James "Wild Jimmy" Haggerty (died January 25, 1871) was an American criminal and well-known underworld mob figure in Philadelphia and later in New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. Jimmy Haggerty was the leader of the Schuylkill Rangers, a predominantly Irish-American street gang, which terrorized the South Philadelphia waterfront, specifically its local wharves and coal yards, for over 25 years.

The notorious Philadelphia gangs existed from 1836-1878 being sixty-five in all including the Schuylkill Rangers were the American  Guards *(also in New York City); Bleeders; Blood Tubs *(also in Baltimore); Blossoms; Bouncers; Buffers; Bugs; Bulldogs; Centre Street Boys; Chesapeakes; Crockets; Darts; Deathfetchers; Dogs; Dog-Towners; Flayers; Fly-By-Nights; Garroters; Gumballs; Hyenas; Jack of Clubs; Jumpers; Juniatta Club; Kensington Blackhawks; Kerryonians *(also in New York City); Keystone No. 2; Killers; Lancers; Molly Maguires; Neckers; Nighthawks; Orangemen; Pickwick Club; Pluckers; Pots No. 2; Privateer Club No. 1; Rangers; Rats; Reading Hose Club; Rebels; Red Roses; Reed Birds; Shifflers; Skinners; Smashers; Snakers; Snappers; Spiggots; Spitfires; Sporters; Springers; Stingers; Stockholders; The Forty Thieves (also in New York City); The Vesper Social; Tormentors; Turks; Vampyres; Waynetowners; Weecys; Whelps; Wild Cats; Wreckers. Many of these criminal gangs were originally organized as volunteer Philadelphia Fire Department companies similar to the gang the Bowery Boys of the New York City Fire Department.

Jimmy Haggerty ruled over the Schuylkill Rangers throughout the 1850s and was the gang's last leader until their break up following the American Civil War by an undercover Philadelphia Police lieutenant. He remained one of the city's most notorious bank robbers during the post-Civil War era and later resided in New York where he spent his last years before being murdered by Reddy the Blacksmith during a bar brawl in January 1871.

Early life
James Haggerty was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a large working-class family near the banks of the Schuylkill River; his boyhood home was located on Arch Street in the area between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Street known as "McAran's Garden". His father, John Haggerty, was a "boss" drayman widely respected by the local business community "as an honest, upright and faithful servant". Haggerty remained free of criminal activity during his childhood, however he did not attend school and received little education.

Jimmy Haggerty age 21 became employed a mule driver for the Reading Railroad. He continued in this profession, as well as ran a local saloon, until the start of the American Civil War in which he voluntarily enlisted in the Union Army.

Criminal career in Philadelphia
Although it is unknown under the exact circumstances he left the service, whether he received an honorable discharge or took "French leave", he soon became a "bounty jumper". He became acquainted with a number of known criminals during this time and, returning to Philadelphia following the war, became involved in illegal bare-knuckle boxing and eventually petty theft, armed robbery and burglary. Although he was considered extremely violent when drunk, police officers testified to his reluctance to murder a victim in cold blood and described the frequent use of his pistol as a blackjack in confrontations, he was connected to a number of major robberies during his career. Among them were the robberies of the Eleventh Street and Chestnut Street Banks, the Philadelphia Savings Bank and the safe burglary of the Dancannon Iron Works. He was also involved in the robbery of White's Dental Depot where an African-American watchman was murdered.

After numerous arrests for theft and similar offenses, he and Hugh Murphy were convicted of the robbery of a Ninth Street store and sentenced to ten years imprisonment on December 12, 1865. He was pardoned by Governor Andrew G. Curtin eight months later, in part to Haggerty's political connections and his promise to leave the country upon his release, and lived in Canada for a brief time before returning to the city to resume his criminal career. Haggerty remained a major underworld figure in Philadelphia until January 1869 when he was arrested on several counts of assault with intent to kill; during his arrest, he shot the arresting police officer.

He was caught trying to escape from prison but was later released on bail and fled the city. Staying in New York for a brief time, he returned to Philadelphia in April to surrender himself to authorities after the wounded police officer had received "hush money". He won both court cases against him, but was ordered at the second trial to return to the Eastern State Penitentiary by the District Attorney for violating the terms of his release. While his lawyers argued the ruling, Haggerty escaped from the courthouse during a recess in what was suspected to have been planned.

Criminal years in New York City and death
He eventually returned to New York where he resided during the last two years of his life. He was involved in disputes with a number of criminal figures, for example, when he and Billy Tracy were thrown out of a Bowery gambling resort by its owner Harry Hill and British lightweight boxer Billy Edwards in November 1870. On the afternoon of January 24, 1871, Haggerty and three others arrived at Jem Mace's Capitol Saloon on Twenty-Third Street. They had become intoxicated while traveling by sleigh along Harlem Lane and, shortly after their arrival, they became involved in a violent altercation with another group of patrons. It was thought that Haggerty and his party were about to use their pistols when a local patrolman and a City Hall officer arrived from nearby Booth's Theater. At the appearance of the patrolman walking through the saloon door, Haggerty drew his revolver and pistol whipped him sending the officer outside. As the two officers went to get reinforcements, Haggerty and his men made their escape on the sleigh. His whereabouts remained unknown until early the next morning when he entered Patrick Egan's saloon. While there, his friend Billy Tracy became involved in a dispute with Shang Draper stemming from the earlier dispute at Jem Mace's saloon. Reddy the Blacksmith, a longtime member of the Bowery Boys, attempted to separate the two but Haggerty confronted Reddy and demanded that he stay out of it. As the two argued, Haggerty reportedly attempted to grab a decanter from the bar to strike the Bowery Boy with causing Reddy to draw his pistol and shot Haggerty in the abdomen. Haggerty was taken to a room in West Houston Street where claimed he did not know either Tracy or Draper and that he was so intoxicated that he was unable to recognize who fired the shot. Although mortally wounded, an examination finding the bullet had penetrated his intestines, Haggerty refused to name his attacker and died from his wounds later that evening.

His funeral was perhaps one of the biggest held in Philadelphia's history and took place at his mother's residence at the northeast corner of Twenty-Third and Filbert Streets, the longtime headquarters of Schuylkill Rangers, and was attended by what was thought to be one of the largest criminal gatherings of the era. Among the hundred or so mourners included Squire McMullin, John Ahern and Robert Lister Smith.

An official inquest was held in the days following his death, attracting a number of prominent criminals such as Dan Noble, Joe King, Johnny Moore, Richard Barron and Broker Dick among others, before it was finally concluded on February 1 with Reddy being released on a $10,000 bail.

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1871 deaths
American crime bosses
American gangsters
Gangsters from New York City
Gangsters from Philadelphia
Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons
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People murdered in New York City
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Deaths by firearm in Manhattan


The 1960 France rugby union tour of South America was a series of rugby union matches played by the France national team in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

France played a series of matches in Argentina (including three tests v the national team) and also two games in Chile and Uruguay, although those are not considered tests by the French Federation.

Touring party
 President: René Crabos
 Coach: Marcel Laurent
 Referee: Bernard Marie
 Press Agent: Denis Lalanne

Players

 Michel Vannier
 Roger Brethes
 Jean Dupuy
 Henri Rancoule
 Guy Boniface
 Arnaud Marquesuzaa
 Jean Othats
 Pierre Dizabo
 Michel Lacome
 Roger Martine
 Pierre Danos
 Pierre Lacroix
 François Moncla
 Michel Crauste
 Michel Celaya
 Sylvain Meyer
 Jean Carrere
 Roland Crancele
 Herve Larrue
 Jean Pierre Saux
 Amedee Domenech
 Alfred Roques
 Raoul Barriere
 Jean de Gregorio
 Jacques Rollet

Match details
Complete list of matches played by France in South America:

First test

Second test

Third test

Uruguay: L.Vásquez; Agustín Canessa, B. Fontana, Penco, E. Llovet; D. Moor-Davie, R. Hoober; H. Pugh, G. Sebasti, J. Shaw; Alvaro Canessa, H. Bergmann; G. Dupont, R. Vivo, A. Hughes
France: M. Vannier; J. Othats, M. Lacome, R. Martine, H. Rancoule; R. Brethes, P. Dizabo; M. Crauste, R. Crancée, F. Monclá (cap.); S. Meyer, J. Saux; A. Domenech, J. de Gregorio, A. Roques

Notes

References

France tour
France national rugby union team tours of Argentina
France national rugby union team tours of Uruguay
France national rugby union team tours
Argentina–France sports relations
France–Uruguay relations
rugby
1960–61 in French rugby union
1960 in Uruguayan sport
1960 in Chilean sport


Chernomorenergo is a state-owned power company of Abkhazia. It is responsible for the distribution of electricity in Abkhazia and operates the Inguri hydroelectric power station. It is currently headed by Aslan Basaria. It is only Russian plant involved in ultra-high voltage bushing development, manufacturing, and testing.

History

In February 1995, the Ministry for Energy was transformed into the state company Abkhazenergo. The company's first Chairman was Khuta Jinjolia, who had previously been Minister for Energy. In June of the same year, it was renamed to Chernomorenergo and turned into a state-owned private company.

In December 1999, outgoing Prime Minister Sergei Bagapsh was appointed Chairman of Chernomorenergo. On 1 May 2000, its status reversed to that of state company. After the election of Bagapsh as President of Abkhazia, he was succeeded by Rezo Zantaria on 6 May 2005.

Following the May 2014 revolution and the election of President Raul Khajimba, Chernomorenergo was transformed into a Republican Unitary Enterprise and Aslan Basaria was appointed its new chairman.

References

External links

 Official site

Electric power companies of Abkhazia


The 1961 France rugby union tour of Australasia was a series of matches of the France national rugby union team which toured New Zealand and Australia in 1961. France won an historical match with Australia, but was defeated (0–3) by All Black's led by Don Clarke.
The French most notable players were the Camberaberò brothers, Guy e Lillian, and the captain Moncla.

French players were criticised for their anger: some matches were interrupted by brawls. In the match with South Canterbury, the referee sanctioned many French fouls and expelled the captain Michel Crauste, who had violently tackled Eddie Smith. It is said the old mother of the All Black's player came on the ground to slap the French player.

