Voskreseniye

For the religious movement, see Voskresenie. For the film, see Resurrection (1960 film).

Voskreseniye () is a Russian rock band.

History
The band was formed in 1979, when drummer Sergey Kavagoe decided to leave Mashina Vremeni and form his own group. Kavagoe was joined by Mashina Vremeni's bassist, Evgeny Margulis. Alexey Romanov became the group's leader and songwriter, and Alexey Makarevich joined as guitarist. During this period the band released the successful albums Voskreseniye 1 () and Voskreseniye 2 (). In 1980, Margulis left the group, after being invited to join the group Araks, and Konstantin Nikolsky, Andrey Sapunov, and Mikhail Shevyakov joined the line-up. In August 1982, Romanov and the group's sound engineer, Alexander Arutyunov, were arrested and charged with private entrepreneurial activity. The band went on a hiatus from 1982 to 1994, and former members played in several other groups.

Romanov, Sapunov, Nikolsky, and Shevyakov reunited in 1989 to play at the Druzhba arena in a concert celebrating the group's tenth anniversary. The group officially reformed in 1994, performing on March 12 with a line-up of Romanov, Sapunov, Nikolsky, and Shevyakov, with Nikolsky serving as the group's leader. Nikolsky left the group shortly afterwards, due to creative differences, and Romanov asked Margulis to rejoin. Voskreseniye performed its first concert with this new line-up in St. Petersburg on May 1, sharing the bill with Cruise. In 2001, they released a new album, called Vse Snachala (), which contained re-recordings of old songs. In 2003, the band released a new album with new songs called Ne Toropyas ().

Members

Current members

 Alexey Romanov –  lead vocals, guitar (1979-1982, 1994–present)
 Alexey Korobkov –  drums (2003–present)
 Yuri Smolyakov –  keyboards, backing vocals (2016–present)
 Sergey Timofeev –  bass (2017–present)

Former members

 Andrey Sapunov – vocals, guitar, bass (1979-1982, 1994-2016)
 Evgeny Margulis – vocals, bass, guitar (1979, 1980, 1994-2003)
 Alexey Makarevich – guitar (1979-1980, 1994; died 2014)
 Sergey Kawagoe – drums, keyboards (1979-1980; died 2008)
 Sergey Kuzminok – trumpet (1980)
 Pavel Smeyan – saxophone (1980; died 2009)
 Alik Mikoyan – guitar (1980)
 Konstantin Nikolsky – vocals, guitar (1980-1982, 1994)
 Mikhail Shevyakov – drums (1980-1982, 1994-2003)
 Dmitry Leontiev – bass (2008-2017)

Discography

Studio albums

 1979-1980 – Voskreseniye 1 ()
 1981 – Voskreseniye 2 ()
 2001 – Vse Snachala ()
 2003 –  Ne Toropyas ()

Live Albums

 1989 –  Anniversary Concert "10 Years of Voskreseniye" ()
 1994 – Concert. DK Mekhtekh () (recording of 1982 show)
 1995 –  My vas lyubim () (recording of June 16, 1994 show)
 1995 – Zhiveye vsekh zhivykh () (recording of March 28, 1995 show)
 1998 – Zhivaya kollektsiya () (recording of television concert)
 2000 – 50 na dvoikh () (recording of joint concert with Mashina Vremeni in Moscow's Olympic Stadium)
 2003 – Ne Toropyas Live ()
 2005 – Posmotri, kak ya zhivu ()
 2005 – Ya privyk brodit' odin  ()

Compilations

1996 – Legends of Russian Rock vol 1
2002 – Legends of Russian Rock vol 2
2005 – Grand Collection
2009 –The Best
2010 –The Best songs

References

External links
 Official site (Russian)
 Fan-club (Russian)
 Another fan-site (Russian)
 History of the band on another web-site (Russian)

Category:Musical groups from Moscow
Category:Russian rock music groups
Category:Musical groups established in 1979
Category:Soviet rock music groups


Mor (surname)

Mor or Mór is a surname which may refer to:

 Alexandra Mor, American jewllery designer
 Antonis Mor (c. 1517–1577), Netherlandish portrait painter
 Caiseal Mór, Australian fantasy novelist
 Eduard Mor (born 1977), Russian footballer
 Emre Mor (born 1997), Turkish footballer
 Lior Mor (born 1976), Israeli tennis player
 Rina Mor (born 1956), Israeli model and Miss Universe


Antoine Gizenga

Antoine Gizenga (5 October 1925 – 24 February 2019) was a Congolese (DRC) politician who was the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 30 December 2006 to 10 October 2008. He was the Secretary-General of the Unified Lumumbist Party (Parti Lumumbiste Unifié, PALU).

Early life
Antoine Gizenga was born on 5 October 1925 in the small village of Mbanze in present day Kwilu province in what was then the Belgian Congo. He attended a Catholic missionary primary school and received his secondary education at the Kinzambi and Mayidi seminaries. He became an ordained Catholic priest in 1947 and led a parish out of his home in Kwilu. He left his position for personal reasons and took several clerical and accounting jobs. After briefly serving in law enforcement for the colonial government, Gizenga became a teacher at a secondary Catholic school. He soon thereafter married Anne Mbuba, with whom he later had four children.

Early political career
Inspired by the nationalist and Pan-Africanist ideas of Patrice Lumumba, the co-founder of the Mouvement National Congolais, Gizenga helped to organize the Parti Solidaire Africain (which was openly left leaning). He later became the leader of the party. Following independence and free elections in 1960, Gizenga became Lumumba's deputy prime minister of the new Republic of the Congo.

In September, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu dismissed Lumumba and Gizenga from their positions for the former's decision to involve the Soviet Union in the Congo Crisis. Lumumba protested, and the government went into a deadlock over the issue. A coup launched shortly thereafter by Colonel Joseph Mobutu politically incapacitated both Lumumba and the President, though Mobutu soon developed a working relationship with the latter. Gizenga objected to the new government and left for Stanleyville on 13 November to form his own. On 12 December, he declared his government, the Free Republic of the Congo, to be the legitimate ruling authority in the Congo. Lumumba had attempted to join him, but was arrested and eventually executed in the State of Katanga in January 1961. Gizenga's government persisted for half the year and garnered diplomatic recognition from the Soviet Union, China, and Egypt, though it received no logistical support.

In August, Gizenga agreed to rejoin the regular Congolese government as deputy prime minister, now under the leadership of Cyrille Adoula. Aside from his reinstatement ceremony, he chose to stay out of Léopoldville and remained in Stanleyville. Gizenga soon realized that Adoula was under the influence of Western governments and willing to negotiate with rebel leader Moise Tshombe. He denounced Adoula and declared that the government was committing treason.

In January 1962 the Congolese Assembly demanded that Gizenga return to Léopoldville to hear charges levied against him for leading a rebel government. He replied that he would only come back when the Katangan secession was resolved. Gizenga then attempted to arrest Armée Nationale Congolaise Commander-in-Chief Victor Lundula and a UN official, both of whom were in Stanleyville to investigate the Kindu atrocity. The plan backfired when Gizenga's militiamen refused to obey his orders. Clashes between his regular supporters and Congolese soldiers ensued, resulting in several deaths. United Nations Secretary General U Thant ordered peacekeeping troops to restore order in Stanleyville, while Adoula had Gizenga placed under house arrest by UN and Congolese troops. He was flown back to Léopoldville via UN aircraft and detained at Camp Kokolo.

Gizenga turned down an offer of UN protection and was eventually imprisoned on the island Bula Mbemba which lies in the mouth of the Congo River. In July 1964 Tshombe became prime minister and, as part of an attempted political reconciliation, ordered Gizenga's release. In spite of this, Gizenga quickly organised a Lumumbist party and denounced Tshombe's handling of the Simba rebellion. As a result, Gizenga was placed under house arrest in September. Mobutu seized power in a coup in November 1965, thereby freeing Gizenga. He fled to Congo-Brazzaville, though he soon settled in Moscow to pursue a doctorate in political science.

Over the next couple of years Gizenga traveled to Egypt, Guinea, Mali, and Ghana to solicit support for the fractured and crumbling anti-Mobutu movement. In 1973 he briefly joined Laurent-Désiré Kabila's pro-China rebel group in eastern Zaire (as The Congo was then called), thereby losing Soviet support. He then moved to France, but was deported to Algeria. After briefly living in Angola, he returned to the Republic of the Congo before finally settling in Canada. Mobutu invited him to return to Zaire in 1977 to serve as a figurehead for opposition groups, but Gizenga declined.

Later political career
Mobutu began democratizing Zaire in 1990, allowing Gizenga to return to the country. By 1993, he had consolidated Lumumbist organizations into the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (PALU). The party had very few members, but Gizenga gained respect for his history of opposing Mobutu. He supported Laurent-Désiré Kabila's seizure of power in 1997, which resulted in the country's name being changed back to The Congo. The following year his house was ransacked by police and several PALU demonstrators were shot, and he subsequently opposed Kabila's leadership.

