The Waltham Symphony Orchestra (WSO) is an American Civic Symphony Orchestra based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Origin

It was created in December 2007 by a group of local individuals who wanted to see a professional-level symphony orchestra serving Waltham, a historical city of 60,000. Patrick Botti, who had been connected with the city of Waltham for many years, became the first Music Director of the Orchestra after a brief tenure as the conductor of the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra, a community orchestra  in the city.

On May 18, 2008, the  Boston Globe published a story titled "Classic choice", about the creation of the WSO and the sustenance of two symphony orchestras within the same city.

The orchestra had its inaugural concert on May 10, 2008, at the Kennedy Middle School Auditorium  in Waltham,  with a program featuring works by Mozart ("Così fan tutte Overture"), Daniel-Lesur ("Nocturne for Oboe and orchestra"), D'Indy ("Fantaisie on French popular Themes"), Ravel ("Mother Goose Suite") and Brahms ("Symphony No 3 in F Major, Op. 90"). The soloist  was the WSO principal oboist, Amy Dinsmore.

Composition

The orchestra is composed of professional, semi-professional, amateur and student musicians drawn from Waltham and surrounding communities. The WSO's main performing venue is the Kennedy Middle School Auditorium, a 500 seat facility.

Mission

As with other symphony orchestras in the United States, the WSO works closely with the local school system, universities and other local organizations to fulfill its mission. The WSO and Bentley University have been collaborating on projects where students help the orchestra develop strategies for marketing, audience development and Web 2.0 initiatives. The WSO has been developing a "music in the school" program, offering scholarships for Waltham students who cannot afford music lessons, and also creating outreach programs.

The WSO and the Waltham Schools are collaborating in bringing to the Waltham Elementary Schools a morning classical program created in 1989 by the  New Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestra, "Music in the Mornings", exposing elementary and middle school students to a daily dose of classical music.

References

 Waltham News Tribune from April 2008 on the creation of the WSO.
 Waltham News Tribune from October 2007 on Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra's new conductor.
 Biography Patrick Botti from World Concert Artists.

External links
 Waltham Symphony Orchestra Official web site.

Orchestras based in Massachusetts
Waltham, Massachusetts
Musical groups established in 2007


Tina Alexandria Charles (born December 5, 1988) is a former American professional basketball player of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Charles was drafted first overall in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun. In 2009 and 2010, she and teammate Maya Moore led the Connecticut Huskies to two undefeated national championships. She has won three Olympic gold medals with Team USA.

Charles is considered by many to be the best player in WNBA history not to have appeared in the Finals.

High school
Charles played basketball at Christ the King High School in Middle Village, New York. After averaging 26.5 points, 14.8 rebounds and 5.2 blocked shots per game her senior year, she was named WBCA National Player of the Year, "Miss Basketball" for New York state, and was selected as a McDonald's All-American and tabbed New York City Player of the Year by Newsday, the Daily News and the New York Post. Charles was the leading scorer on the Christ the King team that won 57 consecutive games, leading to a USA Today #1 ranking in the country after an undefeated season in 2006. Charles was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2006 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored fifteen points and had twelve rebounds.
Charles was named the MVP of the Red team. During high school, Charles also played on the AAU club basketball team the New York Gazelles.

College
In 2009, Charles led the UConn Huskies to a national title as a junior. She was named Final Four MOP and one of the 10 players on the State Farm All-America team during Final Four weekend.
Charles made a comment to ESPN during a post-championship interview, in regards to the tradition of sports champions who visit the White House after their title game victories. She said, "Barack Obama, we will be here soon!" and after the 2010 championship she made a comment, "President Barack Obama, we're back!"

On February 13, 2010, before the game vs. St. John's, Charles became the 12th UConn Women's basketball player to be recognized in the Huskies of Honor and was the 2nd player to be honored while still a player.  The first was Renee Montgomery the year before.

On March 1, 2010, during a game against Notre Dame, Charles broke two UConn records on the same night. Her fifth rebound made her the all-time leading rebounder at UConn, surpassing Rebecca Lobo's fifteen-year-old record of 1268. Lobo was present working as a commentator for ESPN, and interviewed Charles after the game.  Additionally, Charles started the night in third place in career scoring, behind Kerry Bascom and Nykesha Sales. Sales had scored 2,178 points and Bascom 2,177 in their careers. During the game, Charles surpassed both to become the leading scorer in UConn history.

Charles was named the Big East Conference Player of the Year for 2010.

Charles majored in psychology with a minor in criminal justice. She anticipates working in corrections at the close of her basketball career. In 2010, she spent six hours a week as an intern at Bergin Correctional Institution, helping prisoners adjust back to life in society.

WNBA

Connecticut Sun
Charles was the overall #1 pick in the 2010 WNBA draft, selected by the Connecticut Sun.

Charles was named the 2010 WNBA Rookie of the Year. In her first season, she set all-time league records for rebounds, with 398 (a record that has since been broken by Jonquel Jones in 2017), and double-doubles with 22. (both scoring and rebounds in double digits).

On September 2, 2011, Tina Charles had 10 points, 10 assists and 16 rebounds for the first triple-double in Connecticut Sun history, and only the fifth such accomplishment in WNBA history. Charles had eight assists at halftime, and was taken out of the game with nine, because the lead over the opponent was so large. The coach did put her back in the game in the fourth quarter, and she earned an assist on a pass to Jessica Moore, leading to the triple double. However, subsequent review by the league resulted in a change, as three of the assists should not have been credited to Charles, so she ended the game with seven assists, not ten.

On August 18, 2012, Charles recorded nine rebounds in an 85–74 win over the Liberty. One of the rebounds in the second quarter pushed her career total to 1,000. She accomplished this milestone faster than any other WNBA player in history. She reached 1,000 rebounds in her 89th game, surpassing the record formerly held by Yolanda Griffith, who reached 1,000 rebounds in her 92nd game.

Charles was named the 2012 MVP of the WNBA, winning 25 of 41 first place votes. She led the league in the number of double-doubles recorded, and set the mark for the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 900, 1,000 and 1,100 rebounds.

New York Liberty
In the weeks leading up to the 2014 WNBA draft, rumors had circulated that Charles could be traded before the draft, so the Sun could obtain more draft picks. Just before the Draft, Charles was traded to her native team the New York Liberty in exchange for Kelsey Bone, the fourth overall pick in the 2014 WNBA draft (Alyssa Thomas) and the fourth overall pick in the 2015 WNBA draft (Elizabeth Williams).

In 2016, Charles had the best season of her career, averaging a career-high 21.5 points per game while shooting 43.9% from the field and 81.2% from the free-throw line. Charles had also led the league in rebounds with 9.9 rebounds per game, winning her fourth rebounding title. Her scoring average was tied with Elena Delle Donne but led the league in total points scored which allowed her to claim the scoring title. The Liberty finished with a 21–13 record. With the WNBA's new playoff format in effect, the Liberty were the number 3 seed in the league with a bye to the second round with one elimination game to play where they were defeated by the Phoenix Mercury.

In 2017, Charles would be voted into the 2017 WNBA All-Star Game making it her fifth career all-star game appearance. On June 2, 2017, Charles scored a career-high 36 points in a 93–89 win over the Dallas Wings. The Liberty would once again finish with number 3 seed in the league, receiving a bye to the second round elimination game. The Liberty would lose yet again in the second round by a final score of 82–69 to the Washington Mystics.

In 2018, Charles re-signed with the Liberty. In 2018, Charles would be voted into the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game for her sixth all-star game appearance. The Liberty would miss out on the playoffs for the first time in 4 years as they finished 7–27.

On June 4, 2019, Charles became the Liberty's all-time scoring leader after a late-fourth quarter layup in a 78–73 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks. She finished the game with 21 points and 14 rebounds.

Washington Mystics
On April 15, 2020, Charles was traded to the Washington Mystics. Charles was medically excused for the shortened 2020 season on July 17, 2020, due to her condition with extrinsic asthma, which impacts her immune system and put her at risk in the coronavirus pandemic.

Since 2013, Charles has donated her full WNBA salary to the charity she started, Hopey's Heart Foundation. In 2020, Charles announced she would direct that year's salary to support the Black Lives Matter movement. After two seasons with the Mystics - one sitting out in 2020 - Charles and the Mystics did not re-sign with each other during the 2022 offseason.

Phoenix Mercury
On February 4, 2022, Charles signed with the Phoenix Mercury. Charles joined the Mercury in hopes of winning a title, but the team struggled and wasn't in title contention through the first 18 games of the 2022 season. On June 25, 2022, Charles and the Mercury agreed to a buyout from her contract - officially ending her time in Phoenix. Charles appeared in 16 games for the Mercury and averaged 17.3 points.

Seattle Storm
Charles signed with the Seattle Storm on June 28, 2022.

Overseas
In the 2011–12 off-season, Charles played in Turkey for Galatasaray. From 2012 to 2014, Charles played two off-seasons in Poland for Wisła Can-Pack Kraków. In the 2014–15 off-season, Charles played in Turkey once again for Fenerbahçe. In the 2015–16 off-season, Charles played in China for the Xinjiang Tianshan Deers. As of November 2016, Charles had signed with the Sichuan Whales for the 2016–17 off-season. In 2017, Charles had re-signed with the Sichuan Whales for the 2017–18 off-season.

USA Basketball
Charles was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The event was held in July 2006, when the USA team defeated Canada to win the championship. Charles helped set the tone in the opening game against Paraguay, recording a double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds. In the gold medal game, she had her second double-double of the tournament with 13 points and 13 rebounds. She was the leading scorer on her team with 12 points per games, as well as the leading rebounder, with 9.5 per game.

Charles was invited to the USA Basketball Women's National Team training camp in the fall of 2009, one of only three college players invited to the training camp. The team selected to play for the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Olympics is usually chosen from these participants.

Charles was named a member of the team representing the US at the 2009 World University Games held in Belgrade, Serbia. The team won all seven games to earn the gold medal. Charles was the team's leading scorer and rebounder, with 16.1 points per game and 8.1 rebounds per game. In the gold medal game against previously undefeated Russia, she had 28 points and 18 rebounds.

On October 5, 2009, Charles was selected to be one of the USA National Team members to travel to the 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational. She was the only college player on the team.  Charles contributed to the USA Basketball win at the Ekaterinburg Tournament. She had double-digit scoring in all three games, with the second game, against  Euroleasing Sopron, her best result, scoring 15 points in only 13 minutes of play.

Charles was named the USA Basketball 2009 Female Athlete Of The Year, for her contributions to the Gold Medal earned at the 2009 USA Women's World University Games, the Gold Medal earned at the 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational, and the undefeated collegiate season leading to a National Championship.

Charles was named as one of the  National team members to represent the USA Basketball team in the WNBA versus USA Basketball. This game replaces the normal WNBA All-Star game with WNBA All-Stars versus USA Basketball, as part of the preparation for the FIBA World Championship for Women to be held in the Czech Republic during September and October 2010.

Charles was selected to be a member of the National team representing the US at the World Championships held in September and October 2010. The team was coached by Geno Auriemma. Because many team members were still playing in the WNBA until just prior to the event, the team had only one day of practice with the entire team before leaving for Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Even with limited practice, the team managed to win its first games against Greece by 26 points. The team continued to dominate with victory margins exceeding 20 points in the first five games. Several players shared scoring  honors, with Swin Cash, Angel McCoughtry, Maya Moore, Diana Taurasi, Lindsay Whalen, and Sylvia Fowles all ending as high scorer in the first few games. The sixth game was against undefeated Australia — the USA jumped out to a 24-point lead and the USA prevailed 83–75. The USA won its next two games by over 30 points, then faced the host team, the Czech Republic, in the championship game. The USA team had only a five-point lead at halftime, which was cut to three points, but the Czechs never got closer. Team USA went on to win the championship and gold medal. Charles averaged 10.7 points per game, third best on the team and was the second leading rebounder with 4.8 per game.

Charles played for Team USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Charles would earn her first olympic gold medal as they beat France 86–50 for the gold medal.

Charles played for Team USA during the 2016 Summer Olympics, helping them win their sixth gold medal as they defeated Spain 101–72. Charles would earn her second olympic gold medal.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

|-
| align="left" | 2010
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 34 || 34 || 31.0 || .487 || .000 || .763 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|11.7° || 1.5 || 0.7 || 1.7 || 2.1 || 15.5
|-
| align="left" | 2011
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 34 || 34 || 33.4 || .468 || .000 || .687 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|11.0° || 1.9 || 0.8 || 1.8 || 2.2 || 17.6
|-
| align="left" | 2012
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 33 || 33 || 33.2 || .499 || .200 || .802 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|10.5° || 1.7 || 0.5 || 1.4 || 2.2 || 18.0
|-
| align="left" | 2013
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 29 || 29 || 32.8 || .400 || .000 || .752 || 10.1 || 1.4 || 0.9 || 0.9 || 2.2 || 18.0
|-
| align="left" | 2014
| align="left" | New York
| 34 || 34 || 32.9 || .462 || .000 || .752 || 9.4 || 2.2 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 2.3 || 17.4
|-
| align="left" | 2015
| align="left" | New York
| 34 || 34 || 31.0 || .458 || .200 || .715 || 8.5 ||2.4 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 2.4 || 17.4
|-
| align="left" | 2016
| align="left" | New York
| 32 || 32 || 33.7 || .439 || .347  || .812  || style="background:#D3D3D3"|9.9° || 3.8 || 0.8 || 0.7 || 2.0 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|21.5°
|-
| align="left" | 2017
| align="left" | New York
| 34 || 34 || 32.2 || .442 || .348  || .804  || 9.4 || 2.6 || 0.8 || 0.7 || 2.4 || 19.7
|-
| align="left" | 2018
| align="left" | New York
| 33 || 33 || 33.0 || .473 || .326  || .770  || 7.0 || 2.7 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 2.8 || 19.7
|-
| align="left" | 2019
| align="left" | New York
| 33 || 33 || 31.2 || .389 || .186  || .812  || 7.5 || 2.4 || 0.7 || 0.9 || 2.6 || 16.9
|-
| align="left" | 2021
| align="left" | Washington
| 27 || 27 || 33.3 || .449 || .365  || .820 || 9.6 || 2.1 || 0.9 || 0.9 || 2.2 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|23.4°
|-
| align="left" | 2022
| align="left" | Phoenix
| 16 || 16 || 33.1 || .441 || .364 || .800 || 7.3 || 2.1 || 0.8 || 0.8 || 2.4 || 17.3
|-
| align="left" | 2022
| align="left" | Seattle
| 18 || 10 || 25.2 || .477 || .341 || .885 || 7.4 || 1.8 || 0.6 || 0.6 || 1.9 || 12.6
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 12 years, 5 teams
| 391 || 383 || 32.3 || .450 || .325 || .775 || 9.3 || 2.2 || 0.8 || 1.0 || 2.3 || 18.2

Playoffs

|-
| align="left" | 2011
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 2 || 2 || 36.0 || .313 || .000 || .625 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|12.0° || 2.0 || 1.0 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|2.5° || 2.0 || 12.5
|-
| align="left" | 2012
| align="left" | Connecticut
| 5 || 5 || 36.0 || .469 || .500 || 696 || 10.0 || 1.0 || 0.8 || style="background:#D3D3D3"|2.6° || 1.8 || 18.6
|-
| align="left" | 2015
| align="left" | New York
| 6 || 6 || 38.3 || .434 || .500 || .789 || 8.7 || 4.0 || 0.1 || 0.6 || 2.0 || 20.3
|-
| align="left" | 2016
| align="left" | New York
| 1 || 1 || 36.4 || .417 || .333 || 1.000 || 9.0 || 5.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 19.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| New York
| 1 || 1 || 36.2 || .471|| .500 || .500 || 6.0 || 1.0 || 0.0|| 0.0 || 2.0 || 18.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2022
| style="text-align:left;"| Seattle
| 6 || 6 || 26.2 || .431 || .231 || .286 || 8.8 || 1.8 || 0.5 || 0.5 || 1.3 || 11.5
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 6 years, 3 teams
| 21 || 21 || 33.9 || .432 || .318 || .662 || 9.2 || 2.4 || 0.5 || 1.2 || 1.7 || 16.5

College

Awards and honors
 2006 USA Today National Player of the Year
 2006 McDonald's National Player of the Year
 2006 Parade Magazine National Player of the Year
 2006 Gatorade National Player of the Year
 2006 WBCA National Player of the Year
 2006 EA Sports National Player of the Year
 2006 Miss New York Basketball
 2007 Big East Freshman of the Year
 2009 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year
 2010 All-BIG EAST First Team (unanimous)
 2010 Big East Player of the Year
 2010 AP All-America First Team
 2010 U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Player of the Year.
 2010 State Farm Coaches' All-America Team
 2010 #1 selection in 2010 WNBA draft
 2010 John R. Wooden Award winner
 2010 WNBA Rookie of the Year
 2010 All-WNBA Second Team
 2012 WNBA MVP

Personal life
Charles has established a foundation, named Hopey's Heart Foundation, to distribute  Automated External Defibrillators (AED) to schools. Charles has also funded a school in Mali.  In 2018, Charles was awarded the Mannie Jackson Basketball's Human Spirit Award for her work on education and heart health.

See also
 List of WNBA career rebounding leaders
 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball
 List of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players with 1000 points
 List of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players with 1000 rebounds
 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team
 2009–10 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team

References

External links

Heart of Hope Foundation

1988 births
Living people
All-American college women's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in China
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American women's basketball players
Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Beijing Great Wall players
Centers (basketball)
Connecticut Sun draft picks
Connecticut Sun players
Fenerbahçe women's basketball players
Galatasaray S.K. (women's basketball) players
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
New York Liberty players
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in basketball
Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
People from Jamaica, Queens
Phoenix Mercury players
Basketball players from Queens, New York
UConn Huskies women's basketball players
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
Universiade medalists in basketball
Washington Mystics players
Women's National Basketball Association All-Stars
Women's National Basketball Association first-overall draft picks
Xinjiang Magic Deer players
United States women's national basketball team players


The Za'ab () (singular Za'abi ) is an Arab tribe of the Arabian Peninsula, principally in the United Arab Emirates.

The Zaab originally settled the coastal village of Jazirat Al Hamra, where at the turn of the 20th century they had established some 500 houses. They also settled in Kalba, where some 150 families resided, and maintained date palms in the inland village of Khatt on the Jiri plain, where they would decamp to avoid the humidity and heat of the coast during the summer date harvest. At the time, the tribe was some 3,300 strong.

The Sheikh of Jazirat Al Hamra in 1820, Rajib bin Ahmed Al Zaabi, was one of four independent signatories to the original 1820 treaty between the Trucial States and the British, following the 1819 punitive expedition mounted against Ras Al Khaimah by the British. In the treaty, the sheikhdom was named as 'Jourat Al Kamra'. By the time of the Perpetual Maritime Truce of 4 May 1853, Jazirat Al Hamra had become part of Ras Al Khaimah and the treaty was signed by Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi as 'Chief of the Joasmees', to whom the Zaab had become dependents.

Jazirat Al Hamra has also been called Jazirah Al Zaab, after the tribe. A tidal island, it was split into two sections, the small northern quarter of Umm Awaimir and the southern Manakh. Although the Zaab had some 500 sheep and 150 cattle at the time, there were no palm groves, although the tribe tended a number of groves at Khatt (J. G. Lorimer notes there were some 20,000 trees around the village). The Zaab maintained a fleet of some 25 pearling boats at Jazirat Al Hamrah, the principal source of income for the tribe until the crash of the pearl market in the late 1920s.

Following an agreement between Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasimi of Sharjah and Sheikh Sultan bin Salim Al Qasimi of Ras Al Khaimah in 1914, the town became part of Ras Al Khaimah, but was often in dispute with the Ruler. This led, in 1968, to a dispute with Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi of Ras Al Khaimah, which resulted in the majority of the tribe accepting an offer from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to move to Abu Dhabi. This movement left behind an almost completely abandoned village which had housed some 2,500 people.

As a result of this movement, the tribe gives its name to an area in Abu Dhabi, Al Zaab.

References

Arabic-language surnames
Tribes of Arabia
Tribes of the United Arab Emirates


Waldemar Merk (born June 13, 1959) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. He won two medals at the 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Nottingham with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events.

Merk also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, finishing seventh in the K-2 500 m and being eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m events.

References

Sports-reference.com profile

1959 births
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Poland
Polish male canoeists
Sportspeople from Warsaw
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Avair was an independent Irish airline that operated chartered business flights. It also operated a number of scheduled flights within Ireland, on routes such as Cork-Derry, Dublin-Sligo, Dublin-Waterford, Dublin-Cork and Dublin-Derry, availing of some government subsidies.

History
Gerry Connolly was the founder and managing director of Avair Ltd. He set up the company in 1978 with investment from Crest Holdings, and operated a twice-weekly service between Cork and Derry.

On 13 January 1982, Avair commenced a domestic commuter service between Cork Airport and Dublin. It also flew to Dublin twice-weekly from Waterford Airport.

The airline was granted a number of international routes between Dublin and Blackpool, Nottingham, East Midlands and Leeds Bradford in the UK.

The airline closed in February 1984 after failing to get further government subsidies. Iona National Airways took over some of the routes such as Dublin-Sligo, and many of the internal Irish routes are now operated by Aer Lingus Regional.

Fleet
1 x Beech King Air
1 x Beech King Air C90
2 x Short 330

References

Defunct airlines of the Republic of Ireland
Airlines established in 1978
Airlines disestablished in 1984
1978 establishments in Ireland
1984 disestablishments in Ireland


Subhash Sharma is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, India, who specializes in humanistic and documentary photography. His photographs are regularly published in photographic journals, illustrative books  and magazines like TIME magazine USA, Nikkei Japan, Venerdi Italy, The Globe and Mail Canada, Quebec Science, IEEE Spectrum USA, Courrier International Paris, The National Newspaper Abu Dhabi, Hindustan Times, Marwar magazine, G2 magazine, ROUGH Travel Guide to India. His work has been exhibited at LSE.

He qualified as a mechanical engineer then  while studying for an M.B.A. he left to pursue a career as a photographer. His first book was “Digital Glimpses Of India” and his second book “The Land Of  The Holymen“ explores the lifestyle of the Naga Sadhus (Naked saints) Of India. Sharma is inspired by the works of photographers and painters, poets, ancient Indian art and philosophy, and filmmakers.

Awards
2010: CHINA International Press Photo Award.
2008 :  1st prize INDIAN PRESS PHOTO AWARD, sports feature story category.
2006 :  1st prize HUMANITY PHOTO AWARD, CHINA, traditional sports Category sponsored by UNESCO.
2005 :  Merit award, Epson color imaging contest, Japan.
2005 :  2nd place in the United Nations, Switzerland WHO ICF International Photo Contest themed

References

External links
Subhash Sharma's website
Profile at Lightstalkers
videos on YouTube
featured on Travel photographer

Living people
Indian photojournalists
Year of birth missing (living people)


Bristo Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a public space on the estate of the University of Edinburgh. It lies in the south of the city, between George IV Bridge and George Square.

The most prominent landmark on the square is the category A listed McEwan Hall, in which the university holds its graduation ceremonies. Other notable buildings on the square include the Dugald Stewart Building, the Informatics Forum, Potterrow Student Centre, Reid Concert Hall, and Teviot Row House.

History
The square officially opened in 1983 to mark the university's quartercentenary. The square was designed by the architectural practice headed by Professor Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915–1993) who held the chair of urban design and regional planning at the university. It was originally designed as part of the 1962 plan to create a civic space to replace Bristo Street, realigning Potterrow and Lothian Street in the process. The consulting engineers were Jamieson, MacKay & Partners.

There is a plaque to the local educational campaigner Mary Crudelius in Bristo Square.

Redevelopment
In 2013 the University of Edinburgh announced plans to invest £35m on improvements to the McEwan Hall and the Bristo Square area. Designed by LDN and Buro Happold this scheme is designed to restore the A listed Robert Rowan Anderson building to its former glory whilst enhancing accessibility and increasing capacity by adding in basement seminar rooms. The redevelopment of this square started in April 2015 and was completed in time for the July 2017 graduations.

As part of the redevelopment, a new artwork 'The Next Big Thing...is a Series of Little Things', by Susan Collis has been installed by Powderhall Bronze Foundry. The artwork takes the form of a series of bronze circular shapes which runs as a series of drips from McEwan Hall entrance across the square.

Recreational and Edinburgh Festival Fringe use
The square is frequently used by traceurs, skateboarders, rollerbladers and bmxers for recreational purposes. It has been said to be a “breeding ground for skaters”, however with the redevelopment work this ceased at the end of March 2015 until the square reopened in summer 2017.

It had become customary over the summer months for University of Edinburgh to rent the square to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for shows and stages. The square was home to the udderBELLY for the several years until 2014. The Udderbelly purple cow tent has since moved to the university's George Square gardens.

References

Streets in Edinburgh
Squares in Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
20th-century establishments in Scotland


The Wiese Valley Railway () is a 27.2 km long, electrified main line in German Baden-Württemberg in the tri-national area of Germany, Switzerland and France near the Swiss city of Basel. It is part of the Basel trinational S-Bahn and referenced as . It runs alongside the river Wiese from Basel Badischer Bahnhof in Basel (on Swiss territory) to Zell (Wiesental). It is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)

History
The line was built as the first private railway in the Grand Duchy of Baden by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft) and opened on 7 June 1862 to Schopfheim with a length of 20 km. It was continued up the valley as the Hintere Wiesenthalbahn (“rear” Wiese Valley Railway) on 5 February 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft).

This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a narrow-gauge railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Herrmann Bachstein, later called the South German Railway Company (Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG), the Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway, known as the Upper Wiese Valley Railway (Obere Wiesentalbahn) and also as the Todtnauerli.

Because the German Empire demanded that the Grand Duchy of Baden construct an efficient railway from Weil am Rhein to Säckingen for military reasons (in order to avoid crossing Switzerland), including the existing Lörrach–Schopfheim section, all of the line from Basel to Zell was taken over by the Baden government and incorporated it into the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway. The transfer of ownership took place to Schopfheim on 1 January 1889 and a year later to Zell. It was one of the first lines in Germany to be electrified in 1913, together with the Wehra Valley Railway (Wehratalbahn), as a result of its strategic importance and the abundant hydroelectricity available nearby.

The railway came to be heavily used by commuting workers, active in the factories of the Wiese Valley. Particularly high ticket sales were made at the stations of Lörrach, Stetten, Steinen and Brombach. At the latter alone 136,036 tickets were sold in 1924.

Current operations

Today, the Wiese Valley Railway is part of the network of Deutsche Bahn, but passenger services have been operated since 15 June 2003 by SBB GmbH, the German passenger transport subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Between 2003 and 2005 massive modernisation of the line was carried out. With the exception of some residual freight transport and the carriage of cars to Lörrach, the line has changed to an almost pure S-Bahn line without freight. Passenger services on the line are now operated as line S 6 of the Basel trinational S-Bahn.

In the summer of 2004, the section from Lörrach-Stetten to Haagen was duplicated so that line S 5 services on the Weil am Rhein–Lörrach railway (known as the Garden Railway, Gartenbahn) could be extended to Steinen. The modernisation of the stations included the building of 55 cm high platforms (for low floor rolling stock) with a minimum length of 150 metres for coupled Stadler FLIRT electric multiple units. With the loss of freight traffic, track work was rationalised, particularly at Schopfheim, Lörrach and Maulburg. A new electronic interlocking (ESTW) now controls the entire route of the Wiese Valley Railway from Lörrach to the Swiss border and the Garden Railway from Lörrach-Stetten to the middle of Tüllinger tunnel. Most of the changes were completed and handed over for operations by the end of 2004.

With the timetable change on 12 December 2004, line S5 was extended from Lörrach to Steinen and services on the Lörrach-Stetten-Steinen section, including S6 services, now operate at quarter-hour intervals during the day. In addition, the new halt of Lörrach-Schillerstraße was opened.

Since the autumn of 2005, services on the line have been operated by trains by Stadler FLIRT electric multiple units (SBB class RABe 521), which in March 2006 replaced the last of the Neuer Pendelzug ("New Commuter Train", NPZ) train sets, which included RBDe 561 carriages, and were modified for use in Germany as an interim solution.

On 9 December 2007, the halts of Schopfheim West and Lörrach-Schwarzwaldstraße were opened and Riehen-Niederholz halt followed on 14 December 2008.

At the timetable change of 13 December 2009, the names of the following stations were changed: Schillerstraße to Lörrach Museum/Burghof, Lörrach to Lörrach Hauptbahnhof, Haagen (Baden) to Lörrach-Haagen/Messe and Brombach (b Lörrach) to Lörrach-Brombach/Hauingen.

Lörrach Hauptbahnhof was used by around 3,500 passengers daily in 2009, making it the busiest in the Wiese valley. In 2010, it received a system for displaying dynamic passenger information. All other stations on the Wiese Valley Railway are programmed to have platforms electronic destination indicators installed.

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Defunct railway companies of Germany
Railway lines in Baden-Württemberg
Cross-border railway lines in Germany
Cross-border railway lines in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Lörrach (district)


Jacob Henry Studer (26 February 1840 Columbus, Ohio - 2 August 1904 New York City) was a printer, lithographer, painter, and popular ornithologist active in Columbus, Ohio from the 1860s to the 1880s. He was also the author of a work entitled Columbus, Ohio; its History, Resources, and Progress (1873). He founded the Board of Trade of Columbus in 1872 (New York Times, 1904).

Studer was active in the American Ornithologists' Union and the Ohio Society of New York. Later in his life, Studer resided in New York City (Haverstock, 2000; New York Times, 1904), apparently as early as 1887 (New York Times, 1887). He is best known as the author of Studer's Popular Ornithology. This work had several editions, published over the period 1874 to 1903 (Cornell University). It was illustrated with chromolithographs after paintings by Theodore Jasper.

Studer died in his office (Manhattan Building, 96th 5th Avenue), where he also lived at the time. A son, James Studer, survived him (New York Times, 1904). Other members of his family predeceased him: Caroline Buss Studer (died 2 September 1871, age 30), daughters Mary Francisca and Anna Regina (both died April, 1876, ages 11 and 13), and another son John Bernard Studer (died 11 May 1901, age 32), according to the dedication page of the 1903 edition of Studer's Popular Ornithology.

References and external links
 Theodore Jasper--Cornell University
 Birds of North America (1903 edition of Studer's Popular Ornithology) from University of Wisconsin, Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
 Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Jeffrey Weidman (2000). Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: a biographical dictionary. Kent State University Press. ,  (via Google Books)
 MR. STUDER'S PICTURE. New York Times, May 24, 1887, p. 8 Article link—court case over damage to a painting owned by Studer, said to be work of Salvator Rosa
 ART CRITICS DO NOT AGREE. New York Times, May 25, 1887, p. 8 Article link—further account of trial
 AGED ORNITHOLOGIST FOUND DEAD IN OFFICE. New York Times, August 3, 1904, p. 7 Article link
 Studer, 1873. Columbus, Ohio; its History, Resources, and Progress. Columbus, Ohio, 584 pp. Google Books

External links

American ornithologists
1840 births
1904 deaths


Lekno may refer to the following places in Poland:
Łękno, a district of the city of Szczecin, north-west Poland.
Łekno, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Łekno, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Łękno, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Łękno, Koszalin County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship

See also


Vladimir Vadimovich Komarov (; born 2 August 1980) is a former Russian professional footballer.

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1999 for FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don, and played three games for them in the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

References

1980 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
FC Rostov players
Russian Premier League players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
Men's association football defenders
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
FC Akademiya Tolyatti players