Tassili n'Ajjer

Tassili n'Ajjer (Berber: Tassili n Ajjer, ; "Plateau of rivers") is a national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in south-east Algeria. Having one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world, and covering an area of over , Tassili n'Ajjer was inducted into UNESCO's World Heritage Site list in 1982 by Gonde Hontigifa.

Prehistoric art
The rock formation is an archaeological site, noted for its numerous prehistoric parietal works of rock art, first reported in 1910, that date to the early Neolithic era at the end of the last glacial period during which the Sahara was a habitable savanna rather than the current desert. Although sources vary considerably, the earliest pieces of art are assumed to be 12,000 years old. The vast majority date to the 9th and 10th millennia BP or younger, according to OSL dating of associated sediments. Among the 15,000 engravings so far identified depicted are large wild animals including antelopes and crocodiles, cattle herds and humans that engage in activities such as hunting and dancing. According to UNESCO, "The exceptional density of paintings and engravings...have made Tassili world famous."

Geography
Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 km2. It ranges from  east-south-east to . Its highest point is the Adrar Afao that peaks at , located at . The nearest town is Djanet, situated around  southwest of Tassili n'Ajjer.
The  archaeological site has been designated a national park, a Biosphere Reserve (cypresses) and was induced into UNESCO's World Heritage Site list as Tassili n'Ajjer National Park.

The plateau is also of great geological and aesthetic interest. Its panorama of geological formations of rock forests, which comprises eroded sandstone, resembles a strange lunar landscape.

Geology

The range is composed largely of sandstone. The sandstone is stained by a thin outer layer of deposited metallic oxides which color the rock formations anywhere from near-black to dull red. Erosion in the area has resulted in nearly 300 natural rock arches being formed, along with many other spectacular landforms.

Ecology
Because of the altitude and the water-holding properties of the sandstone, the vegetation here is somewhat richer than in the surrounding desert; it includes a very scattered woodland of the endangered endemic species Saharan Cypress and Saharan Myrtle in the higher eastern half of the range.

The ecology of the Tassili n'Ajjer is more fully described in the article West Saharan montane xeric woodlands, the ecoregion to which this area belongs. The literal English translation of Tassili n'Ajjer is 'Plateau of rivers'.

Relict populations of the West African crocodile persisted in the Tassili n'Ajjer until the 20th century. Various other fauna still reside on the plateau, including mouflons, the only surviving type of the larger mammals depicted in the area's rock paintings.

Fungoid rock art

In 1989, the psychedelics researcher Giorgio Samorini exposed the theory that the fungoid-like paintings in the caves of Tassili are proof of the relationship between humans and psychedelics in the ancient populations of the Sahara, when it was still a wild green land:

This theory was reused by new-age icon Terence McKenna in his 1992 book Food of the Gods, hypothesizing that the Neolithic culture that inhabited the site used psilocybin mushrooms as part of its religious ritual life, citing rock paintings showing persons holding mushroom-like objects in their hands, as well as mushrooms growing from their bodies. For Henri Lohte who discovered the Tassili caves in the late 1950s, these were obviously secret sanctuaries.

The painting that best backs the mushroom hypothesis is the Tassili mushroom man Matalem-Amazar where the body of the represented shaman is covered with mushrooms. According to Earl Lee in his book From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants and the Cults of the Dead (2012), this imagery refers to an ancient episode where a "mushroom shaman" was buried with his clothes, and when unearthed some time later, his body was covered with tiny mushrooms growing in his clothes. Earl Lee considered the mushroom paintings at Tassili fairly realistic.

According to Brian Akers, writer of the Mushroom journal, the fungoid rock art in Tassili does not resemble the representations of the Psilocybe hispanica in the Selva Pascuala caves (2015). The art at Tassili is not even considered realistic.

In popular culture
 Tassili is the recording location and the title of a 2011 album by the Tuareg-Berber band Tinariwen.
Tassili Plain is a track on the 1994 album Natural Wonders of the World in Dub by dub group Zion Train.
The character Attila the Hun or Altera in the Fate series is in actuality the corpse of the physical manifestation of Sefar The White Titan of Tassili n' Ajjer.

Gallery

The rock engravings of Tin-Taghirt
The Tin-Taghirt site is located in the Tassili n'Ajjer between the cities of Dider and Iherir.

See also
 List of Stone Age art

Further reading
 Bahn, Paul G. (1998) The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
 Bradley, R (2000) An archaeology of natural places London, Routledge.
 Bruce-Lockhart, J and Wright, J (2000) Difficult and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton's Travels in the Sahara and Fezzan 1822-1825
 Chippindale, Chris and Tacon, S-C (eds) (1998) The Archaeology of Rock Art Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
 Clottes, J. (2002): World Rock Art. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.
 Coulson, D and Campbell, Alec (2001) African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone New York, Harry N Abrams.
 Frison-Roche, Roger  (1965) Carnets Sahariens Paris, Flammarion
 Holl, Augustin F.C. (2004) Saharan Rock Art, Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Icongraphy
 Lajoux, Jean-Dominique (1977) Tassili n'Ajjer: Art Rupestre du Sahara Préhistorique Paris, Le Chêne.
 Lajoux, Jean-Dominique (1962), Merveilles du Tassili n'Ajjer (The rock paintings of Tassili in translation), Le Chêne, Paris.
 Le Quellec, J-L (1998) Art Rupestre et Prehistoire du Sahara. Le Messak Libyen Paris: Editions Payot et Rivages, Bibliothèque Scientifique Payot.
 Lhote, Henri (1959, reprinted 1973) The Search for the Tassili Frescoes: The story of the prehistoric rock-paintings of the Sahara London.
 Lhote, Henri (1958, 1973, 1992, 2006) À la découverte des fresques du Tassili, Arthaud, Paris.
 Mattingly, D (ed) (forthcoming) The archaeology of the Fezzan.
 Muzzolini, A (1997) "Saharan Rock Art", in Vogel, J O (ed) Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa Walnut Creek: 347-353.
 Van Albada, A. and Van Albada, A.-M. (2000): La Montagne des Hommes-Chiens: Art Rupestre du Messak Lybien Paris, Seuil.
 Whitley, D S (ed) (2001) Handbook of Rock Art Research New York: Altamira Press.

References

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 The natural arches of the Tassili n'Ajjer

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Rajah Salalila

In Philippine folk tradition, Rajah Salalila (; Baybayin: , Sanskrit: शरीर, syarirah) was the Rajah or paramount ruler of the early Indianized Philippine settlement of Maynila, and the father of the individual named Ache, who would eventually be well known as Rajah Matanda. Based on perceived similarities between the names, he is sometimes also called Sulaiman I (Abecedario: Súláiman, from Arabic: sulaiman سليمان) in the belief that he shared the name of his supposed grandson, Rajah Sulayman.

Oral traditions cited by Odal-Devora (2000) identify him as a son of the legendary Dayang Kalangitan and Rajah Lontok. Genealogical traditions cited by Majul (1973) claim that he converted to Islam from indigenous Tagalog beliefs as a result of the missionary efforts of the Sultanate of Brunei.

Salalila's rule ended when he died some time in the early 1500s, and he was succeeded by his wife, who was not named in historical accounts. By 1570, his son Ache had succeeded to the position himself, and had come to be known as "Rajah Matanda" (lit. "Old Rajah").

Sources
Little is known for sure about Salalila due to the lack of firsthand documentary sources covering the timeframe of his life and reign. The little that is known for certain by scholars comes from the account given by his son "Prince" Ache to Sebastian Elcano and the other surviving members of the Magellan expedition in 1521. Some additional details can be gleaned from extant genealogical sources, such as the "Lakandula documents" deposited at the Philippine National Archives but these accounts are often conflicting and present conflicts interest. As a result, the factuality and accuracy of the details presented in these documents requires careful assessment by historiographers.

Name

Identification in historical documents as "Salalila"
The records of Ache's 1521 account before the crew of Sebastian Elcano's expedition did not identify Salalila by name. However, he is referred to using the name "Salalila" in the "Lakandula documents" deposited at the Philippine National Archives, as well as by apocryphal sources, such as the alleged 1539 "Will of Pansomun".

Sulaiman theory
His supposed identification as "Sulaiman I" was presented as a theory in the 1950s, based on the similarities of "Salalila" and "Suleiman". However, this identification is the subject of debate among present-day historiographers.

Known relations

Historically documented relations
A number of Salalila's relations are documented in Ache (Rajah Matanda)'s 1521 account. This includes:
 Ache (Rajah Matanda), Salalila's son – Self-acknowledged to be Salalila's son
 Salalila's widow, Ache's mother – Not specifically named in the 1521 accounts of Aganduru Moriz, Gines de Mafra or Antonio Pigaffetta, but sometimes named "Dayang Ysmeria" in 20th century folk traditions.
 Ache's "cousin", the ruler of Tondo – Presumably also related to Salalila, this cousin is believed to be roughly Ache's age, but had already become Lakan of Tondo by 1521, when he was allegedly encroaching on the territory of Maynila, then ruled by Ache's mother. It is not known if "cousin" is a precise term, or a general term meaning a "relative".
 The Sultan of Brunei, Ache's "grandfather" – The 1521 accounts all specify that Ache had run away from Maynila as a young man to seek the political and military support of his grandfather, the Sultan of Brunei, against the Lakan of Tondo. Salalila's exact relationship (by consanguinity or by law) with this Sultan of Brunei is not specified in the extant accounts, and it is not known if "grandfather" is a precise term, or a general term meaning an "ancestor".
 Rajah Sulayman – According to the genealogical research done by Luis Camara Dery, investigating the National Archives' "Lakandula documents" in particular, Ache is believed to have had an unnamed younger brother, who became the father of the Rajah Sulayman, who met De Goiti and Legaspi in 1570–71. Some 20th century traditions name this younger brother Suleiman II, with the Sulayman of the 1570s supposedly being Suleiman III.  However, the provenance of these traditions is unclear.

