Tân Phú may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:

 Tân Phú District, Ho Chi Minh City, an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City
 Tân Phú District, Đồng Nai, a rural district of Đồng Nai Province
 Tân Phú, District 7, a ward of District 7, Ho Chi Minh City
 Tân Phú, District 9, a ward of District 9, Ho Chi Minh City
 Tân Phú, Cần Thơ, a ward of Cái Răng District
 Tân Phú, Đồng Xoài, a ward of Đồng Xoài, Bình Phước Province
 Tân Phú, Đồng Phú, a township and capital of Đồng Phú District in Bình Phước Province
 Tân Phú, Đồng Nai, a township and capital of Tân Phú District in Đồng Nai Province
 Tân Phú, Hanoi, a commune of Quốc Oai District
 Tân Phú, Thái Nguyên, a commune of Phổ Yên
 Tân Phú, Cai Lậy, a commune of Cai Lậy, Tiền Giang Province
 Tân Phú, Hậu Giang, a commune of Long Mỹ
 Tân Phú, An Giang, a commune of Châu Thành District, An Giang Province
 Tân Phú, Bến Tre, a commune of Châu Thành District, Bến Tre Province
 Tân Phú, Cà Mau, a commune of Thới Bình District
 Tân Phú, a commune of Châu Thành District, Đồng Tháp Province
 Tân Phú, Thanh Bình, a commune of Thanh Bình District, Đồng Tháp Province
 Tân Phú, Long An, a commune of Đức Hòa District
 Tân Phú, Nghệ An, a commune of Tân Kỳ District
 Tân Phú, Phú Thọ, a commune of Tân Sơn District
 Tân Phú, Tây Ninh, a commune of Tân Châu District, Tây Ninh
 Tân Phú, Tân Phú Đông, a commune of Tân Phú Đông District, Tiền Giang Province
 Tân Phú, Vĩnh Long, a commune of Tam Bình District

See also
 Phú Tân (disambiguation)
 Tân Phú Đông District, Tiền Giang Province
 Tân Phú Đông, Đồng Tháp, a commune of Sa Đéc
 Tân Phú Tây, a commune of Mỏ Cày Bắc District, Bến Tre Province
 Tân Phú Thạnh, a commune of Châu Thành A District, Hậu Giang Province
 Tân Phú Trung, Ho Chi Minh City, a commune of Củ Chi District
 Tân Phú Trung, Đồng Tháp, a commune of Châu Thành District, Đồng Tháp Province


Tân Lộc is a commune (xã) and village in Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Biển Bạch is a commune (xã) and village in Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Biển Bạch Đông is a commune (xã) and village in Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Hồ Thị Kỷ is a commune (xã) and village in Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Trí Phải is a commune (xã) and village in Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in southern Vietnam. The village centre is approximately  by road north of Ca Mau, and lies at the crossroads of the National Route 63 and Route 981 and two canals, connected to the Trẹm River.

History
In 1987 it was reported that the communes of Trí Phải Tây and Trí Phải Trung merged. At the time the commune of Trí Phải Tây had a population of 4,140 people and covered an area of 4,339 hectares.

As of 2009 the area was 38.7 km2 and the population was 11,894, with a density of 307.4/km2. The age breakdown was
 0–14 years: 2,930
 15–64 years: 8,290
 65+ years: 680

Administrative divisions
The commune is divided administratively into the following subcommunes:

Trí Phải Tây
Trí Phải Trung
Trí Phải Đông
Trí Phải

Landmarks
Trí Phải contains the adjacent churches Nhà thờ Huyện Sử and Nhà Thờ Trí Phải.

References

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Louis R. Rowan (September 27, 1911 - September 28, 1988) was an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

A native of California, Rowan was educated in England. In 1968, along with Clement L. Hirsch and Dr. Jack Robbins, he co-founded the Oak Tree Racing Association at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Rowan was also a co-founder of the California Thoroughbred Foundation.

Louis Rowan bred and raced a number of successful horses. Among them were:
 Mrs. Rabbit, winner of the 1948 Santa Anita Oaks;
 Spinney, winner of the 1957 Santa Anita Maturity and the Canadian Championship Stakes;
 Ruken, winner of the 1966 Del Mar Futurity and the 1967 Santa Anita Derby;
 Quicken Tree - outstanding marathon distance runner whose wins included the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Manhattan Handicap, Santa Anita Handicap, San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap, and two editions of the Display Handicap.

In his memory, the California Thoroughbred Foundation established the Louis R. Rowan Fellowship in Equine Studies at the University of California, Davis. Named in his honor, the Louis R. Rowan Stakes was run from 1988 to 1998 at Santa Anita Park.

Louis Rowan was living in Pasadena, California at the time of his death in 1988.

References
 Information on Louis Rowan and Quicken Tree by Avalyn Hunter.

1911 births
1988 deaths
Businesspeople from California
American racehorse owners and breeders
Sportspeople from California
20th-century American businesspeople


Sông Đốc is a town (thị trấn) in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
Townships in Vietnam


Khánh Bình Tây Bắc is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Bình Tây is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Trần Hợi is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Bình Đông is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Hải is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Lợi An is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Phong Lạc is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Phong Điền is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Lộc is a commune (xã) and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


"Always the Love Songs" is a song written by David Lee Murphy and George Ducas, and recorded by American country music group Eli Young Band.  It was released in September 2008 as the second single from the album Jet Black & Jealous.  This song is also the band's second chart entry on Billboard Hot Country Songs, as well as their first top 20 hit.

Content
"Always the Love Songs" is a mid-tempo song with electric guitar accompaniment. In it, the male narrator recalls a point earlier in his life, when he and his friends would gather around a bonfire, pass around a guitar, and sing songs. He states that it was "always the love songs" that he recalled the most from these sing-alongs.

Critical reception
Country Standard Time critic Brian Steinberg cited "Always the Love Songs" as a standout track on the album, saying that it showed a sense of interplay among the band members that was comparable to The Wallflowers. Andrew Leahey, reviewing the album for Allmusic, also compared the song's sound to that of The Wallflowers, saying that its intro was borrowed from "6th Avenue Heartache".

Music video
The music video for "Always the Love Songs" is of a live performance, and is directed by the band.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2008 singles
Eli Young Band songs
Songs written by David Lee Murphy
Songs written by George Ducas (singer)
Show Dog-Universal Music singles
2008 songs


Nguyễn Phích is a commune (xã) and village in U Minh District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Hội is a commune (xã) and village in U Minh District, Cà Mau Province, Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Khánh Tiến is a commune (xã) and village in U Minh District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is an international human rights NGO that aims to transform the dominant global economic system into one based on human rights standards that provides dignity for all people and protects the planet.

The organization focuses its work specifically on issues of education, health, food, water, housing, rights in crisis, poverty, and inequality. The organization operates in 30 countries spread across all continents. In order to assure compliance with international human rights standards, CESR utilizes an interdisciplinary approach of legal and socioeconomic analysis to advocate issues and monitor, expose, and hold governments accountable for violations, in addition to providing the resources and legal documents to do so.

The official mission of CESR is "to work for the recognition and enforcement of economic and social rights as a powerful tool for promoting social justice and human dignity."

Organizational background
CESR maintains an international board of directors, encompassing leadership from South Africa, the United States, Colombia, Japan, Bangladesh, Sweden, and Australia.

Organizational history
CESR was founded in 1993 by Roger Normand, Sarah Zaidi, and Chris Jochnick. CESR was established with the aim of bringing the human rights community back to its roots with the belief in the interdependence of all human rights established in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organization has continued to carry out the original vision since its creation, yet it has evolved its strategies to adapt to and meet the consistent transformations and evolutions in the field of human rights as well as world issues at large.

In the years between 1993 and 1996, CESR mainly focused on research and advocacy projects to prove the importance of economic and social rights and convened a series of discussions and workshops with human rights, development and social justice groups to challenge the conceptual issues stating economic and social rights were not a fundamental and equal component of the human rights framework . The organization also launched a project on health and the environment in  Ecuador. Between 1997 and 2000, CESR established and strengthened projects in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East. This was also a significant period of strengthening the organization itself through extreme networking, consultations and coalition-building with many local groups and large organizations such as Amnesty International, CARE, Oxfam International, etc.

From 1998 to 2004, CESR extended its projects and areas of operations. It also expanded its functions to not only research and advocacy for economic and social rights but also carried out strategy-sharing and consulting and solidarity development functions. Yet, perhaps the most important transformation of the organization occurred between 2004 and 2008. In 2004, Eitan Felner became the new executive director of CESR and put into effect a series of rights monitoring techniques for the organization to use and teach to others in order to bring about more concrete changes. CESR's actions have also been narrowed to focus on more country-specific projects. In November 2008, Eitan Felner stepped down as executive director and was replaced with Ignacio Saiz, current executive director, in 2009. CESR currently has headquarters in New York.

Economic and social rights

International law
Established and adopted in  1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." The UDHR, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and its two optional protocols, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and its optional protocols form what is known as the International Bill of Human Rights.  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was adopted on December 16, 1966 and entered into force in 1976. Its implementation and adherence by State participants is monitored by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), a body of eighteen international experts established in 1985 and regulated by the United Nations Economic and Social Council or ECOSOC.

Evolution and validity of economic and social rights
Economic and social rights are considered the second wave of rights behind civil and political rights. These rights include, but are not limited to, the right to work, the just and favorable conditions of work, the right to form and join trade unions, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the rights to food, adequate housing, health and education. It is argued by many scholars that economic and social rights originally started to evolve out of the industrialization of countries and the growth of a working class that began to mobilize and demand worker rights. Economic and social hardship and recognition continued to grow and become apparent in the later years following World War I and II, the Cold War, the Great Depression and significantly today, with the expansion of capitalism and development, typically of "third world" countries.

