The Army of the Cherbourg coasts () was a French Revolutionary Army.

Combat Record
Formed by splitting the Army of the Coasts in April 1793, it was put under the command of Georges Félix de Wimpffen and charged with defending the coasts of Manche against British invasion, and fighting against federalist revolts in Normandy and Caen. However, Wimpffen switched sides, and allied to the Girondists and so was removed from his post. He was replaced by Charles Guillaume Sepher.  Following inactive combat, in 1794 it was merged with the Army of the Coasts of Brest, under Lazare Hoche then from May to November 1795 under Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet.

Members
 Gabriel Marie Joseph d'Hédouville — général de brigade.

See also

Coasts of Cherbourg
History of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Military units and formations established in 1793
Military units and formations disestablished in 1794
1793 establishments in France
1794 disestablishments in France


Johannes Elias Spurgeon Henkel aka John Spurgeon Henkel (1871 in Peddie, Eastern Cape – 5 April 1962 in Pietermaritzburg), was a South African botanist and forester. He was deeply involved in the conservation of forests in southern Africa and the introduction of exotic species such as Eucalyptus to Zululand.

Life and career
Henkel was the son of the soldier, painter and botanist Caesar Carl Hans Henkel (1839-1913) and his wife Auguste Henkel (née Radue). He was the eldest of 12 children. He was educated at Dale College, King William's Town and in 1888 he joined the Cape Forest Department, working as an assistant to the conservator of forests in the Eastern Cape for several years. He was promoted to district forest officer of King William's Town in 1893 and compiled survey maps of Port Alfred (in 1894) and the forested area of Bathurst (in 1895). In 1898 he became district forest officer of Stutterheim.

When the Anglo-Boer War broke out he served in the Stutterheim Mounted Troops as captain and was  awarded the Queen's Medal. In 1902 he was selected to study forestry at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, where he obtained a Diploma in Forestry.

Henkel returned to South Africa and was appointed Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Eastern Conservancy in 1905. He transferred as Assistant Conservator of Forests to the Western Conservancy (in Cape Town) in 1907 and served as lecturer in forestry at the South African School of Forestry (part of the South African College) until February 1908. In 1909 he moved to Knysna where he succeeded Colin Beddoes McNaughton as Assistant Conservator of Forests and in 1912 was promoted to Conservator of Forests. In 1915 he transferred to Pietermaritzburg as Conservator of Forests for Natal and Zululand. He initiated afforestation in the Zululand coastal region with exotic species including Eucalyptus.

In 1920 he took up an appointment as chief of the newly established Forest Service of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His presentation at the 1919 congress of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science led to a detailed survey of the vegetation of Rhodesia, the first of any African country.

He remained in Rhodesia until his retirement in 1931, after which he settled in Pietermaritzburg and wrote a field guide to the woody plants of Natal. He was a personal friend of John William Bews and assisted him in his investigations of the ecology of the Natal vegetation. He also compiled a map of the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in 1936. From 1944 until his death he worked on a guide to the grasses of southern Africa. The plants he collected are in the Bews Herbarium of the University of Natal.

Associations and awards
South African Association for the Advancement of Science - Foundation member 1902, council member 1918.
South African Philosophical Society - member 1907.
Royal Society of South Africa committee of fellows - member 1908.
South African Biological Society - foundation member and council member 1916.
Natal Museum - board of trustees 1917, 1936
Rhodesia Scientific Association - member 1920.
Honorary DSc - University of South Africa 1932.

Private life
In February 1896 he married Juanita Gutsche and they had one child.

Selected publications
The indigenous high forest situated in the divisions of George, Knysna and Humansdorp, Cape Province, Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 1912, pp. 68–76
Afforestation in Zululand, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, 1920, Vol 17, pp. 50–52
Forest Progress in the Drakensberg - SA Journal of Science, 1916
Types of Vegetation in Southern Rhodesia - Proceedings of the Rhodesian Science Association, vol.33, 1931
Woody Plants of Natal & Zululand - Durban, 1934

References

External links
Biography of John Spurgeon Henkel at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science.
John Spurgeon Henkel on Google Scholar
Bews Herbarium

1871 births
1962 deaths
20th-century South African botanists
South African foresters
Cape Colony people


Radhika Pandit (born 7 March 1984) is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Kannada films. Pandit is recipient of three Filmfare Awards South, one Karnataka State Film Award and one South Indian International Movie Award.

After working in Kannada television series such as Nandagokula (2007) and Sumangali (2007), Pandit made her feature film debut with Moggina Manasu (2008), for which she won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada. She received two more Filmfare Best Actress Award for her performances in Love Guru (2009) and  Krishnan Love Story (2010).

Pandit then rose to fame with commercial successes such as Hudugaru (2011), Addhuri (2012), Drama (2012), Bahaddur (2014) and Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari (2014). She received another Filmfare Best Actress nominations for Hudugaru, Addhuri and Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari. Pandit is married to her frequent co-star Yash, with whom she has two children.

Early life & education
Radhika Pandit was born in Bangalore Palace Nursing Home to a Goan mother and a Saraswat father, Krishna Pandit, who is a stage and film personality. They lived in the Malleswaram suburb of Bangalore. Pandit has a younger brother, Gourang. She grew up in her paternal grandfather's house in Malleswaram and continues to live there for "sentimental reasons" as he "had bought the house with all the money he had saved."

Pandit did her schooling at Cluny Convent High School, Bangalore, and later pursued a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) course at the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

Pandit aspired to become a teacher after completing a Master of Business Administration course. However, in 2007, during her final year in B.Com., she was persuaded by a friend to audition for a role in a Kannada language television serial, Nandagokula, directed by Ashok Kashyap. Pandit was offered the role without an audition. The same year, she appeared in another soap, Sumangali. When the former neared completion, her photos began circulating in local magazines, which were noticed by film director Shashank who was looking for a female lead for his film 18th Cross, and the makers of Moggina Manasu. She was cast in both films and began filming for the former first.

Career

Debut, breakthrough and success (2008–2011)
Radhika faced the camera for the first time in films with the Kannada film 18th Cross in 2007. The film was temporarily stalled following its producer Chikkana's death, only to release theatrically in 2012. This was when she began filming with Moggina Manasu. She was cast as Chanchala, a college-going teenage girl, who with her three friends are faced with problems of ragging and irksome boyfriends. She was paired opposite Yash, who she had previously worked with, in the soap Nandagokula. Released in 2008, Moggina Manasu emerged as a critical success and Pandit's performance received critical acclaim. The reviewer for Rediff.com wrote, "Newcomer Radhika Pandit shines among the four, and is bound to go places." She won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress and Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Radhika's next role was in the Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar-directed romantic-drama Olave Jeevana Lekkachaara (2009), a film that deals with the deviousness of pseudo-intellectuals. She was cast as Rukmini opposite Balachandra (played by Srinagar Kitty), who cheats her under the influence of the misguidance of a pseudo-revolutionary lecturer. G. S. Kumar of The Times of India called her performance "classic and lively". Her second release of 2009 was Love Guru, a romantic-drama film dealing with unrequited love and misunderstandings in a corporate setting. She which she was cast as Kushi opposite Tarun Chandra in the film. Critics acclaimed her performance and called her "one of the best actresses to appear on the marquee in the recent times." G. S. Kumar wrote, "Radhika Pandit steals the show with her brilliant expressions, lively action and excellent dialogue delivery." She won her second Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

In her first release of 2010, Krishnan Love Story, Pandit collaborated with the director Shashank for the second time after Moggina Manasu. It film saw her play the role of Geetha, a happy-go-lucky girl belonging to a lower-middle-class family, who, for want of money suppresses her ambitions. Shruti Indira Lakshminarayana of Rediff.com wrote of her performance, "Radhika does a detour from her glam city girl image, but it is hard to miss the sophistication in her. She however comes out with a good performance in the second half." With the film, Radhika won her third Filmfare Award for Best Actress along with other awards. In Gaana Bajaana, she portrayed Radha, who gets involved in a romantic love triangle with Krish and Kuttappa (played by Tarun Chandra and Dileep Raj). On her performance, Y. Maheswara Reddy of The New Indian Express wrote that she "walks away with all honours." Pandit next appeared in a comedy-drama film, Hudugaru, a remake of the Tamil film, Naadodigal, in a brief role. She was cast as the only female lead alongside three parallel male lead characters. She played Gayathri, a foodie, the love interest of Prabhu (played by Puneeth Rajkumar). Her performance won her, her fourth Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination.

Critical acclaim, further success and stardom (2012–2016)
The year 2012 saw theatrical releases of six of her films. In the first, Alemari, a drama film based on real-life incidents, she portrayed the role of Neeli, a girl from a middle-class family who falls in love with Mohan, a milkman (played by Yogesh). Of her performance, IBNLive wrote, "Radhika Pandit is as brilliant as ever with her plain Jane looks and high voltage performance in emotional sequences." In Breaking News, a film that deals with commercialization of the media industry, she played the role of Shraddha, the cheerful daughter of the Karnataka Lokayukta, who intends on fooling around with a journalist, played by Ajay Rao. The film opened to mixed reviews, however, Pandit's performance received praise. Rediff.com wrote, "It is Radhika Pandit's superb and light-hearted performance that livens up the proceedings." In her next release, Addhuri, a romance film, she was paired opposite debutant Dhruva Sarja. The film and Pandit's performance received positive reviews from critics. India Today wrote, "[Pandit] ... has once again proved why she is regarded as one of the awesome talents in the industry. She charms the young hearts, but at the same time can make the audience emotional with her performances." The performance fetched Pandit her fifth Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination among others.