Other relations as told by Folk traditions
20th century folk traditions hold Salalila to be a son of Dayang Kalangitan and Rajah Lontok.

Death and succession
According to Ache's 1521 account, Salalila died while Ache was still very young, and was succeeded by his wife, who was not named in the accounts. By 1570, Salalila's wife had died and Ache had succeeded to Salalila's position himself, and introduced himself as "Rajah Matanda" to the forces of Martin de Goiti (in 1570) and Miguel López de Legazpi (in 1571).

Footnotes

See also
 History of the Philippines (900–1521)
 Bolkiah
 Cainta (historical polity)
 Paramount rulers in early Philippine history
Indian cultural influences in early Philippine polities

References

History of Pasig

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Plagiognathus chrysanthemi

Plagiognathus chrysanthemi, the trefoil plant bug, is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found across the entire Palearctic and in North America as an adventive.

Plagiognathus chrysanthemi sucks on herbaceous plants and it is very polyphagous feeding on many different host plants.  These include species from different plant families, including daisy family (Asteraceae) and legume (Fabaceae). The bugs suck especially on the immature reproductive organs of the plants.

References

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Vitamin R

Vitamin R may refer to:
Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin or Vitamin R
"Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)", a song by Chevelle
Rainier Beer, a popular brand of beer in the Pacific Northwest of the United States


Melrose/Cedar Park station

Melrose/Cedar Park is an MBTA Commuter Rail station located in downtown Melrose, Massachusetts. The station has two low-level platforms serving the two tracks of the Haverhill Line; it is not accessible.

History

The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) opened its line from Wilmington Junction to Boston on July 1, 1845. A station opened at Emerson Street in North Malden then or soon thereafter. The village was then sparsely populated; the station building also served as the post office and sometimes a churchroom. In 1850, the new development around the railroad prompted North Malden to split from Malden to form the town of Melrose. The station was quickly renamed Melrose as well.

Historically the primary station in Melrose, it has always been supplemented by nearby Wyoming Hill station and Melrose Highlands station. The original station was on the east side of the tracks; it was replaced by a newer station on the west side and converted for use as a freight house. Neither station building is extant, though sections of the platform roofs remain as shelters.

The MBTA, formed in 1964 to subsidize suburban commuter rail service, began funding Reading Line service on January 18, 1965. As with the other two MBTA rail stations in Melrose, it would have become a station on the Orange Line extension north to Reading, had that project not been cancelled due to lack of funding. Around 1978, the MBTA modified the names of several stations for clarity, with Melrose station becoming Melrose–Cedar Park.

References

External links

MBTA - Melrose Cedar Park
Station from Emerson Street from Google Maps Street View

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Triple Frontier (film)

Triple Frontier is a 2019 American action-adventure film directed by J. C. Chandor, with a screenplay by Chandor and Mark Boal, from a story by Boal. The film stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal as a group of former U.S. Army Delta Force soldiers who reunite to plan a heist job of a South American crime lord.

The film was released by Netflix in select theaters on March 6, 2019, before its worldwide streaming release on March 13, 2019.

Plot
Santiago "Pope" Garcia works as a private military adviser in Colombia combating drug crime. During his time there, an informant named Yovanna asks for his help with smuggling her and her brother out of the country in exchange for information on the whereabouts of a drug lord named Lorea. Yovanna informs Pope that Lorea lives in a safe house in the jungle along with all his cash. Pope returns to the States to recruit his old Delta Force friends for one last mission: to seize the money for themselves under the pretense of working for the Colombian government. The crew includes Tom "Redfly" Davis, a realtor; William "Ironhead" Miller, a motivational speaker; his brother Ben Miller, an MMA fighter; and Francisco "Catfish" Morales, a former pilot.

The group, wanting to minimize casualties, devises a plan to move in on the house while Lorea's family is at church. They quietly and non-lethally subdue the guards, but are unable to locate Lorea nor his money. Pope deduces that the money is secretly stashed in the walls, whereby the team begins smashing the walls down and quickly stuffing millions of dollars into duffel bags. They soon realise that there is far more than they expected and hurry to bag as much as possible before Lorea's family and guards return. Redfly becomes consumed by greed and demands the crew continue loading it past the hard out that he set himself. His behavior alarms the men who finally convince him that they are out of time and must leave ASAP. With the money safely loaded in the truck, they make one last sweep for Lorea.

As they continue their search, Lorea ambushes them from a hidden panic room and wounds Ironhead with a bullet to the abdomen before being shot dead by Pope. As the crew tends to Ironhead's wounds, and now several minutes past their getaway time, some guards return. The crew takes them out, torches the house and escapes in the van, driving past Lorea's family returning from church. They meet up with Yovanna and her brother with $250 million in the van, and then rendezvous with an old friend of Ironhead's who provides them with a private Mi-8MTV-1 transport helicopter to reach their getaway boat aiding their escape from South America. From there, they plan to transfer the money to an account in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Catfish is skeptical that the helicopter can hold the weight of all the money at a high altitude as they have to fly over the Andes Mountains in order to make it to the meeting point. Unwilling to leave any of the money behind, Redfly urges Catfish to proceed.

The crew takes off with the money in a net bag attached under the helicopter. After transporting Yovanna into Peru with her brother, Redfly aggressively questions her knowledge of them, knowing she could link them to the robbery. Before leaving, Pope leaves Yovanna and her brother with 2 million dollars and visas to Sydney, Australia, urging them to leave South America as soon as possible to avoid being caught and killed by the cartel. As the group takes off, an unsatisfied Redfly claims that Yovanna was lying to him but Pope talks him down. Redfly insinuates that they should have killed her, prompting Ironhead to convince Redfly that doing so would lead to circumstances he would not recover from. Fixated on the money, Redfly becomes more and more willing to break his own rules and do whatever is necessary to escape with the money.

As planned, the crew begin flying over the Andes Mountains. Just as they are about to crest the final peak, one of the helicopter's gearboxes blows due to the excessive net bag weight, causing the helicopter to enter a rapid descent. Catfish urges the team to release the money bag immediately via manual override if they want to live. The group survives the crash landing and exits the wreck with minor injuries and quickly moves into action. Redfly and Pope attempt to retrieve the ditched money bag from the cocaine farm on which it crash-landed and is now being rummaged through by farmers and villagers. The wounded Ironhead stays by the crash site while Catfish and Ben take up recon positions in the bushes. The attempt to retrieve the money peacefully fails as the farmers mistake the group for DEA agents and become hostile after spotting Ben, Catfish and Ironhead. One of the farmers pulls out a knife causing Redfly to quickly draw his pistol and shoot him and several others, prompting the other villagers to back away from the stolen cache.

While Catfish, Ironhead, and Ben prepare a group of mules to transport the money, Pope and Redfly compensate the village elder with over 1 million dollars for the mules and for the families of the men they truly hadn't intended to kill. After reaching an agreement, they continue their voyage to the meeting point, accidentally losing a mule and millions of dollars along the way, causing tempers to flare amongst the team. The crew eventually set the remaining mules free once the terrain becomes too treacherous. When they reach the top of the mountain and make their way down, a firefight takes place with two villagers who had been tracking them, seeking to avenge the deaths of their families. Redfly takes one of them out before being shot in the head by a second villager, killing him instantly. Pope kills the second shooter and the crew mourns Redfly's death. After Ben and Ironhead scuffle, Pope urges the team to keep moving, stating that both they and Redfly's family deserve the money at this point. They proceed towards the ocean with their haul and Redfly's body.

Ben scouts ahead and reports that their getaway boat is still waiting for them though the village is filled with armed teens waiting for their arrival. While Pope initially argues that they "go through" the armed teens, the others vehemently disagree. They have come to realize they have sacrificed everything they believe in for the money, including their integrity. Pope becomes remorseful of his desire to kill the teenagers and takes it back. Knowing they cannot sneak all the money through the town, they toss the money into a ravine, keeping only what they can carry in their own backpacks. They attempt to quietly make their way through the town to the boat carrying Redfly's body but are discovered and a car chase ensues. Pope hesitates to kill any more people, instead deciding to shoot at the tires of their pursuers, causing their vehicles to flip over into the sand dunes. The team makes it to safety in the boat with just over five million dollars and Redfly's body.

The team flies to St. John's to meet the lawyer who will be overseeing the disbursement of the funds from the offshore account. The guilt-ridden Ironhead decides to give his share to Redfly's family trust, which is repeated by Ben, Catfish and Pope, albeit somewhat reluctantly. The men say their goodbyes and split up with Pope planning to head to Sydney to reunite with Yovanna. Before leaving, Ironhead hands Pope a piece of paper on which is scribbled the coordinates  to the money that was dumped into the ravine for a potential future recovery mission.