Although the UDHR of 1948 includes economic and social rights in Articles 22-27, civil and political rights are the main focus of the document. It is suggested that this lack of original representation in the UDHR  is due to a lack of consensus on what economic and social rights are, their universality and their validity in international law. The creation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights was also met with much criticism surrounding the implementation of these rights into international law. First, critics argued, and some still exist today, that economic and social rights could not and should not be put into international law because they were incapable of being assessed by a court of law. Second, critics state that economic and social rights suffer from an inability to be immediately implemented. Finally, critics argue that unlike civil and political rights that can be more easily provided, economic and social rights require much positive action significantly with resources and time. Yet, although the debate on the validity of economic and social rights is still present, the existence and status of economic and social rights in international law has been consolidated and is unquestionable. It is now consistently stressed in international human rights law, though not always enforced in practice by states, that economic, social and cultural rights are indivisible from civil and political rights whereby one right cannot be enjoyed without the others. Most importantly, the world will only continue to move into an era of globalization and development that will put economic and social rights at the forefront of international and national law.

Programs and projects
CESR is currently working on many projects across the world and is operating in 30 countries.

Guatemala
One of the major projects taken on by CESR in Latin America is the case of Guatemala Although Guatemala is a mid-income country it has some of the worst social indicators and uneven distributions of wealth in Latin America. Despite having fairly ore resources than many other countries in the region, progress in the area of economic and social rights has been stunted and successful outcomes have been minimal. Through research and analysis, CESR determined that it is the state's fiscal policy that has been a driving factor in the denials and violations of economic and social rights in the country. CESR sought to facilitate and promote changes in Guatemala through exposing the problems with the state's fiscal policy and make human rights an integral part of the debate and reform of the nations' budgets and taxes. As is typical of CESR, the organization partnered with a local think tank of fiscal policy known as the Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales as well as with other local advocacy groups of a wide range of topics including health, education, human rights, development, etc.

In addition to bringing human rights into fiscal debate and tax reforms and seeking government commitment on social spending in areas such as women's health, child malnourishment and ethnic and rural/urban inequalities, CESR has also stated its official advocacy goals  as the following
engage donor community
promote national and local level human rights monitoring capacity
counter media and business discourses
urge and pressure for accountability at international human rights and development forums

CESR was ,overall ,able to affect the 2010 fiscal policy of Guatemala through its strategies and efforts and obtain government and donor commitment to economic and social rights, the enforcement and adherence to this commitment will prove difficult in the future especially as the CESR faced many limits and challenges significantly in the lack of knowledge and concern for human rights from policy makers and challenges of organizational partnership, among others. In addition, CESR promoted yet did not consolidate the monitoring capacity  and ability of the state and other organizations for economic and social rights and was only able to make small advances in media and business discourses and apply pressure for accountability in international reviews.

Global
The Women's Economic Equality Project or WEEP was started by Sarah Zaidi of CESR in collaboration with Leilani Farha of Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation and Shelagh Day of National Association of Women and the Law and is now a part of the Women's Working Group. It seeks to work beyond gender neutrality and analyze and expose the ways in which the economic and social rights of women are given a back seat to civil and political rights.  In order to do so, recognition of the initial disadvantages women face in economic, social and cultural rights needs to be established so as to work towards the implementation of positive rights, not just gender neutrality, that will address women's persistent inequality and poverty in comparison to men. The Project aims to make women's issues an integral part of state and global policy, especially in an era of globalization where a neo-liberal-economic agenda is said to result in the exploitation of women.

Organizational challenges
Economic and Social rights are particularly more difficult to expose and enforce than civil and political rights and CESR has met many challenges concerning its work and/or strategies, some met with success and others with failure.
Critics suggest that it is not enough for an organization to simply expose a violation at the risk of becoming just another voice in a crowd but that greater methodological strength is needed. This includes not just focusing efforts at the higher end of the spectrum such as with governments and donors but more in-depth and greater involvement of the local populations who will be the ones most affected by a reallocation of resources inherent in economic and social rights.

Public policy
The Center for Economic and Social Rights seeks to affect and change public policy concerning economic and social rights and international human rights law, in general through its research and advocacy. CESR has contributed numerous newsletters, country fact sheets, thematic issue publications, country specific publications and official UN submissions. They have also created a library of publications and resources concerning all areas of international human rights and developed a set of tools and resources for monitoring economic and social rights and dealing with its denials and violations. In addition to their efforts to educate the general public, groups, organizations and governments, their networking and coalition building as also allowed CESR to work towards public policy change through political pressure, significantly through exposure of denials and violations of economic and social rights and working towards holding governments and non-state actors accountable for these rights. In particular, CESR has worked extensively in the United States since 1998 to address the United States' opposition of and lack of ratification of the ICESR and consequently, its extreme lack of achievement in economic and social rights, one of the worst records of all high-income countries in the world. CESR, in addition to educational and political pressure measures, has even requested the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations to specifically evaluate the economic and social rights violations of the United States before the Universal Periodic Review, adding significant international pressure on the State.

As previously mentioned, CESR has also worked extensively for the change in public policy, specifically fiscal policy, in Guatemala and was met with success and setbacks. Like the United States, CESR is still working for accountability by states following international reviews. Generally speaking, CESR also works internationally to pressure states to fulfil their Millennium Development Goals with varying successes and setbacks.

References

 King, Jeffrey."An Activist's Manual on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights." Law and Society Trust: March 2003.

External links
 Center for Economic and Social Rights website
 SourceWatch listing on CESR
 ESCR-Net listing on CESR
 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

International human rights organizations
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Organizations based in New York City


Khánh Lâm is a commune (xã) and village in U Minh District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Sixto is a Spanish name. It may refer to:

People with the given name
 Sixto Brillantes (1939–2020), Filipino election lawyer
 Sixto Casanovas (1802–1852), Argentine cavalry officer, politician
 Sixto Durán Ballén (1921–2016), Ecuadorian architect, president
 Sixto Escobar (1913–1979), Puerto Rican professional boxer
 Sixto González (born 1965), Puerto Rican astronomer, director of the Arecibo Observatory
 Sixto Lezcano (born 1953), Puerto Rican born baseball outfielder
 Sixto López (1863–1947), Philippine activist, diplomat
 Sixto Palavecino (born 1915), Argentine poet, folk musician
 Sixto Peralta (born 1979), Argentine football midfielder
 Sixto Rodriguez (1942-2023), American singer-songwriter
 Sixto Sánchez (born 1998), Dominican born baseball player
 Sixto Soria (born 1954), Cuban boxer
 Sixto Valencia Burgos (1934–2015), Mexican cartoon artist
 Sixto Vizuete (born 1961), Ecuadorian football coach

People with the surname
 Maurice Sixto (1919–1984), Haitian author

Spanish masculine given names
Masculine given names


Sha is a Franco-British comic, published by Editions Soleil. It is a trilogy, published  from November 1996 to April 1998.

The story is written by Pat Mills  and illustrated by Olivier Ledroit. They have also collaborated on Requiem Chevalier Vampire.

Storyline
In France during the 15th century, witch hunting is at its peak. The Inquisition is everywhere. Lara, a sixteen-year-old girl, is sentenced to death. Before she dies she curses her executioners and swears to return to punish them.

In Amerika, New Eden during the 21st century, the goddess Sha strikes inexorably. Her hand takes revenge to all of them who are involved with the death of Lara. Inspector Duffy is assigned to capture Sha but she's puzzled as to why she feels a strange connection to the killer.

Characters
 Lara de Voix: A sixteen-year-old witch sentenced to death by the Inquisition along her parents and her infant son.
 Dominique: Lara's best friend and fellow witch who betrays her.
 The Duke: The nobleman who lead the witch hunt.
 The inquisitor: The priest who sentenced Lara and her family to be burned at the stake.
 The monk: An investigator monk and member of the Inquisition who goaded Lara into sexual intercourse in exchange for saving her son's life, a promise he didn't keep.
 The executioner: A sadistic black robed man who mutilated Lara prior to her burning.
 Sha: A being from the Shadow dimension and, unbeknown to Duffy, her familiar.
 Inspector Duffy: The reincarnation of Lara de Voix. One of New Eden PD finest.
 Policemen Wyler: Duffy's partner and a psychic
 Thomas Adams: The reincarnation of the Duke and a demon, now the world biggest arms' dealer. He sells weapons, including chemical ones, to parties on both sides of conflicts.
 Max Dufere: The reincarnation of the monk and a demon, now the king of the food industry. His chemical-filled products allow the overfeeding of the population, thus sapping most causes of rebellion. He personally conducts the chastity checks of his female employees.
 Madam Messonne: The reincarnation of Dominique, head of the world-ruling demon conspiracy and a demon herself, the world's most famous opera singer. Her performances ridicule her former pagan faith.
 Chief Ofalle: The reincarnation of the executioner and a demon, now head of the NEPD. He has kept his love for gratuitous torture and violence from his former life.
 Priest Grey: The reincarnation of the inquisitor and a demon, now a televangelist and host of the Redemption Show, a religion reality-game show during which people guilty of the crime of cyberpornography are electrocuted through a wheel-of-fortune/electric chair operated by the ones who reported them to the police. His studio also secretly houses the "Queen of Cyberporn", a robot created to head the cyberporn movement and focus most opposition and rebels into an easy controllable ensemble.

Publications

French-language edition

The French-language volumes, and the collected volume,  are all published by Editions Soleil:

Sha (146 pages, 1999, ) collects:
 "The Shadow One" (46 pages, 1996, )
 "Soul Wound" (46 pages, 1996, )
 "Soul Vengeance" (46 pages, 1997, )

English-language edition

The English-language is published by Heavy Metal and collects all three stories:

 Sha Collection (110 pages, June 2008, )

References

External links
Page at Bedetheque

Comics by Pat Mills
French graphic novels
Fantasy comics
1996 comics debuts


The Czapski Palace (, ), also called the Krasiński, Sieniawski or Raczyński Palace, is a substantial palace in the center of Warsaw, at 5 Krakowskie Przedmieście. It is considered one of the most distinguished examples of rococo architecture in Poland's capital.

