Claus Kleber

Claus Kleber (born 2 September 1955 in Reutlingen) is a German journalist and former lawyer. He anchors heute journal, an evening news program on ZDF, one of Germany's two major public TV stations. He is also known for his expertise in United States politics and German-American relations, as evidenced by his 2005 bestseller Amerikas Kreuzzüge ("America's Crusades").

Early life

Claus Kleber was born in Reutlingen, Germany. He attended the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Bergisch Gladbach, completing his Abitur in 1974. During his schooling, Kleber freelanced as a local reporter for the newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. From 1974, he studied law at the University of Tübingen, spending two semesters abroad in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978 and 1979. In the autumn of 1980, Kleber passed his first Staatsexamen in law: this was followed by further training in Stuttgart. In 1983 he completed his second Staatsexamen, followed by extended dissertation research stays in New York City and Washington, D.C., for which he was awarded scholarships from Studienstiftung and DAAD. After this, he worked as a lawyer for a law firm in Stuttgart, specialising in commercial law and competition law. In 1986, he completed his PhD in law under Thomas Oppermann at the University of Tübingen.

Career

After completing his PhD, Kleber became a journalist. He started building his reputation during the 1980s as a Washington correspondent for Deutschlandfunk (DLF), a German public radio station.

In the spring of 1989, Kleber returned to Germany as Chief Editor of RIAS Berlin, the city’s most influential radio station. There, he was on location for the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and brought eyewitness accounts of the crumbling Soviet Empire to Germany.

In 1990, Kleber returned for another twelve years to Washington as a Senior Correspondent and Bureau Chief for ARD, one of the two nationwide German public television networks (the other being ZDF, where he currently works). During his time in the US, he set high standards in international reporting and consequently gained a reputation as one of his country’s most influential foreign policy journalists. He has reported from all fifty states in the US, and covered, met and interviewed every American president since Ronald Reagan as well as the most influential members of the George W. Bush administration, including President Bush himself as well as secretaries Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell.

In June 2002, Kleber moved to London as ARD Bureau Chief. Only a few months into the new job, he received an offer from ZDF to become managing editor and principal anchor of heute journal, one of Germany's leading television news programs. In 2014, he interviewed US President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Kleber is also a documentary filmmaker. With his long-standing professional partner, Angela Andersen, he has created many documentary films, including the award-winning America, Almighty (2003), Peoples of the Orient (2003), Minefield Afghanistan (2004) and India – Unstoppable (2006).

In 2009 the film-making duo started putting an emphasis on the big issues of our age:
 the renewed threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century in The Bomb (2009), a 3-part-documentary.
 global strategic consequences of climate change in Machtfaktor Erde (2011), a 2-part documentary.
 the global struggle to provide for ten billion people in 2050 in HUNGER! and DURST! (thirst), a 2-part documentary (2014).
Since 2015, Claus Kleber also works as an Honorary Professor at his alma mater, the University of Tübingen.

Books
Kleber's best-selling book Amerikas Kreuzzüge ("America's crusades") won the 2005 Corine Literature Prize for best non-fiction work. Shortly before the 2008 presidential election, Kleber published an updated edition with his views on the candidates. In 2012 Kleber published Spielball Erde about global strategic consequences of Climate Change, which turned into another bestseller. In Germany, it was the first book to inform the general public about issues of "Climate Change and International Security" (CCIS).

2017: "Brave New World - How Silicon Valley is shaping our future" "Silver World Medal" New York Film Festival 2017, nominated "Beste Dokumentation" TV Festival Monte Carlo, Special Selection "Science Film Fesival"

Recognition
Kleber is the recipient of several awards, including the Media prize of the Johanna Quandt Foundation (1998) for excellence in economic reporting, the RIAS Berlin committee TV prize (1997, 1999 and 2003), and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (the German equivalent of the American Emmy) in 2005, 2006 and 2013 (heute journal as best German news program). Claus Kleber and his ZDF partner anchor Marietta Slomka were awarded the prestigious Grimme Prize in 2009 for their merits on the evolution of television. In 2010, he won the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award for Outstanding Journalism. His work in documentaries on global challenges (with Angela Andersen) received the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for The Bomb in 2009 and the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis for HUNGER! DURST! in 2015. In a 2018 survey conducted by Forsa Institute, he was voted Germany's most trusted news presenter.

Personal life
Claus Kleber has been married to Renate Kleber, a physician, since 1982. They have two daughters and the family lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Bibliography

Kleber, Claus and Paskal, Cleo (2012). Spielball Erde. Machtkämpfe im Klimawandel. (in German) (original ed.). München: C. Bertelsmann Verlag. .

External links
 Portrait at zdf.de (German)

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Frank Woods

Frank Woods may refer to:

 Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
 Frank P. Woods (1868–1944), member of the United States House of Representatives
 Frank Theodore Woods (1874–1932), English Anglican bishop, Bishop of Winchester
 Frank Woods (bishop) (1907–1992), English-born Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, nephew of Theodore
 Frank Woods (pharmacologist) (1937–2016), British pharmacologist
 Frank Woods (cricketer) (1889–1951), New Zealand cricketer
 MSgt. Frank Woods, a non-playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops, and a playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II

See also
Francis Woods (1819–1894), businessman and politician
Frank Wood (disambiguation)


Mary Jane Sherfey

Mary Jane Sherfey (1918–1983) was an American psychiatrist and writer on female sexuality, she received her medical degree from Indiana University, where she attended lectures on marriage and sexuality given by Alfred Kinsey. Sherfey had a private practice in New York City and was on the staff of the Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center. In 1961, Sherfey's interest in female biology was intensified when she came upon the inductor theory, which demonstrated that the human embryo is female until hormonally “induced” to become male. Determined to popularize a fact that had lain in neglect since its discovery in the 1950s, Sherfey began researching the subject and familiarizing herself with a variety of disciplines, including embryology, anatomy, primatology and anthropology. Many of her findings appear in The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality, which initially took form as an article contesting the existence of vaginal orgasm, published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1966.

In her earlier works, Sherfey noted that "the strength of the sex drive determines the force required to suppress it." In The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality, she introduced the concept that "female sexuality was an insatiable drive that had been repressed for the sake of maintaining a civilized agrarian society" and helped to explain why knowledge of the clitoris had been ignored or forbidden for over three hundred years.

In 1983 at 65 years of age she died from a heart attack at her home in Rusk, Texas.

Works
The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality, Random House,
Anxiety and Magic Thinking: The Psychogenetic Analysis of Phobia and the Neurosis of Abandonment
with Charles Odier and Marie-Louise Schoelly, Intl Universities Pr Inc,

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Charles Lyon Chandler

Charles Lyon Chandler (1883June 29, 1962) was an American consul and historian of Latin America–United States relations. A Harvard graduate who came to South America in the Consular Service, he became a student and proponent of Pan-Americanism. His pioneering 1915 book Inter-American Acquaintances proposed a new, Pan-American origin for the Monroe Doctrine. After being denied a permanent diplomatic appointment he worked for the Southern Railway and the Corn Exchange Bank; at the same time he became a respected independent scholar who helped found the Hispanic American Historical Review. Beside many articles on early inter-American relations, he co-authored an unpublished biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett. During World War II he worked in Brazil for the U.S. government, and before retirement he taught at Haverford, Georgetown and Ursinus.

For his scholarship and promotion of good relations based on shared cultural values, Chandler achieved significant honors in several South American countries—but not in the United States. This, combined with scant attention to his scholarship, led his biographer to characterize him as a forgotten man.

Early life
Chandler was born in a Unitarian family, and would attribute a great influence to religious values of social progress and "perfect mutual toleration". His aunt Agnes Blake Poor encouraged a love of Spanish and Portuguese, while he took Latin and French in high school and studied German on his own. At Harvard College he focused on history and political science, studying under Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward Channing and Archibald Cary Coolidge before graduating magna cum laude in 1905.

Consular service
Already in Europe on a George W. Dillaway fellowship, Chandler obtained a job in the United States Consular Service as the secretary of the American envoy in Portugal, Charles Page Bryan. The State Department sent him to Japan, where he studied interpreting, and then to Formosa and Manchuria as vice consul. In 1908 he was sent to Montevideo, Uruguay—the beginning of his Latin American experience.

Chandler wrote diverse reports for trade publications, such as arguing for American entrepreneurs to invest in Argentina rather than Japan or China. He was also returned to the United States to attend business conferences. Studying private international law at the University of Buenos Aires (after transferring to that consulate), he earned a certificate, and used university club life to interest Argentines in studying in the United States. He was the first foreign member of the university's Law Student's Club, and was active in the United States Universities Club of Buenos Aires as well as the Harvard Club of the River Plate.

In August 1911, he began writing Inter-American Acquaintances. The first chapter appeared the next month and the completed book in 1915 (Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press), with a second edition in 1917. Predating other early works on Pan-American relations, his biographer asserts that "Chandler's publications must be considered precursors to the pioneers". According to a contemporary review:

Chandler was transferred to Callao, Peru, to serve as vice and deputy consul. The newspaper El Diario reported that "Chandler is a true American, inasmuch as he truly reflects reality; he is very much a latino in his fine projects and in his ideas and conceptions." He was elected to Lima's National Club, founded a United States Universities Club of Peru and enrolled at the University of San Marcos. In January 1914, however, the State Department informed him that he failed the entrance examination for permanent appointment to the Diplomatic Service.