Pandit's first film, 18th Cross released in August 2012, received mixed reviews; however, critics praised her performance in the role of Punya, the love interest of Jeeva (played by Deepak), who gets wrongly implicated in a murder case, framed by an underworld don. The Times of India wrote of her performance, "Radhika Pandit hasn't changed much since her debut movie and has given an excellent performance." She was cast as Kajal in her next film, Sagar, opposite Prajwal Devaraj, alongside Haripriya and Sanjjanaa, a film that critics, a "commercial entertainer". Daily News and Analysis praised Pandit's performance in the film and wrote that she "walks away with the honours." Her final release of 2012 was Yogaraj Bhat's Drama, a comedy film that featured an ensemble cast of Pandit alongside Yash, Sathish Ninasam and Sindhu Lokanath, the former three of whom play students of a government-owned degree college. The film and Pandit's performance as Nandini earned unanimous praise from critics. IBNLive wrote, "Radhika Pandit is superb as a performer and her beautiful looks and style have added a special charm to the film." She also co-sang a track, "Drama Hitavachana" in the film, which featured her rapping in parts.

In Kaddipudi, Pandit was cast as Uma, a junior artiste in films, opposite Kaddipudi (played by Shiva Rajkumar), a former underworld don who tries to renounce a life of violence, but in vain. Her performance as a girl from a poor family having lost her parents and living with her grandmother, and playing the love interest of Kaddipudi was received well. Muralidhara Khajane of The Hindu wrote, "Radhika Pandit excels and puts in a mature performance and brings dignity to the character." In her second release of 2013, she was cast opposite Sumanth Shailendra in Dilwala, a romantic film that opened to largely negative reviews. Pandit's performance was however praised by critics and she received her second nomination of SIIMA Award of Best Actress. She next starred in the romance film, Bahaddur as Anjali, the love interest of Ashok (played by Druva Sarja), a descendant of a royal family. G. S. Kumar wrote that she "wins your heart with her brilliant expressions and dialogue delivery." Despite having received mixed reviews, the film turned out to be a commercial success. Santhosh Ananddram's Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari saw Pandit work with Yash for the third time. She was cast as the girlfriend of a stubborn brat, played by Yash, who idolizes actor Vishnuvardhan and has an easygoing attitude towards life. Kumar felt that Pandit delivered a "winsome performance". The film emerged as a massive commercial success.

In her only release of 2015, the romance-thriller Endendigu, Pandit, paired opposite Ajay Rao for the third time, played the role of his wife with schizophrenic tendencies who foresees his death among other dreams. The film received mixed reviews, with her performance receiving praise. In the comedy Zoom, her first release of 2016, she played Nayana, an employee with an advertising agency who believes in doing her work with integrity and ethics. After an initial run-in, she falls for an employee of the rival agency. The film received mixed reviews from critics; Archana Nathan of The Hindu felt the film "was filled with crass double entendre jokes", and wrote that Pandit "can barely do much in the role she has been given." She was cast opposite Puneeth Rajkumar in Doddmane Hudga, a film centered around his character set in Hubli. Of Pandit's role, A. Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express wrote that she "adds measured amounts of ludic spirit and her double shaded character is carried out with much flair. She making unintentional mistakes in speaking the local language is entertaining." Later that year, she played Ananya in Santhu Straight Forward, pursuing a degree in architecture and compelled to commit to marry her cousin following a family tragedy. S. Viswanath of Deccan Herald felt that the film was "the film is watchable" only "due to the magnetic presence of Radhika Pandit" and added that "she lets her expressive eyes and silence eloquently speak about her distraught state." Thus with various role, she is counted among the most popular Kannada actress of all time and has won many accloades for her starring roles.

Break from acting (2017-Present)
After her marriage with actor Yash, she took a break from acting to focus on her personal life. Radhika only appeared in the 2019 film Aadi Lakshmi Puraana, for which she received critical acclaim.

Personal life
In a 2010 interview with The New Indian Express, she said that she, however, loves visiting the Chitrapur Math in Uttara Kannada, where she has her roots, as she "feel[s] good after spending some time" and "believe[s] there are positive vibrations there. Pandit met actor Yash for the first time at the sets of her tele-serial Nandagokula in 2007. They began dating after having worked together in films, but kept their relationship private for years and away from the attention of media, and got engaged in August 2016. They got married in December in a private ceremony in Bangalore. Their daughter was born on 2 December 2018. Post-marriage, Pandit participated in the work of Yasho Marga Foundation, a foundation started by Yash that aims to "extend a helping hand" to "farmers and the labourers". Their second child, a son, was born on 30 October 2019.

In the media
Pandit is considered one of the most versatile actresses in Kannada cinema. In a 2015 Bangalore Times poll, she was voted as one of the most popular actresses in Kannada cinema. In a 2016 poll conducted by Vijaya Karnataka, she was again voted the most popular actress.

Between 2013 and 2014, Pandit and Puneeth Rajkumar worked as brand ambassadors for Right to education in Karnataka, having been chosen by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. In addition to this, she has endorsed brands in the past such as KLF Nirmal Coconut oil and Orra Jewellery. She was a part of Gillette's Shave India Movement.

Filmography

Films

Television

Accolades

Notes

References

External links

Living people
Actresses from Bangalore
Kashmiri people
Kashmiri Pandits
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Indian television actresses
Kannada people
People from Uttara Kannada
21st-century Indian actresses
Filmfare Awards South winners
Konkani people
Actresses in Kannada television
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore alumni
1984 births


The Begijnhof Chapel, dedicated to Saint John and Saint Ursula, is a Roman Catholic chapel run by the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, in the St Nicholas Parish of Amsterdam. It is located in a former schuilkerk in the Begijnhof across from its original location, the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. The Miracle of Amsterdam is commemorated yearly with a procession starting from this church.

History

Around 1150, a group of women came together to live in a religious community, primarily to look after the sick. These were the first 'Beguines’ although the name was not yet used. The women were not nuns and nor did they live in the seclusion of a convent. They had no founders nor did they make lifelong vows. They were unmarried women who made a vow of chastity and promised obedience to the parish priest, but since they were not expected to make a vow of poverty, they were free to dispose of their own possessions as they wished. They could renounce their vows at any moment and leave the Beguinage, for instance, to get married. We do not know exactly when the Beguinage was founded. According to the Amsterdam City Archives, the first time the word ‘beguines’ was used was in an official document of 1307 found in the accounts of the Bailiff of Amstelland. Another document, dated 31 July 1346, speaks of the Beghijnhuis (house of the Beguines) ceded to them by one Cope van der Laene on St Peter’s Eve.

The church of the Beguines

As early as 1397 the Beguines had a small chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. On 17 October 1419, after the enlargement of the Beguinage, Matthias, titular Bishop of Biduane (a small town on the Adriatic), in his capacity as vicar-general of Frederic III, Bishop of Utrecht, solemnly consecrated a new chapel. This chapel, with its own burial ground, was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the apostle Matthew.
The church was badly damaged during the two great fires of 23 April 1421 and 25 May 1452. After its restoration, it was re-dedicated. The Beguines themselves paid for the rebuilding and restoration.
When a Beguine died, she was buried in the church, as was common at the time. There was, however, one special, well-known exception: Mistress Cornelia Arens. In her lifetime, the church had turned from a Catholic to a Protestant place of worship, and so she refused to be buried in it, asking to be placed in the ‘wide church path near the gutter’. Despite her wish, when she died on 14 October 1654, she was at first buried in the church and only on 2 May 1655 was she reburied against the church wall outside. Later on, because of work on this wall, her grave was moved to the edge of the bleaching field. Every year on 2 May, her grave is still adorned with flowers.

The Alteration

Until 1578, Amsterdam was almost completely Roman Catholic, with two large parish churches, six chapels and many monasteries and convents. Every year the worship of the Sacrament of the Miracle drew thousands of pilgrims to the city for the yearly procession known as the Stille Omgang. A fair grew up alongside, ensuring a flourishing economy.
In Amsterdam, the Protestant reformers were particularly opposed to the ‘idolatry’ of the Host and the ‘Roman Catholic concept’ of the Holy Mass. The Orangist Calvinists prevailed and on 26 May 1578, the Alteratie (transition of the municipality to the Protestant church) turned out badly for the Roman Catholics. In an unbloody revolution, the Protestants in Amsterdam took over power and the Catholic magistrates were dismissed. It was now strictly forbidden for Roman Catholics to openly profess their faith, which meant that all churches, monasteries and convents were confiscated by the authorities. The Amsterdam Protestant clergy were assiduous in denouncing every house used for "Paepse afgoderij" (Popish idolatry) to the authorities, but the authorities exercised a degree of restraint in acting on these denouncements. The Beguines, too, had to hand over the church in their courtyard. It was given to the English and has since been called the ‘English Reformed Church’. The Catholics established churches in their houses so that they could nevertheless profess their faith.

The hidden church

After the Beguines were obliged to surrender their church, they worshipped in the church sacristy, until this sacristy was in turn appropriated by the Protestant city council. Then they worshipped in one of the small houses in their hofje, not always the same one. The first steps in the construction of the present chapel were taken as early as 1665, after joining two of the hofje houses bought for that purpose at the initiative of parish priest Van der Mije (1665–1700); his nephew laid the foundation stone on 2 July 1671. The Protestant council members of the city of Amsterdam approved the building plans on condition that the building did not look like a church from the outside. The interior chapel was designed by the Catholic architect in Amsterdam, Philips Vingboons (1607–78), and was dedicated to St John the Evangelist and St Ursula. In its present form, it has a gallery with a left and a right section, resting on six wooden columns. The main altar has a painting depicting the Miracle of Amsterdam. Two side-altars have paintings by Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert. The current facade with its gothic-style leaded ogive windows dates only from the 19th century. When the present chapel was opened in 1682, 150 Beguines and 12 widows or single women lived in the Beguinage.
The chapel has undergone many changes. It was extended considerably to the right and the Beguines were given their own side chapel on the left. The façade was renewed and accessibility improved by building a porch. The interior of the chapel also underwent various changes in respect to the paintings, lamps, tabernacle, statues, and windows.

But throughout, the eucharistic reflection, prayer and silence were central.

References

Begijnof
Roman Catholic churches in the Netherlands
Rijksmonuments in Amsterdam
Chapels in the Netherlands


Jailbreakers is a 1994 television film directed by William Friedkin. Filming took place in Southern California and it was released on September 9, 1994. The film originally aired on Showtime as part of their Rebel Highway series that took the titles of 1950s-era B-movies and applied them to original films. The film was later released on VHS.