The building, just across the street from the University of Warsaw, has been home to famous persons including artist Zygmunt Vogel, composer Frédéric Chopin, and poets Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid.

The palace now houses the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

History

"Czapski Palace" is the name most often applied to the building, but in reference to subsequent residents it is also sometimes called the Krasiński, Sieniawski or Raczyński Palace. The building has also been owned by the Radziwiłłs, Radziejowskis, Zamoyskis and Czartoryskis.

Now the home of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, the Czapski Palace dates from the late 17th century. It was constructed in about 1686 to Tylman van Gameren's design for Michał Stefan Radziejowski, Archbishop of Gniezno and Cardinal Primate. Between 1712 and 1721 it was reconstructed by Agostino Locci and Kacper Bażanka (alcoves and breaks were added) for the next owner, Great Crown Hetman Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski. In 1733 it was purchased by Aleksander Czartoryski, as a dowry for his daughter Maria who married her cousin Thomas Czapski (1711-1761). Its present rococo character dates from 1752–65, when the palace belonged to the Czapski family. At that time, the Krakowskie Przedmieście entrance was decorated with eagles and allegorical figures of the Four Seasons.

The Czapski Palace changed owners at least ten times. It was the residence of Stanisław Małachowski, Marshal of the Sejm, who in 1791 co-authored the world's second, and Europe's first, codified written national constitution—the Constitution of May 3, 1791. Małachowski and his wife Konstancja, née Czapska (daughter of Thomas Czapski), in the mid-eighteenth century remodeled the palace into a French-style city palace. Added around the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were two classicist annexes designed by Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer. Another famous resident of the palace (1808–26) was Zygmunt Vogel, an artist who specialized in watercolor and drawing and was a professor in the University of Warsaw Department of Fine Arts.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the palace was acquired by Wincenty Krasiński. Zygmunt Krasiński, the Polish romantic poet, was born here in 1812. In 1827–30 Fryderyk Chopin lived here with his family in the building's south annex, on Krakowskie Przedmieście; the Palace was Chopin's last home before he went into exile. In 1837–39 it would be home to poet Cyprian Norwid, author of "Chopin's Piano" about the Russian troops' 1863 defenestration of the instrument. In 1851–52 the palace was rebuilt by Enrico Marconi. From 1909 to the outbreak of World War II, the building belonged to Edward Raczyński, future President (1979–86) of the Republic of Poland in Exile.

The palace burned in 1939 after being shelled by German artillery, and priceless paintings and books are thought to have been destroyed. It was reconstructed in 1948-59 to a design by Stanisław Brukalski. After restoration, the palace was incorporated into the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

Today

In the courtyard before the Palace stands a copy of Andrea del Verrocchio's equestrian statue of the Venetian condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni.

In the south annex to the Palace, facing directly onto Krakowskie Przedmieście, a large second-floor room, the Chopin Family Parlor (Salonik Chopinów), features period furniture and memorabilia of the composer. The parlor's interior and decor, from the first half of the nineteenth century, have been reconstructed from sketches made in 1832 by Antoni Kolberg. The parlor is open to the public.

The Academy of Fine Arts museum that opened in 1985 holds 30,000 works from all fields of visual art:  painting, sculpture, graphics, drawing, posters, architecture, artistic crafts, industrial design. The museum is located in the Palace's attic. The collections are held in 200 square metres of storage rooms, while the exhibition rooms host meetings, lectures and temporary displays.

See also
 Branicki Palace, Warsaw
 Brühl Palace, Warsaw
 Krasiński Palace

Notes

External links

  Pałac Czapskich

Houses completed in 1705
Rococo architecture in Warsaw
Palaces in Warsaw
Universities and colleges in Warsaw
Art museums and galleries in Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1705 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth


The motorway RA15, also known as Tangenziale di Catania or Catania's By Pass (West), is a motorway to contour Catania in Sicily, running from north to south, west of the city. It is 23.3 km long and it is managed by ANAS. It is also part of the European route E45. It was opened on 28 May 1985 and was called T09 until the 1990s.

By Pass (West)
The RA15 is connected to the A18 to Messina, the A19 to Palermo and to all of the major national roads of Eastern Sicily. Since 2009 it is also linked to the A CT-SR to Syracuse.

RA15

By Pass (East)
The initial project had on the plans a second service road going through the city called By Pass East (today's A18dir) but due to the highly urbanized situation of Catania the project has never been completed leaving the road to terminate in the northern part of the city.
In the southern part of Catania, in July 2010 was completed another 5,0 km of service road called "Asse attrezzato", part of the initial project of the 1970s. This service road connects the motorway A19 to Palermo and the RA 15 to the southern part of the city. This second stretch of service road is not classified as motorway.

A18dir Diramazione Catania nord

Asse attrezzato

External links

Autostrade in Italy
Transport in Catania
Ring roads in Italy


Mikelangelo Loconte (5 December 1973) is an Italian singer, writer, composer, musician, performer and artistic director. He was born in Cerignola, but began his acting and performing career in France, in the musical Les Nouveaux Nomades by Claude Barzotti and Anne-Marie Gaspard. Without speaking French, he recorded all his songs in a studio using phonetic writing in the early years of his career.

Career
Discovered in Belgium by Alec Mansion (member of Léopold Nord & Vous band), Loconte worked as an artistic director in the studio La Chapelle in Waimes.

He reached star status portraying Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the musical Mozart, l'opéra rock, directed by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen. His first single, "Tatoue-moi", was a number-one hit in France in 2009. Later, Mozart, l'opéra rock has witnessed a growing international fan base and went on a tour to Korea in 2016 and then other tours to Shanghai and Taiwan in 2018, in which Loconte portrays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mikelangelo Loconte is a new ambassador of the Organisation for the Prevention of Blindness (OPC).

References

External links
  Official site
 Organisation for the Prevention of Blindness

1973 births
French-language singers of Italy
People from Cerignola
Italian pop singers
Living people
Italian expatriates in Belgium
21st-century Italian  male singers


"Tatoue-moi" is a 2008 French pop song recorded by Italian singer Mikelangelo Loconte. It is the first single from the musical Mozart, l'opéra rock and from the album of the same name, released on April 6, 2009. Olivier Schultheis, Jean Schultheis' son, participated in the composing of the song. The single was released on December 15, 2008  and achieved huge success in France, where it went straight to number-one on the SNEP singles chart on January 17, 2009, selling 8,280 copies and remained atop for five consecutive weeks. It was also number-one on the French digital chart, for a sole week.

Track listings
 CD single
 "Tatoue-moi" — 3:20
 "Quand le rideau tombe" —3:54
 "Tatoue-moi" (video)
 Bonus : Les coulisses du tournage du clip "Tatoue-moi"

 Digital download
 "Tatoue-moi" — 3:20

Charts

References

2008 debut singles
Mikelangelo Loconte songs
SNEP Top Singles number-one singles
Songs from musicals
2008 songs
Songs written by William Rousseau
Songs with lyrics by Patrice Guirao


St. Anthony School is a Roman Catholic private school (grades K-12) located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Founded in 2009, the school is an extension to St. Anthony Grade School, which was founded in 1872.

History
The high school began classes on August 31, 2009, with an enrollment of 107 students. It was the first new Catholic high school in the Milwaukee archdiocese in more than 25 years and the first Catholic high school on the south side within the boundaries of the city of Milwaukee since St. Mary's Academy closed in 1991.

Curriculum
St. Anthony School is an official international baccalaureate candidate school, and is expected to be certified for the 2015-16 school year.

Athletics
In 2012, the boys soccer team won the Division III state championship in the second year of the program's existence.

References

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Educational institutions established in 1872
Catholic secondary schools in Wisconsin
High schools in Milwaukee
1872 establishments in Wisconsin


Jairo is a common Spanish name. Notable people with this name include:

People

Association football
Francisco Jairo Silva Santos (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
Jairo Aguirre (born 1956), Colombian footballer
Jairo Álvarez Gutiérrez (born 1986), Spanish footballer
Jairo Ampudia (born 1966), Colombian footballer
Jairo Arboleda (born 1947), Colombian footballer
Jairo Arias (born 1938), Colombian footballer
Jairo Arreola (born 1985), Guatemalan footballer
Jairo Arrieta (born 1983), Costa Rican footballer
Jairo Luis Blumer (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
Jairo Campos (born 1984), Ecuadorian footballer
Jairo Castillo (born 1977), Colombian footballer
Jairo Henríquez (born 1993), Salvadorian footballer
Jairo Jiménez (born 1993), Panamanian footballer
Jairo de Macedo da Silva (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
Jairo Montaño (born 1979), Ecuadorian footballer
Jairo Martínez (born 1978), Honduran footballer
Jairo do Nascimento (1946–2019), Brazilian footballer
Jairo Neto (born 1994), Brazilian/East Timorese footballer
Jairo Palomino (born 1988), Colombian footballer
Jairo Patiño (born 1978), Colombian footballer
Jairo Pérez (born 1976), Guatemalan footballer
Jairo Puerto (born 1988), Honduran footballer
Jaïro Riedewald (born 1996), Dutch footballer
Jairo Samperio (born 1993), Spanish footballer
Jairo Sanchez-Scott (born 1987), Cayman Islands footballer
Jairo Suárez (born 1985), Colombian footballer
John Jairo Castillo (born 1984), Colombian footballer
John Jairo Culma (born 1981), Colombian footballer
John Jairo Ruiz (born 1994), Costa Rican footballer
John Jairo Tréllez (born 1968), Colombian footballer
John Jairo Ulloque (born 1986), Colombian footballer
Juan Jairo Galeano (born 1962), Colombian footballer

Other
Jairo (born 1949), Argentine singer
Jairo Clopatofsky (born 1961), Colombian politician
Jairo Cossio (born 1970), Colombian weightlifter
Jairo Duzant (born 1979), sprinter from the Netherlands Antilles
Jairo Guedz, lead guitar player of Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura
Jairo Hernández (born 1972), Colombian cyclist
Jairo Labourt (born 1994), Dominican baseball pitcher
Jairo Miguel (born 1993), Spanish bullfighter
Jairo Penaranda (born 1958), American football running back
Jairo Pérez (born 1973), Colombian track and road cyclist
Jairo Salas (born 1984), Colombian road cyclist
Jairo Varela (born 1949), Colombian musician, composer and songwriter of Salsa music and other tropical genres

Spanish masculine given names
Masculine given names


Phú Mỹ is a commune (xã) and village in Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Phú Tân is a commune (xã) and village in Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Tân Hải is a commune (xã) and village in Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Tân Hưng Tây is a commune (xã) and village in Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Nguyễn Việt Khái is a commune (xã) and village in Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province


Quicken Tree (April 18, 1963 – October 22, 1970) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse known for his come-from-behind style of running and his ability to win at classic and marathon distances. His California breeder, Louis Rowan, a co-founder  of the Oak Tree Racing Association, named the horse after one of the folk names given to the Rowan plant.