Results
Scores and results list France team's points tally first.

Touring party
Manager: Marcel Laurent
Assistant Manager: Guy Basquet
Captain: François Moncla

Full backs
Michel Vannier, Claude Lacaze

Three-quarters
Henri Rancoule, Guy Boniface, André Boniface, Guy Calvo, Jean Piqué, Jean-Vincent Dupuy

Half-backs
Pierre Albaladejo, Pierre Lacroix, Guy Camberabero

Forwards
Pierre Cazals, Jean Laudouar, Amédée Domenech, Gerard Bouguyon, Jean-Pierre Saux, Michel Crauste, François Moncla (c), Michel Celaya, Roland Lefevre, Jacques Rollet, Marcel Cassiede

Notes and references

France national rugby union team tours
France national rugby union team tours of Australia
France national rugby union team tours of New Zealand
History of rugby union matches between Australia and France
France
France Tour
France Tour
Tour


Azhar Abbas Haraj (), was born 1 April 1975 in Roshan Pur, Khanewal, Pakistan. He is a Pakistan cricketer who played for the Auckland Aces and Wellington Firebirds in State Championship. He is a NZC Level 3 Cricket Coach. He was Bowling Coach for Auckland Aces 2015–17. He is a Director of Coaching at Eden Roskill District Cricket Club. He is also a Founder of NZ Pace Academy.

See also
 List of Auckland representative cricketers

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Khanewal
Multan cricketers
Pakistan Railways cricketers
Pakistani expatriates in New Zealand
Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Bahawalpur cricketers


Tamriko Siprashvili (born January 2, 1963) is a Georgian pianist. She was born in  Tbilisi the capital city of the Republic of Georgia.

Training
She began her piano studies at the age of three. At age five, she entered the Special Music School for Gifted Children in her home city of Tbilisi, one of only four such schools in the then–Soviet Union. There she continued her studies until at 17, she was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory of Music to be a concert pianist. In 1985, she graduated with her Doctorate in Musicology and Piano Performance. While at the Moscow Conservatory she studied primarily with Mikhail Voskresensky.

Awards
After graduation Tamriko competed for and won 1st Prize, Gold, in the IX Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau, Germany.

Steinway Artist

Tamriko is a Steinway Artist, sharing her love of music and Steinway pianos.

Concerts
After she received her 1st prize, Tamriko then toured throughout Europe, the United States and Argentina, performing as soloist with such notable orchestras as the Berlin Konzerthaus; the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra in Parma, Italy; and the Oakland Symphony among many others. While on tour, she had the honor of performing with legendary conductors Kurt Masur, Jason Kakhidze and Michael Morgan.

Music Academy and Musical Legacy
In 1995 Tamriko moved to Northern California and in early 2009, she opened a music academy named Inspire Academy of Music and Arts] in Pleasanton, California. She opened the academy with the sole purpose of sharing her love of music and continuing her pursuit of a musical education for young children.

Students
Many of Tamriko's students have gone on to earn and enjoy their own personal successes. Those  include international prizes and admission to such highly regarded music universities such as the Eastman School of Music; University of Texas, Austin; NYU; UCLA; and the Manhattan School of Music.

Recordings
Tamriko is known for her romantic repertoire, especially that of Robert Schumann. To bring some of her favorite pieces to the public, and to pass on her rich heritage of music, she has recorded several albums for Nimbus Records, among them Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. On the French label XCP Records, she recorded  Kreisler's "Liebesfreud" and "Liebesleid" as well as the "Variations on a Theme by Chopin Opus 22," and "Variations on a Theme by Corelli Opus 42," by Sergei Rachmaninoff–to worldwide acclaim.

External links
  Inspire Academy of Music and Arts
  Steinway & Sons
  ArkivMusic - Discography
  Robert Schumann International Contest for Pianists and Singers

Living people
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Classical pianists from Georgia (country)
Women pianists from Georgia (country)
Classical piano duos
People from Pleasanton, California
21st-century classical pianists
1963 births
21st-century women pianists
Moscow Conservatory alumni


Kerala sari (Set-sari) () is a clothing of women in the Indian state of Kerala.

Mundum Neriyathum

It is worn as a garment that closely resembles the mundum neriyathum though it is not considered a true mundum neriyathum by classic definition.  Traditional mundum neriyathum consists of a two-piece cloth, while Kerala sari is worn in a way to resemble navi drape using two-piece mundum neiyathum. Otherwise, the Kerala sari closely resembles the mundum neriyathum and is often worn by Malayali women as a quasi mundum neriyathum.

Surviving medieval Kerala mural paintings depict existence of three-styles of clothing worn by women, these include one-piece mundum, single-piece sari with over-lapping pleats resembling nivi-drape worn today by Mohiniyattam dancers and two-piece mundam-neryathum attire which evolved into Kerala sari.

Weaving centers
Balaramapuram, Chendamangalam and Kuthampully are the three major sari weaving centres in Kerala, these clusters have been given a Geographical Indication Tag by the Indian Government and all three are famous for the weaving of Kasavu saris notable for its white cotton or silk textile with golden borders.

The Balaramapuram cluster weavers traditionally weave Kasavu saris and mundu. The Balaramapuram cluster is known for having a simple gold border and it is woven out of cotton and silk yarn. Chendamangalam, the second cluster, is known for weaving saris with cotton and silk and striped golden borders. They are similar to Balaramapuram but with lesser emphasis on the golden border. Weaving in Chedamangalam was introduced by the Paliam royal family. Paliath Achans, who were the Rajas of Chendamangalam and the hereditary prime ministers to the Maharaja of Kochi have been associated with Chendamangalam from the 16th century onwards. The Devanga Chettiars settled in this region at their behest to serve the family's sartorial needs. The Kuthampully cluster is based in Thrissur District, their history dates back 500 years when their forefathers came to Kerala from Mysore. The weavers of Kuthampully came under the patronage of the Kochi royal family, and had woven fabrics for the Royal family. The saris by Kuthampully weavers are quite different from the other two clusters as they include more patterns, borders and motifs.

Cultural costume

Kerala sari is regarded as the cultural costume of women of the Malayali community. The grace and appeal of the golden borders contrasting with the otherwise plain white mundum neryathum of Keralite women has come to symbolize Malayali women. The sari is a hot favorite during the time of Onam, not just in Kerala but in other parts of India as well.

In popular culture
Both the traditional and modern styles of the mundum neryathum are depicted in the paintings of the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. The mundum neriyathum was modified in several paintings depicting shakuntala from the mahabharatha to a style of draping now popularly known as the 'nivi saree' or 'national drape'. In one of his paintings, the Indian subcontinent was shown as a mother wearing a flowing nivi saree.

See also
 Sari
 Mundum Neriyathum
 Mundu

Notes

References and bibliography

Boulanger, C (1997) Saris: An Illustrated Guide to the Indian Art of Draping, Shakti Press International, New York.
Mohapatra, R. P. (1992) Fashion styles of ancient India, B. R. Publishing corporation,
Alkazi, Roshan (1983) "Ancient Indian costume", Art Heritage
Mahaparinibbanasutta (ancient Buddhist text)
Miller, Daniel & Banerjee, Mukulika; (2004) The Sari, Lustre press / Roli books
 Bjorn Landstrom (1964) The Quest for India, Doubleday English edition, Stockholm.
 T.K Velu Pillai, (1940) "The Travancore State Manual"; 4 volumes; Trivandrum
 Miller, J. Innes. (1969). The Spice Trade of The Roman Empire: 29 B.C. to A.D. 641. Oxford University Press. Special edition for Sandpiper Books. 1998. .
 K.V. Krishna Iyer (1971) "Kerala’s Relations with the Outside World," pp. 70, 71 in The Cochin Synagogue Quatercentenary Celebrations Commemoration Volume, Kerala History Association, Cochin.
 Periplus Maris Erythraei, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, (trans). Wilfred Schoff (1912), reprinted South Asia Books 1995

Saris
Kerala clothing


The following is a list of Miss International pageant edition and information.

Host country/territory by number

Currently 8 hosts former mainly held in the United States, 46 current mainly hosts inside of Japan, 54 current mainly hosts inside of Home Country  and 6 hosts outside Home Country.

 No pageants held in 1966, 2020, and 2021

Notes

See also

 List of Miss International titleholders

References

External links
Official Miss International website - Past places

 Editions
Lists of beauty pageants editions


Gymnosporia heterophylla, the common spike-thorn, is a small, hardy, deciduous African tree up to 5m tall, occurring in rocky places with a wide distribution from Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Congo, south to the Cape Province and west to Angola and Namibia, as well as the neighbouring islands of Madagascar and Saint Helena, with a closely related species from Mauritius.

It has a straggly, but rigid habit and is armed with sharp straight thorns up to 100mm long, which are modified branches. Bark on the mature trunk is grey-brown and deeply fissured. The tree is dioecious, and clusters of white flowers are produced in profusion in spring and are borne on thicker twigs and branches. The flowers have a fetid, faecal smell and attract large numbers of pollinating insects, particularly carrion-loving flies such as members of the family Calliphoridae. The tree has a close relationship with a number of cicada species, such as Platypleura divisa, P. mijburghi and P. maytenophila.

The specific name "heterophylla" means "variable leaves" and if the list of past synonyms is examined, it affords an interesting insight into the minds of botanists since 1753 when Linnaeus decided that the leaves reminded him of boxwood and named it Celastrus buxifolius. Since then it has been named ellipticus, heterophyllus, spathephyllus, empleurifolius, rhombifolius, parvifolius and buxifolioides - it would seem that the epithet heterophylla is appropriate.

It makes a very effective, fast-growing security hedge. The wood is hard and durable, suitable for carving, though large pieces are not often available.

Pictures

References

''Reinstatement of "Gymnosporia"
https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/maytenus.heterophylla

Sources
Trees and Shrubs of the Witwatersrand - Tree Society (Witwatersrand University Press, 1969)
Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park - Schmidt et al. (Jacana Press, 2002)

heterophylla
Trees of Africa
Trees of South Africa


Results
Scores and results list France's points tally first.