Gizenga ran as the presidential candidate of PALU in the July 2006 election. According to the provisional election results of 20 August, he came in third place with 13.06 percent of the vote, after Joseph Kabila (Laurent-Désiré's son) and Jean-Pierre Bemba. On 30 September 2006, Gizenga signed a coalition agreement with the AMP, Kabila's platform, whereby he would back Kabila in the second round of the presidential election in October 2006, in exchange for the premiership. Kabila won the election and was sworn in as President on 6 December 2006. He subsequently appointed Gizenga as Informant, a position that involves identifying a parliamentary majority so that a government can be formed, and then appointed Gizenga as Prime Minister on 30 December 2006. Gizenga's new government, with 59 members (excluding himself), was appointed and announced on 5 February 2007. A new government under Gizenga was announced on 25 November 2007, with its size reduced to 44 ministers.

Gizenga delegated his duties as Secretary-General of PALU to Remy Mayele on 14 September 2007.

On 25 September 2008, Gizenga submitted his resignation as Prime Minister to Kabila. Later in the day he announced this on television, saying that he decided to resign due to his advanced age. According to Gizenga, he felt unable to continue in office: "For every man, even if you are sane and alert, your body has limits which you have to recognise". He had not received a response from Kabila at that point. Reacting to the news, the opposition Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) said that Gizenga's "resignation constitutes an admission of failure and negligence from a government which, after nearly two years, left the country in a general state of crisis". The MLC disputed Gizenga's statement that his resignation was related to age and health. Kabila reportedly "officially acknowledged" Gizenga's resignation in a letter sent to Gizenga on 28 September. The governing coalition, the Alliance for the Presidential Majority, remained in place after Gizenga's resignation, and negotiations were held regarding the selection of a successor to Gizenga.

His successor, Adolphe Muzito, was appointed by Kabila on 10 October 2008; Muzito is also a member of PALU and was Minister of the Budget in Gizenga's government. Gizenga promptly resumed his duties as Secretary-General of PALU on 13 October 2008, 13 months after delegating them to Remy Mayele.

On 30 June 2009, it was announced that Kabila had designated Gizenga as a National Hero, the DRC's highest honor. His admission to the Order of National Heroes made him its only living member and entitled him to a "monthly payment equivalent to the earnings of a prime minister, a residence, a garage with six vehicles, a guard including 12 members of the national police".

Death
In February 2019 Gizenga was hospitalized at the Centre Médical de Kinshasa. He died there on 24 February at the age of 93.

See also
 Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 List of Prime ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Antoine Gizenga cabinet

Citations

References

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Category:People from Kwilu Province
Category:Unified Lumumbist Party politicians
Category:Candidates for President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Deputy Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:African pan-Africanists
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo rebels
Category:People of the Congo Crisis
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo exiles
Category:Lumumba Government members


Catocala kusnezovi

Catocala kusnezovi is a moth in the family Erebidae first described by Rudolf Püngeler in 1914. It is found in Kazakhstan and Xinjiang, China.

References

Category:Catocala
Category:Moths described in 1914
Category:Moths of Asia


USS Compel (AM-162)

USS Compel (AM-162) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean. Post-war, she returned home proudly with one battle star to her credit.

She was launched January 1943 by Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon; and commissioned 8 April 1944, Lieutenant F. N. Egelhoff, USNR, in command.

World War II Pacific Ocean operations
Compel sailed from San Francisco, California, 22 June 1944 as escort for a tug group which arrived in Pearl Harbor 3 July. Continuing on to Majuro, Compel joined  off Kwajalein 25 July to escort the carrier to Pearl Harbor. Compel swept mines off French Frigate Shoals from 6 August to 15 August, then escorted a convoy to Eniwetok, arriving 5 September to assume antisubmarine patrol.

From 24 October 1944 until the end of the war Compel operated at Eniwetok, Ulithi, the Palaus, Saipan, Guam, and Majuro. She acted as convoy escort, minesweeper, harbor entrance control vessel, and experimental ship for minesweeping equipment. She sailed to Manus between 10 November and 12 November 1944 to deliver blood plasma to the men injured by the explosion of . Taking departure from Saipan 29 August 1945 Compel sailed via Okinawa to clear the approaches to Wakayama, Japan, of mines. Moving to Nagoya for similar duty, she served there until 20 November when she sailed for San Francisco, California, arriving 16 December.

Postwar decommissioning
She was placed out of commission in reserve at San Diego, California, 12 June 1946. Compel was reclassified MSF-162, 7 February 1955. She was sold on 26 August 1960.

Awards
Compel was awarded one battle star for World War II service.

See also
 Patrol boat
 Minelayer

References

External links
 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
 NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Compel (MSF 162) - ex-AM-162 - ex-AMc-139

Category:Admirable-class minesweepers
Category:World War II mine warfare vessels of the United States
Category:Ships built in Portland, Oregon
Category:1943 ships


Edward Burke (basketball)

Edward J. "Eddie" Burke (December 4, 1945 – March 23, 2009) was an American college basketball coach who led the Drexel Dragons men's basketball program from 1977–1991.

Early life and high school
Burke was born in 1945, the fourth of five children. He liked to remark that he was the only one of his siblings that did not enter the religious life. He attended St. Joseph's Prep, where he played point guard on their high school basketball team. With NBA player Matt Guokas, Burke was a part of the 1962 Philadelphia Catholic League championship team as a junior. The team lost to West Philadelphia High School 61–52 in the city title game. As a senior, Burke led the entire Catholic League in scoring.

College
Burke played for La Salle University from 1963 to 1967. A large knee injury ended his playing career in his senior season.

Early coaching career
After Burke graduated from La Salle, he earned a job as freshman coach at his alma mater, St. Joseph's Prep. He was soon promoted to head coach, and won the 1971 Catholic League Championship. Phil Martelli, current coach of St. Joseph's, was a member of that team, and said that Burke "made coaching personal. It was about you as a person. He used a lot of humor. He made you want to practice, and he made you want to play." The following year, Burke coached St. Thomas More High School to a Catholic League title, winning the Catholic League Coach of the Year honors for the second straight season. He is the only coach to accomplish this feat at two different high schools. St. Thomas More closed in 1975, and Burke came to Bishop McDevitt and West Catholic for one year each.

Drexel
Drexel hired Burke as their new head coach in 1977. His top assistants for a few years in the 1980s were Villanova coach Jay Wright and former Bucknell coach Pat Flannery. His best season was in 1985–86, when his Dragons, led by Michael Anderson, won 19 games and defeated Hofstra in the East Coast Conference title game to earn a bid to the school's first NCAA Tournament. Drexel received a 15 seed, and lost to eventual national champion Louisville 93–73 in the first round. Following the season, he was named East Coast Conference Coach of the Year and Michael Anderson became the first Drexel player to make the NBA. In 1987, he coached the Dragons to an upset over the David Robinson-led Navy Midshipmen at the Palestra.

Burke was released by Drexel on March 8, 1991 after finishing the year 12–16, the third consecutive losing season. According to Richard E. Woodring, the Drexel vice president for student life, Drexel wanted to head in a "new direction" as the school moved to the North Atlantic Conference in 1991–92. He was replaced by George Washington assistant Bill Herrion. In Burke's 14 seasons, he compiled a record of 205–189. His 205 victories are the second most of any Drexel coach.

Later life
After his stint at Drexel, Burke returned to coaching St. Joseph's Prep, where he coached from 1992 to 1999. In 1999, he became the school's director of alumni relations and held the post until 2004. Upon retiring, he began to redo his family's restaurant, Burke's Inn, in Havertown, Pennsylvania. He added to the menu and turned the tavern into a sports bar.

Death
In 2009, Burke was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was about to receive treatment when he died on March 23 in Havertown at the age of 63. He was survived by his wife, Bette Ann; his children, Melissa, Maureen, and Brendan; and
two grandchildren. Burke was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon.

Career coaching record
The career coaching record of Edward J. Burke is as follows:

References

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Category:American men's basketball players
Category:Basketball coaches from Pennsylvania
Category:Basketball players from Pennsylvania
Category:College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Category:Drexel Dragons men's basketball coaches
Category:High school basketball coaches in Pennsylvania
Category:La Salle Explorers men's basketball players
Category:Point guards
Category:Sportspeople from Philadelphia


2015 in Finnish music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2015 in Finnish music.

Events

January

February
 7 - The Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2015 Semi-finals was initiated February 7. The next two semi-finals is executed February 14 and 21.
 28 - The Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2015 Final was executed on February 28.

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October
 29 - The Tampere Jazz Happening opened (October 29 - November 1).

November

December

Album and Singles releases

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths
November
 23 – Jouni Kaipainen (58), Finnish composer.

