Royall Tyler (historian)

Royall Tyler (May 4, 1884 – March 2, 1953), was an American historian, who was a descendant of the American jurist and playwright Royall Tyler. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harrow School in England. After a time at New College, Oxford, he moved to the University of Salamanca, where he became a friend of Miguel de Unamuno. In 1909 he published Spain, a Study of her Life and Arts, the first work in English to recognize the genius of El Greco. Appointed by the British government to edit the Calendar of State Papers related to negotiations between England and Spain in the time of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he published the first of the five volumes of these papers in 1913; the last, completed just before his death, appeared in 1954.

During World War I he served as an officer in the US Army. In 1919 he joined the US delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and in 1924 the League of Nations appointed him Financial Advisor to the government of Hungary. With Hayford Peirce (the older brother of the painter Waldo Peirce) he published in French a pioneering study of Byzantine art, and he died just after completing his posthumously published biography, The Emperor Charles the Fifth.

Tyler also helped to inspire and shape the major collections of Pre-Columbian art and Byzantine art brought together by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss and housed at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.

He spent most of World War II in Geneva, Switzerland, where he drew on his high-level, Europe-wide connections to perform vital work for the US intelligence network run by Allen Welsh Dulles. He spent his last years in Paris, first with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, then as European Representative of the National Committee for a Free Europe.

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Pontoirakleia

Pontoirakleia () is a village in Kilkis regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Paionia.

References

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Walhalla, Texas

Walhalla is an unincorporated community in northern Fayette County, Texas, United States.

It was settled in 1830s by German settlers.

External links
 WALHALLA, TX Handbook of Texas Online.

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2017 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup

The 2017 FIBA 3x3 Europe Cup was the third edition of the 3x3 Europe Championships, organized by FIBA Europe, and was held between 7 and 9 July 2017, at the Museumplein in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This 3x3 basketball competition featured separate tournaments for men's and women's national teams.

Latvia won their first European championship title in the men's tournament, by beating Slovenia in the final. In the women's tournament, Russia won their second European championship title by beating Spain in the final.

Qualification

The qualification events took place in June 2017. Twenty-four teams from 16 countries took part in these tournaments, with 12 teams of each gender qualifying for the final championship.

Men

Women

Participating teams
The FIBA 3x3 Federation Ranking was used as basis to determine the participating FIBA member associations. Pools were announced on 26 June 2017.

Men

Women

Medalists

See also
 2017 FIBA 3x3 Under-18 Europe Cup
 2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup

References

External links
Official website

2017
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Edythe Lewis

Edythe M. "Delilah" Lewis (February 26, 1924 – June 5, 2014) was the first black, female disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio, United States, in the 1950s.

Early life and education
Lewis was born Edythe Mulzac, raised in Harlem and trained as a nurse at Harlem Hospital in New York. Later, she earned her bachelor degree in Education from the University of Cincinnati and then two master's degrees.

Career
Lewis was the first black woman to host a radio show in Dayton, Ohio, broadcasting on WING-AM as Delilah in the 1950s. She was inducted into the Dayton Area Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2003. The Dayton Daily News called her a pioneer and said she was a role model during a period when there were very few black people in the broadcasting industry.

In 1971, she was hired by the Miami Conservancy District. She later became the District's executive director. In 1976, Governor James A. Rhodes appointed her to the Ohio Recreation and Resources Commission. In 1979 she was named one of Dayton's Top 10 Women by the Dayton Daily News. Lewis retired from the District in the early 1980s.

She served on the boards of Wright State University and the Children's Medical Center, among others.

In 2001, her husband Lloyd E. Lewis Jr., a member of the Dayton City Commission, died, and she was elected in a special election to fill out the remaining months of his term, defeating Republican Abner Orick.

Personal life
Lewis died on June 5, 2014 from complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Recognition
 1979: Top 10 Women
 2003: Dayton Broadcasting Hall of Fame

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Droid fonts

Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform named Android.

Examples

* Unlike other sans fonts, the capital letter I retains its serifs.

Typefaces
The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:

The Droid Sans typeface consists of Regular and Bold fonts. Droid Sans regular font includes support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Hebrew, and Thai support for the GB2312, Big 5, JIS X0208 and KSC 5601 character sets respectively which the design style for all the Ideographs are using the Simplified Chinese writing style. There is no italic variant of Droid Sans; however, it is present in its derivative, the very similar Open Sans. Known variations include:
Droid Sans Arabic [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Armenian [Bold and Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Devanagari [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Georgian [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Hangul [Regular]  available from Google Code
Droid Sans Hebrew [Bold and Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Japanese [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API  or  Github
Droid Sans SEMC [Regular]  available from Nokia Website
Droid Sans SEMC CJK [Regular]  available from HTC website
Droid Sans Subset [Bold and Regular]  embedded font in Google Docs
Droid Sans Tamil [Bold and Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Thai [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API

Droid Sans Fallback font could be found on other language rich websites, especially those with Hindi or Khmer language support, are listed below:
Droid Sans Fallback Full [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Fallback Fan Dal [Regular]  available from Google Code China
Droid Sans Fallback HTC [Regular]  available from HTC website
Droid Sans Fallback Indic [Regular]  font support for Hindi, Devanagari, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Punjabi languages
Droid Sans Fallback Khmer [Regular]  font support for the Khmer language
Droid Sans Fallback Legacy [Regular]  available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Fallback QVGA [Regular]  font support for old VGA based systems

Designed by Steve Matteson and Terrance Weinzierl of Monotype Imaging, Droid Sans Mono consists of only the Regular font. The design is similar to Matteson's closed source Andalé Mono typeface design. Taking advantage of the license under which the original typefaces were released, modifications of this Droid Sans Mono have appeared on the internet. Of particular note are those modifications that replace the plain zero glyph with dotted or slashed versions. Such modifications are particularly desired by users making heavy use of monospaced typefaces, including software developers, because they provide a more prominent differentiation between the two characters. They include:
Droid Sans Mono Dotted [with dotted zeros]
Droid Sans Mono Slashed [with slashed zeros]
Droid Sans Mono Py [adapted for the Python programming language, with adjacent underscores separated]

The Droid Serif typeface consists of Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic fonts. Other variations of the Droid Serif font includes:
Droid Serif Subset [Regular]  embedded font in Google Docs
Droid Serif Thai [Bold and Regular]  available from Google Fonts API

Each typeface has an extensive character set including coverage of Western European, Eastern/Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish languages.

Droid Pro (2009)
On 12 February 2009, Ascender Corporation announced the retail version of the Droid fonts under the Droid Pro family. The fonts were sold in OpenType and TrueType font format. The planned Droid Pro family consists of Droid Sans Pro (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Condensed (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Mono (Regular, Bold), Droid Serif Pro (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), Droid Sans Fallback. Initial releases include Droid Sans Pro, Droid Serif Pro. OpenType features include Old Style Figures. Droid Sans Pro Mono went on sale beginning in 2009-07-31.

Handset Condensed (2010):
Handset Condensed is a condensed version of Droid Sans Pro designed by Ascender Corp's Steve Matteson released on 1 March 2013 to be compatible with the Droid family of fonts, but without OpenType features. Similar to Droid Sans Pro, the family includes 2 fonts in Bold and Regular weights without italics. It supports the WGL character set.

Droid Arabic Kufi and Droid Arabic Naskh
In 2009, Ascender Corporation designed specially customed fonts for Google Fonts API as language support for the Arabic and Persian languages. The fonts that were released are available at the Google Fonts website and are Droid Arabic Naskh [both Bold and Regular weights] and Droid Arabic Kufi [both Bold and Regular weights]. Other variations that were found until recently includes the Droid Persian Naskh, a specific font for the Persian Farsi language distributed by Open Font Library in May 2014.

Special Droid typefaces in Android phones
It has been found that in some Android smartphones that operate under the Android 4.2 Jellybean OS that the following fonts have been found in the Fonts folder in the phone's rooted 'systems' folder. The fonts include:
 Droid Naskh Shift Alt [a font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic, Urdu, Uighur and Farsi languages]
 Droid Naskh Shift [a font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic, Urdu, Uighur and Farsi language calligraphies]
 Droid Naskh System UI [a system font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic and Farsi languages]
 Droid Naskh UI [a system font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic and Farsi language calligraphies]

Other variations of the Droid font that aimed to depict the Android 'robot' image logo include [Droid Robot Regular font] and [Droid Robot Japanese Regular font - for Japanese language support]. Aims by specific language font designers to adapt fonts for particular Southern Asian languages include Droid Hindi [support for the Hindi language], Droid Telugu [support for the Telugu language] and Droid India [support for the Indian languages all over India]. These fonts could be found on Github or in the XDA Developers forum for Android smartphones.

