Asher Paul Roth (born August 11, 1985) is an American rapper. He is best known for his debut single "I Love College". Roth released his debut studio album Asleep in the Bread Aisle, on April 20, 2009, by Universal Motown, SRC, and School Boy Records; the latter of which was launched by Roth's former manager Scooter Braun. Roth later left Schoolboy Records in late 2012, due to creative differences with Braun. In 2013, Roth signed with indie record label Federal Prism, on which he released his second studio album, RetroHash.

Life and career

1985–2007: Early life and career beginnings
Roth was born and raised in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. He is of Jewish and Scottish ancestry. His mother, Elizabeth (née McConnell), is a yoga instructor, and his father, David Roth, is the executive director of a design firm. He attended Pennsbury High School. After graduating from high school, he entered West Chester University and became an Elementary Education major, while continuing to record verses over the popular production of other rappers.

During his sophomore year, he posted some of his verses on his Myspace page and sent a friend request to Scooter Braun, an Atlanta-based promoter and former VP of Marketing for Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. One week after speaking to Braun, Roth flew down to Atlanta and was immediately signed by Braun, who subsequently became his manager.

2008–2010: Asleep in the Bread Aisle

After linking up with Braun, Roth moved to Atlanta to pursue a hip-hop career full-time. As industry buzz grew, Roth was courted by a number of labels, including SRC, Def Jam, Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records.  Roth would eventually sign a joint venture between Braun's Schoolboy and Steve Rifkind, chairman of SRC/Universal Records. On June 13, 2008, via the internet, Roth released his first professional release, the Don Cannon and DJ Drama-helmed mixtape, The Greenhouse Effect Vol. 1. This resulted in Roth being the second white rapper to be featured on Drama and Cannon's Gangsta Grillz series. Roth subsequently began recording his major-label debut album. In late 2008, it was revealed Roth was included in XXL's 2009 annual Freshman Class, and was featured on the cover alongside fellow up-and-coming rappers Kid Cudi, Wale, B.o.B, Charles Hamilton, Cory Gunz, Blu, Mickey Factz, Ace Hood and Curren$y.

Roth's debut single "I Love College", was released in January 2009 and received many hits across North America. The song also served as his debut album lead single. His second single "Lark on my Go-Kart", was released March 24, 2009. After the two singles were released, Roth's debut studio album Asleep in the Bread Aisle was released on April 20, 2009, in honor of cannabis subculture's 420 holiday. During the summer of 2009, Roth joined fellow XXL freshmen alumni Kid Cudi and B.o.B, for 'The Great Hangover' concert tour. Roth also joined Blink-182 in the second half of their reunion tour in the fall of 2009.

2010–2012: The Rawth EP and other projects
After touring in 2009 and releasing a second mixtape titled Seared Foie Gras with Quince and Cranberry in March 2010, Roth began working on his second studio album, then-titled The Spaghetti Tree. From his friend Boyder's YouTube page, he was seen working with high-profile record producers Pharrell Williams and Nottz Raw. While working with Nottz, the two of them decided to collaborate on a project together, due to having a number of records rejected by the label due to sampling and copyright issues. The result was an eight track extended play (EP), solely produced by Nottz, entitled The Rawth EP. The EP, which features appearances from Colin Munroe, D.A. (of Chester French), Rhymefest and Kardinal Offishall, was released December 27, 2010.

On July 26, 2010, Roth released "G.R.I.N.D (Get Ready It's a New Day)", the initial first single from The Spaghetti Tree, and promoted the song by traveling to different radio stations across the country. In a July 2010 XXL interview, while speaking on The Spaghetti Tree, Roth revealed four tracks from the album. One was said to feature West Coast rapper Game, one produced by Swizz Beatz and another was revealed to be titled "Run it Back". On May 25, 2011, it was announced that Roth's second studio album would no longer be called The Spaghetti Tree. On July 19, 2011, Roth released a song titled "Last Man Standing", as a single. The song, which features African-American singer-songwriter Akon, was featured on the soundtrack to the 2011 video game Madden NFL 12.

In an interview with Rikki Martinez of Power 106, Roth announced he would be releasing a mixtape titled Pabst & Jazz and revealed the new title of his upcoming second album to be Is This Too Orange?. On November 11, 2011, he released the first offering off Pabst & Jazz, a song titled "Common Knowledge". In November 2011, Roth signed with Def Jam Recordings through the resurface of defunct label Loud Records, which is now still a subsidiary label of SRC Records. In April 2012, Roth revealed he was once again working with producer Nottz Raw, as well as Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, on an EP titled Rawther.  In late 2012, Roth revealed he scrapped the Is This Too Orange? title for his second album, out of respect for Def Jam label mate Frank Ocean's debut Channel Orange (2012).

2013–2016: RetroHash

On June 5, 2013, Roth announced he would be reuniting with DJ Drama and Don Cannon, to release the sequel to his critically acclaimed mixtape The Greenhouse Effect The Greenhouse Effect Vol. 2 was released on June 25, 2013. In December 2013, Roth revealed his long-awaited and often-delayed second studio album is titled RetroHash which was released on April 22, 2014. In a December interview, on a Juan Epstein podcast with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds, Roth announced he is still planning on releasing his collaborative EP Rawther, with Nottz Raw and Travis Barker; as well as an EP with renowned hip hop producer Pete Rock, tentatively titled Pete Roth. Upon its release, RetroHash debuted at number 45 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 6,100 copies in the United States. In March 2016, Roth announced that he is preparing his third studio album Red Hot Revival.

2016–present: Flowers on the Weekend

In 2016 Asher Roth finally moved back to his home state of Pennsylvania after many years living away in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. He reconnected with an old musical friend called Rob Deckhart, and they stated working on a number of songs. Finally, over the years, they came up with the album Flowers On the Weekend that was released in April 2020.

Musical style

Influences
Asher Roth cites Jay-Z and Eminem among his influences in hip hop, mostly by Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life". Growing up, Roth was exposed to little hip hop in his family, with his parents preferring "The Temptations, Earth, Wind & Fire ... Bruce Springsteen and Dire Straits." According to Roth:

He also stated:

Personal life
Roth does not consider himself Jewish, although his name sometimes leads people to believe that he is, and he has Jewish ancestry.

Roth is open about his use of cannabis. As stated in an interview conducted and filmed by DJ Vlad, Roth explained his views about the legalization of cannabis: "Cigarettes don't do anything for you except kill you... I honestly don't believe [marijuana] is the gateway drug, because I use it, and I've never done anything else... I'm trying to be open about my pot smoking."

Discography

 Asleep in the Bread Aisle (2009)
 RetroHash (2014)
 Flowers on the Weekend (2020)

Filmography

Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
Best New Artist ("I Love College") [Nominated]
Best Hip Hop Video ("I Love College") [Nominated]

References

External links
 Official website

1985 births
Living people
American cannabis activists
American male rappers
American people of Jewish descent
American people of Scottish descent
Def Jam Recordings artists
East Coast hip hop musicians
Loud Records artists
People from Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Rappers from Philadelphia
Schoolboy Records artists
Songwriters from Pennsylvania
SRC Records artists
Universal Records artists
West Chester University alumni
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
Pennsbury High School alumni
Universal Motown Records artists
American male songwriters


Jay Baumgardner is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. He has worked on albums by The Regulators, Seether, Superheist, Ugly Kid Joe, Bush, Helmet, Sevendust, Papa Roach, Endwell, Coal Chamber, Drowning Pool, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, P.O.D., New Found Glory, Spineshank, Alien Ant Farm and Orgy.

His most recent work is producing the Superheist album Ghosts of the Social Dead, which was released on October 28, 2016.

References

External links
Jay Baumgardner official website
Interview, HitQuarters Apr 2005

American record producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American audio engineers


The Pétion-Ville school collapse occurred on November 7, 2008, in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when the church-operated  Collège La Promesse Évangélique ("The Evangelical Promise School") collapsed at around 10:00 a.m. local time (15:00 GMT). About 700 students from kindergarten through high school attended the school; however, it is unclear how many were in the three-story building when it collapsed. At least 93 people, mostly children, were confirmed killed, and over 150 injured. At least 35 students, 13 girls and 22 boys, were rescued from the rubble alive on November 8.

Collapse
During the collapse, the first floor of the school buckled under, and the second and third floors of the building came down upon it. The collapse also destroyed several nearby homes. However, only the first and second floors were filled with students, and some students were in the playground area. The cause of the collapse remains officially unstated, but residents of the town have said they suspect poor-quality construction as a cause.

The school had previously experienced a partial collapse in 2000, but it was rebuilt. After the first collapse, neighbors living downhill from the school abandoned their property out of fear that the building would fall onto their homes. The owner of the church-run school attempted to buy these vacated properties. In addition, the third floor of the building was under construction at the time of the 2008 collapse.

After the collapse, at least 200 people were seen at hospitals in and around Port-au-Prince. However, because of strikes at General Hospital and Hospital de la Paix, two hospitals in the town, Trinité Hospital and University of Haiti Hospital saw most of the injured.

Arrest
College La Promesse school owner, Rev. Fortin Augustin, Protestant minister and preacher, was arrested on November 8, 2008. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and brought to a Haitian police station, after he allegedly told Haitian president  René Préval that "the church school had been built with hardly any structural steel or cement to hold its concrete blocks together; he constructed the building all by himself, saying he didn't need an engineer as he had good knowledge of construction." He claimed to have the knowledge of construction and the word of God with him. Everywhere he went he had always tried to spread it, teaching people that the way that they are supposed to get through life is with the word of God in their hearts because that's really the only thing that can save when you are in a situation you can't get out of.