Later career

Leaving diplomacy, Chandler sustained himself with business jobs instead, working as an agent for the Southern Railway from 1914 to 1918, and as foreign trade manager for the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia from 1918 to 1942. He continued lecturing, organizing tours and publishing scholarly articles related to inter-American affairs. He helped organize and fund the Hispanic American Historical Review, and wrote some of its first articles. In 1924 he discovered the tomb of the first Colombian ambassador to the United States, Manuel Torres, in Philadelphia.

During 1933 and 1934 he worked with Edwin J. Pratt on a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett, intended for publication the next year. This "most important historical effort of his career" was upset, however, when J. Fred Rippy and Herbert E. Putnam both published Poinsett biographies that year. While Chandler sharply criticized these books in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, stressing that "neither can be considered a definitive and final biography", it did not prevent his own work from being rejected by Princeton's and Harvard's university presses. The manuscript was revised but never published.

Following a switch to the Democratic Party in the 1920s, Chandler became a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, exchanging some personal letters with the president. When the United States entered World War II, Chandler left banking for a job with the government's Rubber Development Corporation. He worked in Washington as well as Brazil, and in September 1943 moved to the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Rio de Janeiro. He discovered the tomb of early American diplomat William Tudor there, and was popular in the Brazilian press.

Returning from Brazil at age 63, he spent six years teaching at Haverford College, Georgetown University and Ursinus College. At Ursinus he taught political science and helped obtain the Huntington Wilson Papers. In retirement he taught at a Unitarian Sunday school, preached, and was unofficially involved with the Williams Foundation, an organization dedicated to interchange between the U.S. and Argentina.

Death and legacy
Chandler died in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, on June 29, 1962. His wife donated his papers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Almost everything he wrote or spoke about seemed to show, in some way, that peoples of the Western Hemisphere  and  get along together under certain circumstances," Chandler's biographer Sheldon Avenius wrote. While Chandler was honored in South America, and witnessed an actual improvement in inter-American relations, the United States had little interest in Chandler's advocacy based on shared cultural values—leading Avenius to conclude that Chandler "remains today a splendid example of the forgotten man".

Awards and honors
 1926: Colombia – honorary doctor of laws
 1934: Chile – Order of Merit
 1944: Brazil – Commander in the Order of the Southern Cross
 1944: Brazil – honorary doctor of letters from the University of Porto Alegre
 1945: Brazil – commemorative medal for the centennial of the Baron of Rio Branco
 Colombia – elected to
 Colombia – Order of Boyacá

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Segheng

Segheng (; also known as Saghīnak and Seghīng) is a village in Soghan Rural District, Soghan District, Arzuiyeh County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 79, in 16 families.

References

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Kelechi Francis Ibekwe

Kelechi Francis Ibekwe (born 5 April 1984) is a Nigerian football forward who currently plays for S.S. Calcio Giugliano  in the Eccellenza.

References

External links
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Cape Verde at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

Cape Verde competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from August 27 to September 4 in Daegu, South Korea.
One athlete was
announced to represent the country
in the event.

Results

Men

References

External links
Official local organising committee website
Official IAAF competition website

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Don't Sleep On a Hizzo

Don't Sleep on a Hizzo [AKA: Put Shit Pass No Ho] is a 1993 song by Southern Hip Hop group Poison Clan that originally appeared on the group's third album Ruff Town Behavior. The song would peak at #94 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart making it the lowest-charting Poison Clan single to date. In addition to a 12-inch single, A music video would be released for the song and as with almost all Poison Clan videos, the song's lyrics would be altered to remove the strong language found in the original uncensored version's lyrics. The song would later appear on Poison Clan's 1999 greatest hits release The Best of JT Money & Poison Clan.

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Andrew Falk

Andrew J. Falk (born April 1983) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 17A, which included all or portions of Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, Swift counties in southwestern Minnesota. He is also a fifth generation farmer and renewable energy developer.

Early life, education, and career
Falk graduated from the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Public School System, then went on to the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, earning his bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance. He is a soybean and seed processing farmer, and is the co-founder of Knight Energy LLC, a wind-power company.

Minnesota House of Representatives
Falk was first elected in 2008, opting to run after Rep. Aaron Peterson decided not to seek re-election. He was re-elected in 2010 and 2012. He lost re-election in 2014 and sought election to his old seat again in 2016, losing both times to Republican Tim Miller.

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FC Molodechno

FC Molodechno is a Belarusian football club based in Molodechno. They play in Belarusian Second League, the 3rd division in Belarusian football. Their home stadium is Molodechno City Stadium.

History

Early history
The city of Molodechno was represented in Belarusian SSR League since 1949 by various teams attached to local industries and organizations and thus having different names and loose continuity: Dinamo Molodechno (1949–1955), Molodechno Oblast team (1956, 1959), Molodechno city team (1957–1958), Spartak Molodechno (1960–1963, 1970–1971), Naroch Molodechno (1964–1965), Krasnoye Znamya Molodechno (1966), Volna Molodecno (1967–1969), Selena Molodechno (1972–1980), Metallist Molodechno (1981–1982), Trud Molodechno (1983–1985), Stankostroitel Molodechno (1986). Spartak Molodechno won Belarusian SSR league in 1963. The modern FC Molodechno logo retroactively displays 1949 as the club's year of foundation.

Modern club
Metallurg Molodechno was formed in 1989 and in 1991 the young team won the Belarusian SSR Top League championship as well as Soviet Amateur Cup. Since 1992, the team started playing in Belarusian Premier League. In 1993 they were renamed to FC Molodechno. Their best result came in 1994–95 season, when Molodechno finished 4th. In 1999, they finished 15th and relegated to the First League, but after winning the First League in 2000 quickly came back to the top level in 2001. To celebrate the win they changed their name to Molodechno-2000. They finished last and relegated to the First League again in 2003 and went further down to the Second League one season later. In 2006, they changed their name back to Molodechno. In 2011, the name was changed to Zabudova Molodechno after a merger with Zabudova Chist. In 2013 the merger was dissolved and the club was renamed to Molodechno-2013 and later to Molodechno-DYuSSh-4 in 2015. The club changed its name again in 2019 back to FC Molodechno.

Name changes
1989: FC Metallurg Molodechno
1993: FC Molodechno
2001: FC Molodechno-2000
2006: FC Molodechno
2011: FC Zabudova Molodechno
2013: FC Molodechno-2013
2015: FC Molodechno-DYuSSh-4
2019: FC Molodechno

Achievements
SSR Belarusian League: 1
 1991
Soviet Amateur Cup: 1
 1991

Current squad
As of August 2019

League and Cup history

1 Withdrew from the First League due to financial troubles.

References

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Alfred Edwards

Alfred Edwards may refer to:
A. G. Edwards (bishop) (1848–1937), Archbishop of Wales
Alfred Edwards (football executive) (1850–1923), co-founder and first elected president of Italian football club A.C. Milan
Alfred Edwards (journalist) (1856–1914), journalist and press magnate
Alfred Edwards (politician) (1888–1958), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1935–1950


Country Bones

Country Bones is a country music band. The lead singer is Larry "Bones" Dennison, formerly of The Tonight Show Band. It was the featured musical guest on Tuesday, April 28 on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. ,  They have released a single, Let It Ride. Their debut album was released in May on CD via the band's website, and will be released in June via iTunes and AmazonMP3. The album features Richard Fortus and Matt Tecu. Their second album was released in January 2014 and is entitled Shake.

External links
Official web site

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Hanayama Dam

is a multi-purpose dam in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1957.

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Konkordiaplatz

The Konkordiaplatz or Concordia Place (French: Place de la Concorde), is a large flat area of snow and ice lying just to the south of the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. Its notable feature is that it is the junction of four large glaciers coming down from the Aletschfirn, the Jungfraufirn, the Ewigschneefäld and the Grüneggfirn. The main Aletsch Glacier originates from Konkordiaplatz. The Konkordiaplatz Charter was signed by the municipalities located in the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area UNESCO World Heritage site, vowing to retain the aesthetic beauty of the region.

Naming

Concordia is the Latin word for harmony, literally "with (one) heart". It was the name of the Roman goddess of agreement, understanding, and marital harmony. A British mountaineer, John Frederick
Hardy, gave to the convergence of the several glaciers, the name Place de la Concorde of Nature.

The name Concordia was then given to other places where two or more glaciers meet or large glaciated areas, such as Concordia  in the Karakoram  or Concordia Station in Antarctica.

Geography

Konkordiaplatz is located at an altitude between 2,700 and 2,800 metres, covering an area of approximatively 2 km2. According to measurement made by the ETHZ the thickness of snow and ice is more than 900 metres. It is surrounded by the Dreieckhorn (south), the Fiescher Gabelhorn (east), the Grünhorn (north-east) and the Kranzberg (subpeak of the Jungfrau) and Trugberg (north).

At Konkordia the glacier has a speed of about 200 metres per year or 50 centimetres per day.

The area is completely uninhabited but the Konkordia Hut lies above the glacier, on the western slope of Gross Wannenhorn.

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Tore O. Vorren

Tore Ola Vorren (17 April 1944 – 16 June 2013) was a Norwegian geologist.

He took the cand.real. degree in 1970 at the University of Bergen. He was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Tromsø in 1973, took the dr.philos. degree here in 1978 and was promoted to a professor in 1979. He served as both dean and prorector there, and chairman of the University Centre in Svalbard. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1993.

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2018 National Hurling League

The 2018 National Hurling League was the 87th season of the National Hurling League for county hurling teams.