Plot
The film takes place in the 1950s. Angel is a 15-year-old cheerleader who has her life all ahead of her. She falls in love with Tony Falcon, a drug dealing high school drop-out. A nighttime outing leads to trouble and Angel and Tony are caught. Although Tony is the only one who is sent to jail, Angel has it very hard as well. She is estranged from her parents and her friends refuse ever to talk to her. The family think it is for the best for them to move to new surroundings.

Angel and her family move to a nice and quiet suburbia. She starts an entire new life and even falls in love with a new boy. However, she is soon in trouble when Tony escapes from jail and interrupts her sweet sixteen. He takes her away from her family and together they try to escape to Mexico. A chase follows, with the police and Angel's father trying to catch Tony.

Cast
Shannen Doherty - Angel Norton
Antonio Sabàto, Jr. - Tony Falcon
Vince Edwards - Mr. Norton
Adrienne Barbeau - Mrs. Norton
Adrien Brody - Skinny
Sean Whalen - Tattoo
Talbert Morton - Whale
Chris Conrad - Jack
Johnny La Spada - Gary
Kerri Randles - Missy
Dana Barron - Sue

References

External links

1994 films
1994 television films
1990s English-language films
1990s teen drama films
Rebel Highway
American teen drama films
Films directed by William Friedkin
Films scored by Hummie Mann
Films set in the 1950s
Films with screenplays by Debra Hill
Films produced by Debra Hill
1994 drama films
American drama television films
1990s American films


Carrot Club (or Morotsklöver in Swedish) is a strong club system, developed in the 1970s and played in international teams championships by Danielle Nughes, Anders Morath and Sven-Olov Flodquist. They won the European teams championships in 1977 and placed third in the World teams championships in 1977 and 1991.

Some features of the system are a natural 4+card 1 opening, canapé-openings with longer -suit, Carrot 1NT (a "wide" 1NT-opening showing 13–17 hcp; if 13–14, may not have a 4-card major), and the Carrot 4NT slam convention.

References

Further reading
 Sven-Olov Flodqvist, Morotsklövern (Swedish title), Stockholm 1978.

Bridge systems


Gooli is a 2008 Indian Kannada-language action film, directed by P. Sathya. It stars Sudeep, Mamta Mohandas in lead roles. The film is produced by Ramu under the banner Ramu Enterprises and music is by Anoop Seelin. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Sabse Bada Mawali in 2009 and into Tamil as Korukkupettai Kooli in 2012.

Plot
The central character Gooli (Sudeep), is an uneducated, rude youngster and deadly merciless, cruel rowdy with whom a girl named Ramya (Mamta) accidentally falls in love by seeing his pure and unadulterated heart. Ramya continues to keep in touch with Gooli despite opposition from her family, and although Gooli tries to keep Ramya at a distance, he finds he has also fallen in love with her. They marry but separate shortly afterwards. Later Gooli hears shocking news about the apparent death of Ramya, however, she is not dead but in a mental asylum due to severe brain damage.

Cast
 Sudeep as Gooli
 Mamta Mohandas as Ramya
 Kishore
 Bhavya
 Rajashekhar
 Yethiraaj
 Sathya
 Rekha V. Kumar

Soundtrack

Reception
A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "Gooli is a great watch for Sudeep's fans who were waiting to see him in an action film for a long time. As for the others, they better start believing that the Sudeep-Sathya combination rocks". A critic from Sify wrote that the film "is not the run of the mill gangster film that you see these days in Kannada". A critic from Deccan Herald wrote that "Watch out for Sudeep's excellent acting and engrossing story".

References

External links

2008 films
Films scored by Anoop Seelin
2008 action drama films
Indian action drama films
2008 romantic drama films
Indian romantic action films
2000s Kannada-language films
Indian gangster films
Indian romantic drama films
2000s romantic action films


The Army of the Coasts of Brest () was a French Revolutionary Army formed on 30 April 1793 by splitting the Army of the Coasts into this army and the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg. The formation was first put under the command of Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux and charged with fighting the War in the Vendée, combatting the Chouannerie and protecting the coasts of Brittany against a British invasion. After successfully defending Nantes and suffering setbacks at Tiffauges and Montaigu, Canclaux was recalled on 5 October 1793 and many of the army's soldiers were absorbed into the Army of the West. Over the next few years, Jean Antoine Rossignol, Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Lazare Hoche and Gabriel Venance Rey led the army in turn. In June–July 1795 the army crushed a Royalist invasion at Quiberon. On 5 January 1796 the formation and two other armies were merged into the Army of the Coasts of the Ocean and placed under the command of Hoche.

Background
On 15 December 1792 the French National Convention voted to annex Belgium. Its economic interests threatened, the United Kingdom dismissed the French ambassador on 24 January 1793. France thereupon declared war on Britain and the Dutch Republic on 1 February. Meanwhile, the armies defending France's eastern borders declined in strength from 400,000 to 225,000 soldiers largely due to desertion. To meet the crisis, the Convention decreed mass conscription. Amid these events, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. The War in the Vendée was triggered by opposition to conscription, annoyance at the high cost of food and fury at the Convention's anti-Catholic laws. Protestants and the residents of the large towns generally supported the Republican cause.

The Vendean nobility provided leaders for insurgent fighters who fought in wooded terrain criss-crossed by narrow lanes that were bordered by thick hedges. The Vendean rebels knew every inch of the territory. If the Republican French troops or Blues were defeated they were pursued by a swarm of vengeful Vendean peasants. If the Blues won the fight, the Vendeans vanished into the countryside, lulling their opponents into believing that the war was over. Republicans who prided themselves at having overthrown the monarchy were astonished to find that an entire section of the nation, with few nobles living there, in open Royalist rebellion. Exasperated at the Vendeans, the Republicans finally resorted to brutal means, even extermination, to put down the revolt.

On 31 January 1793 the executive council ordered the formation of the Army of the Coasts under the command of Anne François Augustin de La Bourdonnaye. In March, 34 volunteer and two regular battalions plus two cavalry regiments were assigned to quell the revolt. More reinforcements were withheld due to defeats on the Belgian frontier. While the Republican forces were a motley collection of National Guards, undisciplined volunteers, conscripts and regulars, the Catholic and Royal Army was united in a moral cause. The Vendeans formed themselves into several loosely organized armies, the largest of which was the Army of the Upper Vendée under Jacques Cathelineau, Charles de Bonchamps, Louis Marie de Lescure, Maurice d'Elbée, Jean-Nicolas Stofflet and Henri de la Rochejaquelein and numbering as many as 50,000 men. The Army of the Lower Vendée under the capable François de Charette could muster up to 20,000 rebels in the Breton marshlands and Army of the Center under Charles Aimé de Royrand counted as many as 12,000 insurgents near Les Herbiers in the south.

History
On 14 April 1793, La Bourdonnaye was replaced by Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux. By decree the Army of the Coasts was split into the Army of the Coasts of Brest and the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg on 30 April. Canclaux assumed command of the Brest army on 1 May 1793. His army was responsible for the seacoast from Saint-Malo to the mouth of the Loire River.

Commanders

 1 May – 5 October 1793: Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux
 8 September – 5 October 1793: Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet led the subordinate Army of Mainz
 6 October 1793 – 6 May 1794: Jean Antoine Rossignol
 7 May – 10 October 1794: Jean-François-Auguste Moulin
 7 May – 25 August 1794: Martial Vachot led the subordinate Army against the Chouans
 11 – 23 October 1794: Jean Rivaud (interim)
 24 October – 9 November 1794: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
 10 November 1794 – 9 September 1795: Lazare Hoche
 10 September – 23 December 1795: Gabriel Venance Rey
 24 December 1795 – 8 January 1796: Gabriel Marie Joseph, comte d'Hédouville

Notes

References

Armées of the French First Republic
1793 establishments in France


Chen Ying-git () is a singer of Taiwanese Hakka heritage. She has produced albums from the 1980s through the 1990s like another singer, Jody Chiang. One of her famous songs is 海海人生. She also sang a famous duet called 酒醉黑白話 with Taiwanese male singer Yu Tian.

References

Living people
Hakka musicians
Taiwanese Buddhists
Taiwanese people of Hakka descent
Taiwanese women singers
Taiwanese Hokkien pop singers
People from Hsinchu County
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Army of the Coasts (Armée des côtes) was a French Revolutionary Army created in 1792 under the command of Anne François Augustin de La Bourdonnaye. In April 1793 it was split into the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg and the Army of the Coasts of Brest. The 1796 creation of the Army of the Coasts of the Ocean can be seen as its reforming into a single unit.

Coasts


Alfred Rose (15 February 1894 — 21 June 1985) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1924.

Rose was born in Glossop, Derbyshire. In the 1924 season he made a single first-class appearance for Derbyshire in May against Lancashire. Like eight others in the innings, he was a victim of the bowling of Cec Parkin and made a duck in his only innings batting in the middle order. When he was asked later in the summer to play again, he replied that he was too old for that class of cricket.

Rose died in Kilton, Nottinghamshire at the age of 91.

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1894 births
1985 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers


The Archeological Society of Virginia is a non-profit organization that focuses on archaeological projects in Virginia for over 50 years. Members of the society have participated in hundreds of archeological excavations since its inception in 1940. They are made up of mostly amateur archaeologists, and they have strict policies against selling or purchasing artifacts. They publish a journal called the Quarterly Bulletin four times per year and maintain their headquarters at Kittiewan Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia.

The Society administers the stewardship of the Kittiewan house and surrounding 720 acres (2.9 km2) near New Hope, Charles City County, Virginia.

References

External links
Archeological Society of Virginia Homepage

Archaeology of the United States
Archaeological organizations
Archaeological professional associations

Non-profit organizations based in Virginia
501(c)(3) organizations


St Mary's Church is the Anglican parish church in Bletchley, a constituent town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. St Mary's is located on Church Green Road, Bletchley.

History
The church dates from Norman times and the arch of the south doorway is Norman. The chancel is 13th century and there were additions in the 14th and 15th centuries.

More recently, the Church has moved away from a traditional choir and organ and now have a band.

Services
Since St John's joined St Mary's, all services are now at St Mary's. The latest schedule of services is available from the church website.

