List of Ohio Wesleyan University presidents

This article lists the current and past presidents of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.

The president of Ohio Wesleyan University is the institution's chief administrator and ex officio chair of the Board of Trustees. He is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of the Board, who delegate to him the day-to-day running of the university. Since Wesleyan's beginning, just 15 men have held the title of Ohio Wesleyan University president, while a few have served as interim president. Those who have held the office include lawyers, literary scholars, politicians, businessmen and clergymen.

Mark Huddleston was named university president following a meeting of the Ohio Wesleyan Board of Trustees on Saturday morning, June 12, 2004. He succeeded Thomas Courtice, who held office for 10 years before retiring that year. Huddleston's academic specialty is public administration, a field in which he has published widely, focusing on the senior federal career service and a variety of international issues.

History
The service of Ohio Wesleyan's presidents to the college spans nearly 170 years now. About a quarter of them, in the beginning of the college's history, were appointed by the Methodist church. Early in the beginning of the 20th century that link was severed and the appointment of Arthur Flemming marked the beginning of independent appointment to the position of presidency of the college.

The Thomson Era
The first president Edward Thomson, one of the two founders of the university in 1842. His father, a druggist, influenced Edward toward the study of medicine, which he pursued at the University of Pennsylvania. He retained the post of the presidency until 1860. Thomson was a vocal clergyman and a defender of the rights of women to co-education, on equal terms with men, and engaged in antislavery activity at that time, including many acts of civil disobedience.

On August 5, 1846, Thomson delivered his inaugural address. He maintained that the college was a product of the liberality of the people of Delaware and that it was fortunate that Ohio Wesleyan was founded in a community divided in religious and political opinions because the friction of a mixed society prevented dogmatism and developed energy and pointed out that the spirit of the college is the spirit of liberty.

Accounts of Thomson focus on his scholarly work and his firm anti-slavery social stance. By the end of the presidency, Thomson had written three books on 18th century Europe and Asia. He helped to give the campus a certain abolitionist tinge of reform, as was the case with Oberlin College, along these lines by stating that the school would not obey the fugitive slave law and would be willing to suffer the extreme penalty in case of need.

Merrick through Welch
Under Frederick Merrick's presidency (1860–1873), the school focused as much on curriculum expansion as it did on fundraising. Less teacher than some of the others, Merrick's zeal significantly increased the school's coffers, but disappointment followed at the failure of his attempt to abolish fraternities in 1870-1872 and anxiety during the years of the construction of Merrick Hall.
Charles Payne's presidency lasted between 1876 and 1888. He was an 1856 Wesleyan University alumnus graduate and during his presidency, enrollment in the college increased three times and music education experienced a decided renaissance. While no major buildings were built during his administration, Paynes' fame was strongly related to his reputation of being a disciplinarian.

The Payne age of transition, was followed by Bashford's era of transformation during 1889-1904. The need of new departments and the value of specialized instruction were recognized. Bashford's aim was to improve the plant and offerings of the college; to make the school's curriculum and buildings on par with its new academic position. The building history during that period included Monnett extensions, University Hall and Slocum Library. Athletics and physical education facilities were established and a start was made for a new gymnasium. Development during the Bashford years meant establishments of departments for natural science (physics, zoology, geology), and new departments of speech, history, French, English and economics. The new ideal of specialization brought an emphasis on professional preparation on the Doctor of Philosophy degree and on travel and study in Europe. Three professional schools were established during his presidency (of Law, of Medicine and of Theology) and the Doric Front was demolished.

During the 1920s, under Herbert George Welch's and John W. Hoffman's presidencies chapel service was dropped, sororities came in. Edgar Hall came into use and Selby Stadium was built; Austin Manor and Perkins Observatory was constructed and Stuyvesant Hall was planned.

Wenzlau's presidency controversies

The presidency of Thomas Wenzlau span three decades between 1969-1984. The first challenge for Wenzlau was campus unrest: Wesleyan students took over the ROTC building, demanded its shut-down and eventually eliminated its presence in 1970. Students demanded participation in departmental meetings and faculty committees. The period saw a furthering of the democratic process in the governance of Wesleyan. His presidency witnessed decline in students' test scores, an unusually high attrition rate, lack of adequate research to identify potential major donors and a growing "party school" image, leading to a rocky relationship between him and the student body. In 1979-1982, the campus newspaper The Transcript severely criticized Wenzlau's  presidency blaming it for "severely affecting the reputation of the college". The exchange between the president and The Transcript led to a Washington Post report on the school that eventually led to the end of Wenzlau's presidency.

Wesleyan's reputation on the rebound with Warren
The leadership of David Warren increased admission standards for students, engaged students in a "live-in" presidency, expanded media exposure and established a National Colloquium, whose objective was to focus on the liberal arts. Warren engaged in forty-one interviews on the ABC and NBC networks.

Mark Huddleston to the president

Mark Huddleston, was elected after a Board meeting on June 12, 2004. He succeeded Thomas Courtice, who held office for 10 years. Huddleston's specializes in public administration, a field in which he has published widely, focusing on the senior federal career service and a variety of international issues. Before coming to Ohio Wesleyan, Huddleston served in the faculty of the University of Delaware for 24 years, ultimately as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Huddleston has been an active consultant for both the U.S. government and international organizations in the past. He worked previously in the Balkans, southern Africa, and central and southeast Asia. He gained international development experience in Bosnia as an advisor on rebuilding financial and administrative infrastructures following the Dayton Accords. He has authored the following books: The Public Administration Workbook, Profiles in Excellence: Conversations with the Best of America's Career Executive Service, The Higher Civil Service in the United States, and The Government's Managers.

Under Huddleston, Wesleyan continued to undertake construction projects. The Memorial Union Building was renovated in 2001 to accommodate the Economics Department, the Academic Resource Center, the Information Systems department, and the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. The Conrades-Wetherell Science Center opened in 2004 to provide  of additional space for the science departments.

An athletic fundraising campaign began in 2005. The campaign is named after Branch Rickey, class of 1904, who broke the racial barrier in professional baseball. It is directed at renovating the facilities used by the 22 varsity teams by adding a new turf facility, new field house and a pool, and a gateway connecting all sports facilities on campus.

In April 2007, Huddleston accepted a position as president of the University of New Hampshire and left Wesleyan on June 30, 2007, giving him the second shortest presidential reign in Wesleyan's history, behind David Lockmiller, 1959–1961. On 29 May 2007, the appointment of current university provost Dr. David O. Robbins as interim president was unanimously endorsed by OWU's Board of Trustees. Dr. Robbins' term as Interim President began on 1 July 2007.

List of presidents

Acting and Interim Presidents have included Lorenzo D. McCabe (1873–76), William F. Whitlock (1888–89), Edward L. Rice (1938–39), Clarence E. Ficken (1947–48, 1953–55), Frank J. Prout (1955–57), George W. Burns (1958–59), Robert Lisensky (1968–69), William C. Louthan (1993–94) and David Robbins (2007–2008).

Female College presidents
Ohio Wesleyan Female College had three presidents before merging with Ohio Wesleyan University.
William Richardson, 1873–1877
Nathaniel Clark Burt, 1868–1870
Oran Faville, 1853–1855

References

External links
OWU — Welcome from the president

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Roketz

Roketz is a 360 degree scrolling shoot 'em up released for the Amiga 1200 in 1995 and MS-DOS in 1996. It features gravity environment and thrust-and-turn gameplay similar to the likes of Thrust, Virus, and SubSpace.

Reception

References

External links
 Free legal download of Roketz

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Kathi Kappal

Kathi Kappal (English: Paper Boat) is a 2008 Tamil thriller film written and directed by Dinesh Selvaraj. The film features Anoop Kumar, Meera Vasudevan and Poornitha in lead roles, with Chandrabose, Thalaivasal Vijay, Prem, Thennavan, Jayaprakasam, Sakthivel and Vinoth Kumar playing supporting roles. The film, produced by V. Bhakta, had musical score by Sree Sai and was released on 25 July 2008.

Plot

Set in 1988, the notorious forest brigand named Veeraiyyan abducted a former minister and hold him captive in the forest of Kodaikanal, to release him Veeraiyyan demanded a ransom of 3 crores. Chandrabose (Chandrabose) and his police squad (Thennavan, Jayaprakasam, Sakthivel, Vinoth Kumar) killed Veeraiyyan but they could not save the former minister and in the process, the respected doctor Pari Vallal (Prem) was shot dead. Pari Vallal worked in a remote village to exercise his profession. He met the orphan Sara (Meera Vasudevan) who grew up in a church and she decided to assist him, they fell in love with each other and got married.

In 2008, during the annual death ceremony of Pari Vallal in Kodaikanal, an injured Joshua Prakash (Anoop Kumar) appears and proclaims to be the dead doctor Pari Vallal in his previous birth. Sara, Pari Vallal's widow who now lives with her adopted daughter Kabini, is astonished and could not believe it. The inhabitants who think it was a practical joke beat him up and tie him with a rope to control him. The next day, Mallika (Poornitha) comes to the village and claims to be Joshua Prakash's wife. After getting married to her, Joshua Prakash claimed to be Pari Vallal and told that his parents locked him in a room for 12 years. The villagers first cannot believe him, but his perfect recollections of Kodaikkanal and its inhabitants baffle many. The psychiatrist Elangovan (Thalaivasal Vijay), Pari Vallal's brother, then interviews him and confirms that Joshua Prakash is Pari Vallal. Annoyed by her husband's eccentric behaviour, Mallika decides to leave the place but Joshua Prakash confesses that he loves her and he wants to get a hold of the money hidden by Veeraiyyan. The police commissioner Chandrabose and his team track Joshua Prakash down and abduct him in a cabin in the wood. They force him to show the place, they then find the dead body of Thennavan and Sara with the rifle threatens to kill them.