Cast
 Ben Affleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis
 Oscar Isaac as Santiago "Pope" Garcia
 Charlie Hunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller
 Garrett Hedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller
 Pedro Pascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales
 Adria Arjona as Yovanna

Production
In October 2010, Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp entered talks to join the cast of the film, to be directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by Mark Boal with shooting set to commence in early 2011. In November 2010, Hanks officially was cast. Production lagged, and, in June 2015, it was announced that J. C. Chandor was in talks to direct the film for Paramount Pictures, while Bigelow left because she wanted to focus on her film about Bowe Bergdahl (ultimately dropped in favor of Detroit). Both Hanks and Will Smith were in talks for the lead roles. The film, alternately titled Sleeping Dogs, would be produced by Roven and Alex Gartner through Atlas Entertainment. In September 2015, Chandor officially signed on to helm the film. On January 20, 2016, it was reported that Depp was again in early talks to star in the film, while Hanks' attachment was yet to be confirmed, and Smith had left due to scheduling conflicts filming Collateral Beauty.

In January 2017, it was reported that Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy were in talks to join the film, with Depp and Hanks no longer up for roles. In February 2017, Mahershala Ali joined the cast, with Tatum and Hardy also officially signed on. On April 12, 2017, a month before shooting was set to commence, it was reported that Triple Frontier had been dropped by Paramount, and Tatum and Hardy no longer would be a part of the cast, while Ali and Adria Arjona were still attached to star.

On May 1, 2017, it was reported that Netflix was in negotiations to acquire the rights to the film with Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck in negotiations for the roles Hardy and Tatum vacated, with Ali and Arjona remaining on the project. Ben Affleck exited the film in early July 2017, due to personal reasons. On July 26, 2017, it was reported that Mark Wahlberg was in talks to join the film in the role Affleck vacated, along with Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal, with Arjona still attached to the project. Principal production was set to commence in August 2017, in Hawaii and Colombia.

On March 19, 2018, it was announced that Triple Frontier would commence principal production on March 26, 2018, in Oahu, Hawaii. Ben Affleck had signed back on to star, cast with Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal, and Adria Arjona. Ali had been forced to drop out of the project when production was delayed.

The film's name, Triple Frontier, refers to the eponymous area.

Disasterpeace composed the film score. The soundtrack was released by Milan Records.

Release
The film had its world premiere in New York City on March 3, 2019. It was released in select theaters on March 6, before its worldwide Netflix release a week later on March 13. On April 16, 2019, Netflix announced that the film had been viewed by over 52 million viewers on its service within its first month of release. On July 5, 2019, Netflix announced that the film had been viewed by over 63 million viewers since its release on the service.

Critical response
On the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 72% based on 121 reviews, with an average rating of 6.41/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "An outstanding cast and ambitious story help Triple Frontier overcome an uneven narrative—and elevate the end result above a crowded field of grim and gritty heist thrillers." Rotten Tomatoes also ranked it No. 4 on its list of "The Best Action Movies of 2019". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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Krajewo Wielkie

Krajewo Wielkie  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzynowłoga Mała, within Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately  north of Krzynowłoga Mała,  north of Przasnysz, and  north of Warsaw.

During Nazi Occupation it was part of New Berlin military training area

References

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Military Intelligence Corps Band

The Military Intelligence Corps Band (officially, the 62nd Army Band) was a military band maintained by the United States Army and associated with the Military Intelligence Corps. Established in 1901 as the band of the 15th Cavalry Regiment, it was inactivated in 1921, reactivated in 1942, and inactivated a final time in 2018.

History
The band was activated in February 1901 at the Presidio of San Francisco as the band of the 15th Cavalry Regiment. The band stood-down at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming on October 18, 1921, upon the inactivation of the 15th Cavalry. With the outbreak of World War II, it was reactivated with its regiment at Fort Riley, Kansas. On June 2, 1944, it was reorganized and redesignated as the 62nd Army Ground Forces Band and, in 1947, as the 62nd Army Band. In 2008 it received the Superior Unit Award.

In 2011 the band was assigned to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It was inactivated in 2018 and concluded its tour with a concert to which personnel formerly assigned to the band, as well as those assigned to bands that had previously been posted to Fort Huachuca, were invited to join or attend.  The band's final performance was the national march of the United States, "The Stars and Stripes Forever", which was conducted by the commanding general of Fort Huachuca, Major General Robert P. Walters, Jr. Following the conclusion of the concert its colors were cased and sent to the Center for Military History for storage. At the time of its inactivation, it was the only active-duty military band in Arizona.

Organization

At the time of its inactivation, the band was authorized 37 personnel. It consisted of a ceremonial band and a chamber jazz group known as the Cannonball Combo, the latter named in tribute to Cannonball Adderley who was once posted to Fort Huachuca as a trumpet player in the 36th Army Band. By the time of its inactivation, it was estimated to have a maximum of 27 personnel.

See also
Signal Corps Band
U.S. Army Band

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Prosperity (Irish TV series)

Prosperity is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran. Prosperity features "four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, with each episode examining the life of a single character."  The series first aired on 3 September 2007 on RTÉ, and was produced by Ed Guiney and Catherine Magee for Element Films.

The series was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards in 2008, and won two, for Directing (Lenny Abrahamson) and Script (Mark O'Halloran).

Stacey
Stacey is a 17-year-old mother of one. Stacey came from a bad background of drugs, alcohol and violence in her home. She moved out after conditions in her home became unbearable. She is currently living temporarily in an "emergency" B&B housing. Stacy has a tenuous relationship with the father of her 3-month-old daughter Lorna, Dean, who lives at home. Dean avoids responsibility of Stacey and Lorna but is content on using Stacey whenever he wants.

Gavin
Gavin is a 14-year-old who lives with his Mum and younger sister, Nadine. He has a very bad stutter, which has led him to be mocked and bullied by the other boys. He has poor attendance record at school and his mother works long hours in a nearby factory, leaving him unattended most of the time. His father, Jerome, left him when he was two, and he rarely sees his father. His father also has a baby with a younger woman. Gavin's friend, Conor, is taken advantage of by Gavin from making him skip school with him, to convincing him to steal a rabbit.

Georgie
Georgie is a 42-year-old Dubliner who lives with his aging mother and has a son Georgie Jr. He is unemployed for 11 months and used to work in a small upholstery workshop. Georgie Jnr. lives with his mother Tina and her partner Victor. At the beginning of the day he finds out his social welfare is cut off as he hasn't been seeking employment. He then tries to get his old job back and fails. Over the course of the day he drinks several cans of beer; alone on park benches, in front of his old employer and in the company of his young son. He also spends the last of his money on slot machines. When he collects Georgie Jnr. from school he asks him for money to buy more drink. When Georgie brings his son back to Tinas home he launches an unprovoked attack on Victor and appears to break Victors nose.

Pala
Pala Lolonga, 31, is Nigerian but was granted permission to live in Ireland as an asylum-seeker. Pala is widowed, and her son Joseph, 10, was not granted permission into Ireland, so lives with his grandmother in Nigeria. She hopes this will be overturned as she misses her son terribly. Pala suffers badly from isolation as she barely knows anyone. She works overnight for a small Irish company cleaning offices, and sends as much money to Joseph and his grandmother as possible.

References

External links
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Typhoon Jangmi

The name Jangmi has been used to name three tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In addition, the variant Changmi was used in 2002 before the spelling was corrected by the WMO Typhoon Committee, The name was contributed by Korea; it means a rose.
 Tropical Storm Changmi (2002) (T0219) – wasn't recognized by the JTWC.
 Typhoon Jangmi (2008) (T0815, 19W, Ofel) – strongest storm of 2008.
 Tropical Storm Jangmi (2014) (T1423, 23W, Seniang) – a rare storm that impacted the Philippines.

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Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring himself, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault and  Sharon Stone in her film debut. The film is about a filmmaker who recalls his life and his loves - the inspirations for his films - while attending a retrospective of his work. The film is shot in black and white and is reminiscent of Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), which it parodies.

Stardust Memories was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy written directly for screen, but was not warmly received by critics on its original release, and is not among the most renowned works in Allen's filmography. The film has nonetheless been re-evaluated to some extent, with modern reception more often positive than negative. Allen, who denies that the work is autobiographical and has expressed regret that audiences interpreted it as such, even considers it to be one of his finest, alongside The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point.

Plot
The film follows famous filmmaker Sandy Bates, who is plagued by fans who prefer his "earlier, funnier movies" to his more recent artistic efforts, while he tries to reconcile his conflicting attraction to two very different women: the earnest intellectual Daisy and the more maternal Isobel. Meanwhile, he is also haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend, the unstable Dorrie.

Cast

Themes
Allen has asserted that Stardust Memories is not an autobiographical work. "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me," the director is quoted as saying in Woody Allen on Woody Allen. "Not a fictional character but me, and that I was expressing hostility towards my audience. That was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having a sort of nervous breakdown and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time."

The conflict between the maternal, nurturing woman and the earnest, usually younger one, is a recurring theme in Allen's films. Like many of Allen's films, Stardust Memories incorporates several jazz recordings including those by such notables as Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Chick Webb. The film's title alludes to the famous take of "Stardust" recorded in 1931 by Armstrong, wherein the trumpeter sings "oh, memory" three times in succession. However, it is the master take that plays in the movie during the sequence where Sandy is remembering the best moment of his life: looking at Dorrie while listening to Armstrong's recording of the song.