Members of staff
The following are members of staff at the church:

 Rev David McDougall - Rector
 Rev Rachel Ciampoli — Curate
 Rev Simon Faulks - Assistant Minister
 Mary Nicholls — Church Warden
 Oliver Hermes — Church Warden
 Maryann Brooks - Community Pastor
 Shana Kruesch - Worship & Media Pastor
 Nichola Whitmore - Office & Finance Manager
 Jac Butcher - Church Administrator
 Steve Adams - Caretaker

Youth Group
 Creche facilities - 0–2 years
 Footsteps — 3–5 years
 Striders — 5–11 years
 Dream Factory - 5–11 years
 Youth Friday - Years 11-14
 The Loft — Years 14-17

Music
Music at St Mary's consists of four main groups and a youth band.

References

External links
 Church website

Bletchley
Churches in Milton Keynes


Anchor was England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing, care and support to people over 55 years old up until November 2018 when Anchor merged with Hanover Housing Association to form Anchor Hanover Group, the largest provider of specialist housing and care for older people in England.

Anchor had been a charitable housing association registered as a society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, and one of the largest in the UK, with a turnover of £389.1 million in 2017/18.

Anchor's headquarters were in central London, with main offices located in Bradford. It employed more than 8,500 people nationally.

Its patron was Princess Alexandra.

History

Anchor was established in 1968 by Cecil Jackson-Cole, as Help the Aged (Oxford) Housing Association, to provide sheltered housing to older people. By 1972, the organisation had completed its first new-build properties and begun diversifying into both leasehold and rented accommodation.

The organisation became Anchor Housing Association in 1975, and launched its first care homes in 1982.

Anchor's multi award-winning Denham Garden Village – their largest development of retirement properties to date – opened in 2004.

Anchor continued to grow its existing services and diversify into new services such as retirement villages and extra care housing, becoming a thought-leader in caring for individuals with dementia and promoting equality for minority groups, such as LGBT groups.

The organisation rebranded from Anchor Trust to Anchor in 2010, adopting a new logo and refreshed brand image to reflect the range of services on offer.

In 2012 a ground-breaking new care home called West Hall was opened in West Byfleet, Surrey. In the same year it won the Best Interior Dementia Design category at the National Dementia Care Awards 2012.

In 2015 a new 'Support Hub' was created in Bradford.

Since April 2015 Anchor opened a series of new developments:

 April 2015 - Buckingham Lodge care home
 August 2015 - Bishopstoke Park retirement village and Maple Tree Court care home
 September 2015 - Mayflower Court care home and Clayburn Court care home
 December 2015 - Moore Place care home
 January 2016 - Hampshire Lakes retirement village and Austin Place retirement apartments
 October 2016 - Hurst Place retirement houses
Spring 2017 - Nelson Lodge care home
Summer 2017 - Hurst Place retirement apartments and Phase 2 of Bishopstoke Park retirement village
January 2018 - Phase 2 of Hampshire Lakes retirement village
May 2018 - Eaves Court care led apartments

The proposed merger of Anchor and Hanover Housing Association was announced in May 2018, and was completed successfully later the same year, creating Anchor Hanover Group

Services

Anchor offered three main services:

Retirement properties to rent - Anchor let a range of properties, typically flats, although the housing portfolio did include some bungalows, at more than 700 sites across England. Each site was overseen by a manager, and had access to a 24-hour emergency call system. Anchor also provided a number of extra-care properties.
Retirement properties to buy - Anchor managed a portfolio of 200 leasehold estates, where the individual owned the property and Anchor provided the necessary property management service. Since 2015 Anchor responded to the growing demand for higher-quality retirement properties, opening an array of new developments including The Laureates, in Guiseley, near Leeds, Austin Place in Weybridge and Hurst Place in Haywards Heath. They also invested in new retirement villages; Bishopstoke Park and Hampshire Lakes, both in Hampshire. These new sites included a number of innovative features for retirement housing, such as spas, swimming pools, salons and cafés.
Care homes - Anchor operated a number of care homes across England, each providing trained 24-hour personal and practical support. Anchor advocated the personalisation of care provision and was politically active in promoting person-centred dementia care. Anchor's specialised dementia homes used the latest techniques and understanding to assist individuals living with dementia, such as sensory gardens and contrasting colour schemes. In 2015 Anchor acquired 24 care homes from LNT Group as well as the Cavendish Healthcare Group's five care homes.

Governance

Anchor was governed by a trustee board of non-executive directors, and an executive management board of executive directors. Anchor’s Chief Executive, Jane Ashcroft, was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Social Care award at the Great British Care Home Awards 2010 in recognition of her "...[leading] the agenda on developing quality care services across the continuum of care." She also topped a high-profile list of the most influential people in social care at the Care Talk Awards 2012, and is a trustee of The Silver Line, a helpline for older people. Ashcroft is a graduate of the University of Stirling.  She was appointed a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours.

In 2010 the high salaries of housing association executives drew criticism from the incoming government, in particular that the highest paid executive at a housing association was the chief executive of Anchor, earning £391,000 per year. The Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, said that the pay packages were unacceptable.

Anchor was regulated by the Care Quality Commission, the Regulator of Social Housing and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Agenda and influence

Anchor frequently sought to use its profile to draw attention to issues within the care environment. The organisation published white paper documents investigating ageism on television, lobbied parliament on the importance of older people's issues, and sought to underline the importance of person-centred care.

The organisation also campaigned to highlight the importance of retaining residential scheme managers at retirement properties.

In 2011 Anchor launched The Grey Pride campaign, calling on government to appoint a Minister for Older People to prioritise the needs of older people and make sure their views and interests receive dedicated attention. The petition gathered 137,000 signatures and was handed in to Downing Street on Monday 28 November 2011. As a result of the campaign the shadow cabinet appointed Liz Kendall as Shadow Minister for Older People. Penny Mordaunt MP secured a debate on the topic in the House of Commons on Thursday 28 June 2012.

In June 2013 a charity single was released by The Anchor Community Band to celebrate the positive aspects of ageing and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions in a fun and inclusive way. More than 350 people from Anchor’s retirement housing and care homes were involved in recording the song. It reached number one in the Amazon singles chart and raised over £15,000 for national charity Contact the Elderly.

As well as recognition for its dementia training, Anchor also received praise for its work in palliative care, and nutrition and catering.

Anchor were one of the first organisations to pioneer Your Care Rating, a groundbreaking customer satisfaction survey first conducted by IpsosMORI in 2012.

References

External links
 Anchor Trust website

Housing associations based in England
Housing for the elderly in the United Kingdom
Charities for the elderly based in the United Kingdom
Charities based in  West Yorkshire
1968 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1968


Chu Liuxiang is the fictional protagonist of the wuxia novel series Chu Liuxiang Series by Taiwanese writer Gu Long. His given name "Liuxiang" literally means "lingering fragrance". Nicknamed "Daoshuai" ("Bandit Chief") or "Xiangshuai" ("Chief Xiang"), he steals from the rich to help the poor and upholds justice in the jianghu (martial artists' community). He has been portrayed in numerous films and television series adapted from the novel series by notable actors such as Ti Lung, Adam Cheng, Michael Miu, Richie Ren, Ken Chu and Ken Chang.

Character description
Chu Liuxiang is a martial arts expert whose prowess in qinggong is one of the best – in the jianghu (martial artists' community). He wields a metal hand fan as his weapon and uses it only for self-defence. Despite his superb combat skills and impressive qinggong, one of his definitive traits is that he has never killed anyone in his whole life. Usually, he relies on his wit, experience and calm to solve mysteries and overcome enemies who are far more powerful than him. The identity of his martial arts master is unknown, and even the well-informed Shuimu Yinji () could only deduce that he is an apprentice of Ye Di (), a character from Daqi Yingxiong Zhuan, another of Gu Long's novels.

Although his age is not mentioned in any of the novels, Chu Liuxiang is probably around 30 years old when the events of the novels take place. In Bianfu Chuanqi, his childhood friend, Hu Tiehua (), is 33 years old. Chu Liuxiang is presumably around the same age as Hu Tiehua since they grew up together.

Chu Liuxiang lives on a houseboat, called "Xiang's Pavilion" (), with three young beauties. They are the closest people to him apart from his best friends, Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan (). They come from pitiful backgrounds and have been following Chu Liuxiang on his adventures since they were 11 or 12. The first, Su Rongrong (), is kind and understanding and specialises in the art of disguise. The second, Li Hongxiu (), is very clear and alert and has a good memory. The third one, Song Tian'er (), is a good cook and is the most mischievous and adorable of the three. Chu Liuxiang also meets several other beautiful maidens on his adventures, such as Heizhenzhu (), Shi Xiuyun (), Hua Zhenzhen (), Dong Sanniang () and Xinyue (). He eventually marries Zhang Jiejie (), whom he meets in Taohua Chuanqi.

A legendary and highly reputable figure in the jianghu, Chu Liuxiang has a wide network of friends, acquaintances and contacts. They include: Hu Tiehua, his childhood friend who has a penchant for alcoholic drinks; Ji Bingyan, who appears cold and indifferent but is actually very warm-hearted; Wuhua (), a Buddhist monk who later turns out to be a villain; Zhongyuan Yidianhong (), a powerful swordsman and contract killer; Zuo Qinghou (), the hospitable master of Cup-Throwing Manor; "Swift Net" Zhang San (), a marine expert and excellent chef of grilled fish.

Novels

Chu Liuxiang Chuanqi

The three novels, Xuehai Piaoxiang, Da Shamo and Huameiniao, form a story arc and are collectively known as Chu Liuxiang Chuanqi.

Xuehai Piaoxiang ()
Chu Liuxiang steals a rare flower from the imperial capital and brings it back to his boathouse. His curiosity piqued after seeing the corpses of several top martial artists drifting towards him, he decides to investigate their deaths. In the meantime, the Heaven's One Holy Water, a deadly potion from the Holy Water Palace (), an all-female martial arts school, is stolen. Chu Liuxiang immediately becomes the suspect because, given his prowess in qinggong and martial arts, he is the probably the only person capable of stealing something from the Holy Water Palace and getting away undetected. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds and a pressing deadline, Chu Liuxiang manages to solve the mysteries and clear his name. His friend, Wuhua, turns out to be the mastermind behind everything. Chu Liuxiang confronts Wuhua and defeats him in a fight, after which Wuhua commits suicide by consuming poison.