Background
Quicken Tree was foaled in California at Louis Rowan's Summit Lake Farm. He was sired by 1959 Preakness Stakes winner Royal Orbit, a grandson of Nearco whom Thoroughbred Heritage calls "one of the greatest racehorses of the Twentieth Century".  Louis Rowan owned Quicken Tree's dam, Mother Wit, a daughter of 1951 American Horse of the Year Counterpoint, who was a son of 1943 U.S. Triple Crown champion and Hall of Fame inductee Count Fleet. Rowan, a co-founder  of the Oak Tree Racing Association, raced him in partnership with Wheelock Whitney, Jr.

Racing career
Quicken Tree was extremely high-strung, and trainer Clyde Turk had a great deal of difficulty training him. The decision was then made to geld the horse.  The operation changed little, but time and patience paid off, and Quicken Tree made his racing debut at age three in January 1966. Still skittish, he had problems in the starting gate and froze at the sound of the bell. After departing well behind the rest of the field, he finished last. His "freezing up" at the sound of the starting bell plagued him throughout his racing career. Nonetheless, Quicken Tree's problem meant come-from-behind performances that made him a crowd favorite. He won for the first time in his fourth start, after which he performed poorly and was entered in claiming races.

Nearing the end of Quicken Tree's three-year-old campaign, he won a division of the Escondido Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack and the Tropicana Hotel of Las Vegas Handicap at Bay Meadows Racetrack. In early 1967, Minnesota sportsman Wheelock Whitney, Jr. purchased a part interest in the then-four-year-old. That year, Quicken Tree won two important handicaps in California, then captured the two-mile Display Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York City. In 1968, he won in California and earned the biggest wins of his career to that point on New York racetracks, where he competed against such stars as future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees Dr. Fager and Damascus. Quicken Tree's 1968 wins included the Jockey Club Gold Cup at a distance of two miles and the Manhattan Handicap at a mile and a half.

In 1969, Quicken Tree added to his resume. In 1970, trainer Clyde Turk's assistant, William Canney, took over the horse's race conditioning. Under Canney, he continued to win, and, twenty years after Noor won both the 1¼ mile Santa Anita Handicap and the 1¾ mile San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap, Quicken Tree became the only other horse to accomplish that feat.

Injury and death
His win  in the San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap (a dead heat with Fiddle Isle) was his last victory.  Although he recovered following an operation to repair a cracked sesamoid bone that occurred when he kicked the wall in his stall, he developed a case of enteritis and died in his stall at Santa Anita Park on October 22, 1970. He was buried next to Lamb Chop near the mile and a quarter chute at Santa Anita Park.

References
 Quicken Tree's pedigree and partial racing stats
 Profile of Quicken Tree by Avalyn Hunter.

1963 racehorse births
1970 racehorse deaths
Thoroughbred family 5-j
Racehorses bred in California
Racehorses trained in the United States


Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan (Urdu:  ) is the largest federation of Islamic seminaries in Pakistan, founded in 1959. More than 10,000 seminaries and 23,000 madaris across Pakistan are affiliated with the federation. It controls all the seminaries which are run by Deobandi School of thought.

Mufti Taqi Usmani has been appointed as the new president on 19 September 2021 after the death of the former president, Abdur Razzaq Iskander.

Qari Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari is general sectary of the federation. The head office of the federation is situated in Multan.

Functions
The functions of 'Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan' are the registration of seminaries, creation of syllabus, checking standard of education, arrangement of examination and issuance of degrees.

Presidents
 Shamsul Haq Afghani (19 October 1959 – 12 January 1963)
 Khair Muhammad Jalandhari (12 January 1963 – 22 October 1970) – founder of Jamia Khair-ul-Madaris Multan.
 Sayyed Yousuf Banuri (30 May 1973 – 17 October 1977) – founder of  Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia.
 Mufti Mahmud (15 May 1978 – 14 October 1980)
 Muhammad Idrees Meerthi (30 November 1980 – 1988)
 Maulana Saleemullah Khan (8 June 1989 – 15 January 2017) - founder of Jamia Farooqia Karachi.
 Abdur Razzaq Iskander (5 October 2017 – 30 June 2021) – Chancellor of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani (19 September 2021 – present)

See also
 List of Deobandi organisations
Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-Madaris Pakistan
Madrassas in Pakistan
Qawmi, Bangladesh

References

External links
Wifaq-ul-Madaris Official Website
Wifaq ul Madaris results
wifaq-ul-madaris-admission

Islamic political organizations
Islamic schools in Pakistan
Deobandi madrasas
Madrasas in Pakistan
Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan
Education in Pakistan
1959 establishments in Pakistan
Deobandi organisations


Mpho' Gift Ngoepe (mm-POH, n-GO-pay; born 18 January 1990) is a South African former professional baseball shortstop and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays. In 2017, he became the first native of continental Africa to reach the Major Leagues.

Professional career

Pittsburgh Pirates
A native of Randburg, Ngoepe became the first black South African, and the sixth South African to sign a professional baseball contract when he signed in October 2008. When Ngoepe was growing up, his mother was a clubhouse attendant for the Randburg Mets, and they lived in one of the clubhouse rooms. He was invited to Major League Baseball's academy in Tirrenia, Italy, where the Pirates signed him.

In 2009, Ngoepe played for the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Pirates, and batted .238/.341/.281 with one home run, nine runs batted in (RBI), and 13 stolen bases in 47 games. He was a member of the South Africa national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. At the 2009 WBC, he hit consecutive triples off of Mexico's Elmer Dessens in a 14–3 loss to Mexico. On 10 August 2009, Sports Illustrated published an article on Ngoepe titled "A Gift From Africa" which covered how he started his baseball career, his upbringing, and time with the Pirates since moving from South Africa. In 2010, he played 64 games with the Short Season-A State College Spikes and two with the Advanced-A Bradenton Marauders, batting a combined .206/.316/.318 with one home run, 20 RBI, and 11 stolen bases.

Ngoepe played only 27 games in 2011 due to a hamate injury. He batted .297/.354/.440 with two home runs and five RBI before the injury.

Ngoepe played the entire 2012 season with Bradenton, and in a then career-high 124 games played he hit .232/.330/.338 with nine home runs and 36 RBI and a career-high 22 stolen bases. He also played 16 games for the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League. In 2013, he again began the season with Bradenton, playing 28 games and batting .292/.424/.427 before being promoted to the Double-A Altoona Curve, where he played 72 games. In Altoona, Ngeope batted .177/.278/.282 with three home runs, 16 RBI, and 10 stolen bases. He made his second trip to the Arizona Fall League at the end of the season, playing 17 games for Scottsdale.

In 2014, Ngeope set career-highs in games played and RBI, playing 131 games with Altoona and batting .238/.319/.380 with nine home runs, 52 RBI, and 13 stolen bases. He was invited to 2015 spring training by the Pirates on 9 January 2015. He played for the Indianapolis Indians of the Triple-A International League in 2016.

On 26 April 2017, the Pirates promoted Ngoepe to the major leagues from Indianapolis. This made him the first continental African player, and the first player from an independent African nation, to reach the Major Leagues. Ngoepe made his Major League debut that day, and recorded his first career hit, a single off Cubs' starting pitcher Jon Lester. Because of time zone differences, Ngoepe's MLB debut fell on the early morning of 27 April in South Africa, observed in that country as Freedom Day, memorializing the 1994 election that was the first in which the country's black population was allowed to vote. In 2017 with Pittsburgh he batted .222/.323/.296.

Toronto Blue Jays
On 20 November 2017, Ngoepe was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for cash considerations or a player to be named later. He earned a spot on the active roster to begin the season, and was optioned to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on 20 April, with whom he batted .168/.304/.252. With Toronto he had one hit in 19 at bats. He was designated for assignment on 3 May 2018. Ngoepe was released from the organization on 13 August 2018.

Sydney Blue Sox
On 30 August 2018, Ngoepe signed with the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian Baseball League (a winter league) for the 2018/19 season. He batted .357/.451/.700.

Philadelphia Phillies
On 11 January 2019, Ngoepe signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played for the Class AAA Lehigh Valley IronPigs, and batted .221/.296/.410 with 5 home runs and 21 RBIs in 122 at bats, playing second base, third base, and shortstop. He was released on 20 June 2019.

Second stint with Pittsburgh Pirates
On 29 June 2019, Ngoepe signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was assigned to the Double-A Altoona Curve. He batted .100/.289/.100 in 30 at bats. He was released on 30 July 2019.

Lancaster Barnstormers
On 6 August 2019, Ngoepe signed with the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He batted .289/.317/.632 with three home runs and seven RBIs for them in 38 at bats, playing seven games at shortstop and four games at second base.

Second stint with Sydney Blue Sox
Ngoepe returned to the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian Baseball League for the 2019/20 season.