In 1988, Chandrabose, his squad and the brigand Veeraiyyan were in fact partners in crime. Chandrabose and his squad then double-crossed Veeraiyan and killed the former minister, Veeraiyyan who tried to escape was shot in the back. An injured Veeraiyyan begged Pari Vallal to save him and told him the place where he had hidden the money but Thennavan killed Pari Vallal and Veeraiyyan died due to injuries.

In 2008, Joshua Prakash reveals that he is not Pari Vallal's rebirth but the son of the former minister who was killed by them. With Sara, he has planned to take revenge on Chandrabose and his squad. Joshua Prakash and Sara eventually kill them, Joshua Prakash then tells her to keep the money. The film ends with Joshua Prakash and Mallika adopting Kabini and leaving the village.

Cast

Anoop Kumar as Joshua Prakash
Meera Vasudevan as Sara
Poornitha as Mallika
Chandrabose as Chandrabose
Thalaivasal Vijay as Elangovan
Prem as Pari Vallal
Thennavan as Thennavan
Jayaprakasam as Jayaprakash
Sakthivel as Sakthivel
Vinoth Kumar as Vinoth Kumar
W. Afsar Babu as Police Commissioner
R. Karthikeyan
Kottai Perumal as Chinnadurai
Sathyandra
Ayyappan Gopi as Church Father
Rail Vijayakumar
Rathnaraj
Apeksha
Baby Prahasitha as Kabini

Production

Director Dinesh Selvaraj, erstwhile assistant to Mani Ratnam and son of writer R. Selvaraj, made his directorial debut with Kathi Kappal. Actor Anoop Kumar, who did a small role in Vattaram and was a qualified dancer, was selected to play the hero alongside Meera Vasudevan and Poornitha. Music director Chandrabose played the role of a crooked cop whose role was also said to be significant. Dinesh Selvaraj mentioned that keeping the genre in mind, he shot a romantic song in a graveyard.

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Sree Sai. The soundtrack features 5 tracks with lyrics written by N. Annamalai. The audio was released on 12 April 2008 in Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai. Director Mani Rathnam released the first copy of the album that was received by director N. Lingusamy. Director P. Bharathiraja also attended the event.

Reception

Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff.com rated the film 1.5 out of 5 and said, "It's a pretty short movie but the predominant feeling you get when everything's over is that it could all have gone much better". Behindwoods.com rate the film 0.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Entire cast performs very unnaturally and it is an uphill task for the audience to get involved in the film. Some of the scenes which are expected to be spooky turn out to be contrived and fall flat. Besides, it is also very difficult to tolerate the buffoonery in the climax sequence". A reviewer from Nowrunning.com rated the film 1.5 out of 5 and stated, "What sustains interest in the film are the scintillating background score by Sri Sai and Abdul Kalam's splendorous celluloid visuals of Kodaikanal". Another reviewer rated the film 1 out of 5 and wrote, "the film has failed in all ingredients and it will not be long before it will bite the dust".

References

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Nathan Davis

Nathan Davis is the name of:

Nathan Davis (traveller) (1812–1882), British missionary and amateur excavator at Carthage
Nathan Davis (actor) (1917–2008), American actor
Nathan Davis (saxophonist) (1937–2018), American hard bop jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor saxophone
Nathan Davis (gridiron football) (born 1974), defensive lineman
Nathan Smith Davis (1817–1904), physician instrumental in founding Northwestern University
Nathan Smith Davis, Jr. (1858–1920), physician and dean of Northwestern University Medical College
Nathan Davis (basketball), American college basketball coach
Nathan Davis (rugby league) (born 1995), Australian rugby league player

See also
Nate Davis (disambiguation)
Nathaniel Davis (disambiguation)


Gotham, Inc.

Gotham, Inc. is an American advertising agency based in New York City.

The Interpublic Group established Gotham in 1994, and it continues to operate as an independent agency of the global marketing services holding company. With this relationship, Gotham has a network of more than 100 partners in over 100 countries.

Accounts

Bausch & Lomb
Denny's
Digene
Ensure
FreshDirect
Ganeden
Glucerna
Goody's
Hennessy Black
Hitachi
HomeGoods
Lindt
Lufthansa
Maybelline
Medco
Newman's Own
Pfizer
Sony Ericsson
Waterford
Wedgwood
Yellowbook.com

Sources
Yahoo.com

References

External links
Gotham Website

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My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter, later Teenage Bad Girl, is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland. The screenplay concerns a mother who tries to deal with her teenage daughter's descent into delinquency. It was intended as a British response to Rebel Without a Cause. It was the last commercially successful film made by Wilcox.

Cast
 Anna Neagle – Valerie Carr
 Sylvia Syms – Janet Carr
 Norman Wooland – Hugh Manning
 Wilfrid Hyde-White – Sir Joseph
 Kenneth Haigh – Tony Ward Black
 Julia Lockwood – Poppet Carr
 Helen Haye – Aunt Louisa
 Josephine Fitzgerald – Aunt Bella
 Wanda Ventham – Gina
 Michael Shepley – Sir Henry
 Avice Landone -Barbara
 Michael Meacham – Mark
 Edie Martin – Miss Ellis
 Ballard Berkeley – Magistrate
 Myrette Morven – Anne
 Grizelda Harvey – Miss Bennett
 Betty Cooper – Celia
 Daphne Cave – Deirdre
 Launce Maraschal – Senator

Production
Neagle and Wilcox commissioned playwright Felicity Douglas to write a script about the generation gap.

References

Bibliography
 Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press, 2007.

External links

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The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It is a remake of the 1937 French film Gribouille.

This was the first of five films in which Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth appeared together, most famously in their second film, Gilda (1946). They also teamed together in The Loves of Carmen (1948), Affair in Trinidad (1952) and The Money Trap (1965). Their off-screen liaisons were soon transformed into an enduring, lifelong friendship.

Plot
While serving on a Paris jury Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) persuades his deadlocked peers to vote for the acquittal of Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth), a young woman on trial for the death of a young man she had been seeing. Securing her acquittal, Morestan invites her to live and work at his bicycle and music shop when no one else will give her a job. However, he decides to keep her true identity a secret, which soon begins to raise doubts within his family. His son (Glenn Ford) soon falls in love with her, even though he knows who she is.

Eventually, Andre is persuaded by a fellow former juror that she was in fact guilty. He goes to the authorities, but learns from them that new evidence has turned up that completely exonerates her.

Cast
 Brian Aherne as Andre Morestan
 Rita Hayworth as Natalie Roguin
 Glenn Ford as Pierre Morestan
 Irene Rich as Michele Morestan
 Evelyn Keyes as Francois Morestan
 George Coulouris as Defense attorney
 Edward Norris as Robert LaCoste
 Curt Bois as Henri Lurette
 Frank Reicher as President
 Sumner Getchell as Fat Boy
 Nicholas Bela as Nicholas Farkas

Unbilled

Dorothy Burgess……Antoinette
Hamilton MacFadden……First guard
Leon Belasco……Barber
Julius Tannen……Judge
Philip Van Zandt……Court clerk
Jack Rice……Newly married juror

Harrison Greene……Jury foreman
William Castle……Angry juror
Carlton Griffin……Juror
Ronald Alexander……Juror
Ted Lorch……Juror
Louis Adlon……Clerk

George Davis……Customer
Jack Raymond……Expressman
Vernon Dent……Gendarme
Gino Corrado……Delivery man waiting for trunks
Eddie Laughton
Fern Emmett

References

External links

 The Lady in Question at TV Guide (slightly shortened version of 1987 write-up originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)

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Kate Webb

Kate Webb (24 March 1943 – 13 May 2007) was a New Zealand-born Australian war correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse. She earned a reputation for dogged and fearless reporting throughout the Vietnam War, and at one point she was held prisoner for weeks by North Vietnamese troops. After the war, she continued to report from global hotspots including Iraq during the Gulf War.

Biography
Born Catherine Merrial Webb in Christchurch, New Zealand, Webb moved to Canberra, Australia, with her family while she was still a child. Her father, Leicester Chisholm Webb, was professor of political science at the Australian National University, and her mother, Caroline Webb, was active in women's organisations. Both her parents were killed when Kate was 18.

On 30 March 1958, at the age of 15, Catherine Webb was charged with the murder of Victoria Fenner, the adopted daughter of Frank Fenner, in Canberra. She supplied a rifle and bullets to Fenner and was present when Fenner shot herself. After a Children's Court hearing the charge was dropped.

She graduated from the University of Melbourne, then left to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror. In 1967 she quit the paper and travelled to Vietnam to cover the escalating war. Webb was soon hired by UPI and earned a reputation as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking war correspondent: She was the first wire correspondent to reach the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet offensive. With the death of Phnom Penh bureau chief Frank Frosch in 1970, Webb was selected to fill his position—she later claimed it was because she spoke French. In 1971 she made news herself when she was captured by North Vietnamese troops operating in Cambodia. Premature official reports claimed that a body discovered was Webb's, and The New York Times published an obituary. She emerged from captivity 23 days after she was captured, after having endured forced marches, interrogations, and malaria. She described her experiences in a book called On the Other Side, and in War Torn, a collection of reminiscences by women correspondents in the Vietnam War.

After her release from captivity and because of her sudden fame, UPI sent her to Washington DC as their show piece. Soon thereafter she threatened to resign if she did not get a "real job". She was reassigned to the Philippines as the UPI bureau chief in Manila.

After the war, she continued to work as a foreign correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse (AFP). She served as a correspondent in Iraq during the Gulf War, in Indonesia as Timor-Leste gained independence, and in South Korea, where she was the first to report the death of Kim Il Song. She also reported from Afghanistan, and later described an incident in Kabul as the most frightening in her career. Following the collapse of Mohammad Najibullah's communist regime, she was captured by a local warlord and brought to a hotel, where she was brutally beaten and dragged up a flight of stairs by her hair. She finally escaped with the help of two fellow journalists, and hid out on a window ledge in the freezing Afghan winter, while the warlord and his men searched the building for her.