Da Shamo ()
Chu Liuxiang returns to his boathouse and discovers that Su Rongrong, Li Hongxiu and Song Tian'er have gone missing. The three maidens are among his closest companions, and he knows that they will not leave without notifying him. He travels a long journey in search of them and reaches the desert, where he meets his friends, Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan. Through a series of adventures and strange encounters, Chu Liuxiang learns that a mysterious villainess, Shiguanyin (), is the mastermind behind a sinister plot. One of her accomplices is Wuhua, who has actually survived after attempting suicide. Chu Liuxiang foils Shiguanyin's plot, defeats her in combat, and she commits suicide. Even after everything is over, Chu Liuxiang has not found the three missing girls yet.

Huameiniao ()
Chu Liuxiang has a series of encounters with Li Yuhan () and his wife, Liu Wumei (), a former apprentice of Shiguanyin. He also gets into conflict with Shuimu Yinji, the mistress of the Holy Water Palace, and engages her in a dramatic one-on-one fight that shocks the entire jianghu. He eventually emerges victorious, exposes an evil scheme by Li Yuhan and Liu Wumei, and rescues the three missing maidens.

Chu Liuxiang Xinzhuan

The five novels, Bianfu Chuanqi, Guilian Xiaqing, Taohua Chuanqi, Xinyue Chuanqi and Wuye Landau, are collectively known as Chu Liuxiang Xinzhuan.

Bianfu Chuanqi ()
There is a strange island called Bat Island, which is rumoured to contain numerous treasures and luxuries. The island is actually a secret trading post for black market items in the jianghu, such as exclusive martial arts manuals. From time to time, the island's master, nicknamed "Bat Gongzi" (), will send exclusive invitations to selected guests to visit and trade on the island. Trade deals are done inside a dark cave to maintain secrecy.

Through a series of serendipitous events, Chu Liuxiang and his friends Hu Tiehua and Zhang San make their way to Bat Island with other companions. Along the way, some of their companions are mysteriously murdered. Chu Liuxiang also encounters Yuan Suiyun (), a blind but powerful martial artist from a reputable family. Eventually, on the island, they uncover a sinister plot by "Bat Gongzi", who turns out to be actually Yuan Suiyun. At the critical moment, Jin Lingzhi (), Yuan Suiyun's girlfriend who has secretly fallen in love with Hu Tiehua, saves everyone by setting up a plan to stop Yuan Suiyun.

Guilian Xiaqing (); alternatively known as Guilian Chuanqi () and Jieshi Huanhun ()
Zuo Qinghou is a famous martial artist in the Jiangnan region and the master of Cup-Throwing Manor (). His beloved daughter, Zuo Mingzhu (), dies after contracting a strange disease. In the meantime, another young maiden, Shi Yin (), also dies from illness. At the moment of Shi Yin's death, Zuo Mingzhu suddenly returns to life and claims she is Shi Yin. It seems as if Shi Yin's spirit has possessed Zuo Mingzhu's body. Zuo Qinghou gets his close friend, Chu Liuxiang, to help him resolve the bizarre case.

Through his calm and wit, Chu Liuxiang gradually unravels the mystery and learns that it is tied to two pairs of star-crossed lovers. On one hand, Zuo Mingzhu is in love with Xue Bin (), but they can never be together because the Zuo and Xue families have a long history of bad blood. On the other hand, Shi Yin is in love with Ye Shenglan () but her parents have arranged for her to marry Xue Bin. Thus, both sides came up with an elaborate plan to trick their parents: Shi Yin fakes her death so that she can elope with Ye Shenglan; Zuo Mingzhu pretends to be possessed by Shi Yin's spirit so that she can marry Xue Bin. After uncovering the truth, Chu Liuxiang helps the two pairs of lovers get together and gives them his blessings.

Taohua Chuanqi ()
In the jianghu, there is a mysterious clan of unknown origin who practise a strange religion. In every generation, a girl will be chosen from within the clan to serve as their Sacred Maiden, who must then take a vow of celibacy. The mother of the girl who has been selected to be the Sacred Maiden does not want her daughter to spend the rest of her life in solitude. She notices Chu Liuxiang and thinks he might be an ideal spouse for her daughter, so she sets up an elaborate plan to lure him into taking a series of challenges to assess his suitability. The story ends with a cliffhanger that resembles the famous paradox in the English short story The Lady, or the Tiger?.

Xinyue Chuanqi ()
The people living in the coastal areas are under constant threat from raids by pirates. The government enlists the help of a martial arts school, Jade Sword Manor (), to deal with the pirates. The elimination of the pirates, however, pave the way for the rise of a formidable pirate king, Shi Tianwang (), who becomes the new threat on the seas and in the jianghu. He is not only powerful in martial arts, but also extremely elusive and unpredictable. For example, he has six decoys to help him mask his true identity.

"Mister Du" (), the mysterious female leader of Jade Sword Manor, comes up with a plan to eliminate Shi Tianwang. She asks the government to bestow the title of a princess on her daughter, Xinyue ("New Moon"), and pretends to offer her daughter's hand-in-marriage to the pirate king to appease him. Xinyue, now known as "Princess Jade Sword" (), will then find an opportunity to assassinate him.

By chance, Chu Liuxiang meets Xinyue's father, Jiao Lin (), who seeks his help in finding his long-lost daughter. However, things become complicated when he learns that "Mister Du" has recruited his best friend, Hu Tiehua, to help her escort Xinyue safely to the pirate king. As news of the planned marriage spread like wildfire throughout the jianghu, more parties get involved. Chu Liuxiang encounters Ishida Hitoshihiko-Saemon (), a Japanese ninja master seeking vengeance on Shi Tianwang for stealing his concubine, Baoji (). At the same time, Baoji, fearing that she will fall out of Shi Tianwang's favour after he marries Xinyue, has sent her assassins to kill Xinyue.

Although Chu Liuxiang starts a romance with Xinyue, who also pledges her love to him, she eventually marries Shi Tianwang. On their wedding night, she successfully distinguishes the real Shi Tianwang from his six decoys and assassinates him, thus completing her mission and restoring peace to the jianghu.

Wuye Lanhua ()
There are rumours in the jianghu that Chu Liuxiang is dead. A mysterious "Mister Orchid" () believes Chu Liuxiang is still alive so he/she sets up an elaborate plot to lure him out of hiding.

Adaptations

Films

Television

Video games
 Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu
 Chu Liuxiang Xinzhuan () is a RPG released in 2001 by Taiwan's UserJoy Technology. The game's story line is based on four novels in the series: Guilian Xiaqing, Taohua Chuanqi, Xinyue Chuanqi and Wuye Lanhua.

References

Gu Long characters
Chu Liuxiang (novel series)


Danielle Dutton (born October 18, 1975) is an American writer and publisher.

Early life and education
Dutton was born in Visalia, California, on October 18, 1975. She received her B.A. in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. During her time at DU, she served as the Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly, under editor Bin Ramke. For several years she taught courses in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. In 2011 she joined the MFA program in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor.

Writing
Of her first book, Attempts at a Life, a collection of short lyrical narratives published in 2007 by Tarpaulin Sky Press, novelist Daniel Handler wrote in Entertainment Weekly: “Indescribably beautiful, also indescribable. In fact, I’m not quite sure what this book’s about, really. Read it; remind yourself that comprehending things all the time is really boring.” In the Review of Contemporary Fiction, critic Kate Zambreno wrote: "Dutton's glorious version of Jane Eyre reads like one of The Guardians congested reads as reimagined by Gertrude Stein or Jane Bowles."

Dutton's second book was the experimental novel S P R A W L, published by the LA-based art press Siglio. It was a finalist for the Believer Book Award in 2011. The editors of The Believer wrote: "Dutton’s sentences are as taut and controlled as her narrator’s mind, and a hint at what compels both ('I locate my body by grounding it against the bodies of others') betrays a fierce and feral searching. S P R A W L makes suburban landscapes thrilling again." In Bookforum, Leigh Newman wrote: "Sprawl in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection."

Dutton's fiction has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, BOMB, Noon, Fence, Places: Design Observer, and in anthologies including A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women.

Publishing

After finishing her PhD, Dutton joined the staff of Dalkey Archive Press, first as managing editor and then as production manager and book designer. She designed covers for such books as Stories and Essays of Mina Loy, Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, The Log of the SS the Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford, Suicide by Eduoard Leve, The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvoreky, Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley, Ryder by Djuna Barnes, and more than 100 others, and was interviewed for her designs by Elle magazine.

In 2010, Dutton founded the indie press Dorothy, a publishing project. The website states that Dorothy, a publishing project is dedicated "to works of fiction, or near fiction, or about fiction, mostly by women." To date, the press has published books by Renee Gladman, Barbara Comyns, Manuela Draeger (translated from the French by Brian Evenson), Suzanne Scanlon, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Amina Cain, Joanna Ruocco, Nell Zink, Joanna Walsh, Marianne Fritz (translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West), Jen George, Nathalie Léger (translated from the French by Natasha Leher and Cécil Menon). Though it publishes only two books per year, the press has garnered wide praise and reviews of its books in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Vice, The New York Times, and Harper's. Dutton has been interviewed about the press in magazines including the Paris Review Daily, Kirkus Reviews, BOMB, and for articles in Poets & Writers and Publishers Weekly. In a 2014 article in the Chicago Tribune, critic Laura Pearson wrote: "Truthfully, we'd check out anything from Dorothy, a publishing project, so keen is editor Danielle Dutton's eye for weird, wonderful manuscripts — most of which happen to be by women. Plus, the St. Louis-based press only puts out two books a year, so it's very doable."

References

Living people
American book publishers (people)
1975 births
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
University of Denver alumni
Naropa University faculty
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
People from Visalia, California
Writers from California
American women academics
Washington University in St. Louis faculty


Jean Arnault is a French diplomat who currently serves as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Personal Envoy on Afghanistan and Regional Issues.