Melbourne Aces
Ngoepe signed with the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League for the 2020/21 season. They won the Claxton Shield that same year.

Québec Capitales
On March 30, 2021, Ngoepe signed with the Québec Capitales of the Frontier League.

Coaching

Newport Rams
On 16 March 2022, Ngoepe became a coach with the Newport Rams of Baseball Victoria.

Arizona Diamondbacks
In January 2023, Ngoepe was announced as a coach for the ACL Diamondbacks, a minor league affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Personal life
Ngoepe is married to Cait and they have a son Kiani.

Ngoepe's younger brother, Victor, is a former Pirates prospect.

Notes

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Altoona Curve players
Bradenton Marauders players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
South African expatriate baseball players in Australia
Expatriate baseball players in Canada
Gulf Coast Pirates players
Indianapolis Indians players
Lancaster Barnstormers players
Lehigh Valley IronPigs players
Major League Baseball players from South Africa
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball shortstops
Major League Baseball third basemen
Sportspeople from Polokwane
People from Randburg
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Scottsdale Scorpions players
South African expatriate baseball players in the United States
South African expatriate sportspeople in Canada
South African Sotho people
Sportspeople from Johannesburg
State College Spikes players
Sydney Blue Sox players
Toronto Blue Jays players
West Virginia Black Bears players
West Virginia Power players
2009 World Baseball Classic players
Minor league baseball coaches


Cái Nước is a township (Thị trấn) and capital town of Cái Nước District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Đầm Dơi is a township (Thị trấn) and capital town of Đầm Dơi District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Reo is a name appearing on Latin dedications to a Lusitanian-Gallaecian deity, usually with an epithet relating to a place, such as Reo  Paramaeco discovered in Lugo in Galicia. The name Reo is in the Latin dative case, for a Latinized name *Reus.

Name and meaning
Apart from Reo Larauco (Reus of Larouco) the epithets share an -aik- element interpreted as an adjectival marker familiar from Lusitanian inscriptions in  the dedications to Reo Paramaeco (Reus of Paramo) Amoaego Arcunii, Anabaraeco, and Alabaraico Sulensi. The first element Reo/Reus is very similar to the name Reue appearing on the Lusitanian Cabeço das Fráguas inscription, part of which reads INDI TAVROM IFADEM REVE T..., usually interpreted as "and (or thereafter) a fertile(?) bull for Reue" with the epithet lost. Reue therefore also seems to be a dative in the Lusitanian form of the name. Reue appears again on the Ribeira da Venda inscription, including an epithet, as REVE AHARACVI - this time the deity is receiving a sacrifice of ten sheep.

Polish scholar K. T. Witczak derives the name from earlier *diewo, suggesting that the Lusitanian language changed the Proto-Indo European d to r, making Reo a sky deity similar to (and having a name cognate with) the Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter, something which may be supported by dedications to him near mountains which also allude to Roman Jupiter; however other authorities such as Blázquez and Villar suggest he may have been a deity linked to rivers and that the name derives from a root meaning a flow or current.

See also
 Bull (mythology)

References

Bibliography

Further reading

 Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares. "Los dioses soberanos y los ríos en la religión indígena de la Hispania indoeuropea". In: Gerión n. 18 (2000). pp. 191-212.
 Prósper, Blanca María; Liébana, Francisco Villar. "Nuevo epígrafe votivo dedicado a la divinidad Reve en La Coruña". In:  Palaeohispánica: Revista sobre lenguas y culturas de la Hispania antigua Nº. 3, 2003, pp. 271-282. .
 Prósper, Blanca María (2010). «REVE ANABARAECO, Divinidad Acuática De Las Burgas (Orense»). In: Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua, n.º 9 (noviembre), 203-14. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i9.224.
 Redentor, Armando (2013). "Testemunhos De Reve No Ocidente Brácaro". In: Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua n.º 13 (julio) pp. 219-35. https://ifc.dpz.es/ojs/index.php/palaeohispanica/article/view/162.

Lusitanian gods
Gallaecian gods


Năm Căn is a commune-level town (Thị trấn) and capital town of Năm Căn District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam. Nam Can is 50 km south of Cà Mau City, the provincial capital. The town is located on the river. Vinashin has a shipbuilding factory here. An oil refinery is considered to be built here by an American company.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Cái Đôi Vàm is a township (Thị trấn) and capital town of Phú Tân District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research component of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest research centres in Canada and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The institute employs over 300 scientists and clinician-scientists and has a total of over 1300 research staff.

Disciplines and Platforms

Each scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) belongs to a platform and a program.

Research Platforms
 Biological sciences
 Evaluative clinical sciences
 Physical sciences

Research programs
 Brain Sciences
 Cancer (Odette Cancer Centre)
 Heart (Schulich Heart Centre)
 Musculoskeletal (Holland Musculoskeletal Centre)
 St. John's Rehab Research
 Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care
 Veterans & Community
 Women & Babies

Commercialization

Sunnybrook Research Institute has been issued a total of 64 patents and currently have 29 active licences.
Several spinoff companies have emerged from SRI, including VisualSonics Inc., Sentinelle Medical Inc. and Profound Medical Inc.

References

External links
 Sunnybrook Research Institute

Medical research institutes in Canada
University of Toronto
Companies based in Toronto


Francis Reynolds McGurk (15 January 1909 – 2 March 1978) was a Scotland international footballer who played in the Scottish Football League for Clyde and made 22 appearances in the English Football League playing for Birmingham and Bristol City. He played as an outside right.

McGurk was born in Eddlewood, Hamilton. He began his football career with junior club Blantyre Celtic before joining Clyde of the Scottish Football League First Division in 1931. He made a name for himself as a goalscorer, and in the 1933 close season moved to England to join Football League First Division side Birmingham. Though he showed no signs of enhancing his goalscoring reputation, his dribbling attracted the attention of the Scotland national selectors. After only two years as a professional, McGurk won his first and only international cap, on 4 October 1933, in a 3–2 defeat to Wales at Ninian Park in the British Home Championship. After two years with Birmingham, in which time he played only 19 games, McGurk left for Bristol City, and a few months after that he was playing in the Birmingham Works League for Whittaker Ellis.

McGurk died in Birmingham in 1978 at the age of 69.

References

External links

 McGurk's profile at London Hearts Supporters Club

1909 births
1978 deaths
Scottish men's footballers
Scotland men's international footballers
Men's association football outside forwards
Clyde F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Bristol City F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
English Football League players
Blantyre Celtic F.C. players
Footballers from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire


Victoria Hall is a former -storey commercial building in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Overlooking Gore Park, it is located in downtown Hamilton's central commercial district. For many years, the building (alongside the MacKay Building) was jointly known as the "Foster Building" due to its most recent use as a high-end clothing store.  Some people still refer to Victoria Hall by this nickname today. It is a superior and rare example of a commercial building with a decorative architectonic sheet metal facade, which is completely hand-made. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1995.

Additionally, the building is an irreplaceable element in King Street's continuum of commercial architecture dating from the pre-Confederation era to the present and is likely one of the oldest surviving sheet metal facades in the country.

History

Victoria Hall was built between 1887 and 1888. Designed by Hamilton architect William Stewart and erected for Alexander Bruce, a prominent Hamilton lawyer, the façade projects an image of prosperity by simulating the appearance of exuberant stone masonry.

Victoria Hall forms part of a continuous row of commercial buildings overlooking Gore Park, an area that has traditionally functioned as the city's commercial heart and the focal point of public events. Victoria Hall is among the last of the robust High Victorian commercial buildings in the Gore Park area.

For many years, the building was home to Gerhard Heintzman Pianos, A. Carey & Son Radio, J.H. Herring tea brokers, the Empire Newspaper, Canada Cycle Company and Bessie Brown Hats.  A high-fashion women's store named Foster's moved into Victoria Hall in 1952 and about 10 years later it also took over the MacKay space next door. Since then, they've been treated as one property and apparently they even lean on each other.  When the Jackson Square complex was constructed during the 1970s, Fosters abandoned Victoria Hall/McKay Building in 1979.  Since then, Victoria Hall has remained the longest abandoned building in downtown Hamilton until recent renovations.

Character Defining Elements
The key elements that relate to the heritage value of this site include:
 Its hand-crafted, sheet-metal facade, covering the entire front of the building above the ground floor;
 The well-proportioned, three-bay, Italianate composition of the metal facade, with architectural elements fabricated in high relief;
  On the lower two storeys, flat-arched windows with rounded corners separated by elongated columns, all framed by rusticated pilasters;
  On the top floor, semi-circular arched windows with highly decorated voussoirs and large keystones;
  A prominent, bracketed cornice capping the façade;
  Its successful simulation in galvanized sheet-metal of elaborately carved stone masonry;
  Its prominent and highly visible location on King Street near the corner of John Street;
  Its incorporation in a continuous row of commercial buildings along the south side of King Street;
  Its direct relationship to the open landscaped space of Gore Park on the opposite side of the street.

Restoration

After Fosters, a Willowdale dentist took ownership of the buildings. The dentist tried to sell them for $1.5 million, then half that, and still no takers.  In the mid-1990s, the city came close to buying the property itself, but politicians were deterred by the state of deterioration. Years passed.

The property ended up with another owner who thought the properties should sell for millions. A Toronto real estate agent was going to be the savior, but again there was no progress.

Finally, the Victoria Hall-MacKay Building property was purchased in 2005 for $300,000 by out-of-town investors. They hired the Toronto engineering firm of Tran Dieu & Associates, which has come up with a $3 million plan that includes retail, office and 10 live-work spaces, popular in other cities.

The project qualified for about $300,000 in interest-free loans under the city's convert-to-residential program. Gordon Moodie (in charge of grants and loans for renewal projects in downtown Hamilton) worked with Tran Dieu on an application for something called the Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund, which could give the Victoria Hall project a substantial kick-start.