Reaction and rescue operations
Haiti's neighbor, the Dominican Republic, sent two helicopters to assist in evacuating the injured.  United Nations peacekeepers, stationed in the country since the 2004 coup d'état, assisted in the rescue efforts, as did members of the aid group Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross.  The U.S. Agency for International Development sent a disaster response team to the school, and provided more logistical and rescue equipment. This consists of some 38 Virginia search-and-rescue officials and four rescue dogs, (led by Capt. Michael Istvan, operations chief for the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team, flown by Alexandre Deprez, acting director for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Haiti). Also, a team of 15 Martinique firefighters and doctors, led by Daniel Vigee, and groups from Médecins sans Frontières and Haiti arrived to rescue the remaining trapped children.

Hilario Davide, Jr. reported that “Filipino Blue Berets were the first to arrive at the scene on November 7 and immediately went to action, using their bare hands to roll over concrete slabs and dig through the rubble in their bid to pull out both the living and the dead. 157 officers and enlisted personnel from the Philippine Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as 13 other officers from the Philippine National Police, are serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The Filipinos were instrumental in the recovery of 9 victims who survived the tragedy.” The Filipino peace-keepers worked with blue helmets from Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador and Haitian police.

Related incidents
Only five days after the Pétion-Ville school disaster, portions of Grace Divine School in Port-au-Prince also collapsed.

Further reading

The school collapse is recounted in the prologue of Jonathan M. Katz's The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

References

2008 in Haiti
Man-made disasters in Haiti
Disasters in schools
Building and structure collapses in 2008
21st century in Port-au-Prince
Pétion-Ville


American Soldier is the eleventh studio album by American heavy metal band Queensrÿche; it is a concept album released on March 31, 2009. The album debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 chart. As its title suggests, American Soldier revolves around the lives and experiences of those who serve or have served in the United States armed forces.

Following the departure of Mike Stone, the album was the first to entirely be recorded by Queensrÿche as a quartet. It is also the first original album by the band where founding guitarist Michael Wilton does not receive a single writing credit.

Overview
The lyrical contents to the songs on American Soldier tell the story of war from a firsthand perspective. The album was produced by Jason Slater, who also produced and co-wrote Queensrÿche's 2006 album Operation: Mindcrime II, and was engineered by Kelly Gray, who was Queensrÿche's guitarist and producer from 1998 to 2001. It was recorded in 2008 over the course of nine months.

The album includes a particularly personal duet between Geoff Tate and his daughter Emily. The song, entitled "Home Again," focuses on a father returning home to his family after having been gone an extended period. This theme reflects both the life of Tate as a touring musician and the life of one who serves in the military.

Tate spent a few years interviewing veterans from all conflicts America has been involved in from World War II to the Iraq War, including his own father and collecting their stories in order to help him write the album.

Speaking about the inspiration for the album, Tate said:

Track listing

All songs written by Jason Slater and Geoff Tate except where noted.

Personnel
Band members
Geoff Tate - vocals, horns
Michael Wilton - lead guitar, acoustic guitar
Eddie Jackson - bass
Scott Rockenfield - drums

Additional performers
Emily Tate - vocals on track 11
Jason Ames - vocals on tracks 1 & 8
A.J. Fratto - vocals on track 1
Vincent Solano - vocals on track 5
Kelly Gray - rhythm guitar
Damon Johnson -  rhythm guitar
Randy Gane - keyboards

Production
Jason Slater - producer
Kelly Gray - producer, engineer, mixing
Susan Tate, Kenny Nemes - executive producers
Hugh Syme - art direction, design and illustrations

Charts

References

2009 albums
Concept albums
Queensrÿche albums
Atco Records albums
Albums produced by Jason Slater
Hard rock albums by American artists


New Zealand Orienteering Federation is the national Orienteering Association in New Zealand. It is recognized as the  orienteering association for New Zealand by the International Orienteering Federation, of which it is a member.

In addition to the traditional foot orienteering, the NZ Orienteering Federation also organizes Mountain bike orienteering, Ski orienteering and Rogaining.

History
The New Zealand Orienteering Federation joined the International Orienteering Federation in 1974, and New Zealand participated in the World Orienteering Championships first time in 1976.

References

National members of the International Orienteering Federation
Orienteering
Orienteering in New Zealand


Renate "Reni" Erkens (later Küppers, 24 June 1909 – 22 October 1987) was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

She was born in Oberhausen and was the wife of Ernst Küppers and the mother of Ernst-Joachim Küppers.

In 1928 she finished fourth with the German relay team in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition.

She also participated in the 100 metre freestyle event and in the 400 metre freestyle event but in both she was eliminated in the first round.

External links

1909 births
1987 deaths
Sportspeople from Oberhausen
German female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
German female freestyle swimmers


Kristin Heidi Elisabeth Moe (25 November 1954 – 18 August 2023) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

Life and career
Kristin Moe was born in Asker. She was head of the Norwegian Consumer Council from 1984 to 1993. She was also elected to Asker municipal council in 1983, and worked as city commissioner's secretary in Oslo from 1986 to 1987. She was a deputy member of the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1989–1993.

Moe died on 18 August 2023, at the age of 68.

References

1954 births
2023 deaths
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Deputy members of the Storting
Akershus politicians
Women members of the Storting
Directors of government agencies of Norway
Asker politicians


Machine Age Voodoo is the third studio album by Australian industrial band SPK, released on 30 November 1984 by WEA Records. It was first released outside the United States until 1985 when it was released by Elektra Records. Produced by Graeme Revell, the album is a radical departure from the band's previous material, leaning more towards synth-pop and dance-rock, rather than industrial music. It is the band's first studio album to feature Sinan Leong as lead vocalist.

Two singles from Machine Age Voodoo were released, "Metal Dance" and "Junk Funk", of which the latter was later renamed to "Machine Age Voodoo" on the US release of the album.

Track listing

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Personnel
 Graeme Revell – producer, arrangements, all instruments
 Sinan Leong – vocals
 Jeff Bartolomei – additional keyboards
 Mary Bradfield-Taylor – additional vocals
 Graham Jesse – saxophone
 James Kelly – guitar
 Sam McNally – additional keyboards
 Phil Scorgie – bass, keyboards

Production
 Christo Curtis – engineer
 Tony Taurins – mastering

Design
 Carol Friedman – art direction
 JoDee Stringham – design
 Nelson Leong – logo design
 Peter Ashworth – photography
 Comme des Garçons – clothes
 Judy Blame – jewelry
 Lynne Easton – make-up
 Miss Moss – photomontage
 Iain R. Webb – stylist

References

External links

1984 albums
SPK (band) albums
Elektra Records albums


The capture of the Jeune Richard was the result of a naval engagement that took place in the Caribbean on 1 October 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars between the British packet ship  and the French privateer Jeune Richard. In an unequal battle, Windsor Castle, under the command of her acting captain William Rogers, not only defended repeated attacks from the privateer, but finally engaged her, boarded her and after overpowering the much larger crew, forced them below decks, and took the privateer as its prize. The victory was widely reported in contemporary papers and journals, and Rogers and his crew were hailed as heroes and lavishly rewarded for their valour.

Background
The Windsor Castle sailed from England under the command of Acting Captain William Rogers, bound for the Leeward Islands and Barbados in September 1807, carrying the mail.  She carried six 4-pounder guns and two 9-pounder carronades and had a crew of 28 men and boys. Early on the morning of 1 October a sail was sighted and by half past eight the mystery ship was piling on sail to catch the packet. Identifying her as a privateer schooner, Rogers attempted to outrun the enemy, but she continued to close and he realised he would be compelled to fight. His enemy was the Jeune Richard, carrying six long 6-pounder guns and one long 18-pounder gun, a considerably heavier weight of shot than the Windsor Castle. The Jeune Richard also had a crew of 92, over three times that of the British packet.

Battle

Rogers prepared for action and stood by to sink the mail should it become necessary to keep it out of enemy hands. By noon the Jeune Richard had closed the distance and, running up the French colours, she opened fire. The Windsor Castle returned fire, at which the French called on Rogers to surrender. He refused, so the Jeune Richard ran alongside the Windsor Castle deploying grappling irons, and attempted to board. The Windsor Castle′s crew mustered with pikes and repelled the boarders, killing or wounding between eight and ten of the French. The Jeune Richard′s crew attempted to cut the lines and pull away but the Windsor Castle′s main yard remained locked in the privateer's rigging, holding the two ships together.

The fighting continued for several hours, but by 3pm one of the Windsor Castle′s 9-pounder carronades had been brought up on deck and loaded with double grape, canister and 100 musket balls. When the French made another attempt to force their way aboard, the British discharged it to great effect, sweeping the privateer's decks and causing considerable casualties and damage. Rogers then led five of his men onto the Jeune Richard and forced the French from their guns, driving them below after a fierce fight and securing control of the privateer.  With the French crew trapped below but still considerably greater in number than the small British force that had control of the decks, Rogers ordered each Frenchman up on deck one at a time, where he had them placed in irons.

Aftermath
With the Jeune Richard secured, Rogers took her and the Windsor Castle to the nearest British port. The British had three dead and ten wounded, the French had twenty-one dead and thirty-three wounded. Rogers then made his report to the officer commanding the station, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane. Cochrane forwarded his report to the Admiralty, adding an accompanying note:   The news of how Rogers had turned upon his pursuer and taken her as his prize created a sensation. The account appeared in numerous newspapers, journals and periodicals. Societies and guilds joined to raise subscriptions to reward Rogers and his crew. In addition to sums of money, Rogers received two swords, a piece of plate worth 100 guineas, a vase worth £60, and command of another packet ship. The artist Samuel Drummond painted Rogers' portrait, and also created a depiction of the action, while other engravers and artists produced versions to illustrate the stories carried in the papers.

Notes

References

Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars
Conflicts in 1807
Naval battles involving the United Kingdom
Naval battles involving France
October 1807 events


Alsop High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Walton, Liverpool, L4 6SH, England. The school is well known for its white and brown remaining one of the hallmarks of Walton village.

