, and was the youngest to compete in the Wheelchair Basketball competition. In 2014, he returned to wheelchair tennis with the aiming of participating at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won gold medals in the Men's Quad Singles and Doubles. He was named the 2016 Australian Paralympian of the Year due to his outstanding achievements at Rio Paralympics. Alongside his sporting career, he hosted the weekend afternoon radio show on Australian radio station Triple J, and the ABC live music show The Set, as well as being a commentator for the 2019 Australian Open. He also was a member of the panel on the AFL Footy Show in 2019. He is the only man to complete the Calendar-Year Grand Slam in quad doubles, winning all four Major titles in 2019; in addition he has also won a non-calendar year Grand Slam in quad singles.

Early life
Dylan Alcott was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to parents Martin and Resie. He has an older brother Zack. He was born with a tumor wrapped around his spinal cord which was operated on during the first few weeks of his life. The tumor was successfully cut out; however, it left Alcott a paraplegic, requiring him to use a wheelchair.

Alcott attended Brighton Grammar School from grade 6, and competed for Victoria in swimming, and Australia for wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. Alcott graduated Brighton Grammar school in 2008.

Alcott's first sport of choice was wheelchair tennis, where he represented Australia on numerous occasions, reaching a  ranking of 100 in the world by age 16 (4th in the world for under-18s).

Basketball

Alcott played his first game of wheelchair basketball aged 14. Alcott made his debut for the Rollers at the World Championship, where they won a bronze medal. Alcott continued to hold his spot and was a member of the Rollers who travelled to the Beijing Olympic warm-up tournament in January 2008. Alcott made his name in basketball through his performances in the national league competition, competing for the Dandenong Rangers and being selected in the all star team for 2008. He has achieved success through junior competition as well; being named the Most Valuable Player at the Junior National Basketball Championships.

Alcott was part of the gold medal winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.  In his first Paralympics Dylan was quoted; "To be 17 and win gold... well it just doesn't get any better than that".

In 2009, Alcott accepted a scholarship at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he went on to win the College Championship division with the University of Illinois wheelchair basketball team. After one year of study, he decided to move back to Melbourne to train for the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

In 2010, Alcott was a part of the Rollers success at the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham, England. It was the first world championship the Australian wheelchair basketball team had ever won, and Alcott was named in the World All Star 5 for the tournament.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Alcott was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.

Tennis

In 2014, Alcott returned to wheelchair tennis. At the age of 16, he was ranked inside the top five juniors in the world. In July 2014, he defeated world number three Andy Lapthorne 7–5, 6–1 in the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championship final in Nottingham to win his first Super Series crown. Early in the year, he won the New Zealand Open in just his second tournament appearance. In January 2015, he won the quad wheelchair Australian Open title by defeating David Wagner in straight sets. It was his maiden grand slam title. At the conclusion on 2015, he was ranked number 1 after winning eight titles including two grand slam singles titles. In 2018, Alcott won his first Wheelchair Tennis Masters title in the Quads singles event.

Grand Slam tournament finals

Quad singles: 10 (9 titles, 1 runner-up)

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Quad doubles: 13 (6 titles, 7 runner-ups)

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Paralympic Games
Alcott teamed up with Heath Davidson to win the Men's Quad Doubles gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. They defeated the reigning champions David Wagner and Nick Taylor in the gold medal match 4–6, 6–4, 7–5. The day after winning gold in the Men's Doubles, he defeated Andy Lapthorne 6–3, 6–4 to win the gold medal in the Men's Quad Singles.

Personal life
Alcott finished studying at the University of Melbourne and now has a Commerce degree. He currently works as a motivational speaker and as a radio host on Triple J.

In his spare time, Alcott attends music festivals, and has become known for his 'wheelchair crowdsurfing'. In 2018, he launched Ability Fest, a universally accessible music festival, featuring pathways for wheelchairs, quiet areas for people with sensory disabilities, and Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreters.

He was a panel member on the AFL Footy Show until the show was cancelled in 2019

Alcott's advice to young people with a disability is: "The biggest thing is that for every one thing you can’t do, there are 10,000 others you can. For every one idiot to give you a hard time, there are 10,000 others worth your time."