In 2008, the Victoria Hall-MacKay Building property began renovations.  The MacKay building consists of five, five bedroom apartments, roughly 2100 sq. feet.  The 2nd and 3rd floor apartments took occupancy in September 2008.  Victoria Hall consists of two apartments, one five bedroom (top floor with a 23-foot vaulted ceiling) and one four bedroom (2nd floor), and has since been repainted and polished to its original enamel white color evident in late-1800 photographs.

National Historic Site designation
Victoria Hall was designated a National Historic Site in 1995 as a superior and rare example of a commercial building with a decorative, hand-made architectonic sheet metal facade. Victoria Hall's well-designed and well-crafted three-story metal facade, made up of high-relief architectural elements, was, at the time of designation, largely intact.

While this building was designated in 1995, a bilingual bronze plaque (which is the standard form of commemoration) has not been yet placed. Discussions about plaques are held between the owners of National Historic Sites and the appropriate Parks Canada Field Unit. Some buildings do not have plaques for many reasons: (i) Owners do not want them; (ii) the designation is too recent, or (iii) many recent commemorations in Ontario have created a backlog of requests for plaques. The number of unplaqued designations currently exceeds plaquing capacities.

See also
 Royal eponyms in Canada

References

External links
Victoria Hall National Historic Site of Canada

Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario
National Historic Sites in Ontario
Designated heritage properties in Ontario


Thới Bình is a township (thị trấn) and capital town of Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Dr. Karim Jamal, CA, is Chartered Accountants' Distinguished Chair in Accounting, and a professor at the University of Alberta School of Business.

He has a Fellowship at the Institute for United States Policy Studies. He is a professor of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Management Control, Accounting Theory and Auditing, as well as a few MBA courses. Dr. Karim is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA), American Accounting Association (AAA), and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA). Jamal has a BComm (Hons) from the University of Manitoba, an MSc from the University of British Columbia and a PhD (Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting), from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota in 1991.  His thesis was Detecting Framing Effects in Audit Judgment.

His research interest is in developing cognitive models of expert decision making in accounting, auditing and financial markets.

References

Canadian accountants
Carlson School of Management alumni
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Manitoba alumni
University of British Columbia alumni


Trần Văn Thời is a township (Thị trấn) and capital town of Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Cà Mau province
Communes of Cà Mau province
District capitals in Vietnam
Townships in Vietnam


Laser ablation synthesis in solution (LASiS) is a commonly used method for obtaining colloidal solution of nanoparticles in a variety of solvents. Nanoparticles (NPs,), are useful in chemistry, engineering and biochemistry due to their large surface-to-volume ratio that causes them to have unique physical properties. LASiS is considered a "green" method due to its lack of use for toxic chemical precursors to synthesize nanoparticles.

In the LASiS method, nanoparticles are produced by a laser beam hitting a solid target in a liquid and during the condensation of the plasma plume, the nanoparticles are formed. Since the ablation is occurring in a liquid, versus air/vacuum/gas/, the environment allows for plume expansion, cooling and condensation with a higher temperature, pressure and density to create a plume with stronger confinement. These environmental conditions allow for more refined and smaller nanoparticles LASiS is usually considered a top-down physical approach. LASiS emerged as a reliable alternative to traditional chemical reduction methods for obtaining noble metal nanoparticles (NMNp).  LASiS is also used for synthesis of silver nanoparticles AgNPs, which are known for their antimicrobial effects. Production of AgNPs via LASiS causes nanoparticles with varying antimicrobial characteristics due to different properties achieved via the fine tuning of NPs size in liquid ablation.

Pros and Cons
LASiS has some limitations in the size control of NMNp, which can be overcome by laser treatments of NMNp. Other cons of LASiS include: the slow rate of NPs production, high consumption of energy, laser equipment cost, and decreased ablation efficiency with longer usage of the laser within a session.  Other pros of LASiS include: minimal waste production, minimal manual operation, and refined size control of nanoparticles.

References

Nanoparticles
Plasma technology and applications
Chemical synthesis


Myles Steven Ferguson (January 3, 1981 – September 29, 2000) was a Canadian actor.

Biography

He was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Mike and Karen Ferguson, and brother of Alexandra, Skylar, and Wylie Ferguson.

Partial filmography

Television

 Avalanche (1994) - Max Kemp
 The Odyssey (2 episodes, 1994) - Bricks
 The Commish (1 episode, 1994) - Bobby MacGruder
 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1 episode, 1994) - Jimmy Preston
 Hawkeye (1 episode, 1995) - Young Hawkeye
 Little Criminals (1995) - Cory
 The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie (1995) - Brett Schaeffer
 Highlander: The Series (2 episodes, 1994–1995) - Kenny
 Strange Luck (1 episode, 1995) - Urchin / Bike Thief
 For Hope (1996) - Skinny Kid
 Viper (1 episode, 1997) - Kyle Reese
 The Sentinel (1 episode, 1997) - Alec Summers
 The X-Files (2 episodes, 1995–1998) - Joey Agostino / Boy in the Bus
 Two of Hearts (1999)
 The Outer Limits (episode, "Stranded" 1999)
 Poltergeist: The Legacy (3 episodes, 1996–1999) - Young Derek Rayne
 Edgemont (13 episodes, 2000) - Scott Linton

Film
 Slam Dunk Ernest (1995) - Johnny
 Live TV (1996) - Jamie
 Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998) - J.D.
 Question of Privilege (1999) - Ian Aldrige
 Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) - German Soldier
 MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) - Waterboy
 Spooky House (2000) - Mike The Mouth (final film role)

Death
Myles died in a car accident at the age of 19 on September 29, 2000.

References

External links

1981 births
2000 deaths
Canadian male television actors
Male actors from British Columbia
People from North Vancouver
20th-century Canadian male actors
Road incident deaths in Canada


Michael Ward is an American guitarist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Biography

Michael was a founding member of the early 1990's alternative rock band School of Fish on Capitol Records, his unique tone provided the underpinning hook for the Band’s hit single "3 Strange Days" which has been covered by several artists, most recently by Dave Navarro (Janes Addiction) and Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe) in a live performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

Michael's innovative approach to the guitar has captured the attention of several producers such as Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon 5, Deftones, R.E.M) and Mark Endert (Madonna, Train, Miley Cyrus) leading to over 50 studio album recordings throughout his 35-year career.

With Matt Wallace, Michael recorded the John Hiatt album Perfectly Good Guitar, including the hit title track. Along with Mark Endert, he recorded the Gavin DeGraw album Chariot, which featured the smash hit "I Don’t Wanna Be."

In 1995 Michael was approached by Jakob Dylan to join the Wallflowers and record the album Bringing Down the Horse, selling over 5 million copies and earning Michael a Grammy Award for "One Headlight" in the category of Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with vocal.

Following the Wallflowers, Michael joined Ben Harper as one of the Innocent Criminals, contributing to Both Sides of The Gun, Lifeline, Call It What It Is, along with Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama, where he earned an NAACP Image Award for There Will Be A Light.

Michael has played in over 50 countries worldwide. When not touring he resides in Los Angeles, CA, playing as a studio session musician and guitar instructor.

Discography

References

External links
 Life of a Wallflower by Paul Hanson

1967 births
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
The Wallflowers members
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Gogol Bordello members
Guitarists from Los Angeles
20th-century American guitarists


The Gaiety Theatre is a category B listed performing arts venue in Ayr, Scotland. It is noted for its interior rococo features, its atmosphere and its acoustics.

Early history

The Ayr Gaiety was built in 1902, reconstructed after a fire in 1904, its façade remodeled in 1935, and further reinstated after a fire in 1955. In 1995, an annex was constructed, including a new café, box office, dressing rooms and studio space.
After a faltering start, which saw several years as a cinema after World War I, the theatre was bought by Ben Popplewell, from Bradford who already had a track record of success running the Pavilion theatre on Ayr seafront.  For fifty years the Popplewell family ran the theatre – latterly as part of the Glasgow Pavilion business. During this time the Gaiety developed a reputation as a variety theatre with a ‘summer’ variety show – the Gaiety Whirl – which ran for 26 weeks at its height. Many Scottish and UK stars appeared regularly on its stage, and several started their careers there.  The programme offered more than a summer show however, with several weeks of Shakespeare and regular transfers from Glasgow Citizens theatre, being part of a varied offer.
After seventy years in private ownership the local Council acquired the Gaiety theatre freehold in 1974.  It then operated as a municipal theatre under direct local authority management.  The programming had much in common with the Popplewell years, with the Gaiety Whirl still a feature and the, by now, popular panto at the core of the programme.  But the scope of performances developed and, while the family oriented theme continued, a wider range of presentations developed, including controversial shows such as Borderline Theatres production of Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo and a touring version of Oh Calcutta!  After many years of successful operation the theatre began to lose audiences and the Council felt the revenue subsidy it provided and the requirement for capital investment required a new approach.  In January 2009 the theatre closed, leaving Ayr without a theatre – as the Civic Theatre, which had mainly presented drama, had been closed and demolished a little earlier due to asbestos contamination problems.

South Ayrshire Council forced closure

The closure met with considerable opposition and dismay among many Ayr residents, particularly since it appeared that the required capital and revenue investment to reopen the theatre would not be available.  A public meeting attracted over 400 attendees, the future of the theatre was a key issue in the local press, many Scottish performers expressed their dismay and there was extensive discussion on social media.

In early 2009 South Ayrshire Council invited tenders to take on the theatre management. Ayr Gaiety Partnership (AGP), a charity formed by local residents for the purpose in Summer 2009, secured preferred bidder status.  Just over three years later, having secured financial backing from the Council and Scottish Government, as well as from local fundraising, AGP took on a 99-year lease of the theatre with a vision to do much more than simply re-open the building. Ayr Gaiety Partnerships vision is 'to re-energise the performing arts in South Ayrshire, with the Gaiety Theatre as the hub of a network of venues that will stimulate the cultural life and economic prosperity of the area ensuring that Ayr will once again be a key destination for all those interested in the performing arts.'