1964 rugby union tours
1964
1964 in South African rugby union
1963–64 in French rugby union
1964


Moreland is a historic home located at Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story early Colonial Revival frame dwelling that was constructed about 1894. The home was the summer residence for Washington, D.C., businessman and former District of Columbia Commissioner Samuel E. Wheatley, and that family owned it from 1894 until 1944.

Moreland was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

External links
, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust website

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1894
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
Colonial Revival architecture in Maryland
Buildings and structures in Bethesda, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland


This article is a list of tours by the France national rugby union team

France Rugby Tours

Stats of each Tour

Argentina

Australia

South Africa

New Zealand

Test Record

Argentina Series

Australia Series

New Zealand Series

South Africa Series

One-off Tests in Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

1995 ARG 12-47 FRA Ferrocaril Oeste, Buenos Aires

Others
France's score is first.

External links
  French Stats Website

tours


The Steiner Academy Hereford is a Steiner-Waldorf Academy school in Much Dewchurch near Hereford, Herefordshire, UK. It opened in September 2008 based at the earlier Hereford Waldorf School and is the first publicly funded Steiner-Waldorf school in the UK. The school takes students from the Kindergarten age of 3 to 16.

Natural Environment Academy
As a state funded Academy its specialism is the natural environment. The Academy is based on the earlier Hereford Waldorf School which existed for 25 years at the same site and comprised a Victorian school, medieval farmhouse and a more recent Kindergarten extension, and 18th century barns. Between 2008 and 2011 the school and site were redeveloped by John Renshaw Architects in a £6.5 million project that transformed the school using natural materials. This redevelopment provided a new hall, renewable energy, and buildings upgraded to reduce the environmental footprint, while organising the development of the site in sympathy with the natural environment. The school has outdoor classrooms and a significant area of productive gardens and other ecology areas dedicated to Landwork activities.

Controversies
In December 2009 Steiner Academy Hereford was bottom of the primary school league tables for England derived from SATS scores at Key Stage 2. Parents had opposed the testing and many children were absent for the dates.

In contrast with assessment tests, in July 2013 Ofsted reported  that 'Pupils are well prepared for more formal learning', 'Pupils achieve well throughout the school, reaching above the expected levels', they 'Go on to successfully study and achieve wide-ranging qualifications at GCE A level and beyond.', 'Older students develop strong independent working and thinking skills', 'Pupils’ artistic and practical achievements are impressive', 'Pupils have a strong sense of personal responsibility', and 'bullying is extremely rare'.

In September 2012, the school was accused by the British Humanist Association of including pseudoscience in its curriculum. Clarence Harvey, an acting principal of the Steiner Academy Hereford, responded: 'It is not our aim to promote scientific orthodoxy, but rather to enable pupils to think and engage in independent verification of reality.'

See also
Curriculum of the Waldorf schools

Notes and references

External links
Official site
UK Steiner Fellowship
Guardian Education article on SAH 25 May 2012
John Renshaw Architects redevelopment of SAC 2008-2011
Steiner Academy Frome
European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education

Waldorf schools in the United Kingdom
Academies in Herefordshire
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in England
Secondary schools in Herefordshire
Primary schools in Herefordshire


The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is an independent standards body that issues standards, like the International Standards on Auditing, International Standards on Quality Management, and other services, to support the international auditing of financial statements. It is a body supported by the International Foundation for Ethics and Audit.
The Public Interest Oversight Board provides oversight of the IAASB, ensuring that the standards are in the public interest.

To further ensure proposed standards are in the public interest the IAASB consults its Consultative Advisory Group, which is composed of standard setters, various international organizations from the private and public sectors, and regulators. Representatives include a balance of users and prepares of financial statements, and should to the extent practicable be balanced geographically.

Founded in March 1978 as the International Auditing Practices Committee (IAPC), the IAASB's current strategic objectives include:

 Increase the emphasis on emerging issues to ensure that the IAASB International Standards provide a foundation for high-quality audit, assurance and related services engagements
 Innovate the IAASB’s ways of working to strengthen and broaden our agility, capabilities, and capacity to do the right work at the right time
 Maintain and deepen relationships with stakeholders to achieve globally relevant, progressive and operable standards

See also
 International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
 International Public Sector Accounting Standards

References

External links
 IAASB website
 International Foundation for Ethics and Audit

International accounting organizations
Auditing standards
International standards


Stig Blomberg (October 16, 1901 – December 19, 1970) was a Swedish sculptor. He was born in Linköping.

In 1936 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the summer Olympic Games for his "Brottande pojkar" ("Wrestling Youths"). In 1956 he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture.

See also
Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics

References

External links
 profile

1901 births
1970 deaths
People from Linköping
Swedish male sculptors
Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions
20th-century Swedish sculptors
Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics


Fuel (previously called Fields of Fuel) is a 2008 documentary film directed by Josh Tickell and produced by Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Daniel Assael, Darius Fisher, and Rebecca Harrell Tickell.

It won the audience award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The DVD was released on June 22, 2010.

Editing
According to director Josh Tickell, since its appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, the film has gone through major editing changes and additions. The name was changed from Fields of Fuel to Fuel. This edited film is a re-cut of the same film with 45 minutes of new material in its total 112-minute running time.

Reception
The film has a 72% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews.

Awards
 2008 Sundance Film Festival Winner - Audience Award
 2008 AFI Dallas Film Festival Winner - Current Energy Earth Friendly Award
 2008 Sedona Film Festival Winner - Most Compelling Documentary
 2008 Sedona Film Festival Winner - Best Screenwriting
 2008 Santa Cruz Film Festival - Producer's Award
 2008 Gaia Film Festival Winner - Audience Award, Best Documentary
 Nominated – 61st Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Documentary Screenplay

References

External links

 Full movie available on Youtube

2008 films
2008 documentary films
Environmental films
American documentary films

Documentary films about alternative energy
Documentary films about peak oil
Films set in California
American independent films
Films directed by Josh Tickell
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Lidia Grychtołówna  (born 1928 in Rybnik) is a Polish pianist.

In 1955 she was awarded the V International Chopin Piano Competition's 7th prize, and one year later she shared the 3rd prize of the inaugural edition of the Robert Schumann Competition with Mikhail Voskresensky. She subsequently performed throughout the world, and held a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. She served as a juror at the Chopin Competition's X, XI and XIII editions.

Grychtołówna has been decorated the Gold Medal of the City of Milan.

References

External links
 Biography at The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw.

Polish classical pianists
Polish women pianists
Polish music educators
Polish women music educators
Living people
1928 births
Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition
Alumni of the Academy of Music in Kraków
People from Rybnik
Women classical pianists


Getafe Air Base  is a military airbase located in Getafe, 14 km south of Madrid, Spain. The air base, at an altitude of 620 m above sea level, has a single runway with a length of 3.06 km. It was one of the first military air bases in Spain and, because of that, is considered the "cradle" of Spanish aviation.

The base was inaugurated in 1911 (20 years before Madrid Barajas International Airport) and two years later the Civil Aviation School was created. It was the first air bases in Spain where the first autogyro was flown its designer Juan de la Cierva.

This air base was established permanently in 1911 (20 years before Barajas), and two years later the Civil Aviation School was created. Since then, the extensions and reforms of the same have happened to this day.

Military use
In summer 1957, two-pilot, a flight engineer, and crews flew 12 to Gatafe from Evreux, France, for the purpose of a one time flight to the SABENA facility at the Brussels airport.

Civil use

Today, apart from military use, the factory that belonged to CASA and is currently part of the European group EADS CASA is located next to the base, and next to a railway line. In another factory next to the base, the Spanish Eurofighter Typhoons are assembled. In an annexed facility, the Eurofighter Typhoon destined for Spain are assembled. CASA also carries out in the facilities attached to the base the maintenance of various aircraft of the Air and Space Force, as well as programs for the improvement and modernization of these aircraft.

Through an agreement signed with the Getafe City Council, the Infante de Orleans Foundation, which maintains a collection of old aircraft in flight, will soon move its facilities to land near the Base, from whose aeronautical facilities it will become a user for its flights and its exhibitions. monthly flights.

Given the possibility of closing, increasingly remote, the Madrid-Cuatro Vientos Airport (civil), there have been several proposals for the creation of a civil aerodrome for general aviation and a terminal for low-cost airplanes, over the land of the Getafe Air Base. This proposal has always had the opposition of the City of Getafe, which does not want to increase the pollution that entails the heavy traffic of a civil airport. However, the Getafe City Council has always been a firm supporter of the maintenance of the EADS-CASA facilities and the Air Base of the Air and Space Force, which it sees as complementary and responsible for the industrial-aeronautical fabric of the city.

Garrison
The main military unit to operate from Getafe is the "Ala 35" transport wing, which operates CASA/IPTN CN-235 (two units for VIP missions, eighteen units for transport) and EADS CASA C-295 (nine units for transport).

In 2008, most CN-235s moved to other Spanish Air Force bases and a second squadron of C-295s was formed. Several other units have also been placed at Getafe including the Cartographic Center's fleet from Cuatro Vientos Air Base a few kilometers from Getafe itself.