See also
 Roboto, the default font for newer versions of Android
 Noto, the default fallback font for newer versions of Android
 Open-source Unicode typefaces

References

External links

Ascender Corporation Droid font page
29arabicletters page: Droid Naskh (custom) Droid Naskh (retail)
Google Web Fonts page: Droid Naskh, thai-droidsans

Fonts in the GitHub mirror of the Android repository
The Cosmix.org Slashed and Dotted zero modified versions of Droid Sans Mono

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Hong Leong Financial Group

Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad () is a conglomerate based in Malaysia. Founded as a trading company in 1963 by Quek Leng Chan and Kwek Hong Png, the company controls 14 listed companies involved in the financial services, manufacturing, distribution, property and infrastructure development. The group's shares are listed on stock exchanges of Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila and Europe.

Major subsidiaries
Hong Leong Bank
HLG Capital
HL Assurance
Guoco Group
Guoco Leisure Ltd - the holding company (listed on Singapore Exchange) of an international hospitality and leisure group, operating through a subsidiary GLH Hotels Limited (glh.) headquartered in London, UK.
M&C International Limited,
Sole-distributor of Yamaha Motorcycle in Malaysia and Singapore.
Joint venture with Yamaha for an assembling plant in Sungai Buloh, Selangor.
Malaysian Newsprint Industries Sdn Bhd (33.65 percent)

and many more (sources http://www.hongleong.com/index.html)

Hume Cemboard
Hume Cemboard Industries (HCI), a Hong Leong subsidiary, is a manufacturer of building materials. HCI's principal activities are manufacturing, sales and marketing of building materials namely PRIMABOARD - cellulose fibre reinforced cement board.

Malaysian Newsprint Industries
Malaysian Newsprint Industries is a Hong Leong subsidiary, is the only newsprint producer in Malaysia.

See also
Dao Heng Bank
Overseas Trust Bank
DBS Bank (Hong Kong)

References

External links

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Cornufer weberi

Cornufer weberi, Weber's wrinkled ground frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae.
It is found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

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Category:Amphibians of Papua New Guinea
Category:Amphibians of the Solomon Islands
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Amar de Nuevo

Amar De Nuevo is a 1999 album by Chilean Group Inti-Illimani, in which they explore the heritage of Latin American Creole music.

Track listing

 Antes De Amar De Nuevo
 Esta Eterna Costumbre
 La Fiesta Eres Tu
 La Indiferencia
 Negra Presuntuosa
 Entre Amor
 El Faro
 La Sombra
 La Carta Del Adios
 La Negrita
 Corrido De La Soberbia

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Ruth Lewin Sime

Ruth Lewin Sime is an American author, educator and scientific researcher, best known for publishing works on history of science. She has written several books and articles concerning nuclear physicist Lise Meitner and radiochemist Otto Hahn, who were both involved in the discovery and explanation of nuclear fission.

Sime is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Chemistry at Sacramento City College.

Early life
Sime graduated from Barnard College in 1960 and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964.

References

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List of Chinese films of the 1940s

This is a list of films produced in the Republican period and initial Communist period of China ordered by year of release in the 1940s.

For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Category:Chinese films.

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

Mainland Chinese Film Production Totals

See also

Cinema of China
Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures as chosen by the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards

Sources
中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1931-1949.9, 故事片·戏曲片. (2005). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1931-1949.9. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House.
中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1949.10-1976, 故事片·戏曲片. (2001). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1949.10-1976. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House.

References

External links
IMDb list of Chinese films

1940s
Films
Chinese


Stamp and Go

Stamp and Go is a fish fritter made with salt fish in Jamaican cuisine. It is part of a Jamaican breakfast. It is referred to as one of the original fast foods in Jamaica. The unusual name is supposed to have derived from the 18th-century British sailing ships. If an officer wanted something to be done in a hurry the order was "Stamp and Go!". These bite-sized, salty delights are a favorite at cocktail parties served with tangy dips. The larger ones are popular for breakfast, and were very popular as "journey" food many years ago.

See also
Fish fry
 List of Jamaican dishes

References

Category:Jamaican cuisine
Category:Fish dishes


Anders Frihagen

Anders Rasmus Frihagen (28 January 1892 - 5 April 1979) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Trade 1939-1940, government representative in Stockholm 1940-1942, Minister of Trade again in 1942 and Minister of Provisioning 1942-1945. Frihagen was a bank director by profession.

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Eddie Werge

Edward Werge (9 September 1936 – 2007) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger or wing half. He made a total of 160 appearances in the Football League for Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace and Leyton Orient. He also had a spell in mid-career in South Africa playing for Arcadia Shepherds.

Playing career

Early career
Eddie Werge began his youth career at Bexleyheath and Welling (later known as Bexley United) before signing for local professional club, Charlton Athletic in 1957. He made 44 appearances for Charlton between then and 1961, scoring 19 goals.

Crystal Palace, South Africa and Leyton Orient
In May 1961, Werge signed for Crystal Palace for whom he made 83 appearances, scoring 6 times. Werge spent the 1965–66 season in South African football playing for Arcadia Shepherds before returning to England in December 1966 when he signed for Leyton Orient, where he finished his professional career.

Later career
In 1968, having made a further 33 appearances for Orient, (no goals) he moved back into non-league football with Bexleyheath, by this time known as Bexley United.

After his football career ended, Werge became a driving instructor.

Eddie Werge died in 2007 aged 70 or 71.

References

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Noe Balvin

Noe Balvin (born 2 November 1930) is a Colombian former sports shooter. He competed in the 50 metre pistol event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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Roger Proot

Roger Proot (born 21 November 1905 in Woumen - died 29 September 1971 in Bruges) was a Belgian football player. His position on the field was forward, although he also could function as back-up goalkeeper.

Proot made his debut at the highest level of Belgian football in a 2–1 home win with Cercle Brugge against Standard de Liège, on 14 December 1924. Roger Proot would play most of his career for Cercle. His main achievements with the green and black Bruges side were the national championship victories in 1927 and 1930, and the 1926-27 cup final win. Proot also became twice top scorer of the team, in 1931 and 1933. After Cercle Brugge were relegated to second division in 1936, Proot stayed for one more season. His last match for Cercle was an 8–0 away loss against Duffel, on 17 April 1937.

Roger Proot ended his career with the Belgian coast team AS Oostende.

External links
Roger Proot at Cerclemuseum.be

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Tramway Review

Tramway Review, initially known as The Tramway Review, is a British quarterly magazine about the history of tramways in Great Britain and, to a lesser extent, neighbouring countries, published since 1950. Its content is intended for tramway enthusiasts interested in the history of the town tramway systems of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

From 1950 until 2007 the magazine was published by the Light Railway Transport League (LRTL), since 1979 known as the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA). The same organisation has published the monthly magazine, Tramways & Urban Transit (also known as Modern Tramway, a longstanding previous title), since 1938. The LRTL launched Tramway Review in 1950 to allow Modern Tramway to focus on present and future tramways and ongoing news developments, with Tramway Review focussed on history and closed systems.

In mid-2007, publication of Tramway Review and Tramways & Urban Transit was taken over by a newly formed company, LRTA Publishing Ltd.

Format
With some very minor variations, the magazine has always been published in A5 format. Initially only printed in black-and-white, colour graphics were introduced on the cover in the 1960s. The cover photograph remained black-and-white, but in 2004 a colour photograph appeared on the cover for the first time, with issue 200.

See also
 List of railway-related periodicals

References

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Burnet Consolidated Independent School District

Burnet Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Burnet, Texas, United States.  Located in Burnet County, small portions of the district extend into Llano and Williamson counties.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

Schools
Burnet High School (grades 9-12)
Burnet Middle (grades 6-8)
R.J. Richey Elementary (grades 4-5)
Shady Grove Elementary (grades 2-3)
Burnet Elementary (grades PK-1)
Bertram Elementary (grades K-5)
2007 National Blue Ribbon School
Quest High School (alternative campus; Grades 9-12)

References

External links
Burnet Consolidated ISD

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Jan-Peter Nikiferow

Jan-Peter Nikiferow (born 8 November 1971) is a German gymnast. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Celiny, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Celiny  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iwanowice, within Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Iwanowice and  north of the regional capital Kraków.

References

Celiny


Candace Hill-Montgomery

Candace Hill-Montgomery (born February 9, 1945) is an American writer and artist. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors. Hill was born in New York City, where she attended Fordham University (B.A., 1977) and Hunter College (M.A., 1981). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. She also published essays in the Woman's Art Journal. Her work is now in the New Digital Archive Museum. In 1985, Hill-Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson's work with Lucy R. Lippard titled Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together.