The film deals with issues regarding religion, God, and philosophy; especially existentialism, psychology, symbolism, wars and politics.  It is also about realism, relationships, and death.  It refers to many questions about the meaning of life. It also ruminates on the role that luck plays in life, a theme Allen would revisit in Match Point.

Production
Filming locations include:
 Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
 Belmar, New Jersey, USA
 Deal, New Jersey, USA
 Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
 Neptune City, New Jersey, USA
 Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA

From the sleevenotes of MGM's 2000 DVD release: "Shot on location in the fall of 1979, Stardust Memories may look as though it takes place in a Victorian-style seaside hotel, but it was actually shot at the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium and the Methodist Episcopal Conference Center and Concert Hall in New Jersey. Most of the interiors, including the bedroom scenes, were shot in a vacant Sears Roebuck building, but the crew also recreated a vintage train at Filmways Studio in Harlem. To reproduce the movement of a rail car, the whole train was mounted on jacks and gently jostled back and forth."

Reception
In Diane Jacobs' But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, the director is quoted as saying: "shortly after Stardust Memories opened, John Lennon was shot by the very guy who had asked him for his autograph earlier in the day... This is what happens with celebrities: one day people love you; the next day they want to kill you."

Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports a 68% approval of Stardust Memories, with an average rating of 6.7/10 from 28 reviews. Janet Maslin wrote the work "is [Allen's] most provocative film thus far and perhaps his most revealing" and certainly "the one that will inspire the most heated debate". Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "a disappointment. It needs some larger idea, some sort of organizing force, to pull together all these scenes of bitching and moaning, and make them lead somewhere." Gene Siskel gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and suggested that Allen "seems to have run out of creative gas. The film doesn't have much of a premise." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "has no dramatic shape or resonance, and the incidental laughs are few and far between." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times was positive, calling the film "both extremely funny and extremely affecting ... Allen's growth as an actor and as a filmmaker in confident command of his medium is one of the several remarkable readouts from this film." Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote, "In 'Stardust Memories' we get more of the same thoughts over and over—it's like watching a loop. The material is fractured and the scenes are very short, but there was not a single one that I was sorry to see end. 'Stardust Memories' doesn't seem like a movie, or even like a filmed essay; it's nothing."

In a joint article, The Daily Telegraph film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey listed it as Allen's 10th greatest film and wrote; "slammed at the time, it's a retrospective knock-out, thanks to its ambitious structure, vinegary gags and the searing monochrome photography, courtesy of Gordon Willis". Sam Fragoso of IndieWire also ranked it among Allen's best works, lauding it as "an extraordinarily realized portrait of artistic stagnation". The film was listed 16th among Allen's efforts in a poll of Time Out contributors, with editor Joshua Rothkopf praising it as "a piece of self-referential hilarity in its own right."

In October 2013, Stardust Memories was voted by the Guardian readers as the eighth best film directed by Woody Allen.

Box office
Stardust Memories opened in North America on September 26, 1980 to an onslaught of bad reviews. At 29 theatres, it grossed $326,779 ($11,268 per screen) in its opening weekend. The film failed to attract more than Allen's loyal fanbase in the long run, and it grossed  $10,389,003 by the end of its run. The film's budget was $10 million.

Soundtrack
 "Hebrew School Rag" (Dick Hyman) by Dick Hyman
 "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) by Dick Hyman
 "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) by Dick Hyman
 "Tropical Mood Meringue" (Sidney Bechet) by Sidney Bechet
 "I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones and Gus Kahn) by Django Reinhardt
 "Tickletoe" (Lester Young) by Lester Young with Count Basie and His Orchestra
 "Three Little Words" (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) by The Jazz Heaven Orchestra
 "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, S.K. Russell) by Marie Lane
 "Palesteena" (J. Russel Robinson and Con Conrad) by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
 "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Johnny Green, and Frank Eyton) by Django Reinhardt
 "Night on Bald Mountain" (Modest Mussorgsky) by Vienna State Opera Orchestra
 "If Dreams Come True" (Irving Mills, Edgar M. Sampson, and Benny Goodman) by Chick Webb
 "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) by Dick Hyman
 "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) by Dick Hyman
 "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) by The Jazz Heaven Orchestra
 "Sugar" (Maceo Pinkard and Sidney D. Mitchell)
 "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey and Maceo Pinkard)
 "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller) by Glenn Miller
 "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) by Louis Armstrong

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David Balfour

David Balfour may refer to:
 David Balfour (1574–1634), Scottish-Danish shipbuilder, director of Bremerholm
 David Balfour, the main character and narrator in the books Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
 David Balfour, an alternative title to the above-mentioned novel Catriona
David A. Balfour (1889–1956), Canadian politician
David A. Balfour Park named after the same politician
 David Paton Balfour (1841–1894), New Zealand sheepfarmer, station manager, roading supervisor and diarist

See also
Balfour (surname)

Balfour, David


Leopold Grausam

Leopold Grausam (born 29 June 1943) is an Austrian retired footballer.

References

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Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall (originally released as Killbots) is a 1986 American science-fiction comedy horror film co-written and directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Julie Corman, and starring Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, John Terlesky, and Russell Todd. The story focuses on three security robots turning rogue, and killing teenage employees inside a shopping mall after dark.

While not a commercial or critical success, the film has gained a cult following since its release.

Plot

Park Plaza Mall has just installed a state-of-the-art security system, including shutters across all exits and three high-tech robots programmed to disable and apprehend thieves using tasers and tranquilizer guns. Four couples (Rick and Linda, Greg and Suzie, Mike and Leslie and Ferdy and Allison) decide to have a party in a furniture store where three of them work. After hours, all of them (except Allison and Ferdy) begin to have sex, drink, and party inside the furniture store.

Outside, a lightning storm strikes the mall several times and damages the computer controlling Protectors 1, 2 and 3, which kill the technicians and a janitor before starting their routine patrol. Starting with Protector 1, Mike and Leslie get killed as they leave the store, witnessed by the others, who scatter. The men break into a sporting-goods store to arm themselves with firearms, while the women take gasoline and flares from an automotive store. Using a propane tank, the men blow up and seemingly destroy Protector 1. While the men set up the elevator as a booby trap, the killbots ambush the women and ignite Suzie by shooting her gasoline can, killing her. Greg unsuccessfully shoots them before Rick drags him away.

The teenagers regroup and rig the elevator trap on Protector 2, destroying it. They then hide in the restaurant where Allison works. Inside, Greg confronts Allison and Linda about leaving the air ducts and exhibits rage due to Suzie's death, pulling his gun on Ferdy when he intercedes on Allison and Linda's behalf. Rick tries to calm him down, and Ferdy suggests destroying the killbots' main control center in hopes of shutting them all down. The group agrees and heads to the control center on the third floor. The robot throws Greg over the railing and he falls to his death.

On the run, the four remaining survivors, Allison, Ferdy, Rick, and Linda also find the first robot recovered after its earlier defeat. They take refuge inside a department store and set up mannequins to confuse Protector 1, and Protector 3. Their plan works as they fire at the dummies and one of them blinds itself with its own reflected laser. However, the blind Protector 3 kills Linda and an enraged Rick rams a golf cart into it. A bolt of electricity kills him, but his attempts successfully destroy the robot.

As the final robot called Protector 1 corners Allison, Ferdy rescues her and shoots it point-blank, damaging its laser just before he falls unconscious. Despite an injured leg, Allison escapes into the paint store and sets up a trap by mixing paint and chemicals. She lures Protector 1 inside, where it gets stuck for failing to find traction on the spilled paint and thinners. She tosses a flare into the store, igniting the chemicals and finally destroys Protector 1. As daylight appears, Allison leaves the store and Ferdy awakens. The two remain the only survivors.

In a post-credits scene, an unknown killbot says its catchphrase "Have a nice day" one last time.

Cast

 Kelli Maroney as Alison Parks
 Tony O'Dell as Ferdy Meisel
 Russell Todd as Rick Stanton
 Karrie Emerson as Linda Stanton
 Barbara Crampton as Suzie Lynn
 Nick Segal as Greg Williams
 John Terlesky as Mike Brennan
 Suzee Slater as Leslie Todd
 Paul Bartel as Paul Bland
 Mary Woronov as Mary Bland
 Angela Aames as Miss Vanders
 Dick Miller as Walter Paisley
 Paul Coufos as Dr. Stan Simon
 Arthur Roberts as Mr. Todd
 Gerrit Graham as Technician Nessler
 Lawrence Guy as Dr. Carrington
 Toni Naples as Lead bathing beauty
 Mel Welles as Cook
 Jim Wynorski (voice) as Killbots
 Rodney Eastman (uncredited) as Shoplifter

Production

Writing
Julie Corman had a deal with Vestron to make a horror film that took place in a mall. Jim Wynorski agreed to write one cheaply if he could direct.

Wynorski wrote the script with Steve Mitchell, whom he had known since the 1970s, when they met at conventions for EC Comics, and became friends. They decided to do a "phantom of the mall"-type movie and Mitchell says it was Wynorski's idea to feature robots. Wynorski said he was inspired by the 1954 film Gog; he claims he never saw the 1973 TV film Trapped, which some believe inspired Chopping Mall.

Mitchell says they wrote up the story in 24 hours and sent it to Julie Corman. Vestron gave their approval within a week despite lack of a script. The script took around four or five weeks to write.