Early life and education
Arnault studied Philosophy, Linguistics and Political Science and graduated in Philosophy from University of Sorbonne-Paris I.  He holds a postgraduate diploma in conference interpretation from the Polytechnic of Central London-University of Westminster.

Career
Arnault worked as Senior Political Affairs Officer in Namibia, Afghanistan and Western Sahara from 1989 to 1991.

Arnault was Observer and then Mediator in the Guatemala peace negotiations from 1992 to 1996, when the Guatemalan Peace Accords were signed. He later served as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for Guatemala and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) from 1997 to 2000.  In 1997, Guatemalan human rights accused Arnault and the UN of having helped the rebels and the government cover up a political killing that was part of a crisis that nearly scuttled the peace plan; Arnault rejected the allegations.

Arnault served as Representative of the Secretary General for Burundi and Head of the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) from 2000 to 2001. In the following years, he was the United Nations Special Adviser to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan from 2008 to 2009; Special Representative of the Secretary General in Georgia and Head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) from 2006 to 2008, succeeding Heidi Tagliavini; Special Representative of the Secretary General in Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) from 2004 to 2006, where he was also Deputy in 2002-2003.

From November 2014 to June 2015 Arnault was a member of the Independent High-Level Panel on Peace Operations appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and chaired by José Ramos-Horta to review and make recommendations on UN field operations in the areas of prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and peacekeeping.

Arnault subsequently was the UN Secretary-General's Delegate to the Sub-Commission on End of Conflict issues in the Colombia Peace Talks, in which he served from August 2015 to April 2016. From May 2016 until September 2017, he was the Head of the UN Mission in Colombia mandated to verify the implementation of the Agreement on the Definitive and Bilateral Ceasefire and Cessation of Hostilities and Laying down of Arms signed by the Government of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) on 24 June 2016. At the end of December 2018 he had completed his assignment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, established by the Security Council in July 2017 to verify the reintegration of former combatants from the FARC-EP and the security guarantees for communities in the conflict areas. From November 2019 to December 2020, he served as the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Bolivia.

In March 2021, Secretary General António Guterres brought Arnault back to Afghanistan as Personal Envoy on Afghanistan and Regional Issues to support UNAMA, Special Representative of the Secretary General Deborah Lyons, and the negotiations and implementation of any agreements between the Taliban and Afghanistan.

Other activities
In 2001, Arnault was a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Studies at Princeton University where he focused on lessons for mediators from peace processes in the 90s. See "Good Agreement, Bad Agreement? an Implementation Perspective, 2001".

From 2011 to 2013 Arnault was Professor of Practice at the Paris School of International Affairs Sciences Po Paris, where he taught International Mediation and the Settlement of Civil Wars.

He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) of New York University and a member of the Council of the University for Peace headquartered in Costa Rica.

References

1951 births
Living people
University of Paris alumni
Princeton University fellows
French officials of the United Nations
French diplomats
Center on International Cooperation
Special Representatives of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
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"Giving Up on Love'" is a song written and recorded by English singer Rick Astley. It was produced by Daize Washbourn with Astley. The song was recorded for Astley's second album, Hold Me in Your Arms. The single peaked at number 38 in US Billboard charts. Never released as a single in the UK, this North American-only single was issued just prior to Astley's US tour.

Celebrating the announcement of the "Hold Me in Your Arms" remastered edition studio album, the music video has been upgraded to 4k as of 28 April 2023. To coincide with the music video to be upgraded to 4k and the 2023 remaster of "Hold Me in Your Arms", the single was also reissued as an EP on the same day as the 4k music video remaster.

Versions

"Giving Up on Love" (7" pop mix) – 4:07
"Giving Up on Love" (12" pop extended mix) – 7:18
"Giving Up on Love" (7" R&B mix) – 4:07
"Giving Up on Love" (12" R&B extended mix) – 7:09
"Giving Up on Love" (12" dub mix) – 5:00

 Giving Up On Love - EP
 "Giving Up On Love" (2023 Remaster) – 4:05
 "Giving Up On Love" (7" R&B Version) – 4:05
 "Giving Up On Love" (12" Pop Extended) – 7:19
 "Giving Up On Love" (12" Dub Mix) – 4:53

Personnel
 Rick Astley – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, drums
 Daize Washbourn – keyboards, drums
 Roddy Matthews – guitars
 Shirley Lewis – backing vocals
 Mae McKenna – backing vocals
 Leroy Osborne – backing vocals
 Mike Stock – backing vocals

Chart performance

References

External links

1988 songs
1989 singles
RCA Records singles
Rick Astley songs
Songs about heartache
Songs written by Rick Astley


Colin Leech (30 August 1889 – 6 March 1961) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1922.

Leech was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, and made his first appearance for Hayfield Cricket Club in 1905 at the age of sixteen and rapidly became one of its most highly regarded players.  He made a single first-class appearance for Derbyshire in the 1922 season, against Glamorgan. He was a right-handed batsman and batting as an opener, scored 12 runs in the first innings of the match and 26 runs in the second innings, partnering Joseph Bowden.

Leech died in Frome at the age of 72.

References

1889 births
1961 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
People from Frome
People from Hayfield, Derbyshire
Cricketers from Derbyshire


"Hopelessly" is a pop song performed by English singer Rick Astley and written by Rob Fisher and Astley. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley. The song was recorded for Astley's fourth album, Body & Soul (1993). It was released as the album's second and first single on 3 April 1993 by RCA Records. The single peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. It peaked at number 28 in the US and at number eight in Canada. It is still a recurrent play on most North America hot AC stations, given the fact that it was a hit single in that format (it reached number 4 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart). It was featured in the compilation Reflections of Love.

Track listing
Studio version
"Hopelessly" – 3:35
"When I Fall in Love" – 3:02
"Hold Me in Your Arms" – 4:24
"Whenever You Need Somebody" – 3:28

Live version
"Hopelessly" (live, recorded in Italy, September 1993) – 2:58
"Never Gonna Give You Up" – 3:32
"Together Forever" – 3:24
"She Wants to Dance with Me" – 3:15

Personnel
 Rick Astley – vocals
 Dave West – keyboards, bass, drum programming
 Richard Cottle – electric piano
 Jim Williams – classical guitar

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end chart

References

External links
"Hopelessly" single at Rickastley.co.uk

1990s ballads
1993 singles
1993 songs
Rick Astley songs
Pop ballads
Songs written by Rob Fisher (British musician)
Songs written by Rick Astley
RCA Records singles


These are the results of the men's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The K-1 (kayak single) event is raced by one-man kayaks through a whitewater course. The venue for the 1996 Olympic competition was along the Toccoa/Ocoee River near the Georgia-Tennessee state line.

Medalists

Results
The 44 competitors each took two runs through the whitewater slalom course on July 28. The best result of the runs counted for the event.

References

1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 162.
Sports-reference.com 1996 men's K-1 slalom results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Slalom Singles". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 485.

Men's Slalom K-1
Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics


"Move Right Out" is a pop soul song performed by English singer Rick Astley and written by Astley and Rob Fisher. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley. The song was recorded for Astley's third album, Free, his first album without Stock Aitken Waterman companion. It was released as the album's second single on 25 March 1991 by RCA Records.

The single peaked at number 58 in UK charts. The song is written in the key of G minor.

Track listing
12" single and CD maxi
 "Move Right Out" (7" Version) – 3:54
 "Move Right Out" (12" Mix) – 6:35
 "Move Right Out" (Vox, Piano, Strings Mix) – 3:35

7" single
 "Move Right Out" (Radio Mix) – 3:53
 "Cry for Help" (Edit) – 4:03

Mini CD single
 "Move Right Out" – 3:53
 "Move Right Out" (Vox, Piano, Strings Mix) – 3:34

Cassette single
 "Move Right Out" (Radio Remix) – 3:54
 "The Bottom Line" – 5:13

Personnel
 Rick Astley – lead vocals
 Rob Fisher – acoustic piano
 Dave West – synthesizers, organ
 Robert Ahwai – guitars
 Hywel Maggs – guitars
 Lars Danielsson – bass
 Per Lindval – drums
 Jacob Andersen – percussion
 Larry Williams – saxophones
 Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
 Larry Hall – trumpet
 Jerry Hey – brass arrangements
 Anne Dudley – string arrangements and conductor
 Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
 Dee Lewis – backing vocals

Chart performance

References
Move Right Out single at Rickastley.co.uk

1991 singles
1991 songs
Rick Astley songs
Songs written by Rick Astley
Songs written by Rob Fisher (British musician)
RCA Records singles


"Never Knew Love" is a pop song performed by the English singer Rick Astley and written by Derek Bordeaux and John Paul Taylor. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley. The song was recorded for and included in Astley's third album, Free. It was released on 23 June 1991 and peaked at number 70 in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing
"Never Knew Love" (Remix) - 3:15
"Never Knew Love" (The 3 Day Mix) - 8:37
"So Glad" - 3:28
"Some Kinda Love" - 4:35

Personnel
 Rick Astley – lead vocals
 Dave West – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, drum programming
 Hywel Maggs – guitars
 Lars Danielsson – bass guitar
 Per Lindval – drum overdubs
 Jacob Andersen – percussion
 Dan Higgins – saxophone solo
 Larry Williams – saxophones
 Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
 Larry Hall – trumpet
 Jerry Hey – brass arrangements
 Anne Dudley – string arrangements and conductor
 Kevin Dorsey – backing vocals
 Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
 Dee Lewis – backing vocals
 Phil Perry – backing vocals

References
Move Right Out single at Rickastley.co.uk

1991 singles
Rick Astley songs
RCA Records singles
1991 songs


"The Ones You Love" is a song performed by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley, written by Astley and Dave West. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley, and recorded for Astley's third album, Body & Soul (1993). The song was released as the album's final single on 23 August 1993 by RCA Records and peaked at number 48 on the UK Singles Chart. After its release, Astley retired from music, and "The Ones You Love" served as his final single until the release of "Sleeping" in October 2001.