See also
Music of Finland
Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015

References

Category:Finnish music
Finnish


Helena Sampaio

Helena Sampaio (born 9 October 1973 in Pedreira) is a Portuguese runner, who specialized in cross-country running.

Achievements

Personal bests
10,000 metres - 31:43.22 min (1999)
Half marathon - 1:10:15 hrs (2000)
Marathon - 2:28:06 hrs (2003)

External links

The World Cross Country Championships 1973-2005

Category:1973 births
Category:Living people
Category:Portuguese female long-distance runners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes of Portugal
Category:Portuguese female marathon runners


Fort of Exilles

The Exilles Fort (Italian: Forte di Exilles) is a fortified complex in the Susa Valley, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, northern Italy. Together with the nearby Fort of Fenestrelle and the Forte Albertino (at Vinadio, in the province of Cuneo) it was part of the defensive line between the House of Savoy lands (later of the Kingdom of Italy) and France: both these states held it in different phases depending on the outcome of the various wars. It is located on a spur commanding one of the narrowest sections of the Susa Valley, along the main road connecting Turin to France.

History
The first mention of a fortified structure in the place dates from the 7th century, when a chronicler of the Abbey of Novalesa wrote of a fortification on the spur overlooking Exilles, perhaps destroyed by the Franks. Starting from 1155, the fort was held by the Bermond family of Besançon, counts of Albon, who owned the road passing near it and leading to the Monginevro Pass.

The first description of the castle dates from 1339: it had a quadrangular plan with more towers, quite different from the massive structure visible today. Between 1494-1496 it was used as an ammunition depot by Charles VIII of France, who enlarged the main entrance and enrolled peasants of the area to defend it. In the 16th century it was further reinforced with more towers under Charles II of Savoy. In 1541 it was again under French rule, though, according to the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), it was reacquired by Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy. In 1591 it was recaptured by the French after a short siege, but two years later Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy took it back and strengthened it, in particular on the side facing the upper Susa Valley.

In 1595, after a month-long siege, it was again in French hands. The Savoyards would receive it back only in 1708, after the War of the Spanish Succession. In this century the French strongly rebuilt the fort. In 1720 the Piedmontese revised it under the direction of military engineer Ignazio Bertola. In 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French attacked the fort, but were pushed back.

When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy in the early 19th century, the fort was demolished. It was rebuilt in 1818-1829, updating the pre-existing architecture to more modern military concepts. The fort belonged to the Italian Army until 1943, after which it was abandoned.  In 1978 the Piedmontese Regional Authority acquired it and launched a restoration program. The fort was opened to the public in 2000, housing the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (National Mountain Museum) and occasional exhibitions.

See also
Man in the Iron Mask

References

Sources

External links
Official website

Category:Castles in Piedmont
Category:Museums in Piedmont
Category:Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan City of Turin
Category:Metropolitan City of Turin


Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory is a non-fiction book first published in 1982 by the historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932 - 2009) — a professor of Jewish history at Columbia University.  It consists of four lectures that Yerushalmi gave as part of the 1980 series of "Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies", now known as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Harold Bloom wrote the foreword for the publication. The title, Zakhor, is the Hebrew word for remember. The New Yorker described the book as "one of the most influential works on Jewish history" since the 1950s.

Contents
According to 2019 The New Yorker article, Yerushalmi's central argument is that modern Jewish historiography rejects the "premises that were basic to all Jewish conceptions of history in the past.” "Remember" is a "command delivered many times in the Bible, and it is possible to see Judaism itself as a technology of memory, a set of practices designed to make the past present". Yerashalmi wrote that, while many Jews in the 1980s were in search of a past, "they do not want the past that is offered by the historian." These Jews, Yeralshalmi adds, must turn to "literature and ideology".

Zakhor was described in a New York Times 2009 article as a "slim volume", "barely 100 pages", "whose title bore the Hebrew imperative "Remember!". At the time of its publication, 1982, Yerushalmi was the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University, a position he held from 1980 to 2008.

In Zakhor, Yerushalmi, who "briefly led a congregation in Larchmont" as an ordained rabbi, explored the Biblical and rabbinic foundations of zakhor. He discussed the difference between history and memory, and the writing of history, the Middle Ages—vessels and vehicles of Jewish memory, the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain, and modern dilemmas related to Jewish historiography. The Postscript is a reflection on forgetting.

It was only in the sixteenth century that Jewish people began to write their history, so modern Jewish historiography is a "foreign, borrowed element in Jewish culture," and its rise, according to Yerushalmi, coincided with a "decay in Jewish memory."

Raphael Patai says that in the conclusion of his book, Yerushalmi predicts that Jewish history—with modern Jewish historical research dating from the 1880s—will never replace Jewish memory and there will be a time when a "new consciousness will prevail that will wonder whey so many of us were immersed in history."

Reviews
In the December 2009 obituary entitled "Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Scholar of Jewish History", Joseph Berger described Zakhor as an "examination of the conflict between the collective stories that invigorate Judaism as a culture and the verifiable chronicle of history itself."

In his 1983 article in The American Historical Review, Raphael Patai described it as a "remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment - and tradition - of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history". Patai wrote that, Zakhor is an "ancient and important "biblical injunction", to remember. During their 2000-year-long dispersion the Jewish people were kept alive by observing Zakhor. A New York Times 1984 book review by Leon Wieseltier, the author of Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace, said that Yerushalmi was "one of the Jewish community's most important historians". Zakhor established "him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is "historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship." "In his 2011 New Yorker review of Yeralshalmi's only fiction, a short story entitled "Gilgul", Nathaniel Stein wrote that the book was arguably [Yerushalmi's] most famous". In it he "meditates" on the "concept of Jewish history"—"unraveling a tangle of paradoxes surrounding memory and history in Judaism".

Awards
1983: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category

Notes

References

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Category:History books about Jews and Judaism
Category:Books about historiography


Innes Sibun

Innes Sibun (born 1968) is a British blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eleven albums to date. His most recent was Blues Transfusion (2015).

One music journalist noted "Sibun’s name has yet to gain the star power of other prominent guitarists marching blues into the 21st century, but his credentials are eye-popping nevertheless. Aside from playing in Robert Plant’s band, Sibun has opened for some of rock’s most influential guitarists, including Johnny Winter, Taj Mahal, and Peter Green".

Life and career
Innes Sibun was born in Bath, Somerset, England. At the age of 12, Sibun heard a piece of music by B.B. King which inspired him to learn the rudiments of playing the guitar. In his teens he performed in a number of groups, playing a mixture of musical styles including punk rock, reggae, folk and jazz. By 1991, his then most recent outfit, named the Innes Sibun Blues Explosion, recorded an album, That's What The Blues Can Do.  It was produced by Mike Vernon.  It was voted the best blues album in Ireland the same year.  The success led to the band touring, both in the UK and across Europe.  They variously toured with George "Wild Child" Butler, Jay Owens and Johnny Adams, as well as opening up for Joe Louis Walker, Ronnie Earl, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Walter Trout, The Blues Band, Boy George, and Nine Below Zero.  The band later split up.

In 1993, Sibun was invited to take part in Robert Plant's backing band for Plant's tour following the release of his Fate of Nations album. They toured in the US, Europe and South America, allowing Sibun the opportunities to met and play alongside blues musicians including Buddy Guy,  James Cotton, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, and Chris Duarte. Sibun's guitar work appeared on Plant's Sixty Six to Timbuktu and Nine Lives compilation albums.

Following that tour, Sibun recorded Superstitious (1995) and Honey Pot (1996), having assembled a new backing unit.  Promotional tours that followed saw Sibun open for Peter Green in New York, in addition to touring Europe with Roger Chapman and Chris Farlowe. Two more albums appeared on Provogue Records, followed by East Monroe on Ulftone Music in 2002. Prior to this in 1999, Sibun played on "It's a Fascinating World", the opening track on the  Something for the Weekend album by Stackridge.

In 2004, Sibun assembled a new band who played at a number of venues and music festivals before recording Farmhouse Blues (2005).  This was followed by Tail Dragger, released by ZYX Music in 2007.  His most successful recording to date, Tail Dragger peaked at number 6 in the German blues chart.  The following year, shows in Europe included supporting Johnny Winter, Taj Mahal, Steve Cropper and Al Kooper, then an appearance at Bluesfest Windsor in Ontario, Canada. In 2010, Sibun changed pace, self-releasing his acoustic recording, Snake Wine.

Can't Slow Down : Live at the Estrado was issued on ZYX Music in 2012, and Sibun and his band played at the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, Ireland, by request of Rory's brother, Donal Gallagher. They also performed at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, to celebrate the release of Gallagher's posthumous  Notes from San Francisco album.

Lost in the Wilderness (2013), was recorded in England with Steve Hall (bass guitar), Kevin O’Rourke (drums), and Jon Buckett (keyboards) complementing Sibun's vocals, guitar and production work. The only cover version on Lost in the Wilderness was of Otis Rush's 1958 track, "Double Trouble."

Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass both had a jazz based influence on Sibun, and he used this to effect on Sari Schorr and The Engine Room's 2016 album, A Force Of Nature.

Discography

Albums

See also
List of British blues musicians

References

External links

Magazine interview

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Category:Living people
Category:British blues singers
Category:British blues guitarists
Category:British songwriters
Category:Musicians from Bath, Somerset


Live in Hellvetia

Live in Hellvetia is the first live DVD by the German power metal band Freedom Call. It was released on 20 May 2011 by SPV. The album was recorded on 29 December 2010 in Z7 Pratteln, Switzerland

Track list

Info
Picture: 16:9
Sound: 5.1 / 2.0
Subtitles: English
Format: NTSC
DVD Production by RCNTV
Director: Martin Müller
Crane Camera @ DOP: Eddi Bachmann
Dolly Camera: Mirko Schweigert
Dolly Pusher: Barbara "Babsi" Streit
Camera: Jochen Trauter, Markus Kreuz, Armin Becher, Tommy Raab
Additional Video Footage: Lucas Fuchs
Edit Bonus Stuff: Armin Becher
Video Edit Concert, Compositing, Authoring & Encoding: Katrin Weigmann

Credits
Chris Bay – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Lars Rettkowitz – guitar, backing vocals
Samy Saemann – bass, backing vocals
Klaus Sperling – drums, fireworks

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Thor Munkager

Thor Munkager (31 March 1951 in Copenhagen – 4 December 2017) was a Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He played his club handball with Helsingør IF, playing alongside Torben Winther. In 1972 he was part of the Denmark national handball team which finished thirteenth in the Olympic tournament. He played two matches and scored four goals. Four years later he finished eighth with the Danish team in the 1976 Olympic tournament. He played four matches.

He was the assistant coach of the Danish national team under head coach Torben Winther.

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Zhang Shuai (footballer, born 1993)

Zhang Shuai (Chinese: 张帅; born 15 January 1993) is a Chinese footballer who plays for Shijiazhuang Ever Bright in the China League One.

Club career
In 2012, Zhang Shuai started his professional footballer career with Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League. On 18 July 2012, he made his senior debut in a 2–1 away defeat against Guangzhou Evergrande in the 2012 Chinese FA Cup, coming on as a substitute for Yuan Ye in the 65th minute. On 26 October 2014, he made his Super League debut against Hangzhou Greentown, coming on for Zhu Yifan in the 60th minute. He scored his first senior goal on 28 June 2016 in a 6–1 win over Yunnan Lijiang in the 2016 Chinese FA Cup.

Zhang joined China League One side Shijiazhuang Ever Bright in June 2017. He was promoted to the first team squad in the summer of 2018. On 11 July 2018, he made his debut as a converted centre-back and scored his first goal for the club in a 3–3 home draw against Qingdao Huanghai.

Career statistics
Statistics accurate as of match played 3 November 2018.

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Cross and Passion College (Kilcullen)

Cross and Passion College is a voluntary Catholic  secondary school catering for male and female students aged 12–19 around the County Kildare village of Kilcullen.

History
The Cross and Passion Convent was established as a convent and girls' school by the Sisters of the Cross and Passion in 1886. It also served as a novitiate.

It became a secondary school in 1924.

The Cross and Passion College became a voluntary secondary school and began admitting male students in 1986.

References

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Tanjong Rhu

Tanjong Rhu (, ) is a subzone within the planning area of Kallang, Singapore, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The perimeter of Tanjong Rhu is made up of Nicoll Highway in the north; Mountbatten Road and Fort Road in the east; East Coast Parkway (ECP) in the south; as well as Marina Channel and Kallang Basin in the west. Tanjong Rhu is the largest in terms of physical area among the nine subzones that make up Kallang.

Consisting of residential, commercial and recreational developments, Tanjong Rhu is famous for being the location of the Singapore Sports Hub, which includes the Kallang Wave Mall, new National Stadium and the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Previously, the old National Stadium which hosted a total of 18 National Day Parades sat on the land now occupied by the new National Stadium. The former Kallang Airport once extended into this area, with part of its old runway being the modern-day Stadium Boulevard.

Other sports facilities in Tanjong Rhu include the Kallang Tennis Centre, Kallang Field, Kallang Ground, Kallang Track, Kallang Netball Centre, Kallang Squash Centre and PAssion WaVe @ Marina Bay. Notable places include Kallang Theatre, Leisure Park Kallang, Mountbatten Fire Post, Katong Community Centre, Singapore Swimming Club, the Benjamin Sheares Bridge and Dunman High School, one of Singapore's leading educational institutions.

Tanjong Rhu is currently served by two Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations on the Circle line: Stadium MRT station and Mountbatten MRT station. In 2023, two more stations along the Thomson–East Coast line will open: Tanjong Rhu MRT station and Katong Park MRT station.

Tanjong Rhu is an affluent residential neighbourhood, made up of mostly condominiums and private housing along Tanjong Rhu Road. A few blocks of public housing built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) exist along Kampong Arang Road and Kampong Kayu Road. These residential estates are connected to the Singapore Sports Hub via Stadium Way, across the Geylang River.

Etymology

Tanjong Rhu is an old place name in Singapore that appeared in de Erédia's 1604 Map of Singapore, written as "Tanjon Rû".

This area was formerly known as Sandy Point. The Malay name comes from the casuarina trees, referred to in Malay as pokok rhu, where ru is the casuarina littoria, that grew along the beach. It was known as sha tsui in Cantonese, which means "sand spit".

History
Tanjong Rhu has been associated with ship building and repairing from the early days. Captain Flint, a harbour master, started a boat building and repair company here in 1822. A Mr Tivendale had his shipyard here in the 1860s.

As late as the 1980s and the early 1990s, the Tanjong Rhu area was an industrial area with shipyards. The water surrounding Tanjong Rhu was polluted with industrial and domestic waste, creating an extremely unpleasant environment. A massive relocation exercise was then undertaken by the Singapore Government to transform Tanjong Rhu into a high-end residential area. Reclamation of land along the Tanjong Rhu coast began as early as 1992. Private developers then started the new luxury residential developments in Tanjong Rhu. Today, the shipyards have since been relocated elsewhere and condominiums have replaced them.

In September 1993, 12 men were arrested in an entrapment operation in Tanjong Rhu coined the "Fort Road Incident". They were charged with outrage of modesty. Six pleaded guilty. They were sentenced to three strokes of the cane each and imprisonment ranging from two to six months. The names, ages and occupations of all 12 men were published in all major Singaporean newspapers. Those were the last reported cases of such police entrapment. A short 19 minute 2009 film, "The Casuarina Cove" by Boo Junfeng told the story of one of those men.

References
Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern University Press,

External links
The Changing Faces of Singapore - Tanjong Rhu
 TheLine@Tanjong Rhu

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The Horribly Awfuls

The Horribly Awfuls were a Canadian cowpunk band formed in 2002 in Winnipeg.

History
In four years spanning 2002-2007, The Horribly Awfuls made four full-length records and one EP which is yet to be released. Led by songwriter Gareth Williams, the Awfuls were known for their loose and rough feel and for their witty and evocative lyrics.

Band members changed from project to project, as did their roles in the band.  The core of the band was made up of Gareth Williams, Tyler Shipley (also of The Consumer Goods) and Matt McLennan (also of Cone Five).  No album ever took longer than one studio session to record, and the musicians often improvised their parts. Ryan McVeigh, who produced four of their five records, was always credited as being part of the band, and his influence can be heard in most of their work.

The band was most noted for 2003's "We Fight Like the Crips and Bloods," which featured a cover of Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' and a lullabye for Kofi Annan.  It was called "a clever tongue in cheek romp... played by serious musicians whose talent always seems to shine through." The same record was well reviewed by author Miriam Toews who mentioned the record in an interview with Flare magazine.

Though beginning with Conifera Records, Gareth later founded Grumpy Cloud Records which became the label for all of Gareth's projects as well as those by close friends and collaborators Tyler Shipley and Matt McLennan.  The band is currently on hiatus, with Gareth having moved to Calgary, Alberta, and focusing his efforts on a new project called The Pantymelters.  However, there are still plans to release their final EP in 2007.

Band members
 Gareth Williams - vocals, guitars, electric drill, power naps, screams, stink organ, sex tambourine
 Matt McLennan - guitars, drums, vocals, bass
 Tyler Shipley - bass, guitars, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, piano
 Ryan McVeigh - production, vocals, fingersnaps,
 Andrew Workman - drums, keyboards, vocals
 Mat Klachefsky - organ, ukulele, vocals
 Kirstie MacLean - keyboards, vocals
 Robin Hillman - drums, tambourine

Guest musicians included Chris Friesen, Breanna Duffill, Andrew McMillan and Craig Mackie.