History

The school was founded by the Liverpool Education Committee in 1919, under the chairmanship of James W. Alsop. The school moved to its current premises on Queen's Drive in 1926.

After World War II, further buildings were constructed - a dining annex, an assembly hall, a library and an art room, which was completed around 1953-4. Previously the Hall had been on the ground floor behind the front tower with windows onto the yard. When the new hall was opened, this area was converted into three classrooms onto the yard, and laboratories to the front onto Queens Drive.

Further additions later included a new block with laboratories, a gym, and a metalwork shop. In recent years, the school also acquired the old Arnot Street school on County Road and adjacent to Arnot Street primary school. The lower school was designed by Gilling Dod, based in the Cunard Building, Liverpool. The lower school was demolished and the site has since been used to develop a Tesco Metro store and a car park.

Previously a community school administered by Liverpool City Council, in November 2020 Alsop High School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Omega Multi-Academy Trust.

Campus
Alsop High School is the largest secondary school in Liverpool at present. The current Alsop High School building was built in 1926, and an extensive refurbishment / backlog maintenance of the existing campus buildings began in September 2008. The campus recently benefited from the construction of a new £8.4m building designed by architects 2020 Liverpool and includes a new canteen, new 6th form facilities, reception area, atrium, new Spanish, Humanities, and English learning pods as well as classrooms with improved IT facilities and a new dance and activity studio. The site has also benefited from extensive new landscaping and refurbishment of the listed rectory building. Aside from the Jamieson (named after a former headmaster) and 1926 buildings, there are also the MAD (Music, Art and Drama) block and the ICT block, which consists of the school's LRC (Learning Resource Center).

Curriculum
The Alsop High School was awarded with Applied Learning status in 2006, allowing the school to offer a range of vocational subjects.

In some subjects at Key Stage 3, students are taught in mixed ability classes, whilst in other subjects students are placed in teaching groups according to motivation, attainment and ability.

All students at Key Stage 3 study English, mathematics, science, humanities, Spanish, PE, music, drama, art and design as well as PSHCE, picking up the additional subjects of IT and Technology in Years 8 and 9.

Extracurricular activities

The PE department runs activities that include athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, cricket, fitness, football, hockey, netball, rounders, rugby, swimming, table tennis, and trampolining.

Other activities include art, dance, drama, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, guitar, keyboard, maths revision club, study club and Young Enterprise.

In 2011, the Alsop Community Magazine was founded. Since then, it has published three editions of the free magazine which contains news about the school. It is distributed around the local primary schools and community by the contributors to the magazine, who are all Alsop pupils. You can view the articles on the school web page.

In July 2012, Alsop High School was used to film part of episode 3 of Utopia, where a fictional school shooting is filmed. This scene received 37 complaints to UK media regulator Ofcom, proving especially controversial as the scene aired only a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut, USA. This caused Channel 4 to consider whether to carry on airing Utopia, yet carried on after much deliberation.

Notable former pupils
Sir Arnold Hall, chairman of Hawker Siddeley (1967-1986)
Peter Reading, poet
Alexei Sayle, comedian
Bob Wareing, former MP for Liverpool West Derby
Jimmy Mulville, producer, actor, writer and co-founder of Hat Trick Productions
Stephen Molyneux, Microsoft Emeritus Professor, Education Technology Entrepreneur
Ian McCulloch, lead singer for Echo & the Bunnymen
Mike Carey, writer

Notable former staff
 Philip Alexander Jamieson, formerly head teacher, was awarded an OBE in 2012.
 Gerard Houllier, teaching assistant 1969-70, former Liverpool, Aston Villa, and PSG manager

References

External links
 Alsop High School

Secondary schools in Liverpool
Academies in Liverpool
Specialist applied learning colleges in England


Charlotte Lehmann (born 3 October 1906, date of death unknown) was a German freestyle swimmer, born in Dresden, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she finished fourth with the German relay team in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition. In the 100 metre freestyle event she finished sixth. She also participated  in the 400 metre freestyle competition but was eliminated in the first round.

External links

1906 births
Year of death missing
Swimmers from Dresden
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
German female freestyle swimmers


King's Bounty: Armored Princess is a strategy video game developed for Microsoft Windows by Katauri Interactive and published in most regions by 1C Company in 2009. It is the sequel to the strategy game King's Bounty: The Legend, which is itself based on concepts from the much older King's Bounty developed years earlier by New World Computing. While the mechanics of the game do not differ significantly from that of the previous year's release, it features a new heroine and other minor new elements. Its expansion pack King's Bounty: Crossworlds was released in 2010.

Plot
King's Bounty: Armored Princess begins 10 years after the previous title, King's Bounty: The Legend, with the world of Darion being almost completely overrun by hordes of demons. In a last-ditch effort to obtain assistance for a besieged kingdom, a powerful spell is cast which opens a portal to another world, the world of Teana. Playing as Princess Amelie, the player ventures through this portal in search of the legendary knight Sir Bill Gilbert. Upon arriving in this alternate world, Bill Gilbert is nowhere to be found, but the inhabitants provide a number of their own quests, including a search for eight magical stones with the powers of the gods.

Gameplay
Armored Princess maintains many of the same game conventions used in The Legend. The player again chooses from one of three different classes (warrior, paladin or mage) and recruits up to five different squadrons of troops at any given time in order to fight battles. Troops are recruited from various locations in the game, with a limit on the maximum size of each unit determined by the character's "Leadership" statistic. In combat, troops are then assisted by the player's character through the use of magic, passive bonuses, and a new element, Amelie's pet baby dragon.

The world map is broken up into a number of different islands which can be navigated between via ship. Each island generally has troops of certain types and foes of a certain level range, giving each island a distinctive identity. The player can only travel to islands for which the player has discovered a map, and this mechanic is used to slowly provide additional islands for the player to visit while revisiting the previous islands. At some point during play, the player's mount gains the ability to fly, making dodging enemies and traversing each island easier.

Upon first reaching the world of Teana, Princess Amelie obtains a pet baby dragon. The player chooses the dragon's color and base abilities, and it then travels with the princess for the remainder of the game. During combat, the dragon can be summoned to attack foes or otherwise influence the battle using the player's accumulated rage. This mechanic replaces the Spirits of Rage from the previous title, and like the Spirits, the dragon cannot be attacked or harmed by enemies. After each use of an ability, the baby dragon must sleep for at least one turn, possibly longer, before the player can call on it again.

In addition, the player can choose from among several companions met over the course of the game to travel with. A companion can carry additional pieces of equipment (providing additional bonuses), and each companion has a unique ability. Companions take the place of wives from The Legend, although they act in much the same way.

Release

The title was first announced in November 2008, with the first release being the Russian version on April 10, 2009. The Polish version was released on October 23, 2009, while the North American version was released on November 20, 2009. Serving as an alternate publisher, Focus Multimedia published the title in the UK on March 19, 2010. DTP Entertainment published in April 2010 the German-language edition of Armored Princess. An expansion pack, King's Bounty: Crossworlds, was released in 2010, with a rebalanced and extended campaign, as well as two new campaigns, and an editor to create additional content.

Reception

The game holds a score of 83/100 on Metacritic and an aggregate score of 80.83% on GameRankings. The game was awarded a review score of 8/10 by Alec Meer of Eurogamer. Brett Todd of GameSpot also awarded it the same score praising its gameplay and characters while criticising its visual and sound quality. Adam Beissener of Game Informer gave it a review score of 8.75/10, comparing its gameplay to the classic title of Heroes of Might and Magic. Anna Marie Neufeld gave it a score of 3/5 praising its strategic gameplay while criticising it for its hard difficulty. Tyler Sager gave it a score of 8.5/10 calling it a solid standalone installment in the King's Bounty series.

References

External links

King's Bounty: Armored Princess at 1C Company official website

2009 video games
1C Company games
Fantasy video games
Tactical role-playing video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Russia
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games with expansion packs
Windows-only games
Windows games
Single-player video games
DTP Entertainment games
Focus Multimedia games


Herta Wunder (March 4, 1913 – January 28, 1992) was a German freestyle swimmer, born in Leipzig, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she finished fourth with the German relay team in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay competition.

External links

1913 births
1992 deaths
Swimmers from Leipzig
German female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics


Charles W. Downing Jr. (1825–1862) was the third Secretary of State of the state of Florida, in office from July 23, 1849, and June 30, 1853.

Life
At the time the governor of Florida was appointed to a three-year term by the President and the territory operated with little federal funding, while a popularly elected Florida Territorial Council had only minimal powers to borrow money, issue licenses, and organize a state militia. According to the State Archives of Florida, "A political protest in 1838 by Colonel Downing forced the establishment of a more representative bicameral legislature, where voices of rural farmers could be better presented. This reform was offset by the isolation of most homesteads and their lack of political participation. In 1840, Downing introduced House Bill 466 to end the Seminole War."

His father, Charles Downing, was a Delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Florida Territory. His wife, Fanny Murdaugh Downing, was an author and poet.

References

1825 births
1862 deaths
Florida Territory officials
Secretaries of State of Florida
19th-century American politicians


Leonid Nikolayevich Agutin (; born July 16, 1968) is a Russian pop musician and songwriter, Meritorious Artist of Russia (2008). He has been active since the 1990s. He has released ten albums and three compilation albums.

Personal life
Agutin’s mother is Jewish, father is Russian. He was born in Moscow on July 16, 1968. His father was Nikolai Petrovich Agutin, a musician, and his mother was Lyudmila Leonidovna Shkol'nikova, an elementary school teacher. His father was a singer in the Soviet band VIA "Golubiye Gitary" (Blue Guitars) and worked as a manager for the popular Soviet musical groups "Veseliye Rebyata" (Happy Kids), "Poyuschiye Serdtsa" (Singing Hearts), and "Pesniary" (Songsters).