References

External links

 Spanish Air and Space Force home site

1911 establishments in Spain
Airports in the Community of Madrid
Airports established in 1911


Krstić (, ) is a Serbian surname, a patronymic derived from the given name Krsta or Krsto. It may refer to:

Aleksandar Krstić, Serbian football agent and a former footballer
Bilja Krstić, Serbian singer
Denko Krstić (1824–1882), Ottoman Serb merchant and activist
Dobrosav Krstić, Serbian footballer
Đorđe Krstić, renowned Serbian realist painter
George Krstic, American screenwriter, producer and director
Ljiljana Krstić (1919-2001), Serbian actress
Micko Krstić (1855–1909), Ottoman rebel and Chetnik
Miloš Krstić (born 1987), Serbian professional footballer
Miloš Krstić (born 1988), Serbian professional footballer
Miroslav Krstić, Yugoslavian control theorist and a professor
Nebojša Krstić, advisor of the President of Serbia
Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player
Petar Krstić, Serbian composer and conductor
Petar Krstić, known as Petar Koćura, Chetnik commander in Old Serbia (1904–08)
Radislav Krstić, Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army
Todor Krstić-Algunjski (fl. 1903–18), Chetnik
 Vladimir Krstić (basketball) (born 1972), Croatian basketball coach and player
 Vladimir Krstić (comics) (born 1959), Serbian comic-book and graphic novel creator, painter and illustrator
 Vladimir Krstić (rower) (born 1959), Yugoslav rower
 Vladimir Krstić (footballer) (born 1987), Serbian footballer

See also
Krstović, surname
Krstičić, surname
Kristić, surname
Krištić, surname

Surnames of Serbian origin


Mt. Nebo is a historic home located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a large -story gable-roofed frame dwelling constructed in three periods: the main block, dating to the second quarter of the 19th century; a -story wing extends from the rear of the main block, which appears to have been an earlier dwelling from the late 18th century; and a two-story addition was made to the east gable end of the main block around the turn of the 20th century. Also on the property is a mid-19th-century log smokehouse and the remains of an early terraced "waterfall" garden. The property derives additional significance from its association with the White family through the latter half of the 19th century. Joseph White (1825–1903) was a locally prominent supporter of the Confederate cause during the American Civil War.
Mt. Nebo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

External links
, including photo in 1966, at Maryland Historical Trust website

Houses completed in the 18th century
Houses completed in the 19th century
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
Georgian architecture in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland


Beyond Gravity is the space-oriented segment of the Swiss technology group RUAG. At a total of fourteen sites in Switzerland (Zurich, Emmen and Nyon), Sweden (Gothenburg, Linköping), Finland (Tampere), Germany (Coswig), USA (Denver, Titusville, Decatur) and Austria (Vienna, Berndorf), Beyond Gravity employs around 1,265 people and posted sales of 339 million Swiss Francs in 2019. As a supplier of Arianespace, Beyond Gravity is also a shareholder, with 0.82% of capital in 2018.

History
Beyond Gravity is a segment of the Swiss technology group RUAG, with locations in Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, USA and Austria.

The company began in the late 1970s as a subcontractor of Oerlikon Contraves (later named Oerlikon Space) carrying out final assembly of payload fairings for Ariane rockets. These activities took place at Emmen, Switzerland. Over the years, it expanded primarily through acquisitions. First, the Swiss government owned company took over the companies Mecanex (Nyon) and HTS (Wallisellen). In 2008, it acquired the Swedish SAAB Space and its subsidiary Austrian Aerospace.

In the following years, the company expanded further. In 2015 a site in Tampere, Finland was acquired. The facility in Finland has 40 employees. By 2015, RUAG Space USA (later named Beyond Gravity USA) had 4 sites in 4 different states. In 2018, 109 employees were working in the United States at sites in Decatur, Alabama; Titusville, Florida; and Denver (Centennial), Colorado. During 2016 the company HTS GmbH in Coswig near Dresden was acquired as the first site in Germany. After a two-year consolidation period, the name was changed to RUAG Space Germany GmbH.

In 2018, the Swedish branch of the company, RUAG Space AB (later named Beyond Gravity AB), had 332 employees in Gothenburg and 120 employees in Linköping, with two subsidiaries in Austria and Finland. This branch specializes in related equipment, for example on-board computer systems, antennas and microwave electronics for satellites and adapters and separation systems for launchers. The company headquarters is located in Gothenborg, Sweden and a division for mechanical systems is situated in Linköping, Sweden. In May 2015, the company had 415 employees. It was originally started as a joint venture between SAAB and Ericsson as Saab Ericsson Space until Ericsson sold its stake to SAAB together with Saab Microwave Systems in 2006.

On May 1, 2022, to reflect the change of visions of the company and the focus towards the highly dynamic space sector, RUAG Space was re-branded to Beyond Gravity.

As a result of its European origins, Beyond Gravity has been part of many European space missions, but is also building a US market presence. Notable scientific spacecraft to use Beyond Gravity components include the Herschel Space Observatory, Planck, Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, BepiColombo, Galileo, Solar Orbiter, Automated Transfer Vehicle, Aeolus, and ICESat2. Beyond Gravity products also fly on the Ariane 5, Vega, Falcon 9, and Atlas launch vehicles.

Payload fairings

Beyond Gravity manufactures payload fairings for a number of launchers, including Arianespace's Ariane and Vega rockets, United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 500 series, and for ULA's forthcoming Vulcan launcher.

A payload fairing protects the payload from the environment during the ascent, ensuring cleanliness and limiting its exposure to the intense noise, vibration and aerodynamic pressure occurring during launch. Once the dynamic pressure and thermal fluxes fall below a threshold, this structure separates via explosives from the launch vehicle, exposing the payload and reducing the mass of the still accelerating vehicle.

Payload fairings consist of a sandwich structure, with a core of aluminum honeycomb and facesheets of carbon fiber reinforced polymer. Whereas previous processes relied on autoclaves to cure the composite material, since 2016 the company transitioned to an Out-of-autoclave approach. With this approach, each fairing half-shell is cured in an industrial oven as one single piece. In addition to increasing the structural efficiency, this approach reduces the processing steps as it consolidates all parts at once: inner and outer skins, honeycomb sandwich core, and external cork-based thermal protection system.

References

External links
 RUAG Space Website
Website RUAG Space Products

Aerospace companies of Sweden
Aerospace companies of Switzerland
Manufacturing companies based in Zürich


The1967 France rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played between July and August 1967 by France national rugby union team in South Africa and Rhodesia

Results
Scores and results list France's points tally first.

Touring party

 Manager:
 Assistant Manager:
 Captain: Christian Darrouy

Full backs

Three-quarters

Half-backs

Forwards

France tour
1967
1967 in South African rugby union
1966–67 in French rugby union


Jean Paul Hippolyte Emmanuel Adhémar Esmein (1 February 1848 – 22 July 1913) was a French jurist.

He authored numerous textbooks on the history of French public law and French constitutional law. He also wrote numerous monographs on other subjects, particularly including canon law, the teaching of which in France he renewed through his works. His most famous one is perhaps his "History of Continental Criminal Procedure" which was first published in 1913 and has since been widely received in academic literature.

Biography

Esmein obtained the agrégation de droit in 1875, and his doctorate in 1878.

After briefly teaching at Douai, in 1888 Esmein became professor of legal history and constitutional law at Paris. From 1898 until his death, he also taught canon law at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1904, he became a member of the Institute of France.

References

External links

1848 births
1913 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Paris
French jurists
Canon law jurists
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques


Wakefield Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, is a co-equal Anglican cathedral with Bradford and Ripon Cathedrals, in the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Bishop of Leeds. Originally the parish church, it has Anglo Saxon origins and, after enlargement and rebuilding, has the tallest spire in Yorkshire. Its  spire is the tallest structure in the City of Wakefield. The cathedral was designated a Grade I listed building on 14 July 1953.

History

The cathedral, situated in the centre of Wakefield on a hill on Kirkgate, is built on the site of a Saxon church, evidence of which was uncovered in 1900 when extensions to the east end were made.  A church in Wakefield is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In 1090 William II gave the church and land in Wakefield to Lewes Priory in Sussex and shortly after that a Norman church was built.

The Norman church was rebuilt in 1329, and apart from the tower and spire, was again rebuilt and enlarged in 1469. The church was reconstructed and altered at various times and its spire, damaged in a violent gale, was renewed in 1823. Up to the 16th century the church was known by the Anglo Saxon All Hallows but after the Reformation changed to All Saints.

All Saints' Church was largely rebuilt in the Perpendicular Gothic style in the early-15th century and, after years of neglect was again rebuilt in the 18th century. It owes its current late-mediaeval appearance to a Victorian restoration by George Gilbert Scott and his son John Oldrid Scott between 1858 and 1874.

In 1888, the Diocese of Wakefield was created and the parish church became the cathedral of the diocese. It still served as a parish church, meaning that until 2000 the head of the chapter of canons was called the provost, rather than the dean. Treacy Hall built in memory of Bishop Eric Treacy was completed in 1982.

In January 2000 a parish boundary change brought the chantry chapel on Wakefield Bridge into the care of the cathedral.

In 2005 Queen Elizabeth II visited the cathedral to distribute Maundy money.

In 2012 the cathedral, with £1.58 million from the Heritage Lottery funding, had raised £2.5 million to restore and reorder the nave which was cleared of its oak pews to create an open space for worship, public events and celebrations. A decision to charge VAT on restoration work on historic buildings in the 2012 budget caused concern that the project would be halted or delayed.

The cathedral archives are held at West Yorkshire Archive Service in Wakefield.

Peregrine falcons have nested on the cathedral's tower since 2015 and raised 24 chicks in seven breeding seasons. They attract much interest locally and across the UK and internationally.

Structure

The cathedral walls are clad in ashlar sandstone. On the south wall is a porch, with a wrought iron gate and a sundial over the door arch. The wall of the north aisle is the oldest part of the church dating from about 1150. The nave piers date from the 12th and 13th centuries and the arcade and chancel arches date from the 14th century. The late 15th-century chancel now serves as the choir.  The nave's original stone vaulted roof has been replaced with wood. The 15th-century wooden ceilings over the nave and aisles have carved bosses.

The current chancel, a transept and St Mark's Chapel were built at the east end in 1904 to designs by John Loughborough Pearson and completed by his son, Frank L Pearson. The 20th-century chancel has a stone vaulted roof.

The cathedral's four-stage west tower has angle buttresses and a very tall crocketed spire behind an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and at  tall, is the highest spire in Yorkshire.

The Treacy Hall was added to the cathedral in 1982 and functions as a chapter house and also contains offices, the cathedral shop and a café.

Fixtures and fittings

The cathedral's windows have some panel tracery. None of the medieval stained glass survives and most of the cathedral's glass was created by Charles Eamer Kempe who created many windows over 50 years. His windows are reminiscent in colour of those of the late Middle Ages, darker on the north wall with Old Testament themes and lighter on the south side where he placed New Testament figures.

The cathedral has a 17th-century rood screen and above it a rood by Ninian Comper completed in 1950. The font dates from the mid 17th-century and the pulpit from 1708. Eleven of the 15th-century choir stalls, the gift of Thomas Savile, have misericords and other carvings including a green man and mythical beasts.