Re-opening in 2012

From the start the organisation set ambitious social, economic and cultural goals. But the first priority was to re-open with a successful panto. On 11 December 2012, after many last minute challenges, the Gaiety re-opened for what turned out to be a sell-out run of over 40 performances of the panto Cinderella.

Ayr Gaiety Partnership

The Ayr Gaiety Partnership is a charitable body formed by local community figures, with membership open to local residents. The directors at present are: Ian Welsh, David Quayle, Chris Fremantle, Graham Peterkin, and Professor Gayle McPherson.

Membership is open to local residents and others with an interest in the theatre. Ayr Gaiety Partnership's first General Meeting is set to take place on 13 October 2014.

Staff & Volunteering at The Gaiety
The new Ayr Gaiety is unlike most theatres in the UK because it is largely run through voluntary effort.   Most of the people undertaking front of house, technical, fundraising, marketing and maintenance are doing so on a voluntary basis. Although the volunteering effort overall is led by the Executive Director and Board- each volunteer team is supported and led by one of the staff team members.

The Gaiety's current full-time staff team consists of just nine employees led by Executive Director Jeremy Wyatt.

Scotland's 1st Learning Theatre
The School of Media, Culture & Society at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and the Gaiety Theatre officially launched Scotland’s first Learning Theatre on Friday 19 September 2014. The launch event, which saw representatives from UWS, the Gaiety, as well as the National Theatre of Scotland in attendance, marks the first stage in the development of the partnership Learning Theatre, which will provide a centre for education, training and research in the area of performance and theatre craft.

UWS enjoys close links with the Gaiety and the University’s new BA Technical Theatre degree, delivered in conjunction with the Theatre, had its first intake in September. The course offers thorough vocational training for those looking to work in stage management and theatre production. Students will gain professional knowledge of the industry and will be prepared for a variety of employment opportunities from small-scale theatres to large multi-media events, venues and festivals. The course is aimed at those with a range of theatre, performance, production and related HND qualifications to enable them to build to a degree award in Technical Theatre. Students from the University's undergraduate Performance programme also make regular use of the theatre's facilities.

References

External links
 The Gaiety Theatre
 Ayr Gaiety Twitter
 UWS
 Images from the final Show in the Gaiety Theatre
 Gaiety Big Band Gala - final show in the Gaiety Theatre with Jon Ritchie's That Swing Sensation Big Band, George Rodger's Gypsy Jazz and The South Ayrshire Jazz Band
 - article by Paul Iles about the closure of the theatre

Theatres in Scotland
Buildings and structures in Ayr
Category B listed buildings in South Ayrshire
Theatres completed in 1902
Listed theatres in Scotland
Tourist attractions in South Ayrshire
Arts organisations based in Scotland


Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese,  Armenian,
Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages. It is also a devotional given name in Tamil. It can be seen as a cognate of Mary in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish. In Estonian it was shortened variety of proper names like Marianne; in Estonian it's often perceived as a derivation of "mari"(berry)[]. In the countries of Georgia and Armenia, Mari is a shortened version of the name Mariam. In Armenia, Mari (Մարի) was the 2nd-most-common female given name of 2013.

In Japanese it appears as , or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:
真理, "truth"
万里, "long distance"
茉莉, "jasmine"
麻里, "hemp, village"
麻莉, "hemp, white jasmine"
愛莉, "love, white jasmine"(This kanji can also be read as Airi.)
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People
Saint Mari, a 1st-century saint of the Church of the East and several other denominations
Mari of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Patriarch of the Church of the East (987–999)
Mari ibn Suleiman (12th century), historian
Mari Abel (born 1975), Estonian actress
Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist
Mari Alkatiri (born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006
Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress
Mari Blanchard (1923–1970), American actress
Mari Ellis (1913-2015), Welsh writer and women's rights activist
Mari Hamada (麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer
Mari Hamada (actress) (マリ, born 1968), Japanese singer and actress
Mari Hanafusa (まり, born 1974), Japanese actress in Takarazuka Revue
Mari Henmi (マリ, born 1950), Japanese singer and actress
, Japanese volleyball player
Mari Hoshino (真里, born 1981), Japanese actress
Mari Hulman George (1934–2018), American auto racing executive
Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter
Mari Jászai (1850–1926), Hungarian actress
Mari Kalkun (born 1986), Estonian singer and musician
Mari Kurismaa (born 1956u), Estonian artist and architect
Mari Kimura (木村 まり, born 1962), Japanese violinist and composer
Mari Kinsigo (1946–2014), Estonian chess Woman FIDE Master
Mari Kiviniemi (born 1968), Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland
Mari Klaup (born 1990), Estonian heptathlete
Mari Kodama (麻里, born 1967), Japanese pianist
Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic
Mari Lill (born 1945), Estonian actress
Mari Mahr (born 1941) is a Hungarian-British photographer
Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor
Mari Mori (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author, daughter of novelist Mori Ōgai
Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler
Mari Must (1920–2008), Estonian linguist
Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
Mari Ness (born c 1971) is an American poet and author
Mari Ozaki (まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner
Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist
Mari Possa (born 1980), Salvadoran actress
Mari Saat (born 1947), Estonian writer
Mari Shimizu (マリ, born 1936), Japanese voice actress
, Japanese actress
Mari Shirato (真理, born 1958), Japanese actress
Mari Tarand (1941–2020), Estonian journalist and radio personality
Mari Törőcsik (1935–2021), Hungarian stage and film actress
Mari Jose Urruzola (1940–2006), Spanish educator, feminist, and writer
Mari Wilson (born 1954), English pop and jazz singer
Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume
Mari Yonehara (万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist

Fictional characters
 Mari Iyagi, in My Beautiful Girl, Mari
 , in the anime series Yuri!!! on Ice
 , in the manga and anime series Prison School
 Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character
 , in the Japanese animated film series Rebuild of Evangelion
 , in the anime series Love Live! Sunshine!!
 , in the anime series A Place Further than the Universe
 , in the manga and anime series Rainbow Days
 , in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
 , in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider 555
 , in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Fourze
 , in the manga series Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs
 Maari, in the Tamil action comedy Maari
 MARI, in the psychological horror RPG Omori
 Mari, in the side-scrolling MMORPG Grand Chase

See also
Mari (disambiguation)
Temari (toy), "hand ball" in Japanese
Maari (film)

Japanese feminine given names
Estonian feminine given names
Feminine given names
Finnish feminine given names


Adin Thayer (September 24, 1816 – December 8, 1890 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio) was an American politician from New York.

Life
He was the son of Adin Thayer (1785–1858) and Mary (Ball) Thayer. He married first Eliza D. (1821–1843). He married second Fanny A. Crawford (1820–1875).

He lived at Hoosick Falls, New York.

In 1874, he was elected a Canal Commissioner on the Democratic ticket, and was in office from 1875 to 1877. The office of Canal Commissioner had been abolished by an amendment to the New York State Constitution in 1876, pending the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works. The Canal Commissioners remained in office in 1877. Due to the erroneous belief that, with the office having been abolished, no provisions for the election of a successor existed, no successor was elected in November 1877, and Thayer tried to hold over in office until the eventual appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works. Attorney General Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. explained that that was not correct. He held that, since the Canal Commissioners should discharge their duties as before until the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works, and none had been appointed by November 1877, a successor should have been elected to take office on January 1, 1878, that Thayer's term had expired on December 31 and he could not hold over in office, and that in fact a vacancy existed that could be filled according to the State Constitution (in this case by the election of a Canal Commissioner by joint ballot of the State Legislature). Thayer contested Schoonmaker's decision, and threatened to go to court. David Dudley Field, as Thayer's attorney gave the opinion that if no successor has been elected, the incumbent should hold over. On the other side, Assemblyman Skinner offered a resolution to elect a successor by joint ballot of the State Legislature on January 17, 1878. The vacancy was not filled, and on February 8, 1878, the first Superintendent of Public Works, Benjamin S. W. Clark, qualified to take over the duties from the remaining two Canal Commissioners Christopher A. Walrath and Darius A. Ogden.

He was a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention.

He died from "paralysis" while staying at the home of his son in Akron, Ohio, and was buried at the Old Maple Grove Cemetery in Hoosick, NY.

Sources
The Democratic state convention in NYT on September 17, 1874
Schoonmaker's expertise in NYT on January 7, 1878
THE CANAL COMMISSIONERSHIP in NYT on January 10, 1878
Starting for Cincinnati in NYT on June 18, 1880
Obit in NYT on December 9, 1890
 Burial records from Rensselaer County, at RootsWeb

1816 births
1890 deaths
People from Hoosick Falls, New York
Erie Canal Commissioners


Jacob Otto Pins (17 January 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.

Biography
Jacob Pins was born in Höxter, Germany, the son of Dr Leo Pins, a veterinarian, and his wife Ida Lipper. He immigrated to Palestine in 1936 to study art. His father tried to discourage him from becoming an artist for financial reasons. Pins's younger brother, Rudolph, (1920–2016) moved to the United States in 1934. His father was sent to Buchenwald. In July 1944, both parents died in the Riga ghetto.

Pins first lived on a kibbutz, which was disbanded in 1941. He moved to Jerusalem and studied woodcut and linocut under woodcut master and painter Jacob Steinhardt, also a German immigrant, at his small private school. He lived in poverty in a tiny room, subsisting on a meagre diet. He continued his studies at the new Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Pins was married to Elsa, the subject of a number of his prints. They had no children.

Pins bought his first Oriental print in 1945, and acquired a house on Ethiopia Street, opposite the Ethiopian church, where he lived for the rest of his life. He continued collecting until his death and was one of Israel's foremost art collectors. His book on Japanese Pillar prints, Hashira-e is the  definitive work on the subject.

Pins died in Jerusalem in December 2005.

Art career
Pins' artwork was heavily influenced by German expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art schools, most notably Bezalel, where he later became a professor. He was known as a demanding teacher, emphasizing strong technical skills and discipline.

