Zipp 2001 and 3001 were a line of bicycle frames, now discontinued, made by the Zipp company.  Though they have been out of production since 1997, they are still considered one of the fastest time trial frames ever made , and still have a cult following within triathlon, where they remain race-legal .

The mid-1990s were a fertile time for bicycle designers.  New materials (aluminum, carbon fiber) presented new design possibilities, and a number of "non-traditional" designs appeared.  While the Zipp 2001 may be one of the better known products, other frames made in this era included Hotta, Softride, Trek's Y-foil, and the Cheetah Cat.

Theory

Timeline
The frame that was to become the 2001 was first shown in prototype form in 1990, finalized in 1991, and entered production in 1992.  The Zipp 3001 (which was a 2001 with additional boron strips stiffening the carbon fiber) was offered in 1997.  In 1998, the UCI announced that all non-double diamond frames would be illegal for road racing starting in January 2000.  This led Zipp to discontinue production at the end of 1997.

The existing component inventory was sold to one of the men who had worked on frame production, and the frames have not been produced since that time.

Current status
Since January 2000, Zipps have not been legal for use in road racing or UCI organized time trials.  They are, however, legal in triathlon, which has much more liberal equipment rules.  Despite the fact that they have been out of production for 20 years, the frames still have a cult following within triathlon.  While they are known for being flexible, and therefore not well suited to hillclimbing, they are well suited to flatter courses.

Notes

External links
Original Zipp Website Cached
Zipp Timeline with Catalogs by Year

Bicycle parts
Bicycle models


Vermilion Point is a remote, undeveloped shore in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States.  Located  west of Whitefish Point, Michigan, this historic spot lies on a stretch of Lake Superior’s southeast coast known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" or the "Shipwreck Coast".  The servicemen of Vermilion Lifesaving Station performed daring rescues of shipwrecks from 1877 until 1944 when it was closed after modern navigational technology made this service obsolete.

Vermilion Point was a popular stopover for Native Americans, early travelers, and explorers.  Early settlers used its bogs and marshes to grow cranberries that were shipped to Chicago, Illinois, and Duluth, Minnesota.  Today it is protected as a nature preserve for study of avian ecology and research of the piping plover and beach plant community succession.

Ecology
Its sand and pebble beach is intermingled with agates that are churned ashore during storms.  Pounding surf and buffeting winds keep the low barrier dune paralleling the  beach sparsely vegetated.  Water filled Swales, bogs, and marshes occupy the land behind the barrier dune.

Vermilion Point no longer exists as a peninsula.  Sand Creek flowing out of the surrounding wetlands into Lake Superior is the only remaining geographical landmark for Vermilion The original forest cover was lumbered off and is now replaced with typical northern hardwoods and conifers.

Shiras Expeditions
In the early 20th century the University of Michigan conducted, over several years, a comprehensive series of ecological investigations in the Whitefish Point-Vermillion region, supported by George Shiras. Subjects included botany; ichthyology; ornithology; herpetology; and others, and provide nearly 100 years later a valuable set of baseline data for conditions at the time. The report of the flora, for example, includes in addition to a list of plants found and their habitats and locations, many photographs of the area around the Vermillion Station and the nearby wetlands. Many of the results were published under the general title "Results of the Shiras Expeditions to the Whitefish Point Region, Michigan", most by the University of Michigan (Occasional Papers series of several of the museums), the Reports of the Michigan Academy of Science, or the Michigan Geological and Biological Survey.

Early history
Vermilion was named for the nearby vermilion deposits used by the Native Americans for paint.  There is no evidence that Native Americans permanently settled at Vermilion but it was a popular stopover for Native Americans, Voyageurs, Coureur des bois, trappers, and anyone who traveled the south shore of Lake Superior.  Jesuit missionaries were probably the first Europeans to stop at Vermilion in the 17th century.  Territorial governor Lewis Cass and geologist and Indian Agent Henry Schoolcraft  passed through Vermilion Point with a party of 44 in 1820 on an official expedition along the south shore of Lake Superior.  Henry Schoolcraft took overnight shelter from a storm at Vermilion in 1831 when leading a party to vaccinate Native Americans.

Life Saving Service

The Vermilion Lifesaving Station began operation in 1877 on the Lake Superior coast known as the “Graveyard of the Great Lakes” or, the "Shipwreck Coast". Shipwrecks along this coast dramatically increased after the Soo Locks opened this coastline to shipping in 1855.  During this time, the United States Life-Saving Service established three other sister life saving stations between Munising and Whitefish Point, Michigan at Crisp Point Light, Deer Park, and Two Hearted River. Vermilion is the only site of the four life saving stations that still has remaining historical structures.

Servicemen considered duty at the Vermilion Live Saving Station so hard and desolate that some called it the “Alcatraz” of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.  Life for the men and their families was isolated and monotonous except during dangerous, dramatic rescue operations in boiling seas.  For many years there were few roads and supplies were delivered by boat.   During the snowbound winter months in the 1930s, they received their mail by dog sled.

The Vermilion surfmen’s rigorous training and drills with self-bailing and self-righting lifeboats in rolling seas made them so skillful that the United States Life Saving Service chose them to demonstrate their life saving at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904.

The United States Life-Saving Service was merged with U.S. Coast Guard  in 1915.   The advent of bigger and better diesel freighters, better weather forecasting, and improved radio communication and navigational instruments such as radar greatly increased the safety of sailing.  During World War II, the Coast Guard found that the life saving stations were no longing serving a useful purpose.   The Vermilion Life Saving Station was first merged with the Crisp Point Lifesaving Station as an unmanned sub-station in 1940, and then closed in 1944.

Cranberry operation
The low bog lands and surrounding wetlands, small lakes, ponds, and Sand Creek made Vermilion Point ideally suited for cranberry cultivation. By dividing the bogs with earthen walls and damming Sand Creek, workers harvested the cranberries by combing the vines with narrow-tined  forks and floating the ripe, buoyant cranberries that were gathered with wide bottomed scoops.  The cranberries were transported by flat bottomed boat to a large water wheel on Sand Creek that scooped them up from a trough and dumped them on a conveyor belt to a mill.  After the cranberries were sorted and created for shipping or processed into cats-up or jelly, they were loaded onto small trolley cars, and hauled down a tramway to Lake Superior where they were loaded onto small boats and then transferred to a steamer waiting offshore.  The cranberries were shipped to Chicago, Duluth, and other places on the waterways.

The cranberry operation at Vermilion Point lasted from 1887 to 1932 with the greatest production years occurring between 1888 and 1910.  Vermilion Point produced 1,600 bushels of cranberries in 1897.  Today the earthen walls still exist but the marshes are flooded by beaver dams on the channels.  Cranberries can still be found along the edges of the marshes and wet beach areas.

Hard times

When the Coast Guard closed the station, local residents vandalized the original equipment that dated back to 1876 that the Coast Guard left behind.  The station was sold to private owners in 1947 for the sum of $17,000.  It was reported that motorcycle gangs frequented the station in the 1950s and “hippies” took up summer residence in the 1960s.  Four-wheel drive vehicles and snowmobiles destroyed much of the beach grass surrounding the old station in the 1970s.

Vermilion today
In early 1970s the Vermilion Life Saving Station and the surrounding  undeveloped shoreline was privately purchased for preservation and restoration.  Vermilion Point is one of the few Great Lakes sites where the piping plover has successfully nested.  By 2004 it was transferred to the Little Traverse Conservancy as the Vermilion Point Nature Preserve that is used by the Lake Superior State University, the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, and the Michigan Audubon Society for research of the federally endangered piping plover and beach plant community succession as well as student hands-on experience in avian ecology.   The property is open to the public for quiet recreation. No motorized vehicles are allowed on the preserve and the areas around piping plover nests and bird-trapping nets are restricted.

Today in 2023, efforts are underway from a non-profit group called S.O.S. Vermillion, to restore the original boat house and residence quarters.  https://www.sosvermilion.org/

See also
List of lifesaving stations in Michigan

References

External links
 Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy - Vermilion Life Saving Station
 Vermilion - Chippewa County Michigan Genealogy & History
 Little Traverse Conservancy
 U.S. Coast Guard Search & Rescue Index
 Aerial imagery 1992 - 2011 with landscape interpretations

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Victor Andrew Stock AKC (born 24 December 1944) is a retired English Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Guildford in the Church of England.
Apart from his being an  Associate of King's College, he is also a member of the Order of Australia (OAM), an (Honorary) Doctor of the University of Surrey, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is now Priest Vicar of Westminster Abbey.

He has taken part in many discussions on science and religion and was featured as a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage 2012 and 2015 Christmas specials.

Stock was educated at Christopher Wren School, West London and King's College London. Ordained in 1970, he was a curate in Pinner and then Chaplain of the University of London’s Church of Christ the King, Gordon Square. He was Rector of St James and St John Friern Barnet from 1979 to 1986 and of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London from 1986 until 2002. He retired as Dean of Guildford on 31 July 2012, becoming dean emeritus. He is an honorary assistant priest at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.

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Framlingham railway station was located in Framlingham, Suffolk, UK and was the terminus station on the Framlingham Branch.

It opened on 1 June 1859 and closed to passengers in 1952, and to freight in 1965. The first company to operate trains to the station was the Eastern Counties Railway, which had taken over from the East Suffolk Railway Company that built the branch line.

Regular passenger services were withdrawn in November 1952. Subsequently occasional special passenger trains used the line until the goods train services were withdrawn on 19 April 1965. 1963

The station dealt with significant goods traffic until the 1950s and also had a small single tracked engine shed where the branch engine was kept overnight. This was a sub shed belonging to the Ipswich Locomotive District and on 1 January 1922 GER Class C32 (later LNER F3) 2-4-2T no 1066 was allocated there.

