Juraj Kucka (; born 26 February 1987), also known by his nickname Kuco (), is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Slovak club Slovan Bratislava and the Slovakia national team.

Club career

Early career
Kucka made his Corgoň Liga debut for Ružomberok on 11 March 2007. He played six games in his first season. Overall, Kucka played 49 games and scored eight goals for Ružomberok. Czech manager Michal Bílek, coaching Ružomberok in 2008, recommended Kucka for Sparta Praha. In January 2009, he has signed a three-year contract for Sparta. In 2009–10 season he won the champions.

Genoa
On 6 January 2011, he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract for €3.55 million transfer fee with Genoa (later extended one more year to 30 June 2016). He made his debut in the Coppa Italia match against Inter Milan on 12 January 2011. He was voted man of the match by Genoa fans after 1–1 draw against AC Milan on 6 February 2011. Kucka proved immediately to fit fine in the squad, showing a remarkable physical strength and good technical skills, resulting the second best player of Genoa. He scored his first goal for Genoa in a 2–1 away win against Lazio Rome on 18 September 2011.

On 31 August 2011, the last day of transfer window, Inter Milan and Genoa came to an agreement to swap co-ownerships of Juraj Kucka (€8 million) and Emiliano Viviano (€5 million). In June 2012 Kucka returned to Genoa where he spent 2011–12 season on loan for just €6.5 million, co-currently Samuele Longo returned to Inter for €7 million.

AC Milan
On 28 August 2015, Kucka was signed by AC Milan for €3 million transfer fee. However, Milan also paid an unknown parties an additional €1 million. He made his debut on 29 August 2015 in a 2–1 home win against Empoli, and scored his first Milan goal on 9 January 2016 to equalize against AS Roma in a 1–1 draw.

Trabzonspor
On 7 July 2017, Kucka was signed by Trabzonspor on a three-year contract worth €2.25 million a season, for a transfer fee of €5 million. He became a third Slovak player to join Trabzonspor in 2016–17 period, after Matúš Bero and Ján Ďurica. The trio was later joined by left-back Tomáš Hubočan, on a loan from Olympique Marseille. By the start of 2018–19 season, Kucka was the only remaining Slovak in the team. In total, Kucka scored three goals in 38 competitive games for Trabzonspor.

Parma
Kucka returned to Italy on 14 January 2019, when he joined Parma. He commented that he intended to score more goals in Parma and improve from where he left off, when he left Italy a year and a half ago.

He debuted for Parma in his first opportunity, when he came on as a substitute for Alessandro Deiola in the 73rd minute of a Serie A away fixture against Udinese. Parma won the game 2–1 by goals of Roberto Inglese and Gervinho.

In his third appearance for Parma, Kucka got his first two assists with the side. On 2 February, he assisted Barillà in the 64th minute and Ivorian international Gervinho in the 74th minute. Parma had managed to upset Juventus away, who were at the top of the league table, by coming back from a two-goal margin twice, to tie the game 3–3. Kucka played 86 minutes of the game.

He scored his first goal after the return to Italy in his fifth match, on 16 February 2019 against Cagliari after an assist from Massimo Gobbi, setting the score to 1–0 for Parma. However two second-half goals by Leonardo Pavoletti meant Parma lost the game 2–1.

Parma completed the season 14th with 41 points, three points above the relegation zone. Kucka scored a total of four goals, connecting one each against Genoa, Chievo Verona and Sampdoria.

Watford
On 6 August 2021, it was announced that Kucka had signed for newly promoted Premier League club Watford. Parma confirmed on the same day that the transfer is a season-long loan.
On 14 August 2021, he made his Watford debut in their league opener against Aston Villa, where Watford won 3–2. He scored his first goal for the club in a 5–2 win away against Everton.

Slovan Bratislava
Following Watford's relegation from the Premier League, Kucka signed a two-year contract with reigning Slovak champions of the past four seasons Slovan Bratislava, where he was to be managed by Vladimír Weiss under whom Kucka debuted in the Slovak national team and participated in 2010 FIFA World Cup.

International career
Kucka, a former Slovakia under-21 player, made his senior international debut in a friendly match against Liechtenstein on 19 November 2008. Slovakia manager Vladimír Weiss called him up for the 2010 World Cup despite the fact that Kucka had not played in any qualification matches. He played in three games at the World Cup: against New Zealand, Italy and The Netherlands.

Kucka was called up to the Slovakia squads for the Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 tournaments.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Slovakia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kucka goal.

Honours
Sparta Prague
 Czech First League: 2009–10
 Czech Supercup: 2010

AC Milan
 Supercoppa Italiana: 2016

See also
 List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps

References

External links

 Official website

1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Bojnice
Men's association football midfielders
Slovak men's footballers
Slovakia men's international footballers
FK Železiarne Podbrezová players
MFK Ružomberok players
AC Sparta Prague players
Genoa CFC players
AC Milan players
Trabzonspor footballers
Parma Calcio 1913 players
Watford F.C. players
ŠK Slovan Bratislava players
Slovak First Football League players
Czech First League players
Serie A players
Süper Lig players
Premier League players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2016 players
UEFA Euro 2020 players
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in England


Ludgate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Percy Ludgate (1883–1922), Irish designer of an early Analytical Engine
 William Ludgate (1836–1912), United States Army soldier
 April Ludgate, character on the American television series Parks and Recreation, played by Aubrey Plaza


Arthur N. Martin (August 31, 1889 – 1961) was a Canadian painter.

An architect, Martin pursued painting and exhibited regularly in the annual art presentations of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. He studied at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto.  A retrospective of his work was exhibited at Art Gallery of Cobourg, Cobourg, Ontario in 1977.

References

1889 births
1961 deaths
20th-century Canadian painters
20th-century Canadian architects
Canadian male painters
20th-century Canadian male artists


St Thomas's Church is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds. It is situated in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England and is a Grade II* listed building.  The church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and built between 1857 and 1859. It was consecrated in 1859 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009.

Tradition
St Thomas's stands in the Modern Catholic tradition of the Church of England. As the parish rejects the ordination of women, it receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Wakefield (currently Tony Robinson).

See also
Listed buildings in Huddersfield (Newsome Ward - outer areas)

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Huddersfield
Grade II* listed churches in West Yorkshire
Huddersfield
George Gilbert Scott buildings
Huddersfield, St Thomas
1859 establishments in England
Anglo-Catholic church buildings in West Yorkshire
Anglo-Catholic churches in England receiving AEO


Kisumu Town West is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of seven constituencies of Kisumu County. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections, when the larger Kisumu Town Constituency was split into Kisumu Town East and West Constituencies. The constituency has eleven wards, all electing councillors for Kisumu municipality.

Members of Parliament

Wards

References

Constituencies in Kisumu County
Constituencies in Nyanza Province
1997 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1997


Tsedenbal () is a Mongolian personal name.

Notable people bearing this name include:

Proper name
 Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal (1916–1991), one of the leaders of Mongolia from 1952 to 1984
 Norjmoogiin Tsedenbal (born 1988), Mongolian international footballer

Patronymic
 Tsedenbalyn Tümenjargal (born 1989), Mongolian international footballer


Ronald Joel Daniels  (born 1959) is a Canadian academic and the current president of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he assumed on March 2, 2009. Daniels' tenure in this role has been extended twice, and is currently set to run through 2029. Daniels was previously the vice-president and provost at the University of Pennsylvania, and prior to that was dean of the  University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Daniels received his B.A. (1982) and J.D. (1986) degrees from the University of Toronto, and his LL.M. (1988) degree from Yale Law School.

In December 2016, Daniels was invested into the Order of Canada at the grade of Member. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Early career
Daniels was provost and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and dean and James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, where he was editor in chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He was also a visiting professor and Coca-Cola World Fellow at Yale Law School, as well as a John M. Olin Visiting Fellow at Cornell Law School. He received a Carnegie Corporation of New York Academic Leadership Award in 2015.

He has advised several Canadian governments on a range of policy issues, including chairing the Ontario Panel of the Future of Government, the Market Design Committee (defining market structure of new competitive electricity markets in Ontario), and the Ontario Government Task Force on Securities Regulation and the Reform of Accounting Standards; he also served on the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance in Canada.

Presidency of Johns Hopkins University
Since March 1, 2009, Daniels has served as the 14th president of The Johns Hopkins University. As president, Daniels has continued the university's 38-year legacy of having the most federal research funding in the country. In 2013, Daniels announced the creation of "Ten by Twenty", the university's first comprehensive strategic plan, setting goals for the school through 2020. His Rising to the Challenge campaign, costing $6 billion and ending in 2018, emphasized Daniels' three overarching themes - increasing interdisciplinary collaborative research and innovation, enhancing individual student excellence, and larger social involvement within the Baltimore community. In March 2015, Daniels released the first Ten by Twenty progress report. At the same time, he announced the launch of the Johns Hopkins Idea Lab, a source of crowdsourcing initiatives from the Johns Hopkins community. The Idea Lab was inspired by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Ignition Grants. Winners of the Idea Lab competition win $20,000 to support their initiative.

Daniels serves as the chair of the executive committee of Johns Hopkins Medicine – the entity linking the Johns Hopkins Health System and the university’s School of Medicine. He has worked closely with health system leadership through several strategic acquisitions and partnerships across health-related industry sectors.

Daniels has made attempts to strengthen Johns Hopkins' ties to Baltimore with programs such as HopkinsLocal, which hired hundreds of employees from within economically deprived neighborhoods in the city. The University has partnered with several city schools, and helped create the Henderson-Hopkins elementary/middle school, the first new school in East Baltimore built in 20 years. Daniels also secured funding for the renovation of the historic Parkway Theater in the Station North area of the city.

Notable initiatives
Daniels has begun several initiatives focusing on interdisciplinary research and innovation; including the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP), the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the recently announced partnership among the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Throughout his time at Johns Hopkins, Daniels has also founded the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, the William H. Miller Department of Philosophy, the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professors program recruits 50 scholars from around the world who are experts in their field to hold joint appointments in two or more departments of the university. In addition, Daniels founded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute which aims to discuss the need for universities to play a larger role in teaching students how to properly uphold their democratic duties, and increase the emphasis on civic education engagement and dialogue.

Another focus of Daniels' has been in strengthening the graduate, specifically PhD programs, at the university. Under the Gateway Science Initiative, Daniels established the first university-wide board to advocate for and support PhD programs. Furthermore, Daniels has created a PhD innovation fund, as well as a movement to collect and analyze data on PhD program performance.

Financial aid efforts
In a US News article, Daniels stated that Johns Hopkins would "open [its] doors not to students whose parents can cut the check, but to those who can do the work and benefit from the opportunities we offer". He maintains that the cost of college should not be a deciding factor in receiving a proper liberal arts education, and that it is the duty of the institution, whether it be a private or public university, to ensure that. For the past decade, he has roughly increased the financial aid budget of the school by 10 percent each year. In 2017, he and his wife Joanne Rosen have announced the founding of the Daniels–Rosen First Generation Scholars Fund for Johns Hopkins undergraduates, which is a $1 million endowment for those who are the first in their families to attend college.

Need-blind and legacy policies
To further champion his efforts in reducing barriers for minorities and kids from poorer communities, Daniels has switched the admissions process of the university to become need-blind and not consider legacy, because "legacy students at these schools are more likely to be wealthy and white than non-legacy students, the very existence of legacy preferences limits access for high-achieving low- and middle-income students, and also for African American, Latino, and Native American students".

East Baltimore Development Initiative
One of Daniels' major initiatives has been the controversial $1.8 billion, 88-acre East Baltimore Development Initiative (EBDI), a redevelopment of the Middle East neighborhood, adjacent to Hopkins' downtown hospital campus. Alluding to the central importance of the project to his presidency, Daniels said "If EBDI fails, then my presidency at Hopkins fails." The redevelopment has been praised by some in Baltimore, and counts as partners the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and others. The EBDI has also been criticized as gentrification and an example of a "big institution pushing out a vulnerable community for its benefit" by city activists and academics.

In 2018, citing the "brazenness" of crime in Baltimore, Daniels appealed to Maryland's legislature to give Johns Hopkins the power to create a police force of its own to patrol its campus. A community consultation process was conducted in Fall of 2018, after a first attempt to pass it through the legislature stalled. Daniels made door-to-door visits in East Baltimore, canvassing for the plan and seeking input from people in the neighborhood. Creation of a Hopkins police force received the support of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, then-Mayor Catherine Pugh and Hopkins alumni Michael Bloomberg, among others. However, support among neighborhood associations was divided, and the bill received criticism from activists, including 90 university professors at Hopkins and, according to a student government poll, 75% of JHU's undergraduate student body. Ultimately, the Maryland General Assembly gave approval to Hopkins to form the force in April, 2019. Following the vote, student protesters occupied Garland Hall, the administration building of JHU's Homewood Campus for over a month, eventually locking Daniels and other administrators out of the building. Following the lockout, Daniels announced students that did not leave peacefully risked suspension or expulsion from the university. Finally, on May 8, the protesters were removed and arrested (though not prosecuted) by Baltimore City Police.

Other current affiliations
Daniels is a member of the Board of Directors of BridgeBio Pharma Inc., v

In 2014, Daniels was awarded degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the University of Toronto.

In 2018,   Daniels served as the congressional chair of the Committee on The Next Generation Initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Bibliography
Daniels’ writing is interdisciplinary, combining the fields of law, economics, development and public policy. Much of his recent work concerns life-science research in America and the role of research universities in liberal democracies. Additionally, he writes about the need for institutional support of local economies, public versus private universities, and the role of humanities in education and society.
  What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels with Grant Sheve and Phillip Spector.  Description & scrollable preview. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
A generation at risk: Young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce, Ronald J. Daniels (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015)
How to Reverse the Graying of Scientific Research, Ronald J. Daniels and Paul Rothman (The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2014).
 Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress, Michael J. Trebilcock and Ronald J. Daniels (Cheltenham: Elgar Press, 2008).
 On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl & Howard Kunreuther, eds, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
 Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher, Ronald J. Daniels & Michael J. Trebilcock (London: Routledge, 2005).
 The Security of Freedom, Ronald J. Daniels, Patrick Macklem & Kent Roach, eds, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).
George Triantis and Ronald J. Daniels, The Role of Debt in Interactive Corporate Governance, 83 California Law Review 1073 (1995).
 Corporate Decision-Making in Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995).
 Ontario Hydro at the Millennium (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995).
 "Corporate Governance in Canada" (Fall 1995) Canadian Business Law Journal.
 "Special Issue on the Corporate Stakeholder Debate: The Classical Theory and its Critics" (1993) 43(3) University of Toronto Law Journal.
 Cases and Materials on Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations, Third Edition, J. S. Ziegel, Ronald J. Daniels, J. G. MacIntosh & D. Johnston (Toronto: Carswell & Company, 1994).

References

External links
Announcement of election
President Daniels' 10 by 20 Plan Through 2020 and the latest progress report.

1959 births
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni
Presidents of Johns Hopkins University
Yale Law School alumni
Members of the Order of Canada
Academics from Toronto
Members of the American Philosophical Society


Peanuts Motion Comics is a mini-series of animated cartoon shorts based on 1964 strips of Charles Schulz' comic strip, Peanuts. The series premiered on iTunes on November 3, 2008 with the support of the Schulz estate. The first season consists of 20 cartoon shorts, paired into 10 episodes. The episodes employ signature themes and plotlines from the classic strips. The first season was released to DVD on March 9, 2010. Animation production was done by Studio B Productions.

Voice actors
Alex Ferris as Charlie Brown
Michelle Creber as Lucy van Pelt
Claire Corlett as Sally Brown
Quinn Lord as Linus van Pelt
Jake D. Smith as Schroeder/Shermy
Taya Calicetto as Violet Gray
Leigh Bourke as Patty
Alison Cohen as Frieda
Bill Melendez as Snoopy (non-speaking)/additional voices

List of episodes

External links

References

Works based on Peanuts (comic strip)
American animated short films
2008 short films
2008 films
2000s American films


L'Inhumaine ("the inhuman woman") is a 1924 French science fiction drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It has the subtitle histoire féerique ("fairy story", "story of enchantment"). L'Inhumaine is notable for its experimental techniques and for the collaboration of many leading practitioners in the decorative arts, architecture and music. The film caused controversy on its release.

Background
In 1923, while seeking to recover his health after a bout of typhoid, and his fortunes following the collapse of his film adaptation of Résurrection, Marcel L'Herbier received a proposal from his old friend the opera singer Georgette Leblanc to make a film in which she would star and for which she would secure partial funding from American financiers. L'Herbier revived a scenario which he had written under the title La Femme de glace (Woman of Ice); when Leblanc declared this to be too abstract for her liking and for American taste, he enlisted Pierre Mac Orlan to revise it according to Leblanc's suggestions, and in its new form it became L'Inhumaine. The agreement with Leblanc committed her to provide 50% of the costs (envisaged as FF130,000), and she would distribute and promote the film in the United States under the title The New Enchantment.  The remainder of the production costs were met by L'Herbier's own production company Cinégraphic.

The plot of the film was a melodrama with strong elements of fantasy, but from the outset L'Herbier's principal interest lay in the style of filming: he wanted to present "a miscellany of modern art" in which many contributors would bring different creative styles into a single aesthetic goal.
In this respect L'Herbier was exploring ideas similar to those outlined by the critic and film theorist Ricciotto Canudo who wrote a number of texts about the relationship between cinema and the other arts, proposing that cinema could be seen as "a synthesis of all the arts".  L'Herbier also foresaw that his film could provide a prologue or introduction to the major exhibition Exposition des Arts Décoratifs which was due to open in Paris in 1925. With this in mind, L'Herbier invited leading  French practitioners in painting, architecture, fashion, dance and music to collaborate with him (see "Production", below). He described the project as "this fairy story of modern decorative art".

Synopsis
Famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them.
She announces her intention to leave on a trip around the world. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Norsen demonstrates one of his inventions which allows Claire to broadcast her singing while observing on a television screen the reaction of audiences around the world. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.

Cast
 Georgette Leblanc as Claire Lescot
 Jaque Catelain as Einar Norsen
 Léonid Walter de Malte as Wladimir Kranine
 Fred Kellerman as Frank Mahler
 Philippe Hériat as Djorah de Nopur
 Marcelle Pradot as The simpleton

Production
Filming began in September 1923 at the Joinville studios in Paris and had to be carried on at great speed because Georgette Leblanc was committed to return to America in mid-October for a concert tour. L'Herbier often continued shooting through the night, making intense demands on his cast and crew. In the event, Leblanc had to leave before everything was finished and some scenes could only be completed when she returned to Paris in spring 1924.

One evening of location shooting became famous (4 October 1923). For the scene of Claire Lescot's concert L'Herbier hired the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and invited over 2000 people from the film world and fashionable society to attend in evening dress and to play the part of an unruly audience. Ten cameras were deployed around the theatre to record their reactions to the concert.<ref>Jaque Catelain, Jaque Catelain présente Marcel L'Herbier. (Paris: E. Jacques Vautrain, 1950). p. 79. L'Herbier mentions only three cameras in "La Tête qui tourne, p. 104.</ref>   This included the American pianist George Antheil performing some of his own dissonant compositions which created a suitably confrontational mood, and when Georgette Leblanc appeared on stage the audience responded with the required tumult of whistles, applause and protests, as well as some scuffles. The audience is said to have included Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Léon Blum, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and the Prince of Monaco.George Antheil gave his own account of the occasion in: Bad Boy of Music (London; New York: Hurst & Blackett, 1945) pp. 134–135.

A wide range of practitioners in different fields of the arts worked on the film, meeting L'Herbier's ambition of creating a film which united many forms of artistic expression.  Four designers contributed to the sets. The painter Fernand Léger created the mechanical laboratory of Einar Norsen. The architect Robert Mallet-Stevens designed the exteriors of the houses of Norsen and Claire Lescot, with strong cubist elements.  Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara, soon to be directing their own films, both had a background in design; Autant-Lara was responsible for the winter-garden set and the funeral vault, while Cavalcanti designed the geometric dining hall for Claire's party, with its dining-table set on an island in the middle of a pool. Costumes were designed by Paul Poiret, furniture by Pierre Chareau and Michel Dufet, jewellery by Raymond Templier, and other "objets" by René Lalique and Jean Puiforcat.  The choreographed scenes were provided by Jean Börlin and the Ballets Suédois. To bind the whole together L'Herbier commissioned the young Darius Milhaud to write a score with extensive use of percussion, to which the images were to be edited. (This musical score which was central to L'Herbier's conception of the film has not survived.)
The final sequence of the film, in which Claire is 'resurrected', is an elaborate exercise in rapid cutting, whose expressive possibilities had recently been demonstrated in La Roue. In addition to the juxtaposition and rhythmic repetition of images, L'Herbier interspersed frames of bright colours, intending to create counterpoint to the music of Milhaud and "to make the light sing".

ReceptionL'Inhumaine received its first public screenings in November 1924, and its reception with the public and with critics was largely negative. It also became a financial disaster for L'Herbier's production company Cinégraphic. One of the film's stars drew a vivid picture of the impact which it had among Parisian audiences during its run at the Madeleine-Cinéma:

"At each screening, spectators insulted each other, and there were as many frenzied partisans of the film as there were furious opponents. It was amid genuine uproar that, at every performance, there passed across the screen the multicoloured and syncopated images with which the film ends. Women, with hats askew, demanded their money back; men, with their faces screwed up, tumbled out on to the pavement where sometimes fist-fights continued."

Criticism was levelled at the old-fashioned scenario and at the inexpressive performances of the principal actors, but the most contentious aspects were the film's visual and technical innovations. According to the critic Léon Moussinac, "There are many inventions, but they count too much for themselves and not enough for the film".

Many film historians and critics have ridiculed L'Inhumaine as a misguided attempt to celebrate film as art or to reconcile the popular and the élitist. On the other hand, it was precisely the originality and daring of L'Herbier's concept which won the enthusiasm of the film's admirers, such as the architect Adolf Loos: "It is a brilliant song on the greatness of modern technique. ...The final images of L'Inhumaine surpass the imagination. As you emerge from seeing it, you have the impression of having lived through the moment of birth of a new art." A modern commentator has echoed this view more concisely in describing the film as "fabulously inventive".

L'Herbier had always wanted the film to provide to the world a showcase for contemporary decorative arts in France (as well as its cinema) and the film was duly presented in a number of cities abroad (New York, Barcelona, Geneva, London, Brussels, Warsaw, Shanghai, Tokyo). It at least succeeded in drawing more measured responses from those audiences. Today the film is often cited as a "manifesto for Art Deco".Musée d'Orsay programme (Paris): "L'Inhumaine ... résonne comme un manifeste Art déco en matière de décors et costumes". Retrieved 31 December 2015.

Restorations
After its initial release L'Inhumaine was largely forgotten for many years, until a revival in Paris in 1968 attracted interest from new audiences. A restoration of the film was undertaken in 1972. In 1975 it was successfully shown as the opening event in an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs.
In 1987 it was screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2014 a new restoration was undertaken by Lobster Films, scanning the original nitrate negative to produce a 4K digital version (with a running time of 122 minutes). Reconstruction of L'Herbier's scheme of tinting and toning was made by following indications from the original reels, including the brief flashes of pure colour which were interpolated in the sequence of rapid montage in the final scene of the film. The first public performance of this restored version  was given at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 30 March 2015, with a newly composed score by Aidje Tafial. A Blu-ray and DVD edition was published in December 2015; it included the musical accompaniment by Aidje Tafial and an alternative one by the Alloy Orchestra.

Further reading
 Abel, Richard. French Cinema: the First Wave 1915-1929. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. pp. 383–394.
 Binder, Dorothee. Der Film "L’Inhumaine" und sein Verhältnis zu Kunst und Architektur der zwanziger Jahre. Magisterarbeit. LMU München: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften 29, 2005. [In German]
 Burch, Noël. Marcel L'Herbier. Paris: Seghers, 1973. [In French]
 Cowan, Michael. "The Heart Machine: 'Rhythm' and Body in Weimar Film and in Fritz Lang's Metropolis". Modernism/modernity, April 2007. Volume 14, no. 2. pp. 225–248.
 Paech, Joachim. "Die Anfänge der Avantgarde im Film: Die Unmenschliche (1924)". In: Werner Faulstich / Helmut Korte (Hg.): Fischer Filmgeschichte. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum etablierten Medium 1985-1924. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1994. pp. 412–430. [In German]
 Marcel L'Herbier: Dossier; edited by Caroline Evans & Marketa Uhlirova. Published by Fashion in Film (London) June 2014 (4th Festival). Online version (retrieved 31 December 2015).

References

External links

 L'Inhumaine et Les Arts décoratifs: Marcel L'Herbier's 1925 article in Comoedia'', reproduced at Éclairages. [In French] (Subscription required.)

1924 films
French silent feature films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier
1920s science fiction drama films
French science fiction drama films
Art Deco architecture in France
Resurrection in film
1924 drama films
Silent science fiction drama films
1920s French films


The Sabatier principle is a qualitative concept in chemical heterogeneous catalysis named after the French chemist Paul Sabatier. It states that the interactions between the catalyst and the substrate should be "just right"; that is, neither too strong nor too weak. If the interaction is too weak, the molecule will fail to bind to the catalyst and no reaction will take place. On the other hand, if the interaction is too strong, the product fails to dissociate.

The principle can be shown graphically by plotting the reaction rate against a property such as the heat of adsorption of the reactant by the catalyst. Such plots pass through a maximum, looking roughly like a triangle or an inverted parabola, and are called volcano plots because of their shape. Analogous three-dimensional plots can also be built against two different properties, such as the heats of adsorption of the two reactants for a two-component reaction. In that case the plot is generally shown as a contour plot and is called a volcano surface. Volcano plots were introduced by Balandin.

The figure on the right shows a volcano plot for the decomposition of formic acid using different transition metals as catalysts. In this case, the heat of formation (ΔHf) of the metal formate salt was used for the x axis because studies showed that the reaction intermediate was a surface formate. For the y axis, the temperature at which the reaction reaches a specific rate was used (the y axis is plotted in reverse to preserve the conventional "volcano" shape). At low values of ΔHf, the reaction is slow  (in other words, requires higher temperatures) because the rate of adsorption is slow and rate-limiting. At high values of ΔHf, desorption becomes the rate-limiting step. The maximum rate, which is observed for the platinum group metals in this case, requires intermediate values of ΔHf, with the rate being a combination of the rate of adsorption and the rate of desorption.

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Catalysis


Mezquital is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at San Francisco del Mezquital. The municipality covers an area of 7,196.5 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 33,396, up from 30,069 as of 2005.

The municipality had 1,325 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was: San Francisco del Mezquital (1,742), classified as urban.

References

Municipalities of Durango


Jennet Conant (born July 15, 1959) is an American non-fiction author and journalist. She has written five books about World War II, three of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list: Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of WWII, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, and A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS.

Biography
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Asia and America, she received a BA degree (cum laude) in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College in 1982, and double-majored in Philosophy at Haverford College. She completed a master's degree in Journalism from New York City's Columbia University in 1983. She was awarded a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study politics in Germany.

Conant went on to work at Newsweek magazine for seven years, and wrote profiles for Rolling Stone, Spy magazine, and The New York Times. Additionally, she was a contributing editor for Esquire, GQ, and Vanity Fair, from which she resigned to write her first book, Tuxedo Park. Her profile of James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix, was featured in The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2004.

She lives in New York City and in Sag Harbor, New York. She is married to the journalist Steve Kroft. They have one son.

Conant is the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, noted chemist and President of Harvard University.

Books

Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II (2002), based in part on her family's role in World War II, explores the hitherto unknown story of lawyer, scientist, and New York financier Alfred Lee Loomis and his role in the development of radar technology during World War II.
Her second book, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (2005), is an account of the history, science, politics and struggles surrounding the building of the atomic bomb. It includes insights from the author's grandfather, James B. Conant, who was an administrator for the Manhattan Project. In 2006, it won the Spirit of the West Award for literary achievement in nonfiction.
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington (2008) is about the structure, history, development, implications, and influence of British espionage in the United States before, during and immediately after World War II. Her history of the organization known as British Security Coordination (BSC) chronicles the exploits of a charm brigade that included such recruits as Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy as well as the head of BSC, William Stephenson. It was selected as Amazon Best Book of the Month September 2008.
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS (2011) is about the experiences of Julia Child and Paul Child as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the later years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s.
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist (2017) is a biography of Conant's grandfather James B. Conant, a prominent chemist, president of Harvard University, and ambassador to Germany. A review in the journal Nature (journal) called it a "welcome" take on James Conant's life, emerging "at a salutary moment," and said that Jennet Conant "is a fine writer."
The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer (2020) discusses a 1943 air attack on Bari, Italy; in the aftermath, sailors sat for hours in clothing soaked in oil containing mustard gas. In the subsequent investigation of the bombing, Lt. Col. Stewart Alexander noticed the effect of the mustard gas on white blood cells, sparking later research into chemotherapy. A review in the New York Times was lukewarm, saying "As intriguing as all this might sound, the telling is hobbled in several fundamental ways."

Reception
Conant has been widely praised by critics. Kirkus Reviews hailed Tuxedo Park as "Remarkable and remarkably told, as if F. Scott Fitzgerald had penned Batman." Jonathan Yardley in a Washington Post review of The Irregulars said that "As was true of her excellent first book, Tuxedo Park, in The Irregulars she removes the dust of history from a forgotten but important figure to be reckoned with before and during the war."

References

External links

 Jennet Conant at Simon and Schuster

 Jennet Conant on NPR's Diane Rehm Show.
 Jennet Conant discusses The Irregulars on The Today Show.
 Jennet Conant discusses A Covert Affair on The Today Show.

Living people
American freelance journalists
1959 births
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Newsweek people
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women
Conant family


Israel Vogdes (August 14, 1816 – December 7, 1889) was a soldier and military educator from Pennsylvania who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Vogdes was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five children of Aaron and Ann (Hayman) Vogdes. He was educated in the local schools. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1837 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. He was promoted the following year to first lieutenant, and in 1847 to captain. He served as assistant professor of mathematics at the USMA, from September 4, 1837, to August 30, 1843, and as principal assistant professor from August 30, 1843, until September 15, 1849. Vogdes fought in the Seminole Wars from 1849 to 1850 and again in 1856.

He married Mary Thomas and had three children. When his first wife died, he remarried and had four more offspring. Two of his sons later were officers in the U.S. Army; one served in the Union Army during the Civil War as a lieutenant in the 100th New York Infantry.

Shortly after the start of the Civil War, Captain Vogdes stationed at Fort Monroe. Promoted to major, he was part of an expedition that was sent to Florida to quell the rebellion in that state, but was taken as a prisoner of war at Fort Pickens in October 1861  during the Battle of Santa Rosa Island. After being exchanged in August 1862, he was appointed as a brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers in the Union Army's X Corps on November 29, 1862. Promoted to colonel in the Regular Army on August 1, 1863, he commanded the Federal forces on Folly Island and participated in the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor. Vogdes then commanded forces in the X Corps in the Military District of Florida in early 1864. He finished the war as commander of the defenses of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.

At the close of the war, he was brevetted as a brigadier general in the Regular Army on April 9, 1865.

After the war, Vogdes returned to the Regular Army's 1st U.S. Artillery. He retired from the service in 1881 with the rank of colonel. Vogdes retired to New York City and died there of an abdominal hemorrhage in 1889 at the age of 73. He was buried at the West Point Cemetery on December 11, 1889.

There are several streets in Philadelphia named in his honor.

See also

 List of American Civil War generals (Union)

Notes

References
 Bearss, Edwin C., Civil War Operations in and around Pensacola.
 U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
 Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
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"Antoinette Blue" is the ninth single released by Nana Kitade. It was used as the fourth ending theme for the anime D.Gray-man. The first press of this single comes with trading cards and stickers from D.Gray-man. The title is a reference to Marie Antoinette, who was famous for having a grey-blue diamond ring. The single gained moderate success and lead-up to her first best of album entitled, Berry Berry Singles. The single reached #34 on the Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for a total of five weeks. Two years Later it was featured on her 2009 3rd full-length album Bondage as track #4.

Video information
The music video for "Antoinette Blue" starts out with showing a dark castle, with a bright full moon behind it and the song's title flashes on the screen. It then starts to give the viewer a closer look at the castle, and even takes them inside on the highest towers. In the tower there is a skeleton of a young girl sitting in a chair. As the moonlight shines on the corpse, it begins to move, and skin appears on it. It gets up and is revealed to be Kitade, who starts singing emotionally.

Track listing
 Antoinette Blue (アントワネットブルー)
 Wish in the Blood
 Kamisama Hitotsu Dake (神様ひとつだけ; Only One God)
 Antoinette Blue: D.Gray-man Ending Ver. (アントワネットブルー)
 Antoinette Blue (Instrumental) (アントワネットブルー)

2007 singles
Nana Kitade songs
Songs written by Nana Kitade
2007 songs


Volcano plot may refer to:

 Sabatier principle - a concept in chemical catalysis that relates the optimal concentrations of catalysts and substrates
 Volcano plot (statistics) - a type of graph used to relate fold-change to p-value that is commonly used in genomics and other omic experiments involving thousands of data-points


The Deutsche Pfadfinderverband (DPV; approximate translation: German Scout Association) is an umbrella federation of sixteen German non-denominational Scouting associations. It was founded in 1970 and serves about 29,000 members.

History
The DPV was founded in 1970 under the name Deutsche Pfadfinder by a number of regional organizations which had left the Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder (BDP) due to the perceived loss of political neutrality within the latter. In 1971, the Deutscher Pfadfinderbund joined the Deutsche Pfadfinder and the federation was renamed to Deutscher Pfadfinderverband. However, the Deutscher Pfadfinderbund left the federation after some years.

In 1977, the DPV was amongst the founding members of the Deutscher Pfadfinderring (DPR); this traditional Scouting federation tried to form a counterweight to the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände and the Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände. The DPR was disbanded in 1995.

An application for membership in the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände in May 1985 was rejected. The member organizations of the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände requested a merger of the DPV and the Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder prior to an integration in its ranks. Negotiations between the DPV and the Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder were closed unsuccessfully in 1989.

At the 2007 annual general meeting in Berlin, the Europa-Scouts resigned from membership in the DPV due to permanently low membership figures. At the same meeting, the Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnenbund Nordlicht was accepted as an associate member.

The 52nd anniversary was celebrated in September 2022 as DPV GoLd (L as 50 in roman numerals) at Ludwigstein Castle. The original plans for celebrating the 50th anniversary in 2020 had to be postponed due to the corona pandemic. It was celebrated as a radio show instead.

Member associations
The DPV has a total of sixteen member associations. With the exceptions of Deutscher Pfadfinderbund Mosaik and Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler, all members are regional organizations. The membership numbers of the component organizations vary widely between 100 and 8,000 Scouts.

Full members
 Bund Europäischer Pfadfinder, member of the Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
 Deutscher Pfadfinderbund Hamburg
 Deutscher Pfadfinderbund Mosaik
 Deutscher Pfadfinderbund Nordland
 Jomsburg – freier Pfadfinderbund
 Pfadfinderbund Boreas (since 2010)
 Pfadfinderbund Horizonte
 Pfadfinderbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
 Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler, member of the World Federation of Independent Scouts
 Pfadfinderschaft Grenzland
 Pfadfinderschaft Nordmark
 Pfadfinderschaft Süddeutschland
 Pfadfinder- und Pfadfinderinnenbund Nord
 Verband Deutscher Pfadfinder

Associate members
 Freie Pfadfinderschaft
 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnenbund Nordlicht

Former members
 Deutsche Pfadfinder Landesmark Westfalen (...–2010)
 Deutscher Pfadfinderbund
 Deutscher Pfadfinderverband Gau Westland (...–2010)
 Europa-Scouts
 Pfadfinderbund Nordbaden
 Pfadfinderbund Süd (1970–1981)
 Pfadfinderschaft Phoenix (...–2010)

Further reading
 Hansdieter Wittke, Freiheit in Bindung: der Deutsche Pfadfinderverband, Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1990,
 Reinhard Schmoeckel, Strategie einer Unterwanderung. Vom Pfadfinderbund zur revolutionären Zelle, Günter Olzog Verlag, München 1979,
 Deutscher Pfadfinderverband (publisher), Dokumentation, Köln 1977-2005, volumes 1-6

References

External links
 Official website

Scouting and Guiding in Germany
Non-aligned Scouting organizations
Youth organizations established in 1970


Otáez is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Otáez. The municipality covers an area of 906.5 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 5,208, up from 4,543 as of 2005.

Localities inside the municipality include El Bajío de Vacas, Los Cardos, Banome, San Pedro de Azafranes, and San Miguel de Pielagos.

The municipality had 106 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.

References

Municipalities of Durango


John Congemi is a former Canadian Football League quarterback and current college football analyst for ESPN.

Congemi played quarterback for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team during 1982–1986. He finished second all time in passing yards and led his team to the 1984 Fiesta Bowl. He won the game's MVP award, despite losing the game 28–23.

After college Congemi played in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders, Saskatchewan Roughriders. In 1993, he also played part of the 1993 season with the Miami Hooters of the Arena Football League. After the stint, he returned to the CFL to play for the Baltimore Stallions in 1994.

After retiring, Congemi returned to his native Florida, where he worked as a football analyst for SportsChannel Florida and WQAM. Congemi served as a color commentator for the Big East Network from 2000 to 2011. He has been calling ESPNU games since the network began in 2005.

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Joseph Pickett Johnson Jr. (December 12, 1931 – August 5, 2022) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1966 to 1969, and again from 1990 until 2014. He  represented the 4th district in the southwest part of the state, including the city of Bristol and parts of Smyth and Washington Counties from 1992 to 2014.

Johnson ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, losing the 9th congressional district race to the Republican incumbent, William C. Wampler.

Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection in 2013.

Personal life
Johnson was married to the former Mary Ann Allison for 64 years, until her death on July 19, 2022. They had three children: Mary Jo (Neal), Joseph Pickett III, and Sage. Johnson died on August 5, 2022, aged 90, less than three weeks after his wife; six grandchildren: Mary Lewis Huffman (Neal), Ashley Brooke Hemmer (Johnson), Mary Catherine Clark (Johnson), Joseph Zachary Johnson, Finn Alexander Johnson, William Pickett Johnson; and three great grandchildren: Emma Grace Clark, Isley Ann Clark and Joseph Beckett Johnson.

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United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War
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Virginia lawyers


Cornelis Hulsman is a Dutch sociologist who has lived for years in Egypt since 1994. He is currently the editor in chief of the Arab-West Report, which is a report that includes a weekly digest of various Egyptian press outlets. Hulsman is further an expert on Egyptian printed media, The Coptic Orthodox Holy Family's tradition, interfaith relations in Egyptian society, and inter-cultural understanding in the Arab world. Hulsman has been a correspondent for several Dutch media outlets in Egypt, and has been the Secretary-General of the Cairo Foreign Press Association since 2003.

Early life
Hulsman was born in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, in 1955, and studied development sociology at the State University of Leiden in the Netherlands from 1977 to 1984. During his studies he specialized in Islam and Middle Eastern Christianity.

Career
From 1979 to 1982, Hulsman was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Christian Democratic Youth Appeal (CDJA), and was from 1982 to 1994 a member of the Middle East Committee of the Christian Democratic Appeal ().
From 1986 until 1994, Hulsman occupied several leading positions in the Dutch immigration service. In 1994, Hulsman became a correspondent for several Dutch media outlets in Egypt, and with his Egyptian wife Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil, founded in 1997 the

From 1999 to 2001, at the request of the American University Press in Cairo, Hulsman carried out research on the Coptic Orthodox Holy Family tradition and compared this with earlier work carried out by Dr. Otto F.A. Meinardus in the 1950s and 1960s. Hulsman's work resulted in the chapter “Tracing the Route of the Holy Family Today,” in the book “Be Thou There; The Holy Family's Journey in Egypt,” AUC Press, 2001. Following this research and publication, numerous magazine and newspaper publications on aspects of the Holy Family tradition followed. Hulsman also organized dozens of visits to places related to this tradition, built a Web site that deals with this tradition and has become one of the world's foremost experts on this ancient Coptic tradition.

In 2000 and 2001, Hulsman was the adjunct affiliate assistant professor in journalism and mass communication at the American University in Cairo, and in 2002 he organized a workshop for Egyptian journalists about reporting on human rights.
Hulsman decided to devote his attention to developing an Egyptian institute for inter-cultural understanding, and in 2003 he changed the name of the electronic digest RNSAW to Arab-West Report. Following this, together with a group of prominent Egyptians, Hulsman started the  CAWU then applied for Egyptian Non-Government Organization (NGO) status, which was granted after a long bureaucratic process in January 2008.

In 2004 Hulsman began building an electronic library based on the reviews of Egyptian media and his own investigative reporting in the Religious News Service from the Arab World and Arab-West Report since 1997.
Because of the delays in forming an Egyptian NGO, in 2005 Hulsman and his wife founded the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT).  CIDT has become the institute preparing media reviews and translations for Arab-West Report.

In May 2006, Hulsman organized the visit to Egypt of former Dutch prime minister Andreas van Agt, who lectured at universities and institutions in Cairo on the need for Arab-West understanding and met with prominent government officials to whom he expressed strong support for the initiative to create a Center for Arab-West Understanding.
In August 2007 Hulsman became the project director of the Electronic Network for Arab-West Understanding (ENAWU). ENAWU links organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon with organizations in several European countries. This network was launched on June 5, 2008, by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal.
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n March 2008 Hulsman coordinated efforts by the Center for Arab-West Understanding in a successful attempt to defuse the crises provoked by Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders' film “Fitna,” through organizing a visit of a delegation of Dutch church representatives and Muslim organizations to Egypt which was widely reported on in the Netherlands, asking Egyptian scholars to write reports explaining the Qur'anic texts that Wilders addressed and discussing the crisis on Egyptian TV and in public meetings at Cairo University.

Views
Cornelis Hulsman believes that tensions between the Arab world and the West, as well as those between Muslims and Christians, should never be reported about in isolation but efforts must be made to understand tensions in their proper socio-economical and historical contexts. Only this will contribute to a better understanding between peoples of different cultures and will help to address problems various people(s) encountered. Media is able to play a prominent role in working toward intercultural understanding but they also can play a highly destructive role. For this reason an effective media watch is greatly needed.

Lectures
Hulsman lectured on cultural diversity, media, Arab-West relations, Muslim-Christian relations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Spain, U.S., Jordan and Egypt.

Influences
During his studies Hulsman was deeply influenced by former Dutch Consul-General to Saudi Arabia, Daniel van der Meulen (1894–1989) who stimulated Hulsman's interest in the Arab world and Muslim-Christian relations., Syrian Orthodox Bishop Samuel Aktash of the Tur Abdin in Turkey who showed him in the mid eighties the damage caused by oriental Christians leaving their homelands, a theme repeated by HRH Prince Hassan bin-Talal in an interview with Hulsman for Christianity Today.
Dr. Otto F.A. Meinardus (1925–2005), Egyptian thinker Dr. William Qilada (1924–1999), and Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef (1923–2000) influenced Hulsman's outlook on Coptic Christianity and traditions.
Hulsman has in turn influenced hundreds of students, many of whom have been interns at Arab-West Report and the Center for Intercultural Dialogue in Cairo.

Personal life
Hulsman has been living in Egypt on and off since 1994, he currently resides in the Netherlands with his wife and children.

Selected Books & Reports
Cornelis Hulsman has published on a number of topics dealing with issues throughout the Arab world, Muslim-Christian relations, and Arab-West relations. Below are listed a selection of Hulsman's material.
 'The Peace building Prince; One Jordanian leader shares his deep desire to preserve the Arab Christian world' in: Christianity Today, February 2008
 'Christian activists' contributions to Christian migration from the Arab world; can Christianity survive in the Arab world?'

 'Reflections on conversions in Egypt'
 'To be an effective advocate for peace, media distortions must be addressed'
 'Different Middle Eastern Christian responses to living in a Muslim environment'
 'Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Archbishop Fitzgerald, responds to polarization following the Regensburg lecture of H.H. Pope Benedict XV'
 'Dutch expert in intercultural dialogue, Cornelis Hulsman, to Rose al-Yūsuf: The absent truth in Pope Benedict's sedition. The pope made positive remarks about Islam, but they were lost in a volatile climate created by suspicions'
 Reviewing Yustina Saleh's 'Law, the Rule of Law, and Religious Minorities in Egypt.' (art. 2 Egyptian Constitution) Reviewed with Prof. Dr. Mike Fowler and Prof. Dr. Wolfram Reiss
 Escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest's wife to Islam' a 45-page investigative report
 'The Muslim World and the West: what can be done to reduce tensions?'
 Chapter ‘Christian Life’ in ‘Upper Egypt; Life along the Nile,’ Ed. Prof. Dr. Nicholas Hopkins, 2003
 “Persecuted Christians? Case study of Egypt," in: "Persecuted Christians? Documentation of an international conference," Missio, 2002
 'Renewal in the Coptic Orthodox Church; review of the Ph.D. thesis of Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss'
 'Responses to the court verdict in the case of Al-Kosheh'
 'Reviving an Ancient Faith; two strong-willed reformers bring Coptic Orthodoxy back to life' in Christianity Today, December 2001
 The Refugee Savior. How Egyptian Christians still make room for the Holy Family' in Christianity Today, December 2001
 Co-author of 'Be Thou There; the Holy Family's Journey in Egypt,' AUC-Press, Cairo, 2001
 'Migration and a future for the Syrian Orthodox in the Tur Abdin,' Netherlands Interdisciplinair Demographic Institute, 1989. The research concerned the forced migration of a rural population to Istanbul and Europe.
 Dozens of other reports on Muslim-Christian relations placed in Arab-West Report, www.arabwestreport.info These reports document investigative reporting with a Western sociological analysis of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt, placing them in the context of Egyptian culture and socio-economic developments.

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Living people
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Dutch magazine founders


Marti Webb Sings Gershwin: The Love Songs is a live album by Marti Webb, recorded and released in 1998.

Background
Webb had record deals with Polydor, BBC Records and Telstar during the 1980s, but her last solo studio had been Performance (1989). She performed on the live recording of The Magic of the Musicals (1992) and had tracks included on Music and Songs from Evita (1995).

The album was produced by self-financed and co-produced by Webb with West End sound designer Mick Potter featuring tracks taken from a series of cabaret performances at London's Café Royal Green Room. In 1987 she had released Gershwin, an album of songs by George and Ira Gershwin, some of which was incorporated into the show.

The album was only made available through the London musical theatre merchandise shop Dress Circle and at the venues on Webb's tours. The liner notes dedicate the album to "Selina Elizabeth", Webb's mother.

Track listing

 "How Long Has This Been Going On" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "Embraceable You/But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "Do It Again" (George Gershwin, Buddy De Sylva)
 "Love Walked In/Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "The Man That Got Away" (George Gershwin, Harold Arlen)
 "He Loves and She Loves" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
 "Finale"

Personnel

Musicians
Marti Webb - lead and backing vocals
Andy Read - piano, musical direction
Gary Branch - woodwind, saxophones
Alyn Ross - double bass
Mathew Senior - drums

Production credits

Producers - Mick Potter and Marti Webb
Arrangements - Andy Read, Gary Branch and Ian Hughes

Marti Webb albums
1998 live albums
Live albums by British artists


Kolatan is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,702.

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Populated places in Masally District


Pánuco de Coronado is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Panuco de Coronado. The municipality covers an area of 1059.9 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 11,927, up from 11,886 as of 2005.

As of 2010, the town of Pánuco de Coronado had a population of 1,291. Other than the town of Pánuco de Coronado, the municipality had 58 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was: Francisco I. Madero (4,550), classified as urban.

References

Municipalities of Durango


Mollaoba is a village and municipality in the Masally District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,576.

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Populated places in Masally District


Böyük Xocavar is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,139.

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Populated places in Masally District


Dəmirçi is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,918.

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Populated places in Masally District


Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam is a video game by Spanish developer Virtual Toys. It is available for WiiWare, DSiWare, PSP minis, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The game won a Pulga award for Best Art at the Videogame Industry in Spain Awards in 2009, held at the Gamelab Interactive Leisure International Trade Fair.

Gameplay
The player takes on the role of being a chef in a restaurant. The goal of the game is to serve food to customers before they get angry and leave. Players prepare the food by performing a variety of different tasks to create each stage of the dish. In each round they are given a time limit with the goal being to collect a certain amount of tips within the time allotted by getting the orders right and out on time.

The overall goal of the game's main career mode is for players to become the best chef in the city. This is achieved by working their way up to the top by passing through the game's four restaurants: The Hot Dog, Hamburger, Pizza and Mexican Restaurant. The game also features a quick-play arcade mode which also supports two player competitive play that sees players racing against each other to see who can accumulate the most tips within the time limit.

Reception

The DS version received mixed reviews, while the Wii version received unfavorable reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Nintendo Life commented that the latter console version does have some enjoyable elements that will appeal to some gamers but said that the "streaky play control", "sharp difficulty curve" and "fairly short length" make it hard to recommend. IGN believed the gameplay to be tedious, overly simplistic and repetitive, and likened it to a "freeware Flash game".

See also
Order Up!

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Sığıncaq is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,802.

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Populated places in Masally District


Çayqıraq is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,352.

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Populated places in Masally District


Folly Island is a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina. It is one of the Sea Islands and is within the boundaries of Charleston County, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the  island served as a major staging area for troops of the Union Army that were attacking Confederate forces in the Charleston region. The largest settlement on Folly Island is Folly Beach.

Demographics

History
The name Folly comes from an Old English term meaning "dense foliage." When Europeans first landed on the island in the early 1600s, they discovered a Native American tribe called the Bohickets. It is unclear what happened to them after the land was deeded to William Rivers in 1696. Pirates were known to sail along the South Carolina coast and the many inlets, sounds, bays formed by barrier islands and sea islands like Folly Island. Two of the most memorable were Edward Teach, known as Black Beard, and Stede Bonnet.

For a time, Folly Island was known as Coffin Island not because of deaths or burials, but because of its ownership by the Coffin family, plantation owners of Beaufort and Charleston counties. Plague and cholera victims were dropped off on the barrier island, rather than being brought into Charleston Harbor.

The only Civil War-related fighting to occur on the island was on May 10, 1863, when Confederate forces attacked Union forces. Since the Confederates were on a fact-finding mission, the fighting was on a very small scale. Folly was occupied by the Union Army in August 1863 and served as a supply depot and camp for the troops besieging the city of Charleston.

Folly Island remained under Union control for the rest of the war. It was used as the staging area for the Battles of Fort Wagner, which were fought between July and September 1863. Morris Island was the location of Fort Wagner; the Second Battle of Fort Wagner was depicted in the 1989 film Glory.

Bermudian First Sergeant Robert John Simmons of Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment penned a letter from Folly Island shortly before he was mortally wounded at Fort Wagner. The letter was published in the New York Tribune on the 23rd of December, 1863.

{{blockquote|Folly Island, South Carolina
July 18, 1863;

We are on the march to Fort Wagner, to storm it. We have just completed our successful retreat from James Island; we fought a desperate battle there Thursday morning. Three companies of us, B, H, and K, were out on picket about a good mile in advance of the regiment. We were attacked early in the morning. Our company was in the reserve, when the outposts were attacked by rebel infantry and cavalry. I was sent out by our Captain in command of a squad of men to support the left flank. The bullets fairly rained around us; when I got there the poor fellows were falling down around me, with pitiful groans. Our pickets only numbered about 250 men, attacked by about 900. It is supposed by the line of battle in the distance, that they were supported by reserve of 3,000 men. We had to fire and retreat toward our own encampment. One poor Sergeant of ours was shot down along side of me; several others were wounded near me.
God has protected me through this, my first fiery, leaden trial, and I do give Him the glory, and render my praises unto His holy name. My poor friend [Sergeant Peter] Vogelsang is shot through the lungs; his case is critical, but the doctor says he may probably live. His company suffered very much. Poor good and brave Sergeant (Joseph D.) Wilson of his company [H], after killing four rebels with his bayonet, was shot through the head by the fifth one. Poor fellow! May his noble spirit rest in peace. The General has complimented the Colonel on the gallantry and bravery of his regiment.}}

In the summer of 1934, composer George Gershwin and author DuBose Heyward, went to Folly Island to work on their American folk opera, Porgy and Bess''.

Folly Beach became a township in 1936 and a town in 1951.

Folly Beach is occasionally impacted by hurricanes moving up the Atlantic Coast in the form of wind, rain, and heavy surf which cause beach erosion. Hurricane Irene in 2011 caused severe erosion and forced the closure of the Folly Beach County Park, a popular public beach access point.

The Folly Beach Public Safety and Charleston County Bomb Squad still, to this day, unearths cannonballs after bad storms, most notably Hurricane Matthew. During Matthew 16 cannonballs were discovered in what EOD members called a "loading position". It is likely that these were Civil War era Union cannonballs left behind due to their close proximity to each other and the fact that none had detonated. Most recently one large cannonball, probably Confederate, was found on March 13, 2017, at far northeastern end of the island.  The Charleston County EOD is still investigating.

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Islands of Charleston County, South Carolina
Islands of South Carolina
South Carolina Sea Islands


Binə Xocavar is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,075.

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Populated places in Masally District


Bağıroba is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,075.

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Populated places in Masally District


In computing, software engineering, and software testing, a test oracle (or just oracle) is a mechanism for determining whether a test has passed or failed. The use of oracles involves comparing the output(s) of the system under test, for a given test-case input, to the output(s) that the oracle determines that product should have. The term "test oracle" was first introduced in a paper by William E. Howden. Additional work on different kinds of oracles was explored by Elaine Weyuker.

Oracles often operate separately from the system under test. However, method postconditions are part of the system under test, as automated oracles in design by contract models. Determining the correct output for a given input (and a set of program or system states) is known as the oracle problem or test oracle problem, which is a much harder problem than it seems, and involves working with problems related to controllability and observability.

Categories

A research literature survey covering 1978 to 2012 found several potential categories of test oracles.

Specified

These oracles are typically associated with formalized approaches to software modeling and software code construction. They are connected to formal specification, model-based design which may be used to generate test oracles, state transition specification for which oracles can be derived to aid model-based testing and protocol conformance testing, and design by contract for which the equivalent test oracle is an assertion.

Specified Test Oracles have a number of challenges. Formal specification relies on abstraction, which in turn may naturally have an element of imprecision as all models cannot capture all behavior.