References

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Steve King (ambassador)

Stephen B. King (born July 4, 1941) is an American businessman and political activist serving as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he is the founder of King Capital LLC, an equity investment and real estate company. He previously worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an agent and campaigned unsuccessfully in 1988 for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin.

Early life and education
King was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was raised in Chicago, Illinois. He received a Bachelor of arts in social science in 1963 and a Master's degree in political science in 1966 from Western Illinois University. He worked as a social science teacher in Rushville, Illinois from 1963 to 1966 and then as Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools in the same school district until 1967.

Career
King joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1967. He investigated civil rights violations in Jackson, Mississippi, followed by racially motivated crimes, homicide, arson, bombing and bank robbery. Three times he received special commendations for excellent performance.

In 1970, King resigned to serve as legislative assistant to Republican Senator Edward Gurney of Florida. As Gurney's representative, he served on the staff of the United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, eventually becoming an investigator. In 1972, King was named Special Assistant to Earl Butz, the US Secretary of Agriculture.

In June 1972, at the time of the Watergate complex break-in, King was the security agent for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President assigned to abduct and hold Martha Mitchell, the wife of then United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in a hotel room in California, to prevent her from learning about the break-in. Mitchell contended that she had been held in her room against her will by King, during which time he used physical force to prevent her from speaking to the press and restrained her while she was injected with a sedative. The plot to hold Mrs. Mitchell was later confirmed by James McCord, one of the Watergate burglars. King has not denied his involvement in Mrs. Mitchell's confinement, but disputes parts of her story. Sean Bartlett, a spokesman for the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said King was asked about the incident involving Mitchell as part of his United States Senate confirmation process to be the next United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. "After questioning him, and measuring his other qualifications and responses to questions on a range of issues, staff did not believe there was evidence or reason to delay his nomination," Bartlett said. King's appointment was approved by the Senate without objection in a voice vote.

In 1976, King became director of development at his alma mater, Western Illinois University. A year later he started his career as a businessman. He moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin to serve as general manager of the woodworking firm Carlson's Miniatures. In 1979, he became a part owner and manager of Tomah Products, a chemical manufacturer. In 1994, King led a management buy-out of Tomah. Since then, he has served as President and CEO of Tomah Products, Inc.

He served as a delegate to Wisconsin Republican state conventions and the first congressional district Republican caucus from 1978. King was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 1985. In 1988, King resigned in order to launch a campaign for the U.S. Senate. He lost the Republican nomination to Susan Engeleiter, who was defeated by Democrat Herb Kohl in the general election.

From 1990 to 2006, King served as president at the Milton Industrial and Economic Corporation. In 2006, King founded King Capital LLC, an equity investment and real estate company. In 2007, King was elected to represent Wisconsin on the Republican National Committee, and he served until 2017.

Ambassador to the Czech Republic
In July 2017, President Donald Trump nominated King to be the next United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 5, 2017.

Personal life
King and his wife, Karen, live in Janesville, Wisconsin. They have three children.

References

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Michael David Pfeifer

Michael David Pfeifer (born May 18, 1937) is the Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of the Diocese of San Angelo. He was born in Alamo, Texas, the son of Maund Pfeifer and Alice Clausney Savage. On December 21, 1964 he was ordained a priest for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and served as a missionary in Mexico for several years. On May 31, 1985, Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of San Angelo; he was consecrated on July 26 of the same year.

Pfeifer has taken a vocal stand against the use of embryonic stem cells instead promoting the use of adult stem cells.

In accordance with canon law, Pfeifer submitted his resignation letter to then Pope Benedict XVI on his 75th birthday on May 18, 2012.  Pfeifer said he would remain dedicated to serve his community in the interim before a new bishop is selected.

Pope Francis accepted Pfeifer's resignation on December 12, 2013.

See also

 Catholic Church hierarchy
 Catholic Church in the United States
 Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
 List of Catholic bishops of the United States
 Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

References

External links
 The Diocese of San Angelo Official Site
  Bishop Michael Pfeifer: 25 years of compassion

Episcopal succession

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North West Cambridge development

The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge. The first phase resulted from a £350 million investment by the university. The development opened to the public for the Open Cambridge event on 9 September 2017.

Context
The  site covers the area between the M11 motorway, Madingley Road and Huntingdon Road. The area previously contained farms belonging to the university.

Outline planning permission for the North-West Cambridge Development or University Farm site was granted in 2013. This covers up to 3,000 dwellings, up to 2,000 student bedspaces,  employment floorspace (commercial and academic), retail floorspace, a community centre, health care centre, a primary school and nurseries, a hotel and an energy centre.

The development sets out to achieve high levels of sustainability, including many photovoltaic cells to gather solar energy, low levels of car use, a district heating network with energy centre scheme, communal waste collection systems, and the recycling of rainwater for irrigation and the flushing of toilets.

Architecture practices involved in the development include: WilkinsonEyre, Mole Architects, Stanton Williams, Mecanoo, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, RH Partnership, Marks Barfield Architects, MUMA, Maccreanor Lavington, and Witherford Watson Mann.

Eddington
Eddington is the name given by developers to a local centre in the North West Cambridge Development, after Cambridge astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, who led an expedition to the island of Príncipe to photograph the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 and verify Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. It is part of Phase I of the North West Cambridge Development, and combines the Castle Ward in the north-west of the city, and Girton parish of South Cambridgeshire district.

In 2018, a very large Roman villa was excavated on the site of Eddington, next to its Park & Ride scheme.

Eddington is centred around Market Square, with a  Sainsbury's supermarket. Its one school, the University of Cambridge Primary School, opened in 2015, occupies a toroidal building – shaped like a Polo mint – by Marks Barfield. The Storey's Field community centre and nursery is adjacent and was nominated for the 2018 Stirling Prize. Graduate students of Girton College are housed at Swirles Court.

An energy centre provides a district heating system, while a sustainable urban drainage system channels rainwater via bioswales to the artificial Brook Leys lake between the site and the M11 motorway. The water is pumped back into homes for washing through a non-potable network.

The Fata Morgana Tea House by German artists Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt sits on the western bank of Brook Leys lake. Except for the roof, almost the entire two-storey pavilion, including built-in benches, was made from undulating stainless steel welded grating. Depending on light conditions, its polished surfaces can appear shiny or see-through.

These photographs were taken in September 2017:

Transport
The site is served by the Whippet Universal bus. Madingley Road Park and Ride lies to the south of Eddington. The Ridgeway, a cycle and pedestrian path runs through the site from Girton to Storey's Way.

Eddington has road access to Madingley Road on its south side and Huntingdon Road on the north-east side.

History
 2009: Area Action Plan adopted by Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils. This states:
"North West Cambridge will create a new University quarter, which will contribute to meeting the needs of the wider city community, and which will embody best practice in environmental sustainability."

 February 2013: Outline planning permission for North West Cambridge development.

 June 2014: Name of Eddington announced, in honour of Sir Arthur Eddington who lived and worked nearby. Other names announced within North West Cambridge are open spaces Brook Leys and Storey's Field, and residential areas Ridgeway Village and Gravel Hill.

 September 2016: University of Cambridge Primary School, adjacent to Eddington, is officially opened. This is the first operational unit of the North West Cambridge development.

 June 2017: Swirles Court, student accommodation for Girton College, is completed. It is named for Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys), a Girton alumna.

 July 2017: the first residents move in to Eddington.

 September 2017: Sainsbury's and Argos stores open. Go Whippet bus service U commences services to Eddington. An open day was held at Eddington with speeches from the University Vice-Chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz and local MPs Heidi Allen and Daniel Zeichner.

Future development
Eddington will include 700 University key-worker residences, 325 postgraduate student rooms, the market square with Sainsbury's and local shops, the energy centre and the health centre, and a hotel.

The North West Cambridge Development is planned to eventually contain 3,000 homes, accommodation for 2,000 postgraduate students and  of research facilities. The energy centre will be used to produce electricity as electrical demand grows.

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Lily Mabura

Lily G. N. Mabura is a Kenyan writer known for her  short story How Shall We Kill the Bishop, which was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2010.

Career and education
Mabura earned a Master's in Fine Arts degree from University of Idaho. Her 2004 thesis was titled On the Slopes of Mt. Kenya. She is and author and academic, having taught at University of Missouri and at the American University of Sharjah.

Honours and awards
Mabura has received a number of awards including:
Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Children's Winner 2001 for her book, Ali, the Little Sultan
 Kenya's National Book Week Literary Award for The Pretoria Conspiracy in 2001
 Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers in 2007
 University of Rochester's Frederick Douglass Fellowship in 2008-2009

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Brackley Kennett

Brackley Kennett was a British merchant who served as Sheriff of London in 1765 and Lord Mayor of London from 1779–1780. During his time in office the Gordon Riots broke out and his response to the rioting proved controversial. He failed to read the Riot Act, or to offer additional protection to threatened communities, and it was even alleged that he was broadly sympathetic to the rioters.