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Ivan Frolovich Klimov (, ; 10 September 1903 – 9 October 1991) was a Soviet politician. He was the First Secretary of the Baranavichy Voblast Committee of the Communist Party from 1952 to 1953.

I.F. Klimov was born in 1903 in the Kostykovka village in Gomel region. Member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

From 1915 to 1922 he worked on the Asipovichy-Slutsk railway and on water transport in Gomel. In 1931 he graduated from Belorussian Communist University. He participated in the Liberation campaign of the Red Army in Western Belarus, he worked in the interim administration of Vileyka Voblast, and later as the first secretary of Vileika regional party committee.

During the Great Patriotic War he was the first secretary of the regional party committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, Secretary of Tashkent Regional Party Committee, Secretary of the Operational Group of Minsk Regional Committee of the CP(b)B, the first Secretary of Vileika underground Party Regional Committee.

In the post-war years, for 30 years, he was in the leading position: the first Secretary of Vileika regional party committee, the first secretary of the Baranovichi regional party committee, a deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of BSSR, a deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of BSSR/ a delegate to many congresses of the Communist party of Soviet Union.

He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, 2 Orders of October Revolution, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labour and 8 medals.

He is the author of the books «People of the Narachansky Territory», «Partisans of Vileishchyna».

He died in 1991, at the age of 88.

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Henry George Sandon, MBE (born 4 August 1928) is an English antique expert, television personality, author and lecturer specialising in ceramics and is a notable authority on Royal Worcester porcelain. He was curator of the Dyson Perrins Museum for many years.

Personal life
Born in the East End of London, Sandon was evacuated to Buckinghamshire during the Second World War and finished his schooling at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and became a singer and music teacher at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and a lay clerk in the Worcester Cathedral Choir. He is the father of ceramics and glass expert John Sandon, who is also a well-known television personality.

Career

He began his career as an archaeologist and his knowledge covers pottery and porcelain of all periods and countries. One of his projects was an excavation at the Royal Worcester factory site. He was appointed the curator of the Dyson Perrins Museum at the Royal Worcester Factory in 1966 and held that position until 1982. He has made appearances on the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow. He has written books on the subject of Worcester and other porcelains, and also lectures on the subject.

Honours
In 2000, he was voted Antiques Personality of the Year by the readers of BBC's Homes & Antiques magazine. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to broadcasting, the ceramics industry, and to charity.

The Henry Sandon Hall at the Royal Porcelain works in Worcester is named in his honour. He opened the centre for the arts in 2018.

Selected publications
 1969: The Illustrated Guide to Worcester Porcelain 1751 - 1793. New York: Praeger
 1973: Royal Worcester Porcelain 1862 to the Present Day. London, Barrie and Jenkins; New York: Clarkson N. Potter (2nd ed. 1975; 3rd ed. 1978)

References

External links
Info on Sandon
Publications by Henry Sandon: bibliography
Henry Sandon's Memories of VE Day, Antiques Roadshow website

1928 births
Living people
Antiques experts
Members of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama


The Conditions (, Konditsii) were an 18th-century constitutional project in Russia, signed by Empress Anna of Russia in Mitau on 18 January 1730, giving substantial power to the Supreme Privy Council. When the Empress returned to Russia, she revoked her approval of the Conditions and dissolved the Supreme Privy Council on the 20 February. The members of the council were removed from government and exiled or repressed paving the way for Anna to  become an absolute monarch in the model of her uncle Peter the Great.

Background
In the period January 18 (29) to January 20 (31), 1730 the members of the Supreme Privy Council compiled the conditions immediately after the death of Peter II and before they were sent to the capital of Courland, Mitava, to be presented to Anna of Russia, who had been elected the inheritress of the Russian throne.

A curious feature is that the document remained unpublished by the high officials (“verhovniki). The majority of the nobility had to guess about its content when the conditions have been presented at the meeting of the officials held on February 2 (13), 1730. Only then was there I  the Russian nobility an obvious split - which led, in particular, to the appearance of programs of noble opposition.

The Conditions, according to contemporaries, were only a preliminary document, as a squeeze of the more extensive radical plan developed by the Prince Golitsyn was not approved by the Secret Council. Not having come to an internal agreement, the 'verhovnik did not propose their own draft of the future state structure but suggested to the nobility to develop it by themselves when the nobility were gathered in Moscow to draw up the next Ulozhenanaya Commission and to the failed wedding ceremony of the Peter II.

There were seven major drafts, and none of them preserved absolutism. Some proposed to limit the monarch's power by the parliament or by the state council, according to the English or Swedish model to which Golitsyn's project belonged, others to make the emperor elective as in Poland and still others proposed to establish an aristocratic republic. The most popular project, which was supported by 364 people, was sometimes called the Cherkassky-Tatishchev Projectand would establish the Higher Government of 21 people and introduce the election of members of this government, senators, governors and presidents of colleges by the second chamber of 100 people. Since the Supreme Secret Council would be abolished by the project, most verhovniki were against it.

Dmitry Golitsyn, the main author of the Conditions, did not directly report that the power of the Supreme Secret Council was temporary and so most of the high-ranking officials, as well as many young lower officers, thought that Golitsyn and the Supreme Secret Council wanted to usurp power. All of those misinterpretations were worsened by absolutist propaganda from Theophan Prokopovich.

The nobility began to oppose the Conditions. When Anna Ivanovna came in Moscow, noble delegations came to her demanding her to abolish the Conditions and return to absolutism.

 Terms

The Conditions acted as a constitution binding the monarch in relation to declarations of war, the signing of treaties, the imposing of new taxes, the appointing of officers to ranks higher than plolkovnik'' (colonel), the depriving and granting of estates, appointments to the court ranks and the use of public revenues.

None of those powers could be exercised by the monarch under the Conditions without the approval of the Supreme Privy Council, or else the monarch would face the possibility of deposition.

1730s in the Russian Empire
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Political history of Russia


Nikolay Davydenko was the defending champion, but lost in the second round this year.

David Nalbandian won the title, defeating Andrei Pavel 6–4, 6–1 in the final.

Seeds

  David Nalbandian (champion)
  Nikolay Davydenko (second round)
  Mario Ančić (second round)
  Tommy Haas (semifinals)
  Andrei Pavel (final)
  Igor Andreev (second round)
  Paradorn Srichaphan (second round)
  Rainer Schüttler (first round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

Singles


August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (October 11, 1796 – August 24, 1857) was a German landscape painter.

Life
Ahlborn was born in Hanover, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke. He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts (Berlin) in 1819, where he studied with Karl Wilhelm Wach.

In 1826 he received the Academy Award for a portrait of the New Palace in Potsdam and used the money to travel to Italy in 1827, where he was one of the founders of the Roman Kunstverein. In this period, he lived in Rome, Florence, and Ascoli. In December 1832, he married Therese, the daughter of a government official, in Berlin. In 1833 he became a member of the Prussian Academy. In Italy, Ahlborn and his wife converted to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism, on August 15, 1837. His paintings are mainly of Italian, North German, and Tyrolean landscapes, but also include a few portraits and religious works. Many of his works were in the possession of the royal family of Prussia.

Ahlborn died in Rome in 1857.

Works

 Gothic cathedral on the waterfront, 1823. (inspired by a work by Karl Friedrich Schinkel)
 The Paulinzella monastery ruins, 1824, oil on canvas, 86 × 111 cm, Thuringian State Museum, Heidecksburg.
 View of the New Palace in Potsdam, 1826, 124.8 x 185 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover.
 Coastline at the Gulf of Naples, 1832, oil on canvas, 24 × 80.2 cm,  Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover.
 Vision of the Golden Flower, 1832.
 View of Florence, in 1832, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
 Mountain Landscape, 1835.
 Syracuse, Sicily in morning light, 1836, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover.
 View of Spoleto, in 1840, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover.
 Ruins of the Villa Mills on the Palatine Hill in Rome, 1843, oil on canvas, 33.2 × 46.8 cm.
 Mount Vesuvius landscape, 1852, oil on canvas, 37.5 × 45.5 cm.
 View of the Lake Como, oil on canvas, 100 × 138 cm.
 Selfportrait with brother, down picture, diameter 43 cm, 1827, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover (in the background Cityscape Berlin).

Gallery

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The Gardens of Vatican City (), also informally known as the Vatican Gardens () in Vatican City, are private urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the country, located in the west of the territory and owned by the Pope. There are some buildings, such as Vatican Radio and the Governor's Palace, within the gardens.

The gardens cover approximately , about half of the city. The highest point is  above mean sea level. Stone walls bound the area in the North, South, and West. The gardens and parks were established during the Renaissance and Baroque era and are decorated with fountains and sculptures.

Pope Francis opened the Vatican Gardens to the public in 2014. Individuals and pre-formed groups, considered to consist of sixteen or more people, may visit the Gardens with the presence of a tour guide. The gardens also enshrine eighteen Marian images venerated worldwide at the designation of the Pope, who is the owner of the gardens.

History

Pious tradition claim that the foundation site of the Vatican Gardens was spread with sacred soil brought from Mount Calvary by Empress Saint Helena to symbolically unite the blood of Jesus Christ with that shed by thousands of early Christians, who died in the persecutions of Emperor Nero Caesar Augustus.

The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. In 1279, Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1277–1280) moved his residence back to the Vatican from the Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls. He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum), and a garden (viridarium). Firstly, they appeared near the hills of Sant'Egidio where today the Palazzetto del Belvedere and the Courtyards of the Vatican Museums are located.