The reredos is the work of John Oldrid Scott and possibly incorporates earlier works while the high altar is by Frank Pearson. Some furniture in St Mark's Chapel is by Robert Thompson, the 'Mouseman'. The cathedral has a fine collection of church plate. A monument to Lyon Pilkington dates from about 1700 and other memorial tablets are from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The organ built by Abbott and Smith in 1902, has a case made in 1743. It was rebuilt by John Compton in London in 1951–52 and rebuilt and restored by Phillip Wood and Sons of Huddersfield in 1985.

The cathedral tower has a ring of 14 bells including a 35-1-0 cwt, (note C) tenor, a flat 6th (note B flat), and extra treble (note A), to give a light 10 in (note F) (tenor 14 cwt). No more than 12 bells are usually rung at any one time. Practices range from rounds and call changes on six up to "Surprise Maximus". The bells are rung on Sundays, and to mark special occasions such as weddings and national events such as the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Dean and chapter
As of 31 July 2023:
Dean — Simon Cowling (since 29 September 2018 installation)
Sub-Dean – Dr Philip Hobday (Canon Missioner since 4 September 2022 installation)
Canon Precentor – currently vacant
Diocesan Director of Ordinands & Vocations, and Diocesan Canon — Derek Walmsley (since 15 November 2015 installation)

Music

Wakefield Cathedral Choir, directed by James Bowstead (Director of Music), consists of boys, girls and adults who perform at the cathedral and have appeared on BBC One's Songs of Praise and BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong. In 1992 Wakefield Cathedral became only the second cathedral in Britain to accept female choristers.

The cathedral has had seven organists since 1888, of which Jonathan Bielby, MBE was the longest serving organist in an English cathedral. Previous organists have included composer Newell Smith Wallbank. Assistant organists have included William Frederick Dunnill and John Scott.

See also
Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire
Listed buildings in Wakefield
St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

References
Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 Wakefield Cathedral
 Wakefield Cathedral on Skyscrapernews.com

Churches in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Tourist attractions in Wakefield
Anglican cathedrals in England
Church of England church buildings in West Yorkshire
English Gothic architecture in West Yorkshire
Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire
Grade I listed cathedrals
Anglican Diocese of Leeds
Diocese of Wakefield
Anglo-Catholic church buildings in West Yorkshire
William II of England
Listed buildings in Wakefield


Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger (7 August 1902 – 3 November 1994) was an Austrian artist.

Life
Professor Eisenmenger belonged to the Danube Swabians of Transylvania. He was born in Piskitelep, until 1918 part of Austria-Hungary, afterwards belonging to Romania. Between 1918 and 1921 he had Romanian citizenship, from 1922 Austrian and after 1938 German.

In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Läufer vor dem Ziel" ("Runners at the Finishing Line").

He is known for the mural, Homecoming of the Ostmark, which shows the proud and glorious return of Austria to the German Empire 1938 after the Anschluss Österreichs in two parts, both seven metres wide. It was exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung; GDK) of 1941 in Munich. In a highly controversial decision Eisenmenger was selected to create a large-scale picture for the safety curtain of the Vienna State Opera in 1955.

Decorations and awards
 1923: Lampi-Preis (Akademie der Bildenden Künste)
 1925: Kleber-Preis
 1927: Meisterschulpreis
 1929: Rompreis für das „Bildnis auf goldenem Grund” und den Tapisserieentwurf „Tageszeiten”
1933:    Jubiläumspreis der Schützengilde (Wiener Künstlerhaus)
1936:    Silberne Medaille im olympischen Kunstwettbewerb für das Bild „Läufer vor dem Ziel”
1936:    Österreichisches Verdienstkreuz für Kunst und Wissenschaft
1936:    Goldene Ehrenmedaille des Künstlerhauses Wien
1936:    Preis der Stadt Wien für Malerei
1938:    Anton-Waldvogel-Stiftungspreis (Wiener Künstlerhaus)
1938:   Preis der Stadt Wien
1941:    Künstlerhaus-Jubiläumspreis
1942:    Albrecht-Dürer-Preis (Nürnberg)
 1944: Schirach-Preis
1956:    Silberne Mitgliedsnadel des Wiener Künstlerhauses
1957: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
 1972: Goldener Lorbeer des Wiener Künstlerhauses
1973: Grand Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

References

External links
 official website
 Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger, Thule Art Gallery
 Rudolph Hermann Eisenmenger, German Art Gallery

1902 births
1994 deaths
Austrian artists
Olympic silver medalists in art competitions
Austrian people of Hungarian descent
People from Simeria
Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic competitors in art competitions


The Old Chiswell Place, also known as Blue Plains, is a historic home and property located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland. The home is a frame, log, and brick structure built in three stages. In addition to the residence, there is a meathouse of log with an attached springhouse.  There is a small log house probably used for storage with sandstone chips used between the logs. There is also an early corncrib made of frame and logs. It has the further significance of having been the home of three men distinguished in their period. George Frazier Magruder bought this farm in 1778 and moved from neighboring Prince George's County where he had been a fourth generation resident and planter.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

External links
, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust website

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1790
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland


Papyrus 80 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designed by 𝔓80, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving text of John is verse 3:34.
The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 3rd century.

 Text
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but text is too brief too determine its textual character.
Aland placed it in Category I (because of its date).

 Location
It is currently housed at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista (Inv. no. 83) in Barcelona.

See also

 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

 R. Roca-Puig, Papiro del evangelio de San Juan con ‘Hermeneia’, in Atti dell’ XI Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Milan: 1966), pp. 225–236.

New Testament papyri
3rd-century biblical manuscripts
Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
Gospel of John papyri


General Cepeda is a city and seat of the municipality of General Cepeda, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila. The town is named after Victoriano Cepeda Camacho (1826-1892), a general and a governor of Coahuila.  Until 1892, the town was named San Francisco de los Patos and had been the headquarters for two of the largest estates in all of the Americas.

History
Until 1892, General Cepeda was named San Francisco de los Patos. Patos was established in 1575 and initially the land was owned by Francisco de Urdiñola. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the "splendid hacienda" in the town was the headquarters of two of the largest latifundios (land holdings) in the Americas. Urdiñola began what came to be called the Marquisate of San Miguel de Aguayo which, after bankruptcy, was purchased by the Sánchez Navarro family in 1840.  After the expropriation of the Sánchez Navarro latifundio in 1866, the Patos headquarters became the municipal building of General Cepeda.

Geography
The town of General Cepeda is located about  in straight-line distance west of the state capital of Saltillo. General Cepeda has an elevation of .  The town is located in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Los Patos (Duck Mountains) which at La Concordia Mountain reach a maximum elevation of . The mountains are cooler and receive more precipitation than the surrounding desert and the waterways flowing down from the mountains made the General Cepeda area feasible for irrigated agriculture and attractive to Spanish settlers in the 16th and 17th centuries. When the Spanish first visited the area in 1568, a small lake they called Laguna de los Patos (Duck Lake) was near what became the town.

Climate
General Cepeda is on the southern edge of the Chihuahua Desert and has a Köppen classification BSh climate (warm, semi-arid steppe), although its annual average precipitation of  is barely more than the upper limit of precipitation of BWh (desert) climates. Under the Trewartha system, the climate is classified as BWab (semi-arid steppe with hot summers and warm winters). Most of the precipitation is in the summer months from June to September.

See also
José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, the Marques de San Miguel del Aguayo
Sánchez Navarro latifundio, this large estate in the 18th and 19th centuries was based in San Francisco de los Patos, now General Cepeda.

References

Populated places in Coahuila
History of Coahuila


Krsto (Cyrillic script: Крсто), also Krste or Krǎstyo is a South Slavic masculine given name.

Krsto Papić
Krsto Ungnad
Krsto Zrnov Popović
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Vuk Krsto Frankopan
Krsto Hegedušić
Krste Crvenkovski
Krste Misirkov
Krste Velkovski
Krastyo Rakovski, a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary
Krastyo Krastev, a Bulgarian writer, translator, philosopher and public figure

See also
Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Krstić (surname)

Croatian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Bulgarian masculine given names
Serbian masculine given names
Macedonian masculine given names


Papyrus 81 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓81, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of Peter. The surviving texts of 1 Peter are verses 2:20-3:1,4-12. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

 Text
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

 Location
It is currently housed at the Property S. Daris (№ 20) in Trieste.

See also

 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

 S. Daris, Un nuovo frammento della prima lettera di Pietro, Papyrologica Castroctaviana. Studia et Textus 2 (Barcelona: 1967), pp. 11–37.
 K. Junack and W. Grunewald, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus: I Die Katholischen Briefe, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung VI (Berlin/New York, 1986).

New Testament papyri
4th-century biblical manuscripts
First Epistle of Peter papyri


In July and August 1968, the French national rugby union team toured New Zealand and Australia. They played three tests against New Zealand and one against Australia, losing all four.

Results
Scores and results list France's points tally first.

Touring party
Manager: J. C. Bourrier
Assistant Manager: H. Foures
Captain: Christian Carrère (Toulon)

Full backs
Pierre Villepreux (Stade Toulousain), Claude Lacaze (Angoulême)

Three-quarters
André Campaes (Lourdes), Jean-Marie Bonal (Stade Toulousain), Pierre Besson (Brive), Andre Piazza (Montauban), Claude Dourthe (Dax), Jean Trillo (Begles), Joe Maso (Perpignan), Jean-Pierre Lux (Tyrosse)

Half-backs
Christian Boujet (Grenoble), Jean Andrieu (Graulhet), Marcel Puget (Brive), Jean-Louis Berot (Stade Toulousain)

Forwards
Christian Carrère (Toulon), Jean-Jacques Salut (Toulouse O.E.C), Jean-Claude Olivier (Cognac), Michel Billieres (Stade Toulousain), Alain Plantefol (Agen), Walter Spanghero (Narbonne), Élie Cester (Toulouse O.E.C), Michel Greffe (Grenoble), Benoît Dauga (Mont de Marsan), Jean-Claude Noble (La Voulte), Jean-Claude Berejnoi (Tuille), Jean-Michel Esponda (Perpignan), Jean Iracabal, Michel Lasserre (Agen), Jean-Paul Baux (Lannemezan), Michel Yachvili (Tulle)

France national rugby union team tours
France national rugby union team tours of Australia
France national rugby union team tours of New Zealand
History of rugby union matches between Australia and France
France in New Zealand and Australia
France Tour
France Tour


Mikhail Voskresensky (; born on June 25, 1935, in Berdiansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian pianist and music pedagogue who left Russia for the United States in 2022 protesting against Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Training
Mikhail Voskresensky is known internationally as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1958, where he studied under Ilya Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakov Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ). As student of the famous Lev Oborin, the winner of the First International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927, Voskresensky was influenced by his teacher's refined taste and romanticism in his deployment of pianistic sonorities. His playing shows a thorough command of contrasting musical colors, never disharmonious, and a legato technique drawing forth a singing voice from the instrument.