In 1781 Kennett was convicted of criminal negligence for his conduct during the Riots and fined £1,000.

References

Bibliography
 Babington, Anthony. Military intervention in Britain: from the Gordon riots to the Gibraltar Incident. Routledge, 1990.
 Hibbert, Christopher King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780. Dorset Press

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John Entwistle's Ox's 1974–1975 tour

John Entwistle's Ox, a band fronted by The Who's bass guitarist John Entwistle, staged a tour of the United Kingdom and North America in late 1974 and early 1975.

History
The band, previously known as John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis, rehearsed at the Royal Ballroom in Tottenham, London with a twelve-piece lineup and Shepperton Studios in Shepperton, which cost Entwistle £20,000. The Ox started a tour of the United Kingdom on 8 December 1974 at the Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The concert was a commercial failure, as only 300 out of the available 2,000 tickets were sold. The Who's crew and PA system were used for the tour, with the sound mixed by Bob Pridden. After poorly attended shows at large venues, the band played a series of mostly university shows in early 1975. After concluding the UK tour, the band performed in North America, usually opening for more well-known acts. It was estimated that Entwistle lost around $70,000 on the tour and he became poorer by more than £30,000.

Live releases
Live material from 1974 and 1975 has appeared on the following releases:

 The show on 15 March 1975 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia was broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour and released as a live album, King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert in 1998.

Tour band
 Robert A. Johnson – guitar
 John Entwistle – lead vocals, bass guitar
 Mike Deacon – keyboards
 Graham Deakin – drums
with
 Geoff Daly – saxophone
 Irene Chanter – backing vocals
 Doreen Chanter – backing vocals

Set list
The set list of the live album King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert consists of the following (all songs written by John Entwistle unless otherwise specified):

 "Heaven and Hell"
 "Whiskey Man"
 "My Size"
 "Boris the Spider"
 "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
 "Cell Number 7"
 "Who Cares?"
 "Gimme That Rock 'N' Roll"
 "My Wife"

Tour dates

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Ignacije Szentmartony

Ignacije Szentmartony (October 28, 1718 – April 15, 1793) was a Croatian Jesuit priest, missionary, mathematician, astronomer, explorer and cartographer.

Biography

Szentmartony was born in Kottori, Kingdom of Hungary (today Kotoriba, Međimurje, Croatia), to a Croat mother and a Hungarian father. After graduating from secondary school he entered the order of Jesuits in Vienna in 1735. He studied in Vienna and Graz, (Austria)  where he also lectured mathematics. By the year 1751, he was in Lisbon, Portugal where he obtained the title of royal mathematician and astronomer. With those credentials, he became a member of an expedition that worked on the rearrangement of the frontiers among Portuguese and Spanish colonies in South America.

In 1753, he sailed for Brazil into the very mouth of the Amazon River. Based on his surveys, Lorenz Kaulen made in 1753 a map of Maranhão district titled Mappa Viceprovinciae Societatis Iesu Maragnonii anno MDCCLIII concinnata. Its original is in Biblioteca de Évora in Portugal. Another map, Mapa da Ilha do Maranhão, made in 1757 again based upon Szentmartony's surveys, is also kept here. Between 1754-56, Father Szentmartony took part in expeditions to the Amazon and the Rio Negro. Upon the data obtained from his systematical astronomical surveys, in 1755 engineers Schwebel and Sturm made a regional map titled Mappa Geographico dos Rios. It was a first-rate cartographic representation of the riverbed containing data relating to islets, tributaries and settlements.

He complained vigorously about the inhumane treatment of the native people by the colonizers, so his expedition came under scrutiny and failed. Szentmartony remained as a missionary in the settlement of Ibyrajuba near Pará. In 1760 he was deported with other persecuted Jesuits, put in prison and released in 1777 upon the intervention of the Empress Maria Theresa. He returned to Croatia in 1780. In 1773 his religious order was suppressed. A priest in Belica (Belicza), he died in Čakovec  (Csáktornya) in 1793.

He is also believed to be the author of Einleitung zur kroatischen Sprachlehre für Teutschen, the first Kajkavian grammar, published in 1783 in Varaždin.

See also
List of Jesuit scientists
List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

References

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International Socialist Network

The International Socialist Network (ISN or IS Network for short) was a short-lived revolutionary socialist organisation in Britain. It was formed as a split from the Socialist Workers Party in 2013 following the alleged rape scandal concerning former National Secretary, Martin Smith.

According to the group's Autumn 2014 Discussion Bulletin, it was "a tendency within Left Unity". The ISN also participated in unity talks involving other organisations, some of which are involved in Left Unity, including Workers Power, Socialist Resistance, Anti-Capitalist Initiative and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (RS21).  It published regular 'internal' bulletins that are also publicly available, and one issue of a proposed journal, 'Cactus'.

The ISN voted to disband at a national meeting in May 2015 and encouraged members to join other socialist organisations

See also
 List of political parties in the United Kingdom opposed to austerity

References

External links
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2014–15 Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey season

The Boston University Terriers represented Boston University in the Women's Hockey East Association during the 2014–15 season. The #5 Terriers won the WHEA Tournament by upsetting #1 Boston College.  They earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Wisconsin in the quarterfinal round.

Offseason
 August 5: Three current members of the Terriers roster were invited to the Canadian U22 camp. Shannon Doyle, Sarah Lefort and Samantha Sutherland were joined by incoming freshmen Victoria Bach and Rebecca Leslie. 2014 graduate Louise Warren was also in attendance. Maddie Elia was invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival in Lake Placid, New York. Both camps were used to determine rosters for a three-game series involving the Canadian and US Under-22 teams from August 21–24 in Calgary, Alberta. Of note, Terriers assistant coach Katie Lachapelle was also at the Festival. She was to serve as an assistant coach on the US Under-18 Team.

Recruiting

Roster

2014-15 Terriers

Schedule

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Awards and honors
 Boston University won its fourth consecutive WHEA championship, and fifth championship overall
 Marie-Philip Poulin was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, named captain of Team Canada for World Championships.
 Victoria Bach was named WHEA Rookie of the Year
 Victoria Bach, Hockey East Rookie of the Month (February 2015)
 Rebecca Leslie, Hockey East Rookie of the Month (October 2014)
 Erin O'Neill, Hockey East Rookie of the Week (Week of December 15, 2014)
 Marie-Philip Poulin, Hockey East Player of the Month (January 2015)
 Marie-Philip Poulin, Hockey East Player of the Month (February 2015)

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Louis Carpenter

Louis Carpenter may refer to:

Louis H. Carpenter (1839–1916), American military general
Louis Carpenter (judge) (1829–1863), American jurist
Louis George Carpenter (1861–1935), college professor and engineer
Lou Carpenter, Neighbours character

See also
Lewis Carpenter (disambiguation)


Evgeny Lovchev

Evgeny Serafimovich Lovchev (; born 29 January 1949) is a Russian sports journalist, a former footballer, soccer and futsal manager.

Honours
 Soviet Top League winner: 1969.
 Soviet Top League runner-up: 1974.
 Soviet Top League bronze: 1970.
 Soviet Cup winner: 1971.
 Top 33 players year-end list: 7 times.
 Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1972.

Career
He was capped 52 times for USSR, playing the 1970 FIFA World Cup and the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1970, he became the first player to be booked on a World Cup match, in the opening game of the tournament against Mexico.

Personal
His son Evgeniy Lovchev played football professionally, including Kazakhstan national football team.

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Hua Yang De Nian Hua

Hua Yang De Nian Hua is a 2000 short film by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai that was shown at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival.

It consists of a 2m 28s montage of scenes from vintage Chinese films, most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered in a California warehouse during the 1990s, set to a song from the soundtrack of Wong's In the Mood for Love (2000), a golden oldie by Zhou Xuan; this song gives the film its title. It is available on the Criterion Collection DVD release of In the Mood for Love as an extra, as well as various bootlegged VCD releases of Wong's features.

External links

Review of the Criterion Collection DVD of In the Mood for Love with screenshot of Hua Yang De Nian Hua

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SM UB-35

SM UB-35 was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 28 December 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 22 June 1916 as SM UB-35.

The submarine sank 43 ships in 26 patrols. UB-35 was depth charged and sunk by British warships including  in the English Channel on 26 January 1918.

Design
A German Type UB II submarine, UB-35 had a displacement of  when at the surface and  while submerged. She had a total length of , a beam of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Benz six-cylinder diesel engines producing a total , two Siemens-Schuckert electric motors producing , and one propeller shaft. She was capable of operating at depths of up to .