Wexford finished top of Division 1B in 2017 and were promoted to Division 1A for 2018. Galway finished second in Division 1B in 2017 and so missed out on promotion, even though they subsequently won the Division 1 league final.

Cavan re-entered the National Hurling League in Division 3B, having previously withdrawn. Lancashire also entered in Division 3B for the first time.

Eir Sport and TG4 provided live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons respectively. Highlights programmes – RTÉ2 broadcast League Sunday on Sunday evenings, TG4 broadcast GAA 2018 on Monday evenings.

Kilkenny were the winners, defeating Tipperary in the final on 8 April by 2-23 to 2-17.
It was an 18th League title for Kilkenny.

As National Hurling League champions Kilkenny played the 2017 All-Ireland champions Galway in Australia on 11 November 2018 for the Wild Geese Trophy as part of the Sydney Irish Festival.

Format

League structure

Thirty five teams compete in the 2018 NHL – six teams in the top five divisions (Divisions 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A) and five teams in Division 3B. All thirty-two county teams from Ireland take part. London, Lancashire and Warwickshire complete the lineup.

Each team plays all the other teams in their division once, either home or away. Two points are awarded for a win, and one for a draw.

The Division 1 hurling quarter-finals and semi-finals will finish on the day the games are played avoiding the need for replays. If a quarter-final or semi-final is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after two further five minute periods of extra time, the outcome will be decided by a free-taking competition. This will prevent games from going to a replay and allow the league finals to be held on the scheduled date.

Tie-breaker
 If only two teams are level on league points, the team that won the head-to-head match is ranked ahead. If this game was a draw, score difference (total scored minus total conceded in all games) is used to rank the teams.
 If  three or more teams are level on league points, score difference is used to rank the teams.

Finals, promotions and relegations

Division 1A
 The top four teams qualify for the Division 1 quarter-finals
 The bottom two teams meet in a relegation play-off, with the losing team relegated to Division 1B
Division 1B
 The top team is promoted to Division 1A
 The top four teams qualify for the Division 1 quarter-finals
 The bottom two teams meet in a play-off, with the losing team relegated to Division 2A
Division 2A
 The top two teams meet in Division 2A final, with the winning team promoted to Division 1B
 The bottom team is relegated to Division 2B
Division 2B
 The top two teams meet in Division 2B final, with the winning team being promoted to Division 2A
 The bottom two teams meet in a play-off, with the losing team relegated to Division 3A
Division 3A
 The top two teams meet in Division 3A final, with the winning team promoted to Division 2B
Division 3B
 The top two teams meet in Division 3B final, with the winner promoted to Division 3A

Division 1A

Division 1 Format

The 12 teams in Division 1 are ranked into two groups - teams ranked one to six in Division 1A and teams ranked seven to twelve in Division 1B. Each team plays all the other teams in its group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. The top four teams in both 1A and 1B advance to the league quarter-finals with the top team in 1A playing the fourth team in 1B, the second team in 1A playing the third in 1B, etc. Two semi-finals and a final follow.

Division 1A Table

Division 1A Rounds 1 to 5

Division 1A Round 1

Division 1A Round 2

Division 1A Round 3

Division 1A Round 4

Division 1A Round 5

Division 1B

Division 1B Table

Division 1B Rounds 1 to 5

Division 1B Round 1

Division 1B Round 2

Division 1B Round 3

Division 1B Round 4

Division 1B Round 5

Division 1 Knockout

Division 1 Quarter-Finals

The hurling quarter-finals finish on the day the games are played, avoiding the need for replays. If the score is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after a further two five minute periods of extra time, a free-taking competition is held. Each team nominates five players to take frees from their chosen position on a sixty five metre line selected by the referee and without defenders. The nominated players from each team take alternate turns. If the teams score an equal number of the five frees, the outcome of the match is decided by sudden death frees using the same nominated players in the same order.

The fixtures are 1st in Division 1A plays 4th in Division 1B, 2nd in Division 1A plays 3rd in Division 1B, etc. Home advantage is decided by whichever team has played fewer home games in their five league games, with a coin toss taking place if this number is the same for both teams.

Division 1 Semi-Finals

The hurling semi-finals finish on the day the games are played, avoiding the need for replays. If the score is level after the initial seventy minutes, still level after two ten minute periods of extra time played each way, and still level after a further two five minute periods of extra time, a free-taking competition is held. Each team nominates five players to take frees from their chosen position on a sixty five metre line selected by the referee and without defenders. The nominated players from each team take alternate turns. If the teams score an equal number of the five frees, the outcome of the match is decided by sudden death frees using the same nominated players in the same order.

Division 1 Final

Division 1A Relegation Play-Off

The losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 1B.

Division 1B Relegation Play-Off

The losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 2A.

Division 1 scoring statistics

Top scorers overall

Top scorers in a single game

Division 2A

Division 2A Table

Division 2A Rounds 1 to 5

Division 2A Round 1

Division 2A Round 2

Division 2A Round 3

Division 2A Round 4

Division 2A Round 5

Division 2A Final

Division 2A scoring statistics

Top scorers overall

Top scorers in a single game

Division 2B

Division 2B Table

Division 2B Rounds 1 to 5

Division 2B Round 1

Division 2B Round 2

Division 2B Round 3

Division 2B Round 4

Division 2B Round 5

Division 2B Final

Division 2B Relegation Play-Off

The losing team is relegated and plays in next year's Division 3A.

Division 2B scoring statistics

Top scorers overall

Top scorers in a single game

Division 3A

Division 3A Table

Division 3A Rounds 1 to 5

Division 3A Round 1

Division 3A Round 2

Division 3A Round 3

Division 3A Round 4

Division 3A Round 5

Division 3A Final

Division 3A scoring statistics

Top scorers overall

Top scorers in a single game

Division 3B

Division 3B Table

Division 3B Rounds 1 to 5

Division 3B Round 1

Division 3B Round 2

Division 3B Round 3

Division 3B Round 4

Division 3B Round 5

Division 3B Final

Division 3B scoring statistics

Top scorers overall

Top scorers in a single game

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Jasa

Jasa (in Aragonese: Chasa) is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 128 inhabitants.

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1992 Schenectady Open – Doubles

Javier Sánchez and Todd Woodbridge were the defending champions, but Woodbridge did not participate this year.  Sánchez partnered Diego Nargiso, losing in the quarterfinals.

Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis won the title, defeating Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez 6–3, 6–4 in the final.

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Salon (Paris)

The Salon (), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. At the 1761 Salon, thirty-three painters, nine sculptors, and eleven engravers contributed. From 1881 onward, it has been managed by the Société des Artistes Français.

Origins
In 1667, the royally sanctioned French institution of art patronage, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (a division of the Académie des beaux-arts), held its first semi-public art exhibit at the Salon Carré. The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years. Exhibition in the Salon marked a sign of royal favor.

In 1725, the Salon was held in the Palace of the Louvre, when it became known as Salon or Salon de Paris. In 1737, the exhibitions, held from 18 August 1737 to 5 September 1737 at the Grand Salon of the Louvre, became public. They were held, at first, annually, and then biennially, in odd-numbered years. They would start on the feast day of St. Louis (25 August) and run for some weeks. Once made regular and public, the Salon's status was "never seriously in doubt" (Crow, 1987). In 1748 a jury of awarded artists was introduced. From this time forward, the influence of the Salon was undisputed.

Prominence (1748–1890)

The Salon exhibited paintings floor-to-ceiling and on every available inch of space. The jostling of artwork became the subject of many other paintings, including Pietro Antonio Martini's Salon of 1785. Printed catalogues of the Salons are primary documents for art historians. Critical descriptions of the exhibitions published in the gazettes mark the beginning of the modern occupation of art critic.

The French revolution opened the exhibition to foreign artists. In the 19th century the idea of a public Salon extended to an annual government-sponsored juried exhibition of new painting and sculpture, held in large commercial halls, to which the ticket-bearing public was invited. The vernissage (varnishing) of opening night was a grand social occasion, and a crush that gave subject matter to newspaper caricaturists like Honoré Daumier. Charles Baudelaire, Denis Diderot and others wrote reviews of the Salons.

The 1848 revolution liberalized the Salon. The amount of refused works was greatly reduced. In 1849 medals were introduced.

Early splinter groups
The increasingly conservative and academic juries were not receptive to the Impressionist painters, whose works were usually rejected, or poorly placed if accepted. The Salon opposed the Impressionists' shift away from traditional painting styles. In 1857 the Salon jury turned away an unusually high number of the submitted paintings. An uproar resulted, particularly from regular exhibitors who had been rejected. In order to prove that the Salons were democratic, Napoleon III instituted the Salon des Refusés, containing a selection of the works that the Salon had rejected that year. It opened on 17 May 1863, marking the birth of the avant-garde. The Impressionists held their own independent exhibitions in 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1886.

In 1881, the government withdrew official sponsorship from the annual Salon, and a group of artists organized the Société des Artistes Français to take responsibility for the show.

Secession

In December 1890, the leader of the Société des Artistes Français, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, propagated the idea that Salon should be an exhibition of young, not-yet awarded, artists. Ernest Meissonier, Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rodin and others rejected this proposal and made a secession. They created the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and its own exhibition, immediately referred to in the press as the Salon du Champ de Mars  or the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts; it was soon also widely known as the Nationale.

In 1903, in response to what many artists at the time felt was a bureaucratic and conservative organization, a group of painters and sculptors led by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Auguste Rodin organized the Salon d'Automne.