Along with receiving a regular school education, the young Agutin also completed a course of musical study on the piano at the Moscow Jazz school "Moskvorechie". He later served in the army on the Russia–Finland border.

In 1991, Agutin began to tour former Soviet republics as an opening act for other performers. Two years later, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Culture. In 1997, Agutin married the stage performer Anzhelika Varum, his second marriage.

Agutin has two daughters, Elisaveta with Varum, and Polina with the Russian ballerina Maria Vorobyeva. Away from music, he enjoys collecting crosses and playing billiards. He is also a self-avowed believer in the predictions of astrologists.

Career
In 1991, Agutin started touring the Soviet Union with a musical act. He took part in and won the 1992 Yalta international pop music contest, and also won a similar contest in Jūrmala in 1993. Agutin released his first solo album, Bosonogiy Malchik ("Barefoot Boy") in 1994, which was a success and launched his career. The album ascended the charts and he won Russian Grammy awards for "Singer of the Year", "Song of the Year", and "Album of the Year". The album included the hits "Hop hey, la la ley" and "Golos visokiy travy" (Sound of the Tall Grass). In 1995, Agutin released his second album, titled "Dekameron". It was another commercial success and, along with Philipp Kirkorov, Valeriy Meladze, and Lubeh, Agutin became one of the most successful recording artists in Russian Grammy balloting.

Cosmopolitan life

Agutin released the album Cosmopolitan Life with the guitarist Al Di Meola in 2005, which gained success and worldwide recognition as a result of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Following the festival, the Austrian directors Hannes Rossacher and Rudi Dolezal of DoRo Productions made a documentary about the lives of Agutin and Di Meola, called Cosmopolitan Live, released in February 2008.

Discography

References

External links
Official website

1968 births
Living people
20th-century composers
21st-century composers
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation
Russian male composers
Russian pop singers
Singers from Moscow
20th-century Russian male singers
21st-century Russian male singers
Russian National Music Award winners
Winners of the Golden Gramophone Award
Russian activists against the Russian invasion of Ukraine


Human rights in Latvia are generally respected by the government, according to the US Department of State and Freedom House. Latvia is ranked above-average among the world's sovereign states in democracy, press freedom, privacy and human development. The country has a relatively large ethnic Russian community, which has basic rights guaranteed under the constitution and international human rights laws ratified by the Latvian government.

However, human rights organisations have reported multiple problems. Especially non-citizens – including stateless persons – suffer from limited or no access to a broad range of rights. Also there were problems with police abuse of detainees and arrestees, poor prison conditions and overcrowding, judicial corruption, discrimination against women, incidents of violence against ethnic minorities, and societal violence and incidents of government discrimination against homosexuals.

In March 2020, Latvia derogated from some of its obligations under ECHR and ICCPR, having referred to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Latvia in the international human rights system
As of end-2019, European Court of Human Rights has delivered 144 judgments in cases against Latvia (beginning from 2001); in 115 cases, it has found violations of the European Convention on Human Rights or its protocols.

UN Human Rights Committee has adopted views in three cases involving Latvia, as at 2020, in two cases finding violation of ICCPR (Raihman v. Latvia and Ignatāne v. Latvia). In 2001, Latvia has extended a standing invitation to Special Procedures of UN Human Rights Council. In 1990, Latvia has acceded to UDHR in an atypical move, which is understood in jurisprudence as accepting the declaration as binding.

Participation in basic human rights treaties

Latest published documents in reporting procedures

Overviews by human rights organisations

Amnesty International
According to Amnesty International, non-citizens – including stateless persons – suffer from limited or no access to a broad range of rights, including the right to participate in political processes, and the right to employment in the civil service and private sector. The majority of them were born or lived almost their entire lives in Latvia. Non-citizens also have restrictions on property ownership.

Amnesty International reported racially motivated attacks against Romani people. Latvia lacks of comprehensive national legislation dealing with all forms of discrimination. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have faced discrimination by verbal abuse. There were reported allegations of deliberate physical ill-treatment of detainees by prison staff.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch reported in 2006 the attacks on peaceful lesbian and gay pride activists in Riga on July 28. Earlier, Riga City Council denied an application by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations for “Riga Pride 2006”. The banned march was targeted by crowds of anti-gay protesters. In 2009 the gay march was allowed by Administrative Court of Riga.

Freedom House
According to Freedom House, Latvia has wide civil liberties. Also political rights are in a high level, though the country suffered high-profile corruption scandals during 2007. The government generally respects freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of religion. Academic freedom is respected in law and in practice. Freedom of assembly and association are protected by law and in practice. The highly competitive Latvian mass media are proving to be reliable sources of information and watchdogs against governmental abuses of power.

While the constitutional guarantee of judicial independence is generally respected, corruption in the judicial and law enforcement systems continues to be a problem. Pretrial detentions are long, police use excessive force against detainees, and prisons suffer from overcrowding and inadequate medical care. Women enjoy the same legal rights as men, but they often face employment discrimination.

Alleged discrimination suffered by the Russian-speaking community continues to be debated. Parliament has appointed an ombudsman responsible for protecting the rights of individuals in relation to the government. Two men were sentenced to prison terms in January 2007 for attacking a Rwandan citizen. The case marked the first sentencing under a law prohibiting instigation of racial hatred.

United States Department of State
According to Human Right Report of United States Department of State, Latvia generally respects the human rights of citizens and the large resident noncitizen community. However, there were problems with serious police abuse of detainees and arrestees, poor conditions at police detention facilities, poor prison conditions and overcrowding, judicial corruption, obstacles to due process, official pressure to limit freedom of speech, violence against women, child abuse, trafficking in persons, incidents of violence against ethnic minorities, and societal violence and incidents of government discrimination against homosexuals.

Specific issues of Latvia

After the restoration of independence in 1991, those who or whose ancestors had not been citizens of Latvia prior to its Soviet occupation in 1940 were not automatically granted citizenship. As of January 2011, non-citizens exceed 14% of the population. Russian language, being native for more than 37% of residents according to the 2000 census, is considered to be a foreign language in the Official Language Law; the possibilities to use it in communication with authorities and in public education were significantly reduced after 1991.

Like in many post-socialist countries, restitution of real estate has taken place in Latvia. Therefore, a considerable part of former tenants of public housing found themselves in private housing, with higher rent. Rent control for such dwellings was, after multiple extensions, phased out in 2007.

Since 2003, conflicts concerning freedom of assembly are often: on various occasions, gatherings of LGBT and counter-meetings, Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires and counter-meetings, meetings of the Headquarters for the Protection of Russian Schools were banned or limited.

Limitations to eligibility and their enforcement were in the focus of several ECtHR judgments in cases against Latvia (Ādamsons v. Latvia, Ždanoka v. Latvia, Podkolzina v. Latvia) and UN Human Rights Committee views in case Ignatāne v. Latvia.

Participation, economic, social and cultural rights in digits

In the local elections of 2009, 79.7% of elected councillors indicated their ethnicity as ethnic Latvians, 65.5% were male. In the parliamentary elections of 2014, 81 of 100 elected MPs were males, 71 indicated their ethnicity as ethnic Latvians. For comparison, at the beginning of 2010 ethnic Latvians were 59.4% of the population (and 71.8% among citizens) and women—53.9%.

As of January 2021, the minimum monthly salary is 500 EUR and the minimum old-age pension is 149.6 EUR.

The average calculated age pension in October 2020 was 403.41 EUR. Average net salary in 2019 was EUR 793 (varying from EUR 565 in Latgale to EUR 883 in Riga).

The unemployment rate at the end of November 2020, was 7.4% according to the State Employment Agency, varying between 5.7% in Riga region and 15.1% in Latgale. Ethnic minorities and persons not indicating ethnicity composed 45.5% of the unemployed in the end of December 2014.

Life expectancy at birth was estimated as 75.4 years in 2020. In 2011, there were 6.3 outpatient visits to physicians per capita, 58.8 hospital beds and 39.1 physicians per 10 000 population.

Pre-school education and nine-year basic education are compulsory. Secondary education (forms 10–12) is free in public schools. However, according to the Ombudsman, the constitutional principle of free education is violated by the practice of parents having to buy textbooks. According to the 2000 census, 13.9% of those aged 15 and older and giving answers on own education had obtained higher education. In 2011, 94.6% of basic school (9 years) graduates had continued their studies, as well as 63.6% of secondary school graduates had done.

Human rights legislation and offices

National law
Human rights are granted by Chapter VIII of the Constitution—"Fundamental Human Rights", adopted in 1998 and consisting of 28 articles. It includes both first-generation and second-generation human rights as well as some third-generation human rights: rights of persons belonging to ethnic minorities and right to live in a benevolent environment. Article 116 defines goals allowing limitations of certain human rights: these are the rights of other people, the democratic structure of the state, public safety, welfare and morals.

Until adopting this chapter the core law in the field of human rights was the Constitutional Law "The Rights and Obligations of a Citizen and a Person", adopted in 1991.

Institutions
Since 1990, a committee on human rights exists in the parliament of Latvia (initially it was called Committee on Human Rights and Ethnic Affairs, currently—Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee)
Since 1996, the Constitutional court exists. Private persons can submit applications concerning their constitutional rights to it since 2001.
In 1993–1995, the office of State Minister for Human Rights had existed. In 1998, the office of Representative of the Government before International Human Rights Organisations was founded.
In 1995, National Human Rights Office was created, transformed into Ombudsman's Office since 2007.
Several NGOs also concern themselves with the state of human rights in Latvia, among them the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and the Latvian Human Rights Committee.

International rankings
Democracy Index, 2008: 46 out of 167
Worldwide Press Freedom Index, 2010: 30 out of 178.
Worldwide Privacy Index, 2007: 13 out of 37.
Worldwide Quality-of-life Index, 2005: 66 out of 111.
Human Development Index, 2008: 44 out of 179.
Freedom in the World, 2008: Political rights score: 2 and Civil liberties score: 1 (1 being most free, 7 least free).
Global Corruption Report, 2007: 49 out of 163.