Wynorski says Roger Corman "was nothing but supportive from the get-go. He loved the idea."

Casting
Wynorski says Kelli Maroney was cast because "I had seen Kelli in a couple of things and I wanted to date her. So, I figured the one way to make that happen was to put her in a movie." She replaced Dana Kimmell, who had been cast on the strength of her performance in Lone Wolf McQuade but Dana did not want to do anything that was sexual," according to Mitchell. "So Jim was very quick to say, "Well, she’s out, let’s get Kelli," who was pretty much game for anything." Karrie Emerson also replaced someone else.

The script was full of in-jokes, writing in characters from A Bucket of Blood and Eating Raoul. The writers got the actors from the respective films: Dick Miller, Mary Woronov, and Paul Bartel.

Mitchell wanted John Terlesky to play the hero, but Wynorski wanted Russell Todd. Terlesky played the part of Mike.

Chopping Mall also acts as a debut film for Rodney Eastman, who later went on to star in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

Filming
Wynorski says Roger Corman took him out to lunch before making the film. He bought a yellow pad, "and after lunch he said this here is what you gotta do and he gave me film school in an hour. Everything I learned in film school didn't count, but what he said made a lot of sense and I still have that yellow pad and I live by it. I now have it memorized, many dos and don'ts."

The film was written to be filmed at the Beverly Central Shopping Centre, but they charged too much money, so the film was shot mostly at Sherman Oaks Galleria, where Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Commando had been filmed. The Beverly Central was used for some exteriors.

Mitchell later recalls, "I think we both felt a pretty fair amount of pressure when we started shooting. It was Julie’s picture, but it was still Roger’s company, and he was the bottom line. We both very much wanted to make him happy." He says, "the specter of Roger loomed large for the first couple of days", but after the second or third night, Corman said they were doing a "very fine job". "So there was a collective sigh of relief on our part that we were making Roger happy, and that’s what really mattered," says Mitchell.

Wynorski says that Bartel and Woronov ad-libbed the bulk of their parts.

Mitchell estimates filming took 20 days at the Galleria and two days at Corman's studios.

Alternative versions
At least two different versions of the film exist. The TV cut has some extra footage, such as a small homage to Attack of the Crab Monsters, extended scenes of Ferdy and Allison watching TV, some aerial shots, and an extension of one of the Ferdy/Allison scenes. No official source offers this version.

On the DVD commentary tracks, Wynorski and Mitchell discussed many details of production, including an injury that the director suffered while helping prepare a stunt sequence, their unfriendly relationship with the Galleria's security chief (and friendly one with the mall's owner), the many beautiful women who were part of the cast, and ways that they dealt with having little time or money, yet finished their work on time.

Release
Concorde Pictures released the film in limited theaters on March 21, 1986. It was known during production as Robots, then Killbots. Upon initial release as Killbots, the film did poorly at the box office. However, it fared better when it was re-released as Chopping Mall. The name Chopping Mall was a suggestion of a janitor.

The film was released on VHS in the United States by the Vestron sublabel Lightning Video in 1986. Lionsgate released the film twice on DVD, once in 2004 (with special features including a featurette, commentary, still gallery, and trailer) and in 2012 as part of an 8-horror film DVD set. It was released for the first time on Blu-ray on September 27, 2016 as part of Lionsgate's new Vestron Video Collector's Series line.

Wynorski later said, the film "did okay when it was released in theaters. It got some okay reviews and did decent business, but it really found a life on VHS and cable. That’s when it really was embraced."

Remake
In November 2011, Dry County Entertainment acquired the film rights and is planning a remake with a supernatural twist. The film will be produced and written by Kevin Bocarde and directed by Robert Hall. , nothing has materialized.

References

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The Irish Workers' Voice

The Irish Worker's Voice is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI). The paper is published weekly on and off by the various guises under which the Communist party of Ireland was constituted. The first issue was on the 4th of April 1931  initially published by the Revolutionary Workers' Groups and edited by Tom Bell, it became the publication of the Communist Party of Ireland founded in 1933. The paper was named the Irish Workers' Voice to distinguish it from Jim Larkins The Irish Worker.
The Irish Worker along with other left wing and republican newspapers were banned in Northern Ireland in 1940.
In 1949 following re-establishment of the Communist party as the Irish Workers' League(IWL) the paper was relaunched.

Following the merger of the IWL and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland the paper continued as the publication of the southern party in Dublin while Unity was published by the Belfast office.

In 2003 the Communist Party of Ireland launched the Socialist Voice as a monthly publication of the party from Dublin.

References

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Zámrsky

Zámrsky is a village and municipality (obec) in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 198 (as at 3 July 2006).

Zámrsky lies approximately  east of Přerov,  east of Olomouc, and  east of Prague.

References
Olomouc Regional Statistical Office: Municipalities of Přerov District

Category:Villages in Přerov District


Assamese

Assamese may refer to:

 Assamese people, native speaker of Assamese language
 People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam
 Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan languages
 Assamese alphabet, used to write the Assamese Language
 Assam tea, tea grown in Assam
 Assam silk, Silk cultivated in Assam
 Culture of Assam, the culture of Assamese people

Other
 Assamese cuisine, cuisine of Assam
 Asom Sena, student organization in Assam
 Asam Sahitya Sabha, social, literature, rhetorical congress of Assam
 Asom Gana Parishad, regional political party
 Assam macaque, a macaque of the Old World monkey family native to South and Southeast Asia.
 Assam agitation: A student unrest happened in Assam
 Assam Rifles: A para-military wing of the Indian Army
 Assam cricket team, a Ranji Trophy plate group team based in Assam

Distantly related
 Assam Valley, Brahmaputra river valley
 Upper Assam, eastern "Brahmaputra Valley"
 Western Assam, western part of "Brahmaputra Valley"
 Assamese literature, the corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, documents and other writings in the Assamese language
 Assamese Brahmins, the Indo-Aryan group, Brahmins of "Brahmaputra Valley"

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2003 Waveney District Council election

The 2003 Waveney Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Waveney District Council in Suffolk, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Conservative 21
Labour 20
Independent 4
Liberal Democrat 3

Election result

Ward results

References

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2003
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Lampeter Museum

The Lampeter Museum was founded by Hanes Llambed, the local history society, in 2014 at the town's university campus. In Welsh, it is known as Amgueddfa Llambedr Pont Steffan.
The museum covers the cultural and agricultural development of the town as well as the history of the college which was founded in 1822. The first exhibition hosted by the museum was about the town during the first world war.

References

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Adrian V. Stokes

Adrian V Stokes (born 25 June 1945) is one of the founders of the internet including the first implementation of email in the UK.

Education
Stokes earned a BSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry at University College London and he then went on to specialise in computer science.

In 1973, whilst a research assistant at the Institute of Computer Science, University College London, Adrian was involved with a research team who were working on ARPANET, the experimental computer network of the United States Department of Defense. ARPANET became the Internet in the mid-1970s, and one of Adrian’s responsibilities was the implementation of email in the UK.

Career
Stokes is currently retired and works as a freelance consultant.

Personal life

Stokes has spina bifida  but that has not stopped him from campaigning on behalf of people with disabilities for decades.

Awards and honours

Stokes was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to disabled people in 1983.

Stokes was recognised as one of the founders of the internet with a plaque by Stanford University.

References

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Shawne Major

Shawne Major (born December 25, 1968, New Iberia, Louisiana) is an American mixed media artist, working in two-dimensional mixed-media hangings and three-dimensional mixed media sculptures.

Education
Major was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, on December 25, 1968. She attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1991. She then went on to study at Rutgers University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture in 1995.

Before attending university, Major had little exposure to the arts, saying "as a kid I didn’t know you could be an artist. I didn’t know that was something like that was an option." She was strongly influenced by Robert Rauschenberg, saying "because of him I can make anything I want." She was also influenced by the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and artists such as Lynda Benglis, Nancy Graves, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Kurt Schwitters.

Art
Major's works are assemblages, classified as bricolage. Her two-dimensional works are sometimes referred to as tapestries, though this is technically incorrect, since a tapestry is woven from thread, whereas Major works by sewing found objects onto a base of fabric or poultry netting.

To that base, Major sews objects such as toys, clothing, buttons, ribbons, fake fur, jewelry, charms, money household objects such as faucets and fixtures, wire, electronic circuit-boards, and husbandry equipment.

Major refers to her two-dimensional works as "physical paintings."

Awards
Major has been awarded a Rauschenberg residency and a Pollack-Krasner Grant.

References

External links
Shawne Major official Web site

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Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin

Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin (1742 – 6 August 1761) was an Irish duellist and Member of Parliament.

Nugent was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Nugent, 6th Earl of Westmeath and adopted the courtesy title of Lord Delvin in 1754 when his father acceded to the earldom.

In 1759, he was elected Member of Parliament for Fore, although he was underage. He was also commissioned a cornet in the 1st Regiment of Dragoons.

In July 1761, the drunken Lord Delvin accosted a female acquaintance of Capt. George Reilly, and was challenged to a duel. The two crossed swords in the music room at Marlborough Bowling Green, and Delvin was mortally wounded. The incident led to the abandonment of Marlborough Green as a fashionable resort.

Further reading
Irish Varieties A more detailed account of the circumstances preceding the duel which ended Delvin's life.