See also

 Academic art
 Académie de peinture et de sculpture
 Académie des beaux-arts
 Salon (gathering)
 French salons and exhibitions

Other salons
 Salon des Refusés
 Salon des Indépendants
 Salon d'Automne
 Women's literary salons and societies in the Arab world

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References

Sources
 J. J. Marquet de Vasselot: Répertoire des catalogues du musée du Louvre, 1793–1917
 Thomas Crow: Painters and Public Life in 18th Century Paris. Yale University Press 1987
 Patricia Mainardi: The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
 Fae Brauer, Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
 Albert Boime, "The Salon des Refuses and the Evolution of Modern Art," Art Quarterly 32 (Winter 1969): 41 1-26
 Margo Bistis, "Bad Art: The Decline of Academic Art in the Caricatural Salon," International Journal of Comic Art  7, no.1 (Spring 2005); 126–148.

External links

Timeline of the Paris Salons
Harriet Griffiths and Alister Mill, Database of Salon Artists, 1827-1850 (salonartists.org)
Catalogue illustré du Salon, 1879 – 1913. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School

The Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School is a scientific school of thought in the field of semiotics that was formed in 1964 and led by Juri Lotman. Among the other members of this school were Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov, Mikhail Gasparov, Alexander Piatigorsky, Isaak I. Revzin, and others. As a result of their collective work, they established a theoretical framework around the semiotics of culture.

History
The Tartu–Moscow School of Semiotics developed an original method of multidimensional cultural analysis. The languages of culture are interpreted as secondary modelling systems in relation to verbal language. This method permits a productive understanding of the use of different languages of culture.

This school is widely known for its journal, Sign Systems Studies (formerly published in Russian as Труды по знаковым системам), published by Tartu University Press. It is the oldest semiotics journal in the world, established in 1964.

In its first period, the 1960s and 1970s, TMSS followed a structuralist approach and was strongly influenced by Russian formalism. Since the 1980s, its approach can be characterized as post-structuralist (highly dynamic and complex), and is connected with the introduction of Juri Lotman's concept of semiosphere and its relation to organicism.

From 1990s, TMSS has been succeeded by the Tartu Semiotics School, which is based in the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu and led by Kalevi Kull, Peeter Torop, Mihhail Lotman, and others.

Semiotics of Culture
The Semiotics of Culture is a research field within general semiotics founded by the Tartu-Moscow School. It originated in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, the ideas of Russian Formalism, and the Prague Linguistic Circle, alongside various individual theorists, although the theories developed in the Semiotics of Culture (especially its later iterations) depart radically from these influences. Juri Lotman is considered the main representative of the Semiotics of Culture.

Terms central to the semiotics of culture include “text,” “modeling system,” “language,” Lotman's conception of the “semiosphere,” and of course “culture” itself. While its ideas were being formulated in the 1960s, an official birth year for the semiotics of culture could be marked as 1973, when Lotman alongside Vjacheslav V. Ivanov, Aleksandr M. Pjatigorskij, Vladimir N. Toporov, and Boris A. Uspenskij first published the manifesto Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts).
The Text, considered the foundational tool of the School, is used to view the boundaries of a material creation, experience, occurrence, etc., particularly those things that are culturally integrated or artistic.  With the boundary of content set, the interrelations between it and exterior texts can be more clearly examined.  As the boundaries are variable there is no strict definition of how a Text can be made of subject matter, and instead it emphasizes the cultural signification seen in comparing the boundaries of the text to its use in society.
A general statement of the research program of the semiotics of culture is that it aims to examine the entire aggregate of sign systems as united by culture, to ascertain their number, their hierarchy, their mutual influence, or their functional correlation, both synchronically and diachronically.

Semiosphere

The semiosphere is a concept of Juri Lotman's and one that is central to the later semiotics of culture, and as a concept it is given explicit characterization in an article of Lotman's first published in 1984.

The semiosphere is the semiotic space outside of which semiosis cannot exist. The semiosphere precedes any individual text or isolated language, it is the “greater system” outside of which language does not only function, it does not even exist. The principal attribute of the semiosphere is the presence of a boundary, which translates external communications into understandable information. The division between the core (completely semioticized) and the periphery (partially semioticized, in constant flux with the asemiotic) is a law of the internal organization of the semiosphere.  The semiosphere is an exceptionally dynamic mechanism with synchronic and diachronic dimensions and multiple codes engaging with each other.

Tartu-Moscow School

In the early 1960s and as a result of various summer schools organized in Estonia, the Tartu-Moscow School was established. With Juri Lotman as its main representative, the Tartu-Moscow School developed the tradition of the semiotics of culture. In 1973, Lotman, Vjacheslav V. Ivanov, Aleksandr M. Pjatigorskij, Vladimir N. Toporov, and Boris A. Uspenskij first published the manifesto Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts), which laid the foundation for the semiotics of culture and represents a milestone for the school.

The theoretical origins of the school lie in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, the ideas of Russian Formalism, and the Prague Linguistic Circle, alongside other individual theorists, although the theories developed in the semiotics of culture (especially its later iterations) depart radically from these influences.  The school is considered one very distinct and innovative branch of general semiotics, and during its development a controversial one. Alongside the five authors mentioned, the school had a broad international membership, and amongst this decentralized constituency there is a great diversity in publications covering a wide variety of topics. A brief timeline may help contextualize:

Late 1950s - Moscow mathematical linguistics paves way for cybernetic theories of culture

1960s - Semiotics born out of cybernetics and information theory.
- USSR supported development in linguistics.
- Yuri Lotman's associate Igor Cernov connects Moscow and Estonian intellectuals
- Estonian interest in Structuralism, alongside Tartu support for Russian Studies, makes such crossover easy.
The Taru-Moscow School of semiotics was formed when a diverse group of scholars joined informally from the 1950s to 1980s to provide alternatives to the regnant Soviet approaches to language, literature and culture. Their work develops the linguistics of Saussure, elaborated by Trubetzkoi and Hjelmslev. They subsequently came to treat art works and other cultural artifacts as the products of ‘secondary modelling systems’, that is, as elements arranged according to rules that could be seen as language-like and hence accessible to analysis by the procedures of structuralist linguistics. Opoyaz, the Moscow Linguistic Circle and the Prague Linguistic Circle the predecessors of TMS The group shared an interest in the Russian formalists and in contemporary linguistics, semiotics and cybernetics. During the 1970s prominent members of the group, such as Iu.M. Lotman and B.A. Uspenskii, turned from more theoretical and formalized work to historical studies of culture as a system of semiotic systems.

Lotman: The alumni of Moscow University and Leningrad University formed the Soviet school of semiotics as a synthesis of these two traditions in the humanities. To them, a third tradition was added: the University of Tartu. It was not a mere chance: the University of Tartu had its own, well-established linguistic school, and, moreover, was always characterized by a high spirit of academic tolerance, an openness to all-Europe cultural trends.[ Lotman, Juri. 2016[1982]. Universitet – nauka – kul’tura [University – science – culture]. – Lotman, Juri M.; Uspenskij Boris A. Perepiska 1964–1993. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 679–688.]

A distinctive feature of TMS was the combination of structuralist and semiotic approaches to language, literature and culture.

Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts)

Consisting of nine “theses,” the manifesto Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts) laid the foundation for the semiotics of culture and represents a milestone in the legacy of the Tartu-Moscow School.  It was Co-authored by Juri M. Lotman, Vjacheslav V. Ivanov, Aleksandr M. Pjatigorskij, Vladimir N. Toporov, and Boris A. Uspenskij,

The first two theses describe the research program of the semiotics of culture, and the third through to the ninth describe various considerations and concepts relevant to culture and its study through the use of the Text as an analytic tool.  An condensed and abridged summary could read as follows -
Cultures can be studied through semiotic inquiry, as its building blocks are “texts”.  Texts are the qualitative tool used to analyze cultures, and many things can be a text.  Culture can be considered as a series of texts, a supercode of textuality, or a memory storage pattern utilizing texts.

The paradigmatic shift in Lotman's works of the 1980s (from “signs” to “texts,” from the binary understanding of meaning to the “clusters of meanings” typical of complex texts) was just a further step in his permanent effort to illustrate tension between the individual-singular and the systemic-holistic.

The notion of meaning-generation and amplification and the view on the artistic text as a device that performs a very important and complex work by activating linguistic, cultural, and psychological resources became a key topic in many TMS publications.

In a work of art, the creative function of language, its ability to produce new meanings, is especially and intensely felt, thanks to which the text becomes a capacitor of cultural memory: an increase in complexity results from constant re-contextualization and re-reading that amplifies the text's informational richness.

The TMS’ initial impetus toward “exact knowledge” in the humanities branched into a whole array of various approaches, developed by the school's participants: bright thinkers whose paths ultimately drifted apart. Their dialogue considerably increased reflection on their own theoretical premises, frameworks, and procedures, yet did not yield a general synthesis.

Cultural semiotics
Cultural semiotics has developed from linguistic semiotics via text semiotics
towards the semiotics of semiosphere.

1st Phase
Cultural semiotics started from the realization that in a semiotical sense culture is a multilanguage system, where, in parallel to natural languages, there exist secondary
modelling systems (mythology, ideology, ethics etc.), which are based on natural
languages, or which employ natural languages for their description or explanation
(music, ballet) or language analogization ("language" of theatre, "language" of movies).