The submarine had a maximum surface speed of  and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, she could operate for  at ; when surfaced, she could travel  at . UB-35 was fitted with two  torpedo tubes, four torpedoes, and one  Uk L/30 deck gun. She had a complement of twenty-one crew members and two officers and a 42-second dive time.

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Passion: An Essay on Personality

Passion: An Essay on Personality is a philosophical inquiry into human nature by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The book explores the individual and his relation to society, asking how one comes to an understanding of self and others. Unger here sees the root human predicament as the need to establish oneself as a unique individual in the world but at the same time to find commonality and solidarity with others. This exploration is grounded in what Unger calls a modernist image of the human being as one who lives in context but is not bound by context.

Unger’s aim is twofold. First, to level a critique, expansion, and defense of modern thinking about the human and society “so that this practice can better withstand the criticisms that philosophy since Hume and Kant has leveled against it.” And second, to develop a prescriptive theory of human identity centered on what Unger calls the passions—our raw responses to the world that are ambivalent towards reasons but also act in the service of reason. He outlines nine passions that organize and are organized by our dealings with others: lust, despair, hatred, vanity, jealousy, envy, faith, hope, and love. While these emotional states may be seen as raw emotion, their expression is always conditioned by the context within which the individual mobilizes or learns to mobilize them.

The book was critically hailed as successfully grappling with some of the most fundamental and enduring problems of human existence. It has been put into direct dialogue with Kant's moral law, and said to have provided one answer to Hume's Guillotine. Unger's analysis and the program he builds around this revolutionary understanding has also inspired new thinking and approaches to psychiatry.

Background
Entering into a long philosophical tradition of inquiry into human nature, Unger begins by categorically rejecting the idea of a natural order to the world or a natural state of human organization. For Unger, there are no natural laws. Rather, he takes to the hilt the modernist thesis that we are shaped by context but not bound by context. As such, we have the power to work both within and beyond any constraints of social or cultural binds.

This perspective is derived from the Christian-Romantic tradition. Unger argues that this tradition has two themes: interpersonal relations with love as the redemptive moment, and that a person's identity is not defined by membership in social ranks and division. This then gives expression to the idea that humans are never at home in the world and that they are constantly striving to remake the world. The modernist development takes up this theme but emphasizes interpersonal relations over impersonal reality or good so that no institutional settings can limit the possibilities of humanity. We “can assert [our] independence only by perpetual war against the fact of contextually…”

Normative force
In laying forth a view of human nature and prescription of self-affirmation, Unger recognizes that he faces the predicament of employing one system of thought that has developed out of particular historical circumstances and is thus no better or worse than any other system of thought. Indeed, under what auspices can such a philosophical orientation be turned into a normative prescription?

Unger turns this question from one of general principles to one of the enactment of a vision or project of self-affirmation. For Unger, at issue here is not the pure speculation of philosophical inquiry into the nature of human beings and their activities, but rather a transformative project of self and society. In this way, the task is to realize a vision and enact a program of self-affirmation. The only alternative is to find a better one or fail at self-affirmation. The standards by which Unger confirms a project of self-affirmation are as follows: socially it is unstable if it fails to deal with behavior predispositions or material constraints, and existentially it fails if it disregards recurrent features of our experience, e.g. dependence upon others.

Unger looks closely at existential projects that fail: the heroic ethic (delusional about historic setting, which negates the ethic), and the impersonal absolute ethic (Buddhism, which tries but cannot divest itself of the world). Both respond to the fact of the individual not being the center of the world. However, by doing so they disengage from the world and others. While Confucianism addresses interdependence, the philosophy elevates it to a level of canonical hierarchy and thus imposes strict constraints.

Towards a psychology of empowerment
Unger sees the Christian-Romantic tradition as the one tradition that puts the individual at the center of the world and gives him the tools for the liberation of self and environment. However, similar to the world's religious and philosophical traditions, it fails to provide a lasting answer to the predicament of human existence. This failure is the constant danger that after liberation the self will return to its customary affairs and routine practices. Rather than moving onwards to greater feats of humanity and godlike existence, the individual will allow everyday affairs to again take over. This surrender to habit is directly linked to the defeat of the imagination. Thus metaphysical revolution is needed through a psychology of empowerment and an analysis of social conditions upon which this empowerment relies. Unger’s project begins here.

Contents
Passion begins with a long introductory foray into the Western philosophical tradition of human nature before moving onto a four-part meditation of human experience and expression. In part one, he sets out to define passion as the noninstrumental dealings that we have with others; they organize and are organized around the need and danger that is at the heart of our relations with others. This definition is developed out of the argument that the individual is in constant conflict in the world: at once attempting to assert the self as individual and establish difference, but at same time to gain acceptance by others. We are thus defined by the mutual need and reliance upon each other, and the mutual fear of each other in acceptance or rejection. Passion is at the heart of this reciprocal and infinite terror and longing for each other.

In part two, Unger attempts to explain how one becomes capable of passion. He charts out a path by which the individual first has desire, which is then augmented with imagination. The imagination reveals an insatiability of the infinite sense of self, which is but then contingent upon the acceptance of others. With this recognition, then, the contingency of the self is revealed. With the further realization of death we come to see that nothing outside of the self can fulfill desire; we want to see the self as transcending all of the fixed social world.

In part three, Unger addresses the passions themselves. As James Glass in Political Psychology writes, "Not only do these passions civilize and humanize experience; their practice transcends social status, framework, and stratification. Existing beyond class and history, they possess an autonomy that resists the disintegrative pull of power and self-interest, the historical and social differences induced by envy, jealousy, pride, and vanity."  Unger describes each one in a way that brings out the need-danger antinomy and the context dependent-transcended dichotomy.

 Lust and despair are proto-social destructive forces that must be tamed for civil order to ensue.
 Hatred, vanity, jealousy, and envy underscore failures to accept one another's presence in the world.
 Faith, hope, and love resolve conflicts that seemed insoluble and break through barriers.

Part four charts the task ahead, which Unger says is to find the collective equivalents to the personal experiences of love, faith, and hope. We must strive to discover the structures that can realize these passions in the everyday world. All too often visions of the future human and environment exclude from social life the personal connections represented in the passions, choosing instead to focus on the recreation of the material world. Unger’s call, however, is to take full account of the passions so we may transcend our context and become more godlike.

The book’s appendix is "A Program for Late Twentieth-Century Psychiatry," an apropos article previously published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1982, whose argument can be summed up as "psychoanalytic theory offers opportunities to replicate, but not to transform, individual and social contexts."

Reception
The book has been met with critical but high acclaim in both legal and philosophical circles. In his Times review, Jerome Neu, celebrated the book as "some of the most brilliant writing of this kind since Hegel."  Other reviewers have similarly praised it for its "heretical presence both in contemporary social science and philosophy, a point of view that refuses both the "scorched earth campaign of radical skepticism" and the limitations of a social and political theory that roots meaning in transcendental or metaphysical absolutes." Yet reviewers have also expressed reservations over "Unger's style, his normative reflections, his erudition and elusiveness." The Michigan Law Review asked for a more concrete articulation of Unger's idea, claiming that he left both his idea of the individual and program for psychiatry too ambiguous. "That Unger's best society would be a place of playfulness and laughter is, however, only implicit in Passion, and Unger's failure to describe the mirthfulness of the world of love exemplifies the speculative tone that marks the central failure of the work as a whole." Similarly, James Boyle in the Harvard Law Review said that the speculative philosophy detracted from the effectiveness of the message, and thought the argument would have been better served with personal example.

J. Allan Hobson, in the pages of the Northwestern University Law Review, capitalized on the inspiration of Unger's thesis to develop a new psychiatric program in "advanc[ing] from a set of slogans to testable hypotheses." He praised Unger for pinpointing the root of the problem--"Psychoanalysis is out of gas, and biological psychiatry is not yet up to speed. As a field in crisis, psychiatry is ripe for change."—but found Unger's theory of personality and program "hopelessly inadequate" because it was too speculative and failed to address biological data. Hobson attempted to develop a theory that would incorporate this biological data.

References

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 Full text of James Boyle's Review

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Kortavij-e Olya

Kortavij-e Olya (, also Romanized as Kortavīj-e ‘Olyā and Kort Vīj-e ‘Olyā; also known as Gortavīch-e ‘Olyā, Kortavīj-e Bālā, Kurtai, and Kurtai Bālā) is a village in Kanduleh Rural District, Dinavar District, Sahneh County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 295, in 72 families.

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Egil Reichborn-Kjennerud

Egil Reichborn-Kjennerud (4 February 1903 – 10 April 1974) was a Norwegian judge, cyclist and sports administrator. He was a Norwegian champion in cycling. During World War II he was a sports leader under the Nazi rule, leading the Norwegian Confederation of Sports from 1940 to 1942.