The site received a major re-landscaping at the beginning of the 16th century, during the pontificate of Pope Julius II. Donato Bramante's original design was then split into three new courtyards, the Cortili del Belvedere, the "della Biblioteca" and the "della Pigna" (or Pine Cone) in the Renaissance landscape design style. Also in Renaissance style, a great rectangular Labyrinth, formal in design, set in boxwood and framed with Italian stone pines, (Pinus pinea) and cedars of Lebanon, (Cedrus libani). In place of Nicholas III's enclosure, Bramante built a great rectilinear defensive wall.

In 1921 a fire broke out inside the sanctuary of the Basilica of Loreto and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of Loreto. The statue was commissioned by Pope Pius XI in 1922. It was carved from cedars of Lebanon from the Vatican Gardens. The sculpture, designed by Enrico Quattrini and painted by Leopoldo Celani, is still one of the most venerated today in the Basilica of Loreto, in the Marche region.

Since the end of 2014, the Vatican Museums and the Directorate of Technical Services of the Governorate of Vatican City State have been running the project of restoration and conservation of various stone artifacts in the gardens. The goal of the project has been to prevent the deterioration of the objects of art-historical interest.

In October 2017 the professionals involved in the restoration conducted a study to consider, from a scientific point of view, modern methods and eco-sustainable techniques in application to  the conservation of the artifacts over time. After a careful study, they opted for non-toxic and environmentally friendly products, such as oregano (Origanum vulgare) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris), along with other plant protection products used individually or combined.

Today's Vatican Gardens are spread over nearly , they contain a variety of medieval fortifications, buildings and monuments from the 9th century to the present day, set among vibrant flower beds and topiary, green lawns and a  patch of forest. There are a variety of fountains cooling the gardens, sculptures, an artificial grotto devoted to Our Lady of Lourdes, and an Olive tree donated by the government of Israel.

Both the Vatican and Castel Gandalfo gardens became open to the general public in 2014.

In 2019, Rafael Tornini, head of the Garden and Environment Service of the Vatican, announced the gardens had been transitioning to organic lawn management since 2017.

Patroness of the Gardens
Pope Pius XI designated Saint Therese of Lisieux The Little Flower as the official Patroness of the gardens on 17 May 1927, according to her the title as "Sacred Keeper of the Gardens" and within the same year, a small chapel dedicated to her was built within the gardens near the Leonine walls.

List of Marian images enshrined

The following are venerated images of the Blessed Virgin Mary enshrined at the Vatican Gardens:

Gallery

See also
 Vatican Climate Forest
 Index of Vatican City-related articles

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Ricci, Corrado. "Vatican: Its History Its Treasures" Contributor Ernesto Begni. copyright 2003 Published by Kessinger Publishing, ,

Sources
The initial version is based upon the article :it:Giardini Vaticani of the Italian language edition of Wikipedia. Data concerning the measures of lengths were taken from the article :de:Vatikanische Gärten of the German language edition of Wikipedia.

External links

 The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the gardens (pp. 155–164)

Geography of Vatican City
Parks in Vatican City


Ahlborn is the surname of:
 Ania Ahlborn, Polish novelist
 August Ahlborn (1796–1857), German landscape painter active in Italy
 Dirk Ahlborn, American entrepreneur
 Lea Ahlborn (1826–1897), Swedish artist and first woman to serve as royal printmaker

See also
 Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Ahlborn, 2006 U.S. Supreme Court case
 Ahlborn-Galanti, U.S. organ manufacturer


The winners of the 1996 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, the association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation, are listed below.

First round

West Asia

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1 Al Qadisiyah withdrew

East Asia

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1 Old Benedictines withdrew after 1st leg
2 2nd leg also reported 0–1
3 Lam Pak withdrew before 1st leg

Second round

West Asia

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East Asia

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1 Valencia withdrew after 1st leg
2 1st leg also reported as 5–1

Quarterfinals

West Asia

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1 Al Nasr withdrew after 1st leg

East Asia

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Semifinals

Third place match

Final

References
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ACWC finals

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James Addison Baker ("the elder") (March 3, 1821 – February 24, 1897) was a state legislator, state judge, and a lawyer. He is the first of four generations of persons named James Addison Baker, all of whom practiced law. He was known as "Judge Baker" after 1864. His son, also named James A. Baker, was a personal attorney for William Marsh Rice; and his great-grandson is James Baker, former President's Chief of Staff and former Secretary of State.

Early life
James Addison Baker was born on March 3, 1821, to Elijah Adam and Jane Saxton Baker in Madison County, Alabama. Elijah farmed a plantation created from an 1826 land grant in Lauderdale County, Alabama. Elijah and Jane had nine children, with only six surviving childhood: five sons and one daughter.

Career
Baker taught at a local school in 1839. He started a law career in 1841, first as a clerk for a chancery court, then joining the Alabama bar and practicing as a lawyer in 1843.

Baker was wedded to Caroline Hightower in 1849, and the marriage ended in her death in January 1852. Just a few months later Baker moved to Huntsville, Texas, where he practiced law for two decades. His in-laws were already established there, and he was involved in the family's businesses and estates. His four brothers joined him in Huntsville during the 1850s.

In  1860, Baker was elected to represent the Huntsville region in the Texas legislature. He volunteered to serve the Confederacy in the Civil War, reporting for duty in Galveston, but remaining only for six months. He ran in a special election in 1862 to fill an unexpired term in the 7th Texas Judicial District. He won the election in May and presided over his first case in December. The court was located in Houston, but he returned to Huntsville to reside with his family between while the court was out of session. His last case ended on June 1, 1865. The Reconstruction Governor of Texas removed Baker from his post. Baker subsequently relocated to Houston to practice as an attorney in that city, which was renamed Gray, Botts, and Baker to acknowledge its new junior partner. This firm is more recently known as Baker Botts.

While practicing law in Huntsville, Baker specialized in railroad issues. As Houston was emerging as a hub for rail transport, Gray, Botts, and Baker increased its activity in railroad law. The firms' first railroad clients were the Houston and Texas Central and the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, and it handled matters such as shipper's liability as a common carrier and liquidating land grants. Later the firm represented Jay Gould and the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with Baker as a key member of Gould's legal team. After 1893, the firm by then known as Baker & Botts, was general counsel for the Southern Pacific.

Personal life
Baker married Rowena Crawford on September 27, 1853, in Huntsville. After a first child who died in infancy, Rowena bore four more children: James, "Minnie," and Anna who survived childhood.

Death and legacy

Baker died February 24, 1897, and is interred in Huntsville. Baker was a partner for a law firm started in 1840 by Peter Gray, later known as Baker, Botts and Baker, and more recently known as Baker Botts, having celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2015.

Baker was the father of Houston banker, lawyer, and original Rice University trustee James A. Baker (born 1857) and the great-grandfather of the Reagan and G. H. W. Bush administration political figure James A. Baker III.

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People from Madison County, Alabama
People of Texas in the American Civil War
Confederate States Army
19th-century American politicians
People associated with Baker Botts
19th-century American judges


Sports TV Uganda Limited was incorporated in October 2007, and has been licensed by the Uganda Broadcasting Council  on February 29, 2008. Sports TV has commenced test broadcast on July 14, 2008.

The station is broadcasting sports from around the world, and 24/7, free-to-air. It is privately owned by Bent and Nada Andersen. Sports TV is broadcasting sports programmes compiled by Setanta Africa network, a free-to-air broadcasters' network that is spreading across Africa, with broadcasters in over 20 African countries.

Information
Sports TV is the first sports-only television channel in Uganda. As the last entrant on the Ugandan TV scene, the channel is already very popular and covers the central regions of Uganda, stretching as far as Busia town on Uganda-Kenya border in the north-east, and beyond Kalangala Islands and Masaka town in the south-east parts of the country.

Sports TV has acquired all its broadcasting equipment from ABE Electronica in Italy, including a solid state digital-ready 3KWA transmitter. Sports TV is, as other media houses in Uganda, licensed by Uganda Broadcasting Council, Uganda Communication Commission  and Uganda Media Council.

Sports TV entered a frequency and revenue sharing contract with the Vision Group, and was broadcasting as Urban TV and thereafter as Bukedde 2. Due to the breach of contract, Sports TV and Vision Group ended in a protracted legal battle from 2013 until end of 2018, when the Commercial Court of the Republic of Uganda ruled in favour of Sports TV. However, the broadcasting equipment remained at the premises of Vision Group and by the time the court case was under way, Sports TV was unable to retrieve it and continue broadcasting on its own, thus losing its broadcasting license in the process.

Sports TV now operates as a content provider and plans to remain involved in sports production and broadcasting through placement on local TV channels.

References

Mass media companies of Uganda
Mass media companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Uganda
Television in Uganda


Baba Luba is an Israeli documentary that follows musician Danny Bassan on his journey to Brazil to find his long-lost father. It won the Best Documentary category at the Israeli Film Academy Awards.

See also
 Cinema of Israel
 Culture of Israel

References

External links
Danny Bassan's music
The Jewish Channel's review
New Israeli Foundation for Cinema
Amythos Films website

Israeli documentary films
1995 films
Documentary films about Jews and Judaism
Hebrew-language films
Documentary films about music and musicians
1995 documentary films
1990s English-language films


Računalniške novice is a Slovenian computer magazine.

Profile
Računalniške novice was established in 1996. It is issued biweekly. The owner and publisher is STROMBOLI, marketing, d.o.o.

It sells computer hardware, software, and microchips from around the world as well as video games and game equipment.