Discography
 2006 - The Untimely Death of... (unreleased)
 2005 - If the Night don't Bite? (Grumpy Cloud)
 2004 - Le Perve Calamity (Conifera)
 2003 - We Fight Like the Crips and Bloods (Conifera)
 2003 - Spring Has Sprung (Grumpy Cloud)

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Ram Raj Pant

Prof. Ram Raj Pant (or Ramraj Pant, Nepali: राम राज पन्त or रामराज पन्त) (1920–1993, Bikram Sambat 1976–2049) was a pioneering linguist of the Nepali language, literary writer and promoter of legal education in Nepal. In addition to publishing multiple volumes on Nepali linguistics, Ram Raj Pant led the establishment of Nepal Law College and was its founding Principal. Nepal Law College later became Nepal Law Campus under the Tribhuvan University. He was also the founding chairman and first visiting professor of Nepali language program at Banaras Hindu University. One of his books - Nepali Lipivijana (Nepali: नेपाली लिपी बिज्ञान) continues to be used for MA in Nepali curriculum at BHU.

Biography
Ram Raj Pant was born in Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal in February 1920 (Bikram Sambat 1976 Falgun) to his father Bhairav Raj Pant and mother Dambar Kumari. He was born as Hridaya Nath Pant. When his mother died when he was only eight years old, the responsibility of looking after his two younger brothers - Chandra Raj and Surya Raj came on his shoulder. Under guidance from his grandfather, Gajendra Dhoj Pant, Ram Raj enrolled in Durbar High School for his early schooling. His upanayan was also completed when he was eight years old. Ram Raj continued his education at Patna University from where he completed his matriculation. Then he returned to Kathmandu to enroll in then newly established Tri Chandra College, from where he received his IA degree. He returned after that to Patna University for further study towards receiving his BA degree in 1939. Ram Raj then moved on to enroll in law program at Banaras Hindu University, from where he received his Bachelor of Laws in 1941. Influenced by his grandfather Gajendra Dhoj, who studied philosophy and literature, and Banaras's well known literary culture, Ram Raj started writing while there. He also studied linguistics at BHU to receive his Masters degree in 1943. After graduation, Ram Raj continued literary writing as well as his research on linguistics, especially related to the Nepali language. While living in Kathmandu, Ram Raj continued to visit Banaras every year for most of his life to continue his research and intellectual endeavors.

Ram Raj was married when he was 18 years of age to Pushpa Kumari of Bista family. Between them, they had five sons - Shiva Raj, Ananda Raj, Durga Raj, Rajendra Raj and Binayak Raj Pant as well as two daughters - Prabha Pandey and Prativa Tiwari.

Career
Ram Raj Pant made teaching and writing into his passionate profession. In 1943, he was the founding visiting professor of Nepali program at Banaras Hindu University, which continues to use one of Ram Raj's book on linguistics in its MA program. After completing his role in BHU, Ram Raj returned to Nepal to further the cause of education in his native country. He was offered the position of chief inspector of higher education by then Nepal government, which allowed him to visit academic institutions in many parts of the country. In 1947, he took on the position of professor and head of Nepali language department at Tri Chandra College, where he later started the BA honors program.

Ram Raj Pant led the initiative to establish the first institution for legal education in Nepal. Nepal Law College was formed under his leadership in 1954 and Ram Raj was its founding Principal. The classes were initially held in the evenings at Durbar High School. Ram Raj's relentless efforts also helped secure the college its own site on Exhibition Road in Kathmandu where it stands today. Nepal Law College was renamed to Nepal Law Campus when it was later brought under the faculty of law at Tribhuvan University. Ram Raj worked for next two decades as Principal of Nepal Law Campus to build it into a solid academic institution that produced graduates who went on to become leaders of many organizations in Nepal and abroad.

Ram Raj Pant is credited with starting the Nepali grammar simplification movement (Nepali: सजिलोबाद) in 1959. He also established the curriculum for MA program in Nepali language at Tribhuvan University in 1961. After his retirement from Tribhuvan University in 1975, Ram Raj continued to write and advise various institutions to further the cause of education and the system of rule of law in Nepal.

Publications
Editor of Tri Chandra College publication Jyotsna (Nepali: सम्पादक, ज्योत्सना पत्रिका), 1948–1953
Nepali Linguistic Science, Vol. 1 (Nepali: नेपाली भाषा विज्ञान (पहिलो भाग)), Feb 1958 (Bikram Sambat 2014 Falgun)
Nepali Writing System (Nepali: नेपाली लिपि विज्ञान  ), 1959 (Bikram Sambat 2016 Falgun)
History of Linguistics (Nepali: भाषा विज्ञानको इतिहास), 1962 (Bikram Sambat 2018)
Essay collection, Part 1 (Nepali: प्रबन्ध पाठ सङ्ग्रह, भाग १), 1962 (Bikram Sambat 2018)
Collection of stories (Nepali: बेवारिसी, पाल्तु र फाल्तु), 1963 (Bikram Sambat 2019)
Nepali Linguistic Science (Nepali: नेपाली भाषा विज्ञान), 1979 (Bikram Sambat 2036)
Nepal Legal Framework (Nepali: नेपाल कानुन सार), 1979 (Bikram Sambat 2036)
One-act plays (Nepali: चट्टुको चट, चन्द्रको पालो)
Poem collection (Nepali: कहिले जाला घाम, मातृ भू भव्य बनोस)
'Nepali Language in Tribhuvan University' (Nepali: त्रिभुवन बिश्वविधालयमा नेपाली भाषा)

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Alf Pike

Alfred George Pike (September 15, 1917 – March 1, 2009) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent six National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the New York Rangers. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was a product of the hockey school there that was operated by Lester Patrick, the Rangers' coach and general manager. A licensed mortician in the offseason, Pike's nickname was "The Embalmer". He also served as coach at various levels of the sport.

Playing career
He played two years of junior hockey with the Winnipeg Monarchs of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL). In 1936–37, his second campaign with the team, he centered the top forward line as the Monarchs captured both the league title and Memorial Cup.

After immediately signing a contract with Patrick's franchise in 1937, he spent two years with the New York Rovers, the Rangers' minor league affiliate in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League that shared Madison Square Garden III with the parent club. He was the team captain when the Rovers won the EAHL crown in 1938–39. He also made two appearances with the Philadelphia Ramblers of the International-American Hockey League (IAHL) that same season.

As a rookie with the Rangers in 1939–40, he was the center on the third forward line with Dutch Hiller and Clint Smith. Pike contributed two key goals in the 1940 Stanley Cup Finals. He scored the winner in overtime of Game 1, and tallied again midway through the third period of Game 6 to tie the match at 2–2 and eventually extend it beyond regulation. Bryan Hextall's goal in the extra period clinched the Stanley Cup Championship for the Rangers.

His most productive season was in 1941–42 with 27 points (8 goals, 19 assists). He was converted into a defenseman the following year. His hockey career was put on hold between 1943 and 1945 when he was stationed with the Royal Canadian Air Force in his hometown during World War II. He played two more seasons with the Rangers, the final one as a left winger in 1946–47, becoming one of the very few individuals in professional hockey history to play three different positions. His final NHL totals were 119 points (42 goals, 77 assists) in 234 games.

He appeared in a handful of matches with the Winnipeg Nationals in 1948 and 1949 before ending his playing career.

Coaching career
Pike's first coaching job began in 1949–50 with the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, the Rangers' Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) Junior A farm club. The highlight of his five years with Guelph was in 1952 when the team, which featured Andy Bathgate and Harry Howell, won both the league championship and Memorial Cup. His next stop was the Winnipeg Warriors from 1954 to 1959, collecting a Western Hockey League (WHL) title and Edinburgh Trophy national minor professional championship in 1956.

He returned to the Rangers as its coach eighteen games into the 1959–60 NHL season. His personality was a direct contrast from that of the man he replaced, the temperamental Phil Watson (Muzz Patrick served as the interim for two matches). After compiling a 36–66–21 record in two years without a postseason appearance, Pike was replaced by Doug Harvey in 1961.

Before his retirement in 1970, he returned to the WHL to coach three different franchises: the Calgary Stampeders (1961–62 to 1962–63), Los Angeles Blades (1963–64 to 1964–65) and Phoenix Roadrunners (1967–68 to 1969–70).

Pike died at age 91 on March 1, 2009 in Calgary, Alberta.