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Cal Johnson (businessman)

Caldonia (or Calvin) Fackler Johnson (October 14, 1844 – April 7, 1925) was an American businessman and philanthropist, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into slavery, he rose to become a prominent Knoxville racetrack and saloon owner, and by the time of his death, was one of the wealthiest African-American businessmen in the state. He also owned several thoroughbred racehorses, one of which captured a world speed record in 1893.

Biography

Johnson was born in 1844 in a house at the corner of Gay Street and Church Avenue in downtown Knoxville.  His parents were Harriett Johnson (1813–1894), a slave of Charles McClung, and Cupid Johnson (1809–1858), a slave of Hugh Lawson McClung (Charles's son).  Cupid was widely known as a horse trainer and jockey, and played a vital role in shaping Cal's interest in horses. Harriett, a domestic servant, could read and write, and after the Civil War, she operated a hotel and grocery store in East Knoxville.  As a teenager, Cal was sent to McClung's estate in Campbell's Station (modern Farragut), where he tended the family's horses.  During the Civil War, he befriended noted Knoxville saloon owner Patrick Sullivan, and helped Sullivan (who was away fighting in the war) relay messages back and forth to his family.

Following the war, Johnson helped exhume soldiers' bodies from temporary graves at battlefield sites for reinterment in cemeteries.  He struggled financially, however, and sank into alcoholism and poverty.  He finally found employment as a bartender, and in 1879, used his savings to lease a saloon at the corner of Gay and Vine.  By the mid-1880s, he had accumulated around $20,000, and bought the saloon outright.  He also purchased two other saloons, one at the corner of Vine and Central, the other at the corner of Gay and Wall.   By the turn of the 20th century, his saloon at the corner of Gay and Vine, known as the Poplar Log (later renamed the Lone Tree), was one of the most popular in the city.

Johnson served as an alderman on Knoxville's city council from 1883 to 1885.  He also began buying thoroughbred racehorses, and attended races across the South.  In 1893, one of his horses broke a world speed record at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  Johnson also established Knoxville's only racetrack, in what is now the Burlington neighborhood near Chilhowee Park.  The track has since been converted into a street, Speedway Circle.

In 1907, Knoxville passed a prohibition ordinance that forced the city's saloons, including Johnson's, to close.  The following year, Johnson opened one of Knoxville's first movie houses on Central, but the business failed.  In 1910, as part of the Appalachian Exposition, Johnson cut down the lone tree in the middle of his racetrack to allow the first airplane to visit the city to land.  He later donated a house at the corner of Vine and Patton for the establishment of the city's African-American YMCA.  At his death in 1925, his net worth was estimated at $300,000 to $500,000.

Legacy

In 1898, Johnson constructed a three-story warehouse building on State Street in downtown Knoxville.  Now known as the Cal Johnson Building, this structure is a contributing property in the National Register of Historic Places-listed Gay Street Commercial Historic District.  In 1922, the city established a park for its black residents, which it named Cal Johnson Park in Johnson's honor.  Johnson donated a concrete fountain and arched entranceway for the park, though these have since been removed.  In 1957, the city built the Cal Johnson Recreation Center inside the park.

See also

Charles W. Cansler
Peter Kern
James G. Sterchi
William F. Yardley

References

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2018 Nigeria Federation Cup

The 2018 Nigeria Federation Cup (known as the 2018 Aiteo Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 77th edition of the football tournament. This edition of the competition began on 9 September 2018 and ended on 24 October 2018.

First round
First round matches were played from 9 September to 11 September 2018.

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Tornadoes progress to the last 32 after Chief of Staff failed to turn up for the match.

Second round
Second round matches were played from 16, 17 September and 19 September 2018.

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Group stage

Group A
(at Patani Stadium, Gombe)

Round 2 [Sep 26]
Katsina United          0-1 Enyimba
J. Atete                1-3 Plateau United

Round 3 [Sep 27]
J. Atete                2-4 Katsina United
Plateau United          1-1 Enyimba

Round 1 [Sep 28] (moved from Sep 24)
Plateau United          0-1 Katsina United
J. Atete                0-5 Enyimba

Final Table:

 1.Enyimba FC                         3   2  1  0   7- 1   7  Qualified
 2.Katsina United                     3   2  0  1   5- 3   6  Qualified
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 3.Plateau United                     3   1  1  1   4- 3   4
 4.Julius Atete FC                    3   0  0  3   3-12   0

Group B
(at Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano)

Round 1 [Sep 24]
Enugu Rangers           2-1 El-Kanemi Warriors
Sunshine Stars          1-1 Supreme Court

Round 2 [Sep 26]
Sunshine Stars          1-1 El-Kanemi Warriors
Supreme Court           n/p Enugu Rangers

Round 3 [Sep 28]
Enugu Rangers           0-0 Sunshine Stars
El-Kaneni Warriors      1-0 Supreme Court

Final Table:

 1.Enugu Rangers International        2   1  1  0   2- 1   4  Qualified
 2.El Kanemi Warriors                 3   1  1  1   3- 3   4  Qualified
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 3.Sunshine Stars                     3   0  3  0   2- 2   3
 4.Supreme Court FC                   2   0  1  1   1- 2   1

Group C
(at Agege Stadium, Lagos)

Round 1 [Sep 24]
Kwara United            5-1 Abia Warriors
Kano Pillars            3-2 Rivers United

Round 2 [Sep 26]
Kano Pillars            1-2 Abia Warriors
Rivers United           0-1 Kwara United

Round 3 [Sep 28]
Kano Pillars            2-1 Kwara United
Rivers United           0-1 Abia Warriors

Final Table:

 1.Kwara United                       3   2  0  1   7- 3   6  Qualified
 2.Kano Pillars                       3   2  0  1   6- 5   6  Qualified
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 3.Abia Warriors                      3   2  0  1   4- 6   6
 4.Rivers United                      3   0  0  3   2- 5   0

Group D
(at Enyimba International Stadium, Aba)

Round 1 [Sep 24]
Akwa United             1-0 Wikki Tourists
Nasarawa United         0-0 Kogi United

Round 2 [Sep 26]
Kogi United             0-1 Akwa United
Nasarawa United         1-0 Wikki Tourists

Round 3 [Sep 28]
Akwa United             0-2 Nasarawa United
Wikki Tourists          1-0 Kogi United

Final Table:

 1.Nasarawa United                    3   2  1  0   3- 0   7  Qualified
 2.Akwa United                        3   2  0  1   2- 2   6  Qualified
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 3.Wikki Tourists                     3   1  0  2   1- 2   3
 4.Kogi United                        3   0  1  2   0- 2   1

Quarter-finals
[Oct 3]
Kwara United            1-3 Katsina United                     [Agege stadium, Lagos]

Enugu Rangers           1-1 Akwa United             [4-2 pen]  [Sani Abacha stadium, Kano]

[Oct 4]
Nasarawa United         1-0 El-Kanemi Warriors                 [Enyimba stadium, Aba]

[Oct 7]
Enyimba                 2-4 Kano Pillars                       [Patani stadium, Gombe]

Semi-finals
[Oct 10]
Enugu Rangers           4-2 Nasarawa United                    [Sani Abacha stadium, Kano]

Katsina United          2-2 Kano Pillars            [1-4 pen]  [Agege stadium, Lagos]

Final
[Oct 24, Stephen Keshi stadium, Asaba]

Enugu Rangers           3-3 Kano Pillars            [4-2 pen]

References

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Madonna and Child with Saints (Marracci)

Madonna and Child with Saints is a c.1665 oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Marracci, now in Madonna del Carmine church in Pescaglia. It was commissioned by Paolino Galgani of Piazzanello in 1665. The saints are Paolino, Lucy, Philip Neri, Anthony the Great, Anthony of Padua and Elizabeth of Hungary.

References

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Playback (magazine)

Playback is an online Canadian film, broadcasting, and interactive media trade journal owned by Brunico Communications. It was previously published biweekly as a print magazine for the Canadian entertainment industry. It is widely considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals.

History
The first issue of Playback magazine was published, in tabloid format, on September 29, 1986.

The magazine has since begun to report on advancements in the online digital media industry as well, specifically web series and related events, media, and culture. The magazine also reports on funding resources for filmmakers, technical advancements in the industry, and trends. It is widely considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals.

In May 2010, Playback magazine stopped publishing its biweekly print edition and became an exclusively online magazine.

References

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Ramona Hernández

Ramona Hernandez, community leader, sociologist and historian, is Professor of Sociology at City College of New York and the director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. She is the author of various scholarly works about Dominican migration, workers mobility, and the restructuring of the world economy.

Education
In 1979, Ramona Hernandez completed a BA in Latin American History, with a Minor in Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College. She then received an M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Professional career
Ramona Hernandez became the director of the DSI in 2001. In 2003, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed her to the NYC Board of Education. In 2004, she rejected one of the mayor's proposals, which took major attention in the press.

Hernandez is also a trustee of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation and of the International Institute of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Honors
Meritorious Order of Duarte, Sánchez y Mella.

Select bibliography
 "The Dominican Americans" (1998)
 "The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States" (2002)
 "Desde la Orilla: hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos" (2004)

References

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Satellite-class sloop

The Satellite class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified as corvettes in 1884.

Construction

Design

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, the hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking.  This class of composite sloops was unique in having an internal steel deck over the machinery and magazines for protection.  The Satellite class were reclassified as corvettes in 1884, and no more composite or wooden corvettes were built - in fact, Pylades was the last corvette built for the Royal Navy until the Second World War.