Webb retired to the Hunter Region in 2001. She died of bowel cancer on 13 May 2007. In 2008, AFP established the Kate Webb Prize, worth €3,000 to €5,000, awarded annually to an Asian correspondent or agency that best exemplified the spirit of Kate Webb. Webb was commemorated on an Australian postage stamp in 2017.

She is survived by a brother, Jeremy Webb, and a sister, Rachel Miller.

References

External links
"Fearless reporter in search of truth", Obituary, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2007

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Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry

Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry (Dutch: ) is a collection of prose and poetry written by Dutch writer Louis Couperus, which was published in 1886. Couperus published his debut, A ribbon of poems (Dutch: ) in 1886 with publisher J.L. Beijers. The rights to publish Couperus' books were taken over by publisher A. Rössing, who then published the second book of Couperus, Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry. After Rössing filed for bankruptcy in 1890 the rights were taken over by L.J. Veen, who would publish the second edition in 1895. In 1989 Veen would reprint Orchids, when Couperus' complete works were published.

Description

Couperus wrote the poems that were collected in this book in 1884 and 1885. In July 1886 he wrote to his sister Trudy: During the autumn I intend to reprint my verses and prose under the name of "Orchids". Don't you think that title is quite chic and aristocratic? In Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry Couperus published two of his poems that were inspired by Petrarch. Verses that also were included in Orchids were Eros and Psyche (Eros and Psyche) and Fragment; in Fragment the chimera motive is introduced and the legendary creature is compared to art. Couperus said of the chimera motive: a golden and very bright fantasy. In other poems Couperus described colorful paintings and platonic love. The poems (for example Erinnering (memory), which was Couperus' debut poem in "Het Vaderland" in 1883) were first published in the Dutch magazines "The Gids, "Het Vaderland", de "Nederlandse Spectator" (Dutch Spectator), "The Amsterdammer" and "Nederland". Couperus dedicated the book to his teacher, professor Dr. J. ten Brink and wrote in the preface: as a token of friendship and gratitude to my highly venerated teacher.

The first edition of Orchids appeared in December 1885 but the number of books printed is unknown. For the second edition about 1.500 books were printed; after 1897 Orchids was no longer sold and the second edition was eventually sold out by 1935. in 1919 100 books were printed with a book cover made by Hendrik Petrus Berlage. When the complete works of Louis Couperus were published in fifty volumes during the period 1987-1996 one of the first volumes included Orchids.

Reviews of Orchids

Couperus biographer, Frédéric Bastet, described Couperus' poems as: Bacchantes, odalisques, sirens and eunuchs populate this Parnassiens-poetry, but they remain opera characters without much content. Critics in Couperus' time had different opinions about Couperus' second book. In "" a critic wrote that orchids were expensive and exotic flowers and that Couperus' book was like that; everything was colored, fine and beautiful but not very Dutch. The language style Couperus had used was called licked and elegant and was compared with the elegant men in the best rooms of their houses in the 18th century. One critic wrote, when he was writing a review of Eline Vere in 1891, that he would be very sorry if Couperus, as he claimed, would no longer write poetry, as the critic had read and admired in Couperus' first two books, A ribbon of poems and Orchids. Willem Kloos, who already had written a bad critic about A ribbon of poems found Orchids "absolute trash". Lodewijk van Deyssel, who was very critical when Orchids was first published wrote in 1923 about Orchids: You have probably not precisely known the appreciation by your Amsterdamsche fellow youth, that sympathized with you in your enthusiasm for the Dutch Literature.

In the preface of Williswinde (1895) Couperus wrote: I will most probably never write anything more what one might call poetry. But the poetry I have written - however one may judge- was written with a naive love that is still in me.  In the summer of 1894 Couperus and his wife, Elisabeth Couperus-Baud, moved to a new address, the Jacob van der Doesstreet 123 in The Hague; here he received the second print of Orchids from his publisher, L.J. Veen. This second print had a book cover made by Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach. Despite the good reviews: what some people remembered were the bad ones; in 1963 the Limburgse Dagblad wrote: Couperus wrote al lot of pathetic verses (A ribbon of poems and Orchids) that are written in vain and swollen language and cause not the slightest effect.

Gallery

References

External links
  Orchids on Worldcat
  Description on Google Books

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The Clearing (Homeland)

"The Clearing" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American television drama series Homeland, and the 19th episode overall.  It originally aired on Showtime on November 11, 2012.

Plot

Roya Hammad (Zuleikha Robinson) intercepts Brody (Damian Lewis) during his morning jog. She tells him they lost a man in the Gettysburg massacre and his role is now more important than ever. Brody is frustrated over her withholding details from him, partially for the benefit of Carrie (Claire Danes), who is listening in.

Later, the Brody family is en route to a political fundraiser hosted by Rex Henning (John Finn), a wealthy potential contributor to Vice President Walden's (Jamey Sheridan) campaign. On the way, Jessica (Morena Baccarin) informs Brody of Mike's (Diego Klattenhoff) suspicion that he really killed Tom Walker. Brody reluctantly admits to being complicit in the killing, framing it as a CIA mission that went awry. After arriving, Brody complains to Carrie about Mike's continued interference. During the fundraiser, Rex and Brody talk privately, where Rex - who has noticed the untoward interest several guests have about Brody's time in captivity - discloses that he served in Vietnam, and compliments Brody on not 'breaking' while in captivity. Rex later announces his full endorsement of a Walden/Brody presidential ticket. Previously, however, Rex admitted to Brody that he dislikes the self-absorbed Walden, and is really interested in when Brody succeeds Walden as president. Brody protests that he is not the man Rex thinks he is.

Saul (Mandy Patinkin) seeks out captured terrorist Aileen Morgan (Marin Ireland), who is in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison. Saul shows her a photo of the man who met with Roya Hammad and asks Aileen if she can identify him. Aileen describes her miserable day-to-day existence at the facility, and asks to be moved to an above-ground cell with a window in return for the information she has. Saul, after encountering resistance from the warden, is able to fulfill this request with help from the attorney general. Aileen gives Saul a name and possible address of the man in the photo.

During the fundraiser, Dana (Morgan Saylor) and Finn (Timothée Chalamet) argue over when to confess to the hit-and-run that killed a woman a week earlier. The argument is noticed by Cynthia Walden (Talia Balsam) and Jessica, who ask them what's going on.  Dana bluntly announces "we killed someone," and proceeds to recount the events of the hit-and-run accident. Cynthia's immediate reaction is to cover up the incident to protect their political standing. The Waldens insist that no report be filed with the police. But, neither Brody nor Jessica is satisfied with this. A guilt-ridden Dana is shocked that Finn is glumly indifferent, knowing his parents will get their way, no matter what.

Quinn (Rupert Friend), having discharged himself from the hospital to return to work, sees Brody as the CIA's most valuable lead and encourages Carrie to somehow empower him. After warning Mike off by playing on his love for Jessica, Carrie meets with Brody in a clearing behind Rex's house. They talk about Brody's feeling false in the face of Rex's honest war heroism. Carrie tries to comfort him, which leads to a prolonged kiss. Brody admits to knowing he is being used and manipulated by Carrie, but continues to kiss her. He admits that she makes him "feel good," which is not at all how it should be. He pulls away and leaves.

Quinn and an FBI team storm the house at the address given to them by Aileen, only to find a man she incidentally knew from living in Saudi Arabia. When he is apprised of the situation, a betrayed-feeling Saul can't understand why Aileen would dupe them. He then has a realization and rushes to Aileen in the interrogation cell, finding her in a pool of blood after having cut her own throat using a shard from the reading glasses that Saul had given her. He weeps uncontrollably as she dies, later admitting to Quinn that his emotions were what allowed her to play him.

Brody takes Dana to the police station to report the hit-and-run accident, but they find Carrie waiting for them outside the police station. Carrie commands Brody to not file the report, as it will cause him to fall out of favor with Walden, thus jeopardizing his relationship with Abu Nazir. She threatens that his deal with the CIA will be off if he does so. Dana approaches, and Brody apologetically tells her that they can't report the accident. Dana, believing that her father only cares about the campaign, is disgusted and runs off, while Brody vents his frustration on Carrie: "This is not okay!  None of this is fucking OK!"

Deceased
Aileen Morgan: suicide

Production
The episode was written by executive producer Meredith Stiehm, and was directed by John Dahl.

Reception

Ratings
The original American broadcast received 1.91 million viewers, which increased in viewership from the previous episode.

Critical response
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix called it a "great, resonant, character-focused episode", praising Mandy Patinkin's performance, and highlighting the Carrie/Brody meet up as a "fantastic scene."

The A.V. Club's Emily VanDerWerff graded it an "A-," crediting Meredith Stiehm's writing and declaring the episode successful in bringing together several disconnected story lines.

References

External links
 "The Clearing" at Showtime

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Jim Breuer

James E. Breuer (born June 21, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and radio host. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1998 and starred in the film Half Baked.

Early life
Breuer was born in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island. His father was a veteran of World War II.

Career

Television career
Breuer's career began on the little-known Uptown Comedy Club weekly television show, based in Harlem, New York.  He then joined the cast of Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1998. On SNL, Breuer's characters included "Goat Boy" (who hosted the fictional MTV program "Hey, Remember the 80s?") and Glen Henderson, the elder brother to Chris Kattan's Todd Henderson/Azrael Abyss character in the "Goth Talk" skits. He has previously guest starred in Home Improvement. That appearance gave way to the short-lived sitcom Buddies. He was originally scheduled to have been the co-star alongside friend and co-worker Dave Chappelle, but was pulled from the role after filming the pilot.