Awards and achievements
 1937 Turnbull Cup Championship (MJHL) – Winnipeg Monarchs (player)
 1937 Memorial Cup Championship – Winnipeg Monarchs (player)
 1939 Eastern Amateur Hockey League Champions – New York Rovers (player)
 1940 Stanley Cup Championship – New York Rangers (player)
 1952 J. Ross Robertson Cup Championship (OHA) – Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters (coach)
 1952 Memorial Cup Championship – Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters (coach)
 1956 Lester Patrick Cup Championship (WHL) – Winnipeg Warriors (coach)
 1956 Edinburgh Trophy Championship – Winnipeg Warriors (coach)
 Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
 In the 2009 book 100 Ranger Greats, was ranked No. 69 all-time of the 901 New York Rangers who had played during the team's first 82 seasons

NHL coaching record

References

External links

 Alf Pike – New York Rangers official website.
 Alf Pike – Joe Pelletier's Greatest Hockey Legends.com.
 Alfred Pike's Day with the Stanley Cup
Obituary in the Star Gazette

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James Hugh Joseph Tate

James Hugh Joseph Tate (April 10, 1910 – May 27, 1983) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 92nd Mayor of Philadelphia from 1962 to 1972. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Philadelphia City Council. He was the first Roman Catholic to serve as mayor of Philadelphia.

Biography

Early life and career
He was born on April 10, 1910 in Philadelphia. He received his LL.B. from Temple University in 1938 and clerked for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

He was active in Democratic Party politics and, in 1941, won a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to an at-large seat for Philadelphia County. He won re-election to the House in 1943 and 1945. In 1951, he won a seat on the Philadelphia City Council and became the President pro tempore in 1954, which became the council president in 1955. He held that position for nearly 10 years.

Mayor of Philadelphia

Mayor Richardson Dilworth resigned his post in 1962 in order to make a second run for Governor in that fall’s general election. As the city council president, Tate became acting mayor upon Dilworth’s resignation. He went on to win two terms in his own right, in 1963 and 1967.

In 1963, he defeated Republican James McDermott with 54% of the vote. He fended off a city by the Congress of Racial Equality by stopping construction of the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building until more black workers were hired.

In 1967, he appointed Frank Rizzo as the police commissioner. He defeated District Attorney Arlen Specter in 1967 by less than 12,000 votes.

Towards the end of his life, Tate lived in Longport, New Jersey.

Death
Tate died of an apparent myocardial infarction in Somers Point, aged 73.

References

External links
Description of James H. J. Tate archives at City of Philadelphia website

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Nicole Burnham

Nicole Burnham is the author of several romance novels and books for teens. She writes romances under the name Nicole Burnham and young adult novels under the name Niki Burnham.

Biography
Nicole Burnham is originally from Colorado, but was born in Key West, Florida, while her father was briefly stationed there with the military. She graduated from Mannheim American High School in 1988, then obtained her B.A. in political science magna cum laude in 1991 from Colorado State University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She earned both an M.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994. She clerked for a federal magistrate in Colorado and practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri before turning to writing full-time. While at Michigan Law School Burnham was in the same section as Cynthia Leitich Smith, Eric Lefkofsky, and Pat DeWine.

Burnham was a double finalist for the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart in 2000. One of those two finalist manuscripts was Going to the Castle, which went on to become her first published novel the following year. She won the 2004 RITA in the Best Short Contemporary Series category for The Knight's Kiss, her third published novel. She was a RITA finalist again in 2005 for The Bowen Bride and in 2015 for Slow Tango With a Prince.

Burnham served on the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of America for four years, first as Region One Director, then as the PAN Liaison.

Burnham currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.  She is an avid baseball fan and maintains a blog called The Go-Ahead in which she discusses writing, health, and her favorite baseball teams, the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies. She appeared on Jeopardy! in July 2000, losing to eventual Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions runner-up Tad Carithers.

List of works

Romance novels - Nicole Burnham

The Royal Scandals series
 Christmas With a Prince (prequel novella) - November 2013
 Scandal With a Prince  - November 2013
 Honeymoon With a Prince - December 2013
 Christmas on the Royal Yacht (novella) - October 2014
 Slow Tango With a Prince - June 2014
 The Royal Bastard  - June 2015
 Christmas With a Palace Thief (novella) - October 2015
 The Wicked Prince - August 2016
 One Man's Princess - October 2017

These romances follow the Barrali royal family of the fictional island nation of Sarcaccia.  The books are set in various locations around the world.

The San Rimini series
 Going to the Castle (Silhouette Romance) - December 2001
 The Prince's Tutor (Silhouette Romance) - January 2003
 The Knight's Kiss (Silhouette Romance) - May 2003
 Falling for Prince Federico (Silhouette Romance) - August 2004

These romances follow the diTalora royal family of the fictional Mediterranean country of San Rimini.

Other romance fiction
 One Bachelor to Go (Silhouette Romance) - February 2004
 The Bowen Bride (Silhouette Romance) - November 2004

Young adult novels - Niki Burnham

The Valerie Winslow series

2004 — Royally Jacked — Simon Pulse (UK title:  Royally Crushed )
2005 — Spin Control — Simon Pulse
2006 — Do-Over — Simon Pulse

This series of romantic comedies centers on high school sophomore Valerie Winslow, whose parents are getting a divorce. Her father is offered a job with the royal family in the fictional European country of Schwerinborg. Valerie opts to go along, where she ends up falling for the royal family's teenage son, Prince Georg.

Anthologies
 "Night Swimming" in Fireworks:  Four Summer Stories with Erin Haft, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle (Scholastic Point) - April 2007
 "Last Stand" in Breaking Up (Is Hard To Do) with Terri Clark, Ellen Hopkins, and Lynda Sandoval (Houghton Mifflin Graphia) - May 2008

Other young adult fiction
2005 — Sticky Fingers — Simon Pulse
2006 — Scary Beautiful — Simon Pulse
2007 — Goddess Games — Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Honors and awards
  2004 RITA Award Winner - Best Short Contemporary Series romance for The Knight's Kiss
  2005 RITA Award Finalist- Best Traditional Series romance for The Bowen Bride
  2015 RITA Award Finalist - Best Contemporary: Long romance for Slow Tango With a Prince
  American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers for Royally Jacked
  New York Public Library's 2005 Books for the Teen Age for Royally Jacked
  Teen People  Pick for Royally Jacked

References

See also

 official Nicole Burnham website
 official Niki Burnham website
 A Home Run First Time at Bat? - All About Romance Interview

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Vlastimil Veselý

Vlastimil Veselý (born 6 May 1993 in Brno) is a Czech football player who currently plays for FC Vysočina Jihlava in Czech National Football League.

References
 Profile at FC Zbrojovka Brno official site
 Profile at 1. SC Znojmo official site
 Vlastimil Veselý at Soccerway

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Barisha, Harem District

Barisha (, Bārīšā; also spelled Baricha and Barischa) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of Harem District in the Idlib Governorate. In the 2004 Syrian census Barisha was listed with a population of 1,143. More recent reports place the population at about 7,000.

It is situated in the A'la Mountain and is part of an area known as the "Dead Cities." Barisha is located in Harem District of Idlib Governorate in the Ala Mountains near the Syrian border with Turkey. It is in the central region of the northern Syrian limestone massif, about  from Qalb Loze across a valley. The karst topography of the limestone left many small caves, some of which were habitations. Barish is located on the site of an ancient settlement, Dayhis. There are early Byzantine period ruins including residential buildings, cisterns, olive presses, and a church in the village. The modern village is about  north of the ruins. The ruins are surrounded by olive groves and small plots of mostly wheat.

Location
The place is located in the Idlib Governorate on the eponymous ridge, the Jebel Barischa, in the central area of the northern Syrian limestone massif. The road in a northerly direction after one kilometer at the junction towards Dehes over and reached after four kilometers at an intersection, the small village of Ras al-Hosn, after two more kilometers, the early Byzantine neighboring towns Baqirha and Dar Qita. From here it is another eight kilometers east to the junction with the Aleppo road at the Syrian-Turkish border crossing Bal al-Hawa. The most famous place in the region is Qalb Loze, which is eight kilometers west, separated from Barischa by a valley on the also running in a north-south direction Jebel il-Ala. Other ancient ruins can be found nearby. To the south, the road leads over Deir Seta to Idlib.

From the modern village without infrastructure the ruin field can be seen half a kilometer to the north. It lies on a flat slope beyond a valley in the midst of  olive groves and cereal fields in small plots, which are separated by reading stone walls. The ancient remains of the wall are partly grown in bushes.

Townscape
The cultivation of olives and wine was the heyday of the town from the 4th to the 6th century. In Barischa, in comparison to other dead cities, an above-average number of olive presses have been preserved. There were in the center of the village in the area of the church some stately two-storey buildings, which are referred to as residences and on one side a pillar portico was introduced. Striking is the high number of smaller and very simple residential buildings with rectangular plain windows without portico, whose upright walls are made of huge stone blocks.

Barischa, unlike most of the dead cities was archaeologically studied late and is therefore little known in the general literature. The first thorough examination of the 6th-century church was made by Christine Strube in the 1970s.