See also
ECtHR cases involving Latvia and decided on merits by the Grand Chamber:
 Slivenko v. Latvia
 Ždanoka v. Latvia
 Andrejeva v. Latvia
 Kononov v. Latvia
 Internet censorship and surveillance in Latvia
 LGBT rights in Latvia
 Russians in Latvia
 Latvian nationality law

Literature

References

External links
Constitution
Public authorities
Ombudsman’s Office
Case-law of the Constitutional Court
Representative of the Government before International Human Rights Organisations
Intergovernmental organizations
Human rights in Latvia in the website of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Documents on Latvia by CoE Commissioner for Human Rights
ODIHR documents concerning election observation in Latvia
Other states
US Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Latvia
Human Rights situation in certain countries Russian MFA, 2020
NGOs from Latvia
Latvian Centre for Human Rights
Latvian Human Rights Committee
International NGOs
Information on Latvia in the 2019 Amnesty International Report, pp. 46–47
Information on Latvia on the website of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group
Information on Latvia in the website "Minority Electronic Resources"
Latvia: The Perilous State of Nationality Rights, a 2011 report focusing on statelessness by Refugees International


Riddler's Moon is a television film created for UPN in 1998 for the Thursday Night at the Movies block as part of the six-film Nightworld anthology. It was the second film in the anthology to air on the block. It was subsequently aired again in 1999, before being acquired by the Fox Family Channel in 2000, where it was frequently aired, until the network was purchased by Disney-ABC Television Group in October 2001.

Premise
Previously barren farmland owned by a single mother and her disabled son experiences a supernatural bloom.

Cast
 Corbin Bernsen....George Brenner
 Kate Mulgrew....Victoria Riddler
 Daniel Newman....Elias Riddler
 Finbar Lynch....Kevin Sanders
 Miles Anderson....Ernie
 William Armstrong....Peter Morley
 Martin East....Ericson
 Angie Hill....Dr. Newton
 Jed Curtis....Butcher
 Frances Nacman....Vet
 Ted Rusoff....Pastor
 Robert Sommer....Bartender

Production
Filming took place in Luxembourg in the summer of 1998.
The production went through many obstacles, mainly with the script, which had to be rewritten multiple times by multiple screenwriters. Lead actress Kate Mulgrew even had to part in the writing of key pages. By the time filming began, only 10% of the original script was left.
The unfortunate circumstances were a result of changes in network executive producers, filming locations, and clashes between executives from Paramount Television, Alliance Atlantis, and RTL Group.

Home Media
In the United States, Riddler's Moon was released in several DVD combo packs in 2010 by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.

See also
 List of television films produced for UPN

External links

1998 films
1998 drama films
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
Films directed by Don McBrearty
1990s American films
UPN original films


Juha Pirinen (born 22 October 1991) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a centre-back for Greek Super League 2 club Levadiakos.

Club career
Pirinen has played for Finnish Veikkausliiga club Tampere United and then moved back to his boyhood club FC Haka in January 2011. He played in Haka for three seasons, after which he moved to MYPA. Since MYPA folded in 2015, he played for RoPS. In 2017, he moved to HJK Helsinki.

International career
Pirinen made his international debut for Finland on 10 January 2016 against Sweden.

Honours
HJK
 Veikkausliiga: 2017
Individual
 Veikkausliiga Defender of the Year: 2017
 Veikkausliiga Team of the Year: 2017

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
People from Valkeakoski
Finnish men's footballers
Finland men's under-21 international footballers
Finland men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
FC Haka players
Tampere United players
Myllykosken Pallo −47 players
Rovaniemen Palloseura players
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
Tromsø IL players
AS Trenčín players
Volos F.C. players
Veikkausliiga players
Ykkönen players
Eliteserien players
Slovak First Football League players
Super League Greece players
Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Sportspeople from Pirkanmaa


Darren Evans (born November 9, 1988) is a former American football running back. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Virginia Tech.

Early years
Evans attended Warren Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. As a sophomore, he had 309 attempts for 2,248 yards and 27 touchdowns. As a senior, he was awarded Indiana's Mr. Football Award in 2006 (an honor given to the top high school football player in the state of Indiana) with 288 attempts 2731 yards and 61 touchdowns.

College career

2008 season
On November 6, 2008, Evans broke Mike Imoh's school single-game rushing record, rushing for 253 yards against Maryland. Evans is also the only player in school history to rush for a touchdown during each of his first six games.

Evans was named most valuable player in the 2009 Orange Bowl after gaining 153 yards on 28 carries, and scoring a game-clinching touchdown.

In 2009 summer practice, Evans tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, which forced him to miss the 2009 season.

College statistics

Professional career

Indianapolis Colts
Evans was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent following the 2011 NFL Draft on July 26, 2011. Evans was released on September 20 but added to the practice squad on the 22nd. Evans was re-signed to the active roster on October 15, 2011. He was released by Indianapolis on August 31, 2012.

Tennessee Titans
Evans was signed to the Tennessee Titans practice squad September 3, 2012. He was released on April 19, 2013.

References

External links
Virginia Tech Hokies bio
Interview with Evans and his coach

1988 births
Living people
American football running backs
Virginia Tech Hokies football players
Players of American football from Indianapolis
Indianapolis Colts players
Tennessee Titans players


South African Orienteering Federation (SAOF) is the national Orienteering Association in South Africa. SAOF was founded in 1981, and is recognized as the  orienteering association for South Africa by the International Orienteering Federation, of which it is a member.

SAOF is a member of the umbrella organization, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).

Orienteering championships
SAOF organizes the South African Orienteering championships, which was first held in Silvermine in 1983. The organization selects representatives from South Africa to participate at the World Orienteering Championships (first SAOF participation was in 1993), and they regularly participate at the Junior World Orienteering Championships.

Honorary life members
Honorary life members are Piers Chapman (chairman of SAOF from 1984 to 1988) and Michael Wilson (instrumental in founding SAOF, as well as the RAND Orienteering Club).

References

National members of the International Orienteering Federation
Ori


B'Ho Leon Kirkland (April 9, 1912 – February 20, 2004) was an American football offensive lineman who played in the National Football League.

Born in Columbia, Alabama, he played for the University of Alabama from 1931 to 1933 and was a letterman all three years.  He was picked up by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935.  He played until 1936.  In total, he played in 23 games starting 17 of those.  He played with Bear Bryant both on the college level and the professional level.  He was number 38.

References

1912 births
2004 deaths
People from Houston County, Alabama
Players of American football from Alabama
American football offensive guards
Alabama Crimson Tide football players
Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players


The Chongqing World Financial Center, also known as Global Financial Building (; ) is a late-modernist supertall skyscraper in Chongqing, China. The -tall  office tower contain 79 floors. The skyscraper was first proposed in 2007 and broke ground in 2010. Construction of the glass and steel-building was completed in 2014. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Chongqing, and has been surpassed by the Chongqing International Trade and Commerce Center in 2017.

See also
List of tallest buildings in Chongqing
List of tallest buildings in China

References

2014 establishments in China
Office buildings completed in 2014
Skyscraper office buildings in Chongqing


Triantafyllia (, before 1988: Τριανταφυλλιές - Triantafyllies, before 1927: Μαχμουτζή - Machmoutzi) is a village and a community in Visaltia municipality, Serres regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. The population was 1,124 in 1981, but had dropped to 702 by 2011.

References

External links
 "Triandafilleai, Greece" International Gazetteer from Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Visaltia


Dioclea guianensis is a species of legume native to the Americas.

References

Faboideae


Dr. Toby Maduot Parek (1936-May 24, 2012), was the chairman of the Sudan African National Union (SANU), a member of parliament in the government of southern Sudan (GOSS) Legislative Assembly, and a member of the Sudanese Group for Human Rights (SGHR).

Life
Toby Maduot was born in Rualbet in Tonj North County in 1936, and after early studies in his native Tonj and secondary school at Ahfad in Omdurman, he completed his medical training at Charles University in Czechoslovakia.
Following his return from Eastern Europe in 1965, he worked as a medical doctor in central Sudan and Khartoum, and then joined politics as a SANU member under the leadership of late William Deng Nhial Mabuoch. He held posts as a Minister at the Presidency in Khartoum in 1969, and then as the first Southern Commissioner of Bahr El-ghazal in 1971.
After the Addis Ababa Agreement in 1972, he was elected to the People’s Assembly and named the first Minister of Health of the Southern Regional Government. He subsequently held the Information and Housing portfolios under the then High Executive Council for Southern Sudan. However, his greatest contribution was in his field as a Medical Doctor who selflessly served in the all corners of Sudan, and especially during the years of the second civil war when his clinic in El Haj Yousif in Khartoum was a sanctuary and refuge for thousands of displaced South Sudanese and other marginalized Sudanese living in the shantytowns of Khartoum.

Dr. Maduot was a political philosopher and played an instrumental role in shaping the ideology of SANU which later gave birth to Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement. Working closely with his brother-in-law William Deng Nhial, one of Sudan's most important nationalist leaders in post-independence Sudan, he achieved recognition by the national government as they represented the first southern Sudanese political party. After the 1969 October Revolution, Dr. Maduot served in the cabinet and then was named Commissioner for Bahr al-Ghazal province in 1971.