He administrated the court which sentenced police officer Gunnar Eilifsen to death, but voted against death penalty. After the war he was convicted to ten years prison for treason.

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Homer D. Angell

Homer Daniel Angell (January 12, 1875 – March 31, 1968) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon.

Angell was born on a farm near The Dalles, Oregon in 1875. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in 1900 and his law degree from Columbia University in 1903, after which he returned to Portland to begin his law practice.

He was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1929, 1931, and 1935 and the Oregon State Senate in 1937. He resigned that seat in 1938 to run for the United States House of Representatives, representing Oregon's 3rd congressional district. Angell was elected and served eight terms. In 1954, Angell was defeated for the Republican nomination by future Oregon governor Tom McCall.

Personal
Angell's first wife was Mayme Henton Angell; they married in 1908.  She died in 1951 after a long illness.
Angell married his long-time secretary Margaret Clagget after 1951, shortly before being sworn in for his seventh term.

Following his surprise defeat in the 1954 Republican primary by journalist and future Oregon governor Tom McCall, Angell retired from politics and returned to Portland, where he remained active in the community until his death in 1968. He is interred at the Portland Memorial Funeral Home and Mausoleum.

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Neoregelia 'Pink Spider'

'Pink Spider' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Neoregelia in the Bromeliad family.

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Your Biggest Fan

Your Biggest Fan is the third official EP by the Austin, Texas-based indie pop band Voxtrot. Released on November 17, 2006, in the United States, it was available as both a three track CD and a two track 7" single.

The track "Trouble" was later released in the UK as a single.

Critical response
Jack Rabid of AllMusic wrote: "Although Your Biggest Fan is weak-for-them Smiths-like piano pop further botched by producer Ben Hiller (Doves, Elbow) -- though the second half picks up a little -- both B-sides are better produced than the LP (sad, that!) and make the EP an important purchase, especially the onrushing "Trouble.""

Track listings

Personnel

Voxtrot
Ramesh Srivastavavocals, guitar
Jared Van Fleetguitar, strings
Mitch Calvertguitar
Jason Chronisbass
Matt Simondrums

Technical
Erik Woffordengineering
Ben Hillerproduction, mixing, engineering

Guest musicians
Ames Asbellviola
Sara Nelsoncello
Tracy Seegerviolin
Jennifer Moorebacking vocals

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Pope Urban I

Pope Urban I () was Bishop of Rome or Pope from 222 to 23 May 230. He was born in Rome and succeeded Pope Callixtus I, who had been martyred. It was previously believed for centuries that Urban I was also martyred. However, recent historical discoveries now lead scholars to believe that he died of natural causes.

Biography
Much of Urban's life is shrouded in mystery, leading to many myths and misconceptions. Despite the lack of sources he is the first Pope whose reign can be definitely dated. Two prominent sources do exist for Urban's pontificate: Eusebius' history of the early Church and also an inscription in the Coemeterium Callisti which names the Pope.

Urban ascended to the papacy in the year of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for Christians in the Empire as Severus did not promote the persecution of Christianity.

Urban is a saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Papacy
It is believed that the schismatic Hippolytus was still leading a rival Christian congregation in Rome, and that he published the Philosophumena, an attack on Pope Urban's predecessor Callixtus. Urban is said to have maintained the hostile policy of Callixtus when dealing with the schismatic party.

Due to the relative freedoms the Christian community had during Severus' reign the Church in Rome grew, leading to the belief that Urban was a skilled converter. A Papal decree concerning the donations of the faithful at Mass is attributed to Pope Urban:
The gifts of the faithful that are offered to the Lord can only be used for ecclesiastical purposes, for the common good of the Christian community, and for the poor; for they are the consecrated gifts of the faithful, the atonement offering of sinners, and the patrimony of the needy.

Tomb
It had been believed that he was buried in the Coemetarium Praetextati where a tomb was inscribed with his name. However, when excavating the Catacomb of Callixtus Italian archaeologist Giovanni de Rossi uncovered the lid of a sarcophagus which suggested that Pope Urban was in fact buried there. De Rossi also found a list of martyrs and confessors who were buried at St. Callistus', which contained Urban's name. De Rossi therefore concluded that the Urban buried in the Coemetarium Praetextati was another bishop and Pope Urban was located in Catacomb of St. Callistus. While many historians accept this opinion, doubt remains since Pope Sixtus III's list of saints buried in St. Callistus' Catacomb does not include Urban in the succession of Popes but rather in a list of foreign bishops. Therefore, it is possible that Pope Urban is indeed buried in the Coemetarium Praetextati.

His relic is located in Hungary in the Monok Roman Catholic Church. In 1773, Pope Clement XIV donated it to the Andrássy family.

Legends and myths

As no contemporary accounts of Urban's pontificate exist there have been many legends and acts attributed to him which are fictitious or difficult to ascertain the factual nature of. The legendary Acts of St. Cecilia and the Liber Pontificalis both contain information on Urban, although their reliability is doubtful. Chaucer made him a character in the Second Nun's Tale of the Canterbury Tales.

A story that was once included in the Catholic Church's Breviary states that Urban had many converts among whom were Tiburtius and his brother Valerianus, husband of Cecilia. Tradition credits Urban with the miracle of toppling an idol through prayer. This event is believed to have led to Urban being beaten and tortured before being sentenced to death by beheading.

A further belief, now known as an invention from the sixth century, was that Urban had ordered the making of silver liturgical vessels and the patens for twenty-five titular churches of his own time.

Art
Urban is found in various pieces of artwork usually in one of two forms. Often he is found sitting wearing the Papal Tiara, Papal robes and holding a sword pointed towards the ground. Otherwise Urban may be portrayed wearing Papal garb and a Bishop's Mitre while holding a bible and a bunch of grapes.
An image of Pope Saint Urbanus (or Urban/Urbain) is on a 12th-century fresco at Chalivoy-Milon in the Berry Art Gallery.

Other less common depictions of Pope Urban are:
after his beheading, with the papal tiara near him.
as idols fall from a column while he is beheaded;
scourged at the stake;
seated in a landscape as a young man (Saint Valerian) kneels before him and a priest holds a book.

See also

List of Catholic saints
List of popes

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J.T. Murphy No 1 Crater

The J.T. Murphy No. 1 Crater is the site of a historic oil-drilling accident near Norphlet, Union County, Arkansas.  The site is located about  north and west of Norphlet, off Firetower Road about 3/4 mile (1.21 km) north of its junction with Baugh Street.  On May 14, 1922, an oil drilling crew completed a  well, dubbed J.T. Murphy No. 1, and began pumping.  The early production was entirely natural gas, which began escaping from the drill collar.  Eventually it caught fire, burning for several hours, and destroying the derrick.  It also caused a series of violent underground explosions.  This resulted in the creation of a crater  in diameter and  deep, along with a number of other, shallower, craters.  The land, which had previously been in cotton production, was abandoned, and has gradually returned to forest.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, Arkansas

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World Scrabble Championship 2016

The MSI World Scrabble Championship 2016 was a Scrabble tournament organised by Mattel and Mindsports International (MSI) to determine the world champion in English Scrabble. It was held from 31 August to 4 September 2016 in Lille, France.

The event was split into two divisions based on players' World English-Language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) ratings. The top division comprised some 72 players. 24 games were played on the first three days, after which the top eight proceeded to a 3-game quarterfinals, with the winners advancing to a 5-game semifinals on the same day; the top two players, Brett Smitheram and Mark Nyman, played a best-of-five final the day after for the top prize of €7,000. Smitheram beat Nyman 3–0. The World Championship was held in conjunction with that of Scrabble in other languages.

Background

The MSI World Scrabble Championship 2016 was held from 31 August to 4 September 2016 under the auspices of Mindsports International and sponsored by Mattel and HarperCollins (the publisher of the official lexicon used in play), as part of the Mindsports International 2016 Championships. The playing venue was the Lille Grand Palais. There were two divisions based on players' WESPA ratings: A (1700 and above, or by invitation by WESPA or the World Mind Sports Federation) and B (below 1700 or unrated). MSI also hosted World Championships in other languages, including French, German, Spanish and Catalan, alongside the French Duplicate Championship.

Participants
The top division comprised a total of 72 players, as listed below alphabetically.