In 2017, Alcott established the Dylan Alcott Foundation "with the core purpose of helping young Australians with disabilities gain self-esteem and respect through sport and study". In September 2017, Alcott was appointed Australian Patron for International Day of People with Disability.

The book Able: gold medals, grand slams and smashing glass ceilings, written with Grantlee Kieza, was published by ABC Books in 2018.

Recognition
 2009 – Medal of the Order of Australia
 2015 – Tennis Australia Newcombe Medal nominee
 2015 – Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability
 2015 – Victorian Institute of Sport Award of Excellence
 2016 – Governor's Award for Victorian Sportsperson of the Year
 2016 – Finalist for 'The Don Award' Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards
 2016 – Australian Paralympian of the Year and Australian Male Paralympian of the Year
 2016 – Tennis Australia Awards – Newcombe Medal and shared the Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability with doubles partner Heath Davidson
 2016 – Victorian Institute of Sport  Elite Athlete with a Disability Award
2018 – International Tennis Federation Quad Wheelchair World Champion
 2019 – Logie Awards – Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent
2019 – Victorian Institute of Sport Elite Athlete with a Disability Award
2019 – Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability

References

External links

 Australian Paralympic Committee profile

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Psi (instant messaging client)

Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol (including such services as Google Talk) which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems), Windows, macOS and eComStation (OS/2).

Ready-to-install deb and RPM packages are available for many Linux distributions. Successful ports of Psi were reported for Haiku, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris operating systems.

Due to Psi's free/open-source nature, several forks have appeared, which occasionally contain features that may appear in future official Psi versions. These official and unofficial builds are documented on their external wiki page.

Project name
'Psi' is the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ), which is used as the software's logo.

Mission statement
The goal of the Psi project is to create a powerful, yet easy-to-use XMPP client that tries to strictly adhere to the XMPP drafts and XMPP XEPs. This means that in most cases, Psi will not implement a feature unless there is an accepted standard for it in the XMPP community. Doing so ensures that Psi will be compatible, stable, and predictable.

History
The application was created by Justin Karneges and it began as a side project. At various points during its existence Karneges was paid to develop the codebase, during which Psi flourished. Typically however, the release cycle of Psi is relatively slow, but the client has always been seen by its fans as a very stable and powerful instant messaging client. Karneges left the project in late 2004 to pursue other endeavors.
In 2002 Michail Pishchagin started hacking Qt code which later became libpsi library. Pishchagin joined the team in March 2003 and he is responsible for many large chunks in Psi code.

In November 2004, maintenance was taken over by Kevin Smith, a long-time contributor to the project. In 2009, Smith handed maintenance back to Karneges, who also maintains Iris, the Qt/C++ XMPP library upon which Psi is based.

Remko Tronçon started writing his custom patches for Psi in 2003, and became an official developer in May 2005.

In 2009 a Psi fork named Psi+ was started. Project purposes are: implementation of new features, writing of patches and plugins for transferring them to upstream. As of 2017 all active Psi+ developers have become official Psi developers, but Psi+ still has a number of unique features. From developers point of view Psi+ is just a development branch of Psi IM client which is hosted at separate git repositories and for which rolling release development model is used.

Features
Because XMPP allows gateways to other services, which many servers support, it can also connect to Yahoo!, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and Microsoft networks. Other services available using gateway servers include RSS and Atom news feeds, sending SMS messages to cellular networks and weather reports.

As of 2012, Psi has language packs for 20 languages, with more being created.

Emoticon packs are supported using the jisp format. Many jisp emoticon packs are available, including ones from AIM, iChat, and Trillian.

Psi supports file transfers between other XMPP clients, and it is possible to send to or receive files from other IM networks, if the user's servers support this. Psi supports Contact Is Typing Notification (which works with Yahoo!, MSN, and AIM contacts). Version 0.10, released in January 2006, brought automatically resizing contact list and composing window in chat dialogs, tabbed chats, support for Growl messaging system on Mac OS X, window transparency and many other changes.

Encryption
Psi has official plugins with GnuPG, OTR and OMEMO encryption of private messages. Encryption of messages in group chats is supported only via OMEMO plugin.