The only church built by a local workshop is a three-naved basilica with a rectangular chancel to the east flanked by lateral adjoining rooms. It has a straight eastern wall. This combination is a development of the late 5th century. The northern side room was accessible from the side aisle by a door whose framing consists of bands in the bas-relief. Only the rock is more elaborate by a wavy band with foliage. Because of the door, this room can be identified as Diakonikon, the southern adjoining room being connected to the nave by a wider arch, as is typical for the Martyrion (relic chamber). In the completely preserved eastern wall of the gable, there are four windows with curved lintels framed by slight relief at the same height. In contrast, the decorative band at the cornice is defined by a deep groove.

As water reservoirs for the dry season served in many places caves in the karstic rocks, which are recognizable only at Schöpföffnungen in the ground. In Barischa, a cistern carved out of the massive limestone subsoil with above-ground vaults has been preserved. The inside dimensions are about 4 × 6.5 meters. To the bottom of the approximately eight-meter deep cistern, a monolithic stone staircase leads down the wall. The vertex of the vault is three meters above the terrain.

Incidents

ISIS leader and self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and two children with a suicide vest while United States special operations forces (SOF) pursued him in his hideout in Barisha on 27 October 2019.

Notes

External links

"Barisha" Panoramio photographs

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Delaware North

Delaware North is a global food service and hospitality company headquartered in Buffalo, New York.   The company also operates in the lodging, sporting, airport, gaming and entertainment industries. The company employs over 55,000 people worldwide and has over $3.2 billion in annual revenues.

History
Delaware North began as Jacobs Brothers, founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1915 by brothers Marvin, Charles and Louis Jacobs. Its name was changed first to Emprise Corp.and then Sportsystems Inc. before adopting its current one in 1980. The company remains family-owned and operated by Jeremy Jacobs, who also owns the Boston Bruins. The arena in which the Bruins play, the TD Garden, is owned by Delaware North. Jacobs is also a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Board.

Jacobs Brothers initially operated theater concessions. When the establishments closed down in the hot summer months, the three men turned their attention to ballparks, the first being Offermann Stadium, and the creation of the sports concession industry. Sportservice was created in 1926 following contracts with minor-league ballparks in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York. Sportservice is Delaware North's largest operating company. In 1930, the company entered into its first major-league deal by signing an agreement with the Detroit Tigers to handle food service at Navin Field. The Jacobs brothers expanded their business in 1939 by acquiring a racetrack, marking the beginning of Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment. In 1941, the company entered the airport arena with a contract to provide food service in Washington National Airport. Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services operates in more than 30 major airports worldwide.

Upon the death of his father, founder Louis M. Jacobs in 1968, Jeremy M. Jacobs began leading the company, then called Emprise, at the age of 28. The years that followed were characterized by unprecedented growth and diversification. In 1972, after negative press over alleged connections to organized crime in Sports Illustrated and the Arizona Republic, the Emprise company was convicted of federal racketeering charges over the purchase of the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas with members of the Mob. Jeremy dissolved Emprise and reorganized his family's holdings under a new company, Delaware North (named after the intersection of Delaware Avenue and North Street in Buffalo where the company was headquartered at the time), with a public emphasis on operating a clean, separate organization with no connection to Emprise. Delaware North acquired the Boston Garden in 1975 while Jeremy Jacobs purchased the Boston Bruins, one of the original six franchises of the National Hockey League. In 1987, the company acquired Sky Chefs, (now LSG Sky Chefs) a move that bolstered its airport business. The company obtained the contract to provide visitor services in Yosemite National Park in 1993. under the terms of the largest concessions contract in the U.S. National Park Service. The award sowed the seeds of a new line of business: Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts.

In 1995, Delaware North won the contract to run the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. In the late 1990s, the company worked toward becoming the largest racino operator in North America by adding gaming to some of its racetrack properties. The company moved its World Headquarters from the Main Court Building to the Key Center South Tower in 1999.
The company became the first U.S. hospitality company in the world to have its GreenPath environmental management system registered to the guidelines put forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 14001) in 1991. In the early 2000s, the company became a hotel owner by purchasing Tenaya Lodge at the entrance to Yosemite and Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa in British Columbia, and by building a hotel at its gaming and racing destination resort in Wheeling, West Virginia.  2004 saw the company beginning GuestPath, its companywide continuous improvement process. The company entered the European market with a contract at Wembley Stadium, followed by one at Emirates Stadium in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, the company signed a 10-year contract at Pride Park Stadium, Derby.

In 2008/2009, Delaware North got a contract to operate a 4,500 slot machine racino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. It lost the contract in 2009 when it could not make a $370 million upfront payment to the state of New York.  The company was hired by Garrison Investments in 2009 to operate the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. This partnership ended in April 2011. In 2010, the company acquired Jumer's Casino & Hotel located in Rock Island, Illinois. Thereafter, the company entered the European travel hospitality market opening outlets at Gatwick, Heathrow, and Edinburgh Airports, and the Euston Railway Station. It also acquired the Australian Resorts at Lizard Island, Heron Island, and Wilson Island on the Great Barrier Reef and King's Canyon in the Red Centre of Australia.

In 2014, Delaware North launched a new global brand identity as the company prepared to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2015. The company is now known just as "Delaware North" – no longer as "Delaware North Companies" – and ended the use of the abbreviation "DNC" in its logo.

The majority of its operating companies, which previously had been identified as "Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts," for example, are now called "Delaware North."  The only exceptions are Delaware North Sportservice – given its historical importance as the company's original operating company and brand recognition in the sports industry – and Delaware North's most recent acquisition, Patina Restaurant Group.

In 2014, Delaware North issued a letter to the U.S. National Park Service, asserting various intellectual property rights, including such names as Ahwahnee, Curry Village, Wawona and other historic names it acquired when it purchased the Yosemite Park & Curry Company in 1993 with NPS approval. The letter estimated the value of those names at $51 million, while NPS estimated it at $3.5 million. A breach of contract lawsuit to determine their value was resolved in July 2019 with Delaware North receiving a $12 million settlement, the majority of which was paid by new Yosemite concessionaire Aramark, and the original place names being restored by NPS and Aramark.

On January 6, 2015, Delaware North Chairman Jeremy Jacobs relinquished the title of CEO and named Jerry Jacobs Jr. and Louis Jacobs Co-CEO's. He also named Charlie Jacobs CEO of Delaware North's Boston Holdings.

In 2015, Delaware North moved its corporate offices to the Delaware North Building in Buffalo, returning the company's headquarters to the namesake avenue after nearly 25 years.

Operating divisions

Sportservice
Delaware North Companies Sportservice provides concessions, premium dining, catering and retail services to sporting and entertainment venues in the United States and Canada.  The company operates at over 50 venues including the homes of such franchises as the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, Buffalo Bills, Chicago White Sox, Columbus Blue Jackets and Chicago Bears. Sportservice has been recognized for its culinary advances and PETA approved menus. Sportservice is the company responsible for the creation of Secret Stadium Sauce, a popular condiment mostly associated with Milwaukee.

Gaming & entertainment
Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment is a gaming and racing operations company that focuses on racing venues that offer video gaming machines, poker rooms, table games, restaurants, retail shops and hotels. The company operates more than 10,000 video gaming machines in such places as New York, Arizona, Florida, Illinois and West Virginia. Venues include:

Arizona Greyhound Racing
Daytona Beach Kennel Club & Poker Room
Hamburg Gaming
Jake's 58 Casino Hotel
Mindil Beach Casino Resort in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Jumer's Casino & Hotel
Mardi Gras Casino and Resort
Miami Valley Gaming (50%)
Finger Lakes Gaming and Race Track
Southland Greyhound Park
Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack

DNC International
Delaware North Companies International provides food service and hospitality to international sporting and entertainment venues including Wembley Stadium, Emirates Stadium, Ricoh Arena, Pride Park Stadium and the Australian Open tennis tournament.

Parks & resorts
Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts was founded in 1992 following the company's winning bid for primary concessions at Yosemite National Park. The company now operates at other venues including Grand Canyon (one of two concessionaires), Niagara Falls State Park, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Gideon Putnam Resort (among others).

Patina Restaurant Group
In February 2014, Delaware North announced it would acquire a majority stake Patina Restaurant Group (PRG), one of the nation's leading multi-concept operator in the premium segments of the restaurant and catering industry. PRG has operations at landmark locations in high-profile cultural and entertainment venues in New York City, California, and Orlando, Fla. Among them are: Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal/MetLife Building and Madison Square Garden. Patina is also the official caterer for the Creative Arts Ball and the Emmy Awards Governors Ball.

Travel hospitality services
Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services operates food, beverage and retail at airports and toll plazas throughout the United States. The company operates at venues such as Los Angeles International Airport, Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, Nashville International Airport, Buffalo Niagara International Airport, and the Detroit Metro Airport. The company recently opened the first-ever Sports Illustrated retail store at Detroit Metro Airport's new North Terminal. In September 2008, Delaware North also recently unveiled uWink technology which helps make it easier for international travelers at Ft. Lauderdale Airport.