Among his impersonations was that of actor Joe Pesci, who hosted his own talk show, often accompanied by Colin Quinn playing fellow actor Robert De Niro. In a 1997 episode of SNL, both Pesci and De Niro made surprise appearances to "confront" Breuer.

In 1998, Breuer hosted The Jim Breuer Show on MTV, which aired week days at 5:30 PM and again at 1:00 AM during the summer. It featured Breuer performing skits as different characters as well as stand-up comedy by guests including Judah Friedlander, Jeff Ross and Tracy Morgan.

Breuer has also hosted several episodes of Premium Blend on Comedy Central as well as several appearances on other comedy shows.

Breuer hosted the third season of the VH1 show Web Junk 20. The season began on November 17, 2006. He replaced Patrice O'Neal, who hosted the first two seasons of the show.

In 2002, Breuer's first one-hour Comedy Central special, Hardcore, premiered. The same year, he released a comedy album titled Smoke 'n' Breu.

Breuer featured in the 2005 VH1 documentary When Metallica Ruled the World, in which he spoke about songs by Metallica through the years.

On July 25, 2009, Breuer's second one-hour Comedy Central special, Let's Clear the Air, premiered and became one of the highest-rated comedy specials in Comedy Central's history.

Breuer appeared in Pizza Hut commercials, advertising the cheese crust-filled pizzas using the catchphrase "Jackpot!"

Beginning in 2016, Breuer has appeared in the recurring role of Father Philip on the CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait, which is set and filmed in Breuer's native Nassau County, New York.

Radio career
Breuer was a sit-in comedian on the Opie and Anthony Show for many years during their WNEW-FM tenure. "Breuer Bits" were often played whenever the show was on hiatus. With the XM/Sirius merger complete, Breuer returned to the Opie and Anthony Show for the first time in six years on August 8, 2008. He remained a frequent guest.

Breuer is the host of Fridays with Jim Breuer, (previously known as Breuer Unleashed) which can be heard each Friday afternoon from 4-6PM (EST) on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel "Raw Dog Comedy." He credits Joe Pesci with jump starting his career as he mentions in his comedy concert "Hardcore". During one show, while Breuer was singing the Judas Priest song "Devil's Child," Rob Halford, lead singer of Judas Priest, entered the studio and joined Breuer in song.

Other work
In 2008, Breuer went on his first tour in six years known as the "Breuniversity Tour" where he toured over 20 colleges and comedy clubs across the country.  The footage was used in his documentary More Than Me, as well as his 4-hour DVD The Jim Breuer Road Journals, both of which were released in 2010.

On October 5, 2010 he published a book called I'm Not High (But I've Got a Lot of Crazy Stories about Life as a Goat Boy, a Dad, and a Spiritual Warrior)

In January 2011, he launched a podcast called "The Podcast Masters" with fellow comedian Pete Correale.

In December 2011, Breuer presented at Metallica's 30th Anniversary shows. He is the opening act for the band's 2018 tour.

Personal life
As of 2005, Breuer lives in Chester Township, New Jersey, with his wife, Dee, and three daughters.

He is a big New York Mets fan.

Discography
 Jim Breuer and The Loud & Rowdy - Songs From The Garage (2016; Metal Blade Records)

Tracklist:
1. Thrash (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Joe Vigliotti)
2.Raising Teenage Girls (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Metal Mike Chlasciak/ Mike Tichy)
3.Old School (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Desmond Child /Metal Mike Chlasciak / Joan Jett)
4.Be a Dick 2nite (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Mike Tichy / Joe Vigliotti)
5.My Rock 'n Roll Dream (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Mike Tichy)
6.Mr. Rock 'n Roll (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Brian Johnson)
7. Who's Better Than Us?! (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano)
8.Family Warrior (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Chris Chicinno / Metal Mike Chlasciak)
9.Sugar Rush (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Mike Tichy)
10.Wannabe (Paul Bond / Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano)
11. The Unexplained (Jim Breuer / Rob Caggiano / Larry Schneidmuller)

Credits:
Jim Breuer: Vocals
Rob Caggiano: Guitars
Mike Tichy: Drums, Bg Vocals
Joe Vigliotti: Bass, Bg Vocals

Additional:
Brian Johnson: vocals on 5 & 6

Touring Band:
Jim Breuer: Vocals
Mike Tichy: Lead Guitar, Bg Vocals
Joe Vigliotti: Bass, Bg Vocals
Allison Woest: Rhythm Guitar
Eric See: Drums

Filmography

References

External links
 Jim's upcoming online TV Network
 Official Radio Show Website

 Official MySpace Page
 Official YouTube Page
 Interview about 'More Than Me' documentary
 Review of 'More Than Me' documentary

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Casteel

Casteel is a town in Ehlanzeni District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The legal name was changed to Maboke in 2008. Maboke is place consisting of Mapulana (Sepulana is the language spoken) and Tsonga people. There is proud culture of Dikoma (initiation school) which takes place during the winter times, from the month of June to August annually, and is a place where young boys are taught the cultural and roots of the "Mapulana people".

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Luther Cressman

Luther Sheeleigh Cressman (October 24, 1897 – April 4, 1994) was an American field archaeologist, most widely known for his discoveries at Paleo-Indians sites such as Fort Rock Cave and Paisley Caves, sites related to the early settlement of the Americas.

Early years
Cressman was born outside of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of a physician.  He was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1923, but feeling doubts about his vocation, began studying sociology and anthropology at Columbia University in New York.  He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1928, and that same year, he left the priesthood.

Career

In 1929, he took a position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. The Department of Anthropology was founded by him six years later. His first hire for the department was Homer Barnett. Cressman was the chair of the department from 1935 until his retirement in 1963.

His most significant discovery came in 1938, when he discovered a pair of perfectly preserved shredded sagebrush bark sandals at Fort Rock in Oregon that were radiocarbon dated from 10,500 to 9,300 years old, making them the oldest footwear ever discovered.

As late as 1962 he taught an Intro to Anthropology with another professor.  At the first lecture the younger professor said he struggled with how to address Dr. Cressman.  They were peers by PhDs so it would have been all right to use his first name but since Cressman was greatly senior he said it didn't seem right to call him Lou, and left it there.  Dr. Cressman pointed out he didn't tell us what he called him.  Dr. Cressman said, "He calls me, 'Doc'."

His autobiography A Golden Journey: Memoirs of an Archaeologist was awarded the 1989 Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction.

Personal life

Cressman married anthropologist Margaret Mead in 1923; the couple divorced in 1927.  He married Dorothy Cecelia Loch in 1928.  They had one daughter and were married for 49 years, until her death in 1977.

Selected publications
Klamath Prehistory (1956, OCLC 1574790)
The Sandal and the Cave (1962; 1981 reprint, )
Prehistory of the Far West: Homes of Vanished Peoples (1977, )
A Golden Journey: Memoirs of an Archaeologist (1988, )

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship
John Alsop King Fellowship
Charles E. Johnson Memorial Award

References

Specific citations

General references

Luther Cressman at the Minnesota State University, Mankato
Bishop B.  “Northwest Archaeologist Luther Cressman, 96, Dies.”  Eugene Register Grand 7 April 1994.
Dana T.  “ Oregon’s Luther Cressman Harbors no Regrets from Archaeological Storm.”  Oregonian 19 Mar. 1987.
Ellis B., Dank H.,  “Anthropologist Luther Cressman Dies at age 96.”  Oregonian 8 April 1994.
Travis–Cline, S.  “Remembering the Golden Journey.”  Oregon Heritage 1994.

External links
Guide to the Luther Cressman papers at the University of Oregon

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S.C.O.T.

Sickest Cunt Out There (also known as S.C.O.T) is the third studio album by Australian rapper Kerser. It was released on 25 October 2013 under Obese Records.

Kerser embarked on an Australian tour from February–March 2014 for the release of S.C.O.T.

Track listing

References

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Bountya

Bountya insularis is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Bountya. Both the genus and species was first described by J. I. Townsend in 1971 from specimens collected by E. G. Turbott on Bounty Island on 11 November 1950. The holotype specimen is in the entomology collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

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Statsminister

Statsminister is a Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word meaning "prime minister" (literally "minister of state"). It is used as an official title for the following heads of government:
Prime Minister of Denmark
Prime Minister of Finland
Prime Minister of Norway
Prime Minister of Sweden


National Youth Summit

The National Youth Summit, subtitled "Young People: Partners in Fulfilling the Promise," occurred June 22 through June 25, 2000 in Orlando, Florida. Coordinated by the Corporation for National Service, America's Promise and the Points of Light Foundation, the event drew approximately 1,200 youth and adults. The Summit was a follow-up to the "White House Conference on Teenagers: Raising Responsible and Resourceful Youth" held May 2, 2000. The Summit was attributed with increasing attendance at the simultaneous National Community Service Conference, and with raising national awareness about youth service and service learning.

About
The National Youth Summit was a youth-led effort to "highlight and foster community service through youth-adult partnerships".Kenny, M. and Gallagher, L. (2003) Teenagers and Community Service: A Guide to the Issues. Praeger/Greenwood. p. 103. It was held in conjunction with the annual National Community Service Conference, an annual meeting of organizations that promote volunteerism. The Summit was attended by approximately 1,200 people from 27 organizations in over 40 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Activities
The program included interactive activities designed to "develop the knowledge and service skills of young people; highlight community service provided by youth-adult partnerships; motivate youth and adults to give back through service; and foster youth-adult partnerships."
 The conference featured approximately 80 workshops, with seventy-five percent of them being led by youth, including youth from across the nation.

Financial support
In addition to in-kind contributions from the Corporation for National Service, America's Promise and the Points of Light Foundation, the Summit received support from a variety of foundations. They included the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Eckerd Youth Alternatives. Eleven corporations provided in-kind support, including General Mills, Levi Strauss, and Tupperware.