The Soviet semiotics is rooted in tradition developed not by pure linguists, as it has been in Europe, and especially in United States, but also on ideas produced by literary scientists, especially in the OPOYAZ, Moscow Linguistic Circle and other formal and informal groups of the twenties combined both linguistic and literary interests.
TMS that developed in sixties sought actively incorporate elements of formalists legacy, but as not a simple revival of formalist. Even in the first volume of Trudy po znakovõm sistemam (Lectures on structural poetics 1964), Lotman was quite critical to pure formalist statement and methods.

2nd phase
The next step is to introduce the concept of text as the principal concept of cultural
semiotics (Chernov text as “main hero” of TMS), since as a term it
can denote both a discrete artefact and an invisible abstract whole (a mental text in
collective consciousness or subconsciousness). Text and textualisation symbolize the definition of the object of study; the textual aspect of text analysis means the operation with clearly defined sign systems, texts or combinations of texts. The processual aspect of text analysis presupposes definition, construction or
reconstruction of a whole. Thus the analysis assembles the concrete and the
abstract, the static and the dynamic in one concept—the text.

3rd phase
Yet the analysis of a defined object is static, and the need to also take into account
cultural dynamics led Juri Lotman to introduce the notion of semiosphere. Although
the attributes of semiosphere resemble those of text (definability, structurality,
coherence), it is an important shift from the point of view of culture's analyzability.
Human culture constitutes the global semiosphere, but that global system consists of
intertwined semiospheres of different times (diachrony of semiosphere) and different
levels (synchrony of semiosphere). Each semiosphere can be analyzed as a single
whole, yet we need to bear in mind that each analyzed whole in culture is a part of a
greater whole, which is an important methodological principle. It is an infinite dialogue of whole and parts and the dynamics of the whole dimension.

See also
Copenhagen–Tartu school
Prague linguistic circle

Literature
Andrews, Edna 2003. Conversations with Lotman. The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Avtonomova, Natalia S. 2001. L’héritage de Lotman. Critique 57: 120–132.

Baran, Hendryk. 1976. Introduction. In: Baran, Henryk (ed.)  Semiotics and Structuralism: Readings from the Soviet Union.  White Plains (N.Y.): International Arts and Sciences Press, VII-XXVI.

Cáceres, M. 1999. Scientific thought and work of Yuri Lotman. Sign Systems Studies 27: 46–59.

Chernov, I. 1988. Historical Survey of Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. In: Semiotics of Culture. Proceedings of the 25th Symposium of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, 27–29 July 1987 (ed. H. Broms, R. Kaufmann), Helsinki: Arator, 7-16.

Grishnakova, M; Salupere, S. A School in the Woods: Tartu-Moscow Semiotics.

Ivanov, V. V. 1978. The Science of Semiotics.

LOTMAN, J.M.; IVANOV, V.V; PJIATIGORSKIJ, A.M; TOPOROV, V.N; USPENSKIJ, B.A 1973. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures(as applied to Slavic Texts).

Lotman, J.M. 1977.  The Structure of the Artistic Text.  Transl. University of Michigan.  Brown University Press.

Lotman, J.M. 2005.  On The Semiosphere.

Kull, K. 2001. Juri Lotman in English: Bibliography. Sign Systems Studies 39(2/4) University of Tartu.

Kull, K. 2014. Juri Lotman in English: Updates to bibliography. Sign Systems Studies 42(4) University of Tartu.

Pilshchikov, Igor; Trunin, Mikhail 2016. The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics in Transnational Perspective. Sign Systems Studies 44(3): 368–401.

Rudy, S. 1986. Semiotics in the USSR. In: Sebeok, T. A.; Umiker-Sebeok, J. (eds.). The Semiotic Sphere. Nueva York: Plenum Press, 555–582.

Segal, Dmitri 1974.  Aspects of Structuralism in Soviet Philology. Tel-Aviv: Papers on Poetics and Semiotics, 2. http://www.tau.ac.il/tarbut/pubtexts/segal/Segal-Aspects.pdf

Semenenko, Aleksei 2012. The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman's Semiotic Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Seyffert, Peter 1985. Soviet Literary Structuralism: Background, Debate, Issues. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers.

Shukman, Ann 1976. The Canonization of the Real. Jurij Lotman's Theory of Literature and Analysis of Poetry. PTL. A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1: 317–338.
- 1977. Literature and Semiotics. A study of the writings of Yu. M. Lotman. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company.

Shukman, Ann 1978. Soviet Semiotics and Literary Criticism.  New Literary History, Volume 9, No. 2 Soviet Semiotics and Criticism: An Anthology.  Johns Hopkins University Press.

Waldstein, Maxim 2008. The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School  of Semiotics. Saarbrüchen: VDM Verlag.

Winner, Thomas 1968. Introduction.  In:  I. M. Lotman, Lektsii po struktural'noi poetike. Vvedenie, teoriia stikha. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, vii-xii.

Żyłko, Bogusław 2001. Culture and Semiotics: Notes on Lotman's Conception of Culture. New Literary History 32(2): 391–408.
— 2014. Notes on Yuri Lotman's structuralism.  International Journal of Cultural Studies:  1 –16.

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Xu Zhangrun

Xu Zhangrun (; born October 1962) is a Chinese jurist. He is a professor of Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law at Tsinghua University, and a research fellow with the Unirule Institute of Economics.

Education
Xu received his Bachelors from the Southwest University of Political Science & Law, a Masters from the China University of Political Science and Law, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Research
Xu's research specializes in jurisprudence, Western legal philosophy, constitutional theory, and the relationship between Confucianism and law.

Writing
In July 2018, Xu published an essay, translated as "Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes", where he rebukes the recent policy shifts of Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping, including the abolition of term limits and the restoration of a cult of personality, which is notable for being a rare expression of public dissent. The essay has been translated into English by Geremie Barmé. That essay received some commentary from Western scholars. Xu had been suspended and put under investigation.

In April 2019, friends reported that the authorities had prohibited Xu from leaving the country. He was stopped from boarding a flight to Japan on a trip authorized and funded by Tsinghua University.

In February 2020, Xu published an essay Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear condemning the Chinese Government's response to the Wuhan flu outbreak. Xu condemns how the government banned the reporting of factual information during the outbreak and connects this problem to a larger freedom of speech issue in China. After the publication of this essay, Xu's friends were unable to get in touch with him. His account has been suspended on WeChat and his named scrubbed from Weibo. It is believed he is under house arrest.

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Pseudepimolis marpessa

Pseudepimolis marpessa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1906. It is found in Peru.

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Brock Hotel (Summersville, West Virginia)

Brock Hotel, also known as the Brock House, is a historic hotel located at Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia.  It was built about 1890, and is a large 2½-story, frame dwelling. It features broad, shady porches and high pitched twin gables in a vernacular Queen Anne style. It measures approximately 48 feet wide and 40 feet deep.  It operated as a hotel until about 1914.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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Khonabad

Khonabad () is a town and jamoat in northern Tajikistan. It is located in Isfara District in Sughd province. The jamoat has a total population of 9,614. The village of Arab is nearby.

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University Sports Complex

The University Sports Complex or The Den is a 500-seat multi-purpose arena in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans. It was formerly called the Recreational Sports Complex or Rec Plex.

History
The facility opened in 1987 and was paid for with a donation from Freeport-McMoRan. The complex is located on the fifth and sixth floors of the Freret Street parking garage structure. It was built on the same site as the former Loyola Field House.

In 2017, the facility went through a major renovation, including new floor paint, new grandstands and more.

Athletic teams
It is home to the Loyola Wolf Pack men's basketball, women's basketball, men's swimming, women's swimming and women's volleyball teams. The facility offers both men's and women's locker rooms for the teams. The facility also houses the offices for the Wolf Pack Athletics Department.

Recreational sports
The University Sports Complex also serves as the student recreation center. The facility offers multi-purpose courts used for badminton, basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball. It also has a racquetball court, a six-lane Olympic-style pool, a suspended track, a weightlifting/conditioning area, a whirlpool, sauna and steam room.

See also
 Loyola Wolf Pack
 Loyola University New Orleans

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Sentinel Valve Works

The Sentinel Valve Works Ltd was a British company based in Worcester, England, that made medium, large and enormous valves initially for civic clean water distribution and sewage treatment, and later the production of valves for steam heating and electrical generation (steam turbines), and the chemical and petroleum industries. The company traded under the brand name Sentinel Valves.

History

Alley & MacLellan, Sentinel Works, Jessie Street Glasgow

Alley & MacLellan was founded in 1875 and was based in Polmadie, Glasgow. This company  continued in operation until the 1950s. Initially manufacturing valves and compressors for steam engines, and later whole steamships. Their location away from the sea in Glasgow did not help them to be successful in shipbuilding so with the exception of ships in kit form - to be assembled on delivery - they concentrated on component manufacture for the ship building industry.

Design expertise allowed them to expand in to other potentially lucrative markets: specifically steam-powered lorries, and valves for civic clean water and sewage systems, both major growth areas in the United Kingdom.

In 1915 Alley & MacLellan moved the steam lorry business to a new company The Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd in Shrewsbury, England allowing the design and production of steam lorries to expand and become successful whilst freeing up space in the Glasgow factory.

Expansion to Worcester, 1918

Three years later with the success of the Shrewsbury business, Alley & Maclellan formed a second subsidiary company in 1918, this time based in Worcester England, the aim of this company being to expand the design and manufacture of mechanical valves with the initial focus of new civic clean water and sewage systems.

As with the Shrewsbury factory, a new design and management team was created with a group of around twenty management & technical staff moving from Glasgow to Worcester  to expand production, further develop mechanical values and service this new market. In addition the factory created employment for between 300 and 500 local Worcester people.