Propulsion

Propulsion was provided by a horizontal compound expansion of  driving a single screw.

Sail plan

All the ships of the class were built with a barque rig.

Armament

The class was designed with two 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) breech loaders and ten 5-inch/50-pounder (38cwt) breech loaders, plus a single light gun and four (or more) machine guns.  Heroine, Hyacinth and Royalist were built with eight 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) breech loaders in place of the 5-inch/6-inch mixture, and Satellite was converted to the same fit.

Ships

Operational lives

These ships were designed to patrol the far-flung reaches of Britain's maritime empire, and so Rapid and Royalist both went to the Australian Station, Satellite to the Pacific Station, Pylades to the North America and West Indies Station and Heroine, Caroline and Hyacinth all to the China Station.

References

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Wounded Knee Creek

Wounded Knee Creek is a tributary of the White River, approximately 100 miles (160 km) long, in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota in the United States. Its Lakota name is .

The creek's name recalls an incident when a Native American sustained an injury to his knee during a fight.

The creek rises in the southwestern corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, along the state line with Nebraska, and flows northwest. It borders the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the 7th US Cavalry under Colonel James W. Forsyth massacred approximately 300 Sioux, mostly women and children, many unarmed. Towns in this region include Wounded Knee and Manderson. The Wounded Knee Creek flows NNW across the reservation and joins the White south of Badlands National Park.

See also
List of rivers of South Dakota
Wounded Knee incident

References

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Category:Rivers of Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota


Mast Farm

The Mast Farm is a historic farm located near Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina and is now an Inn. In the late 1700s, Joseph Mast walked from Pennsylvania and settled on much of the land that is now Valle Crucis. Around 1810, his son David built the two-room log cabin which now sits facing the main house at the Mast Farm. David's son Andrew began building the main house around 1880. Andrew's son, D. Finley Mast, completed it in 1896. A photo of the house in the early 1900s shows a sign stating simply, "BROOKSHIDE FARM, D. FINLEY MAST, ONE HALF MILE TO POST OFFICE." Originally, the main house consisted of only the part closest to the road – three stories high, with two rooms on each floor. Like most large homes with open flames for cooking, it had a detached kitchen. The main house is a two-story frame dwelling with a gable roof.  In the early 1900s, Finley and his wife, Josephine, began to make additions to the house and to operate it as an inn. Over a period of about twenty-five years, five different symmetrical additions were completed, ultimately comprising thirteen bedrooms – and one bathroom. Other contributing buildings are an eight-sided gazebo (1890), wash house, spring house, meat house, log woodhouse, apple house (1905), weaving house (c. 1812), blacksmith shop, and gambrel roofed barn. The weaving house served as the original farm house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Valle Crucis Historic District.

See also
 List of Historic Hotels of America

References

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A Terrible Revenge

A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950 is a 1994 non-fiction book written by Cuban-born American lawyer Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, former research fellow at MPG in Heidelberg, Germany. The work is based on a collection of testimonials from German civilians and the Third Reich military personnel; and devoted to the expulsion of Germans after World War II from states previously occupied by the Nazis. It includes as well selected interviews with British and American politicians who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, Geoffrey Harrison (drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol), and Denis Allen (drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders). The book attempts to describe the crimes committed against the German nation by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia at the end of World War II – as perceived by the expellees themselves and settlers brought in Heim ins Reich (Home into the Empire) from the east.

The author begins with the history of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe since the 12th century, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on German minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia, the failure of the League of Nations system of minority protection, the outbreak of World War II and selected crimes committed by the Nazis, followed by the story of refugees from the former Eastern parts of Germany (Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg), as well as the fate of German minorities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.

In the book, de Zayas claims that approximately two million Germans died during the post period of 1944–1949, although his claim does not withstand scrutiny. Most recent research on the subject has put the number at around half a million.

Printing history
The book originated as a script for a television documentary by the Bavarian Broadcasting. It was a popular rendition of the author's monography on the expulsions called the Nemesis at Potsdam (). This shorter introduction to the subject was published in German as Anmerkungen zur Vertreibung der Deutschen aus dem Osten (4 editions during 1986–1996, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, ), first printed in English under the title of The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993, Macmillan, London). The new, 1994 English title, included the then neologism "ethnic cleansing", used at that time in relation to the crimes committed by Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina of the 1990s.  The 5th expanded German 2006 edition was titled Die deutschen Vertriebenen (Leopold Stocker Verlag, ).  The book ends with 12 historical theses, 14 legal theses and 10 conclusions.  It was positively reviewed in Germany by Andreas Hillgruber in the Historische Zeitschrift and Gotthold Rhode in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The 2006 English edition was expanded by about 20%. It contains additional information from interviews with the children of the displaced, German expellees who migrated to the United States and Canada, new photos and new statistical tables.

Reviews
"This popularly written but still scholarly study follows the author's other successful books in the fields of history and international law [which] were hailed by historians as well as lawyers as masterpieces of academic craftsmanship. His book.presents in a nutshell the history of the ethnic German population which had settled in the early 13th century in large parts of what is nowadays Eastern Europe." Netherlands International Law Review 1986, pp. 430–431.

"This is the story of the ethnic Germans who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some two million died and fifteen million were displaced – driven from their lands by those opposed to anyone and everything German... De Zayas's moving plea is that one's home should be a human right. As frontiers once more shift in Eastern Europe and families flee in Bosnia, he could hardly have chosen a better moment to deliver it." The Times, (London) 18 November 1993.

Criticism
One reviewer, Rainer Ohliger of Humboldt University, argues that de Zayas over-emphasizes the role of the Bund der Vertriebenen (non-governmental association representing the expellees) and its property and territorial claims. It has been noted that no West–East migration occurred when this possibility arose after the unification of the German states, and that practically no Germans have returned to the East after the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania entered the European Union.

The book has also been criticized for its victim perspective, normally unsuitable for scholarly works, unfavourably comparing it with a more recent book of Detlef Brandes. The 2006 revised and enlarged edition of "Terrible Revenge" with Palgrave/Macmillan takes some of these considerations into account. In the introduction the author notes that a "Terrible Revenge" is a popularized version of his longer monograph "Nemesis at Potsdam" (1–3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003). See also review of the Future of Freedom Foundation.

Other reviews have criticized both de Zayas and Brandes reversely. According to Eagle Glassheim, Brandes does not provide any moral conclusion deriving from violence against civilians due to their ethnic heritage.

See also
Against Their Will, a historical research book by Pavel Polyan
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
Journey Back to Youth, a 2001 documentary film
Nemmersdorf massacre of 21 October 1944, in Kaliningrad Oblast
Soviet war crimes from 1919 onward

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Cynthia J. Becker

Cynthia Becker Mello (born February 26, 1957) is a former Georgia Superior Court Judge on the DeKalb Superior Court, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, from 2000 until March 1, 2015. She presided over several high-profile cases, including the criminal trial of former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and the release of exonerated Clarence Harrison.

Career
DeKalb County Drug Court, Tracks 1 & 2 - Presiding Judge
Judge of DeKalb County Superior Court (August 2000 – March 2015)
Trial lawyer and partner for Chambers, Mabry (1988 – 2000)

Education
University of Central Florida, Bachelor's degree in Finance
1987- Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University College of Law

Controversy
Becker announced her resignation from the DeKalb County Superior Court in November, 2014, citing her engagement to be married, under the cloud of an Georgia Judicial Qualification Commission investigation into her handling of a case where she rejected a witness' testimony in a public corruption case.

In August, 2015, a Cobb County, Georgia grand jury indicted Becker on charges that she lied to the state judicial watchdog agency about her handling of that case. The charges were dismissed a few days later and the prosecutor was scolded for seeking the indictment.

Acclamations
Master, Bleckley Inn of Court, Georgia State University College of Law
Board of Visitors, GSU College of Law
2006 Member of Judicial Workload Assessment Committee and was appointed by Chief Justice Sears
Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia - Treatment and Accountability Courts Committee and has also chaired on Public Outreach; Court Security  for the 4th Judicial Administrative District, Pattern Jury Instruction Committee, Uniform Rules Committee, the Executive Planning Team, and Special Committee on Other Courts
2007 Transition into Law Practice Program Mentor
Judicial Outreach - “Challenges of Being a Single Parent”; Mock Trials for elementary and middle school students
Frequent Presenter at professional seminars for Judges, Lawyers, and other legal professionals focusing on: legal ethics, professionalism and implementation and expansion of Accountability and Treatment Courts
2006 Named Law Dragon as one of the leading Judges in the Country
2005 Decatur Rotary Past President, former Vice President of DeKalb Library Foundation, Class of Leadership DeKalb; member of the Southern Center for International Studies
Professional Affiliations  include: DeKalb Bar Association, DeKalb Lawyers’ Association, Atlanta Bar Association - Judicial Section, President Elect, the Georgia Bar Association, the American Bar Association - Judicial Branch, and the National Association of Women Judges

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Fitness fashion

While fitness is defined as  and fashion is a  strictly correlated with the wish of appearing as a well-accepted member of contemporary society,
fitness fashion is the result of a trend that consists in combining physical activities and health lifestyles with the interest and use of sportswear fashion.