See also
 List of magazines in Slovenia

References

External links
 Official website

Biweekly magazines
Magazines established in 1996
Mass media in Ljubljana
Computer magazines published in Slovenia
Slovene-language magazines


Lake Sylbicë () is a large mountain lake in the Accursed Mountains range in the north of Albania with an area of . It is about  from the border with Kosovo. This lake is surrounded with meadows and is just east of the somewhat larger Lake Dash.

References

Sylbice
Accursed Mountains


Thomas Rees (8 May 1913 – 19 February 1991) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Newport RFC. He was a member of the winning Welsh team who beat the 1935 touring All Blacks.

Rugby career
Rees joined Newport in 1934 after joining Newport Police Force. In 1935 he was part of the Newport team that faced the touring New Zealand team. Newport lost the game 17-5 in a game noted for its physicality in the scrum and during rucks. Rees was also chosen to represent Wales against the same touring New Zealand team, but earlier in the year had already gained his first Welsh cap when he was selected to face both Scotland and Ireland in the Home Nations Championship.

Rees' first international match was against Scotland under the captaincy of Claude Davey. Wales won the game 10-6, mainly thanks to an impressive display from Cliff Jones. His second international, at Ravenhill in Belfast, saw Wales lose to Ireland, the eventual tournament winners. His next international game was against the New Zealand tourists in a close game which Wales won in the last few minutes. In 1936 Rees played in all three games of the Home Nations Championship which Wales won after beating Scotland and Ireland and drawing with England. Rees played in the first two games of the 1937 Championship, with his final game being against Scotland at St Helens.

In 1938 Rees was approached to play for the British Lions in their 1938 tour of South Africa, but turned them down for financial reasons.

International games played
Wales
  1936, 1937
  1935, 1936, 1937
  1935
  1935, 1936

Bibliography

References

1913 births
1991 deaths
Abertillery RFC players
Cross Keys RFC players
Ebbw Vale RFC players
Newport RFC players
Pontypool RFC players
Rugby union players from Caerphilly
Rugby union props
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh rugby union players


Nikopol Raion () is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Nikopol. Population:

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Nikopol Raion was significantly expanded. One abolished raion, Tomakivka Raion, Marhanets and Pokrov Municipalities, as well as the city of Nikopol, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Nikopol Raion. The area of the raion before expansion was  (second largest among all the raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

The southern border of the raion is by the Kakhovka Reservoir by the Dnieper River.

Subdivisions

Current
After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of eight hromadas:
 Chervonohryhorivka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Chervonohryhorivka, retained from Nikopol Raion;
 Marhanets urban hromada with the administration in the city of Marhanets, transferred from Marhanets Municipality;
 Myrove rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Myrove, transferred from Tomakivka Raion;
 Nikopol urban hromada with the administration in the city of Nikopol, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Nikopol;
 Pershotravneve rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Pershotravneve, retained from Nikopol Raion;
 Pokrov urban hromada with the administration in the city of Pokrov, transferred from Pokrov Municipality;
 Pokrovske rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Pokrovske, retained from Nikopol Raion;
 Tomakivka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Tomakivka, transferred from Tomakivka Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas:
 Chervonohryhorivka settlement hromada with the administration in  Chervonohryhorivka;
 Pershotravneve rural hromada with the administration in  Pershotravneve;
 Pokrovske rural hromada with the administration in  Pokrovske.

References

Zaporozhian Sich historic sites
1923 establishments in Ukraine


Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), is a cloud computing platform run by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers. It also provides a range of capabilities, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure supports many programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Azure was first introduced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008 under the codename "Project Red Dog." It was officially launched as Windows Azure in February 2010 and later renamed Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014.

Services
Microsoft Azure uses large-scale virtualization at Microsoft data centers worldwide and offers more than 600 services.

Computer services
 Virtual machines, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) allowing users to launch general-purpose Microsoft Windows and Linux virtual machines, software as a service (SaaS) as well as preconfigured machine images for popular software packages.
Starting in 2022, VMs are powered by Ampere Cloud-native processors.
 Most users run Linux on Azure, some of the many Linux distributions offered, including Microsoft's own Linux-based Azure Sphere.
 App services, platform as a service (PaaS) environment letting developers easily publish and manage websites.
Websites, Azure Web Sites allows developers to build sites using ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, Java, or Python and can be deployed using FTP, Git, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or uploaded through the user portal. This feature was announced in preview form in June 2012 at the Meet Microsoft Azure event. Customers can create websites in PHP, ASP.NET, Node.js, or Python, or select from several open-source applications from a gallery to deploy. This comprises one aspect of the platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for the Microsoft Azure Platform. It was renamed Web Apps in April 2015.
 WebJobs are applications that can be deployed to an App Service environment to implement background processing that can be invoked on a schedule, on-demand, or run continuously. The Blob, Table and Queue services can be used to communicate between WebApps, XYZ, iOS Software and WebJobs and to provide state.
 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to quickly deploy a production-ready kubernetes cluster in Azure. Azure is responsible for managing the control plane and customers get the flexibility to choose/scale the data place (kubernetes worker nodes).
 In July 2023, the general availability for Watermarking support on Azure Virtual Desktop was announced; an optional protection feature to Screen Capture that acts as a deterrent for data leakage.

Identity
 Azure Active Directory Connect is used to synchronize on-premises directories and enable SSO (Single Sign On).
 Azure Active Directory B2C allows the use of consumer identity and access management in the cloud.
 Azure Active Directory Domain Services is used to join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers.
 Azure information protection can be used to protect sensitive information.
 Azure Active Directory External Identities are a set of capabilities which allow organizations to collaborate with external users including customers and partners.

Mobile services
 Mobile Engagement collects real-time analytics that highlight users’ behavior. It also provides push notifications to mobile devices.
 HockeyApp can be used to develop, distribute, and beta-test mobile apps.

Storage services
 Storage Services provides REST and SDK APIs for storing and accessing data on the cloud.
 Table Service lets programs store structured text in partitioned collections of entities that are accessed by the partition key and primary key. Azure Table Service is a NoSQL non-relational database.
 Blob Service allows programs to store unstructured text and binary data as object storage blobs that can be accessed by an HTTP(S) path. Blob service also provides security mechanisms to control access to data.
 Queue Service lets programs communicate asynchronously by message using queues.
 File Service allows storing and access of data on the cloud using the REST APIs or the SMB protocol.

Communication services
Azure Communication Services offers an SDK for creating web and mobile communications applications that include SMS, video calling, VOIP and PSTN calling, and web based chat.

Data management
 Azure Data Explorer provides big data analytics and data-exploration capabilities
 Azure Search provides text search and a subset of OData's structured filters using REST or SDK APIs.
 Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service that implements a subset of the SQL SELECT statement on JSON documents.
 Azure Cache for Redis is a managed implementation of Redis.
 StorSimple manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and cloud storage.
 Azure SQL Database works to create, scale and extend applications into the cloud using Microsoft SQL Server technology. It also integrates with Active Directory, Microsoft System Center and Hadoop.
 Azure Synapse Analytics is a fully managed cloud data warehouse.
 Azure Data Factory, is a data integration service that allows creation of data-driven workflows in the cloud for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation.
 Azure Data Lake is a scalable data storage and analytic service for big data analytics workloads that require developers to run massively parallel queries.
 Azure HDInsight is a big data relevant service, that deploys Hortonworks Hadoop on Microsoft Azure, and supports the creation of Hadoop clusters using Linux with Ubuntu.
 Azure Stream Analytics  is a Serverless scalable event processing engine that enables users to develop and run real-time analytics on multiple streams of data from sources such as devices, sensors, web sites, social media, and other applications.

Messaging
The Microsoft Azure Service Bus allows applications running on Azure premises or off-premises devices to communicate with Azure. This helps to build scalable and reliable applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The Azure service bus supports four different types of communication mechanisms:
 Event Hubs, which provide event and telemetry ingress to the cloud at a massive scale, with low latency and high reliability. For example, an event hub can be used to track data from cell phones such as coordinating with a GPS in real time.
 Queues, which allow one-directional communication. A sender application would send the message to the service bus queue, and a receiver would read from the queue. Though there can be multiple readers for the queue only one would process a single message.
 Topics, which provide one-directional communication using a subscriber pattern. It is similar to a queue, however, each subscriber will receive a copy of the message sent to a Topic. Optionally the subscriber can filter out messages based on specific criteria defined by the subscriber.
 Relays, which provide bi-directional communication. Unlike queues and topics, a relay doesn't store in-flight messages in its memory. Instead, it just passes them on to the destination application.

Media services
A PaaS offering that can be used for encoding, content protection, streaming, or analytics.

CDN
Azure has a worldwide content delivery network (CDN) designed to efficiently deliver audio, video, applications, images, and other static files. It improves the performance of websites by caching static files closer to users based on their geographic location. Users can manage the network using a REST-based HTTP API.

Azure has 118 point of presence locations, across 100 cities, worldwide (also known as Edge locations) as of January 2023.

Developer
 Application Insights
 Azure DevOps

Managements
 With Azure Automation, users can easily automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, often prone to cloud or enterprise setting errors. They can accomplish it using runbooks or desired state configurations for process automation.
 Microsoft SMA

Azure AI
 Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) provides tools and ML frameworks for developers to create their own machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) services.
 Azure Cognitive Services by Microsoft comprise prebuilt APIs, SDKs, and services developers can customize. These services encompass perceptual and cognitive intelligence features such as speech recognition, speaker recognition, neural speech synthesis, face recognition, computer vision, OCR/form understanding, natural language processing, machine translation, and business decision services. Many AI characteristics in Microsoft's products and services, namely Bing, Office, Teams, Xbox, and Windows, are driven by Azure Cognitive Services.