TD Garden

Delaware North Companies Boston owns TD Garden, the home arena for the Boston Bruins hockey team and Boston Celtics basketball team. Jeremy Jacobs, Chairman of Delaware North, also owns the Bruins. TD Garden is the site of the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament, and hosts the annual Hockey East Championships. The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999 and 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four, the 2004 Frozen Four, the 2014 United States Figure Skating Championships, the 2006 Women's Final Four, and the 2015 Frozen Four. It hosted games 3, 4, and 6 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals and the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals and games 1, 2, 4 and 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals  for the Bruins, and games 1, 2, and 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals and games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2010 NBA Finals for the Celtics.

Controversies

Delaware North Companies, having lost the contract to run the concessions at Yosemite, now claim that the names of many historic sites within Yosemite actually belong to them, and not to the United States Government. The site names include Curry Village, Ahwahnee Lodge, Wawona Hotel, Half Dome, and the name of the park itself, Yosemite National Park. The result has been a public relations nightmare for DNC, including calls for boycott of its concessions at other sites.

In 2015, Delaware North sued the National Park Service in the United States Court of Claims for breach of contract.

Awards and recognition
Five Delaware North chefs competed in the 2008 Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany. Delaware North's corporate chef and chief culinary ambassador Roland Henin coached the group. Each chef earned an award for their efforts. Executive sous chef Ambarish Lulay and executive chef Scott Green earned silver medals.

Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts won the Space Foundation's Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award in 2008.

References

External links

 Delaware North Companies International website

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Kushimoto Street

Kushimoto Street () is a business street located in Yenişehir, Mersin district of Mersin, southern Turkey.

Formerly known as the "4002 Street", it connects Gazi Mustafa Kemal Boulevard () in the north with Adnan Menderes Boulevard in the south. In 1996, Mersin municipality renamed the street after Kushimoto, which is the Japanese twin city of Mersin. Kushimoto hosts the Turkish Memorial and Museum in commemoration of the 1890-sunken Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul .

Presently, the street, as well as the four intersecting second level streets, have a wide variety of shops and restaurants. A small park is situated to the west of the Kushimoto Street.

References

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Hasta el Techo

"Hasta el Techo" () is a Hip hop song by Colombian group ChocQuibTown. It was released as the second single from their third studio album Eso Es Lo Que Hay (2011).

Background and composition
Following the success with their song "De Donde Vengo Yo" in the Latin Grammys they signed with Sony Music Colombia to support their next album Eso Es Lo Que Hay. "Hasta el Techo was released as the second single from the album. The song has described like a "very beautiful experiment" where played the intention to looking for some down-tempo according to Tostao in a promotional video.
The song was written by Gloría Martinez (Goyo), Carlos Valencia (Tostao), Miguel Martinez (Slow) and Andrés Castro, and produced by Andrés Castro and Slow.

Track listing
Album version
 "Hasta el Techo" -

Charts

References

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The Fable of Oscar

The Fable of Oscar is a fable proposed by John L. Pollock in his book How to Build a Person () to defend the idea of token physicalism, agent materialism, and strong AI. It ultimately illustrates what is needed for an Artificial Intelligence to be built and why humans are just like intelligent machines.

Fable
Once in a distant land there lived a race of Engineers. They have all their physical needs provided by the machines they have invented. One of the Engineers decide that he will create an "intelligent machine" that is much more ingenious than the more machines, in that it can actually sense, learn, and adapt to its environment as an intelligent animal.

Oscar I

The first version of the machine is called "Oscar I". It has pain sensors and "fight-or-flight" responses build within to help it survive hostile environment. In this stage Oscar I is much like the machines Hilary Putnam considers in 1960.

Oscar II

In order for Oscar I to avoid damages in hostile environment, it must not only be able to respond to its pain sensors but also predict what is likely to happen based on its generalization of its pain sensor activations. Therefore, a "pain sensor sensor" was built to sense its pain sensors, thus giving it a rudimentary self-awareness. In this stage Oscar I is much like an amoeba as Oscar II like a worm. Amoebas respond to pain while worms learn to avoid it.

Oscar III

The problem with Oscar II is that it has no conception if the environment is fooling him. For example, he can't distinguish if a machine-eating tiger and a mirror image of such tiger. To solve such problem,  "introspective sensors" were built into Oscar II and made him "Oscar III". Oscar III can now sense the operation of its own sensors and form generalization about its reliability, thus acquired a higher degree of self-awareness. In this stage Oscar II is much like a bird as Oscar III a kitten. Kittens quickly learn about mirror image and come to ignore them while birds go on attacking their own reflection until they become exhausted.

Mind/Body Problem

Consider a world populated by Oscarites. If the Oscarites are sufficiently intelligent, it can philosophizing the difference between their outward physical state and inward mental state. While we, from our perspective, describe the Oscarites as sensing the operation of their perceptual sensors, they describe it as they are "being self-aware and being conscious".

Conclusion

In the end of the fable Pollock states that while the Engineers are fictional, Oscar is real and we are in fact the Oscarites.

See also
Mind–body problem
Robot

External links
 http://johnpollock.us/ftp/OSCAR-web-page/oscar.html
 http://philpapers.org/rec/POLOAC

References

Category:Artificial intelligence


Craig Buckham

Craig Thomas Buckham (born 9 August 1983) is an English former first-class cricketer.

Buckham was born at Ashford in December 1983. While attending Anglia Ruskin University, Buckham made three appearances in first-class cricket for Cambridge UCCE from 2004–06, playing against Essex, Warwickshire and Kent. A leg break bowler, Buckham bowled a total of 30 overs without taking a wicket, while conceding 187 runs. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Buckham also played at minor counties level. He made two appearances for the Kent Cricket Board in the 2002 MCCA Knockout Trophy, later making seven appearances for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 2007–2009.

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Rescue Mediums

Rescue Mediums is a Canadian paranormal reality television series that originally aired from  to  on the W Network. The show stars Jackie Dennison and Christine Hamlett in series 1–3 and Jackie and Alison Wynne-Ryder series 4-7. The show has also aired on the WE: Women's Entertainment network in the USA, Discovery Channel in the UK (series 1–3) and CBS reality (series 3–5) UK.

The series follows the trials and tribulations of acclaimed and quirky international psychics, who make house calls, as they ask ghostly spirits to leave.

Composer Richard Evans was nominated for a 2010 Gemini Award for the sound track of the Rescue Mediums episode "Rockside - The Shape of Things to Come".

Host Information

Jackie Dennison

Jackie, in addition to being the co-host of Rescue Mediums (which airs in over 28 countries around the globe) is the owner of The Feathers Academy in Northwich, England.  Feathers is dedicated to teaching and healing through the spiritual and holistic planes.  She has been a psychic medium and psychic artist for many years and works with her spirit guides, Jeremkyah and Red Cloud.  She has co-authored a book about the spirits in Marbury Hall in the UK, and has featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, and continues to work as a medium in her native England.  Jackie is in all episodes of the show, from seasons 1 - 7.

Alison Wynne-Ryder

Alison is a psychic medium and a Reiki Master.  She works through her spirit guide, Ruby, who has an extremely quirky sense of humour that comes through time after time.  Alison has also worked extensively with the Northwich Police Services.  Alison is in 52 episodes, from season 4 - 7.

Christine Hamlett

Christine is a natural medium and psychic artist, and is the co-host of Rescue Mediums seasons 1, 2, and 3. In addition to this international reputation, she writes for various spiritualists and popular U.K. women's magazines with a regular psychic sketch in Chat. She has also been featured in numerous U.K. and Canadian magazines and featured on radio shows in the U.K., United States, and Canada. Christine has appeared on ITV and the BBC in England. Christine has been a medium and psychic artist from a very early age, and inherited a crystal ball from her psychic great grandmother when she was only five years old. Outside of the show, Christine helps on missing persons and cold cases, such as those of as Lois Hanna and Rhonda Wilson. Christine is in 37 episodes, from seasons 1 to 3, with the last of her Rescue Mediums work being filmed in 2007.

Gregory Sheppard & Michael Lamport

Gregory Sheppard and Michael Lamport are co-owners of Lamport-Sheppard Entertainment which produces Rescue Mediums. They are also the executive producers of Curious and Unusual Deaths (Discovery), Suite & Simple (CTV Travel, Fine Living), In Your Wildest Dreams (Discovery USA), and have produced and directed a new feature comedy, St. Roz, that has garnered several awards at various film festivals.

Episodic Information

Season 1: Episode 01 - 13

Season 2: Episode 14 - 25

Season 3: Episode 26 - 37

Season 4: Episode 38 - 50

Season 5: Episode 50 - 63

Season 6: Episode 63 - 76

Season 7: Episode 76 - 89

References

External links
Rescue Mediums Official Website
Lamport-Sheppard Entertainment Page
IMDb entry
Rescue Mediums Facebook Fan Page
WNetwork

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