Critical reception
Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song three out of five, declaring it as "cheerful, uptempo and commercial, though far inferior to his last hit "Cry for Help" which is included here [on the single]."

Track listing
 "The Ones You Love" (single edit) – 4:20
 "Cry for Help" (single edit) – 4:14
 "The Ones You Love" (instrumental) – 4:21

Personnel
 Rick Astley – lead vocals
 Dave West – keyboards, bass, drum programming
 Mark Brzezicki – live drums
 Derek Green – backing vocals
 Paul "T.J." Lee – backing vocals
 Beverley Skeete – backing vocals

Charts

References

 The Ones You Love single at Rickastley.co.uk

1993 singles
1993 songs
RCA Records singles
Rick Astley songs
Songs written by Rick Astley


"Keep It Turned On" is a song by English singer Rick Astley, released in 2002 only in Germany and the United States as a promo single. The song was the second and final single from his fifth studio album of the same name.

Track listing
5" CD single
"Keep It Turned On" (Single Version) – 3:47
"Keep It Turned On" (Remix) – 3:46
5" CD single promo
"Keep It Turned On" (Album Version) – 3:57
"Keep It Turned On" (Single Version) – 3:48
Unreleased 5" CD single
"Keep It Turned On" (Booya Mix) – 4:43
"One Night Stand" – 4:10

Chart performance

References

External links
Keep It Turned On (album) in Rickastley.co.uk

2001 songs
2001 singles
Rick Astley songs
Songs written by Chris Braide
Songs written by Rick Astley
Polydor Records singles
Song recordings produced by Chris Braide


Chris Loseth (born 1955 in Banff, Alberta) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age six, Loseth's family moved to Fort Nelson, British Columbia then in the year before he graduated high school they resettled in Grand Forks. As a boy he was inspired by the success of the great Alberta jockey, Johnny Longden. After finishing high school, in 1974 Loseth began an apprenticeship at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, British Columbia that saw him go on to compete in more than 26,000 races. He retired on June 12, 2005 having won more races and stakes events than any other jockey in the one hundred and sixteen year history of Hastings Racecourse.

In 1976, Chris Loseth was voted the Sovereign Award as Canada's  Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. During his career, he was the Champion rider at Hastings Racecourse a record eight times and in 1984 earned another Sovereign Award as his country's Outstanding Jockey. In 2001, he was voted the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award, an honour given to a jockey who has made significant contributions to the sport of Thoroughbred racing in Canada.

North American record
Chris Loseth competed at racetracks along the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. He had five wins in one day at California's Golden Gate Fields and won six races on three occasions (1974, 1976, 1994), doing it twice in Vancouver and once at Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington. On April 9, 1984, Loseth equaled the North American record for most wins in one day when he won eight races on a single racecard at Hastings Racecourse.

In 1992, Chris Loseth was inducted in the British Columbia Horse Racing Hall of Fame and in 2007 in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. The Chris Loseth Handicap for three-year-old horses at Hastings Racecourse was named in his honour.

Following his retirement from racing in 2005, he has remained in the industry and is now a trainer with Canmor Farms in Aldergrove, British Columbia.

References
 Chris Loseth 1992 bio at the British Columbia Horse Racing Hall of Fame
 2001 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award
 Chris Loseth at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

1955 births
Canadian jockeys
Sovereign Award winners
Avelino Gomez Memorial Award winners
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees
People from Banff, Alberta
Sportspeople from Alberta
Sportspeople from British Columbia
Living people
Canadian people of Norwegian descent


is a Japanese diplomat and the current Ambassador of Japan to Singapore. He was formerly a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General at the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts, and Controller. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.

Yamazaki worked the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a number of years. He was Counsellor in the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia. He also acted as deputy director in the United Nations Administration Division of the Multilateral Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, he was in charge of administrative and budgetary affairs of the United Nations.  He later became Director of the International Peace Cooperation Division and Deputy Director-General for Global Issues in the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan and served until August 2008. From 2003 to 2007, he was a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ).

Yamazaki obtained his BA degree in international relations from The University of Tokyo.

Honours
 : Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (29 October 2014)

References

Japanese officials of the United Nations
1956 births
Living people
United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions members


Blindfold: Acts of Obsession is a 1994 erotic television film directed by Lawrence L. Simeone. It was originally aired on the USA Network in the United States in 1994, and later, on C4 in the United Kingdom in 1995.

Plot
Madeleine Dalton was once a wild girl who was drawn to bad boys, but has now settled down with real estate broker Mike Dalton. She is desperate to make her dead-end relationship exciting again and goes seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennings. He suggests her to spice up her sex life by playing games. She decides to give it a try and begins using handcuffs and letting herself be blindfolded.

Meanwhile, several women in Santa Monica are getting handcuffed, blindfolded and knifed to death. Madeleine's sister Chris Madigan is involved with investigating the murders and ends up finding a corpse. She suspects Dr. Jennings is the murderer since he has some sort of connection to a presumed dead killer with an identical modus operandi.

While the identity of the murderer is coming closer to being exposed, Madeleine is drawn more and more into the games. She eventually becomes obsessed with S/M and starts an affair with Dr Jennings, but it takes its toll...

Cast
Judd Nelson - Dr. Jennings
Shannen Doherty - Madeleine Dalton
Kristian Alfonso - Chris Madigan
Michael Woods - Mike Dalton
Heidi Lenhart - Young Girl
Drew Snyder - Alex Saunders

Production
The film contains several explicit nude and sex scenes. Shannen Doherty's character appeared nude several times. While filming in 1993, Doherty and Judd Nelson started an affair and even got engaged in 1994. However, Doherty was still in an abusive relationship with Dean Factor when she became involved with Nelson.

References

External links

1994 television films
1994 films
1990s erotic thriller films
American erotic thriller films
American thriller television films
Saban Entertainment films
Films scored by Shuki Levy
1990s English-language films
1990s American films


The zodi is a unit of zodiacal dust. One zodi is the amount of zodiacal dust in the inner Solar System. This dust absorbs light from the Sun and re-radiates it as thermal radiation. The luminosity of the zodiacal dust in the Solar System is about  relative to the luminosity of the Sun, and in practice, this is the observable characteristic defining one zodi.

See also
Cosmic dust

References

Units of density
Units of measurement in astronomy


Dennis Joseph Slamon (born August 6, 1948), is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA. He is best known for his work identifying the HER2/neu oncogene that is amplified in 25-33% of breast cancer patients and the resulting treatment trastuzumab.

Slamon is the son of a West Virginia coal miner.  He attended Washington & Jefferson College for its pre-med program.

He currently serves as director of Clinical/Translational Research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and as director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program at JCCC. He is a professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and executive vice chair for research for UCLA's Department of Medicine. Slamon also serves as director of the medical advisory board for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a fund-raising organization that promotes advances in colorectal cancer.

In 1986 Axel Ullrich, a German scientist working at Genentech, first discovered the Her-2 protein and gave a conference about it in which Slamon was present and afterwards Slamon  proposed to work together, since he suspected that a mutation in Her-2 might cause cancer, eventually they found a kind of aggressive breast cancer with a mutation in the gene responsible for the Her-2 protein and started working on producing an antibody to block that protein, hoping to create a new breast cancer treatment, however Genentec had serious administrative conflicts regarding the direction of their research at the time and they refused to fund their research, with Ullrich leaving the company.
Despite not working at Genentec Slamon kept insisting, which led to him being known and disliked among the staff, but eventually he convinced a group of Genentec scientists and  got funds to do a small study, which proved the efficacy of the Her-2 antibody in fighting breast cancer which convinced Genentec to launch a full scale research and development effort, which concluded in the creating of new more effective breast cancer treatments.

For 12 years, Dr. Slamon and his colleagues conducted the laboratory and clinical research that led to the development of the new breast cancer drug Herceptin, which targets a specific genetic alteration found in about 25 percent of breast cancer patients. To acknowledge Slamon's accomplishments, President Bill Clinton appointed Slamon to the three-member President's Cancer Panel in June 2000.

A 1975 honors graduate of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Slamon earned his Ph.D. in cell biology that same year. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, becoming chief resident in 1978. One year later, he became a fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Slamon and his colleagues set out to find ways to target their treatments. They took breast cancer cells and mimicked what was happening in their patients, looking at genetic alterations in the genes that regulate growth. One of them was a gene called HER-2, human epidermal growth factor receptor No. 2.
The researchers saw that women who had the HER-2 alteration weren't doing as well because they had a more aggressive tumor. That made it a logical target. Slamon's group found that when they added an antibody to the receptor that the gene made when it mutated, the tumor growth rate dropped dramatically.
The process of identifying the target and validating it in the laboratory worked not just for breast cancer, but for other major malignancies, he said. The UCLA researchers developed models for several cancers, seeing which antibodies worked and which didn't.

Popular culture
His life and research was the template for the plot of the film Living Proof (2008), starring Harry Connick, Jr. Slamon's cancer research is discussed in the second episode of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.

Honors and awards
2002 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine
2007 Gairdner Foundation International Award
2017 Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction
2019 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
2019 Sjöberg Prize

References

External links
 Dr. Dennis Slamon: The Search for a Cure for Breast Cancer (Interview)

Living people
American health activists
American medical researchers
People from New Castle, Pennsylvania
Washington & Jefferson College alumni
Pritzker School of Medicine alumni
Cancer researchers
American oncologists
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
1948 births
Activists from California
Fellows of the AACR Academy


Vittorio Foa (18 September 1910 – 20 October 2008) was an Italian politician, trade unionist, journalist and writer.

Biography
Foa was born in Turin in 1910 into a middle-class Jewish family.

He attended Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin for his sixth form/senior high school studies. In 1931, Foa graduated in Law from the University of Turin and worked in a bank. In 1933, he joined Giustizia e Libertà, an anti-fascist political movement. He was arrested by the OVRA in May 1935 and was condemned to 15 years in prison. He shared his cell with Ernesto Rossi, Massimo Mila and Riccardo Bauer.