Some early reviews convey an impression of his technique: "The pianist reaches down to the great depths of music. His playing is poetic... It has a filigree quality in the right places, and he plays dramatic passages with a dynamic force and courage. Recorded by Voskresensky, Chopin's Nocturnes are performed with a distinct evenness." (Ruch muzyczny, Poland). "He is a courageous and powerful pianist. His playing is permeated with much feeling and his sound is melodious, clear and pure like a crystal." (Correio Paolistano, Brazil).

Awards
In 1957, Voskresensky took part in the Prague Spring International Music Festival where he performed the European premiere of Shostakovich's second Piano Concerto in the presence of the composer. In 1966, he was honored with the Merited Artist of Russia award and, in 1989, that of the People's Artist of Russia. He is a prize-winner of the Schumann International Competition in Berlin (1956), the International Competition in Rio de Janeiro (1957), the George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest (1958) and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth (1962).

Concert geography
Mikhail Voskresensky's concert career has taken him to many parts of the world. He has performed with more than 150 conductors in almost all the countries of Europe, in Japan, Korea, China, Australia, US, Mexico, Cuba, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Peru. He received wonderful reviews in international festivals in Tours, Colmar and Aix-en-Provence ('Voskresensky is not only an outstanding virtuoso, he lives in music and plunges into its depths…' - Semaines Musicales, Tours). When making his New York début his performances of the Liszt Sonata and Scriabin's 5th Sonata were highly esteemed. His colleagues in chamber music were the Borodin Quartet, the Shostakovich Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet in New York, violinists M. Yashvili (with whom he performed all the violin sonatas of Beethoven in the 2004-05 season), R. Nodel and P. Berman, and 'cellists E. Altman and Alexander Kniazev. Voskresensky's large repertoire includes all the Beethoven sonatas, the complete works of Chopin, and 64 piano concerti which he has performed under conductors including John Pritchard, Franz Konwitschny, Kurt Masur, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Evgeny Svetlanov, Charles Dutoit and others. He has recorded more than 50 CDs.

Students
Mikhail Voskresensky is a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, the chair of the professorship of piano faculty. His pupils have won 126 international prizes including 55 gold medals, including among them Stanislav Igolinsky, Amir Tebenikhin, Tamriko Siprashvili, Temirzhan Erzhanov, Yakov Kasman, Alexander Ghindin, Sergei Koudriakov, Sergei Kuznezov, Evelina Vorontsova, Elena Kuznetsova, Mikhail Yanovitsky, Kooryeong Park, Oleg Marshev, Yury Favorin, Varvara Nepomnyaschaya, Sergey Neller, Galina Chistyakova and others.

From 2001 to 2004, Professor Voskresensky taught in Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo where his pupils won 12 different prizes, including Akiko Yamamoto's triumph at the Schumann International Competition in Zwickau in 2004. Mikhail Voskresensky has acted as a competition juror in Sydney, London, Leeds, Geneva, Hamamatsu, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and many other places. He was jury member of the XIII (2007) and XIV (2011) International Tchaikovsky Competitions and he was the President of the Jury for the XIV International Piano Concours (founded by Igor Lazko) at the Conservatoire Russe Alexandre Scriabin in Paris in 2014.

Oborin centenary
He played the First Concerto by Shostakovich in Beijing and the First Concerto by Tchaikovsky in Shanghai under the bâton of Charles Dutoit. In the autumn of 2007, during the centenary celebration for his teacher Lev Oborin, Voskresensky played the Beethoven Fourth Concerto under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Brahms Second Concerto under Leonid Nikolaev in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory.

Mozart Concerto Series
On 2 June 2010, Voskresensky completed his Mozart Piano Concerto Series; over the period of three years, all 27 Mozart piano concertos were performed and recorded live in the Maly (Small) Hall of Moscow Conservatory with the Pavel Slobodsky Centre Orchestra or Moscow Chamber Orchestra, 16 of the concerti being under the direction of maestro Leonid Nikolaev (1940-2009), and 11 under that of Konstantin Maslyuk. The concerti for two pianos, K 365, and for three pianos, K 242, with pianists Stanislav Igolinsky and Anastasia Gamaley, were recorded live at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire on 19 April 2010. The complete series has now been released on 10 CDs, available separately or as a boxed set. In September 2011, Voskresensky received the ‘Prize of Moscow City’ for the performance and recording of all concertos of Mozart.

References

External links
 Official website
 Interview with Aleksei Takenouchi, published 2013.
 Casalmaggiore International Festival, Italy

Russian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Living people
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
1935 births
Prize-winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century Russian male musicians


Guerrero is a city and seat of the municipality of Guerrero, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila. The 2010 census population was reported as 959 inhabitants.

San Juan Bautista missions
In the early 1700s, a series of Christian missions collectively known as the San Juan Bautista missions were founded in and around Guerrero, primarily as a means of converting indigenous peoples, including the Ervipiame, to Christianity. The first was Mission San Juan Bautista. Originally founded in 1699 at a site 25 miles north of Lampazos in Nuevo León on the Sabinas River, it was relocated to Guerrero on January 1, 1700. The second was Mission San Francisco Solano, founded 1700, and the third, Mission San Bernardo, was founded in spring 1702. The ruins of these missions remain as sites of archaeological interest. The mission complex was designated a Pueblos Mágicos site in 2015.

In 1703 a presidio, or fort, was established at San Juan Bautista.

References

Populated places in Coahuila
Populated places established in 1699
1699 establishments in New Spain
Pueblos Mágicos

es:Municipio de Guerrero (Coahuila)


Melchor Múzquiz (also: Ciudad Melchor Múzquiz, Ciudad Múzquiz, or simply Múzquiz) is a city and seat of the municipality of Múzquiz, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila.

The city is named for Melchor Múzquiz, President of the Republic in 1832, born in Santa Rosa in 1790.

History
The city was founded on 26 September 1735 by the viceroy Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta as a Spanish garrison in order to protect them from the constant native attacks. The name of the settlement was firstly called Santa Rosa María del Sacramento, name that was approved by the viceroy on 29 August 1737. On 6 February 1850, the settlement's name was abolished and it was renamed to Villa de Múzquiz, honoring the interim President Melchor Múzquiz. On March 9 1925, Villa de Múzquiz was declared a city and its name changed to the current Melchor Múzquiz. Her "ciudades amigas" was established with Denton, Texas in 2015. Múzquiz was declared part of the "Pueblos Mágicos" touristic program in 2018.

References

Populated places in Coahuila

Pueblos Mágicos


The Maadi Community Church (abbreviated as MCC) rents space in Maadi, an affluent suburb of Egypt's capital city Cairo. It meets under a tent canopy outdoors erected in 1994 on the grounds of the Church of St. John the Baptist. A church in the Anglican diocese of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.

History
The Maadi Community Church has been serving the English-speaking community of Cairo since 1947 when primarily Americans met for a periodic Sunday morning community service. This group developed into the present Maadi Community Church and established a constitution and called William Elmer as its first pastor in 1956. Dr. Otto F.A. Meinardus then served as pastor from 1957 to 1967. In June 2000, Maadi Community Church was formally recognized by Egyptian authorities as an independent international church under the name Evangelical International Church, though it still goes by the name "Maadi Community Church. MCC is under the authority of the Protestant Church of Egypt (Meglis al Milli).

The church experienced rapid growth under the leadership of David G. Petrescue, pastor of the church from 1992 to his death in Cairo on September 5, 2006. Pastor Petrescue articulated a visionary strategy from the Judges 15:4-5, enabling his congregation to become Egypt’s largest expatriate church. In that passage, Samson set the tails of foxes on fire, making them run, destroying the fields of the Philistines. Following this parable, Petrescue saw as the church's mission to foster evangelism among expatriate Christians in Egypt who would then move to other places throughout the world. Petrescue helped the church grow from around 150 people in 1992 to a congregation of 1,200 in 2006,  representing more than 40 denominations and 40 nations. Maadi Community Church is involved in church planting of the Sudanese Community Church and Africa Community Church (serving many different African nations), leadership training, small groups, and outreach to Sudanese refugees in Egypt. For decades, one highlight of the year is the annual Christmas Pageant with music, drama, and live animals in early December.

In the 2000s, MCC developed further compassion and development activities in Egypt. These activities have resulted in African Hope Learning Center, a primary and secondary school for refugees; Maadi Community School, a primary and secondary school with a Christian foundation; Petrescue Bible Institute (formerly Victory Bible Institute) to train African pastors; Prison Ministry to bring food, blankets, medicine, and bible study material to Kanatar men and women's prisons; Maadi Women's Guild Benevolence that serves poor and disadvantaged populations around Cairo; and Healing Grace Ministries which is a child-sponsorship program providing food, medicine, clean water, and spiritual training in villages in the Minya province. MCC also has programs for youth, children, women, adult classes throughout the week, plus an intercessory prayer ministry.

Dr. Steven R. Flora has been serving as senior pastor of the church from May 2008 to mid-to-late 2018 before returning to the US.  The church is currently searching for a senior pastor.

References

Churches in Cairo
Christianity in Cairo
Christian organizations established in 1947
1947 establishments in Egypt


Wilmington Downs is a  biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Eastbourne in East Sussex. The site includes a Scheduled Monument, the Long Man of Wilmington, a turf cut figure which may be of prehistoric origin.

This site is mainly chalk grassland on the steep slope of the South Downs. It is important for invertebrates, including two protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, the wart-biter grasshopper and the snail Monacha cartusiana. There are also several unusual species of lichens and mosses.

References

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex


Nava is a city and seat of Nava Municipality, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila.

References

Populated places in Coahuila


Boris Becker defeated the defending champion Guy Forget in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 to win the singles tennis title at the 1992 Paris Open.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

  Jim Courier (quarterfinals)
  Pete Sampras (second round)
  Stefan Edberg (quarterfinals)
  Michael Chang (second round)
  Petr Korda (second round)
  Goran Ivanišević (semifinals)
  Andre Agassi (second round)
  Wayne Ferreira (second round)
  Boris Becker (champion)
  MaliVai Washington (second round)
  Guy Forget (final)
  Richard Krajicek (third round)
  Carlos Costa (second round)
  Alexander Volkov (third round)
  Sergi Bruguera (second round)
  Michael Stich (third round)

Draw

 ''NB: The Final was the best of 5 sets.

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

External links
 1992 Paris Open draw

Singles


The LSAT rifle, of the LSAT (Lightweight Small Arms Technologies) program, is a developmental assault rifle. Design began in 2008, four years after the beginning of the LSAT program.  Like the LSAT LMG, the rifle is designed to be significantly lighter than existing designs, and is designed to fire lighter ammunition.  Like the rest of the program, the weapon extensively uses parallel development.  It has designs for polymer-cased ammunition and caseless ammunition, and designs using spring-loading magazines and weapon-powered magazines.  This parallel development reduces the risk of the program failing.  Computer simulation and modelling, particularly of the LMG, is being used for all components of the program, including the rifle.  This reduces both time and expenditure for prototyping and testing.  The other program components use a 'spiral development' approach, whereby the product is rolled out in stages or 'spirals', each stage producing a new version that is an improvement on those from previous spirals; the rifle shall likely use the same approach.  The weapon and the program are closely connected to the Future Force Warrior concept, with aims to integrate electronics and computerized optics, and aims to increase the mobility of soldiers.  The weapon is also intended to improve on reliability and ease of maintenance.

Design Requirements
Various new designs for infantry drove the requirement for the standard rifle to be lighter.  New uses of information technology and future concepts (such as the Future Force Warrior) require lighter equipment.  Notably, when extra weight from advanced, computerized optical sights is introduced, the weapon needs to be made lighter to compensate.  New strategic concepts require greater infantry mobility to be fully realized.  Making the LSAT rifle lighter is the most essential innovation of development.  Other improvements are also important.  The weapon is being designed with the integration of electronics and advanced optics in mind.  The reliability of the current M16 and M4 compared with rifles using gas pistons has led many to call for the former weapons to be replaced.  A highly reliable gas-system is important for the LSAT rifle.  Improved reliability of the rifle in general is a likely requirement, similar to the improved reliability objective for the LSAT LMG.

Design Progress
The rifle design began with seventeen concepts; however, after the concepts were investigated and trade-offs were analysed, only two remained for the cased round, and two for the caseless round.  The two designs for each ammunition type revolve around two magazine approaches.  One uses the standard mechanism, with springs inside the magazine feeding rounds into the weapon; the other uses a 'weapon powered' approach, presumably to reduce the extra weight and space that springs create in magazines.  Both magazine designs are focused around high capacity.  The rifle designs are undergoing the same simulated, structural, and kinematic analyses as the LMG.  Both a working rifle and accompanying ammunition prototypes have been made, but it uncertain if or when the program will result in a new rifle for the US military.

On 14 May 2014, Textron Systems was awarded a two-year $5.7 million contract for work that included development of a carbine firing cased-telescoped ammunition.

See also
Lightweight Small Arms Technologies
MR-C
Heckler & Koch G11
List of assault rifles

References

External links
LSAT Brochure
LSAT "The Epilog"

5.56 mm assault rifles
Assault rifles of the United States
Proposed weapons of the United States
Personal weapons
Proposed weapons
Upcoming products
Caseless firearms


Morelos is a city and seat of the municipality of Morelos, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila.

References

Populated places in Coahuila


The Nathan Dickerson Poole House is a historic home located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland.  It is a -story, frame dwelling, constructed in 1871 and its design combines elements of the Victorian Gothic and Italianate styles. Also on the property are a frame barn and corn shed of early-20th-century date.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

External links
, including photo in 1973, at Maryland Historical Trust website

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1871
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
Italianate architecture in Maryland
Victorian architecture in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland


Juárez is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in Northeastern Mexico with Don Margarito Garcia as Municipal President (January 2010 – July 2010). The municipal seat lies at Juárez. The municipality covers an area of . As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1,393.

References

Municipalities of Coahuila


Aynho for Deddington railway station was a railway station serving the village of Aynho in Northamptonshire, England. It was on what is now known as the Cherwell Valley Line.

History

When the first section of the Oxford and Rugby Railway was opened as far as  on 2 September 1850, there were only three intermediate stations, the northernmost of which was Aynho. The Oxford & Rugby Railway was absorbed by the Great Western Railway prior to opening.

An accident occurred close to the station on 30 September 1852 when a special train ran into the back of a stopping train. The special train was to celebrate the opening of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and the locomotive, The Lord of The Isles, was being driven by Mr Brunel and Mr Gooch. The accident occurred because the stopping train to Banbury was a little delayed as it was market day, and the station master wasn't aware of the special train until it appeared at "very great speed". The driver of the Banbury train got his train moving to reduce the impact, but in the accident the Lord of the Isles was derailed and damaged, and several people were seriously injured.

The railway was broad gauge when built, but eventually the Great Western Railway lost their battle to spread the broad gauge further North. With the standardisation of gauge this line was one of the first main lines to be converted, the last broad gauge train from Oxford to Birmingham ran at the end of March 1869.

An unpleasant accident occurred at the station in September 1884, when the guard of a goods train was hit by the 11:40 express train. His body was reportedly "cut to pieces" and the parts of his "body were scattered all about the line".

To the north of the station is Aynho Junction, the northern end of the Bicester "cut-off" line, which was brought into use in 1910. This route passes close to Aynho station, and a nearby station named  was provided on the Bicester "cut-off" route.

Another fatality occurred at the station in August 1942 when Baroness Lilian Helen van Lennep (a Dutch national), who had been staying with Lady Fairfax Cartwright (widow of Fairfax Leighton Cartwright) at The Grammar House, was struck by an express train while crossing the line via the barrow crossing.

The station passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board, to goods on 4 May 1964 and to passengers on 2 November 1964, along with three other stations between  and Didcot; by this time it had been renamed Aynho for Deddington. GWR sources and Railway Clearing House guides erroneously listed this as Aynho for Doddington from time to time.

The site today

Trains on the Cherwell Valley Line pass the site.

References

Further reading

External links
 Aynho station on navigable O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Northamptonshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Beeching closures in England
Former Great Western Railway stations


Firle Escarpment is a  biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Seaford in East Sussex.

This is a long stretch of chalk grassland on north facing slopes of the South Downs. Flora include the very rare early spider orchid and other unusual flowering plants such as pyramidal orchid, felwort, common spotted orchid, round headed rampion, clove pink and bee orchid.

References

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex
Escarpment


Progreso is a city and seat of the municipality of Progreso, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila.

References

Populated places in Coahuila


Tarab Abdul Hadi (), also transliterated Tarab 'Abd al-Hadi, (1910–1976) was a Palestinian activist and feminist. In the late 1920s, she co-founded the Palestine Arab Women's Congress (PAWC), the first women's organization in British Mandate Palestine, and was an active organizer in its sister group, the Arab Women's Association (AWA).

Biography
Tarab Abdul Hadi was born in Jenin in 1910. She was the wife of Awni Abd al-Hadi, who was himself active in politics and went on to become a prominent member of the Istiqlal party. Abdul Hadi and other women from notable Jerusalem families, established the Palestine Arab Women's Congress (PAWC) to make clear their opposition to the Zionist presence in Palestine and their support for the men's national struggle for independence.

The first meeting of the PAWC was held at Abdul Hadi's home in Jerusalem on 26 October 1929, with the event since heralded as the "first time" that Palestinian women entered the political arena. Abdul Hadi became one of the members of PAWC's Executive Committee, which consisted of fourteen women, drawn primarily from notable Jerusalem families (such as the Husseinis, Alamis, Nashashibis, and Budeiris). Besides writing letters and telegrams to raise awareness of the Palestinian plight, the PAWC also engaged in prisoner advocacy. This involved the attempt to shorten harsh prison sentences by appealing to the British authorities and raising money to support families who had lost their breadwinners to imprisonment.

Abdul Hadi was also active in the Arab Women's Association (AWA), also founded in 1929, which became the most prominent feminist organization in Palestine. In her capacity as an AWA organizer, she delivered a speech at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in April 1933, during a visit by British General Allenby, stating: "The Arab ladies ask Lord Allenby to remember and tell this to his government ... The mothers, daughters, sisters of the Arab victims are gathered here to make the world witness the betrayal of the British. We want all the Arabs to remember that the British are the cause of our suffering and they should learn from the lesson." Abdul Hadi was also active in the campaign against the veil, an initiative launched by local women encouraging Palestinian women to remove their veils.

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, Abdul Hadi ended up in Cairo, Egypt with her husband. Seh died in Cairo in 1976.

See also
 Arab Women's Executive Committee

References

Bibliography

External links
 Arab Women Organization's website

1910 births
1976 deaths
People from Jenin
Arab people in Mandatory Palestine
Palestinian activists
Palestinian feminists
Palestinian women


Adolf Rzepko (1825 – 1892) was a Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist.

He was a disciple of Václav Tomášek. He was mainly active as a performer (he served for many years as the Wielki Theatre orchestra's principal oboe), a choral conductor and a pedagogue. He was the author of two music treatises: The principles of music (1869) and A piano school.

Rzepko was born in Prague. He died in Warsaw.

References
 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980 - vol. XVI, page 360.

External side
 Adolf Rzepko's music sheets in digital library Polona.pl

Classical oboists
Polish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Polish composers
Polish classical pianists
Male classical pianists
1825 births
1892 deaths
19th-century composers
19th-century conductors (music)
19th-century classical pianists


is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line, operated by JR Kyushu in Kasuga, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Lines
The station is served by the Kagoshima Main Line and is located 86.1 km from the starting point of the line at .

Layout
The station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks.

Adjacent stations

History
The station was opened by JR Kyushu on 11 March 1989 as an added station on the existing Kagoshima Main Line track.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 4,656 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 45th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

See also
List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links
Kasuga (JR Kyushu)

Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1989


The Ridge is a historic home located at Derwood, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house on a fieldstone foundation.  The decorative detailing in the main house reflects Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival influences. Also on the property is an 18th-century two-story log building. It was the home of Zadok Magruder and his descendants, until 1956.

The Ridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

External links
, including photo in 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust website
The Ridge, Redland vicinity, Montgomery, MD at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)

Derwood, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
Georgian architecture in Maryland
Federal architecture in Maryland
Greek Revival houses in Maryland
Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland


Nenad Krstičić (born 3 July 1990) is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He debuted for the Serbia national team in 2013.

Club career

Early career and cancer diagnosis
Krstičić began his career at OFK Beograd and joined Sampdoria on 1 September 2008 at the insisting of Giuseppe Marotta, who believed the 17-year-old was one of the most talented players he had ever brought to the club. While playing for the youth team, he played in the 2011 Torneo di Viareggio as one of the allowed over-age players. He suffered a knee injury and had surgery performed to correct his meniscus injury, after which doctors unexpectedly diagnosed him with Burkitt's lymphoma and allegedly told Krstičić he had 48 hours to live. Luckily, Sampdoria's medical staff was able to reverse the cancer growth and Krstičić lived on to play football, although the condition was a great setback in his career. Over the course of his cancer episode, Krstičić lost 55 pounds and his blood was compromised. Krstičić finally made his debut for Sampdoria in a UEFA Europa League match against Debrecen on 16 December 2010. On 2 December 2012, he scored his first goal for Sampdoria against Fiorentina.

On 2 February 2015, Krstičić was signed by Bologna in a temporary deal. The club also signed Júnior Costa and Daniele Gastaldello from the Genoese club outright. However, Krstičić was injured in March. His contract with Sampdoria was terminated on 18 July 2016.

Alavés
On 25 July 2016, Krstičić signed for La Liga side Alavés on a free transfer. Fellow countryman Aleksandar Katai, who also suffered from a serious illness earlier in his career, joined Alavés later the same summer, and the two became midfield teammates.

Red Star Belgrade
On 23 August 2017, Krstičić joined Red Star Belgrade on a two-year deal. He made his debut in the eternal derby on 27 August 2017. Krstičić adapted as a central midfielder during the 2017–18 season under coach Vladan Milojević, usually pairing with defensive midfielder Mitchell Donald after Branko Jovičić's injury. After Guélor Kanga left Red Star, Krstičić began playing offensive role in early 2018. He scored his first goal for the club in 2–1 victory over Voždovac on 3 March 2018. Eight days later, Krstičić also scored in 1–1 draw to Napredak Kruševac.

AEK Athens
On 26 December 2018, Red Star Belgrade announced that Krstičić's transfer to AEK Athens had gone through. The Athens based club activated his release clause of €500,000, six months before the end of his contract with Red Star, which saw him move to his new club.

On 23 January 2019, he scored his first goal for his new club in an emphatic 5–0 home win against AO Chania Kissamikos for the Greek Cup round of 16. His team won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the quarter finals of the competition.
On 3 April 2019, by lashing the ball across from the right wing, Victor Klonaridis picked out the onrushing Krstičić, who prodded it past the beaten Nikos Melissas in a 2–0 Greek Cup semifinal 1st leg against Lamia.

On 2 February 2020, AEK Athens escaped from Peristeri Stadium with all three points thanks to Nenad Krstičić header, whose solitary goal gave Massimo Carrera’s side a narrow 1–0 win over Atromitos. It was his first goal for the 2019–20 Superleague. On 19 February 2020, he scored with a close tap-in in a 4–0 home win against Panetolikos for the Greek Cup quarter finals.

On 27 September 2020, he scored with an exquisite shot outside the box, helping to a 3–0 home win against Lamia.

Return to Red Star Belgrade
On 1 July 2021, Krstičić signed a three-year contract with Red Star Belgrade.

International career
Krstičić made his debut for Serbia on 6 February 2013 in a friendly match against Cyprus at age 22.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club
Red Star Belgrade
Serbian SuperLiga: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23
Serbian Cup: 2021–22, 2022–23

Individual
Serbian SuperLiga Team of the Season: 2017–18

References

External links

Nenad Krstičić

1990 births
Living people
Serbian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Serbian SuperLiga players
OFK Beograd players
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
UC Sampdoria players
Bologna FC 1909 players
La Liga players
Deportivo Alavés players
Super League Greece players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Serbia men's international footballers
Serbia men's under-21 international footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Footballers from Belgrade


Good Doctor (also credited as Doctor or Plague) is a television and cinema advertisement released in 2002 by Interbrew to promote its Stella Artois brand of lager within the United Kingdom. The 100-second spot was produced by advertising agency Lowe Lintas & Partners in London. Good Doctor premiered on British television in January 2002, with later appearances in cinemas. It is the seventh piece in the Jean de Florette-inspired "Reassuringly Expensive" series that had been running since 1992. The advert was directed by Czech director Ivan Zacharias with help from the production company Stink and post-production work by The Moving Picture Company. The commercial was a popular, financial, and critical success, boosting sales during the period in which it ran, and receiving more awards than any other campaign in 2002, including a Cannes Gold Lion, an Epica Award and several prizes from the D&AD Awards.

Sequence
Good Doctor opens in a field in 19th century rural France, where a doctor confirms that one of the field hands is dying of cholera. The other workers flee, leaving the doctor to burn the remains. Later, he is called from his hospital to help another woman, who had collapsed in the town square. The gathered crowd backs away from him as he approaches, and refuses to help him carry the victim away. When he later enters the local public house, an elderly resident threatens him with a shotgun, declaring him "contaminated" and asking him to leave. The town's priest enters and admonishes the patrons, calling the bartender to give the doctor a Stella Artois, which sets the crowd murmuring. The priest shakes the doctor's hand and embraces him, proclaiming him uncontaminated. Nonetheless, the publican warily approaches and places the ordered drink on the floor in front of the doctor. As the doctor begins to drink, the opening strains of the theme from Jean de Florette play in the background. The crowd stares as the priest takes a swig from the same glass, and then passes it to the gun-toting man. As the patrons begin jostling for a sip of the Stella Artois, the doctor coughs. The piece ends with the tableau of the patrons freezing in horror.

Production

Background
The "Reassuringly Expensive" campaign, of which Good Doctor is part, began in 1982. Frank Lowe, head of the advertising agency behind the production of Good Doctor, worked on marketing for Stella Artois during his tenure at Collett Dickenson Pearce in the 1970s, creating print campaigns such as "My shout, he whispered". In 1981, Lowe left Collett Dickenson Pearce to form his own advertising agency, taking with him the Stella Artois account. Within a year, Lowe launched the "Reassuringly Expensive" campaign, which aimed to turn a substantial negative for the brand (higher prices due to greater Duty on high-alcohol content beverages in the United Kingdom) into a positive, assuring customers that by being more expensive, the premium lager was better than cheaper brands. Earlier pieces were primarily print campaigns, but in 1990, a chance viewing of Jean de Florette led one of Lowe's creative directors to pen a script based on a similar concept. The resulting television and cinema advertisement, Jacques de Florette, proved immensely popular and formed the basis for a series of six award-winning adverts produced between 1991 and 2001, including Good Samaritan, Last Orders and Returning Hero. Good Doctor was announced in February 2002 as the seventh in the series.

Production
Lowe London approached Czech director Ivan Zacharias, known for his work on Land Rover's Born Free campaign, to direct the piece. Filming took place over six days on location in the south of France, with the cast and crew working from 5am into the night. To achieve the piece's characteristic weathered look, three copies of the film stock (5245 Eastman EXR 50D and 5246 Kodak Vision 250D) were graded separately to emphasize the grain of the film and the earthen tones of the subjects. The three passes were then composited and reworked further in Inferno, an online visual effects system.

Actors
Doctor:       Luc Bataini (Luc Lemarie)
Priest:       Jean Claude Arnaud (Sociétaire Comédie Française +)
Gunman:       Georges gueret
Barman:       Thierry Bois
Fool:         Thierry Bareges

Release and reception

Schedule
The full 100-second version of Good Doctor premiered in British cinemas on 15 February 2002, with 60- and 70-second cuts appearing on television the following month. It continued to screen for the rest of 2002, proving popular with the British public.

Response
Sales of Stella Artois increased by 18.3% over the year, credited in no small part to the latest "Reassuringly Expensive" piece. This placed it in fifth position in ACNielsen's annual "Biggest Brands" survey for increases in sales within the UK, and cemented Stella's dominance of the premium lager market within the United Kingdom and putting the brand in fifth position in terms of increased sales for the year.

Good Doctor was also immensely successful at the industry's awards ceremonies, receiving more awards than any other advertising campaign worldwide in 2002. These included an award for Best Direction at the British Television Craft Awards, a Bronze Medal from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Effectiveness Awards, a Gold in the Alcoholic Beverages category of the Epica Awards, and a Silver Award (plus three nominations) at the D&AD Awards. The piece also won a Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival to boos from the gathered audience, a reaction that several other pieces of the "Reassuringly Expensive" campaign had received upon winning awards at the festival in previous years. After winning the Lion, Good Doctor was shortlisted for the festival's Grand Prix Award, considered the most prestigious in the industry, alongside Champagne (for Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform), and eventual winner Odyssey (for Levi's jeans).

Legacy
The success of the campaign led to the commission of another piece from Vince Squibb, the writer of Good Doctor. The ad, titled Devil's Island, was released in 2003. The following year, Ivan Zacharias returned as a director for a new Stella Artois advertisement, Pilot. Pilot went on itself to win a Bronze Lion at Cannes, among other awards.

References

Notes

Bibliography
Persuasion in Advertising - "Case Study: Stella Artois" pp 48 – 54, John O'Shaughnessy and Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy, Routledge, 2004,

External links
Good Doctor on the Smuggler production company website. (.mov format)
Good Doctor on YouTube

2002 works
British television commercials
2000s television commercials
Beer advertising
Fictional physicians
Drink advertising characters
Male characters in advertising