Civic clean water and sewage systems

UK Cities such as Worcester were expanding and rebuilding, post war, specifically the replacement of town and city domestic drinking water with clean (safe to drink) piped water and the replacement of Victorian sewage pipes that dumped domestic sewage into rivers with piped sewage removed from dwellings and received by new Sewage treatment plants for cleaning. The Worcester factory was built to provide products for both of these markets in the UK and abroad.

Although the impetus for expansion for this factory was the rapid growth of UK civic clean fresh water and waste sewerage systems, the business designed and manufactured valves of all sizes and for almost every industry, this included heating systems, chemical plants, electricity generation (steam turbines) and the oil mining industry. it also supplied some values to its parent company's ship manufacturing projects.

Electrical generation

Electrical generation through the use of steam turbines powered by coal became commonplace in the UK in the 1930s with smaller 'town' generation plants being centralised and modernised in the 1950s, again the Worcester factory successfully marketed for steam generation piping valves.

The Worcester company was very successful and the design team was also able to file patents for new unique valve designs and design improvements. As the major business opportunity – civic water systems – once built required little replacement for decades, the company continued to bid for further contracts for towns and cities around the world whilst diversifying into other liquid movement systems.

Oil mining industry

One area of success, was in a new patented design of capping value for the oil mining industry, designed by chief draftsman Mr D.C. Murray who had transferred from Glasgow, this involved building a ring valve made up of three parts around the top of the drilling pipe, a sliding valve could then be slowly screwed by hand across the vertical flow of oil, capping and containing the pressurized flow until collection pipework was assembled.

Other industries
The Worcester factory supplied valves for any and every liquid industry including
 1931 - The Sentinel Valve Works, Worcester supplied oil valves and steam valves to the new Bitumen plant of William Briggs & Sons Ltd., Dundee.

Legacy
The Sentinel name remains an important name in the world of valves with various new, unlinkedk companies now trading on this name based in the UK, Europe and America. Specifically relief valves that warn of the oper-pressurisation of a system (usually by whistling) are frequently marketed as Sentinel Valves.

The Worcester factory
The factory was of a prefabricated design, manufactured by the Glasgow company and assembled quickly in Bromyard Road, Worcester on the west side of the Worcester to Hereford railway line, this also being the line that was used to deliver the factory from Glasgow. This must have allowed for rapid growth from nothing to a purpose-build factory in a very short period of time.

The factory closed around 1967 with many of the staff transferring to the Mining Engineering Co. Ltd (MECO) factory (later part of Dowty Group) located along the same road.

After the valve works closed, the factory site in Worcester was taken over by Kay & Co Mail Order company who replaced the factory with a large warehouse in 1969. This has also since been demolished and the site was developed into housing in 2014.

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Sastre, Santa Fe

Sastre is a town (comuna) in the west of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 139 km west from the provincial capital. It had about 5,500 inhabitants at the  and it is the head town of the San Martín Department.

It is named after Marcos Sastre, a renowned Argentine lawyer, writer, and educator. Miguel Brascó, the noted Argentine writer and food critic, hails from Sastre.

Twin towns — sister cities
Sastre is twinned with:

  Alba, Piedmont, Italy (1988)

External links
 Sastre's map

References

 :es:Sastre y Ortiz (Santa Fe)

Category:Populated places in Santa Fe Province


Moments of Love

Moments of Love is a 2006 Filipino romance film directed by Mark Reyes, and released in March as a summer offering by GMA Films.
It is a classic romantic tale between two people from different timelines. The film stars Dingdong Dantes, Iza Calzado and Karylle. The movie also stars Paolo Contis, Dion Ignacio, Isabel Oli, Sandy Andolong, Ces Quesada, Ian Veneracion, Jojo Alejar, Valerie Concepcion and Ms. Gloria Romero.

Plot synopsis
Marco (Dingdong Dantes), a photographer, along with his sister (Isabel Oli) and their cousin Duke (Jojo Alejar) are on a vacation in an old sleepy town. While strolling around town a mysterious woman is hit by a van while trying to save Marco's life. He visits the woman and is drawn to her granddaughter Lianne (Karylle). Marco and Lianne start to develop a relationship but recent events cause Marco to be withdrawn. He suddenly finds himself haunted by a deep feeling of loneliness.

His yearning leads to a telephone conversation with Divina (Iza Calzado), the daughter of a haciendero. They find solace in each other. Divina lives in the past (1957) while Marco lives in the present (2006).

In a sleepy town, time curved for two people to meet and part...

Cast
Iza Calzado as Divina Buenacer - The daughter of a haciendero from the 1950s. She loves to paint. She gets to know Marco through the mysterious phone in her room.
Dingdong Dantes as Marco - A photographer from 2006 who is on vacation with his sister and cousin while his parents are in London. He gets to know Divina through the mysterious phone in his room, which is Divina's old room.
Karylle as Lianne - Rosa Santos' (Later revealed to be Divina) young granddaughter. Her grandmother's accident leads her to meet Marco.
Gloria Romero as Rosa Santos/Old Divina -  Lianne's grandmother who is actually Divina. She is renamed Rosa Santos by her kind husband who is the captain of the ship that sunk when Divina tried to go to Manila.
Chinggoy Alonzo as Senyor Andres Miguel Buenacer - Divina's father who decides to marry his daughter to Juancho, who is Divina's childhood friend, but later backs out on the agreement after he realizes that his daughter is unhappy.
Ces Quesada as Senyora Amelia Buenacer - Divina's mother who thinks that her daughter should marry for love.
Ian Veneracion as Captain Ricardo Santos - Divina's kind husband, whom she meets after he saves her from their ship (which was bound for Manila) sunk. He is also the one who renamed the amnesia stricken Divina, Rosa Santos.
Paolo Contis as Juancho - Divina's fiancée and childhood friend. He does everything in his power to try to make Divina his.
Isabel Oli as Ava - Marco's sister who becomes concerned when her brother suddenly acts strangely. She falls in love with Kiko, Ceding's grandson.
Dion Ignacio as Kiko -  Ceding's grandson, who helps his grandmother take care of the Buenacer villa. He falls in love with Ava, Marco's sister.
Sandy Andolong as Elma
Jojo Alejar as Duke - Marco and Ava's witty cousin. Once a famous actor and director, he is trying to make a comeback to save his failing career.
Ama Quiambao as Old Ceding - Kiko's grandmother who is the caretaker of the Buenacer mansion.
Valerie Concepcion as Young Ceding - Divina's best friend and confidante, she is the maid of the Buenacer's and remains loyal to them even in 2006, during which she converted the villa into a bed and breakfast for travellers as a means to take care of the villa.

Soundtrack
GMA Records released an original motion picture soundtrack prior to the film's playdate.

"Moments Of Love Suite" - Nonong Buencamino
"Moments Of Love" (Orchestra Version) - Jennylyn Mercado & Janno Gibbs
"Sana'y Maghintay Ang Walang Hanggan" - Karylle
"Moments Of Love" (Pop Version) - Brenan Espartinez, Charmaine Piamonte & Michael Garcia
"Sana'y Maghintay Ang Walang Hanggan" - Alvin Nunez
"Moments Of Love" (New Age Version) - Agatha Obar
"Marco"
"Give Me One More Chance" - Sipol
"Moments Of Love" - (Pop Version Minus One)

Media release
The series was released onto DVD-format and VCD-format by GMA Records. The DVD/VCD was released in 2006.

Awards and nominations
 Nominated and awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the 2006 New York Festival Film and Video Awards

External links

Category:GMA Pictures films
Category:Philippine films
Category:2006 films
Category:Tagalog-language films
Category:Philippine romance films


50 Years 50 Shows

50 Years 50 Shows is a television special that marked 50 years of television in Australia. Broadcast on Sunday 25 September 2005 on the Nine Network and hosted by Eddie McGuire, the special counted down the top 50 greatest Australian television programmes.

Premise

The list of programs to be included in the top fifty was based on a poll of television writers, producers, directors, actors and critics. Once the top 50 was collated, their running order was decreed by the ratings the programs had achieved when broadcast: with the highest rating program in number one spot.

List
# In Melbourne Tonight/The Graham Kennedy Show
# The Paul Hogan Show
# The Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
# The Mavis Bramston Show
# Brides of Christ
# Kath & Kim
# The Don Lane Show
# 60 Minutes
# Number 96
# The Sullivans
# A Town Like Alice
# Homicide
# Bandstand
# A Country Practice
# Power Without Glory
# The Mike Walsh Show
# Australian Story
# Four Corners
# The Dismissal
# Blankety Blanks
# Bangkok Hilton
# Frontline
# Enough Rope with Andrew Denton
# My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?
# Hey Hey It's Saturday
# Parkinson in Australia
# The Norman Gunston Show
# Anzacs
# SeaChange
# Fast Forward
# This Is Your Life
# Young Talent Time
# Mother and Son
# Bobby Limb's Sound of Music
# Blue Murder
# Burke's Backyard
# Blue Heelers
# Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
# Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals
# Countdown
# Sylvania Waters
# Graham Kennedy's Coast to Coast
# Media Watch
# The Naked Vicar Show
# The Aunty Jack Show
# Neighbours
# Foreign Correspondent
# Sunday
# Play School
# The D-Generation

Rescreening
The program was re-aired on Monday 11 September 2006 hosted by Mike Munro to celebrate the official 50th anniversary of television in Australia.