Azure Blockchain Workbench

Through Azure Blockchain Workbench, Microsoft is providing the required infrastructure to set up a consortium network in multiple topologies using a variety of consensus mechanisms. Microsoft provides integration from these blockchain platforms to other Microsoft services to streamline the development of distributed applications. Microsoft supports many general-purpose blockchains including Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric and purpose-built blockchains like Corda.

Function
Azure functions are used in serverless computing architectures where subscribers can execute code as an event driven Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) without managing the underlying server resources. Customers using Azure functions are billed based on per-second resource consumption and executions.

Internet of Things (IoT)
Azure IoT Hub lets you connect, monitor, and manage billions of IoT assets. On February 4, 2016, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the Azure IoT Hub service.
Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on IoT Hub that allows for cloud intelligence deployed locally on IoT edge devices.
Azure IoT Central is a fully managed SaaS app that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale. On December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced the Public Preview of Azure IoT Central; its Azure IoT SaaS service.
 On October 4, 2017, Microsoft began shipping GA versions of the official Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit (DevKit) board; manufactured by MXChip.
 On April 16, 2018, Microsoft announced the launch of the Azure Sphere, an end-to-end IoT product that focuses on microcontroller-based devices and uses Linux.
 On May 7, 2018, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Maps, an enterprise mapping platform.
 On June 27, 2018, Microsoft launched Azure IoT Edge, used to run Azure services and artificial intelligence on IoT devices.
On November 20, 2018, Microsoft launched the Open Enclave SDK for cross-platform systems such as ARM TrustZone and Intel SGX.

Azure Stack HCI
Azure Stack HCI is a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) product that uses validated hardware to run virtualized workloads on-premises to consolidate aging infrastructure and connect to Azure for cloud services.

Azure Orbital
Launched in September 2020, Azure Orbital lets private industries and government agencies process satellite data quickly by connecting directly to cloud computing networks. Mobile cloud computing ground stations are also available to provide connectivity to remote locations without ground infrastructure. Third-party satellite systems, like SpaceX's Starlink and SES' O3b constellation, can be employed.

SES plans to use Microsoft's data centers to provide cloud connectivity to remote areas through its next-generation O3b mPOWER MEO satellites alongside Microsoft's data centers. The company will deploy satellite control and uplink ground stations to achieve this. SES launched the first two O3b mPOWER satellites in December 2022; nine more are scheduled between 2023 and 2024. The service should begin in Q3 2023.

According to Microsoft, using satellites to connect to cloud data centers may provide faster speeds than complex fiber routes. For online media, entertainment, or gaming activities, connecting from home to the cloud can involve longer routes with multiple hops. Through their experiments with Xbox Cloud, Microsoft has discovered that satellite connection is faster than terrestrial networks in certain parts of the world (including specific locations in the USA).

Regional expansion
As of 2018, Azure was available in 54 regions, and Microsoft was the first primary cloud provider to establish facilities in Africa, with two regions in South Africa. Azure geographies consist of multiple Azure Regions, like "North Europe" (located in Dublin, Ireland) and "West Europe" (located in Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Middle East cloud data centers
On June 19, 2019, Microsoft announced the launch of two new cloud regions in the United Arab Emirates – Microsoft's first in the Middle East. Microsoft's management stated that these new data centers would empower customers and partners to embrace the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and achieve more using cloud technologies.

Research partnerships
Microsoft has partners that sell its products. In August 2018, Toyota Tsusho began a partnership with Microsoft to create fish farming tools using the Microsoft Azure application suite for IoT technologies related to water management. Developed in part by researchers from Kindai University, the water pump mechanisms use artificial intelligence to count the number of fish on a conveyor belt, analyze the number of fish, and deduce the effectiveness of water flow from the data the fish provide. The specific computer programs used in the process fall under the Azure Machine Learning and the Azure IoT Hub platforms.

Design
Microsoft Azure utilizes a specialized operating system with the same name to power its "fabric layer". This cluster is hosted at Microsoft's data centers and is responsible for managing computing and storage resources and allocating them to applications running on the Microsoft Azure platform. It's a "cloud layer" built upon various Windows Server systems, including the customized Microsoft Azure Hypervisor, which is based on Windows Server 2008 and enables the virtualization of services.

The Microsoft Azure Fabric Controller maintains the scalability and dependability of services and environments in the data center. It prevents failure in server malfunction and manages users' web applications, including memory allocation and load balancing.

Azure provides an API built on REST, HTTP, and XML that allows a developer to interact with the services offered by Microsoft Azure. Microsoft also provides a client-side managed class library that encapsulates the functions of interacting with the services. It also integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio, Git, and Eclipse.

Users can manage Azure services in multiple ways, one of which is through the Web-based Azure Portal, which became generally available in December 2015. Apart from accessing services via API, users can browse active resources, adjust settings, launch new resources, and view primary monitoring data of functional virtual machines and services using the portal.

Deployment models
Regarding cloud resources, Microsoft Azure offers two deployment models: the "classic" model and the Azure Resource Manager. In the classic model, each resource, like a virtual machine or SQL database, had to be managed separately. But in 2014, Azure introduced the Azure Resource Manager, which allows users to group related services. This update makes it easier and more efficient to deploy, manage, and monitor resources that work closely together. The classic model will eventually be phased out.

History and timeline

In 2005, Microsoft took over Groove Networks, and Bill Gates made Groove's founder Ray Ozzie one of his 5 direct reports as one of 3 chief technology officers. Ozzie met with Amitabh Srivastava, which let Srivastava change course. They convinced Dave Cutler to postpone his retirement and their teams developed a cloud operating system.

 October 2008 (PDC LA) – Announced the Windows Azure Platform.
 March 2009 – Announced SQL Azure Relational Database.
 November 2009 – Updated Windows Azure CTP, Enabled full trust, PHP, Java, CDN CTP and more.
 February 1, 2010 – Windows Azure Platform commercially available.
 June 2010 – Windows Azure Update, .NET Framework 4, OS Versioning, CDN, SQL Azure Update.
 October 2010 (PDC) – Platform enhancements, Windows Azure Connect, improved Dev / IT Pro Experience.
 December 2011 – Traffic manager, SQL Azure reporting, HPC scheduler.
 June 2012 – Websites, Virtual machines for Windows and Linux, Python SDK, new portal, locally redundant storage.
 April 2014 – Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure, ARM Portal introduced at Build 2014.
 July 2014 – Azure Machine Learning public preview.
 November 2014 – Outage affecting major websites including MSN.com.
 September 2015 – Azure Cloud Switch introduced as a cross-platform Linux distribution. Currently known as SONiC
 December, 2015 – Azure ARM Portal (codename "Ibiza") released.
 March, 2016 – Azure Service Fabric is Generally Available (GA)
 May 7, 2018 - Azure Maps is Generally Available (GA)
 July 16, 2018 – Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview
 September 24, 2018 – Microsoft Azure IoT Central is Generally Available (GA)
 October 10, 2018 – Microsoft joins the Linux-oriented group Open Invention Network.
 April 17, 2019 – Azure Front Door Service is now available.
 March 2020 – Microsoft said that there was a 775% increase in Microsoft Teams usage in Italy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company estimates there are now 44 million daily active users of Teams worldwide.

Privacy
According to the USA PATRIOT Act, Microsoft has acknowledged that the U.S. government can access data even if the hosting company is not American and the data is outside the U.S. To address concerns related to privacy and security, Microsoft has established the Microsoft Azure Trust Center. Microsoft Azure offers services that comply with multiple compliance programs, including ISO 27001:2005 and HIPAA. A comprehensive and up-to-date list of these services is available on the Microsoft Azure Trust Center Compliance page. It's worth noting that Microsoft Azure has received JAB Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the U.S. government under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) guidelines. This program provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud services used by the federal government.

Security
In July 2023, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden called on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Justice Department, and the Federal Trade Commission to hold Microsoft accountable for what he described as "negligent cybersecurity practices." This came in the wake of an alleged cyberattack orchestrated by Chinese hackers, who exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft's software to compromise U.S. government email systems. Similarly, Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity firm Tenable, Inc., lambasted Microsoft for what he termed "grossly irresponsible" actions, accusing the company of fostering a "culture of toxic obfuscation."

Significant outages
The following is a list of Microsoft Azure outages and service disruptions.

Certifications

A large variety of Azure certifications can be attained, each requiring one or multiple successfully completed examinations.

Certification levels range from beginner, intermediate to expert.

Examples of common certifications include:

 Azure Fundamentals
 Azure Data Fundamentals
 Azure AI Engineer Associate
 Azure AI Fundamentals
 Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
 Azure Administrator Associate
 Azure Data Engineer Associate
 Azure Data Scientist Associate
 Azure Database Administrator Associate
 Azure Developer Associate
 Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate
 Azure Security Engineer Associate
 Azure Security Operations Analyst Associate
 Azure Identity and Access Administrator Associate
 Azure Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
 Azure Network Engineer Associate
 Azure Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
 Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
 Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
 Azure Customer Data Platform Specialty
 Azure Cybersecurity Architect Expert
 Azure Solutions Architect Expert
 Azure Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
 Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Key people
 Dave Cutler, Lead Developer, Microsoft Azure
Mark Russinovich, CTO, Microsoft Azure
 Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of the Cloud and AI group in Microsoft
 Jason Zander, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure
 Julia White, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure

See also
 Cloud-computing comparison
 Comparison of file hosting services
 Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
 CBL-Mariner

References

Citations

Sources

 Azure Documentation
 Microsoft Azure

Further reading

External links

Cloud computing providers
Cloud computing
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms
Cloud storage
Computer-related introductions in 2010
Microsoft cloud services


Fast Forward is the fourteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1990 by GRP Records. On this album only, the band was billed on the album cover as "Spyro Gyra featuring Jay Beckenstein". At Billboard magazine, the album peaked at No. 117 on the Top 200 Albums chart.

Track listing
 "Bright Lights" (Dave Samuels) – 5:20
 "Para Ti Latino" (Oskar Cartaya) – 4:15
 "Alexandra" (Jay Beckenstein) – 4:43
 "Ocean Parkway" (Jeremy Wall) – 4:30
 "Speak Easy" (Jeff Beal) – 5:03
 "Futurephobia" (Tom Schuman) – 4:22
 "4MD" (Wall) – 4:36
 "Shadow Play" (Beckenstein) – 5:05
 "Escape Hatch" (Schuman) – 5:12
 "Tower of Babel" (Beckenstein) – 5:29

Personnel

Spyro Gyra
 Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
 Tom Schuman – keyboards
 Jay Azzolina – guitars
 Oskar Cartaya – bass
 Richie Morales – drums
 Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba, mallet synthesizer
 Marc Quiñones – percussion

Additional Personnel
 Jeff Beal – trumpet solos, arrangements (5)
 David Broza – vocals (10)

No Sweat Horns
 Scott Kreitzer – tenor saxophone
 Randy Andos – trombone, bass trombone
 Barry Danielian – trumpet, flugelhorn, horn arrangements

Production
 Jay Beckenstein – producer
 Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
 Larry Swist – recording, engineer, mixing
 Chris Bubacz – additional recording
 Doug Rose – assistant engineer
 Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
 Andy Baltimore – creative director
 Jeff Adamoff – art direction
 David Gibb – graphic design
 Jacki McCarthy – graphic design
 Andy Ruggirello – graphic design
 Dan Serrano – graphic design
 Ted Glazer – illustration
 Paul D'Innocenzo – photography

References

External links
 Spyro Gyra official web site

1990 albums
Spyro Gyra albums
GRP Records albums


Leah Malot (born 6 July 1972) is a runner from Kenya. She is known for her long career. She started her international career by winning a gold medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games, aged only 15. A decade later she was a constant competitor at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Malot competed at the 1987 World Championships, but did not qualify past the 10000 metres heats. At the 1999 World Championships she failed to finish the 10000 metres race. She won 5000 metres at the 2000 ISTAF meeting of IAAF Golden League meeting in Berlin timing 14 minutes, 39.83 seconds, a new African Record. The previous African record, 14:40.19 was set by Zahra Ouaziz of Morocco in 1998, while the previous Kenyan record, 14:46.41 was held by Rose Cheruiyot since 1996. However, Malot failed at the Kenyan trials for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Malot won 3000 metres at the 2002 IAAF Super Grand Prix event in Qatar. She won Kenyan trials for the 2003 World Championships, but eventually did not compete in Paris. The same year she won IAAF Grand Prix 5000 metres at the Osaka meeting

She won the 1998 Dam tot Damloop race in the Netherlands. and 2003 Philadelphia Distance Run. At the Lisbon Half Marathon, she finished second in 2003 and 2004. She used to hold the 3000 metres African indoor record.

On the cross country circuit, she won twice consecutively at the Oeiras International Cross Country meeting and narrowly missed out on a third win in 2003, finishing second but with the same time as Merima Denboba.

Malot is still active as of 2009. She finished 6th at the 2008 Frankfurt Marathon, 5th at the 2009 Lisbon Half Marathon, 7th at the 2009 Paris Marathon, 6th at the 2009 Berlin Marathon and 5th at the 2009 Singapore Marathon.

Achievements

References

External links

1972 births
Living people
Kenyan female long-distance runners
African Games gold medalists for Kenya
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Kenyan female cross country runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games
20th-century Kenyan women
21st-century Kenyan women
21st-century Kenyan people


Juan Nepomucino Goetz () was an Austrian Catholic priest whose arrival in Cuba led to two extraordinary controversies.

Goetz became Professor of Philosophy and Morality at the Imperial and Royal University of Vienna, and then, desiring to travel, was appointed music chaplain of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic). Later, as priest and rector, he moved to San Fernando de Monte Cristi, and then to the wealthy parish of Môle Saint-Nicolas in Haiti. There he witnessed the slave uprising and the occupation of his parish by the British.

When Toussaint-Louverture drove out the British, he rang the church bells and celebrated. However, in the following period, Goetz fled to Santiago de Cuba, where his knowledge of languages gave him a place as the 'foreigners' priest.

Goetz in Santiago de Cuba
When Esteban Salas y Castro, choirmaster in the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba, died in 1803, the election of the new Maestro de Capilla was an extraordinary event. It had been a foregone conclusion that Francisco José Hierrezuelo, long-time assistant of Salas, would be elected. Came the day, and Hierrezuelo spotted a certain well-qualified German priest in the choir. Blind with rage, and fearing the bishop had planned a conspiracy to thwart him, Hierrezuelo refused to take the examination, picked up his pen and wrote infuriated letters. The bishop persuaded the German, none other than Goetz, to renounce his candidacy, but Hierrezuelo had so offended the bishop and the town council by his irate letters that, despite grovelling apologies, he got only a minor position in the chapel. He was never to become a maestro. The competent and hard-working Juan París was appointed, and Goetz moved on to Havana, where his arrival also had remarkable consequences.

Goetz in Havana
In Havana, choirmaster Lazo de la Vega was ailing and died. After his death, four men sought the post: 28-year-old first violinist José Francisco Rensoli, singer Luis Lazo, maestro Cayetano Solis and the Catalan Cayetano Pagueras, a religious composer and first contralto. The matter was to be decided by competitive examination. Pagueras regarded himself as a maestro in four arts: plainsong, organ playing, counterpoint and composition.

All were set for the examination when a letter, written on 29 July, 1803, arrived at the cathedral. It was from Goetz, offering his service.

Goetz arrived in Havana at the beginning of November 1803, having applied for naturalization as a Spanish subject. Later that month, the town council, impressed with his competence, appointed him interim holder of the desired position. Pagueras and Rensoli set out to make his work as difficult as possible. "When Goetz appeared before the choir, he was surrounded by pale, half-scared smiles" (Carpentier, p136). After looking, listening and questioning, he wrote a first report to the town council full of acute assessments of key members of the choir:

"Cayetano Pagueras: Second contralto, terrible voice, no expressiveness. Almost blind... A good composer, but he doesn't know how to sing his own works."
"Don Luis Lazo: Third contralto. Knows nothing of music, and never will. He entered the chapel fraudulently, and... is totally inept; superfluous."
"Don Juan Alcayado: Third tenor. Terrible voice. He hardly attends, and when he does, he speaks constantly, disturbing the others... A totally useless human being. The position of third tenor is hereby abolished for its superfluousness."

As a musician, he reduced the number of positions, moved young singers up in status and recommended that any reduced in rank should retake the exam, both theoretical and practical. Under his plan in 1806, the singers and musicians were: choirmaster, four sopranos, two contraltos, two tenors, a baritone; two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, four violins, bass viol, and bass.

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18th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
Austrian Roman Catholic missionaries
Cuban composers
Male composers
19th-century Cuban Roman Catholic priests
18th-century births
19th-century deaths
Roman Catholic missionaries in Cuba
Austrian expatriates in Cuba
Cuban male musicians


Peter John Nahum (born January 19, 1947) is an English art dealer, author, lecturer, and journalist best known for his frequent appearances on the BBC television program Antiques Roadshow, in which he was present from 1981 to 2002. He discovered a Richard Dadd watercolor on the show which was subsequently sold to the British Museum.[2]

Biography
Nahum was educated at Sherborne School and began his career at Peter Wilson's Sotheby's in 1966. In his 17 years with the company, he initiated the Victorian Painting Department at the recently opened Sotheby's Belgravia in 1971 and was head of the British Painting Department (1840 to Contemporary) until his departure in 1984. Having been a Senior Director in the chairman's committee and advisor to the British Rail Pension Fund on Victorian Paintings.[1]

He left Sotheby's in 1984 to open his gallery, The Leicester Galleries, in St James's, London, specializing in premium quality art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as a worldwide adviser for private collections along with museums, and a signatory for Victorian paintings sold to Japan, as well as an official valuer for the DEWHA. He also acts as a known auctioneer for many charities. He is a television personality, academic, lecturer, author, frame designer, and frequent lender of paintings to international exhibitions.

Nahum pioneered the trading website onlinegalleries.com for art and antique dealers globally, C.I.N.O.A., and their national trade associations.

Public appearances
Peter Nahum was a common contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow from 1981 to 2002, retrieving Richard Dadd's lost watercolor Artists Halt in the Desert in 1987, which got sold to the British Museum, and an album of Filipino landscapes sold in 1995 for £240,000. Other BBC Television appearances include Omnibus (1983), with Richard Baker on Richard Dadd's Oberon and Titania, and In at the Deep End (1984), a 45-minute long program in which he taught television journalist Chris Searle to Auctioneer. He appeared on Breakfast Television, The City Program, The Signals, The Sixty Minutes, and several radio talk shows. . Throughout his career, he has turned counterfeiters to authorities, reporting the Greenhalgh family to the police with full evidence in 1986, although it took another 16 years to convict them., and witnessed the legal definition of fakes and faking. As of this, having appeared in The Artful Codgers made for BBC Four in November 2007. In 1984, Nahum first reported the Greenhalgh family to the police with full evidence, although it took another 16 years to convict them.