In the 1950s, Pins helped to found the Jerusalem Artists' House, a centre for the city's artists to meet and exhibit.

Legacy
Pins' extensive collection of Japanese woodprints, paintings and sculptures was left to the Israel Museum, where it forms the Jacob Pins Collection. Most of his own artwork was left to his home town and the Forum Jacob Pins museum opened there in 2008. Nimrod Erez made a feature-length documentary about Pins, and this is in the permanent collection of MOMA, New York. A shorter documentary is on exhibition at the Jacob Pins Forum, Höxter.

Exhibitions
Jacob Pins: Woodcuts: Herzliya Museum of Art, December 92 – January 93

Published works
Jacob Pins Woodcuts. Exhibition catalog, Boston, Boston Public Library, 1953. Paperback, 15 pp with six black and white woodcuts.
Master woodcuts by Jacob Pins. Oblong octavo, staples paper covers, 12pp., b/w illustrations. Introduction by Ruth Eis. A short catalog of the exhibition, May 5 – June 30, 1974, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, 1974
The Japanese Pillar Print, Hashira-e London Robert G Sawers Publishing, 1982, 389 pages, 14 pages in color and 1039/XXV11 illustrations in black and white.
The Pins Collection: Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints. Israel Museum, Israel, 1980
The Jacob Pins Collection of Japanese Prints, Paintings and Sculptures. Israel Museum (Jerusalem) 1994 ().

See also
Visual arts in Israel

References

External links
 Jacob Pins Gesellschaft, Höxter website (in German only)
 The Jacob Pins Collection in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
 Jacob Pins' 1947 Government of Palestine identity card with photo from www.passportland.com

1917 births
2005 deaths
People from Höxter
People from the Province of Westphalia
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni
Academic staff of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Israeli artists
Israeli art collectors


The Ballon Generali is a tethered helium balloon, used as tourist attraction and as an air quality awareness tool. Installed in Paris since  1999 in the Parc André-Citroën,  it was created and developed by the French company Aerophile SAS for the celebration of the year 2000.  The balloon has lofted more than 500,000 passengers into the sky since its opening.

Operation

The balloon, filled with  of helium, is attached to the ground with a cable, controlled by an hydroelectric winch. This tourist attraction can board up to 30 passengers (this amounts to around ) at  above Paris. It is  high, and has a diameter of .

It has been used as advertising billboard for Fortis, then from 2002 for Eutelsat. In 2008, a partnership has been signed with Banque populaire and Airparif : renamed "ballon Air de Paris", its internal illumination system changes the outer colour in real-time, according to the ambient air pollution in Paris, measured by Airparif : from green (good) to red (bad) through orange (poor).

This system was completed by an independent lighting (panels light-emitting diode, visible especially at night on the lower part of the shell) stating the air quality near traffic with the same colour code.

On April 18, 2013, a brand new tethered helium balloon was introduced, renamed the "Ballon Generali" (the Italian insurance company Generali has entered partnership agreements to more than 14 years with the Mairie de Paris). Since that day, every year it lifts around  visitors. The spectacle lasts around 10 minutes. In the morning, with optimal weather conditions, the Ballon Generali can reach the altitude of , making it the second highest point after the Eiffel Tower.

See also

 Aerophile SAS

References

External links

 web site
 aerophile SA web site

Tourism in France
Balloons (aeronautics)
Buildings and structures in the 15th arrondissement of Paris
Tourist attractions in Paris
Tourism in Paris


The Ethical Journalism Initiative (EJI) is a global campaign of programmes and activities to support and strengthen quality in media. It was adopted by the World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists in Moscow in 2007 and was formally launched in 2008.

The EJI has its own web site  and has launched a book, To Tell You the Truth, which is an introduction to the background and some of the key themes to consider in building an ethical environment for journalism. It is co-funded by the European Union's Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme.

See also
Journalism ethics and standards

References

External links
Ethical Journalism Initiative website: Keeping the ethical flame alive

Journalism ethics
Journalism organizations in Europe
Organisations based in Brussels


Fernando Fiorillo de la Rosa (born 23 November 1956) is a former Colombian football player.

Career
Born in Soledad, Atlántico, Fiorillo played football for Atlético Junior during his professional career. Fiorillo made several appearances for the senior Colombia national football team, including participating at the 1983 Copa América.

He also played for Colombia at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

References

1956 births
Free University of Colombia alumni
Living people
Colombian men's footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Colombia
1983 Copa América players
Categoría Primera A players
Atlético Junior footballers
Independiente Medellín footballers
Atlético Bucaramanga footballers
Men's association football midfielders
People from Atlántico Department


In semiconductors, valence bands are well characterized by 3 Luttinger parameters. At the Г-point in the band structure,  and  orbitals form valence bands. But spin–orbit coupling splits sixfold degeneracy into high energy 4-fold and lower energy 2-fold bands. Again 4-fold degeneracy is lifted into heavy- and light hole bands by phenomenological Hamiltonian by J. M. Luttinger.

Three valence band state
In the presence of spin–orbit interaction, total angular momentum should take part in. From the three valence band, l=1 and s=1/2 state generate six state of   as

The spin–orbit interaction from the relativistic quantum mechanics, lowers the energy of  states down.

Phenomenological Hamiltonian for the j=3/2 states
Phenomenological Hamiltonian in spherical approximation is written as

Phenomenological Luttinger parameters  are defined as

and

If we take  as , the Hamiltonian is diagonalized for  states.

Two degenerated resulting eigenenergies are

 for

 for

 () indicates heav-(light-) hole band energy. If we regard the electrons as nearly free electrons, the Luttinger parameters describe effective mass of electron in each bands.

Example: GaAs
In gallium arsenide,

References

Further reading

Semiconductors


Joseph Clay (1769–1811) was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Clay may also refer to:

Joseph Clay Jr. (1764–1811), U.S. federal judge
Joseph Clay (Georgia soldier) (1741–1804), soldier and public official


Fábio Miguel Lourenço Ferreira (; born 3 May 1989) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays mainly as a right winger but also as an attacking midfielder for Australian club Sydney Olympic.

Registered at Sporting CP and Chelsea as a teenager, he only played lower-league football in both England and Portugal. In 2012 he moved to Australia, where he represented Adelaide United, Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC, Perth Glory, Adelaide City and Sydney Olympic.

Club career

Early years and Chelsea
Born in Barreiro, Setúbal, Ferreira joined Sporting CP's youth system in 2002, aged 13. On 6 January 2005, it was reported that the Lisbon side had made a complaint to FIFA regarding him and two other players who had trained with Chelsea without any authorisation. However, in the summer, he still made a move to the English club.

In the following season, Ferreira became a professional and signed a contract with the Blues. During 2007–08 he made 12 appearances for the reserves, scoring eight goals.

On 20 January 2009, Ferreira was loaned out to League One team Oldham Athletic on a one-month loan deal, before it was extended for another month on 23 March. The following day, he made his professional debut in a 1–1 draw against Cheltenham Town at Whaddon Road, coming on as a substitute for Deane Smalley in the 66th minute: a few minutes after coming onto the pitch he nearly scored, putting a header wide of the goal.

Released by Chelsea in summer 2009, Ferreira went on trial with League Two team Gillingham, but nothing came of it. He resumed his career in the Portuguese third division.

Adelaide United
In February 2012, Ferreira signed for Dulwich Hill FC in Australia. He scored twice on his NSW League One debut, on 24 March.

After becoming one of his team's key players, Ferreira went on trial with A-League club Adelaide United FC, being subsequently offered a contract. On 6 August 2012 it was announced that he would sign, and he penned a one-year contract later that month.

Ferreira scored his debut league goal on 23 November 2012, a 2–1 away victory over Sydney FC – he opened the scoring in the 20th minute with a sharp drive into the left corner of the net, shooting from the right-hand corner of the box. Two weeks later, he assisted the first goal and netted his team's second in a 4–2 rivalry derby win against Melbourne Victory FC at Hindmarsh Stadium.

On 14 December 2012, Ferreira signed a two-year extension with Adelaide United.

Central Coast Mariners
On 27 January 2015, Adelaide United announced that it had agreed to terminate Ferreira's contract effective immediately. The very same day, he joined fellow league club Central Coast Mariners FC for two and a half years. He made his debut for the latter on 13 February, starting in a 0–2 home loss to Brisbane Roar FC, and scored his first goal a week later against Sydney, helping the team come from behind to lead but in an eventual 4–2 defeat at the Sydney Football Stadium. He ended his first season in Gosford with three goals from nine games, the other being on 7 March when he finished Isaka Cernak's free kick for the only goal at home against Melbourne City FC.

Ferreira scored twice in Central Coast's first game of the 2015–16 campaign, inspiring them to a 3–2 home win over Perth Glory FC on 10 October. On 21 February, he was sent off in a 4–1 loss at Melbourne City.

In April 2017, it was announced that Ferreira was leaving the Mariners to sign with a club in Malaysia.

Sydney FC
Following a trial, Ferreira signed a short-term deal with Sydney FC on 2 February 2018. At the end of the season, being considered surplus to requirements, he was not offered an extension.

Perth Glory
On 10 July 2018, Ferreira joined Perth Glory. In March 2019, he applied for Australian citizenship to play as a local in the A-League.

Honours
Adelaide United
FFA Cup: 2014

Sydney FC
A-League Premiership: 2017–18

Perth Glory
A-League Premiership: 2018–19

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1989 births
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Barreiro, Portugal
Men's association football wingers
Segunda Divisão players
Seixal F.C. players
Sporting CP footballers
Sertanense F.C. players
English Football League players
Chelsea F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
A-League Men players
Adelaide United FC players
Central Coast Mariners FC players
Sydney FC players
Perth Glory FC players
Adelaide City FC players
Sydney Olympic FC players
Malaysia Super League players
Selangor F.C. II players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia