Haridas Bhattacharyya (1891–1956) was a Bengali Indian philosopher, author and educationist, known for his works on comparative religion.

Early life
He was born in an orthodox Brahmin family on 7 November 1891, at Bhatpara, West Bengal to Pandit Ramprasanna Bhattacharyya, a scholar at the princely court of Krishnanagar and a Sanskrit scholar.

Education
After school, Bhattacharyya joined Calcutta's Scottish Church College from where he graduated in 1912. He obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Calcutta in 1914, and a law degree in 1917. During this time, he passed the poetry examination of the Board of Sanskrit Studies. He also won the Roychand-Premchand scholarship and the Mowat gold medal at the Scottish Church College for his thesis on the Evolution of the Soul.

Career
Bhattacharyya joined the Scottish Church College in 1915, as a lecturer of philosophy and logic. Later in 1917, he began teaching philosophy and experimental psychology at the University of Calcutta. After the University of Dhaka was established in 1921, he joined the department of philosophy as a Reader. He served as editor of the journal Dhaka University Studies and as a member of the editorial board of Philosophical Quarterly Journal.

Bhattacharyya delivered many prestigious lectures such as the Stephanos - Nirmalendu Ghosh lectures on Foundations of Living Faiths at the University of Calcutta (1933–34)  and the Madanmohan Malavya Commemoration lecture at the Banaras Hindu University. After the partition of 1947, he relocated to the department of Indology at the Banaras Hindu University. He died in Calcutta on 20 January 1956.

Works

Books
 The Foundations of Living Faiths - An Introduction to Comparative Religion, Calcutta, Motilal Banarsidass, 1938 - Cambridge University Press review, Full text in the Internet Archive
 Editor of the six volume series The Cultural Heritage of India published by The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, 1936-1940; 2nd enlarged and revised ed. 1958-1962 Full text in the Internet Archive

Journals in which he published
The Philosophical Quarterly
Review of Philosophy and Religion
Religions of the World
Dacca University Journal
Dacca University Studies
Calcutta Review
Visva-Bharati Quarterly
Indian Journal of Psychology
Journal of the Madras University

References

1891 births
1956 deaths
Bengali writers
Bengali-language writers
Bengali philosophers
20th-century Indian philosophers
20th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians
Scottish Church College alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Academic staff of Scottish Church College
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Academic staff of the University of Dhaka
Academic staff of Banaras Hindu University
20th-century Bangladeshi philosophers
Scholars from Kolkata


The 1969  Houston Oilers season was the tenth and final season for the Houston Oilers as a professional AFL franchise before moving to the National Football League when the two merged. The team equaled their 1968 record of 7–7 (.500), finishing 6–6–2. They qualified for the playoffs but lost in the divisional round to the Oakland Raiders.

Roster

Season schedule

Game summaries

Week 1
The Oilers opened the season at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum and fell behind the Raiders 14–0 in the first quarter.  They scored 17 points the next three quarters, but Daryle Lamonica unloaded a 64-yard touchdown to Warren Wells for the 21–17 Raiders win.  Pete Beathard had one touchdown but also two interceptions

Week 2

The Oilers intercepted Jack Kemp three times and limited him to 99 passing yards as they scored on Alvin Reed's 12-yard touchdown catch, a Roy Gerela field goal, and Hoyle Granger score.

Week 3
Roy Gerela booted five field goals as the Oilers' home opener at the Astrodome was a 22–10 win over the Dolphins.  Bob Griese had one touchdown, one interception, and was sacked five times.

Week 4
The Oilers faced Buffalo for the second time in three weeks and scored a touchdown in each quarter, winning 28–14.  Jack Kemp threw for 223 yards, nearly reaching Houston's total offensive output of 252 yards.

Week 5
The Oilers traveled to Kansas City but came out with a shutout loss.   The game saw a combined seventeen turnovers and just 345 combined yards of offense as the Chiefs put up 24 points for the 24–0 win.

Week 6
A full year before the debut of Monday Night Football the defending champion Jets hosted the Oilers on Monday Night and ground out a 23–17 win.  Both teams combined for six turnovers (Zeke Moore put up Houston's first touchdown returning a Joe Namath pick in the second quarter) as Namath (306 passing yards) came out on top of Pete Beathard's 314 yards.

Week 7
With both teams at 3–3 the Oilers returned to the Astrodome to face Lou Saban and the Broncos.  The game lead tied or changed on every score; the Oilers took a 14–7 lead in the second before Denver tied it at halftime; the Broncos then scored in the third on Floyd Little's three-yard run; in the fourth Roy Hopkins of the Oilers broke through for a 43-yard touchdown, then the Oilers won on Roy Gerela's 22-yard field goal and the 24–21 final.

Playoffs

Standings

References

Houston Oilers seasons
Houston Oilers
Houston


Lake Desire, also called Echo Lake, is an unimproved watershed  southeast of Renton, Washington in the United States.  It is a small part of the Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Washington area, 45 minutes east of downtown Seattle.  According to King County, it has productive water quality, a maximum depth of  and a surface area of approximately 80 acres. A public boat launch and fishing dock is located to the north of the lake but does require a vehicle use permit from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. On the southeast border of the lake, a  forested park and wetland area has been allocated by the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program (WWRP).

Recreation
 Fishing is managed as a  mixed species fishery. Active species include pumpkinseed, largemouth bass, yellow perch, black channel catfish and rainbow trout.
 Mountain biking is allowed around the lake and in the  park.
 Hiking is popular in the  park that connects Lake Desire and Spring Lake. The park includes part of Cedar Mountain with an  elevation according to the Washington Trails Association.

References

Desire
Desire
Parks in King County, Washington


Mean reversion may refer to:
 Regression toward the mean
 Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process
 Mean reversion (finance)


is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor.

Biography
Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa (石桁眞禮生), Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata (浦田健次郎) graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition. He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women's Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.

He has received several awards and distinctions including 1st prize in the 1985 Sasagawa Award Music Composition Competition for Festal March (1984), and 1st prize in the 1993 Asahi Composition Award for  (Sketch of Sound) (1990). Shitanda is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers and Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan (Academic Society of Japan for Winds Percussion and Band).

Selected works
  (1995)
  (1998)
  (2000)
  (2000)
  (2002)
  (2003)
  (2004)
  (2005)

Orchestra
 Symphony No.1 (1994)
  (2003)

Concert band
 Festal March (フェスタル・マーチ) (1984)
 March in Blue (マーチ・イン・ブルー) (1988)
 , Fantasia for Concert Band (1989)
  (1990)

Concertante
 Concerto for viola and orchestra (1998)
 Karavinka (カラヴィンカ), Concerto for (25-string or 20-string) koto with string orchestra, percussion and harp (2008)

Chamber music
 Pastoral for flute and piano (1992)
 Fantasy for clarinet solo (1995)
  for viola and piano (1997)
  for marimba (2005)

Works for traditional Japanese instruments
  for koto and marimba (1999)
  for koto ensemble (1986)
  for 2 kotos (2004)
 Two Movements (独奏十七絃のための二章) for solo jūshichi-gen (1983)
 , Monodrama for male voice and jūshichi-gen (2000); after the short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Choral
 , Composition for female chorus and chamber orchestra (1981)

References

External links
 Motoyuki Shitanda – Akita University profile page

1952 births
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Japanese male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century Japanese male musicians
Academic staff of Akita University
Japanese classical composers
Japanese contemporary classical composers
Japanese male classical composers
Living people
Tokyo University of the Arts alumni


Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England, Northern Ireland, and Japan.

Life and career
Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at the age of two. He grew up in Burnham-on-Sea. He went to Christ's Hospital and for one year studied chemistry at the University of York before leaving for a stay in Canada. Returning to Britain, he joined the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he served as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he started to work as a freelance photographer, specializing in the theatre, while he also lectured in psychology.

By 1971, Steele-Perkins had moved to London and become a full-time photographer, with particular interest in urban issues, including poverty. He went to Bangladesh in 1973 to take photographs for relief organizations; some of this work was exhibited in 1974 at the Camerawork Gallery (London). In 1973–74, he taught photography at the Stanhope Institute and the North East London Polytechnic.

In 1975, Steele-Perkins joined the Exit Photography Group with the photographers Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor, and there continued his examination of urban problems: Exit's earlier booklet Down Wapping had led to a commission by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to increase the scale of their work, and in six years they produced 30,000 photographs as well as many hours of taped interviews. This led to the 1982 book, Survival Programmes. Steele-Perkins' work included depiction from 1975 to 1977 of street festivals, and prints from London Street Festivals were bought by the British Council and exhibited with Homer Sykes' Once a Year and Patrick Ward's Wish You Were Here; Steele-Perkins' depiction of Notting Hill has been described as being in the vein of Tony Ray-Jones.

Steele-Perkins became an associate of the French agency Viva in 1976, and three years after this, he published his first book, The Teds, an examination of teddy boys that is now considered a classic of documentary and even fashion photography. He curated photographs for the Arts Council collection, and co-edited a collection of these, About 70 Photographs.

In 1977, he made a brief detour into "conceptual" photography, working with the photographer Mark Edwards to collect images from the ends of rolls of 35mm film taken by themselves and others. (These were exposures taken immediately after loading a fresh film and without focusing or aiming, in order to wind along the fogged film leader and ensure that the film in position for the first wanted exposure was unfogged.) Forty were exhibited in "Film Ends".

Work documenting poverty in Britain took Steele-Perkins to Belfast, which he found to be poorer than Glasgow, London, Middlesbrough, or Newcastle, as well as experiencing "a low-intensity war".

Of his experiences in Northern Ireland, he was quoted as saying: "I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden: I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so… I began to see that my work in Northern Ireland had always been a celebration of the resilience and unyielding way that the Catholic community resisted."

He stayed in the Catholic Lower Falls area, first squatting and then living in the flat of a man he met in Belfast. His photographs of Northern Ireland appeared in a 1981 book written by Wieland Giebel. Thirty years later, he returned to the area to find that its residents had new problems and fears; the later photographs appear within Magnum Ireland. Both the earlier and the later photographs are collected in The Troubles (2021).

Steele-Perkins photographed wars and disasters in the Third World, leaving Viva in 1979 to join Magnum Photos as a nominee (on encouragement by Josef Koudelka), and becoming an associate member in 1981 and a full member in 1983. He continued to work in Britain, taking photographs published as The Pleasure Principle, an examination (in colour) of life in Britain but also a reflection of himself. With Peter Marlow, he successfully pushed for the opening of a London office for Magnum; the proposal was approved in 1986.

Steele-Perkins made four trips to Afghanistan in the 1990s, sometimes staying with the Taliban, the majority of whom "were just ordinary guys" who treated him courteously. Together with James Nachtwey and others, he was also fired on, prompting him to reconsider his priorities: in addition to the danger of the front line:

. . . you never get good pictures out of it. I've yet to see a decent front-line war picture. All the strong stuff is a bit further back, where the emotions are.

A book of his black and white images, Afghanistan, was published first in French, and later in English and in Japanese. The review in the Spectator read in part:

The book and the travelling exhibition of photographs were also reviewed favorably in the Guardian, Observer, Library Journal, and London Evening Standard.

Steele-Perkins served as the President of Magnum from 1995 to 1998. One of the annual meetings over which he presided was that of 1996, to which Russell Miller was given unprecedented access as an outsider and which Miller has described in some detail.

With his second wife the presenter and writer Miyako Yamada (), whom he married in 1999, Steele-Perkins has spent much time in Japan, publishing two books of photographs: Fuji, a collection of views and glimpses of the mountain inspired by Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji; and Tokyo Love Hello, scenes of life in the city. Between these two books he also published a personal visual diary of the year 2001, Echoes.

Work in South Korea included a contribution to a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition of photographs of contemporary slavery, "Documenting Disposable People", in which Steele-Perkins interviewed and made black-and-white photographs of Korean "comfort women". "Their eyes were really important to me: I wanted them to look at you, and for you to look at them", he wrote. "They're not going to be around that much longer, and it was important to give this show a history." The photographs were published within Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery.

Steele-Perkins returned to England for a project by the Side Gallery on Durham's closed coalfields (exhibited within "Coalfield Stories"); after this work ended, he stayed on to work on a depiction (in black and white) of life in the north-east of England, published as Northern Exposures.

In 2008 Steele-Perkins won an Arts Council England grant for "Carers: The Hidden Face of Britain", a project to interview those caring for their relatives at home, and to photograph the relationships. Some of this work has appeared in The Guardian, and also in his book England, My England, a compilation of four decades of his photography that combines photographs taken for publication with much more personal work: he does not see himself as having a separate personality when at home. "By turns gritty and evocative," wrote a reviewer in The Guardian, "it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much."

Steele-Perkins has two sons, Cedric, born 16 November 1990, and Cameron, born 18 June 1992. With his marriage to Miyako Yamada he has a stepson, Daisuke and a granddaughter, Momoe.

Publications

Photobooks by Steele-Perkins
 The Teds. London: Travelling Light/Exit, 1979; . With text by Richard Smith.
 New edition. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2003; .
Revised larger format edition. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2018;
 The Pleasure Principle. Manchester: Cornerhouse Books, 1989;
 Afghanistan. London: Westzone Publishing, 2000;
 Afghanistan. Paris: Marval, 2000;
 Afuganisutan: Shashinshū () / Afghanistan. Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 2001;
 Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan. New York: Umbrage; London: Turnaround, 2002;
 Echoes. London: Trolley, 2003;
 Tokyo Love Hello. Paris: Editions Intervalles, 2006;  Photographs taken in Tokyo, 1997–2006. With an introduction by Donald Richie, texts and captions in French and English.
 Northern Exposures: Rural Life in the North East. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University  Press, 2007; . Black and white photographs taken from 2002 and after.
 England, My England: A Photographer's Portrait. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria  Press, 2009; . Photographs 1969–2009, combining the documentary and the personal.
 England, My England: A Magnum Photographer's Portrait. Carmarthen: McNidder & Grace, 2023; . Reworked, paperback edition, with an introduction by David Elliott.
 Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians. Alnwick: McNidder & Grace, 2012; .
 A Place in the Country. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2014;
 The New Londoners. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2019;
  The Troubles. [Liverpool]: Bluecoat Press, 2021. With an essay by Paul McCorry;

Zines by Steele-Perkins
Wolverhampton 1978. Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 500.
Brixton 1973–1975. Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 250.

Other book contributions

CD-ROMs
Za Wākusu () / The Works. Tokyo: Media Towns, 1999. 180 photographs by Steele-Perkins, from 1980 to 1994, of Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe.

Archives
 Catalogue of the Survival Programmes papers held at LSE Archives

Films
Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity. 1993, 70 minutes. Steele-Perkins reflects on his reporting of and role in scenes of suffering.

Exhibitions

Solo
"The Face of Bengal". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1974.
"The Teds". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1979.
"Beirut". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1983.
"Famine in Africa". Barbican Art Gallery (London), 1985.
"Lebanon". Magnum Gallery (Paris), 1985.
"South Africa". Fnac (Paris), 1986.
"The Pleasure Principle". Fnac (Paris), 1990.
Photographs of Britain. Aperture Foundation (New York), May 1991.
"Africa, Work in Progress". Visa pour l'image (Perpignan), 1992.
"Nomansland". Photo Gallery International (Tokyo), August–September 1999.
"Afghanistan". Visa pour l'image (Perpignan), 1999.
"Notes from Afghanistan". Side Gallery (Newcastle), September–October 2000. Ffotogallery (Cardiff), August (?) – September 2000.
"Fuji". Midlands Arts Centre (Birmingham), January–March 2002.
"Photographs of Mt Fuji". Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Aberystwyth), May–June 2002.
"Fuji". Impressions Gallery (York), August–September 2002.
"Fuji". Granship (Shizuoka City), May–June 2002.
"The Teds". Gallery 292 (New York City), March 2003.
"The Teds: From the Originals to the Plastics". Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago), January–February 2004.
"Echoes". Leica Gallery Tokyo (Ginza, Tokyo), August–September 2005.
"Hinterland". Side Gallery (Newcastle), April–May 2006.
"Haswell Plough to Harajuku". Host Gallery (London), June–July 2007.
"Northern Exposures". Northumbria University Gallery, 2007.
"Fuji". Porta Praetoria (Aosta), as part of the Mountain Photo Festival, August–September 2008.
"England My England". Kings Place Gallery (London), June–July 2010.
"For Love of the Game". Third Floor Gallery (Cardiff), June–July 2010. Photographs of football in Japan, England, and Ghana.
"Northern Exposures". Galleries Inc at Central Square North (Newcastle), January–February 2011.
"The Pleasure Principle". Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), November–December 2011.
"Centenarians". University Gallery, Northumbria University (Newcastle), October–November 2012.

Group or shared
"The Inquisitive Eye". ICA (London), 1974.
"Il Regno Unito si diverte". British Council, Milan, 1981. (With Homer Sykes and Patrick Ward.)
"Maritime England". Photographers' Gallery (London), 1982.
"The Other Britain". National Theatre (London), and touring in Britain, 1982.
"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers". ICP (New York), 1984.
"The Indelible Image". Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 1985.
"In Our Time". A Magnum Photos exhibition. World tour, 1990.
"A Terrible Beauty". Artists Space (New York), 1994.
"Our Turning World". Barbican Art Gallery (London), December 1999 – March 2000. With other Magnum photographers.
"Magnum Style". Staley-Wise Gallery (New York), April–June 2004. ("Style is evident in body language, original dress, and physical beauty"; with other Magnum photographers.)
"Acqua fonte di vita". Fondazione Luciana Matalon (Milan), May–June 2004. (With ten other photographers.) An exhibition showing the importance of water.
"Magnum Football". Millennium Point (Birmingham), May–August 2004. (With other Magnum photographers.) And (also as "Planet Football", "Weltsprach Fußball", "Världsspråket fotboll" and "Fotbollens språk") at many other places around the world until 2008.
"Magnum Stories". The Guardian Newsroom (London), November–December 2004. With many other Magnum photographers; an exhibition to coincide with publication of the book Magnum Stories.
Exhibition of new acquisitions, Galleria Fnac Milano (Milan), May–June 2005.
"NorthSouthEastWest: A 360° View of Climate Change". (With nine other Magnum photographers.) Science Museum (London), March 2005; and many cities worldwide until 2006.
"Teenage Kicks: The Mods 'n' Rockers Generation". Photographers' Gallery (London), 2005–2007.
"Euro Visions: The New Europeans as Seen by Magnum Photographers". Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), September–October 2005. Steele-Perkins presented photographs of Slovakia. Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), October–November 2006.
"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers". ICP (New York), September–November 2005. The exhibition of 1984.
"Euro Visions: The New Europeans by Twelve Magnum Photographers". Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels), March–July 2007. The earlier exhibition augmented by photographs (by Bruno Barbey and Paolo Pellegrin) of Bulgaria and Romania.
"The Coast Exposed". Queen's House (Greenwich, London), and smaller versions elsewhere in the UK.
"I Shot Norman Foster". The Yard (The Architecture Foundation, London), November 2005 – January 2006. The architecture of Norman Foster. Steele-Perkins photographed the London Gherkin, "hiding it within the chaos of the City's streets, in similar fashion to his Mount Fuji series".
"After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century". NGV International (Melbourne), November 2006 – April 2007. A number of photographers, from the 1870s to the 1980s.
"Survival Programmes: In Britain's Inner Cities Between 1974 and 1979". (With Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor.) Side Gallery (Newcastle), January–March 2007.
"Tokyo Seen by Magnum Photographers". Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–May 2007.
"To the Dogs". Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), June–August 2007.
"No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987." Aberystwyth Arts Centre, March 2008; Tullie House (Carlisle), May 2008; Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), November 2008.
"Darfur: Photojournalists Respond." With Lynsey Addario, Pep Bonet, Colin Finlay, Ron Haviv, Olivier Jobard, Kadir van Lohuizen, and Sven Torfinn. Holocaust Museum Houston, March–August 2008. JFK High School (Plainview, New York), Boston Public Library, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Idaho Historical Museum (Boise), Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Skokie), University of New Hampshire (Durham), Barness Family Jewish Community Center (Chandler, Arizona), 2008–10.
"Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan". (With other Magnum photographers.) Magnum Print Room (London), 2009.
"Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery". (With seven other Magnum photographers.) Southbank Centre (London), and five other locations in England and Wales, 2009–2010. Steele-Perkins shows portraits of Korean "comfort women".
"The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society". Victoria and Albert Museum (London), May–September 2010.
"Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography". Photomonth, National Museum, Kraków, August–November 2010. British photography 1974–1997.
"Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera", Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool), 2011.
"Dokyumentarī Fuji" () / "Documentary Fuji", Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Shizuoka City), July–September 2013. An exhibition of photographs by Steele-Perkins and prints by Hiroshige.

As co-curator
"Young British Photographers". Photographers' Gallery (London), 1975. (Co-curator, with Mark Edwards.)
"Film Ends". Travelling in Britain, 1977. (Co-selector, with Mark Edwards.)

Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain
Photographers' Gallery (London)
British Library of Political and Economic Science (London)
Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Tate (London and elsewhere)
Side Gallery (Newcastle)
National Media Museum (Bradford)
National Portrait Gallery (London)
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin)
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)
Fnac (Paris)
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (Hachiōji, Tokyo)
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

Awards

 1988: Oskar Barnack Award (Leica and World Press Photo), for a story on Thalidomide victims
 1988: Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism (Photographers' Gallery)
 1989: Robert Capa Gold Medal (International Center of Photography)
 2000: World Press Photo award, "Daily Life" category
 2008: Terence Donovan Award (Royal Photographic Society)
 2009: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet for Mount Fuji
 2014: Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society.

Notes

References

External links
 Chris Steele-Perkins, his own website.
 Chris Steele-Perkins at Magnum Photos.

1947 births
Living people
Artists from Yangon
People from Burnham-on-Sea
Photographers from Somerset
English photojournalists
Magnum photographers
Photography in Afghanistan
Photography in Japan
Photography in Lebanon
People educated at Christ's Hospital
Anglo-Burmese people
English people of Burmese descent
Alumni of Newcastle University
Alumni of the University of York


Joseph J. "Joe" Cassano (born 12 March 1955) is an American insurance executive who was an officer at AIG Financial Products from the division's founding in 1987 until his resignation in February 2008. Cassano is considered a key figure in the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

His employees characterized him as a "bully", and said that the culture of fear helped to create the downfall of AIG, as Cassano would often yell at employees who tried to warn him about the dangers of subprime bonds. AIG later suffered a $99 billion loss and got bailed out by the U.S. government. Political writer Matt Taibbi nicknamed him "Patient Zero of the global economic meltdown."

Work at AIG
In 1987, AIG hired Cassano as one of the first ten people in the Financial Products unit, as Chief Financial Officer. In 1994, Thomas R. Savage appointed Cassano as head of the Transaction Development Group. Cassano accepted the 1998 proposal by J.P. Morgan to package credit default swaps (CDS) on Broad Index Secured Trust Offering (nicknamed Bistros). Cassano considered these collateralized debt obligations a key event: "It was a watershed event in 1998 when J.P. Morgan came to us, who were somebody we worked with a great deal, and asked us to participate."

Subprime mortgage crisis

Cassano sold hundreds of billions of credit protection in the form of CDSs without having to put up any real money as collateral as this form of insurance had been deregulated with the Phil Gramm-sponsored Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, signed by Bill Clinton. When, in the financial crisis of 2007–2008, investment banks requested insurance money for their collapsing derivatives, AIG was unable to deliver and received a bail-out from the taxpayers. Just one year earlier while discussing the company's CDS portfolio with analysts, he said "It is hard for us, and without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any realm of reason that would see us losing $1 in any of those transactions."

During his career at AIGFP from 1987 until he was forced to retire in March 2008, Cassano received $315 million: $280 million in cash and an additional $34 million in bonuses. An initial $1 million-a-month consulting fee was later canceled. According to Matt Taibbi: In fact, Cassano remained on the payroll and kept collecting his monthly million through the end of September 2008, even after taxpayers had been forced to hand AIG $85 billion to patch up his mistakes. When asked in October why the company still retained Cassano at his $1 million-a-month rate despite his role in the probable downfall of Western civilization, CEO Martin Sullivan told Congress with a straight face that AIG wanted to "retain the 20-year knowledge that Mr. Cassano had." (Cassano, who is apparently hiding out in his lavish town house near Harrods in London, could not be reached for comment.)
In the wake of the scandal, United States regulators and the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office began investigating Cassano's dealings to determine whether they were just excessive and risky, or criminal.

A two-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice ended in May 2010 with no criminal charges brought against Cassano, who was represented by lawyers Jim Walden and F. Joseph Warin of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Political contributions

Cassano was a political contributor to the campaigns of Democratic Senators Chris Dodd and Barack Obama and the Republican Representative Nancy L. Johnson.

In March 2009 Cassano was linked to e-mails he authored in 2006 which solicited contributions from AIG executives for Dodd's campaign due to Dodd's position as incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

Early life

Cassano grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his father was a policeman. He earned a political science degree from Brooklyn College in 1977. He worked in the back office at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert during their junk bond phase.

References

External links
Joseph Cassano's Involuntary Profile, LittleSis
Joseph Cassano Retirement from AIG Agreement
The Big Takeover, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, March 19, 2009 (no longer available online)
The Man Who Crashed the World, Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, August 2009

Living people
American businesspeople in insurance
Drexel Burnham Lambert
1955 births
Brooklyn College alumni


Jalan Kawasan Perindustrian Rawang, Federal Route 3209 is an industrial federal roads in Selangor, Malaysia. This 3.1-km industrial federal road connects Rawang Interchange in the west to Rawang in the east.

The Kilometre Zero is located at Rawang, at its interchange with the Federal Route 1, the main trunk road of the central of Peninsular Malaysia.

At most sections, the Federal Route 3209 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.

There is one overlap: B29 – Jalan Rawang–Bestari Jaya (from Rawang town centre to Bestari Jaya).

List of interchanges

References

Malaysian Federal Roads


Barishal Zilla School (), popularly known as BZS, is a public educational institution for boys, located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It was the first high school established in Barisal Division. Founded as Barisal English School on 23 December 1829 by W. N. Garrett, it began with 27 students. In 1853, the school was renamed Barisal Zilla School.

Notable alumni

 A. K. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of Bengal (1937–1943)
 Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan, Bengali nationalist and former minister of United Bengal
 Abdul Jabbar Khan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1965-1969)
 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (1991-1996)
 Altaf Mahmud, music composer
 Sardar Fazlul Karim, philosopher
 Buddhadeb Guha, writer
 Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor
 Manzoor Alam Beg, father of the fine art photography movement in Bangladesh, Alokchitracharya (the great teacher of photography), Ekushey Padak awardee
 Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, former chief of Army staff of Bangladesh
 Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, Padma Bhushan awardee
 Promode Dasgupta, communist leader
 Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikrom
 Hafizuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikrom
 Siraj Sikder, communist revolutionist

See also
 List of Zilla Schools of Bangladesh

References

Boys' schools in Bangladesh
High schools in Bangladesh
Schools in Barisal District
Educational institutions established in 1829
Barishal Zilla School


Zachary Michael Cregger (born March 1, 1981) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer. He first came to prominence as one of the three founding members, alongside Trevor Moore and Sam Brown, of the New York City-based comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know. He later starred in the sitcoms Friends with Benefits, Guys with Kids, and Wrecked. He also starred in the film Miss March, which he co-directed and co-wrote with Moore. In 2022, Cregger wrote and directed the horror film Barbarian, which was a commercial success and opened to positive critical reviews.

Early life
Zachary Michael Cregger was born on March 1, 1981, in Arlington, Virginia. He performed in various comedy and music groups there before moving to Brooklyn, New York where he joined forces with Moore and Sam Brown to start The Whitest Kids U' Know.

When he was in high school he was in an improv troupe, which was called The Nation of Improv. They performed shows at malls and other high school auditoriums.

Career
Cregger and his friends formed the WKUK comedy troupe in 2000 while still in college. Later on, he met Darren Trumeter while shooting an independent film and asked him to join them. Trumeter became the second of two later additions to the troupe, the first being Timmy Williams.

Cregger, along with the troupe, garnered great success while performing live in New York City at LES music venue Pianos and on the internet. This led to an invitation in 2006 to the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. The troupe won the award for Best Sketch Group and attracted the attention of many Hollywood executives.

The Whitest Kids U' Know ran for five seasons first on FUSE and then on IFC.

In 2008, Cregger made his first film appearance in Deb Hagan's directorial debut College, .

He directed his second feature film with Moore called The Civil War on Drugs. It had a limited theatrical release and was ultimately aired during the fifth season of WKUK. Afterwards, he toured with the WKUK and performed in live shows. He has participated in several independent movies.

Cregger joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Friends with Benefits, which began airing on August 5, 2011. He then starred on the NBC sitcom Guys with Kids, which aired for one season in 2012–2013. Cregger next starred in the TBS show Wrecked.

Cregger wrote and directed the 2022 horror film Barbarian, starring Bill Skarsgård, Georgina Campbell, and Justin Long.

Cregger, along with the surviving members of The Whitest Kids U'Know, is currently crowdfunding the second feature from the troupe, Mars.

Cregger is set to direct Weapons, a horror film based on a screenplay also written by Cregger.

Personal life
In 2018, Cregger became engaged to his longtime girlfriend Sara Paxton. They married on October 27, 2019.

Filmography

Television

Film

As actor

As filmmaker

References

External links
 Official Twitter account

1981 births
American male film actors
American film directors
American male screenwriters
American male television actors
American television directors
American television writers
Living people
The Field School alumni
American male television writers
21st-century American male actors


The Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards was the Indonesian version of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, held since 2008 in Jakarta. Indonesia is the second country in Asia which organized this award, after the Philippines. The program is produced and aired by the Indonesian television station, Global TV .

Locations and hosts

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed on bold.

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

See also
 List of Asian television awards

Notes

References

External links
 Indonesia Kids Choice Awards

Indonesian television awards
Indonesian music awards
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
Awards established in 2008
Awards disestablished in 2017


Harpale (हरपळे) is a surname used by Indian Maratha community. The name is legendary among Maratha Royalties. They were honoured as Sardar, Patil and Deshmukh. They have a Royal Mark of Gaikwad Maharajas of Baroda. They possess Deshmukh rights of villages in Nagpur. Their relations are associated with the prominent Maratha clan of 96 Royal Clans.

History
Harpales are considered to be descendants of King Haru. They also trace their origin to the Gaikwad Maharajas of Baroda. They were Maratha Sardars who came to Pune to support the Prime Ministers (Peshwas) of Maratha Kingdom, after defeat In the Panipat War. Their contribution in Maratha Empire Expansion in India was to fight in wars. Originally Harpale or Gaikwad belonged to the Chittorgah royal family. Kalbhairav and Chamunda Devi of Chittodhgadh are Harpale's main kuldaivats.

Clan

Harpale
Lineage: Brahmavansha, descended from the Brahmavanshi king Haru.
Original seat: Phursungi, Pune, Maharashtra, Jaipur Rajasthan & Pune Area
Colour of sign, horse and throne: White colour
Heraldic sign (Nishan): Moon on flagpole
Clan goddess: Bhavani
Clan object (Devak):  Sunflower(Suryaful)
Guru: Varuna rishi
Gotra: Haru
Veda: Rigveda.
Other surnames: Zumbre, Devaskar, Dapse, Durge, Dugane, Devtole, Davtole, Dhavas, Dhavkar, Lahul, Lotankar, Verulkar, Vesange, Shahapure, Somavanshi, Sukshen, Songire, Husangbage, Dudhane.(Dudhane have PAWAR Kuli and Edge of sward is devak. How they have Harpale Kuli?) (Total 20)

Notables
Shri Sadguru Limbaraj Maharaj ( Sanjivan Samadhi At Fursungi)
Shrimant Rayaji Harpale, Maratha General Under service of Peshwa(Chatrapati Bhosale Maharaja of Satara) along with 4000 cavalry.
Shrimant Sayaji Rao Harpale, Maratha General Under service of Peshwa. (Chatrapati Bhosale Maharaja of Satara)
Shrimant Siyaji Rao Harpale, Decendents, Devajirao Harpale, Ramjirao Harpale, Sayajirao Harpale, Sampatroaji Harpale, Gangaraoji Harpale, Chimajirao Harpale, bhauraoji Harpale, Chimajirao Harpale, Fakiraoji Harpale, Shivramji Harpale, Baburao Harpale, Gulabraoji Harpale, Dattataryji Harpale, Harshwardhanrao Harpale, Shivji Harpale
Recent Phrusungi thrown Holders,
Harshwardhanrao Harpale after the death of Dattataryji
UDAYJI GULABRAO HARPALE, SHIVJI HARPALE

See also
 Maratha Empire
 Maratha clan system
 List of Maratha dynasties and states
 Gaekwad

Sources

Marathi language

English

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Surnames
Marathi people
Social groups of Maharashtra
Maratha clans
Surnames of Indian origin
Surnames of Hindu origin


Friday Foster is an American newspaper comic strip, created and written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón. It ran from January 18, 1970, to February 17, 1974 and was notable for featuring one of the first African-American women as the title character in a comic strip. Jackie Ormes' Torchy Brown predated it, although it saw a more limited release in the Afro-American newspaper Pittsburgh Courier.

History
Jim Lawrence had been the writer of the London Daily Express comic strip, James Bond, when he became interested in creating a comic about a black character. Spanish cartoonist Jorge Longarón was chosen as the illustrator, and the strip was syndicated by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. The comic focused on the glamorous life of its title character, a former fashion model who became an assistant to a top fashion photographer, as described by comics historian Dave Karlen:

A 1970 issue of Jet reported on the debut of Friday Foster. The magazine stated that writer Lawrence lived in Summit, New Jersey and illustrator Langron lived in Spain. The two communicated via postal mail and telephone calls.

Artist Frank Springer did a small amount of uncredited work on the strip, recalling in the mid-2000s, "I knew the writer, who lived here in New Jersey, ... [and] I got a call a couple of times from Lawrence who said they hadn't gotten the material through from Spain" and asked Springer to fill in. "I guess over the years I did two Sunday pages, maybe three."

Dell Comics published a single issue of a Friday Foster comic book (October 1972), written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Jack Sparling.

In 1975, Friday Foster was adapted into a blaxploitation feature film of the same name, starring Pam Grier.

In September 2019, the Friday Foster character appeared in a Dick Tracy story drawn by Andrew Pepoy.

Further reading
 The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson, Quirk Books (2017)

See also
 Friday Foster (film)

References

Foster, Friday
American comic strips
Drama comics
Adventure comics
1970 comics debuts
1974 comics endings
Comics about women
Foster, Friday
American comics adapted into films
Foster, Friday
Foster, Friday
Foster, Friday
Foster, Friday
Comic strips formerly syndicated by Tribune Content Agency


Garimella Balakrishna Prasad (born 9 November 1948) is an Indian classical devotional singer, composer, Sangeet Natak Akademi for year 2020, T.T.D Asthana Vidwaan and Ahobhilamatam Asthana Vidwaan. He served Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam's Annamacharya Project as Special Grade Vocal Artiste from 1978 to 2006.

He is regarded as a pioneer in composing and rendering  Annamacharya Sankeerthanas in various Indian musical genres like classical, semi-classical, light and folk styles. He composed tunes for the lyrics of nearly 1400 songs composed by various poets. Of these nearly 1000 of them were Annamacharya sankirtanas. To mention a few most popular sankeerthanas set to tune by Sri Prasad are Vinaro Bhagyamu Vishnukatha, Jagadapu Chanavula, Vachenu Alamelumanga, Tiruveedhula Merasi, Choodaramma Satulaala, Jayalakhmi Varalakshmi, Aadimoolame maaku angaraksha, Mangambudhi Hamumantha, Antayu neeve, Yemani pogadudume, Annimantramulu and Pidikita Thalambrala.

Early life
Balakrishna Prasad was born in Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh to Krishnaveni and Narasimha Rao, a music teacher and a Vaggeyakara. He holds a Diploma in Carnatic Music. He is an 'A' grade vocal artist of the All India Radio (AIR).

He specialised in Annamacharya compositions under the tutelage of Sangita Kalanidhi, Lt . Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, who initiated him into the nuances of classical music. He was closely associated with Nedunuri Krishnamurthy in not only learning music, but also in composing music to Annamacharya Sankeerthanas, publishing books with musical notation and audio CD recordings.

Prof. D. Pasupathi also taught Annamacharya songs as well as classical kritis during two-year scholarship course offered by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. Dr. Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna's music, mellifluous voice and unique rendering inspired Sri Balakrishna Prasad to learn classical music. Sri Balakrishna Prasad also received musical training from Dr. Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna.

Performing career
He joined the Annamacharya Project after completing his diploma in Carnatic classical vocal music, in 1978 as a vocal artist. The project established to promote Annamacharya's music and literature, soon became the medium through which he was able to bring forth his musical prowess. From the inception till his retirement in 2006, he remained the principal exponent of Annamacharya Project. He rendered remarkable services at various levels to raise it into a top cultural organisation.

His Nadopasana spans over four decades. Absolute faith, total commitment and the zeal for perfection are hallmarks of his music. He consistently endeavours to improve his art and continues to grow as an artist.

He performed in more than five thousand vocal concerts, set tune to more than six hundred Annamacharya songs, gave audio recordings for TTD, published books with musical notations and conducted classes, teaching Annamacharya songs to make them more popular.

Unique contributions and records

 He is the inventor of "Sankeerthana Yagnam", a stage where a large number of songs are sung by a singer on a single stage, which spans for more than a day. Sankeerthana Yagnam's performed by Garimella Balakrishna Prasad: Visakhapatnam in the year 1997, Vijayawada in the year 1999 with more than 200 songs, Tirupati in the year 2001 with a record number of more than 300 songs, Hyderabad in the year 2003 and 2007 with more than 200 songs. Some of these were telecast by TV channels such as MAA TV, Bhakthi TV etc.
 He crossed the one hundred mark of teaching Annamacharya sankeerthans through "Hari Sankeerthanam", a program telecast on BHAKTHI TV (a sister concern of NTv), that targets teaching music to the common man. It is mentionable that his second son Sri GVN Anila Kumar has participated as student in this feature and thousands of music lovers are benefited by learning directly from Sri Balakrishna Prasad.
 "LAKSHA GALAARCHANA" is an extraordinary feature wherein Sri Balakrishna Prasad has led more than one lakh sixty thousand singers all across India on a single day, 10 May 2008, at Parade grounds, Secunderabad. This feature is conducted by "SILICON ANDHRA" (a US based organisation) in co-ordination with Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) State Government and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (T.T.D). This feature is telecast in live simultaneously by many TV Channels in India and abroad.
 More than 5000 concerts by a singer with Annamacharya sankeerthanas.
 More than 700 songs set to tune by a music composer for a lyricist.
 Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has honoured Sri Balakrishna Prasad with a certificate of appreciation in the year 2006 for his extra ordinary service
 Being a Vaggeyakara he has penned sankeerthanas on lord Anjaneya "ANJANEYA KRITI MANI MALA" (21 kritis), on lord Ganesha (50 kritis), Navagrahas, Light music songs and on other lords. His own compositions are more than 1000 in number. Some of them are published as books with musical notations.

Personal life
He is married to G.Radha and has two sons – G.S.Pavana Kumar married to Srividya, G.V.N.Anila Kumar married to Swarna. He is the nephew of playback singer S. Janaki.

Discography

Annamacharya Sankeerthanas, T.T.D Recordings
Visit https://www.tirumala.org/Annamacharya_Keertanas_Sravanam.aspx and search with name "G.BALAKRISHNA PRASAD" to listen to these songs

 Annamayya Desi Kavita Ganam
 Annamayya Hari Pada Makarandam
 Annamayya Hari Sankirtana Mrutam
 Annamayya Hari Sharanagati
 Annamayya Madhra Kavitha Ganamu
 Annamayya Ramanjaneya Lahari
 Annamayya Sankeertana Lahari
 Annamayya Tatvaneeti Saramu
 Annamayya Venkatadri Vennela
 Nnamayya Anantaragalu
 Paluku Tene Talli- 1
 Paluku Tene Talli- 2
 Sri Venkateswara Geetamalika
 Srinivasa Sruti Bhushanam
 Venkatadri Nrusimhudu
 Annamayya Gnana Yagnam
 Annamayya Hari Pada Sirulu
 Annamayya Mohana Murari
 Annamayya Sankirtana Brindavanam
 Annamayya Sankirtana Prabha
 Annamayya Sankirtana Prasadam
 Annamayya Sankirtana Sravani
 Annamayya Sankirtana Tarakam
 Annamayya Sri Alamelumanga Vilasam
 Annamayya Sri Hari Kusumanjali
 Annamayya Sri Nrusimha Sankirtana Vaibhavam
 Chinna Tirumalacharyula Pada Vaibhavam
 Nrusimha Pada Dhwani
 Sri Ramanjaneyam
 Sri Venkateswara Vairagyavachanamulu

 Annamayya Archinchina Alamelumanga
 Annamayya Govinda Ganam
 Annamayya Pada Sudha
 Annamayya Pada Sudharnavam
 Annamayya Ramanuja Kirtanam
 Annamayya Sankirtana Madhoolika
 Annamayya Sankirtana Mukthavali
 Annamayya Sankirtana Pushpalathika
 Annamayya Sankirtana Shikhamani
 Annamayya Sankirtana Sumaharam
 Annamayya Sankirtana Sumamalika
 Annamayya Sankirtana Sumasri
 Annamayya Sankirtana Sushama
 Annamayya Sankirtana Vaibhogam
 Annamayya Sri Pranayamu
 Annamayya Pada Kamalalu
 Annamayya Pada Marakataalu
 Annamayya Pada Mudrika
 Annamayya Pada Parimalalu
 Annamayya Pada Prasunalu
 Annamayya Pada Surabhilam
 Annamayya Padaaravindam
 Annamayya Pataku Pattabhishekam - 96
 Annamayya Sankeertana Sumagandhi
 Annamayya Sankeertanaaraamam
 Annamayya Sankirtana Pushpanjali
 Annamayya Sankirtana Pushpavanam
 Annamayya Srirama Pada Lahari
 Taallapaaka Pada Prasadam

Annamacharya Sankeerthanas, Other recordings

 Annamayya Paarijaatalu
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Sudha
 Bhavayaami
 Annamayya sankeerthana chandrika
 Annamayya Pada Madhuri
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Pushpaalu
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Pushpayaagam
 Tirunivaali
 Annamayya Pada Madhuri
 Srihari Vaibhavam
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Padanidhi
 Annamayya sankeerthana manihaaram
 Annamayya Vinnapaalu
 Annamayya Madhuragaanam
 Annamayya Venkatadri Govindudu
 Annamayya Sri Krishna Padahela
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Vedanaadam
 Annamayya Aanjaneya Sruti Sanjeevani

 Annamayya Sankeerthana Saamagaanam
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Pranavam
 Annamayya Pada Singaaram
 Annamayya Srinidhi Sankeerthanam
 Annamayya Alamelmanga Vaibhavam
 Krishnaarpana
 Annamayya Paatalu
 Annamayya Vishnu Gaanam
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Sarada
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Sanjeevani
 Flowers at his feet
 Annamayya Sankeerthana Bharati
 Sapthagiri sankeerthanalu
 Hari Siripadahele
 Annamayya Achyta Saranu
 Annamayya Pada ratnaalu
 Annmayya Nrusimha Sankeertanam

Bibliography

T.T.D. Publications

His tunes for Annamayya sankeerthana's has been published by TTD.
 1993 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Swara Samputi (Telugu)
 1997 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Manjari (Tamil)
 1999 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Sankeerthanam (Telugu)
 2000 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Saurabham (Telugu)
 2001 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Ratnavali (Telugu)
 2001 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Swaravali (Tamil)
 2003 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Praathamiki (Telugu)
 2004 – Annamacharya Sankeerthana Mahati (Telugu)

Other publications
 Krishna Ravali (2 Volumes) (Telugu)
 Anjaneya Kriti Mani Maala (Telugu)
 Annammayya Sankeerthana Sanjeevani (Telugu)

Awards, titles and felicitations

 Sangeet Natak Akademi, in the field of classical music for the year 2020
 Asthana vidwan Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), Tirupati, awarded on 16 November 2012.
 ASTHANA SANGEETHA VIDWAN of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, Title was awarded on 8 October 2010.
 ANDHRA PRADESH GOVERNMENT UGADI PURASKARAM by the Department of Cultural Affairs, A.P. Government in the year 2007.
 ANNAMAYYA SANKEERTHANA MAHATI, in the year 2001, by T.T.D (on the successful completion of SANKEERTHANA YAGNMAN) at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
 ANNAMAYYA NAADA JYOTHI, in 1997, California, USA, by SVASA (Sri Venkateswara Annamacharya Society of America)
 SRI ANNAMACHARYA VIDWANMANI, in 1997, California, USA, by SAPNA (Sri Annamacharya Project of North America)
 GANAKALA VISAARADA, in 1999, by Cultural wing of State Bank of India, Labbipet, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
 ANNAMAYYA NAADA SUDHA SAMRAT, in 2003, by Annamayya sankeertaamruta varshini, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
 ENCHANTING SINGER, in 2001 by Delhi Telugu Academy.
 MASTER M.N. AWARD, in 1998, "World Teachers Trust", an International Organization, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
 SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE, in 2000, "Academy of Fine Arts", Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
 Uttama Purusha, in 2000, Andhra Samskrithika Samithi, Hosuru, Tamil Nadu.
 GURU Sishya Puraskam, in 1998, by "Raaga Saptha Swara", Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
 Ghantasala Laitha Sangeetha Puraskaram, in 2005, by Sri Ghantasala Sangeetha Samsmarana Kalapeetham, Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
 Harikeerthanacharya, 2006, by State Bank of India, Governorpet, Vijayawada.
 Honoured with Kanakaabhishekam in 2007, during Sankeerthana Yagnam by State Bank of India, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
 Nandaki Shrignadha Gandharva, in 2006, by Panchaasya Sudharnavam, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
 Honoured with Suvarna Simha Thallatam, in 2007 by Bhuvaneswara Narayana Peetham, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
 Lakshagalarchana Saarathi, in 2009, by Surya Peetham, Garividi, Andhra Pradesh.
 "RAJA LAKSHMI FOUNDATION" special award
 "SRI KANCHI KANCHI KAAMAKOTI PEETA" Aasthana vidwaan
 "TIRUMALA TIRUPATI DEVASTANAM" Aasthana vidwaan
 "BEST MUSICIAN FOR 2010 AWARD" by SANAATANA DHARMA charitable trust
 "Dr. MANGALAMPALLI BALAMURALI KRISHNA SANGEETHA PRATIBHA PURASKAARAM"
 "SANKEERTHANA GAANAPAYONIDHI" by R.J.MEDIA

Youtube playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCKcZt1sfIJLZ8emWG53C7McbdMgZ31Bu

External links

Interview and Felicitation links
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNlVWWNLpZs
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hyjAQTk3xo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35NFRIs7mW0
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6YrWuOgfs&t=250s
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEuKfxNnYK0
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1w4pjdqwo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQLqGIu6qw&t=185s
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_P7745lCs
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYOhi4uPeLQ

Hari Sankeerthanam, Bhakti Tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYOhi4uPeLQ

Laksha Gala archana
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQLqGIu6qw&t=185s

References

External links

 Carnatic India
 The Hindu, 24 October 2008

Male Carnatic singers
Carnatic singers
Telugu people
Performers of Hindu music
1948 births
Living people
People from Rajahmundry
Singers from Andhra Pradesh
20th-century Indian male classical singers
21st-century Indian male classical singers
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award


Basketball at the 1987 Pan American Games was held from August 9 to August 23, 1987 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, United States. In men's basketball, Brazil defeated the U.S. 120–115 in the final to win the gold medal. The Brazilian team was led by their star player Oscar, who scored 46 points in the final.

Likewise, the women's basketball tournament was held from August 9 to August 23, 1987 at the same venue.

Men's competition

Participating nations

Matches

Gold medal match

Final ranking

Awards

Women's competition

Participating nations

Final ranking

Awards

References

Basketball
1987
Basketball in Indianapolis
1987
Pan
Pan
Pan


Lisy Nos railway station (, ) is a railway station in Lisy Nos, St. Petersburg, Russia.

It was built by the JSC Prinorskaya Saint Peterburg–Sestroretsk railway and opened on 31 October 1894 as part of the Primorskaya line Lakhta–Razdelnaya section, under the name "Razdelnaya".

The station was renamed "Lisy Nos" in 1928, following the closure of the branch line to old Lisy Nos station which was on a landing stage on Kronstadt Bay.

Gallery

References

Railway stations in Saint Petersburg
Railway stations in the Russian Empire opened in 1894


Expressway S1 or express road S1 is a Polish highway under construction with a planned length of , in the Silesian and Lesser Poland voivodeships. Upon completion, it will connect the A1 motorway near the Katowice International Airport in Pyrzowice, with the border of Slovakia in Zwardoń, where it will connect to the D3 Motorway.

A major part of the route is the Eastern beltway of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region between the A1 and  A4 motorway.

The S1 originally was routed from Bielsko-Biała via Cieszyn to the Czech border. This section was renumbered to Expressway S52 in 2016 and the S1 was rerouted over the former Expressway S69.

The route is expected to be completed by 2024.

Expressway route description

Pyrzowice-Tychy

Kosztowy-II – Bielsko-Biała
As of the end of May 2016 six options for the route were proposed, five of which were already available by June 2008.

At first option IV(D) was preferable. It would have gone parallel to Brzeszcze – Oświęcim railway tracks (PKP rail line 93). However, UNESCO protested against the choice, as, in their opinion, the traffic would have disrupted the zone of silence around the former German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, and, as the result, UNESCO would have put the camp onto the endangered list.

At the beginning of August 2009, the head of Miedźna county has announced to the media his option of the S1 (option VI), that would have gone through a forest on the borders of the Miedźna and Bojszowy county. In November 2009, it was accepted by all the local counties. However, GDDKiA turned down this option due to environmental issues. The road would have passed through the "Stawy w Brzeszczach" reserve for birds conservation, which was not acceptable.

Option VI

Counties through which the road would have passed according to the option VI
 Mysłowice (Kosztowy)
 Lędziny
 Bieruń
 Oświęcim (Stare Stawy)
 Brzeszcze
 Dankowice
 Stara Wieś
 Bielsko-Biała (Suchy Potok) In 2013 the Economical, Technical and Environmental Institution has proposed 4 choices (A, B, C, and D), of which choices A and C were preferred. However, the mining company "Brzeszcze" was against choice C, and "SILESIA" mining enterprise against A. As a compromise, GDDKIA promised to work on the additional option "E". Preparatory works for DŚU were done by 7 January 2015. In March 2015 choice "E" was chosen as preferred. In June the same year Regional Directorate of the Environment Protection in Katowice has asked GDDKiA to give out the environmental decision for the section.

Option V

Counties through which the road would have passed according to the option V
 Mysłowice (Kosztowy)
 Lędziny
 Bieruń
 Międzyrzecze
 Gilowice
 Miedźna
 Bestwinka
 Kaniów
 Dankowice
 Stara Wieś
 Bielsko-Biała (Suchy Potok)
The project will cost approximately 1.437 bln złotych.

Interchanges
 „Kosztowy II" (after construction the road to Tychy will be designated as S1A)
 „Lędziny"
 „Bieruń"
 „Oświęcim" (future connection to Oświęcim bypass)
 „Wola”
 „Brzeszcze"
 „Stara Wieś"
 „Suchy Potok"

4 options from 2012
 Option A (39.7 km) would have run through the following counties:
 Mysłowice
 Lędziny
 Imielin
 Bieruń
 Bojszowy
 Miedźna
 Bestwina
 Wilamowice
 Bielsko-Biała
 Option B (40.4 km) would have run through the following counties:
 Mysłowice
 Lędziny
 Imielin
 Bieruń
 Bojszowy
 Oświęcim
 Bestwina
 Brzeszcze
 Wilamowice
 Bielsko-Biała
 Option C (40.8 km) would have run through the following counties:
 Mysłowice
 Lędziny
 Imielin
 Bieruń
 Bojszowy
 Oświęcim
 Bestwina
 Brzeszcze
 Wilamowice
 Bielsko-Biała
 Option D (42.1 km) would have run through the following counties:
 Mysłowice
 Lędziny
 Imielin
 Bieruń
 Bojszowy
 Oświęcim
 Bestwina
 Brzeszcze
 Wilamowice
 Bielsko-Biała.
In 2013 a new option, presented by the mining companies "SILESIA" and "Brzeszcze" and by Miedźna, Brzeszcze and Bestwina counties, was proposed. The option "H"(or hybrid), as it is known, was an initial compromise between the companies and counties and GDDKiA. However it wasn't implemented.

Bielsko-Biała-Zwardoń

Route description

See also
Highways in Poland
European route E75

References

Expressways in Poland


Expressway S2 is a short highway in Poland, serving as the southern section of the (partially completed) Warsaw Express Ring Road. Conceptually forming one continuous route with motorway A2, it was initially planned (since 1970s) as a part of it, however after local Warsaw residents objected to the plans of an inner-city motorway, the proposed road was downgraded to an expressway (though the actual route was not changed). The western half of the road was opened to traffic in 2013, while the eastern half was opened in 2020 and 2021.

History of construction
Construction of the first phase of the project was divided into two sections. Work on a 3.9 km stretch between Warszawa Lotnisko junction (linking to expressway S79) and Puławska junction at the eastern end of this phase of the project began in September 2009, while construction of the other, 11.1 km long section between the western Konotopa junction (linking the motorway A2 and the western portion of the ring road, expressway S8) and Warszawa Lotnisko junction, began in the Summer of 2010.

Both sections were scheduled to be completed in mid 2012 in time for the Euro 2012 football championships, however this deadline was not met. The S2 Expressway was eventually opened in a number of stages, beginning in the west at Konotopa junction in August 2013, with further sections opening in September 2013, linking the road with expressway S79 leading to Warsaw Chopin Airport. The final part of this phase of the project up to Puławska junction was opened in late September 2013.

The second phase of the project took the expressway S2 east of Puławska across the Vistula river, through the Anna Jagiellon Bridge, connecting the route with the eastern part of the Warsaw Express Ring Road and the continuation of the motorway A2 eastwards. The design-and-build tender for this section (divided into 3 separate contracts) was announced on December 18, 2013, with completion date specified as 41 months from the date contract is signed (not counting 3 winter months). The contract was signed in December, 2015, with completion planned for December, 2020.  The final section including the Ursynów Tunnel  opened on December 20, 2021.

The contracts were:

 Contract A (4.6 km) including tunnel under Ursynów : Astaldi S.p.A., price about 1 222 mln zł.
 Contract B (6.45 km) including a bridge over the Vistula river: Gülermak Ağır Sanayi İnşaat ve Taahhüt A.S. and PBDiM Mińsk Maz. , price about 757.6 mln zł.
 Contract C (7.45 km) including overpasses in Masovian Landscape Park: Warbud S.A. price about 561.7 mln zł.
 Oversight: Egis Polska Inżynieria Sp. z o.o., price about 53.4 mln zł.

Route description

See also

Highways in Poland
European route E30

References

Expressways in Poland
Constituent roads of European route E30


Expressway S3 or express road S3 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S3) is a Polish highway, which is planned to run from Świnoujście on the Baltic Sea through Szczecin, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zielona Góra and Legnica, to the border with the Czech Republic, where it will connect to the planned D11 motorway. The total intended length is , of which  is open to traffic and  is under construction as of April 2023.

The main section from Szczecin (A6) through Jordanowo (A2) to Legnica (A4) is completed. In was constructed from 2008 until 2021.

The sections from Legnica (A4) to the Czech border and from Świnoujście to Szczecin (A6) are partially finished and partially under construction, with planned completions in 2024.

Motorway A3 was planned to be built along this route before, but the decision was made to build a lower standard "express road" as the traffic density was judged too low to justify a motorway. Nonetheless, S3 shares the crucial properties of an autostrada, including physical separation, restricted access, all interchanges being grade-separated, and (upon completion) at least two continuous lanes in each direction as well as emergency lanes (hard shoulder).

Route

History

Initial route plans (autostrada A3)
The autostrada A3 was a motorway planned from 1993 to 2001 that was supposed to be built in western Poland. It was planned to begin in Szczecin, link Zielona Góra, Bolków and end in Lubawka on the Polish-Czech border.

Some road maps published in 1990s had an approximate route of the motorway, which in some places were different from the final route of S3, most notably the motorway was supposed to form north-eastern bypass of Legnica while S3 was constructed as its western bypass.

One legacy of the road having been planned as an autostrada is that from the beginning it was being constructed on a completely new alignment (some distance away from the old route of the DK3 road). This is akin to how most expressways in Poland are constructed nowadays, but in contrast to the standards of the 2000s when most of the expressways were constructed by upgrading existing roads.

Świnoujście – Szczecin
One section of S3 east of Szczecin (19 km) was constructed in the 1970s in an expressway standard of those times, featuring one-level intersections and a pedestrian crossing. It was reconstructed in 2019–2020 to contemporary standards, with the intersections and the pedestrian crossing upgraded to grade-separated ones.

S3 south of Szczecin overlaps with A6 motorway (see Autostrada A6: History of construction).

Szczecin – Legnica
A single carriageway was constructed in years 1985–1995 on the section Sulechów–Zielona Góra (27 km). Three short sections were constructed in years 2001–2008, also with the first carriageway only.

The first large section of S3 was the stretch from Szczecin to Gorzów Wielkopolski (82 km), opened to traffic in 2010, followed by the stretch from Gorzów Wielkopolski to Sulechów (80.6 km), opened to traffic in 2013/2014. The new sections had two carriageways, separated by the older stretches (Sulechów–Nowa Sól, Gorzów Wielkopolski bypass and Międzyrzecz bypass) which still remained as single-carriageway.

In 2014–2017/2018, the expressway between Nowa Sól and Legnica (junction with A4) was constructed, and the second carriageway was added on the three older stretches. The exception was the section Polkowice - Lubin, which was also contracted to be completed in the first half of 2018, but the deal with Salini Impregilo was terminated in 2019 due to extensive delays in construction. It was ultimately opened to traffic in 2021.

Legnica – border with Czech Republic
Signing the contracts for construction of all four stretches between A4 at Legnica and the Czech border was planned for 2014. However, in 2013 the officials announced that the section will not enter into construction yet, because delays in preparations in the Czech Republic meant that the connecting motorway on the Czech side of the border might enter into construction no earlier than 2018 (ultimately, the delays on the Czech side turned out to be even larger and the construction of the connecting stretch is expected to start in 2024 rather than in 2018). Some of the money allocated for it has been re-purposed to build the S2 expressway in Warsaw.

Later the decision was partially reversed, and in 2014 two tenders were opened for the section between Legnica and Bolków. This part (35.8 km) was constructed in years 2015–2018.

Two remaining design-build contracts for the section from Bolków to the Czech border were signed in October 2018. The section from Kamienna Góra to the Czech border was opened in September 2023. The other section remains under construction, with expected completion in the first half of 2024.

Exit List

References

See also
Highways in Poland
European route E65

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S5 or express road S5 () is a Polish highway which runs from Grudziądz (connecting to motorway A1 towards Gdańsk) through Poznań (partial concurrency with motorway A2) to Wrocław (connecting to motorway A8).

The expressway was constructed between 2009 and 2022. Its total length is about .

In 2015, it was announced that S5 will be further extended from Grudziądz to Ostróda (connecting to S7). In 2019, an extension from Wrocław to Bolków (connecting to S3 near the border with Czech Republic) was added to the plans. Both extensions are intended to be completed as part of the road construction plan until 2033, which will increase the total length of the expressway to about .

History

The construction of the road received higher priority after Poland was selected as one of the hosts of the UEFA Euro 2012 championship, since it would have provided a direct connection between three of the four Polish cities hosting matches: Poznań, Wrocław and Gdańsk. However, plans to finish the road before the championship were proven too optimistic and only a section between the A2 motorway and Gniezno (35 km), opened on 4 June 2012, was completed by that time. This fragment of S5 serves as the eastern bypass of Poznań.

In October 2015, the planned future route of the expressway has been extended from the Nowe Marzy junction (near Grudziądz) to Ostróda.
In November 2015, contracts were signed for the Gniezno-Grudziądz section, a total of about 150 km. In May 2017, the continuation of the S5 from the end of the eastern bypass of Poznań to just north of Gniezno opened to traffic, thus diverting most transit traffic away from Gniezno itself. In 2019, the planned route was extended from Wrocław to Bolków. In 2022, the last section of the original route was completed.

Exit List

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S6 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S6) is a Polish highway which has been planned to run from the A6 autostrada near Szczecin, through Goleniów in West Pomerania to Gdańsk, parallel to the Baltic coast, forming the main connection between Gdańsk and Szczecin.

As of 2023, the sections from Szczecin to Koszalin and from Bożepole Wielkie to Gdańsk are open. However, a fragment of the Koszalin bypass has been delayed due to unexpected geological conditions and it is scheduled to open to traffic in early 2024.

The remaining part from Koszalin to Bożepole Wielkie is under construction, with scheduled opening dates in 2025. This investment includes adding the second carriageway to the existing single-carriageway bypass of Słupsk. Upon completion of the ongoing contracts, A6/S6 will be open on its whole intended route from the German border to Gdańsk. Later, a new route of S6 will be constructed to form the western bypass of Szczecin, providing a parallel alternative to the existing route of A6 and S6 south-east of Szczecin.

History
After World War I, the German HaFraBa association had already set up plans to build an Autobahn along the route from Berlin through the Polish Corridor, to the Free City of Danzig and East Prussia (today informally known as Berlinka). The construction was pushed by the Nazi authorities after 1933 as an extraterritorial  Reichsautobahn across the Polish Corridor of prewar Poland further south than the modern S6 freeway has been planned for, but the road was never completed.

The first section of S6 built was the Obwodnica Trójmiejska (Tricity Bypass) from Gdańsk to Gdynia, which is  long, followed by the section between Szczecin and Goleniów, both in the 1970s. The next part of  S6 to be opened was   bypass of Słupsk that was completed in October 2010. The bypass of Nowogard was completed in December 2011, with the rest of the section between Szczecin and Koszalin open by 2019.

In July 2010, the route between  Goleniów and Słupsk was finalised. It will be about  long and pass just south of Kołobrzeg and then north of Koszalin. The road will be a dual carriageway, with 27 interchanges and 130 viaducts, with about 20% of it overlapping the current route of National Road 6 (DK6). Doubts about financing made construction not expected to start before 2020, but the schedule was later accelerated. The tenders for design-build contracts on the section between Goleniów and Koszalin were announced in August 2014, with expected completion around 2018.

Sections of the expressway

References

See also
A6 autostrada (Poland)
Highways in Poland

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S7 or express road S7 () is a Polish highway which has been planned to run from Gdańsk on the Baltic coast through Elbląg, Warsaw, Radom, Kielce and Kraków to Rabka near the border with Slovakia. It is being constructed partially by upgrading national road 7 and partially on a new alignment. The construction is co-financed by the European Union funding. The total planned length of S7 is , of which  has been built and a further  is under construction as of September 2023.

The section between Gdańsk and Płońsk (275 km) is completed. From Płońsk to Warsaw (59 km) a dual-carriageway national road 7 from the 1970s (with traffic lights and pedestrian crossings) is used for traffic, and it is partially under reconstruction into S7. Two lanes per each direction are kept open throughout the time of reconstruction, except for the Vistula bridge where 2+1 lanes are available with the middle lane's direction changing based on the times of day.

In Warsaw, the road has partial concurrency with S2 and S8. From Warsaw to Miechów (240 km) the expressway is open to traffic. The section from Miechów to Kraków (45 km) is partially completed and partially under construction, set to be finished in late 2024.

Between Kraków and Myślenice (25 km) the existing dual carriageway national road 7 will serve the traffic until S7 is constructed in unspecified future. Between Myślenice and Rabka-Zdrój S7 is open, which includes the Zakopianka tunnel. In 2020, it was announced that a dual-carriageway extension of S7 from Rabka-Zdrój to the Polish-Slovak border (connecting to future R3 expressway) will be constructed, set to be finished by 2033.

See also
 Highways in Poland
 European route E77

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S8 or express road S8, officially named The Route of the Heroes of the Battle of Warsaw 1920 (pl. droga ekspresowa S8, Trasa Bohaterów Bitwy Warszawskiej 1920 r.) is a Polish highway which connects Wrocław  via Łódź and Warsaw to Białystok. The whole road is  long. Its fragment forming the bypass of Wrocław (22.7 km) is constructed in motorway standard and marked as A8.

The road was constructed between 2008 and 2019 (short fragments serving as bypasses of some towns had been constructed earlier). The construction was co-funded by the European Union.

In 2019, it was announced that an extension of S8 from Wrocław to Kłodzko was added to the plans. Its main part is planned to be opened by 2027. In 2022, it was announced that there are plans for extending the road further from Kłodzko to the Polish-Czech border in Boboszów which might be constructed by 2033, however in the Czech Republic there is so far no planned expressway that would connect to it.

S8 in Warsaw

S8 runs through Warsaw and is part of its network of bypass roads. Various fragments were completed between 2010 and 2015. It was constructed mostly as an upgrade of the city's existing inner highways. As such, it might be considered not to fully meet the definition of a bypass due to it serving both the transit and local district traffic at the same time. In the peak hours, large traffic jams form on this section every day.

During rush hours (7-10 and 16-20), the road is closed for truck drivers, who have to bypass the city area through expressway S2 and road 50 (south-east of Warsaw), or through roads 50 and 62 (north-west of Warsaw).

Via Baltica
Originally, S8 was planned to continue from Białystok to the border with Lithuania. In 2009, the plans were changed and instead S61 now branches off S8 and goes to the border, following a more direct route. S61 and the section of S8 from Warsaw to the S61's starting point serve as part of Via Baltica.

See also
Highways in Poland
European route E67

References

External links

 Official page of S8 construction:  Wrocław – Syców
 Official page of S8 construction: Piotrków Trybunalski – Rawa Mazowiecka
 Official page of S8 construction: Konotopa – Powązkowska
 Official page of S8 construction: Powązkowska – Modlińska
 Official page of S8 construction: Modlińska – Marki in Warsaw
 Official page of S8 construction: Zambrów and Wiśniew bypass
 Official page of S8 construction: Jeżewo – Białystok

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S10 or express road S10 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S10) is Polish highway which, when completed, will serve as a direct route between Szczecin and Warsaw. It has been planned to run from the junction with Motorway A6 on the eastern outskirts of Szczecin, through Bydgoszcz and Toruń, to a junction with express road S50 near Płock, west of Warsaw.

As of 2023, only short stretches of S10 serving as bypasses of Bydgoszcz, Toruń and several smaller towns have been built (about  in total), out of the total planned length of . According to the plans, the road from Bydgoszcz to Toruń will be constructed by 2026, from Szczecin to Bydgoszcz – by 2030, and from Toruń to Warsaw – by 2032.

Exit List

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S11 or express road S11 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S11) is a Polish highway which has been planned to run from Kołobrzeg on the Baltic coast through Koszalin, Piła and Poznań to Piekary Śląskie (north of Katowice). Its total planned length is about .

As of July 2023, several sections serving as bypasses of cities and towns are open to traffic, totalling 120.5 km. A few further sections of the expressway are under construction, but the bulk of it still awaits development. According to the plans, the road should be fully completed by 2030.

History

The sections which were constructed with high priority were those which serve as bypasses of the city of Poznań and several smaller cities and towns along the planned highway route. In June 2012, the fragment between DK92 and the A2 motorway opened to traffic. This stretch of the expressway serves as the western bypass of Poznań and provides faster access to Poznań's airport, as well as diverting most of the traffic away from Poznań's congested city centre. The section which serves as the city's western bypass was completed in 2014.

In 2023 the section from Koszalin to Bobolice (47.8 km) as well as the bypass of Olesno (24.8 km) were completed.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S12 or express road S12 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S12) is a Polish highway planned to run from a junction with the A1 highway near Piotrków Trybunalski to a border crossing with Ukraine at Dorohusk, passing by Radom, Lublin and Chełm. The completed road should be about  long. As of 2023 the portion open to traffic runs from Puławy through Lublin to Piaski.

Sections of the Expressway
 Puławy-Lublin-Piaski section, part of it co-signed with expressway S17, includes the road bypass around Lublin
 first stage of Puławy bypass () with the John Paul II bridge ().  Opened in 2008.
 second stage of Puławy bypass to Kurów West, 11.8 km long, opened to traffic on August 22, 2018.
 Kurów West - Lublin Felin - 55 km long, opened in stages May 2013, September 2014 and October 2014. This section is co-signed with S17.
 Lublin Felin – Piaski West - 13.8 km built by upgrading existing dual carriageway road, opened as expressway in July 2013. Co-signed with S17.
 Piaski West - Piaski East (bypass of Piaski) -  4.2 km bypass built in 2004. Co-signed with S17.

Future
A document outlining the future development of transport infrastructure issued by the Polish government in December 2022 projects that the road would be fully completed in 2030, however the majority of the section from Lublin to Ukrainian border will be opened in years 2024 – 2027.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland


Expressway S14 or express road S14 () is a short expressway in Poland which serves as the western bypass of Łódź. The total length is .

Construction of the first 9.6 km section forming the bypass of Pabianice began in 2010. It opened in two stages, in May 2012 and July 2012. Another 4.1 km extension to the south connects it to the S8 expressway. This extension opened to traffic in April 2014. The tender for building the remaining 27 km was opened on 2 October 2015, with completion expected around 2019. However, it was cancelled and reopened in 2017. Contracts were signed in 2019, and the northern section was completed and opened in July 2023.

Route description

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S16 is a planned Polish highway. It is known that it may have briefly appeared first in Polish government long range planning documents around 2005 (there is some confusion on this point) but was subsequently dropped from construction plans. In October 2015 the route was added to the list of expressways by ministry ordinance.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland


Expressway S17 or express road S17 (pl. Droga ekspresowa S17) is a Polish highway which, when completed, will run from Warsaw through Lublin to the border crossing with Ukraine at Hrebenne/Rava-Ruska. As of April 2023,  out of planned  are opened to traffic: the main section running from Warsaw through Lublin to Piaski, as well as bypasses of Tomaszów Lubelski and Hrebenne.

The joint section of S12 and S17, including the bypass of Lublin, was constructed in years 2011 – 2014. The section between Warsaw and Lublin was to be finished by 2015, but with subsequent reductions in government spending on infrastructure, the investment was delayed. The section was constructed in the design-build system starting late 2015 and early 2016, and the road was opened to traffic in 2019 and 2020.

The road southeast of Lublin has smaller traffic density and received a lower priority, except for the bypass of Tomaszów Lubelski which was opened in 2021 (first carriageway only). Opening of the expressway between Piaski and Ukraine's border is expected from 2026 until 2028 depending on the section.

Sections of the expressway

Lublin bypass
In December 2009, the bidding process was started for the contracts to build the  section of the road around Lublin, from Kurów to Piaski, which includes the city's east–west bypass road. The construction of this section started in 2010, with the first 13 km section to be opened to traffic in late 2012   and the rest in 2014. On this section, S17 overlaps with S12.

Warsaw eastern bypass
In Warsaw, the S17 expressway will serve as the eastern bypass of the city.  Apart from the southernmost section from Lubelska to Zakręt, which was opened in 2022, the construction timetable is not yet set due to the environmental permit having been challenged in the courts.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S19 or express road S19 (pl. droga ekspresowa S19) is a Polish freeway which has been planned to run from the border crossing with Belarus in Kuźnica, through Białystok, Lublin and  Rzeszów, to the border with Slovakia in Barwinek, where it will connect with the future R4 expressway. The road is part of the Via Carpatia route. Its total planned length is .

As of 2023, 189.5 km is completed: the whole expressway between Lublin and Rzeszów and the sections forming bypasses of both Lublin and Rzeszów. It is projected that the remaining parts of the road should be opened to traffic between 2025 and 2027, with the exception of two mountain tunnels near the border with Slovakia which are expected to be finished in 2029.

During the planning of the road, it had been debated how much of it should be dual carriageway and how much single carriageway with 3 lanes in interchanging profile of 2+1 lanes and the first section of the road north of Rzeszów was constructed in such half-profile (with the allocated space reservation to leave the possibility to add the second carriageway later). As the traffic volumes in Poland continued to grow, it was decided that the whole length of S19 will be dual carriageway and the section north of Rzeszów will have the second carriageway constructed by 2026.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

External links
Official page about construction of S-19 section north of Rzeszów

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S22 or Express Road S22 (in Polish Droga ekspresowa S22) is a single carriageway express road running from Elbląg to the border with Russia at Grzechotki-Mamonovo (), where it connects to a Russian road that continues to Kaliningrad. The border crossing on the road opened in December 2010 and is the largest one on the Polish-Russian border, making S22 the key transport connection between the European Union and the Kaliningrad Oblast.

The road follows the route of a German single carriageway autobahn between Elbląg (Elbing) and Kaliningrad (Königsberg) built in the 1930s, known informally as Berlinka.  The old autobahn was completely reconstructed and opened as an express road in September 2008.  In the course of the upgrade, the new modern carriageway was built in the space left for the second carriageway during original construction.  At the same time, the original concrete carriageway was demolished almost along the entire length of the route, and only a few traces of it remain.  All of the remaining original overpasses and bridges were demolished and replaced with modern works.  Thus very few traces of the original German autobahn can be seen.

The construction of the road cost 483 mln PLN, of which over one third was provided by the European Union.

Route description

References

External links

Photos of the road before reconstruction
Aerial photo of border crossing taken in 2007 from the Polish side of the border

Expressways in Poland


Expressway S51 or Express road S51 is a short road in Poland which connects Olsztyn with the express road S7 in Olsztynek. Its length is  and is located in the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship. The majority of Expressway S51 shadows the previous route of national road 51.

Express road S51 has been continuously part of Polish plans for express roads network since 2004. In February 2008 the Olsztyn division of GDDKIA revealed the construction project of expressway S51. In September 2012 the part of the expressway forming the 12 km (7.5 mi) bypass of Olsztynek and its connection to the S7 expressway was opened to traffic whilst the finishing works to this stretch of the expressway were done over October 2012. In December 2017 the full section of expressway between Olsztynek and Olsztyn opened to traffic. In July 2019, bypass of Olsztyn (S16/S51) was finished, making S51 complete.

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S69 or express road S69 (in Polish droga ekspresowa S69) was a major road in Poland which was supposed to run from Bielsko-Biała to the border with Slovakia at Zwardoń/Skalité, where it would connect with Slovak motorway D3. In the original plans, from Bielsko-Biała to Żywiec, the road was to be a dual carriageway with the remaining part to the border with Slovakia a single carriageway only (with terrain reserves for construction of second carriageway in future).

On 4 August 2016, the S69 became part of Expressway S1 when it was rerouted; the old route of S1 became Expressway S52.

Route description

References

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S74 or express road S74 is planned Polish highway connecting express road S12 near Sulejów and S19 near Nisko. From Opatów it is going to follow the current national road 74 toward Lipnik (where it's going to cross national road 9) and further is going to follow national road 77 toward express road S19 near Nisko.

Most of this road is still in planning stages and the exact route has not been established. The construction of the first  long section near Kielce began in May 2009, and was finished in December 2011. The road is planned to be  fully completed in 2030.

See also
Highways in Poland

References

External links
Official page of the S74 construction project near Kielce

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S79 is an expressway in Warsaw acting as a spur route between the southern S2 Expressway section of the Warsaw Express Ring Road at Warszawa Południe junction and Int. Frederic Chopin Airport, ending at the junction with the inner-city Marynarska road. On a stretch between Warszawa Południe and Warszawa–Puławska junctions, S79 has concurrency with S2.

The road was completed in September 2013 and in the future will act as a major Warsaw exit route to the S7 Expressway towards Kraków.

Exit list

External links
 Warszawski węzeł komunikacyjny/obwodnica miasta

Expressways in Poland
Proposed roads in Poland


Expressway S86 (, abbreviated as S86) – built from 1978 to 1986 section of national road 86 with a length of , connecting Katowice (Roździeńskiego Avenue, Murckowska Street and Bagienna Street junction) with Sosnowiec (Pogoń junction).
In Katowice the road is a part of Walentego Roździeńskiego Avenue; in 2010 it was the most, and continuously since 2015 the second most busiest road in Poland, and at the same time a leader among expressways with the highest number of traffic collisions and accidents in 2016.

The route has two carriageways with three lanes on each other. Since 1999 it is maintained by General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (). On September 13, 2015 the government changed the ordinance of the motorways and expressways, officially including the S86 expressway in it, making it the shortest of all expressways in Poland. It is also one of the few expressways that at present time are not connected with the rest of the network of motorways and expressways.

Traffic
Being the main route of traffic between Zagłębie Dąbrowskie and Upper Silesian part of Katowice urban area, expressway S86 is a high traffic road, which is known for frequent traffic jams. According to General Traffic Measurement conducted by GDDKiA in 2010, it carries heaviest traffic in Poland with average of 104339 vehicles daily and from 2015, second with the heaviest traffic in Poland, following Warsaw section of expressway S8, with 112212 vehicles daily and similar number in 2020 and following years. According to Robert Tomanek, professor at University of Economics in Katowice, 100000 vehicles daily is an absolute limit of road's capacity. He points also that the widening of the route is impossible due to the neighboring buildings. It is the one of the three expressways in Poland on which the traffic movement freedom index () in 2017 was classified as the lowest one, with a C mark (very exceeded).. According to General Traffic Measurement maps, the most generated traffic was from Zagłębie cities adjacent to Katowice: Sosnowiec, Czeladź, Będzin, but 80% of that traffic consists of passenger cars. Professor Jerzy Runge at University of Silesia connects the excessive traffic load on the route with the polycentric model of the labor market in the region, where Katowice clearly dominates the local market, which had redirected the stream of people moving towards Katowice from adjacent cities. Over 8 times more people travel from Sosnowiec to Katowice for work than in the opposite direction, and it is a record on national scale. On a working day, according to KZK GOP (), 44,000 people travel by buses running via S86 from Sosnowiec and Dąbrowa. On Saturdays, 19,000, and on Sunday, 13,000. The bottleneck at the connection with national road 79 leading from Mysłowice is also indicated as the cause of road congestion.

Alternative connections
Because of the impossible to be resolved problems with road's capacity and traffic characteristics, where the basis is local traffic related to commuting to work, ways of redirecting part of the traffic to alternative transport are being sought.

Public transport
The public transport between Sosnowiec and Katowice is assessed as poor. The bus lines do not make an alternative, because they run on S86 and the excessive traffic makes significant delays of buses at the times of the heaviest passenger load. Bus line 15 has an alternative route, but is criticized for the travel time and costs, which make it much less attractive than transport by car.

Fast tram
In 2017, there was a concept of building a second, faster than line 15, tram connection between Sosnowiec and Katowice, which would run parallel to S86. However, in 2020 the project was stuck at the level of selecting the company that would prepare a design study for Tramwaje Śląskie.

Bus lanes
In 2022, Kazimierz Karolczak, the chairman of the Metropolis GZM board, suggested creation of bus lanes on S86. Earlier, in 2018, the same concept was proposed by Arkadiusz Chęciński, president of Sosnowiec. The idea was rejected by GDDKiA as impossible for realization, mostly because of the road's capacity, "bottleneck" on junction with road 79 and the expressway status.

Bicycle routes and bicycle highways
Katowice do not have a consistent, uniform connection with Sosnowiec by bike paths and the system of planned bike ways do not guarantee the fastest connection of the cities. In 2016, a concept of building fast bike way from Sosnowiec to Katowice on the former route of sand railway emerged. In 2019, thanks to Metropolis GZM, the concept took on the actual shape of velostrada, with the route parallel to S86 as an alternative connection that allows to travel by bicycle in 25–30 minutes, and by electric bicycle and motorized scooter even in 20 minutes.

Traffic accidents and collisions
Among the expressways, S86 is in the first place as the most dangerous road in Poland: on average, 113 collisions and accidents were reported per 1 km of road in almost entire year, which gives an average of almost 2 collisions daily for the entire  stretch. In 2016, 599 collisions and accidents occurred there, which was the highest result for all of roads in Katowice.

An important factor mentioned in connection with the collision on the S86 route is the fact that any collision on this route can paralyze the region.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Actual view from the traffic camera on S86 – from the site near Grota Rowieckiego Street in Sosnowiec
 Actual view from the traffic camera on S86 – form the site near Baczyńskiego Street in Sosnowiec

Expressways in Poland


Neervalur is a village located around 15 km from Kanchipuram, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is known for its temple of Lord lakshminarayana which is stated to be 500 years old.  This temple also has a shrine for Lord Jwala Narasimha.

Legend
It was also known as Sri Bashyapuram in the past, a reference to Sri Bhashya written by Saint Ramanuja. Even today, the temple comes under the control of Ahobila Mutt.

References

  Website of the Lakshmi Narayana Temple

Villages in Kanchipuram district


Milovan Ilić (; 5 November 1938 – 10 February 2005), better known under his nickname and stage name Minimaks (), was a Serbian radio and television personality.

Early life
He was born on 5 November 1938 in the village of Lipnica near Kragujevac, Yugoslavia. He completed primary and secondary school in Kragujevac, and studied law in Belgrade. He started in the satirical magazine Jež, and in 1960 he moved to Radio Belgrade.

Career
He became known as the leader of the radio program Minimaks. This program was broadcast on Radio Belgrade in the seventies. "Minimaks" was one of the first programmes in which there was a lot of popular music and its motto was "minimum talk maximum music". He is one of the first unconventional journalists in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who inserted jokes, witty remarks and jingles between the standard radio host notices.

With shows Sutra je petak (It's Friday Tomorrow) and Tačno u podne (Exactly at noon), better known as Tup-Tup, which he hosted for 22 years, he achieved great success. After cutting of his radio show, he continued career on the Radio Television of Serbia, where he led the program Od glave do pete (From head to toe).

However, the show was taken off air in the 1990. He moved to RTV Politika where he hosted show Minimaksovizija. He later led shows Minimaksovizija, Maksovizija, Sunday with Minimaks and Fonto at TV Pink and TV Palma. Throughout his time on radio and television he promoted numerous up-and-coming folk singers, most notably Lepa Brena, even giving her the stage name.

Through his programs passed a large number of Serbian singers, musicians, actors, politicians and other public figures. For each guest Minimaks was thoroughly prepared using comprehensive documentation and news. He is the author of several books aphorisms and songs, as well as many columns in various newspapers. With his wife Biljana he had a daughter Hannah and son Vladimir, and from the first marriage, son Igor.

He worked with and knew many Balkan singers, including being manager to Silvana Armenulić, until her death in a car crash in 1976. Ksenija Pajčin worked as his assistant while trying to make a name for herself in the 1990s.

Death
At the end of 2004, Minimaks received a liver transplant at the clinic of the University of Padova, where he died on 10 February 2005 at age 66.

References

External links

 Interviews
 Interviews

1938 births
2005 deaths
People from Kragujevac
Yugoslav journalists
Serbian television personalities
Serbian journalists
Liver transplant recipients
20th-century journalists
Eurovision commentators


The men's basketball tournament at the 1991 Pan American Games was held from August 3 to 17, 1991 in Havana, Cuba. The women also competed in the Cuban capital, from August 3 to 12.Juegos Panamericanos on Urubasket Coliseo de la Ciudad Deportiva was the venue for the games.

Men's competition

Participating nations

Preliminary round

 1991-08-03

 1991-08-04

 1991-08-05

 1991-08-06

 1991-08-07

 1991-08-08

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 1991-08-10

 1991-08-04

 1991-08-05

 1991-08-06

 1991-08-07

 1991-08-08

 1991-08-09

 1991-08-10

Quarterfinals
 1991-08-12

Semifinals
 1991-08-13 — 5th/8th place

 1991-08-15 — 1st/4th place

Finals
 1991-08-11 — 9th/10th place

 1991-08-16 — 7th/8th place

 1991-08-16 — 5th/6th place

 1991-08-17 — Bronze Medal Match

 1991-08-17 — Gold Medal Match

Notes

Final ranking

Awards

Women's competition

Participating nations

Preliminary round

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Semifinals
 1991-08-10

Finals
 1991-08-12 — Bronze Medal Match

 1991-08-12 — Gold Medal Match

Final ranking

Awards

See also
 Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

References

Basketball
1991
1991–92 in North American basketball
1991–92 in South American basketball
International basketball competitions hosted by Cuba


Richard Hopkins may refer to:

Politicians
 Richard Hopkins (died 1682) (1612–1682), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660
 Richard Hopkins (died 1708) (1641–1708), English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1670 and 1701
 Richard Hopkins (died 1799) (1728–1799), MP for Dartmouth, Thetford, Queenborough and Harwich
 Sir Richard Hopkins (died 1736), MP for the City of London 1724–1727

Others
 Richard Hopkins (civil servant) (1880–1955), British civil servant
 Richard Joseph Hopkins (1873–1943), United States federal judge
 Richard Hopkins (TV producer) (1964–2012), British television producer
 Sir Richard Hopkins (governor), governor of the South Sea Company from 1733