See also
 List of Australian television series
 50 Years 50 Stars

External links
 Nine Network press release as published on the Australian TV Guide.
 ninemsn video

Category:2005 in Australian television
Category:Australian non-fiction television series
Category:Lists of Australian media
Category:Nine Network specials
Category:Australian television specials
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1958 Kansas gubernatorial election

The 1958 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1958. Incumbent Democrat George Docking defeated Republican nominee Clyde M. Reed Jr. with 56.46% of the vote.

Primary elections
Primary elections were held on August 5, 1958.

Republican primary

Candidates
Clyde M. Reed Jr., Newspaper publisher
Fred Hall, former Governor
John S. Stevens
Walter L. Cherry
Harvey F. Crouch

Results

General election

Candidates
Major party candidates
George Docking, Democratic
Clyde M. Reed Jr., Republican

Other candidates
Warren C. Martin, Prohibition

Results

References

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Kansas
Gubernatorial
Category:November 1958 events


Cyclamen alpinum

Cyclamen alpinum (= Cyclamen trochopteranthum) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to pine, juniper, sweetgum, or cedar woodland at  above sea level in an area of southwestern Turkey, northwest of Antalya, isolated from other species of the Cyclamen coum group.

Name
The alternate species name trochopteranthum comes from Greek trochós "wheel" and pterón "feather", "wing", probably meaning "propeller" and ánthos "flower".

The scientific name Cyclamen alpinum has been applied to three other species as well: Cyclamen coum, Cyclamen cilicium, and Cyclamen intaminatum (as a variety of C. cilicium).

Description
Leaves are oval to round, green and often variegated with silver above (unlike the similar species Cyclamen parviflorum, which is entirely green) and red-purple below.

Flowers have 5 petals, pale rose-pink to pink-carmine or white with a dark magenta spot at the nose, spreading rather than fully upswept and often twisted like the blades of a propeller, as in Cyclamen parviflorum var. subalpinum.

Forms
Cyclamen alpinum forma leucanthum (= Cyclamen alpinum forma album) has white petals.

References

External links

Cyclamen Society — 1997 expedition (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
Paghat's Garden (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
Pacific Bulb Society (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
Mark Griffiths Inspiring Plants.org (Cyclamen alpinum)

photos — wild plants
photos — Jearrard's Herbal
photo — TrekNature
photo — South Wales Alpine Garden Society Show

alpinum

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nl:Cyclamen coum#Een cyclaam met propellers


Cornelia Froboess

Cornelia Froboess (born 28 October 1943) is a German actress and a teen idol of the 1950s and early 1960s. During that time, Froboess appeared in many West German and Austrian musical films, especially after the rock and roll wave had hit Germany. In those comedy films, she would often portray the typical  (brat from [West] Berlin) who craves independence from her strict parents.

Career
As Die Kleine Cornelia she had her first hit record in 1951, aged eight, with a song written by her father. "" (Pack your swimsuit") is a cheery tune about a group of children going swimming on a hot summer's day at Wannsee. The title of the song has become a set phrase and synonym for going swimming easily recognized even by speakers of German who have never heard of the song. As she grew she recorded as Conny then Conny Froboess

In 1962, Froboess finished in sixth place at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she sang "" (Two little Italians) for Germany. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The same year she appeared as herself in Jean Renoir's comedy film The Elusive Corporal.

Later, Froboess became a theatre and movie actress. In 1982, she appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Veronika Voss. In 1988 she played Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Faust I, a performance that was also released as a film: Faust – Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle. In 1997 Froboess played the mother of the protagonist Martin Brest (Til Schweiger) in the film Knockin' on Heaven's Door. On stage, she appeared in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm in 1976, staged by Dieter Dorn, and played Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea in 1990. At the Salzburg Festival 2004, she played Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. The same year she played the title role in Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children.

Selected filmography

 The Sinful Border (1951)
 Ideal Woman Sought (1952)
 Three Days of Fear (1952)
 The Big Star Parade (1954)
 Conny and Peter Make Music (1960)
 Mariandl (1961)
 My Husband, the Economic Miracle (1961)
 The Bird Seller (1962)
  (1963)
 Rheinsberg (1967)
 Crazy - Completely Mad (1973)
 Derrick – Season 4, episode 8: "Via Bangkok" (1977)
 Derrick – Season 5, episode 12: "Ute und Manuela" (1978)
 Derrick – Season 9, episode 2: "Eine Falle für Derrick" (1982)
 Veronika Voss (1982)
  (1986)
  (1988)
  (1994, TV film)
 Windstorm (2013) and  (2015)

Awards
1962: Goldene Schallplatte
1968:
1985: Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
1990:
1994: Bavarian Film Award

References

External links

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Category:Living people
Category:People from Wriezen
Category:People from the Province of Brandenburg
Category:German film actresses
Category:German television actresses
Category:German stage actresses
Category:20th-century German actresses
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Category:German female singers
Category:Schlager musicians
Category:German Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Category:Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1962
Category:Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Category:Members of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin
Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Category:Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit


Carmela Bolivár

Carmela Bolivár Ríos (born 23 April 1957) is a Peruvian sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1975 Pan American Games
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Category:Peruvian female sprinters
Category:Olympic athletes of Peru
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)


Polypedates mutus

Polypedates mutus (common names: northern treefrog, Burmese whipping frog, and vocal sacless treefrog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is found in southern and southwestern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, it may actually represent two different species. It is not known which one of these is the "true" Polypedates mutus as specimens from the type locality in northern Myanmar have not been analysed. Its natural habitats are forests and the surrounding areas. It breeds in standing water (e.g., pools, ponds, marshes, and paddy fields). It is suffering from habitat loss.

References

mutus
Category:Amphibians of China
Category:Amphibians of Laos
Category:Amphibians of Myanmar
Category:Amphibians of Thailand
Category:Amphibians of Vietnam
Category:Amphibians described in 1940
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot


Finnish national road 52

The Finnish national road 52 (; ) is the 2nd class main route between the city of Raseborg and the municipality of Jokioinen in southwest part of Finland. It runs overall 111 kilometers from the Ekenäs town in Raseborg passing through the town centers of Salo and Somero to the Haapaniemi village and the national road 10 in Jokioinen.

Route

The road passes through the following localities:
Raseborg (Ekenäs, Gennarby, Tenala and Olsböle)
Salo (Pakapyöli, Perniö, Salo, Pohjankylä, Veitakkala and Pertteli)
Somero (Somero, Sylvänä, Paltta and Koivumäki)
Jokioinen (Haapaniemi)

References

External links

Category:Roads in Finland


Johnny Stark (talent manager)

Johnny Stark (Born Roger Oscar Emile Stark) (August 29, 1922 - April 24, 1989) was one of the most dynamic imprésarios (A&R executive) and producers in French show business. He is perhaps best known for working with Édith Piaf and representing Mireille Mathieu from the 1960s until his death in 1989, assisting her rise to international stardom.

Biography
Stark was born in Huningue, the son of Colonel Stark, a prominent Alsatian military figure, and a Corsican mother, born Julie Chappuit. His mother died in Nice at the age of 33 years. He lived in Corsica until the age of 11, then the French Riviera, between Cagnes-sur-Mer and Antibes. He attended school in La Bocca, Cannes. His father became a horticulturist and had property in Cagnes.

In 1941, he enlisted as a volunteer in North Africa and worked with American troops. After the Second World War, he went to Hong Kong and returned to Cannes in May 1946. On August 15 of that year, he organized a "The Night of Famous Stars" at the stage of the Hespérides, in Cannes. It featured names such as Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Lily Fayol, Reda Caire, Marie Bizet, Johnny Hess, Marcel Cerdan, Laurent Dauthuille, and Robert Charron. While the gala was a huge success, it proved a financial failure for Johnny, as he had Roland Toutain hang from one leg as a helicopter lowered him to the stage, and the stunt cost him a million francs.

Johnny Stark then organized tours with Tino Rossi, Luis Mariano, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, and was responsible for scouting Gloria Lasso, Dalida and Marino Marini. He established the Théâtre de Verdure (Juan-les-Pins), where in 1947 he hired Édith Piaf. Loulou Gasté asked Stark to manage Line Renaud in 1949. Line Renaud and Gasté were married December 19, 1950, attended by Stark. In the early 1960s, Johnny Hallyday, was at the forefront of the Yé-yé movement while under the guidance of Stark.

In the 1960s, he worked with performers such as Michèle Torr, Martine Baujoud, and Mireille Mathieu, the latter of which he made into an international star between 1965 and 1989. From 1967 to 1970, Johnny Stark was also responsible for the career of singer Michel Delpech. He suffered his first heart attack in 1972 while in Canada. In 1976, he organized François Valéry's tour with Johnny Mathis at more than 60 venues across France.

Stark was married twice: first to Nanou Taddéi (divorced in 1962), second to Nicole Bertho, with whom he had a daughter, Vincence (divorced in the 1980s).

Nanou Taddéi worked for French Television Studio 102, and found out that Mireille Mathieu was in Paris on November 20, 1965 and was going to sing the following day on a competing program "Song Parade". Régis Durcourt was the talent manager (impresario) who invited Mireille to Paris to sing on the Guy Lux television program. Mathieu's parents in Avignon received a telegram instructing them to locate Mireille and have her go to Studio 102 immediately for rehearsal, which she did. Roger Lanzac then forced her to choose between the two programs, and Mathieu chose his "Game of Luck" program. Johnny Stark saw that while she was raw, she was very photogenic on television. Stark was on a first name basis with Pierre Lazareff, the founder of France Soir, which was a high circulation newspaper at that time, and Lazareff put her picture and biography on Monday's front page, forcing President de Gaulle's story below the fold. Together, Stark and Lazareff would often try some of the London tabloid techniques on the Parisians. Stark devoted the next two years to Mathieu's apprenticeship by their constant touring.