In 1986, Nahum lectured on "Victorian Painters as Super Stars – Their Public and Private Art", at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, and in 1993 on "The Poetry of Crisis: British Art 1933–1951" at the Victoria & Albert Museum. More recently [when?] he spoke on "The Strange Forces around the Finding of Richard Dadd’s Artist’s Halt in the Desert", for the National Arts Collection Fund. He lectures to student bodies and various other organizations.

Bibliography
Peter Nahum writes for daily press, for antiques magazines and museum & gallery catalogues.

His published works include:

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM RA – A Catalogue of Thirty Five Paintings and Watercolours, Designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Sotheby & Co, 1973
Prices of Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, by Peter Nahum, Carter Nash Cameron, 1976
Monograms of Victorian and Edwardian Artists, by Peter Nahum, Victoria Square Press, 1976
Victorian Painters' Monograms, by Peter Nahum, W. Foulsham & Co., 1977
Jessie M. King and E. A. Taylor – Illustrator and Designer, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Paul Harris Publishing and Sotheby's Belgravia, 1977
Cross Section, British Art in The Twentieth Century, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989
British Art from the Twentieth Century, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989
Burne-Jones, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Century, 2 volumes, by Hilary Morgan and Peter Nahum, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989
Michael Rothenstein's Boxes, by Mel Gooding, conceived, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Art Books International Ltd, 1992
Burne-Jones A Quest for Love, by Bill Waters, co-authored, edited and published by Peter Nahum, Peter Nahum Ltd, 1993
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – A Sculptor Drawings, conceived, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 1995
John Tunnard, His Life and his Work, Alan Peat and Brian Whitton (foreword by Peter Nahum), Scolar Press, London, 1997
Fairy Folk in Fairy Land, by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 1998
Pre-Raphaelite . Symbolist . Visionary, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2001
Medieval to Modern, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2003
The Brotherhood of Ruralists and The Pre-Raphaelites, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2005
Master Drawings, The Leicester Galleries, 2006
Paul Raymond Gregory; My Secret Book, designed and written by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 2007
Ancient Landscapes – Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists, by Anne Anderson, Robert Meyrick and Peter Nahum, Southampton City Art Gallery, April–June 2008; then touring Victoria Gallery Bath, Falmouth Art Gallery and Cube Gallery Plymouth until 19 December 2008

Contributions
Nomi Rowe, In Celebration of Cecil Collins, Visionary Artist and Educator, London 2008, pages 49 – 51
Past and Present: Edward Burne-Jones, His Medieval Sources and Their Relevance to his Personal Journey, by William Waters and Peter Nahum, in Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Kunstmuseum Bern, pages 179–203, Hartje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009

DVD documentary

Paul Raymond Gregory's RingQuest, Narrated by Julian Sands; Narration written by Peter Nahum; Executive producer: Peter Nahum; Produced, directed and edited by Mathias Walin; Photography and sound by Martin Sundström.

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Scene7 is an American on-demand rich media software company that provides document hosting and interactive publishing services such as online catalogs, targeted email, video, and image management. Retailers use the company's services to showcase products on their websites and to allow customers to interact with the products. Scene7's technology allows users to manipulate product images by zooming in and rotating products, simulating the inspection of merchandise in retail stores.

The company, founded as a division of Autodesk, created a room decoration computer software called Picture This Home in the mid-1990s. The division was sold to Broderbund in 1998, then spun off as a company called GoodHome.com in June 1999. After GoodHome.com failed to become profitable, it was reorganized and renamed Scene7. It formally launched on January 23, 2001, and focused on helping companies prepare interactive advertisements for consumers. Adobe Systems acquired Scene7 in 2007 for an undisclosed sum.

Company
A subsidiary of Adobe Systems, Scene7 provides document hosting and interactive publishing services, typically charging clients to convert catalog print files to interactive web pages. The company does most of its business in North America. Its primary competitors for dynamic imaging services and technology are RichFX and LiquidPixels. Scene7 products rely on several Adobe products, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Flex; this relationship existed before Adobe purchased the company. Scene7 does not maintain any servers to host its services; instead, it uses a "pay as you grow" program that only requires it to pay for the resources that it uses.

Scene7's clients include the companies Sears, Lands' End, Harrods, Macy's, Office Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., La-Z-Boy, and QVC. In 2001, Scene7 agreed to develop home design and landscaping software for Individual Software for $50 million. High-end casual clothing retailer Anthropologie has used Scene7's services to create and deploy online catalogs for its e-commerce website since November 9, 2004. The retailer implemented Scene7's Dynamic Imaging service to let customers zoom in on products, similar to how merchandise is inspected in retail stores. The Harrods department store signed an agreement with Scene7 on June 24, 2005, to use Scene7's imaging and catalog system on the store's website. This required Harrods to convert all its printed material to a digital format for Internet use.

On October 20, 2005, web agency Logan Tod announced that it had partnered with Scene7 to offer new features on its e-commerce websites. These include Scene7's Dynamic Imaging service, which allows visitors to zoom in on products to see details; this feature, Logan Tod claimed, helps to drive purchase decisions. Fathead, a company that builds and sells wall graphics, uses Scene7's services on its website to generate images and to allow visitors to layer images on top of each other dynamically. National Business Furniture, a furniture retailer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, implemented Scene7's technology on November 3, 2008, allowing visitors to dynamically change the colors of product images on the company's website.

History

GoodHome.com (1995−2000)

The company began as a development team that created software called Picture This Home in the mid-1990s for Autodesk in San Rafael, California. The program allowed people to virtually preview room decoration projects before any work began. Its users can create virtual rooms, change walls and arrange furniture, and create photo-realistic renderings of completed designs. Picture This Home was awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. In 1998, the software and its team of 40 developers were sold to Broderbund, which was owned by The Learning Company, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Broderbund eventually spun Picture This Home off as a company called GoodHome.com in June 1999 with Doug Mack as its CEO. The company received $30 million in venture capital from Hearst Interactive Media.

Mack noted that before Broderbund spun off GoodHome.com as a separate company, there was a "big culture clash" between the established company and the new media division. He said that companies such as Broderbund were so concerned with established business that smaller, newer divisions found it hard to receive sufficient attention and bandwidth. He praised Broderbund's decision to spin the company off as a separate entity: "We would have never been able to build our Web business if we were not in a separate building with separate funding." Mack observed that newer companies like GoodHome.com rarely had any problem in hiring new employees because of the opportunity for Internet companies to grow quickly into "the next Amazon.com".

In September 1999, GoodHome.com merged with Alexandria, Virginia-based nHabit.com, a rival company, for an undisclosed sum. After the merger, GoodHome.com was assured that it would grow quickly; the merger also added the Internet service provider America Online to GoodHome.com's portfolio as a client. Ten weeks after forming a business plan, GoodHome.com officially launched on September 29, 1999 with offices in San Rafael and New York City, New York, and Roger Horchow was assigned as its chairman. The company used the slogan "A beautiful home. It was never this easy," and focused on selling furniture and other home items, spending $20 million on advertisements in its first year. Mack decided that the company should target women, since "women make 80 percent of decorating decisions." The company built a home furnishings portal to compete with the websites Living.com and Furniture.com, which both went bankrupt in 2000. In April 2000, GoodHome.com's monthly sales topped $1 million; the company's goal was to be profitable within two to three years.

One of the website's biggest attractions was its virtual decorating service that let customers see how certain features such as the paint, upholstery fabric, rugs, and pillows would look before a purchase. When considering why this service was so popular, Mack noted that consumers usually feel more confident in a purchase when there are few unknowns. At the time, selling products over the Internet was not a popular concept outside the United States, but Mack was confident in expanding GoodHome.com's portfolio to include foreign companies: "We're already getting so many requests from companies about expanding our website abroad... I see this happening quickly within the next few years."

GoodHome.com encountered difficulties in running its business in 2000, when several other companies that offered similar services launched. The increasing demand for online catalog services, considered a phenomenon, was dubbed the "hottest thing since sliced bread" by an analyst from technology research firm Forrester Research, which estimated that roughly $500 million was invested in home furnishing websites from 1999 to 2000. It became difficult for consumers to decide which service provided better quality; a business owner commented, "You can't tell the difference in quality between something that's $3,000 and something that's $10,000." GoodHome.com, which had offered free shipping, phased out the feature on July 15, 2000, in favor of "heavily subsidized rates". To compete with new companies, GoodHome.com also introduced new features such as a "floor planning" feature to allow website visitors build an electronic version of their rooms, then drag in furnishings to see how they fit.

Reorganization (2001−2007)
After spending several years operating at a loss, GoodHome.com reorganized as Scene7, which formally launched on January 23, 2001, with $15 million raised from investors that included Hearst Interactive Media. The new company focused on helping companies prepare interactive advertisements for consumers. Mack, the Broderbund executive who had decided to spin off the company, reflected on the decision to reorganize and relaunch: "We got a year into [the initial GoodHome scheme] and the whole B2C (business-to-consumer) market tanked, and we realized we could not build a successful business as a portal [...] But the whole time we kept having people approach us to license the technology [to create virtual catalogs], and finally a light bulb went off when we realized we were sitting on top of a great technology we could sell." Scene7 raised a round of financing on July 12, 2001, that totaled $11.3 million, which helped stabilize the company. The deal was led by venture capitalists from several firms, including Louis Bacon's Moore Capital Management and Xcelera of the Cayman Islands, with cash investments from Cooley Godward and Perkins Coie. After the latest round of financing, Mack planned for Scene7 to have 15 clients and a burn rate, or negative cash flow, of less than $700,000 a month, stating, "What we learned was to stick to your strategy, and don't get nervous when the competition is adopting a strategy to spend their way to victory." At the time, the company's revenues were well below its peak of $1 million a month, but Mack intended to increase revenues past that point in a few months.