See also

 Comparison of instant messaging clients

References

External links

 Official website
 Interview with Justin Karneges

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Vrachantsi

Vrachantsi is a village in the municipality of Dobrichka, in Dobrich Province, in northeastern Bulgaria.

References

Category:Villages in Dobrich Province


Bremond Independent School District

Bremond Independent School District is a public school district based in Bremond, Texas (USA). The district operates one high school, Bremond High School.

Finances
As of the 2010–2011 school year, the appraised valuation of property in the district was $403,424,000. The maintenance tax rate was $0.104 and the bond tax rate was $0.025 per $100 of appraised valuation.

Academic achievement
In 2011, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.  Thirty-five percent of districts in Texas in 2011 received the same rating. No state accountability ratings will be given to districts in 2012. A school district in Texas can receive one of four possible rankings from the Texas Education Agency: Exemplary (the highest possible ranking), Recognized, Academically Acceptable, and Academically Unacceptable (the lowest possible ranking).

Historical district TEA accountability ratings
 2011: Recognized
 2010: Recognized
 2009: Recognized
 2008: Academically Acceptable
 2007: Academically Acceptable
 2006: Academically Acceptable
 2005: Recognized
 2004: Recognized

Schools
In the 2011–2012 school year, the district operated three schools.
 Bremond High School (Grades 9–12)
 Bremond Middle School (Grades 6–8)
 Bremond Elementary School (Grades PK–5)

Athletics

Bremond High School participates in the boys sports of baseball, basketball, football and track. The school participates in the girls sports of basketball, softball, volleyball and track. For the 2016 through 2018 school years, Bremond High School will play football in UIL Class 2A Division II. During the 2014 football season, the Bremond football team won the 2A Division II state championship with a record of 15–0. In the 2015 Football season the Tigers beat Albany the second time in a row to finish the season undefeated 16–0 back to back state champions. In 2016 the Tigers yet again finished 16-0 and won their third straight state title over Iraan finishing with a 47-0 record in the last 3 seasons. Star quarterback Roshauud Paul now plays wide receiver for Texas A&M.

See also

 List of school districts in Texas
 List of high schools in Texas

References

External links
 Bremond ISD

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Chacchoben

Chacchoben (chak-CHO-ben; Maya for "the place of red corn") is a Mayan ruin approximately 110 mi (177 km) south of Tulum and 7 mi (11 km) from the village from which it derives its name.

History
Settlement by the Maya at the site is estimated at 200 BC, and the structures date from 700 AD. It is characterised by large temples and massive platform groups.

Modern discovery
In the 1940s a farm was established near the site by the Cohuo family.  The site was reported visited by archeologist Loring Hewen and briefly described in a letter to ethnohistorian Ralph Roys in 1962. The principal pyramid was apparently then still used as a site for religious worship. The ruins were officially reported to the Mexican government in June 1972 by Dr. Peter Harrison, an American archaeologist who was working on a project for The Royal Ontario Museum, and who also made the first maps of Chacchoben. Harrison stumbled upon this site while flying a helicopter over Mexico and noticed numerous hills in predominately flat lands.  Harrison realized there were temples beneath these hills, which were naturally covered over a period of 2000 years.

Restoration
In 1994 the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavated and restored the site, which was closed to the public until 2002. Today one temple is still overgrown with nature, and they were unable to restore it.

Chacchoben today

Visitors to the site today walk a circular path that includes three excavated and restored pyramids, as well as many walls and staircases.  Excavation is continuing on several mounds which are known to contain further buildings.  Some structures still bear traces of the red paint with which they were originally coated, and INAH has set up shaded areas to prevent further degradation of this pigment by the sun.  Also notable at the base of the largest pyramid is a large stone slab called a stela with a Mayan hieroglyphic inscription.  Chacchoben is one of the more popular ruin sites in southern Quintana Roo, with regular tourist trips from the port of Costa Maya.

The surrounding jungle is characterized by abundant species of fauna such as, deer, peccary, armadillo, gray fox, spider monkey and howler monkey.  Deeper into the jungle, more dangerous animals like jaguar, ocelot, puma and tapir can be found.

Image gallery

External links
Official INAH site.  In Spanish.
Chacchoben tourism site

References

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Strigatella coronata

Strigatella coronata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

Distribution

References

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