After the signing of the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972, in which he played a key role, Dr. Maduot became a member of the Southern Region High Executive Council (HEC) as the Minister of Health in the first regional cabinet under Abel Alier, and was elected to the Regional Peoples Assembly. He was subsequently appointed by President Jaafar Nimeiri as the first South Sudanese Commissioner of Bahr elGhazal Region in 1971, and then held several cabinet posts in the HEC under both Abel Alier and Joseph Lagu. Dr. Maduot is a principled human rights activist, secularist thinker, and strong opponent of the war, enslavement, and other disasters that the government has been escalating against the People of Sudan. During the rise of the SPLM/A, Dr. Maduot was one of the few Southern leaders who remained in Khartoum and fought politically as he always did. He operated a small Medical Clinic in one of the most impoverished suburbs of Khartoum in Elhaj Yousif, and devoted himself to fighting for human rights and an end to the war in the South of the country from which most of his patients came. The Sudan government arrested Dr. Maduot continuously along with journalist Alfred Taban, lawyer Mustafa Abdel-Gadir, lawyer Ali Al-Sayed, and many other democratic leaders or professionals who honestly and publicly criticized the regime's repression, war mongering, and non-democracy.

Maduot lived under intensive security surveillance before the peace agreement of 2005. He was repeatedly detained by the regime's security team for years in Khartoum. He was constantly harassed and interrogated but consistently refused to comply with the security team's unlawful procedure, which flagrantly violated international human rights law. On June 28, 2002 SHRO-Cairo issued a follow-up report addressed to the High Commissioner of Human Rights (Geneva), the African Commission on Human Rights (Banjul), and the other human rights organizations. Human rights worldwide call for the release of Dr. Toby Maduot after the government’s extension of his unlawful incarceration irrespective of his urgent need to medical attention at the time. Human rights and others became very involve and Dr. Toby became a known and respected figure as he peacefully shed light on the suffering of his people in Sudan. His Humanitarianism and commitment to democracy and human rights will remain his shining legacy for years to come. Late Dr. Toby Maduot was a husband to Mrs. Carmen Kwei Mawien, Late Mrs. Victoria Yar Arol (a pioneering politician in her own right), and Mrs. Sarah Paul Lako. 18 children and 12 grandchildren survive him. His body rests in Tonj, South Sudan.

References

Sudanese human rights activists
1936 births
2012 deaths
Sudan African National Union politicians
Members of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly
Charles University alumni


William Alexander (16 July 1874 – 1 November 1937) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Llwynypia.

Club career
Alexander began his club rugby days with local rugby team Glynneath, but later moved to Rhondda team Llwynypia. Although an unfashionable second-tier club, Llwynypia provided several international caps around the turn of the century as the 'Rhondda forward' gained acceptability into the Welsh pack. Alexander as a strong prop forward was first selected to represent Wales in the 1898 Home Nations Championship in a game against Ireland, under the captaincy of Billy Bancroft. After a strong Welsh win, Alexander retained his position for the last game of the campaign against England.

Alexander was back for all three matches of the 1899 Championship, which saw Wales demolish England in the opening game at St Helens, but then slip away in the later two encounters against Scotland and Ireland. Alexander missed the 1900 Championship, but played the last two games of the 1901 tournament. These would be his very last internationals, but he finished on a successful note with a clean win against the Irish. Alexander scored his only international points in the Ireland game with two tries. The match is noted as a transition game which saw the end of an older generation, with not only Alexander but also Bancroft playing his last game, and the introduction of future Welsh heroes Rhys Gabe, Dicky Owen and Dick Jones.

International games played
Wales
  1898, 1899
  1898, 1899, 1901
  1899, 1901

Bibliography

References

1874 births
1937 deaths
Ferndale RFC players
Glamorgan Police RFC players
Glynneath RFC players
Llwynypia RFC players
Rugby union players from Glynneath
Rugby union props
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh police officers
Welsh rugby union players
Glamorgan Police officers


Leslie Morrell (born 26 December 1931) is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Morrell was a farmer from near Coleraine, and was active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).  He was elected to Coleraine Rural District Council in 1962, then Londonderry County Council in 1969. He was on several committees, on Coleraine Harbour Board and Coleraine Hospital Management Board as well as Tourism and Water until the 1973 Reorganisation.  In 1973, he was elected to Coleraine District Council and during his service on the Council was successful in expanding housing in Articlave and getting a swimming pool, seafront promenade, bowling green and community hall for Castlerock. He was elected on first preference to the Northern Ireland Assembly from the Londonderry constituency.  Although he was a supporter of UUP leader Brian Faulkner, Morrell refused to sign a pledge to support a relevant White Paper, as asked., but became Deputy-leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, under Brian Faulkner, his wife becoming Vice President of Ulster Women's Unionist Association under Lucy Faulkner. He was a member of the team that met SDLP and Alliance for talks that led to the NI Executive and he was at the Sunningdale Conference where he negotiated the Council of Ireland with Garret Fitzgerald. He introduced the Shannon-Erne Waterway as a cross-border initiative, giving it further encouragement when on the NI Water Council!

Faulkner appointed Morrell as Minister of Agriculture when the Northern Ireland Executive was created. After Sunningdale when Faulkner resigned after losing a vote on the Agreement in the Unionist Council, and Morrell was expelled from the UUP by the North Londonderry Constituency Association, he joined Faulkner's new Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, becoming deputy leader of the party.  The Executive fell as a result of the Ulster Workers' Strike in May 1974. However, Morrell lost his seat in Londonderry in the 1975 elections to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.  Morrell did not defend his seat in the 1977 Northern Ireland local elections, and resigned as deputy leader of the party in 1978, to focus on farming and developing the Voluntary Housing Movement in Northern Ireland

He had attended the Corrymeela Conference on Housing in December 1974 and was elected as a member of the Steering Group to develop Voluntary ( Social ) Housing. When the Federation of Housing associations was set up in 1976 he represented Ulster Provident Housing and was founder-chair of James Butcher Housing NI in February 1976. He was the second Chair of NIFHA in 1981/2 and vacated Chair of James Butcher in 1982 to become Honorary Secretary instead. He retained this office after James Butcher and NIH merged to form Oaklee Housing Association and later when Choice Housing Ireland Ltd. was formed by the merger of Oaklee, Trinity and Ulidia HA's. He retired on 31 March 2016 but was elected as the first Honorary President of Choice Housing. In 2015 the UK Institute of Housing recognised his contribution to the development of Social housing in Northern Ireland with a Lifetime Achievement Award
He helped launch Oaklee Housing Trust, now re-named Oaklee Housing, in the Republic of Ireland with funds from Oaklee, later being elected to its Board where he served until 2018 when tenure ended under the Rules.

He founded and chaired the Virus-tested Seed Potato Growers Association, formed from those who produced the basic healthy seed for the industry in NI., and was a founder member of the NI Institute of Agricultural Science. Before his election to the Assembly, he was an active member of the Ulster Farmers Union, became Chair of its Potato Committee, on the Executive, and was appointed to the NI Agricultural Council, which elected him as Chairman for several years until it was superseded÷ by the NI Assembly in 1973. In 1982, during Direct Rule, he was invited to Chair the NI Water Council, a post he held for 10 years, receiving the OBE in 1986 for his services to Water.

References

1931 births
Living people
Members of Coleraine Borough Council
Farmers from Northern Ireland
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974
Ulster Unionist Party councillors
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland politicians
Executive ministers of the 1974 Northern Ireland Assembly


The Final Riot! is the second official live album by American rock band Paramore and was released on November 25, 2008, with a bonus DVD containing the full live concert plus behind-the-scenes footage.

The DVD was filmed on August 12, 2008, at the Congress Theater in Chicago on The Final Riot! Summer Tour. It contains a documentary entitled "40 Days of Riot!", showing the band on tour. It is available in a standard and limited deluxe edition, which includes a 36-color-page booklet of the tour, along with another documentary, 40 MORE Days of Riot!.

Track listing

Personnel
Hayley Williams – lead vocals, keyboards
Josh Farro – lead guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar on "We Are Broken"
Jeremy Davis – bass guitar, drums on "We Are Broken"
Zac Farro – drums, percussion
Taylor York – rhythm guitar, glockenspiel on "We Are Broken"

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

Paramore live albums
2008 live albums
Fueled by Ramen live albums


Wuxi IFS () is a late-modernist supertall skyscraper in Wuxi, China. The mixed-use tower has a height of  and contain 68 floors. Construction of the -glass and steel-building was completed in 2014.

See also
 List of tallest buildings in China

References

Skyscrapers in Wuxi
Office buildings completed in 2014
2014 establishments in China
Skyscraper office buildings in China
Residential skyscrapers in China
Skyscraper hotels in China
Retail buildings in China
The Wharf (Holdings)


Macropsychanthus grandiflorus is a species of legume native to South America (Bolivia and Brazil). The seeds of Macropsychanthus grandiflorus contain a well-characterized lectin named DGL which is similar to other legume lectins.

See also
ConA

References

Faboideae


Jair Lynch (born October 2, 1971) is an American gymnast and real estate developer in Washington, D.C., in the United States.  He won a silver medal in the parallel bars at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After leaving competitive gymnastics, he became a real estate developer and founded Jair Lynch Development Partners in 1998.

Early life
Lynch was born October 2, 1971, in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father, Acklyn Lynch, was born on the island of Trinidad in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He grew up in the neighborhood of Woodbrook in the city of Port of Spain, and was an avid soccer player in his youth. He spent most of his adult life in the United States, however, obtaining his bachelor degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and his Ph.D. in political science and economics from Harvard University. His father's political activism led the government of Trinidad and Tobago to declare him an "undesirable" in the 1970s. Dr. Lynch taught at Howard University before becoming a professor of political economy and African American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He later became chair of the Department of African Studies. Jair's mother, Martha Fernandez Lynch, was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and obtained her bachelor's degree from Universidad de los Andes. She came to the United States and obtained her master's degree in economics from the School of Advanced International Studies in 1964. She returned to the Universidad de los Andes to conduct research for two years before coming back to Washington, D.C.  The Lynches married in 1965.  Martha Lynch joined the Brookings Institution in 1966, but left after a short time to become an economist with the Organization of American States (OAS). She left the OAS in 1989, and became an independent consultant. Her clients included a wide range of international organizations, including the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Jair has a younger sister, Pilar. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in dance from New York University, and became a dancer and teacher in film and theater studies. She previously performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

The Lynch family moved to Washington, D.C., when Jair was three years old. Jair Lynch grew up in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where he attended Alexander Shepherd Elementary School. He evinced an early interest in architecture, and at the age of three was already replicating famous buildings in the city using Play-Doh and covering tables with cities he would build from Legos (his favorite toy). Although he enjoyed basketball, football, and soccer as a youth, his short height (he topped out at ) and lack of weight (just  as an Olympic gymnast) mitigated against it. Yet he was extremely athletic.