Scene7 moved from San Rafael to Hamilton Landing in Novato, California in September 2002 to accommodate more employees. On July 9, 2003, the company acquired all of the assets of workflow provider and advertising software company Engage for $1.2 million and assumed its $650,000 debt after Engage filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Engage was the parent company of both Cascade and MidSystems, which were two of the first companies that tried to automate prepress production for newspapers and large printers. On August 15, 2003, Scene7 acquired its top competitor, TrueSpectra of San Mateo, for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. On June 15, 2004, Scene7 raised $7.5 million in another round of financing, led by home shopping company QVC with some of Scene7's existing investors. At the same time, Jeffrey Branman, President of Interactive Technology Partners at QVC, and David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, joined Scene7's board of directors, which was composed of James Caccavo of Moore Capital, Andrew Wright of RealNetworks, and Mack.

Since the early 2000s, the company's growth has been fueled by an increase in broadband Internet access, which loads virtual catalogs faster than dial-up Internet access. When catalogs first appeared online in the late 1990s, the graphics took too long to load. After high-speed Internet access became more popular, virtual catalogs quickly grew to become a popular feature of online stores. In addition to faster Internet connectivity, a study in 2000 noted that an online presence for brick and mortar businesses increased offline sales by an average of 27%. Mack also pointed out that having more product information disseminated helps play a role in increasing sales: "We have the ability to provide consistent information... One of the advantages of selling furniture online is the hyperscript; you always have the original specifications on a product."

Subsidiary of Adobe (2007)

Scene7 was acquired by Adobe Systems on May 31, 2007, for an undisclosed sum. At that time, Scene7 had 80 employees, most of whom were transferred from Scene7's former headquarters in Novato, California to Adobe's offices in San Francisco, California. Mack joined Adobe as its vice president of Creative Solutions Services. Scene7 was added to Adobe's product line as a hosted service to help boost Adobe's overall services strategy, especially its software as a service efforts, and because Scene7 was a great fit due to its heavy usage of Adobe products.

Adobe plans to integrate Scene7's products into Adobe LiveCycle, the company's suite of server software products, at an unspecified time. The Scene7 brand will continue to be used, but it will "eventually be replaced with the Adobe brand". Denmark-based YaWah, a dynamic imaging software company, was acquired by Adobe on September 26, 2008, to help expand Scene7 globally.

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Mass media companies of the United States
2007 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in San Rafael, California
Discontinued Adobe software


Henry Golden Dearth (22 April 1864 – 27 March 1918) was a distinguished American painter who studied in Paris and continued to spend his summers in France painting in the Normandy region. He would return to New York in winter, and became known for his moody paintings of the Long Island area. Around 1912, Dearth changed his artistic style, and began to include portrait and still life pieces as well as his paintings of rock pools created mainly in Brittany. A winner of several career medals and the Webb prize in 1893, Dearth died suddenly in 1918 aged 53 and was survived by a wife and daughter.

Early life
Born on April 22, 1864 in Bristol, Rhode Island, Henry Golden Dearth was the youngest of five children of John Willis and Ruth Marshall Dearth. His father was connected with the whaling business and was an artillery officer during the civil war. He was also a talented musician and provided favorable influences to the development of Henry's talent. His grandfather was a commander in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. At the age of 15, his family moved to Waterbury, Connecticut,  where he entered the employ of Brown & Brothers, and was afterward for a time connected with the Waterbury Clock company. Dearth's passionate love for art led him to eventually devote himself solely to the study of painting. He entered the studio of portrait painter Horace Johnson for three months before he went to Paris and studied in the atelier of Ernest Hébert and Aimé Morot at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts.

Returning to the United States in 1888, Dearth established himself with a debut exhibition of landscape at the National Academy of Design. In 1889 he exhibited for the first time with the more progressive Society of American Artists. In 1893 he was awarded the Webb prize for works by an artist under the age of 40. In 1902 he opened his studio at 18 E. 40th Street in New York and started to return to spend his summers in Normandy, the region that first attracted him to landscape painting. He had a house and studio at Montreuil-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais, on the English Channel coast, where he worked several months each season. He married Cornelia Van Rensselaer Vail, the younger sister of Anna Murray Vail, on 26 February 1896 and they had one daughter Nina Van Rensselaer Dearth.

Careers
Dearth's career can be divided into two periods. Before 1912, he was a tonalism painter and is considered part of the American Barbizon school. Spending most of his time in France, he was naturally fond of the picturesque country, and many of his subjects were found near Boulogne and Montreuil-sur-Mer. These early works show a marked indifference to detail, a somewhat limited palette and a preference for a low key. In art critic Charles Buchanan's words, Dearth was more or less repainting Barbizon, but was "inexpressively exquisite" and "a supreme gentleman of aethetics".

After 1912, he altered his technique and painted with broken colors, changing his subjects from the moody landscapes of Long Island and Montreuil to still life and figurative subjects in a style reminiscent of Adolphe Monticelli. Such a style change was marked by his request to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915 to replace  his earlier work with his recent figure painting. Although his late works include portraits and genre subject, his most numerous works of this period were paintings of rock pools in Brittany. The canvases were highly colored; the pigment thickly applied with impressive decorative effect of the compositions. In his final days, Dearth frequently used objects from his substantial collection of Gothic, Renaissance, and Eastern artifacts as his subjects or as backgrounds. His final pictures incorporated important Japanese screens, early Chinese paintings, and stone carvings of the Wei period in still life arrangements or as backgrounds for some finely modeled figures.

Death, reception and posthumous fame

Henry Golden Dearth died of a heart attack on March 27, 1918, at his home at 116 E. 63 Street, New York City.

Dearth's works from the 1890s to the early 1900s show him to be the landscape painter of considerable delicacy, refinement, and imaginative feeling. Paintings such as Springtme Montigny (1899) and Montigny (1898) exemplify his conscientious regard for the facts of nature, combined with a notable faculty for their poetic interpretation in artistic terms. His pictures are full of light and atmosphere, and no matter how brilliant his color schemes, the result is a subtle depth of tone instead of hardness. When Boulogne Harbor was exchanged for Cornelia in Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Times critic commented that "the two pictures seen together would have formed an extraordinary commentary on the completeness and rapidity of a style change possible to an impressionable painter".  In the works dating from 1912 and beyond, he freely used pure color spots and splashes in order to render what he saw so that the paintings display great harmony and are pervaded with a rich, unctuous feeling.

After his death, a memorial exhibition was organized by Mrs. Henry Golden Dearth and Cornelia B. Sage Quinton, Director of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and Albright Art Gallery in the principal museums or art galleries in the cities of Buffalo, New York, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Muskegon, Youngstown, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Worcester, Providence and Boston in 1919.

Affiliations and awards
Dearth became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1888 and was elected to full Academician in 1906 when the National Academy and the Society merged. He was also a member of the Fencers Club, Lotos Club, and the Century Association. He won the Society of American Artists' Webb prize in 1893.  He also won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universal in Paris (1900) and silver medals at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (1901) and at an exhibition in Buenos Aires (1907).

Existing works in museums
 In the Gloaming, 1889, Detroit Institute of Arts
 Flecks of Foam, 1911–1912, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
 The Stubble Field, 1890s, Cleveland Museum of Art
 Landscape with Brook, c 1900, Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center
 Still Life, not dated, Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center
 An Old Church at Montreuil, 1906–1907, Smithsonian American Art Museum
 Dreamland, not dated, Brooklyn Museum
 Harvest Time in Norman, Berlin Museum, bought by the German government in 1903 International Exhibition in Berlin
 Boulogne Harbor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, later exchanged by his later portrait work titled Cornelia

Exhibitions in chronological order
 1888: Exhibition of the American Academy in New York
 1901: Exhibition of the Fine Arts, Buffalo, NY
 1902: Union League Club
 1903: the International Exhibition in Berlin, Germany
 1904: Lotos Club (with other members), New York
 1907: Oehme Gallery (Representative American Artists)
 1907: Lotos Club, New York
 1909: Yearly Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
 1910: Detroit Museum of Art (with Paul Dessar)
 1911: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
 1912: Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo
 1912: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
 1912: Knoedler Galleries, New York
 1913: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
 1913: New York Montross Gallery, New York
 1916: Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee
 1916: Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
 1918: The Milch Galleries, New York

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Huddersfield Town's 1943–44 campaign saw Town continuing to play in the Wartime League. They finished 6th in the 1st NRL Competition, 37th in the War Cup qualifiers and 32nd in the 2nd NRL Competition.

Results

1st NRL Competition

2nd NRL Competition
The first 10 matches of this competition took part in the War Cup qualifiers. The last 10 matches took place in the Combined Counties Cup.

1943-44
English football clubs 1943–44 season


Nemuno Žiedas is a motor racing circuit in  Kačerginė, a small town near Kaunas, Lithuania opened in 1960. Lithuanian and Baltic Touring Car Championship rounds are held in Nemuno Žiedas, as well as many professional and amateur events.

The revamp of the track in 2003 was made with consultancy of Marcel Martin, one of the most respected circuit specialists from the FIA. Two years later he confirmed many positive changes in attempt to ensure the safety of the competitors and spectators.

The circuit is still considered as a low category venue, with many corners being unsafe due to the lack of gravel traps, armco and poor surface. The frequent accidents of cars and especially motorbikes that led to serious injuries further hurt the reputation of the Lithuanian race track.

On 20th of September 2020, Arūnas Gečiauskas beat touring car record of the track by making it in 1:09:943

References

External links
VšĮ "Nemuno žiedas"
Nemuno Žiedas at etracks

Motorsport venues in Lithuania
Buildings and structures in Kaunas County