, 2107
, 2094
, 2025
, 1709
, 1736
, 2170
, 1520
, 1985
, 1869
, 1812
, 2157
, 1511
, 1795
, 2220
, 2013
, 2002
, 2168
, 2048
, 1767
, 2015
, 2053
, 1969
, 2061
, 1837
, 1781
, 1573
, 1093
, 1500
, 1437
, 2012
, 1565
, 1869
, 1047
, 1632
, 1986
, 1990
, 1528
, 2145
, 1140
, 1717
, 2115
, 1817
, 2065
, 1870
, 1804
, 1730
, 1702
, 1792
, 1705
, 1923
, 2258
, 1539
, 1770
, 2015
, 2053
, 1571
, 1828
, 1816
, 1808
, 2024
, 1661
, 1588
, 1821
, 1797
, 1655
, 1851
, 1933
, 1747
, 1928
, 1873
, 2132
, 1774

Results

Preliminary
After 24 preliminary rounds, the top eight advanced to the quarterfinals. Three-time World Champion Nigel Richards (2007, 2011, and 2013) failed to qualify for the knockout rounds, as did 2015 and 2014 World Champions Wellington Jighere and Craig Beevers.

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Knockout

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Semi-finals losers Lewis MacKay and 2005 World Champion Adam Logan were scheduled to play a best-of-three third-place playoff, but Logan forfeited and MacKay automatically clinched the title of second runner-up.

Finals

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UK-based recruitment consultant Brett Smitheram beat fellow Englishman and writer Mark Nyman, the 1993 World Scrabble Champion, 3–0 in the best-of-five finals, and became the 2016 World Scrabble Champion and won €7,000. Notable plays by Smitheram included BRACONID for 181 points (176 points plus 5 points for an unsuccessful challenge by Nyman), GYNAECIA (95) and PERIAGUA (76). Incidentally, Smitheram was a former contestant on the television programme Countdown, and Nyman was one of its producers. In the second division, Jack Mpakaboari beat Sandy Nang 3–0 in a best-of-five finals.

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1991–92 ECHL season

The 1991–92 ECHL season was the fourth season of the ECHL.  In 1991, the league welcomed four new franchises: the Columbus Chill, Dayton Bombers, Raleigh Icecaps, and Toledo Storm.  The fifteen teams played 64 games in the schedule.  The Toledo Storm finished first overall in the regular season.  The Hampton Roads Admirals won their second straight Riley Cup championship.

League realignment
With the league expanded to fifteen teams, the league was realigned to include two separate divisions, East and West.

East Division
Greensboro Monarchs
Hampton Roads Admirals
Knoxville Cherokees
Raleigh Icecaps
Richmond Renegades
Roanoke Valley Rebels
Winston-Salem Thunderbirds

West Division
Cincinnati Cyclones
Columbus Chill
Dayton Bombers
Erie Panthers
Johnstown Chiefs
Louisville Icehawks
Nashville Knights
Toledo Storm

Regular season
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Green shade = Clinched playoff spot, Blue shade = Clinched division

Riley Cup playoffs

Bracket

East

1st Round

2nd Round

Divisional Finals

West

1st Round

2nd Round

Divisional Finals

Riley Cup Finals

ECHL awards

References
All stats come from Internet Hockey Database

See also
 ECHL
 ECHL All-Star Game
 Kelly Cup
 List of ECHL seasons

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Bruno Schettino

Bruno Schettino (5 January 1941 – 21 September 2012) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua, Italy.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, Schettino was made bishop in 1987 and died while in office.

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U Thuzana

Thuzana (; ), also known as the Myainggyi-ngu Sayadaw (; 1947 – 18 October 2018), was a Karen Theravada Buddhist monk based in Myaing Gyi Ngu, Kayin State, Myanmar. He was the leader of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), an ethnic insurgent group, until its dissolution in 2010.

Career
Thuzana was responsible for a 1992 campaign of constructing pagodas in Kayin State and held the title Myaing Gyi Ngu Sayadaw. Thuzana owned a large piece of land in the Myaing Gyi Ngu area and offered it to the IDPs to build houses there. Myaing Gyi Ngu began as a small IDP village, but later expanded to become a town.

Thuzana was formerly a member of the Karen National Union (KNU) until his disagreements with the majority Christian leadership led him to split and create the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) in 1994. Until his death, he wielded considerable influence over the DKBA as well as the Border Guard Force (BGF) it later became.

Construction of Buddhist buildings
Thuzana and his followers drew criticism for their ethno-nationalist views and for building pagodas in close proximity to churchs and mosques.

Thuzana sponsored the construction of hundreds of small pagodas along the roads between Myaing Gyi Ngu and the nearby Myanmar–Thailand border. He even had pagodas built on the banks of the Salween River at the border. In his mission to spread Buddhism to all people living in mountainous areas, he also built a monastery in Kayah State.

Before his split with the KNU, Thuzana had a pagoda built in Manerplaw, on the site of the former KNU headquarters. However, General Bo Mya, who was the head of KNU at that time, warned him against painting it white as it could be a visible target for the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces). This was the first internal disagreement between Thuzana and rest of the KNU's leadership, which would eventually lead to the split.

Death
Thuzana died on 13 October 2018 at the age of 71 at the Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Peretz Markish

Peretz Davidovich Markish () () (7 December 1895 (25 November OS) – 12 August 1952) was a Soviet/Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish.

Early years
Peretz Markish was born in 1895 in Polonne, the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to a Sephardi Jewish family. As a child he attended a cheder and sang in the choir of the local synagogue. He served as a private in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was discharged from the army after the Russian Revolution, and settled in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine. In 1918, he relocated to Kiev.

Life
Markish's first poetry collection, Shveln ("Thresholds"), published in Kiev in 1919, established his reputation. His poetry cycle Di kupe ("The Heap"; 1921) was written in response to the Ukrainian pogroms of 1919–20.

In the early 1920s, he was a member of the Kiev group of Yiddish poets that included David Hofstein and Leib Kvitko. After a series of pogroms took place in Ukraine, he moved to Warsaw and in Western Europe. While in Warsaw, he co-edited with I. J. Singer the expressionist literary anthology Khalyastre ("Gang"; 1922). Uri Zvi Grinberg and Melech Ravitch edited other literary publications. A second and final volume of Khalyastre, edited with Oser Varshawski, appeared in Paris in 1924 with a cover illustration by Marc Chagall. In 1924 he was a co-founder and editor of the Literarishe bleter in Warsaw.

In 1926, Markish returned to the Soviet Union. There he published a number of optimistic poems glorifying the communist regime, including Mayn dor ("My Generation"; 1927) and the epic Brider ("Brothers"; 1929). His novel Dor oys, dor ayn ("Generation After Generation"; 1929), about the genesis of revolution in a small Jewish town, was condemned for "Jewish chauvinism."  As a co-founder of the Soviet School of Writers he was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1939.

Markish joined the Soviet Communist party in early 1942 when he took a job at the International Division of Sovietinformburo, while a colleague Teumin was the press agent.  The bureau head Lozovsky banned them from any further contact with JAC; effectively cutting them off from the international socialist element altogether.  The monitors started looking through their post, investigating the articles they wrote.  In April 1942, Stalin had ordered the formation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West. Solomon Mikhoels, a popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed its chairman.  Other members included Der Nister, Itzik Feffer and Samuel Halkin. They wrote texts and petitions almost as cries for help against the Nazi pogroms; among other countries the texts were printed in U.S. newspapers. The JAC also raised funds.  In 1946, he was awarded the Stalin Prize, and wrote several paeans to Joseph Stalin, including a 20,000-line epic poem Milkhome ("War") in 1948.

However, Stalin soon changed policy towards the liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and against the remnants of official Jewish cultural activity in the Soviet Union. Solomon Mikhoels was murdered by the secret police in January 1948, to avoid a show trial. Other writers were accused of treason, and other "crimes", and arrested. Markish was accused of being a "Jewish nationalist", and arrested in January 1949, and shot with other Jewish writers during the Night of the Murdered Poets in August 1952.

After Stalin's death, Markish's widow Esther and his sons, literary scholar Shimon Markish and prose writer David Markish, actively set out to redeem his memory. Following Markish's official rehabilitation in November 1955, several comprehensive editions of his poems, translated into Russian by Anna Akhmatova, were published in 1957. His oldest child, daughter Olga Rapay-Markish by his first wife, Zinaida Joffe, was a renowned Ukrainian ceramicist.

Writings
Markish wrote a number of poems and plays, as well as several novels.

Markish is one of the three heroes, with his fellow Yiddish poets Uri Zvi Grinberg (1896–1981) and Melekh Ravitsh (1893–1976), of Gilles Rozier's novel D'un pays sans amour.