Early involvement with gymnastics
Lynch became involved with gymnastics at the age of eight. At the age of 12, he predicted that he was going to be an Olympic athlete some day. Lynch was plagued with injuries before he turned 18. These included a broken ankle, arm,  finger, hand, and wrist (both of them). In 1985, he began training with coach Rick Tucker at the Gymnastics Plus club in Columbia, Maryland. His father drove him to every gymnastics meet. They would listen to jazz and hip-hop music, and discuss art, music, and sports.

At the 1987 USA Gymnastics' Junior Olympics, Lynch won the pommel horse championship. The following year, he compiled the highest score ever at the Junior Olympics. In 1990, he was the all-around men's champion at the meet.

Lynch graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., and received a full-ride gymnastics scholarship from Stanford University.

Gymnastics

College career
At Stanford University, Lynch was a member and captain of the 1992 and 1993 teams which won the NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship. He was coached by Sadao Hamada and David Juszczyk.

He placed seventh in the all-around competition at the 1991 World Sports Fair.

Olympic career
At the 1992 United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials, Lynch played fourth in the all-around. Lynch became just the third African American to make the U.S. Olympic Team, and just the second to compete. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Lynch finished sixth in the parallel bar competition and 60th in the all-around.  The U.S. men's gymnastics team finished sixth overall.

Lynch faced two major issues while preparing for the 1996 Olympic Summer Games. The first was a strength issue, which impaired his performance on the rings. The second was injuries. After the 1992 games, he suffered a broken left hand, ruptured sternum, and torn right rotator cuff. Lynch sought out Fred Stephens, the strength coach for the Stanford University football team. With Stephens' help, Lynch was able to significantly improve his upper body strength, which helped him to avoid further injury. Working with Sadao Hamada, coach for the 1992 men's Olympic gymnastic team, he developed routines which he felt more comfortable performing. At the American Cup gymnastics competition in early 1996, Lynch placed second. At the Coca-Cola National Championships, he placed first on the parallel bars. He finished sixth at the 1996 United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials after falling twice from the high bar.

Lynch was elected captain of the 1996 U.S. men's gymnastics Olympic team. At the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, he won a silver medal on the parallel bars, becoming the first African American man to win an individual Olympic medal in gymnastics and only the second American man to earn an individual Olympic medal in a non-boycott year since 1976.

Post-competition gymnastics
Beginning in 2004, Lynch began serving on the board of directors of the United States Olympic Committee. He stepped down at the end of 2012.

Business career
Lynch graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and in urban design. He was nominated for a Rhodes scholarship upon graduation. In 2006, Lynch was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

After graduating from Stanford, Lynch worked for three years in the real estate development arm of Silicon Graphics, a California-based computer company.

Lynch moved back to Washington, D.C., and in 1998 founded Jair Lynch Development Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate development firm. The company started out working on small projects such as community centers and low-income housing. In 2003, it won a contract to manage the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation's $100 million capital investment program. The company received a $120 million investment from local real estate developer Victor MacFarlane in 2015, which allowed the firm to begin purchasing sites for development and to operate its own assets. Lynch has stated that his firm is interested in developing neighborhoods around the buildings it develops to help build a stable population. As of 2015, the firm had developed  in and around the District of Columbia.

D.C. Olympic bids
Lynch was a member of the 2001 team which submitted the District of Columbia's bid for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games.

He was also a member of the 2014 team which submitted the District's bid for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games.

Personal life
Lynch's lifelong role model is Jackie Robinson, the African American who broke down racial discrimination in baseball.

Lynch is married to television and film producer Jocelyn Sigue. The couple had a daughter, Pilar, in 2009.

References
Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 Jair Lynch at USA Gymnastics
 Jair Lynch Development Partners Web site

1971 births
Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
American male artistic gymnasts
Stanford Cardinal men's gymnasts
Living people
African-American sportsmen
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople


Jim "Bull" Martin (20 August 1884 – 12 October 1940) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton, Essendon and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Football
Martin played mostly as a forward, often in the pocket. He only made six appearances for Carlton in his debut season and the following year switched to Northcote.

A strongly built and physical player, Martin returned to the league in 1907, with Essendon, playing there for the next seven years. Despite only kicking 16 goals in 1907, it was enough to top the goal-kicking at Essendon. He played in Essendon's losing 1908 Grand Final side.

He missed out on their 1911 premiership when he received a twelve-week suspension mid-season for striking George Holden of Fitzroy. Police later charged Martin with assault, making him the first VFL player to appear before the courts over an on-field incident.

After playing in Esendon's 1912 premiership team in 1912, he crossed to Fitzroy's during the 1913 season and participated in another premiership. This made him the first person in VFL history to play in consecutive premierships at two clubs, a feat later equaled by only Tom Fitzmaurice.

Death
Jim Martin died in Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1940.

References

External links

Essendon Football Club profile

1884 births
1940 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Northcote Football Club players
Carlton Football Club players
Essendon Football Club players
Essendon Football Club premiership players
Fitzroy Football Club players
Fitzroy Football Club premiership players
VFL/AFL premiership players
People from Carlton, Victoria


, also known as Terry, was a Japanese instrumental rock guitarist. His preferred guitar was a black Mosrite with a white pickguard. His guitar sound was characterized by frenetic picking, heavy use of tremolo picking and frequent use of his guitar's vibrato arm.

Terauchi started his career playing rhythm guitar for a country and Western act "Jimmie Tokita & His Mountain Playboys", which had bassist Chosuke Ikariya. In 1962 he formed his first group, The Blue Jeans. However, in 1966 he left the group and formed The Bunnys with whom he played. In May 1967, he also established his own company named "Teraon". He won the "arrangement award" with the song "Let's Go Unmei" at the 9th Japan Record Awards in 1967. He left the Bunnys in 1968. He reformed the Blue Jeans in 1969 and the band has been active until today.

On November 26, 2008, Takeshi Terauchi and the Blue Jeans released the album Mr. Legend from King Records.

Filmography
 (1965)

References

External links
Official Website

Discography
Very Thorough Discography

1939 births
2021 deaths
Japanese rock guitarists
King Records (Japan) artists
Musicians from Ibaraki Prefecture
Surf musicians


Frédéric Lordon (born 15 January 1962) is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris.
He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of Communism as an alternative to Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a Spinoza-inspired materialism. He is considered one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France today.

Education
Lordon studied at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, beginning his studies in 1982 and receiving his degree there in 1985. He graduated with an MBA from the Institut Supérieur des Affaires in 1987. Supervised by Robert Boyer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he completed his doctoral thesis in 1993, in which he "undertook a mathematical modelling of the Regulation School's theses on economic crisis. In the 90s, teaching at Sciences Po and then researching at the CNRS, he turned his attention to economic-policy formation."

Career
Lordon teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris.

He has served since 2004 as a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is a member of  ("Appalled Economists"), a group of economists formed in 2010 who reject mainstream economics' positions, such as the efficient-market hypothesis, etc.

An early observer of the subprime mortgage crisis, he proposed the implementation of a tax he nicknamed SLAM, for Shareholder Limited Authorized Margin, the effect of which would be to limit profits so that profit making ventures in the real economy are not determined "only by the interests of the stock exchange market."

Lordon played an instrumental role in the rise of the Nuit debout movement. He wrote a piece in the February 2016 issue of Le Monde diplomatique on François Ruffin's film, Merci patron!, describing the film as a clarion call for a potential uprising. This prompted Ruffin to organise a public meeting which led to the organisation of the public occupation of Paris's Place de la République on 31 March 2016. Lordon spoke at the 31 March protest, highlighting the goals of disparate protest movements. He never talked to national media about his role in the movement, explaining that he did not wish to be seen as the leader of a leaderless movement.

Work
While Lordon was considered in his early career to be indebted to, and involved with, the French 'regulation school' (a school of economic thought which developed in France in the 1970s and which was indebted to systems theory, the Annales school among others), more recently he has moved towards a much more radically Communist position, and has argued in a number of books and articles for the necessity of naming Communism as a concrete political vision for a post-capitalist society. Lordon has written in favour of what he calls 'Neo-Leninism', which he defines as "1) an objective, that is 2) macroscopic, and 3) an explicit imperative of strategic co-ordination in an adequate form. I hardly need to emphasise the enormity of the problems that this ‘adequate form’ contain. The important point here is that one imperative leads to another. The imperative of strategic co-ordination leads to the imperative of thinking about its proper form."

Lordon's work is an attempt to integrate Spinoza's concepts, such as conatus, into the study of political economy, and Spinoza's influence is clear across Lordon's works. In Vivre sans?, Lordon uses Spinoza's philosophy in order to critique certain currents of contemporary radical left thought, especially The Invisible Committee and Giorgio Agamben, as well as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, and Alain Badiou. In Vivre sans? (2019), "A conception of political action and power drawn from Spinoza is accordingly juxtaposed to a constellation of the antipolitical that evades the urgent challenges of modern political collectivity and conflict via intransitivity (Deleuze's becomings without a future), aesthetics (Rancière's rare political moments) or virtuosity (Badiou's political subject as exceptional sage)." Lordon argues that instead the left should grapple with the question of its relation to institutions, the possibility of revolutionary politics, and provide a positive vision for a communist society.