Starting in 1967 Johnny became a record producer, with the name Les Editions Banco, and Les Editions Musicales. Mireille Mathieu was selling records by the truckload, but they were only getting 3%. They were making the songwriters wealthy while they worked themselves to death touring. By becoming a producer he was able to negotiate with the songwriters and musicians to increase the percentage for himself and Mireille to 33%, or under French law 4/12 split three ways between author, composer, and publisher. He made exceptions to songwriters who could produce million seller records, and some of the songs had become mere filler and un-listenable even with Mireille's voice.

Many people thought that Johnny Stark was born in America. He was often referred to as l'Américain. The nickname comes from his manner, which was non-French. He spoke many languages, and was very intense in business matters. Both Mireille Mathieu and her father also thought he was American, and Johnny  was surprised when Mireille's little brothers called him Cowboy. He had a very distinctive birthmark on his left cheek, that he never had removed.

The name of Johnny Stark is related to the history of Colmar Music Festival. He was reportedly responsible for introducing the Wine Fair which in its heyday attracted some 150,000 people and the biggest names in music.

Johnny Stark was at work in his Wagram office in Paris, when he suffered his second heart attack that Monday morning. He was rushed by ambulance to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. As he was divorced in the 1980s, and estranged from his family, Mireille Mathieu had his body entombed in the Mathieu family mausoleum at the Saint Véran Catholic cemetery in Avignon.

References

Bibliography
 Mireille Mathieu (Christian Page - Brea Editions)
 Vedette à la Une - Mireille Mathieu (Vick Vance - Editions Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
 Oui, je crois (Mireille Mathieu and Jacqueline Cartier - Editions Robert Laffont)
 La Véritable Mireille Mathieu (Emmanuel Bonini - Editions Pygmalion/Flammarion)
 France Soir (articles de 1989)

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Category:French record producers
Category:French people of Corsican descent


Soldier, soldier won't you marry me

"Soldier, soldier won't you marry me" is a traditional song. Among many arrangements, Peter Pears made an arrangement of the song in 1936.

The main story to the song is a woman is asking a soldier to marry her, but he says he cannot as he has no nice clothing to put on (hat, coat, boots, etc). She decides to give him each item he asks for from her grandfather's old chest, containing his old, best clothes. Each verse is a different article of clothing. The last verse, she asks once again for him to marry her, but the soldier, all dressed in the woman's grandfather's clothing, refuses once more – as he is already married.

References

Category:English folk songs
Category:English-language songs
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Fozia Soomro

Fozia Soomro () (1966-2002) was a Sindhi folk singer.

Early life
Her birth name was Hakeeman and she was the daughter of hymn singer Haji Nathoo Soomro. Due to lack of necessities and resources her parents shifted to Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh, where she started singing in her early age.

Singing career
At the age of sixteen she started singing secretly in gatherings as her family was religiously minded. She was introduced at Radio Pakistan through the efforts of Naseer Mirza who recorded his two songs Be qadra qadr na kayaee ko () & Chade wai chade wai sathi sukhan ja. These songs became super hits and her name reached every corner of Sindh. Her songs are wealth for all the people of Sindh. She sang so many Thari and Marwari songs to prove her love of  the language of the Desert of Tharparkar. Cassette companies also released her work. She was booked for programs, parties, birthdays, marriages and other gatherings. Ustad Majeed Khan and Ghulam Hussain Kaleri were her teachers in music. She sang many songs based on patriotism and in adoration of Benazir Bhutto, ex Prime Minister of Pakistan. Her countless cassettes are the proof of her fame in which she has sung romantic songs of different poets especially Bilawal Otho and Ali Mohammad Uderai. The people of Thar demanded a Radio station for listening to her songs as well as other folk singers.

Awards
She received the Shah Lateef Award.

Death
She died due to kidney failure on 4 September 2002. She is buried in Sakhi Burhan Shah Graveyard, Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh.

References

External links
 Fozia Soomro's Video Channel

Category:Pakistani female singers
Category:Punjabi singers
Category:1966 births
Category:2002 deaths
Category:Sindhi music
Category:People from Tharparkar District
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Category:20th-century women singers
Category:Recipients of Latif Award


Mulki railway station

Mulki railway station is a station on Konkan Railway. It is at a distance of  down from origin. The preceding station on the line is Nandikoor railway station and the next station is Surathkal railway station.

References

Category:Railway stations along Konkan Railway line
Category:Railway stations in Dakshina Kannada district
Category:Karwar railway division


Wendy Levinson

Wendy Levinson MD  is a Canadian physician and academic. She is the Chair of Choosing Wisely Canada, "a campaign to help physicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures". She is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Born and raised in Toronto, she received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto, a Diploma in Education from McGill University, and her MD from McMaster University in 1976. She is the past Sir John & Lady Eaton professor and Chair of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. She is the lead author of Understanding Medical Professionalism
as well as co-author of Goldman's Cecil Medicine's, 24th and 25th edition.

Healthcare Policy
Dr. Levinson has worked on healthcare policy reforms in Canada. In 2014, she launched a campaign called Choosing Wisely Canada, a campaign to reduce unnecessary use of health care. Choosing Wisely partnered with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) to produce a report, dubbed Unnecessary Care in Canada. At CIHI, researchers focused on eight of the more than 200 recommendations compiled by Levinson's group, and found that over one million unnecessary medical tests are administered every year province by province across Canada. Levinson called the findings the first national picture of unnecessary care. Dr. Levinson said unnecessary care creeps into the health-care system for a slew of reasons and knowing how provinces differ regarding unnecessary tests and treatments is the first step in making improvements.

Honours
In 2013, she was awarded the Canadian Medical Association's May Cohen Award for Women Mentors. In 2014, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to promoting effective communication between physicians and patients, as well as for her sustained leadership in academic medicine".

References

External links
 [Https://www.commonwealthfund.org/person/wendy-levinson Wendy Levinson]

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Category:Canadian women physicians
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Category:McMaster University alumni
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Category:Physicians from Ontario
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:University of Toronto faculty
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Category:20th-century women physicians
Category:21st-century women physicians
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Tibbie, Alabama

Tibbie is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Washington County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 41 as of the 2010 census.

The Red Alabama Blackmouth Cur is thought to have originated in the area around Tibbie in the 1940s.

Demographics

History
The name Tibbie comes from a shortened form of the Choctaw word "oakibbeha". Oakibbeha means "blocks of ice therein," with okti meaning "ice" and the plural form abeha meaning "to be in".

A post office first began operations under the name Tibbie in 1910.

References

Category:Census-designated places in Washington County, Alabama
Category:Census-designated places in Alabama


Little Squam Lake

Little Squam Lake is a  water body located in Grafton County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Holderness and Ashland.  The lake connects upstream via a short channel to Squam Lake in Holderness.  The two lakes are maintained at a common water level by a dam located one mile downstream from the outlet of Little Squam Lake, on the Squam River, a tributary of the Pemigewasset River.

See also
List of lakes in New Hampshire

External links
 Squam Lakes Association
 Squam and Little Squam Lake fishery and depth map, NH Fish & Game

Category:Lakes of Grafton County, New Hampshire
Category:Lakes of New Hampshire
Category:Holderness, New Hampshire
Category:Ashland, New Hampshire


New York Giants Radio Network

The New York Giants Radio Network is a broadcast radio network based in New York City, the official radio broadcaster of the New York Giants. The network's radio broadcasts are currently flagshipped at WFAN, a station owned by Entercom Communications. Overflow radio casts air on WCBS, WFAN's corporate sibling

The network distributes Giants home and away games to a network of 18 stations in 3 states. Bob Papa is the current play-by-play announcer, with former Giants linebacker Carl Banks as color analyst, and former Giants tight end Howard Cross as sideline reporter.

Stations

Flagship (2 stations)
WFAN/660: New York
WFAN-FM/101.9: New York

Affiliates (16 stations + 3 translators)

New York (14 stations + 3 translators)
WPYX/106.5: Albany
WAUB/1590: Auburn
WAAL/99.1: Binghamton
WENI/1450: Corning
WGMM/98.7: Corning
WENY/1230: Elmira
WGVA/1240: Geneva (Finger Lakes)
WIXT/1230: Little Falls
W249BC/97.1: Mattydale (rebroadcasts WTLA at North Syracuse)
WTLA/1200: North Syracuse
WSGO/1440: Oswego
W261AC/100.1: Oswego (rebroadcasts WSGO)
WIRY/1340: Plattsburgh (Burlington, Vermont market) AM Stereo
WRNY/1350: Rome
WTLB/1310: Utica (Syracuse market)

Pennsylvania (2 stations)
WEEX/1230: Easton, Pennsylvania
WTKZ/1320: Allentown, Pennsylvania

Connecticut (1 station)
WTIC/1080: Hartford (heard at night over a long distance)

Former affiliates (3 stations)
WCGR/1550: Canandaigua, New York (2012-13 season)
WFLR/1570: Dundee, New York (2012-13 season)
WLEZ-LP/100.1 (now 98.1): Jackson, Mississippi (2009-10 season)

Broadcasters

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

References

External links
Official affiliates listing

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Category:New York Giants broadcasters
Category:Sports radio networks in the United States