Foa was released in August 1943. He joined the resistance movement and entered the Action Party (Partito d’Azione; PdA). As a PdA member, he was involved with the National Liberation Committee (Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale; CLN)

On 2 June 1946, Foa was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly and he also became a member of the Commission of the Seventy. Foa’s name was linked to articles 39 and 40 of the Constitution dealing with the freedom of trade union organisation.

When the PdA dissolved in 1947, Foa joined the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano; PSI) and was elected an MP in 1953 (and again in 1958 and 1963). In 1957, he joined the left-wing trade union of Giuseppe Di Vittorio, the Italian General Confederation of Labour (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro; CGIL), and became an influential and highly charismatic trade union leader.

A leading intellectual of the Italian non-Communist left, Foa supported the theory of the political autonomy of the working class, which would later inspire the foundation of several extra-parliamentary leftist groups of which Foa was to become a member, including the PSIUP, PdUP and DP.

At the end of the 1970s, Foa left trade union and political life to devote himself to historical research and publishing. He taught Modern History at the Universities of Modena and Turin and researched the history of the working class and of the trade unions. Publications of this period include La Gerusalemme rimandata: Domande di oggi agli inglesi del primo Novecento (1985), a study of English working class movements at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In the late 1980s, Foa played an active part in the re-thinking of the Italian left and took a keen interest in the debates within the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano; PCI). In 1987 he was elected Senator from the PCI’s list of candidates.

In 1992 Foa retired, dividing his time between Rome and Formia. One of his last public appearances took place in 2002, when he joined the “Manifestazione dei Girotondi”, a spontaneous civil movement that developed between 2002 and 2003 in several Italian towns.

Defined as "the critical voice of the Italian left", Foa devoted his life to Italian and European politics in their widest sense, and constantly expressed his confidence in the young. From the role of the trade unions, to the place of science in our contemporary society, his interests embraced crucial aspects of modern life and society.

He died on 20 October 2008 in Formia.

On 21 October 2008, Italian newspapers were filled with tributes to Foa. In La Repubblica, the journalist Miriam Mafai recalled his impatience when asked what the beleaguered Italian left should do. "It’s a waste of time and sense to try to define a leftist identity" – Mafai recalled Foa saying – "You have to do what is right and necessary for the country. It is up to posterity to decide whether it came from the right or the left."

Selected bibliography
La cultura della CGIL. Scritti e interventi 1950-1970 (1984)
Riprendere tempo: Un diaologo con postilla (1982, with Pietro Marcenaro)
La Gerusalemme rimandata: Domande di oggi agli inglesi del primo Novecento (1985)
Il difficile cammino del lavoro (1990, with Vittorio Rieser)
Il Cavallo e la Torre: Riflessioni su una vita (1991)
Le virtù della Repubblica (1994, with Paul Ginsborg)
Del disordine e della libertà: Padre e figlio tra incertezze e speranze (1995, with Renzo Foa)
Il sogno di una Destra normale (1995, with Furio Colombo)
Questo Novecento (1996)
Lettere della giovinezza. Dal Carcere, 1935-1943 (1998, edited by Federica Montevecchi)
Lavori in corso, 1943-1946(1999, edited by Federica Montevecchi)
Il tempo del sapere (2000, with Andrea Ranieri)
Il ritorno dell'individuo: Cosa cambia nel lavoro e nella politica (2000, with Massimo Crosti)
Passaggi (2000); Sulle montagne (2002)
Il silenzio dei comunisti (2002, with Miriam Mafai and Alfredo Reichlin)
Un dialogo (2003, with Carlo Ginzburg)
La memoria è lunga (2003, with Federica Montevecchi)
Il linguaggio del tempo (2004, with Valter Casini)
Cent’anni dopo: Il sindacato dopo il sindacato (2006, with Gugliemo Epifani)
Le parole della politica (2008, with Federica Montevecchi)

References

External links

1910 births
2008 deaths
Politicians from Turin
20th-century Italian Jews
Action Party (Italy) politicians
Italian Socialist Party politicians
Proletarian Democracy politicians
Italian Communist Party politicians
Democratic Party of the Left politicians
Democrats of the Left politicians
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy
Deputies of Legislature II of Italy
Deputies of Legislature III of Italy
Deputies of Legislature IV of Italy
Deputies of Legislature VII of Italy
Senators of Legislature X of Italy
Members of Giustizia e Libertà
Writers from Turin
Jewish socialists
Journalists from Turin
Italian male journalists
Italian male writers
20th-century Italian journalists
Il manifesto editors
Italian newspaper editors


Petar Gburčik (Cyrillic: Петар Гбурчик) (30 October 1931 - 29 October 2006) was a Serbian scientist and a professor of meteorology at the University of Belgrade. He was the author of mathematical models of numerical weather prediction, which were used operationally in the Weather Service of Yugoslavia from 1970 to 1977. In the same period he began modelling the atmospheric diffusion of air pollution and created the first model of the spatial distribution of air pollution. The output of this model was used for the elaboration of the urban plan of Pančevo. For the actual research of the three-dimensional distribution of wind energy (on the territories of Belgrade and Serbia) he applied the integration of classic models with GIS technology.

A special area of his research was intentionally and inadvertently modified climates and their impact on sustainable development. These modifications destabilize the climate system and lead to natural and social damage, due to the lack of possibility of weather control. Gburčik proved this with his scientific papers on weather modifications and climate change.

References

1931 births
2006 deaths
People from Sremska Mitrovica
Serbian meteorologists
Academic staff of the University of Belgrade


Alexánder Castro Trejos (born February 14, 1979) is a retired Costa Rican professional footballer.

Club career
Castro made his league debut for Alajuelense on 7 February 1999 against Municipal Goicoechea, also immediately scoring a goal in the match, and played for Herediano, whom he joined for a second spell in August 2010, Cartaginés and Ramonense in the Primera División de Costa Rica.

In December 2011, Castro began legal proceedings against Herediano, claiming the club owed him money after they did not honor his contract until 2013.

International career
Castro played for Costa Rica at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria.

Castro made 23 appearances for the Costa Rica national football team, including two qualifying matches for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He made his debut in a UNCAF Nations Cup 2001 match against Belize on June 23, 2001. He made two appearances for Costa Rica at the Copa América 2004 and five appearances at the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

His final international was a February 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup match against El Salvador.

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
People from Puntarenas Province
Men's association football defenders
Costa Rican men's footballers
Costa Rica men's under-20 international footballers
Costa Rica men's international footballers
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2004 Copa América players
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense footballers
C.S. Cartaginés players
C.S. Herediano footballers
Liga FPD players
A.D. Ramonense players


The Warwick Prize for Writing was an international literary prize, worth £25,000, that was given biennially for writing excellence in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that changes with every award. It was launched by the University of Warwick in July 2008.  Past nominations included scientific research, novels, poems, e-books and plays. Works were open to be nominated by staff, students and alumni of Warwick University, and since 2014, the publishing industry.

The Prize Management Group
The Prize Management Group of the Warwick Prize for Writing was made up of senior professors and administrative staff drawn from across the faculties and included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. The Prize Management Group was responsible for the administration of the prize, including agreeing the rules, the guidelines for the judges and the arrangements for the award of the prize. The Prize Management Group was also responsible for choosing the judging panel.

2015
The 2015 judging panel was chaired by A. L. Kennedy, accompanied by author and academic Robert Macfarlane, actress and director Fiona Shaw, physician and writer Gavin Francis, and Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler.

The theme for the 2015 prize was 'Instinct'. The winner is in bold.

2013
The judges for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2013 were Ian Sansom of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (Chair), Marina Warner CBE and Ed Byrne, Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

2013 was the first time the prize was won by a poet.

Winner is in bold.

2011
The theme for the 2011 award was "colour".

Michael Rosen chaired the panel of five judges for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing, and was joined by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Professor Nigel Thrift, award-winning author Jenny Uglow, Times Literary Editor Erica Wagner and writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster Baroness Lola Young.

Winner is in bold.

2009
The theme for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing was complexity. A longlist of 20 candidate titles was announced in November 2008, followed by the shortlist of six titles announced on 22 January 2009. The winner, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, was announced on 24 February 2009.

China Miéville, award-winning writer of weird fiction, chaired the panel of five judges. Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, provided a vital link between the Prize Management Group and the Judging Panel. The journalist Maya Jaggi, the author and translator Maureen Freely and the literary blogger Stephen Mitchelmore completed the Judging Panel.

Winner is in bold.

See also
University of Warwick
List of British literary awards
List of literary awards

Notes

References

English-language literary awards
English literary awards
Awards established in 2009
University of Warwick
2009 establishments in England


Sungang railway station, formerly "Shenzhen North railway station," is a freight station in Luohu District of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The current station was opened in June 1973 and is on Guangshen railway and Jingjiu railway.

History
The original station was opened in 1962 with its name "Sungang", expanded in 1973 and changed to its "Shenzhen North" in 1977. Its name was changed back to "Sungang" again in 2008 due to the same name as another "Shenzhen North railway station" in the future Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link.

Facilities
The station has 52 freight tracks and a total area of .

Luohu District
Railway stations in China opened in 1973
Stations on the Beijing–Kowloon Railway
Stations on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway


William Norris "Bill" Boland (born July 16, 1933 at Corpus Christi, Texas) is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Boland began his riding career in 1949 at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. While still a sixteen-year-old apprentice, riding Better Self for owner Robert J. Kleberg Jr.'s King Ranch and trainer Max Hirsch, Boland earned the first stakes race win of his career on April 29, 1950 in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica Race Course. He went on to the Kentucky Oaks aboard Ari's Mona  then the following day rode Middleground to victory in the Kentucky Derby. Boland missed winning the U.S. Triple Crown series that year when he and Middleground finished second after a rough trip in the Preakness Stakes but then won the Belmont Stakes. In 1966 Boland won his second Belmont Stakes aboard Amberoid for trainer Lucien Laurin.

Widely respected by his peers, in 1959 Bill Boland received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award given to the North American jockey who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

Bill Boland retired from racing in 1969 and turned to training horses for a time. He was inducted into the United States Racing Hall of Fame in 2006.

References

1933 births
Living people
American jockeys
United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Corpus Christi, Texas