In Capitalisme, désir et servitude (English: Willing Slaves of Capital), Lordon proposes to rethink the question of labour by combining "a Marxist understanding of wage labour with a Spinozian anthropology of the passions", where "Marx supplies the fundamental framework: capitalism begins with ‘bare life, in need of reproduction’, its precondition the full dependence of labour on the market after the enclosures of the commons. The ‘basal desire’ for money as a means to survive allows the capitalist employer to ‘capture’ the workers’ desires for his own ends. The deteriorating balance of forces between the two has allowed neoliberal capital to indulge in the delirium of unlimited capture, as in employers’ proposals to lower unemployment by deregulating redundancies—the meta-desire to benefit from institutional conditions for the unrestricted pursuit of desire."

He is also a critic of the European Union. Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, Lordon wrote that "Whereas when the pro-EU commentariat exclaim that ‘the UK has been cut off’ after Brexit, they are deadly serious. We should take the poverty of this kind of argument as a solid indicator of the political and rhetorical extremes the ‘defend Europe’ camp has reached, now it has nothing else left – or only this and the spectre of ‘war’ – to try and hold back a wave now at the point of sweeping everything away. Unable to convince populations with evidence of its good deeds, neoliberalism – its European branch in the lead – has no other resource than to oscillate between the imaginary of the turnip and the camp (ramparts, watchtowers, barbed wire) in order to get them to put up with it." He was also critical of the European Union's treatment of Greece's Syriza government in following their 2015 bailout referendum, claiming that "Since the first day of the Syriza government, the European institutions have had no project other than to make sure that it bites the dust, with an exemplary punishment that will make it into a lesson to think about for any other government that might get the idea of not just capitulating; as if it were necessary to erase any trace of the first authentic change of power in Europe for decades."

Books
(in French)
 Les Quadratures de la politique économique ("The quadratures of political economy"), Paris, Albin Michel, 1997
 Fonds de pension, piège à cons. Mirage de la démocratie actionnariale ("Pension funds, a trap for fools. Mirage of shareholder democracy"), Paris, Liber/Raisons d'agir, 2000
 La Politique du capital ("The capitalist policy"), Paris, Odile Jacob, 2002
 Et la vertu sauvera le monde ("And virtue will save the world"), Paris, Liber/Raisons d'agir, 2003
 L'intérêt souverain — Essai d'anthropologie économique spinoziste ("The sovereign interest — Essay of spinozean anthropology"), Paris, La Découverte, 2006
 Spinoza et les sciences sociales. De l'économie des affects à la puissance de la multitude ("Spinoza and the social sciences. From the sentimental economy to the power of the multitudes"), In collaboration with Yves Citton. Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2008
 Jusqu'à quand ? Pour en finir avec les crises financières ("Until when? To put an end to financial crises"), Paris, Éditions Raisons d’agir, 2008
 Conflits et pouvoirs dans les institutions du capitalisme ("Conflicts and powers in the capitalist institutions"), Presses de la Fondation des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 2008
 La crise de trop – Reconstruction d'un monde failli ("The crisis of too much _ Reconstruction of a failed world"), Paris, Éditions Fayard, 2009
 Capitalisme, désir et servitude. Marx et Spinoza ("Capitalism, desire and servitude. Marx and Spinoza"), La Fabrique éditions, 2010
 In English: Willing Slaves of Capital, translated by Gabriel Ash. (London & New York: Verso Books, 2014), ISBN 9781781681602
 D'un retournement l'autre. Comédie sérieuse sur la crise financière (""From one turn to another. Serious comedy on the financial crisis), Paris, Seuil, 2011
 L'intérêt souverain – Essai d'anthropologie économique ("The sovereign interest — Essay of economic anthropology"), Paris, La Découverte, 2011
 Imperium - Structures et affects des corps politique ("Imperium - Structures and affects of political bodies"),Paris,La Fabrique, 2015
In English: Imperium: Structures and Affects of Political Bodies, translated by Andy Bliss, foreword by Alberto Toscano. (London & New York: Verso Books, 2022) ISBN 1786636425
 Les affects de la politique ("The Affects of politics"), Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2016
 La condition anarchique ("The anarchic condition"), Paris, Seuil, 2018
 Vivre sans ? : Institutions, police, travail, argent...("Living Without? : Institutions, police, work, money..."), Paris, La Fabrique, 2019
 Figures du communisme ("Figures of Communism"), Paris, La Fabrique, 2021

References

External links
  (in French)
 La pompe à phynance, blog on the website of Le Monde Diplomatique where Lordon blogs (in French)

20th-century  French economists
Living people
1962 births
Spinoza scholars
Spinozists
Neo-Spinozism
21st-century  French economists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research


Dejan Popović (born 1950 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professor of law and the former rector of Belgrade University between 2004 and 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Ambassador of Serbia to the United Kingdom.

Popović graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School in 1973. He obtained his master's degree in 1976 and PhD in 1980. Since 1991 he has been a professor of law, teaching public finances and finance law.

He has written 13 books and numerous academic articles.

In the Government of Serbia (2001-2004) he was the Deputy Minister of Finance. He is not a member of any political party.

External links
 Official site of the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Professor Popović

1950 births
Living people
Diplomats from Belgrade
Ambassadors of Serbia to the United Kingdom
Lawyers from Belgrade
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
Rectors of the University of Belgrade
20th-century Serbian lawyers
Yugoslav lawyers


SM U-15 or U-XV was a  or U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy ( or ) during World War I. U-15 was constructed in Germany and shipped by rail to Pola where she was assembled and launched in April 1915. She was commissioned in October 1915. U-15 was the most successful boat of the U-10 class, sinking six ships totaling  and 745 tons. The boat survived the war and was handed over to Italy as a war reparation and scrapped in 1920.

Design and construction
U-15 was constructed at AG Weser in Bremen for the Austro-Hungarian Navy and then shipped by rail in sections to the navy yard at Pola, where the sections were riveted together. Though there is no specific mention of how long it took for U-15s sections to be assembled, a sister boat, the German Type UB I submarine UB-3, shipped to Pola from Germany in mid-April 1915, was assembled in about two weeks. U-15 was launched in April.

U-15 was a small, coastal submarine that displaced  surfaced and  submerged. She featured a single shaft, a single  Daimler diesel engine for surface running, and a single  electric motor for submerged travel. U-15 was capable of up to  while surfaced and  while submerged at a diving depth of up to . She was designed for a crew of 17 officers and men.

U-15 was equipped with two  torpedo tubes located in the front and carried a complement of two torpedoes. In October 1916, U-15s armament was supplemented with a 37 mm/23 (1.5 in) quick-firing (QF) gun. This gun was replaced by a /33 QF gun in November 1917.

Operational history
SM U-15 was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 6 October under the command of Linienschiffsleutnant Friedrich Schlosser. On 28 November, Linienschiffsleutnant Friedrich Fähndrich was assigned to the first of two stints in command of the boat. On 18 December, Fähndrich and U-15 attacked and sank two Albanian sailing vessels near Lezhë. The Erzen, of , and the Figlio Preligiona, of , were both sunk at position .
After being relieved by Linienschiffsleutnant Franz Rzemenowsky von Trautenegg from late March to early May 1916, Fähndrich resumed command on 10 May. One week later, on 17 May, U-15 torpedoed and sank the  Italian steamer  in the Adriatic some  east of Brindisi.

The following month, Fähndrich and the crew of U-15 scored their second double kill when they sank the Italian auxiliary cruiser  () and the French destroyer Fourche (745 tons). While about  east of Otranto on 23 June, U-15 torpedoed and sank Cittá di Messina. The escorting destroyer Fourche began a depth charge attack on U-15 and assumed success when an oil slick appeared on the surface. After the captain of Fourche turned his attentions to the rescue Cittá di Messinas survivors, U-15 launched a single torpedo that struck Fourche amidships and sank her.

On 25 October, U-15, back under the command of von Trautenegg, sank the  Italian steamer , a sister ship to Stura (sunk by U-15 in May). Polcevera was the last ship sunk by U-15.

From October 1916 to the end of the fighting in November 1918, U-15s activities are unknown. U-15 was at Pola at the end of the war when Austria-Hungary handed her over to Italy. U-15 was scrapped at Pola by 1920.

Summary of raiding history

Notes

References

Bibliography

U-10-class submarines
Ships built in Bremen (state)
Ships built in Pola
U-boats commissioned in 1915
World War I submarines of Austria-Hungary


Finnish-South African relations are foreign relations between Finland and South Africa.  Diplomatic relations established May 15, 1949.  A South African legation was established in 1967 and relations were then upgraded to ambassadorial level in March 1991. Finland has an embassy in Pretoria, a general consulate in Johannesburg and a consulate in Cape Town. South Africa is accredited to Finland from its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

South Africa supported Finland during the Winter War and supplied 25 Gloster Gauntlets to the Finish air force. During World War II South Africa, along with other Commonwealth nations, declared war on Finland.

Finland was critical of South Africa's official policy of neutrality following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and called for South Africa to support Ukraine.

Agreements
In 2008 South Africa and Finland signed a cooperation agreement to support biosciences projects in the Southern African Development Community.

Apartheid
Finland was a strong supporter of the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa.

Trade
Between 1925 and 1939 Finland was the largest source of imported timber for South Africa.

South Africa exports to Finland fresh and dried fruits, wine, pulp, paper, iron, steel and coal. South Africa imports telecommunication equipment, paper, board products, and machinery from Finland.

Resident diplomatic missions
 Finland has an embassy in Pretoria.
 South Africa is accredited to Finland from its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

See also
 Foreign relations of Finland
 Foreign relations of South Africa
 South Africa–European Union relations

External links
  Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs about relations with South Africa
  South African Department of Foreign Affairs about relations with Finland

References

South Africa
Bilateral relations of South Africa