Legacy
Many communities, including Waco, Texas, began holding annual Youth Summits that were directly inspired by the National Youth Summit of 2000. After the conference, many boards found new roles for youth members possible, and many youth led campaigns to engage youth in organizational decision-making.

See also
 Youth activism
 Youth voice
 Youth engagement
 Youth empowerment
 Youth participation
 Youth rights
 Youth service
 List of youth topics

References

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Caryocolum anatolicum

Caryocolum anatolicum is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Turkey.

The length of the forewings is 4.5–5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is greyish brown and the hindwings are shining grey. Adults have been recorded on wing from the end of June to the end of July.

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Franco Vescovi

Franco Vescovi (28 January 1930 – 20 February 2006) was an Italian boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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Escort for Hire

Escort for Hire is a low budget 1960 British thriller film. It starred June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden and Peter Butterworth.

Plot
Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed.

Cast
Terry - 	June Thorburn
Buzz - 	Pete Murray
Steve - 	 Noel Trevarthen
Elizabeth - 	Jan Holden
Inspector Bruce - 	Peter Butterworth
Arthur Vickers - 	Guy Middleton
Barbara - 	 Mary Laura Wood
Jack - 	Derek Blomfield
Nadia - 	Jill Melford
Eldon Baker - 	Patricia Plunkett
Receptionist - 	 Catherine Ellison
Detective Sergeant Moore - 	Bruce Beeby
Porter - 	C. Denier Warren
Marion - 	Viola Keats
Temperance Lady - 	Totti Truman Taylor

Critical reception
TV Guide wrote, "this routine British crime melodrama is slightly enhanced by Technicolor."

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Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014)

During the rising unrest in Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the city of Mariupol, in Donetsk Oblast, saw skirmishes break out between Ukrainian government forces, local police, separatist militants affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic. Government forces withdrew from Mariupol on 9 May 2014 after heavy fighting left the city's police headquarters gutted by fire. These forces maintained checkpoints outside the city. Intervention by Metinvest steelworkers on 15 May 2014 led to the removal of barricades from the city centre, and the resumption of patrols by local police. Separatists continued to operate a headquarters in another part of the city until their positions were overrun in a government offensive on 13 June 2014.

Background

Mariupol is the second-largest city in the Donetsk Oblast, and has experienced sporadic unrest since March 2014. Pro-Russian and anti-government groups had first occupied the city council building on 18 March 2014. The first violent incident had occurred during the night on 16 April 2014, when about 300 pro-Russian and anti-government protesters attacked a Ukrainian military unit in Mariupol, throwing petrol bombs. Internal Affairs minister Arsen Avakov said that troops were forced to open fire, resulting in the killing of three of the attackers.

Ukrainian government forces claimed they "liberated" Mariupol city council on 24 April 2014, though this was heavily disputed by anti-government demonstrators, and a BBC report said that there was "no sign" of the army. The building changed hands multiple times thereafter, but was captured by the army on 8 May.

Events
A violent clash involving armoured personnel carriers took place at the Mariupol police headquarters on Victory Day, 9 May 2014. The Ukrainian government said it sent in the APCs in response to an attempt by militant separatists to storm the building. According to the Internal Affairs Ministry, the assault on the station involved 60 separatists armed with automatic weapons. Some local policemen reportedly helped the militants during the takeover and later clashed with Internal Troops who fired on the building with mounted heavy machine guns atop the APCs.

The Ukrainian government said its contingent included police, as well as an Omega unit of the National Guard. Pro-Russian protesters attempted to stop the advance, but were unsuccessful. Ukrainian security forces attacked the police headquarters in an attempt to recapture it from militants, and during the assault the building caught fire. According to Internal Affairs minister Arsen Avakov, a separatist sniper fired from the upper floors of a hospital at Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Avakov said that the counterattack resulted in the deaths of twenty separatists, and the capture of four, while the rest dispersed. He referred to the separatist militants as "terrorists", and warned that "annihilation" would be Ukraine's answer to future acts of terrorism.

Avakov's account of what happened was contested by some Mariupol residents, who spoke shortly after the incident with reporters from The New York Times, the BBC, and The Independent. The residents (many of whom showed their Ukrainian passports to prove they were not from Russia) said that the government had attacked local police who were sympathetic to protesters. One version of events, put forward by a group of residents cited by The New York Times, was that the clash was sparked by Mariupol police rebelling against a new police chief sent by the interim government in Kiev. The BBC report included a video showing pro-Russian activists trying unsuccessfully to stop armoured vehicles from moving into the city.

After the fighting the Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city, leaving it fully under control of pro-Russian protesters. The military retained control over checkpoints surrounding the city. The Ukrainian government said that its forces withdrew "to avoid further aggravation". The troops moving out of the city shot at unarmed civilians, according to The Guardian. Anna Neistat from Human Rights Watch stated "my preliminary findings suggest that Ukrainian units might indeed have used excessive force near the drama theater, which resulted in deaths and injuries of some unarmed people" and urged a full, thorough investigation.

One armoured personnel carrier was captured by pro-Russian protesters. After the clashes, the protesters built barricades on roads in the city centre. Overnight, the city administration building was set ablaze and three gun shops were looted. The next day, insurgents set alight the captured armoured vehicle, causing the ammunition inside to explode. Individuals also threw petrol bombs at the city prosecutor's office and a military building, setting them on fire. On 11 May 2014, eight polling places were set up in Mariupol for the DPR's referendum on self-rule, with queues hundreds of metres long.

Intervention of Metinvest steelworkers
Metinvest in conjunction with owners Rinat Akhmetov and Vadim Novinsky announced on 11 May 2014 that the company would be forming citywide militia groups from local steelworkers to work with police. The squads were intended to "protect civilians from looters and criminals operating in the city". Akhmetov urged the Ukrainian government to refrain from sending its forces to the city and to start negotiations with the insurgents.

An agreement initiated by Metinvest was signed on 15 May by steel plant directors, police and community leaders, and a representative of the Donetsk People's Republic separatists. Steelworkers and security guards from Metinvest, along with local police, began joint patrols in the city of Mariupol. Associated Press reported that these groups forced the insurgents out of the buildings that they had been occupying. Although a DPR representative was party to the deal which led to this vacation of buildings by the insurgents, a local commander of those insurgents who had been occupying the building said that "someone is trying to sow discord among us, someone has signed something, but we will continue our fight", and that "everyone ran away". Steelworkers could be seen removing barricades from the city centre, and also cleaning up the burnt city administration building. By the morning of 16 May 2014, Associated Press journalists could find no trace of the insurgents in Mariupol city centre. On 16 May, however, it seemed that separatists were not banished from the city, as reporters from the Washington Post said that about a hundred pro-Russian activists gathered on the steps of the city administration building, and that the separatist flag continued to fly over it. Radio Free Europe reported on 17 May that separatist militants (unarmed, but some wearing balaclavas) were patrolling Mariupol alongside police. On 19 May 2014, CNN reporters found DPR supporters, including armed militia, running their headquarters in a suburb of Mariupol. The leader of the group, Denis Kuzmenko, told the reporters he welcomed the role of the steelworkers in the city.

Government recapture of Mariupol
On the morning of 13 June 2014, heavy fighting resumed as part of military operations in Mariupol where the Azov and Dnipro-1 Battalions retook the city and key buildings occupied by insurgents killing five militants and destroying an insurgent BRDM-2 armoured vehicle. Two soldiers were also killed and 4–11 separatists were captured. A military armoured personnel carrier was destroyed during the fighting. Internal Affairs minister Avakov said "All key terrorist strongholds are being brought under control".

As a result of the six-hour battle, Ukrainian forces hoisted the national flag over the insurgent headquarters in the city and said they regained a  stretch of the border with Russia. Immediately following the operation, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko instructed the chief of the Donetsk regional state administration Serhiy Taruta to temporarily move the regional capital to Mariupol. A minor incident occurred the next morning, when a convoy of border guardsmen was attacked by insurgents whilst passing Mariupol, leaving five guardsmen dead and seven wounded.

OSCE monitors visited Mariupol to assess the situation in the city on 18 August. They reported that the city was calm and secure. They spoke to a local activist who told them that "the city had become stable" in the months after the recapture of the city by government forces. According to UNHCR, there were at least 4,000 refugees from the ongoing war in the Donbass region at the time that the monitors visited the city. Unofficial statistics cited by the OSCE give the number of refugees in Mariupol as 20,000.

Casualties
There were conflicting reports regarding the number and identity of the dead with regard to the 9 May 2014 incident. Internal Affairs minister Arsen Avakov stated that the operation resulted in the death of one policeman, and about twenty people described as "terrorists". Four militants were captured and five policemen were wounded. The Daily Telegraph reported that some locals thought that most of the between five and twenty people killed were innocent civilians.
City traffic police chief Viktor Sayenko was killed in the fighting on 9 May. A Euronews report said Mariupol residents, including the priest who conducted Sayenko's funeral, were unsure how he was killed, or who was responsible. Chief of Police Valery Andruschuk was captured by pro-Russian forces. He was released on 12 May, and was found in serious condition with a brain injury, brain contusion, and broken ribs. It was confirmed later that two pro-government territorial defence battalion paramilitaries were killed as well. One of them was the deputy commander of the Dnipro Battalion, Sergey Demidenko, who was killed by sniper fire. Citing eyewitnesses, Mariupol internet publication 0629 reported that "terrorists took Demidenko's dead body and cut his ears off and gouged his eyes." Eight soldiers were also wounded in the fighting.

The Mariupol city administration declared 10 May 2014 as a day of mourning in honour of those killed in the 9 May incident. Residents placed flowers in front of the gutted police station. A large public funeral was held in Kiev on 12 May for an Azov Battalion member who was killed in the fighting.