The ritual (dress code)

There is a connection between sportswear and self-affirmation, that exists because of the care for fashion. The action of buying sportswear is led to the feel of being part of a community, assessing its rules and culture. People get involved in a process in which the major aim is to appear.
With regard to fitness fashion, the ritual is a ceremony which consists in the activities that take place in a fitness centre or in a gym and which are the acts of undressing, dressing, exercising, undressing, showering, grooming and dressing again.  This ritual also implies a psychological dimension in which the individual is involved in a process of self-affirmation. What people want to wear is limited by a pre-existing, yet always evolving, ideal, which is the image of fashion itself.

Changing rooms, usually situated in the most internal part of the gym, represent the connection between the outside world and the world of fitness, because  While the exercise places are usually filled with information such as posters and images of fit bodies, changing rooms are always unadorned, since they represent

Also sportswear has become part of the ritual. Being fit is not just exercising and eating well but also wearing fashionable clothes and showing it also through social media. Clothing comfort is defined by Lauren Slater (1985) as

Symbolic meanings
As a matter of fact, fitness fashion requires people to identify with a model. People start buying the same sportswear of the chosen icon they want to imitate, and then chose to act like him/her.
Sportswear is strictly correlated with fashion not only because of a trend, but also for the so-called social learning theory, which
It is also for this reason that Nike and other retailers specialized in sportswear are experiencing an increase in profits (Nike saw an increase of 8 million dollars capital in just three months, that is a 15% more than 2014's revenue, when the soccer World Cup took place).
  In this view, fit people are sexier and happier than non-fit people, they are well-accepted from society as successful persons and in this way they are taken as models, influencing a large part of the social media audience.
Since  fitness fashion icons wear expensive and colorful sportswear (which represents the most visible part of the message, acting as the main instrument of the symbolic meaning delivering), and also show how happy and self-confident they are in it. Furthermore, fitness influencers are showing lifestyles that involve health-care and appearance-care as well, especially through social media.

Social Media
Even the most important sportswear companies are involved in social media campaigns, first of all Nike, that give the possibility to their Nike+ app users to share on Instagram their fitness achievements and progress. In fact, the app has been downloaded over 17 millions of times from all over the world users.

Social learning theory suggests that females learn stereotypes and expectations through observing images through the media. Since social media are the most used instrument for information resources and connection among people, everyone can easily find a new inspiration through them. Every fitness influencer uses social media because of the direct contact with fans that the web offers. Sharing fitness goals and motivation is now a spread phenomenon that people begin to appreciate and concur. It follows that a simple photo on a social media becomes easily a form of advertisement, because who posted it wanted to promote his/her lifestyle, that is represented in a direct way from the sportswear he/she is wearing.

Gender

On the other hand,
Society and media emphasize athletic women's physical appearance and sexual attractiveness, through representing them as women first and athletes second. Thus, the feminine athletic ideal consists of an attractive appearance, thin body, and sexual appeal, which is conveyed also through clothing: women sportswear must fit snugly, but, most important must be sheath, exaggerating the female shape. In health/fitness magazines are included four stereotypes for masculinity: physical action, power, stance, and muscles. While for female it included three stereotypes: thin ideal, glistening/"wet" look, and feminine face. Thus, the health/fitness magazines tended to used the masculine and feminine ideals through stereotypes more than fashion magazines. Thus, who practice health-fitness tend to be less dressed or used close-fitting with the intention to emphasize the appeal.

See also
Bikini as sportswear
Sportswear (fashion)
Sportswear (activewear)
Athleisure
Fitness
Fitness culture
Sport culture
Sociology of the body
Physical culture
Quantified Self
Sociology of Sport
Underwear as outerwear
Professional fitness coach

References

Further reading
Roberta Sassatelli, Consumer Culture, History, Theory and Politics, Sage Publications, 2007.
Roberta Sassatelli, Indigo Bodies: Fashion, mirror work and sexual identity in Milan, in Global Denims, D. Miller and S. Woodward, Eds., Berg., 2011.
Vicky Lynn Skorich,The winning line: the rise of American sports as fashion 1945-1960, thesis, Minnesota university, 1997.
Jennifer Beryl Smith, Bodies fit for consumption: the cultural production of the fitness field, thesis, New York University, 2002.
Patricia Campbell Warner, Clothing the American woman for sport and physical education, 1860 to 1940: public and private, Minnesota University, 1986.

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Mand Sardar Sahibwala

Mand Sardar Sahibwala  is a village in Bhulath Tehsil in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located  from Bhulath,  away from district headquarter Kapurthala.  The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India).

References

List of cities near the village
Bhulath
Kapurthala
Phagwara
Sultanpur Lodhi

Air travel connectivity
The closest International airport to the village is Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport.

External links
 Villages in Kapurthala
 List of Villages in Kapurthala Tehsil

Category:Villages in Kapurthala district


Mérona

Mérona is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Population

Politics

Presidential Elections Second Round:

See also
Communes of the Jura department

References
 INSEE statistics

Category:Communes of Jura (department)


Shinta Fukushima

is a Japanese football player. He plays for Verspah Oita.

Club statistics

References

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Fucosidosis

Fucosidosis is a rare lysosomal storage disorder in which the FUCA1 gene experiences mutations that severely reduce or stop the activity of the alpha-L-fucosidase enzyme.  The result is a buildup of complex sugars in parts of the body, which leads to death.
Fucosidosis is one of nine identified glycoprotein storage diseases. The gene encoding the alpha-fucosidase, FUCA 1, was found to be located to the short arm of chromosome 1p36 - p34, by Carrit and co-workers, in 1982.

Cause
Fucosidosis is an autosomal recessive disorder that affects many areas of the body. Mutations in the FUCA1 gene causes fucosidosis. The FUCA1 gene provides instructions for making an enzyme called alpha-L-fucosidase. The enzyme plays a role in the breakdown of complex sugars in the body. The disorder is characterized by lysosomal accumulation of a variety of glycoproteins, glycolipids, and oligosaccharides that contain fucose moieties. The deficiency of the enzyme alpha-L-fucosidase, which is used to metabolize complex compounds in the body (fucose-containing glycolipids and fucose-containing glycoproteins). With the lack of this enzyme activity, the result is incomplete breakdown of glycolipids and glycoproteins. These partially broken down compounds accumulate in various parts of the body and begin to cause malfunction in cells,  and can eventually cause cell death. Brain cells are especially sensitive to this buildup. Other results are progressive neurological deterioration, skin abnormalities, growth retardation, skeletal disease, and coarsening of facial features. Fucosidosis is the consequence of faulty degradation of both sphingolipids and polysaccharides. Major accumulation of the H-antigen (a member of the ABO blood group antigens), a glycolipid, is seen primarily in the liver of fucosidosis patients.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis: A special urine test is available to check for any partially broken-down-sugars. If they are present, a skin or blood sample will be taken to test for below-normal amounts of alpha-fucosidase.

- Fucosidosis is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means that both parents have to have the mutation and pass it on to the child. When both parents have the mutation, there is a 25% chance of each child having fucosidosis.

Type 1
Type 1 usually begins somewhere in the first three to 18 months of age and in considered the most severe of the three types. Symptoms include:

 Coarse facial features
 Enlarged liver, spleen, and/or heart
 Intellectual disability
 Seizures
 Abnormal bone formation of many bones
 Progressive deterioration of brain and spinal cord
 Increased or decreased perspiration

Patients have no vascular lesions, but have rapid psychomotor regression, severe and rapidly progressing neurologic signs, elevated sodium and chloride excretion in the sweat, and fatal outcome before the sixth year.

Type 2
Type 2 appears when a child is around 18 months of age and in considered milder than Type 1 but still severe. Symptoms include:
 Symptoms similar to Type 1 but milder and progress more slowly.

Type 3
Type 3 appears around 1–2 years of age and is considered mild.

Treatment
Treatment: There is no treatment or way to reverse the disease. Treatment will focus on the symptoms an individual has, such as seizure medication.

 It is possible that if an individual receives a bone marrow transplant, they could receive healthy bone marrow cells which would produce normal amounts of fucosidase. But there not is enough research to prove this is an effective treatment.

History
Fucosidosis is an extremely rare disorder first described in 1962 in two Italian siblings who showed progressive intellectual disability and neurological deterioration. The disease itself is extremely rare (less than 100 documented cases) only affecting 1:2,000,000, with most cases being occurring in Italy, Cuba, and the southwest U.S. The disease has three different types. Type 1 and 2 are considered severe, and Type 3 being a mild disease. Symptoms are highly variable with mild cases being able to live to within the third or fourth decade. Type 1 and 2 are both linked with mental retardation. Severe cases can develop life-threatening complications early in childhood.
Because the major accumulating glycoconjugate in fucosidosis patients is the blood group H-antigen, it is intriguing to speculate, but the evidence is not clear at this time, that blood type may affect the course of the disease.

Other forms
Canine fucosidosis is found in the English Springer Spaniel.

Typically affecting dogs between 18 months and four years, symptoms include:
 Loss of learned behavior
 Change in temperament
 Blindness
 Loss of balance
 Deafness
 Weight loss
 From the onset, disease progress is quick and fatal.
Just like the human version, canine fucosidosis is a recessive disorder and two copies of the gene must be present, one from each parent, in order to show symptoms of the disease.

See also
 Sialidosis

References

External links

 http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases/byID/1095/viewAbstract - Rare diseases.org

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