Derived

A derived test oracle differentiates correct and incorrect behavior by using information derived from artifacts of the system. These may include documentation, system execution results and characteristics of versions of the system under test. Regression test suites (or reports) are an example of a derived test oracle - they are built on the assumption that the result from a previous system version can be used as aid (oracle) for a future system version. Previously measured performance characteristics may be used as an oracle for future system versions, for example, to trigger a question about observed potential performance degradation. Textual documentation from previous system versions may be used as a basis to guide expectations in future system versions.

A pseudo-oracle falls into the category of derived test oracle. A pseudo-oracle, as defined by Weyuker, is a separately written program which can take the same input as the program or system under test so that their outputs may be compared to understand if there might be a problem to investigate.

A partial oracle is a hybrid between specified test oracle and derived test oracle. It specifies important (but not complete) properties of the system under test. For example, metamorphic testing exploits such properties, called metamorphic relations, across multiple executions of the system.

Implicit

An implicit test oracle relies on implied information and assumptions. For example, there may be some implied conclusion from a program crash, i.e. unwanted behavior - an oracle to determine that there may be a problem. There are a number of ways to search and test for unwanted behavior, whether some call it negative testing, where there are specialized subsets such as fuzzing.

There are limitations in implicit test oracles - as they rely on implied conclusions and assumptions. For example, a program or process crash may not be a priority issue if the system is a fault-tolerant system and so operating under a form of self-healing/self-management. Implicit test oracles may be susceptible to false positives due to environment dependencies. Property based testing relies on implicit oracles.

Human

When specified, derived or implicit test oracles cannot be used, then human input to determine the test oracles is required. These can be thought of as quantitative and qualitative approaches. A quantitative approach aims to find the right amount of information to gather on a system under test (e.g., test results) for a stakeholder to be able to make decisions on fit-for-purpose or the release of the software. A qualitative approach aims to find the representativeness and suitability of the input test data and context of the output from the system under test. An example is using realistic and representative test data and making sense of the results (if they are realistic). These can be guided by heuristic approaches, such as gut instincts, rules of thumb, checklist aids, and experience to help tailor the specific combination selected for the program/system under test.

Examples

Test oracles are most commonly based on specifications and documentation. A formal specification used as input to model-based design and model-based testing would be an example of a specified test oracle. The model-based oracle uses the same model to generate and verify system behavior. Documentation that is not a full specification of the product, such as a usage or installation guide, or a record of performance characteristics or minimum machine requirements for the software, would typically be a derived test oracle.

A consistency oracle compares the results of one test execution to another for similarity. This is another example of a derived test oracle.

An oracle for a software program might be a second program that uses a different algorithm to evaluate the same mathematical expression as the product under test. This is an example of a pseudo-oracle, which is a derived test oracle.

During Google search, we do not have a complete oracle to verify whether the number of returned results is correct. We may define a metamorphic relation such that a follow-up narrowed-down search will produce fewer results. This is an example of a partial oracle, which is a hybrid between specified test oracle and derived test oracle.

A statistical oracle uses probabilistic characteristics, for example with image analysis where a range of certainty and uncertainty is defined for the test oracle to pronounce a match or otherwise. This would be an example of a quantitative approach in human test oracle.

A heuristic oracle provides representative or approximate results over a class of test inputs. This would be an example of a qualitative approach in human test oracle.

References

Bibliography

 Binder, Robert V. (1999). "Chapter 18 - Oracles" in Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools, Addison-Wesley Professional, 7 November 1999,

Software testing
Computation oracles


Yeni Zuvand (known as Zuvandlı until 2001) is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 888.

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Populated places in Masally District


Kosagül is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 841.

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Populated places in Masally District


Abasbəyli is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 658.

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Populated places in Masally District


Nir Barkat (; born 19 October 1959) is an Israeli businessman and politician currently serving as Minister of Economy. He served as mayor of Jerusalem between the years 2008–2018.

Biography
Nir Barkat was raised in Jerusalem. His father, Zalman, was a professor of physics at the Hebrew University. His great-grandfather came from Russia to Mandatory Palestine in the 1920s, and died in 1924.

Barkat served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces for six years (1977–1983), as well as reserve duty, and reached the rank of major. Barkat was also wounded in combat in Lebanon.

Barkat holds a BA in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied for a master's degree in business administration at the same institution, but hasn't completed it.

Barkat and his wife Beverly, an artist, have three daughters. The family lives in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit HaKerem.

Nir Barkat was named the 43rd most influential Jewish person in 2013.

Business career

High-Tech Ventures
Barkat started his career in the high-tech industry by founding a software company called BRM in 1988, which specialized in antivirus software. Later, the company became an incubator venture firm that invested in several companies such as Check Point and Backweb. He later helped found the social investment company IVN, Israel Venture Network. In 2007, Barkat took part in the Israeli version of Dragons' Den, the venture-capitalist television program, which consists of entrepreneurs pitching their ideas in order to secure investment from business experts.

Private fortune
According to Forbes in 2013, Barkat's net worth is estimated at NIS 450 million (about $122 million), more than the combined value of the next three politicians on the list making him the wealthiest Israeli politician. On October 3, 2021, Barkat's name was included among 565 Israelis whose names were included in the Pandora papers. As mayor, he did not take any salary from the city of Jerusalem.

Political career

Campaign for mayor of Jerusalem

Nir Barkat's entry into politics was gradual, after his exposure to and philanthropic investments in Jerusalem's education system. In 1999, the Barkat family began to explore the educational gaps in Jerusalem through their investment in The Snunit Center for the Advancement of Web Based Learning, a non-profit, non-governmental organization which uses web based resources to improve online education and improve personal and social growth within the Israeli society. Barkat saw this investment as the beginning of his interest in entering into Jerusalem's municipal politics.

Barkat's official entry into politics began in January 2003, when he founded the party Yerushalayim Tatzli'ah ("Jerusalem Will Succeed") and ran in the Jerusalem mayoral race, securing 43% of the vote and losing to Uri Lupoliansky. After his initial loss, Barkat served as head of the opposition on the city council until his election as mayor in 2008. During this period he helped form StartUp Jerusalem, a venture to create jobs in the capital. He briefly led the Jerusalem faction of the Kadima party from 2006 - 2007, then a powerhouse in Israeli politics, but left due to disagreements with the proposal to relinquish portions of Jerusalem.

Mayor of Jerusalem
Barkat ran for a second time in November 2008, this time winning the election with 52% of the vote (his main rival, Meir Porush, won 43%). Barkat was described as a secular politician, contrasting with both Lupoliansky and Porush, who are Haredi. He ran on a platform of increasing tourism, finding solutions to the housing crisis, and opposing the light rail. He also vowed to make city council more approachable and transparent and decried the use of the mayors office a stepping stone to national politics. Controversies during his first term included the firing of city council member Rachel Azaria and his proposal for relinquishing predominantly Arab populated neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city limits. He helped to initiate the city's first international marathon in 2011 and has personally participating in races both in Jerusalem and abroad.

In 2013, he ran for a second term, during which he was endorsed by the Labor Party, and also by a range of prominent Likud activists; he also had the tacit support of Meretz, which withdrew its candidate, Pepe Alalu, in order not to steal votes away from Barkat. His opponent Moshe Lion had backing from Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and Aryeh Deri, head of Shas. Barkat was re-elected with 52% of the vote compared to his main opponent Moshe Lion former head of the Jerusalem Development Authority, who ran as the Likud candidate who garnered 43% of the electorate. Lion has since served as a member of city council and in 2015 joined Barkat's coalition. Following the tense campaign, Barkat was fined NIS 400,000 for improper use of election funds.  Since his election as Mayor, Barkat has served the city for a salary of one shekel a year. Controversies of his second term have included the Formula 1 exhibition, part of the mayor's effort to raise Jerusalem's status as a cultural capital of the world and increase tourism. The Jerusalem Formula One event took place in 2013 and in 2014 but garnered much criticism for street closures which led to school cancellations, over expenditures, and its appropriateness for the city. Other controversies have included planned addition to the light rail, specifically the blue line, which was planned to run down Emek Refaim street. Mayor Barkat also had a long-running feud with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon over funding which led to city-wide strikes several years in a row. Kahlon argued that Barkat was wasting funding and mismanagement, while Barkat argued that Kahlon was withholding funds for political reasons. The resulting strikes caused garbage to pile up throughout the city and the threat of mass firings of municipal employees.

In December 2015 Barkat joined the Likud party. He previously endorsed Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister in the 2013 and 2015 Knesset elections. In March 2018 he announced his intention to run for national politics rather than seek re-election for a third term as mayor.

Since the mid 2000s, Jerusalem has developed into a regional center for tech start-ups, and was named the #1 emerging tech hub by Entrepreneur magazine. Barkat's administration has provided incentives, tax breaks, and grants for companies with employees living in the city. By 2016, over 500 start-ups had been established in Jerusalem, bringing in upwards of $243 million in investment in the first nine months of 2015. "'After the election of [Mayor Nir] Barkat, personal activism strengthened in the city. People felt they had influence, and it really connected with the entrepreneurial character', said Dana Mann, a partner in PICO Ventures, and previously a partner in OurCrowd."