A further violent death was reported on 25 May, when the Ukrainian government said its special police had killed a bodyguard of Mariupol DPR leader Denis Kuzmenko, while arresting Kuzmenko himself. Five separatists and two soldiers were killed during the takeover of the city by the military on 13 June 2014. Five border guards were killed and seven wounded in an ambush attack on a military convoy on 14 June 2014.

A report by Human Rights Watch said that the Ukrainian military may have used excessive force during the Battle of Mariupol.

In January 2015, Kyiv Post cited a Bellingcat citizen's investigation into the May 2014 events in Mariupol. It asserted that Ukrainian soldiers had made a decided effort to avoid firing directly at the protesters, whilst taking fire and suffering casualties themselves. According to the investigation, of the thirteen people listed killed, six were Ukrainian law enforcement officers, soldiers, or members of the Azov Battalion.

See also
Offensive on Mariupol (September 2014)
Offensive on Mariupol (January 2015)

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Hans Müller

Hans Müller, Mueller or Muller may refer to:

 Hans Müller (politician) (1884–1961), German politician (CSU)
 Hans Müller (chess player) (1896–1971), Austrian chess player
 Hans Müller (aviator) (1896–1964), World War I flying ace
 Hans Müller (boxer) (1916-1967), Swiss Olympic boxer
 Hans Karl Müller (1892–1977), World War I flying ace
 Hans Mueller (physicist) (1900–1965), physicist and professor
 Hans Müller (director) (1909–1977), German film and television director
 Hans Müller (physician) (1910–1994), physician working in China
 Hans Müller (figure skater) (born 1931), Swiss figure skater and coach
 Hans Müller (pentathlete) (born 1947), Swiss Olympic pentathlete
 Hans Müller (motorcyclist) (born 1949), Swiss Grand Prix motorcycle racer
 Hansi Müller (Hans-Peter Müller, born 1957), German former football player
 Hans Robert Müller (1911–1999), Austrian mathematician
 Hans Muller (water polo) (1937–2015), Dutch water polo player

With double names
 Hans Müller-Einigen (1882–1950), German language playwright, added the Swiss village of Einigen to his name
 Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998), German-American molecular immunologist
 Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt (born 1942), German doctor of sports medicine

See also
 Johann Müller (disambiguation)
 Johannes Müller (disambiguation)


Air Caraïbes Flight 1501

Air Caraïbes Flight 1501 (TX1501/FWI1501) was a scheduled international passenger flight, flying from Saint Martin Airport in the Dutch overseas territory of Sint Maarten to Saint Barthélemy Airport in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe. The flight was operated by Air Caraïbes, a Caribbean regional airline, using a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter. On 24 March 2001, during an approach to Saint Barthélemy Airport, the DHC-6 Twin Otter banked steeply to the left and crashed onto a house, killing all 19 passengers and crew on board. One person on the ground was also killed in the explosions that followed.

The crash was the third deadliest plane crash in Guadeloupe, behind Air France Flight 212 and Air France Flight 117, and was the 11th deadliest involving a Twin Otter.

Investigation by the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (or BEA) concluded that the cause of the crash was due to an error by the flight crew in managing the plane's thrust lever. During its final approach to Saint Barthélemy, the crew caused one of the aircraft's engines to reverse by moving the thrust lever back to the "beta" range, creating a thrust asymmetry which caused the aircraft to bank steeply to the left and crash.

According to the BEA, this was the first fatal accident in the Twin Otter whereby an accidental thrust selection caused a propeller to enter the Beta range. The investigation was hampered by the lack of a flight recorder on the plane. After the crash, the BEA made a mandatory recommendation to equip every transport plane with at least one flight recorder.

Flight

Take-off and approach
Flight 1501 took off from Princess Juliana International Airport at 4:00 pm local time, using a visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan, and was expected to land in Saint Barthélemy at 4:15 pm. The distance between Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy is approximately . The weather was reported as good, with calm winds and very good visibility.

The flight entered its cruise altitude of  and the crew reported passing the "Pain de Sucre" waypoint for a final approach to runway 10 of Gustaf III Airport in the last transmission from Flight 1501.

Crash
While flying above the western slope of La Tourmente Pass, the aircraft suddenly banked steeply to the left. Numerous eyewitnesses including an Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) worker claimed that Flight 1501 then rapidly lost altitude and crashed onto a house, with a massive explosion following immediately after impact. Emergency services quickly arrived to the scene and cordoned off the area. All 19 people on board were killed instantly in the crash and an elderly man, identified as Augustin Questel, who lived in the house with his wife, died from the subsequent fire and explosion. His wife was alive but slightly injured and was taken to hospital.

Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, popular among regional airlines operating short routes. Registered in France as F-OGES (MSN 254), the aircraft was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Canada engines driving Hartzell propellers. It entered into service with Air Guadeloupe in 1970, was subsequently sold to Air Caraïbes and had accumulated more than 35,000 flying hours in 90,000 flight cycles.

Passengers and crew
According to Air Caraïbes CEO Philippe Chevallier and the company's local manager, most of the passengers were French tourists, 15 French residents of Paris, two local residents of Saint Barthélemy and one American. One of the crew members was a French national while other's nationality was not revealed. Multiple reports stated that one Dutch woman and two Belgians were also on board. The American was also reported to have dual nationality.

The pilot flying obtained his commercial pilot license on 18 June 1987 and Instrument Rating on 3 November 1987. He obtained DHC-6 type rating on 28 November 1988 and was subsequently hired as a pilot by Air Guadeloupe and later transferred to Air Caraïbes. The Captain had acquired a total flying hours of 9,864 hours, of which 5,000 hours were on Twin Otters. He was later identified by an Air Caraïbes' official as Jean-Paul Jerpan.

The co-pilot obtained his Twin Otter type rating on 21 December 2000, having had previous professional experience as a flight engineer in the French Air Force. According to the investigators, he was employed on a short-term contract, in which he was supposed to join another airline as a flight engineer. He had acquired a total flying hours of 670 hours of which 15 of them were on the DHC-6.

Investigation
As the crash occurred within the French territory, the BEA was responsible for the investigation. The BEA sent two field investigators to the crash site and later sent four investigators to Pointe-à-Pitre on 25 March. As the aircraft was manufactured in Canada, the Canadian TSB joined the investigation with the assistance from Bombardier and Pratt and Whitney Canada. The American NTSB also joined the investigation and sent a representative.

According to Chevallier the aircraft was not equipped with a black box, and thus investigators had to rely on observations of air traffic controller recordings, eyewitnesses, wreckage observation and their best guess on what might have happened on Flight 1501. Soon after the crash, airport officials claimed it was caused by mechanical failure. One witness stated that he heard an engine "sputtering" before the aircraft slammed onto the house.

The western approach to Saint Barthélemy Airport crosses the Col de la Tourmente just before the runway, requiring pilots to have special certification to land there. Aircraft approaching the runway must make a steep descent and fly low over houses before landing, with no night flights and all aircraft to be equipped with radio.

During the first phase of the investigation, investigators inspected the wreckage of the plane. Initial examination revealed that there were no signs of abnormalities with the plane's controls. Inspection of the plane's propellers also revealed that both propellers were delivering significant power during the crash. Due to the severity of the impact, investigators could not take a fuel sample from the wreckage. During their inspection they found two video cameras at the crash site.

Closer observation of the plane's propellers revealed that the left propeller had a pitch setting of at least 20.4°, that is to say a pitch above flight idle. The right propeller had a different pitch setting for each of the blades, settings likely due to less-violent secondary impacts to the powerplant at the moment of impact. Consequently, the values noted were unusable.

Use of video footage in the investigation
The recovery of video from the crash site had the potential to significantly assist the investigation. One of the two video cameras was too badly damaged by the impact to provide a recoverable recording. However, the second was less damaged and its footage was recovered except for some portions including that adjacent to the recording head.

This video had been taken by a passenger on Flight 1501 filming through a left-side window in the few minutes before the accident. Investigators reviewed the three main sequences of the flight: initial climb, cruise and approach.

Later, investigators analysed the video more thoroughly to examine the operation of both propeller visually and through the sound recorded on the tape.  During Flight 1501's initial climb and cruise there were no abnormalities in the sound of the propeller. However, investigators detected an abnormality during the approach phase, with audible fluctuations indicating that that both propellers were "not synchronized".

Flights observation and footage comparison
Investigators then recorded new video footage, using the same model of video camera as the one recovered, during a recreation of the flight to evaluate the track, engine parameters and the pilot's hand positions. The thrust lever of the DHC-6 was located on the cockpit ceiling and investigators wanted to determine if the pilot's hand position may have contributed to the crash.

It was revealed that, when the pilot flying was seated on the left, his right forearm is located in the extended vertical axis of the levers, a position which is favorable to symmetric handling. However, when the pilot flying is seated in the right seat, his left forearm is not vertical; he stretches slightly to the left and is thus not aligned with the axis of the levers, this "angle" being compensated by wrist movement. In addition, if the pilot flying was seated on the right, he would move the thrust lever with a different timing, used short successive and separate movements on the engine No. 1 lever and then on the engine No. 2 lever, with the hand always remaining in contact with both levers.

A comparison was made by investigators to confirm the position of Flight 1501. An analysis of the engine parameters also showed that both engines were functioning normally from take-off until the last image of the video, recorded just minutes before the accident. Towards the end of the film, the spectral analysis showed an increase in the propeller speed. This variation seems to correspond to the beginning of the descent towards the airport, at the moment when the crew selected the propellers' full low pitch position.