Selected works
 Shveln ("Thresholds"), 1919
 Stam ("Just So"), 1920 (2nd Ed, Warsaw 1922)
 Pist und Pas, 1920
 Inmitn veg ("Midway"), 1920
 Wohlin, Vilna 1921 (Poem)
 Die Kupe ("The Heap"), Kiev 1922 (Poem about the pogroms in the Ukraine)
 Chaliastre Almanach (Scrapbook, 1922)
 Owentschu'en, Kiev 1922
 Radio, Warsaw 1923 (Poem)
 Sang-Gesang ("Sang-song"), about 1926 (Song series that picks up the four seasons)
 Der Galaganer Hahn ("The Galaganer Rooster"), drawings of Joseph Tchaikovsky, first in Yiddish Berlin 1922. In Yiddish and German translation included in: David Bergelson, Leib Kvitko, Peretz Markisch, Ber Smoliar. Yiddish children's book Berlin, Yiddish and German.
 Varbeige'endik, ca. 1927 (Collected essays)
 Brider ("Brothers"), 1929 (epic poem glorifying the sacrificial death of two proletarian brothers who gave their lives to the revolution)
 Dor oys, dor ayn ("Generation After Generation"), 1929 (about the comings and goings of generations in the Russian shtetles)
 Eins oif eins ("One on One"), 1934 (novel about the heroic story of a Jewish Mason who leaves America to help build the socialist Russia)
 Poeme wegn Stalinen ("Ode to Stalin"), 1940
 Milkhome ("War"), 1948 (his main work, on which he had worked for years. Epic of World War II)
 Yerushe ("Heritage"), 1959 posthumously, an incomplete epic poem
 Trot fun doyres ("Footsteps of the Generations"), novel written in 1947–48 and published posthumously in 1966, chronicling the heroism of Polish Jews during World War II

References

External links

2 poems by Peretz Markish in English translation
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews of Eastern Europe

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Terry O'Mara

Terry O'Mara (born 24 February 1941) is  a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Bradyrhizobium ottawaense

Bradyrhizobium ottawaense is a nitrogen fixing bacterium from the genus of Bradyrhizobium which has been isolated from the nodules of soybeans in Ottawa in Canada.

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Winter Street (Boston)

Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts is located between Tremont Street and Washington Street, near the Common. It is currently a pedestrian zone. Prior to 1708, it was called Blott's Lane and then Bannister's Lane..  It was also known at times as "Winer Street."

See also
 Downtown Crossing
 Boston Music Hall
Former tenants
 M.M. Ballou, publisher
 Deloss Barnum, photographer
 Central Church
 Walter Lofthouse Dean, 3 Winter Street, painter
 Draper & Folsom, publishers
 Fadettes of Boston
 Gilchrist's store
 A.N. Hardy, photographer
 Josiah Leavitt
 New England Emigrant Aid Company
 Polyanthos
 Henry and John Christian Rauschner, portraitists
 Schoenhof & Moeller
 S.R. Urbino, foreign books

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Hammond Academy of Science and Technology (HAST)

Hammond Academy of Science and Technology (HAST) is a charter school located in Hammond, Indiana. This school focuses on both science and technology with a heavy emphasis on a small teacher-to-student ratio. HAST is both a high school and middle school with grades ranging from 6-12.

References

External links
 Official Website

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John Norris (philosopher)

John Norris, sometimes called John Norris of Bemerton (1657–1712), was an English theologian, philosopher and poet associated with the Cambridge Platonists.

Life

John Norris was born at Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire.  He was educated at Winchester School, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1680. He was later appointed a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (M.A. 1684). He lived a quiet life as a country parson and thinker at Fugglestone St Peter with Bemerton, Wiltshire, from 1692 until his death early in 1712.

Works
In philosophy he was a Platonist and mystic. He became an early opponent of John Locke, whose An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) he attacked in Christian Blessedness or Discourses upon the Beatitudes in the same year; he also combatted Locke's theories in his Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World (1701–4).  He attacked religious schism in Christian Blessedness and The Charge of Schism, Continued.

Others among his 23 works are An Idea of Happiness (1683), Miscellanies (1687), Theory and Regulation of Love (1688), and a Discourse concerning the Immortality of the Soul (1708). His most popular work is A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters (1687).

His frequently-cited poem The Resignation was often published during the first half of the eighteenth century. Samuel Richardson quoted it to Andrew Millar (a prominent London bookseller) on the death of Millar's son, possibly from the then most recent edition, A Collection of Miscellanies (London: E. Parker, 1740).

References

 Acworth, Richard (1979). The philosophy of John Norris of Bemerton: (1657-1712) (Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte der Philosophie : Kleine Reihe ; Bd. 6)
 Selections from the Worlds Devotional Classics.

External links

Yang, June. "John Norris". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 ed.), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/john-norris/.

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Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's singles

The women's singles tennis tournament of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The final will be played on 1 August 2020.

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James Turner (parathlete)

James Michael Turner   (born 22 May 1996) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and soccer player with cerebral palsy. He has represented Australia as part of the  Australia Paralympic soccer team, the ParaRoos, and was its player of the year in 2013. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, he won the Men's 800 m T36 in a world record time of 2:02.39. At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, he won three gold medals  and followed this up with two gold medals at the  2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.

Personal
James Turner was born on 22 May 1996. He has cerebral palsy. He grew up in Diamond Beach, New South Wales. In 2015, he commenced a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wollongong.

Football
Turner played 7-a-side soccer as a midfielder for New South Wales starting in 2009, and for the Australian national 7-a-side team, the ParaRoos, in 2012. By November 2013, he had 16 caps, and was named Pararoo Football Player of the Year at the 2013 FFA Australian Football Awards night on 13 November 2013. The head coach of the ParaRoos, Paul Brown, said that "James has pace to burn and he gets forward on the overlap to worry defenders in their third. He has the potential to be one of the best players that Australia has ever produced if he stays on the path that he is at present". Unfortunately for the ParaRoos, ranked tenth in the world, in July 2014, the Australian Sports Commission cut funding for the 7-a-side soccer program on the grounds that the team was unlikely to make the 2016 Summer Paralympics. After a public outcry, the team was revived with a new funding model in 2015. Despite the fund raising efforts, the ParaRoos failed to qualify for Rio.

Athletics
Turner started with Forster-Tuncurry Athletics club as an eight-year-old and at the age of 15 joined the Hunter Academy of Sport  AWD middle distance running program. In 2015, Turner turned his talents to back athletics on the encouragement of Athletics Australia, where he is classified as a T36 athlete. He was coached first by Marie Kay and from 2016 by Brett Robinson  in Wollongong, New South Wales. At the Australian Athletics Championships in March 2016, he ran the 800m in 2:08.90, which was a Paralympic qualifier. In the IPC Grand Prix in Canberra February, he had posted an even faster time of 2.08.8. In August 2016, it was announced that had been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 800m event. He was ranked number two in the world in this event in his classification.

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, he won the Men's 800 m T36 in a world record time of 2:02.39. In December 2016, he was named Australian Paralympic Rookie of the Year.

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England,  Turner won three gold medals - Men's 200 m T36 (world record time 24.09 (-0.4)),Men's 400 m T36 and Men's 800 m T46.

His Rio Paralympics gold medal event the 800m is not on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics as a result he has changed to short distances - 100m, 200 m and 400 m.

At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, he ran 11.72 and broke the world record in winning the Men's 100 m T36 and followed up with gold in the Men's 400 m T46 in a world record time of 51.71.

In 2019, he is coached by Iryna Dvoskina in Canberra.

Recognition
 2016 - Awarded Athletics Australia 2016 Male Para-athlete of the Year.
 2017 - Awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.
 2017 - Awarded Athletics Australia 2076 Male Para-athlete of the Year.

References

External links
 James Turner at the Australian Paralympic Committee

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Virtuoso (video game)

Virtuoso is a third-person shooter video game developed by MotiveTime Ltd. and originally published by Nova Spring and Elite Systems in North American and Europe for the MS-DOS in 1994.

Gameplay
Virtuoso is the story of a rock musician in the year 2055, who decides to spend his time battling in Virtual Reality.

Ports
A port of Virtuoso for the Atari Jaguar CD was announced in the January 1995 issue of online magazine Atari Explorer Online and was in development and planned to be published by Telegames. It was originally slated for a Spring/Summer 1995 release and later planned for a Q2 1995 release, however, Telegames UK president Pete Mortimer stated in a email exchange with website CyberRoach that work on the port and other upcoming titles from the company for the Atari Jaguar platform were suspended after sales of previous titles published by them were not profitable.

Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "The game is Doom without the first person perspective or any of the fun."

Electronic Gaming Monthlys Seanbaby placed it as number 5 in his "20 worst games of all time" feature.

Reviews
GamePro (Aug, 1995)
Electronic Gaming Monthly (Jul, 1995)

Notes

References

External links
 Virtuoso at GameFAQs
 Virtuoso at Giant Bomb
 Virtuoso at MobyGames

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Terro

Terro may refer to:

 Terro A brand of ant pesticide based on cyhalothrin
 Terro


Jasieniec-Kolonia

Jasieniec-Kolonia  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zwoleń, within Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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