Barkat has come under fire from some women's rights activists. Some women on the Jerusalem City Council have protested illegal modesty signs. Jerusalem city councilwoman Rachel Azaria, who brought the case of gender-segregated buses in Jerusalem to the court's attention, was fired by Barkat. Laura Wharton, a member of Jerusalem City Council, complained about the illegal modesty signs, but claims she was brushed off." Barkat has criticized Women of the Wall for their confrontational efforts to pray at the Kotel.

2015 terrorist attack
In February 2015, Barkat garnered international attention when he intervened after seeing a Palestinian man trying to stab a Jewish victim. Barkat succeeded in physically subduing the attacker, with the Mayoral security detail coming in immediately afterward and the victim receiving first aid. The Tzahal Square incident prompted responses from figures such as former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, who stated that Barkat had "courageously" acted, as well as commentators on Facebook who shared tongue-in-cheek images depicting Barkat as Batman, Neo, and other film characters. In October 2015, he encouraged Israelis to carry guns as a "duty" in light of increased tensions. His comments were criticised by various commentators.

National politics

In March 2018 he announced he would not run for another term in the Municipal Election, and instead will join the Likud Party, to be a member of Knesset in next elections. On 4 December 2018, he ceased serving as mayor.

See also
Politics of Israel

References

External links
 Nir Barkat official campaign page - Hebrew
 Sari Makover-Belikov, 'After Netanyahu - it's my turn', Ynetnews, October 14, 2019

1959 births
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Comings may refer to:

 David Comings (born 1935), American geneticist
 George Comings (1848-1942), American politician
 Lydia J. Newcomb Comings (1850–1946), American educator, lecturer, author
 William Comings White (1890-1965), American scientist


Köhnə Zuvand is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 625.

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Populated places in Masally District


Masallı is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 599.

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Populated places in Masally District


Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory is a book by Uri Gordon that investigates anarchist theory and practice. An expanded reworking of the author's PhD thesis at the University of Oxford, the book was released by Pluto Press, a London-based radical publisher, in November 2007. It is presented as "an anarchist book about anarchism", and assumes some background knowledge and sympathy for anarchism on the part of the reader. Gordon considers his approach in the book to have many commonalities with that of anthropologist David Graeber, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.

Contents
Anarchy Alive! was not designed to further debates about the finer points of anarchist theory within academia, nor as a history of ideas, but rather to serve as a tool for activists trying to engage with theory—leading anarchist scholar Alex Prichard to characterise it as "a user’s manual for anarchist activism". It is divided into six chapters, addressing anarchism as a political culture, anarchism as an ideology, anarchist forms of organisation and power, anarchism and violence, anarchism and technology, and anarchism and nationalism (through the case study of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict).

Reception
Anarchy Alive! was favourably reviewed in journals including Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, New International and Anarchist Studies. Reviewing the book in Anarchist Studies, Alex Prichard predicted that "not only will Anarchy Alive! become required reading in the anarchist movement, but it will have a sizeable impact on the academy … this will be a defining text in anarchist circles for the next few years at the very least". Richard Swift, in a review for New International, called the book "a short and thoughtful account", and granted it a four-out-out-of-four star rating. The CrimethInc. collective recommended the work for its analysis of power and authority in an anarchist context. Freedom reviewer Tom Jennings dissented, calling into question the theoretical coherence of the book. Another critical view came from the Socialist Standard, which although conceding that the book was "well-written and can be read on a know-your-opponent basis", denounced the book for its anarchist critique of representative democracy.

See also
List of anarchist books
Issues in anarchism
Prefigurative politics

Citations

References

External links
AnarchyAlive.com blog

Books about anarchism
2007 non-fiction books
Pluto Press books


Jean-Paul Alduy (born 7 May 1942) is a French politician. He is member of the Senate of France, representing the department of Pyrénées-Orientales as well as the president of the Urban Community of Mediterranean Perpignan.  An engineer by profession, he was a member of the Union for French Democracy and then the Union for a Popular Movement.  His parents, Paul and Jacqueline Alduy, also served as senators of France.

Youth and professional career
Alduy was born in Lyon.  A polytechnic general engineer of National Road Training, he went through a large of his career in the Ivory Coast as the Director of the Central Office of Technical Studies from 1978 to 1980. He was the permanent secretary of building and technical policy of building management to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing between 1981 and 1986. A year after leaving this post, he briefly became the Technical Adviser to Pierre Méhaignerie's cabinet between 1987 and 1988) then minister of Equipment, Housing and Transport. He then became Director General of Public Planning in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 1988 to 1993. In 1998 he finally became Engineer General of Roads.

Senator and Mayor of Perpignan

Elected Adviser General of the Pyrénées-Orientales in 1992, he became Mayor of Perpignan without any competition in June 1993 after a partial election, succeeding his father who had occupied the post since 1959. Alduy was re-elected to the municipality in a four-way race in 1993 and subsequently a three-way race in 1995 and 2001.

After his failure in the legislative elections of 1993 and 1997, he was elected as senator of the Pyrénées-Orientales on the 23 September 2001. He then joined the UMP in 2002.

As the Vice President of the Radical Party of France, he gave his support to Nicolas Sarkozy who he welcomed to Perpignan for a meeting on the 23 February 2007 where he severely attacked the approach of François Bayrou.

Municipal elections of 2008

The 2008 election gave rise to heated debates, the opposition and several associations of Perpignan speaking out against the incumbent mayor's several projects, including construction of a theater by architect Jean Nouvel, and that of a new bridge over the Tet.

In the second round of voting, the list led by Alduy won with 45.5% of the vote, 574 votes ahead of the list of the Socialist Party, led by Jacqueline Amiel-Donat and a list of various left-leaning politicians and that of Jean Codognes Ripoull Clotilde, head of the Democratic Movement. During the counting of the second round, the president of the polling station No. 4 (out of 66) was caught in possession of ballot papers on behalf of John Paul Alduy hidden in his socks.

The exiting mayor was then re-elected by the new municipal council on 21 in a tense climate under the watchful eye of the national media.

The opposition challenged the legality of absentee and proxy votes, and formed a motion for annulment of the vote before the Administrative Court in Montpellier, to consider the procedure of the president of the polling station No. 4. For his part, Jean-Paul Alduy, convinced of the legality of the election, began a civil action.

In October 2008, based solely on incidents of Polling Station No. 4, the Administrative Court decided to invalidate the result. Jean-Paul Alduy appealed this decision to the Council of State. In a decision dated April 23, 2009, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected the appeal, confirming the decision of the lower court. The municipal election in Perpignan was officially cancelled and a new election was organized.

Municipal by-election of 2009 and re-election
On 21, the "Perpignan at Heart" list led by Alduy in the new municipal elections was first in the first round of voting with 40.35% of the vote, beating the "left list"'s 24.75% and the former deputy Jean Codognes.

One week later, with the turnout increased to 51.08%, the UMP List won with 53.34% of the votes in a three way race.  He was re-elected by the new municipal council  on 5 by 43 votes to 8, beating his Socialist opponent.

On this occasion, he announced that he would not be seeking a new mandate in the municipal elections of 2014. On the 17, Jean-Paul Alduy again became the president of the Urban Community of Mediterranean Perpignan with 87.5% of the vote

Resignation
On the 15, Jean-Paul Alduy announced his resignation from the office of mayor of Perpignan, in order to become first deputy. Wishing to invest more in the urban community and anticipating the reform of local government, he ceded his seat to his first deputy, Jean-Marc Pujol.

References

External links
Page on the Senate website

1942 births
Living people
Politicians from Lyon
Internationalist Communist Organisation politicians
Centre of Social Democrats politicians
Democratic Force (France) politicians
Union for French Democracy politicians
Radical Party (France) politicians
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
French senators of the Fifth Republic
Senators of Pyrénées-Orientales
Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region)
Corps des ponts
École Polytechnique alumni


The Communist Party of Poland (Mijal, sometimes called Marxist–Leninist) was an illegal anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party founded in 1965 in Albania by Kazimierz Mijal. It was opposed to the Polish United Workers' Party and specifically its leader Władysław Gomułka. It upheld Joseph Stalin against Nikita Khrushchev's criticisms at the 20th Party Congress, instead favoring Maoism and a more hardline stance against the  Catholic clergy, which was opposed by Gomułka. Mijal declared himself Secretary General of the "Temporary Central Committee of the Communist Party of Poland" and took control of Radio Tirana's Polish wing. Mijal's rhetoric proved unpopular to both Polish workers and the intelligentsia, and calls for workers to strike against the government failed to gain support. The Party was supported by China, which helped smuggle pamphlets in Poland, and also had support from the Belgian Maoist La voix du peuple (The Voice of the People), which helped in pamphleteering. Among other prominent members were other Polish communists removed by Gomułka from positions of power such as Hilary Chełchowski and Władysław Dworakowski.

With the Sino-Albanian Split in 1978, Mijal had a conflict with Enver Hoxha and moved to China in 1978.  In 1983 he returned illegally to Poland and started criticizing the Jaruzelski regime. Since its inception, the Polish government claimed the Polish Communist Party was a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party and had no support in Poland. The party for all practical purposes if not in intent ceased existence after his return.

References
Kazimierz Mijal -- Dogmatic Diehard or Political Adventurer?, Radio Free Europe Research, Poland, 26 June 1967.

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