Thrust lever beta
In the DHC-6, there is a mode called as "beta" in which the crew can control the propeller pitch directly. There are two beta ranges. The first is from + 17° to +  11°, called "approach beta" and permitted in flight. In this range the propellers are tractive. The second range runs from + 11° to − 15°, called "reverse beta" and prohibited in flight. In this range, the propellers act as brakes, two different sub-ranges being identifiable: ground idle and traction reversal. If the reverse beta is engaged in mid-air, according to the manufacturer, this would greatly increase aerodynamic drag and cause rapid deceleration. As a consequence, the plane would lose lift.

The manufacturer had known about this risk since 1979 and had started to implement several preventive measures. They had warned pilots about the risk in all flight manuals. They had installed a mechanical stop to try to prevent a pilot accidentally causing a plane to enter the beta range. An alarm had also been installed by the manufacturer.

Investigators' hypotheses
Investigators made several hypotheses about Flight 1501. Mechanical failure, terrorism, bird strike and weather-related factors were quickly ruled out. They then focused their attention on two strong hypotheses.

The first hypothesis was that the pilot flying was the captain and that he had accidentally selected the reverse beta range for the propellers with the intention of losing energy to correct the airspeed, regain the descent path or shorten the landing as much as possible, as the reverse beta mode acted as a powerful brake. During that time, a thrust asymmetry occurred, which could have caused an undesirable behavior or caused the plane to reach its desired speed. In either case, it would be necessary at that moment to deselect the reverse beta range. Then the pilot would have pushed the levers energetically back to their normal use range by increasing thrust, which would explain the change in engine noise. Asymmetry in the power levers' movement, or in the operation of the propeller mechanism, or even in the position of the propeller levers, would then have led to asymmetry between the engines to an extent that would have caused a violent yaw movement, inducing a sharp roll to the left, possibly associated with a stall of the left wing and then a dive. The pilot would not have been able to regain control of the aircraft, which would have been both too slow and too near the ground at that moment. This hypothesis was supported by testimonies from numerous eyewitnesses and routine in-flight procedure violations in the airport.

The second one was that the pilot flying was the co-pilot. One day before the crash the co-pilot had performed a take-off from Saint Barthélemy. The captain, who was more experienced than the co-pilot, ordered the co-pilot to conduct the approach, without himself taking over radio communications with the tower. The co-pilot was seated on the right, where it was not easy to control the thrust lever.

According to the investigators neither hypothesis could be excluded as there were no flight recorders to provide confirmation. Investigators did state they believed that the first hypothesis was far more probable, based on testimonies of eyewitnesses, and concluded that the most probable cause of the crash was due to the selection of the reverse beta range.

Conclusion
Investigators then made the conclusion of the cause of the crash:

The absence of flight recorder
The investigation was hampered due to the absence of a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. BEA made a statement:

After the crash, the BEA made mandatory recommendations to the Directorate General for Civil Aviation and the Joint Aviation Authorities to equip every public transport plane authorized to carry more than nine passengers and whose maximum certified take-off weight is less than or equal to 5,700 kg, with at least one flight recorder. The BEA stated that the recommendation should be implemented as soon as possible and should also apply to cargo planes and helicopters.

Aftermath

Immediate response
The prefect of Guadeloupe immediately went to the scene to organize relief, including gendarmerie reinforcements, firemen and teams of psychologists.

French President Jacques Chirac sent a message of condolences to the families of the victims. On 25 March, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Foreign Secretary Christian Paul also expressed their "emotion" and "deep sadness" to the families of the victims.

A prayer service was held in Gustavia, the island's most important town, on 25 March. Public opinion in Saint Barthélemy supported Mayor Bruno Magras's declaration of Monday 26 March as a day of official mourning for the crash victims. Schools, public services and most businesses were closed. Air Caraïbes General Manager Philippe Chevallier announced that the airline would fly relatives of the victims to the crash site.

Lawsuit
A hearing on the crash was opened at the Correctional Court of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe on 29 June 2006 and lasted two days. The case stated that there were alleged criminal offences. Richard Degryse, responsible for Air Caraïbes' training at the time of the events, was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Jean-Paul Dubreuil, Air Caraïbes' president, was also charged with manslaughter.

Twenty-one members of the Association of Families of Victims, ADFV, chaired by Karine Paris, arrived in Guadeloupe along with three lawyers engaged by the National Federation of Victims of Collective Accidents. Other civil parties also attended the trial, including members of the Questel family.

On 15 September 2006, Richard Degryse was convicted of involuntary homicide and sentenced to a two-year prohibition from any work involving directing flight operations. The sentence was much lower than the prosecutor's demand for a two-year suspended prison sentence with a five-year ban. Subsequently, the airline, Air Caraïbes, was also found guilty and fined 250,000 euros. The court determined that the operations manager and the company knew of the risks they had created by failing to comply with the training flight requirement for a pilot taking control of an aircraft after a break of more than 90 days. The court also received representations from more than 70 parties whose interests were examined during a civil lawsuit, held on 22 December at the tribunal of Basse-Terre.

See also
In several other crashes, pilots have accidentally moved the aircraft's propeller switch into reverse pitch while still in mid-air:
 Luxair Flight 9642, a 2002 crash in Luxembourg involving a Fokker 50
 Kish Air Flight 7170, a 2004 crash in the United Arab Emirates involving a Fokker 50
 Airlines PNG Flight 1600, a 2011 crash in Papua New Guinea involving a Dash 8
 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6517, a 2015 crash in Indonesia involving a Xian MA60
Other aircraft crashes have been hampered due to the absence of flight recorders:
 Northwest Airlink Flight 2268, a 1987 plane crash in United States involving a CASA C-212 aircraft

References

External links
Air Caraibes Twin Otter at Saint-Barthelemy on March 24th 2001, The Aviation Herald
Accident description of Flight 1501, Aviation Safety Network
Aftermath of the crash, Associated Press
Final Report  (PDF)
Final Report  (PDF)

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Latin diacritics

Latin diacritics may refer to:
 diacritics of the Latin alphabet
 diacritics used in the Latin language (see )


Huincul Formation

The Huincul Formation is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Early Cenomanian to Late Turonian) age of the Neuquén Basin that outcrops in the Mendoza, Río Negro and Neuquén Provinces of northern Patagonia, Argentina. It is the second formation in the Río Limay Subgroup, the oldest subgroup within the Neuquén Group. Formerly that subgroup was treated as a formation, and the Huincul Formation was known as the Huincul Member.

Description
The type locality of the Huincul Formation is near the town of Plaza Huincul in Neuquén Province after which the formation was named by Wichmann in 1929. This formation conformably overlies the Candeleros Formation, and it is in turn overlain by the Lisandro Formation.

The Huincul Formation is thought to represent an arid environment with ephemeral or seasonal streams. In some areas, it is up to  thick. It is mainly composed of green and yellow sandstones and can easily be differentiated from the overlying Lisandro Formation, which is red in color. The Candeleros Formation, underlying the Huincul, is composed of darker sediments, making all three formations easily distinguishable.

Fossil content

Fossil bones are rarely found in the Huincul Formation. However, remains of Argentinosaurus huinculensis, one of the largest land animals known, were found in the Huincul Formation, and this species is named after it. One of the largest predators known, Mapusaurus, has also been recovered from a bonebed in this formation.

Fossils found in the Huincul Formation include those of dinosaurs:
 several titanosaurian sauropods (including Argentinosaurus and Choconsaurus)
 rebbachisaurid sauropods (including Cathartesaura and Limaysaurus)
 carcharodontosaurid theropods (including Mapusaurus and Taurovenator)
 a neovenatorid theropod (Gualicho)
 a megaraptoran theropod (Aoniraptor)
 several abelisaurid theropods (including Skorpiovenator, Tralkasaurus and Ilokelesia)
 an elaphrosaurine theropod (Huinculsaurus)
 several iguanodonts
 ichnofossils of abelisaurids and hadrosaurids

See also

 List of fossil sites
 List of dinosaur bearing rock formations

References

Bibliography

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Tuber sinoexcavatum

Tuber sinoexcavatum is a species of truffle in the family Tuberaceae. Described as a new species in 2011, it is found in China. The pale yellowish-brown to brown truffles measure up to  in diameter. The species is named for its close resemblance to the common European truffle T. excavatum.

Taxonomy
The species was described as new to science in the journal Mycotaxon in 2011. The type collection was made in Panzhihua City, China (Sichuan Province), where it was found growing in the ground near pine trees. The specific epithet sinoexcavatum combines the Latin word sino (China) with excavatum, meaning "the endemic Chinese species that is similar to T. excavatum".

Description
The fruit bodies are pale yellowish-brown to brown, roughly spherical, and measure  in diameter. The base of the truffle has a cavity. The exterior surface is either smooth or has minute papillae (nipple-like projections); around the area of the basal cavity, the surface is distinctly warted. The peridium (outer skin) is 200–300 μm thick and comprises two distinct layers of tissue. The outer tissue layer, 40–100 μm thick, is made of somewhat angular to roughly spherical light brown cells that are typically 5–15 μm wide. The inner layer (160–200 μm thick) consists of interwoven hyphae that are thin-walled, hyaline (translucent), and 2.5–5 μm thick.

The internal spore-bearing tissue of the truffle, the gleba, is yellow-brown to reddish-brown in mature specimens. It has many whitish narrow veins running through it. The asci (spore-bearing cells) are spherical (or nearly so), usually contain two or three spores (although less commonly there can be one or four spores), and measure 75–125 by 62.5–100 μm. They are situated on a short stalk. The spherical spores are initially hyaline, but become brown to yellowish-brown in age. They measure 35–50 by 30–45 μm and feature a mesh-like surface ornamentation with ridges and spines up to 5 μm high and 7.5–15 μm wide.

Tuber sinoexcavatum closely resembles the common European truffle T. excavatum, but mature fruit bodies of the latter species usually have a dark colored gleba.

See also
List of Tuber species

References

External links

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A-maze-ing Laughter

A-maze-ing Laughter is a 2009 bronze sculpture by Yue Minjun, located in Morton Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Description
A-maze-ing Laughter was designed by Yue Minjun and installed in Morton Park (Davie and Denman) along the English Bay in West End, Vancouver in 2009. The patinated bronze sculpture, composed of 14 statues each about three metres tall and weighing over 250 kilograms, portrays the artist's own image "in a state of hysterical laughter". It was created as part of the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, which exhibits international contemporary works in public spaces. The sculpture was donated to the City of Vancouver by Chip and Shannon Wilson through the Wilson5 Foundation on August 11, 2012.

As part of the installation, an inscription carved into cement seating states "May this sculpture inspire laughter playfulness and joy in all who experience it."

Reception
A-maze-ing Laughter was nominated in the Great Places in Canada Contest 2013 and was the only work of public art to receive a nomination.

See also
 2009 in art

References

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Ambulance (disambiguation)

An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people.

Ambulance may also refer to:

Songs
 "Ambulance", a 1997 song by Grinspoon, B-side to the single "Repeat"
 "Ambulance", a 2003 song by Blur from Think Tank
 "Ambulance", a 2004 song by TV on the Radio from Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
 "Ambulance", a 2011 song by Eisley from The Valley
 "Ambulance", a 2012 song by My Chemical Romance from Conventional Weapons
 "Ambulances", a 2011 song by Ladytron from Gravity the Seducer

Other uses
 Ambulance (computer virus), a computer virus infecting the DOS operating system
 Ambulance (film), a 2015 Malayalam-language film
 Ambulance (TV series), a British documentary television series
 Ambulance (video game), a video game released in 1983
 Ambulance LTD, an American indie rock band
 Ambulance LTD (EP), the self-titled debut EP
 The Ambulance, a 1990 thriller film starring Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones
 Ambulance, a band with releases on the Planet Mu label
 Ambulances, a 1961 poem by Philip Larkin

See also
 Ambulance station
 Field Ambulance, a wartime mobile medical unit
 First Call vehicle, known as a "private ambulance" in the UK


New Lebanon, Indiana

New Lebanon is an unincorporated community in Gill Township, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
New Lebanon was founded in 1827, and was named after the biblical Mount Lebanon. A post office was established at New Lebanon in 1840, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1966.

Geography
New Lebanon is located at .

References

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HIT FM Denmark

Hit FM is a radio station in Jutland, Denmark. It is divided into three stations, each of which broadcast on their own frequency. There are local departments in Aalborg, Viborg and Herning.

The station plays a variety of genres, including pop, rock, hip hop and R&B. Within these genres, the station focuses on popular mainstream hits.

External links
 HIT FM official website

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Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in Denmark


Breasal Ó Madadhan

Breasal Ó Madadhan, Lord of Síol Anmchadha and Chief of the Name, died 1526.

The Annals of the Four Masters, sub anno 1479, state that The monastery of Meelick was founded by O'Madden, on the bank of the Shannon, in the diocese of Clonfert, for Franciscan Friars; and he chose a burial-place for himself in it. It is uncertain if this refers to Breasal, or his predecessor, Eoghan.

In 1490, the Annals of the Four Masters state that "Thomas O'Lorcan, intended Ollav to O'Madden ... died."

His obituary describes him as "a kind, brave, mild, and justly-judging man."

References
  O'Madáin: History of the O'Maddens of Hy-Many, Gerard Madden, 2004. .
 Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions, Paul MacCotter, Four Courts Press, 2008.
 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
 https://archive.org/stream/tribescustomsofh00odonuoft/tribescustomsofh00odonuoft_djvu.txt

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2016 Kyoto 3rd district by-election

A by-election for the Kyoto-3rd seat in the Japanese House of Representatives was held on 24 April 2016, coinciding with the by-election in Hokkaido. The seat became vacant after sitting member Kensuke Miyazaki resigned on 12 February 2016 in the midst of an extramarital affair scandal. Miyazaki, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, served the district from 2012. He defeated Democratic Party MP Kenta Izumi by slim margins in the 2012 (0.1%) and 2014 (2.7%) elections.

Izumi managed to wrest back his old seat by a landslide, eclipsing his nearest rival by 45 percentage points.

Outline
The district had 344,696 registered voters for the election, an increase of 0.12% since the 2014 general election. As the voting age for national elections was decreased to 18 years in June 2016, this by-election, along with the Hokkaido by-election, were the last national-level election with a minimum voting age of 20 years. The by-elections were the first national-level elections contested by the Democratic Party, Initiatives from Osaka party and Party for Japanese Kokoro under their respective current names. The Communist Party also chose not to field a candidate in the election, despite receiving 27,000 votes (16%) in the 2014 election.

Dates
 16 March 2016 - Date of election announced
 12 April 2016 - List of candidates published
 13–23 April - Early-voting polling booths open
 24 April 2016 - Polling day

Candidates
The by-election was a six-way race. The LDP decided against fielding a candidate due to the perceived anti-LDP sentiment in light of the Miyazaki scandal. Party bosses were also worried that a heavy defeat in Kyoto might affect LDP's campaign for the House of Councillors election in summer.

Results

Note:
1 The percentage swing for the Democratic Party candidate is calculated based on the vote share obtained by its predecessor, DPJ.
2 The percentage swing for the Initiatives from Osaka candidate is calculated based on the vote share obtained by its predecessor, Japan Innovation Party.

References

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Faddeev equations

The Faddeev equations, named after their inventor Ludvig Faddeev, are equations that describe, at once, all the possible exchanges/interactions in a system of three particles in a fully quantum mechanical formulation. They can be solved iteratively.

In general, Faddeev equations need as input a potential that describes the interaction between two individual particles. It is also possible to introduce a term in the equation in order to take also three-body forces into account.

The Faddeev equations are the most often used non-perturbative formulations of the quantum-mechanical three-body problem.
Unlike the three body problem in classical mechanics, the quantum three body problem is uniformly soluble.

In nuclear physics, the off the energy shell nucleon-nucleon interaction has been studied by analyzing (n,2n) and (p,2p) reactions on deuterium targets, using the Faddeev Equations.  The nucleon-nucleon interaction is expanded (approximated) as a series of separable potentials.  The Coulomb interaction between two protons is a special problem, in that its expansion in separable potentials does not converge, but this is handled by matching the Faddeev solutions to long range Coulomb solutions, instead of to plane waves.

Separable potentials are interactions that do not preserve a particle's location.  Ordinary local potentials can be expressed as sums of separable potentials.  The physical nucleon-nucleon interaction, which involves exchange of mesons, is not expected to be either local or separable.

References

 L.D. Faddeev, S.P. Merkuriev, Quantum Scattering Theory for Several Particle Systems, Springer, August 31, 1993, .

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Oxycoleus culicinus

Oxycoleus culicinus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1870.

References

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Nivea (disambiguation)

Nivea is a brand of cosmetics.

It may also refer to:
 Nivea (given name)
 Nivea (singer) (born 1982), American R&B singer Nivea B. Hamilton
 Nivea (album), her 2001 debut album
 Mount Nivea, South Orkney Islands

See also
 niveum


Industrial Bank (Washington D.C.)

Industrial Bank is a historic African American owned bank based in Washington D.C., United States. Industrial Bank is located on U Street and has 6 branches on Georgia Avenue, J.H. Mitchell, F Street, Anacostia Gateway, Oxon Hill, and Forestville.

History
It was established in 1913 as the Industrial Savings Bank by John Whitelaw Lewis and originally operated out of the Laborers' Building and Loan Association building designed by William Sidney Pittman. An Industrial Bank building on U Street was designed by Isaiah Hatton a few years later.

The bank closed in 1932 but was reorganized and reopened by Howard University alumnus Jesse Mitchell in 1934. By 1947 the bank had $6 million in assets from over 14,000 depositors, more than 20% of whom were white. This made it the largest black-owned bank in the U.S. The bank faced staffing difficulties because trained white bank workers were unwilling to work for a black bank, but DC only had a single bank training institute, and that institute had a whites-only policy.

In 2013 the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation invested $1 million in certificates of deposit at the bank to spur lending to the African American community. The number of African American banks fell during the Great Recession and Industrial Bank was the last African American-owned bank in Washington D.C.

On Friday, November 1, 2019, Industrial Bank acquired substantially all assets of the insolvent City National Bank (New Jersey).

References

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Luciobarbus biscarensis

Luciobarbus biscarensis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus. it is endemic to Algeria.

References

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2013 Castelar rail accident

The 2013 Buenos Aires rail disaster occurred on 13 June 2013 at about 07:30 local time (10:30 UTC), in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province, about 30km (19 miles) west of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A passenger train travelling in the morning rush hour hit a stationary train that was empty.  At least 3 people were killed and another 315 were injured. This crash took place on the Sarmiento line between Once railway station and Moreno, the same line which was the scene of the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster.

Following official investigations which determined that the brakes were in working order and that the conductor sped through three warning signals without attempting to apply them, the conductor, Daniel López, was formally charged with negligent homicide on October 2.

References

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Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)

"Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" or simply "Before It's Too Late" is a song from the Transformers soundtrack, Transformers: The Album, and the 25th single by the Goo Goo Dolls. It was released on June 5, 2007. The song itself was the first single to be released for the soundtrack reaching 86 on Billboard Hot 100 and 9 on Hot Adult Top 40, although the song, "What I've Done" by Linkin Park was written and used for most of the Transformers promotional purposes (possibly due to the lyrics of "What I've Done" better suiting the overall theme of the film). The song was later included on the band's second compilation album Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles.

Track listing

 "Before It's Too Late (Sam And Mikaela's Theme)" - 3:02

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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Andrew Wilder

Andrew Wilder could refer to:

Andrew Wilder (American football) (born 1990), American football player
Andrew S. Wilder, American television writer and producer