The Dominguez Rancho Adobe is California Historical Landmark Number 152, and in 1976 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

The adobe of Manuel Dominguez, on the Spanish land grant of Rancho San Pedro (re-validated under Mexican rule), was completed in 1826. The home features  walls, heavy timbers and a flat, tarred roof. Much of the furniture is original to the Dominguez family.

The Friends of Rancho San Pedro operate the adobe ranch home as the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The Friends provide guided tours of the house, as well as host many educational programs about ranch life and early California history.  The museum's address is 18127 South Alameda Street, Rancho Dominguez, California, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, located between the cities of Compton, Long Beach and Carson.

History

The Rancho San Pedro is the site of the First Spanish land grant in California.  The land was usurped from the indigenous inhabitants by Spanish soldiers and missionaries, and in 1784 King Carlos III granted the land to Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired Spanish soldier who came to California with the Portola expedition and later with Father Juniperro Serra. This grant encompassed 75,000 acres and included the entire Los Angeles harbor. The indigenous people, known as the Tongva, were forced into Spanish missions, most likely Mission San Gabriel, where most perished from disease, violence, and forced work.  Due to a lack of heirs, the land was then passed to Cristobal Dominguez, a nephew of Juan Jose. Cristobal’s son, Manuel Dominguez, would succeed him in taking control of the land upon his father’s death. It was under Manuel’s guidance that the Rancho as it is seen today was constructed in 1826.

During this time Manuel was also focused on acquiring a United States land patent, which would solidify ownership of the Rancho under United States’ law. The patent was granted and signed by President James Buchanan on December 18, 1858, more than 7 years after it was first requested and nearly 75 years after the original land grant. This was the first U.S. land patent granted in California. However, throughout the years of political turmoil in California, prolonged court battles over ownership of the Rancho, numerous surveys of the land, and the sale of some parcels, the United States land patent stated that the Rancho now encompassed 25,000 acres, far fewer than the 75,000 acres included in the original land grant.

Manuel Dominguez was a business-savvy young man who could speak both Spanish and English as a result of successful trade. He was also the only one of his siblings who could read and write.  At the age of 29, he was elected as Mayor of Los Angeles. Manuel later became one of 47 delegates in California to sign the State Constitution. Not long thereafter, President James Buchanan signed the first land patent granted in California to Manuel Dominguez, solidifying the grounds in use by the museum today.

Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun

During the Mexican–American War in 1846, the Battle of Dominguez Rancho or Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun occurred on the eastern side of Dominguez Hill, its location being a factor in the temporary defeat of American troops by a band of Spanish Californians. This one-hour altercation took place on October 8 near the home of Manuel Dominguez, with the Rancho buildings being occupied from the previous night by Captain Mervine and his marines.

Partition

Upon Manuel’s death in 1882, and the passing of his wife one year later, the Rancho lands were partitioned among his six surviving children, all daughters. Three of the married daughters continued the Dominguez legacy through the Carson, Del Amo and Watson families

Pacific Electric Railway

By the time the railroad came into the lives of the Dominguez family, in 1869, the family already had a lucrative cattle business. In fact, the cattle were slaughtered in the fields on the spot. When the railroad was built running through Rancho lands that practice came to a halt. Manuel donated 100 feet, about 77 acres, to the railroad.

In 1902, the Pacific Electric Railway was set to cut through Dominguez and Watson land. In the agreement, the Dominguez family requested  there be a  Dominguez Junction at Alameda Street. This is where Union Pacific freight trains still run to this day. Teams of men, horses, and mules built the railway at a rapid pace.  On July 4, 1902, the railway officially opened. The Pacific Electric Railway would pass by the Dominguez Junction every hour, and thereby increased the value of the rancho lands.

As a passenger train, people were able to frequent the rancho more easily and more often. The Dominguez family became known for their large family barbecues, which were made possible by the advent of the locomotive. However, the trains definitely had their downsides. Raising livestock and agriculture was made more difficult, and people throughout the area complained through Robert Watson to reach the Pacific Electric Railway Company. Ultimately, however, the railroad was beneficial to the Dominguez heritage, as Carson was able to ship over 70,000 pounds of wool at a time
The Rancho has a collection of antique large-scale model trains located in their carriage house as well.

1910 Air Meet at Dominguez Field

In 1910, Dominguez Hill served as the site of the first national aviation meet in the United States. It is estimated that over a half-million passengers traveled by train to see this historic event. An open grandstand was erected that was more than six hundred feet in length. Use of the field was provided without rental charge by the Dominguez family, though the family asked to have front row seats for the entire event. Many of the early aviation pioneers were present, including the Curtiss, Martin, Paulhan, and Willard. Roy Knabenshue flew in one of the very first blimps. The aviation meet lasted for 10 days, establishing the first speed and endurance records.

The Claretians

Manuel and his family were also very devout Catholics. All of the daughters made major donations to the construction of St. Vibiana’s, the former Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. In 1922, the two remaining daughters, Susana Del Amo and Reyes Dominguez, deeded seventeen acres adjacent to the family home to the Claretian Missionaries. In 1924, the Claretian Missionaries began using the adobe home as a graduate school for Claretians and later as a seminary. In recognition of this contribution to the Claretians, special arrangements were made to allow Susana and Gregorio Del Amo to be buried in a crypt beneath the altar of the chapel located in the modern day Claretian retirement home.

Modern land division

In 1967 the stockholders of the Dominguez Estate Company voted to sell off a large portion of the land. The sale was the largest in southern Californian history. The state of California purchased a portion of the land, and in 1965 the Board of Trustees of the California State Colleges voted to build a new campus on the west side of Dominguez Hill, which became California State University Dominguez Hills.

Without the foresight and leadership of Juan Jose, Cristobal and Manuel Dominguez, the Rancho San Pedro may not have survived to the modern day. Many of the Spanish land grants in California were sold to settlers, abandoned, or lost entirely due to costly court battles to defend ownership of the property. Recently, the Dominguez family has been host to the King and Queen of Spain, the Governors of California, and other dignitaries at events held throughout the Rancho lands.

Today, the descendants of the Dominguez family operate the Watson Land Company and the Carson Companies on the original Rancho land. Throughout his life, Manuel resisted selling the land, preferring instead to lease parcels and retain ownership. This strategy was followed by his children, which allowed for a substantial portion of the land grant to be held by family members today. This includes the museum which showcases the adobe home of Manuel Dominguez.

California Historical Landmark Marker
California Historical Landmark Marker NO. 152 at the site reads:
NO. 152 DOMÍNGUEZ RANCHHOUSE - The central portion of the ranchhouse was built in 1826 by Manuel Domínguez. Rancho San Pedro, ten square leagues granted provisionally by Governor Fages to Juan José Domínguez in 1784, was regranted by Governor Solá to Cristobal Domínguez in 1822. In the battle of Domínguez Ranch, fought here October 8 and 9, 1846, Californians led by José Antonio Carrillo repelled United States forces under Captain William Mervine, U.S. Navy, in an attempt to recapture the Pueblo of Los Angeles.

See also
Battle of Dominguez Rancho
Dominguez Hills (mountain range)
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Rancho Dominguez, California
Ranchos of California

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Dead as a Doornail is the fifth book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Summary
It's the first full moon since Jason was bitten by the werepanther Felton Norris (in Dead to the World). Calvin Norris comes to watch over him and help him, and Jason turns into a half man/half panther. Then Sam is shot in the leg and is therefore unable to run the bar. He asks Sookie to go to Fangtasia to ask Eric to lend him a bartender while he is out. Eric sends their new bartender, Charles Twining. Calvin Norris is also shot and seriously wounded, and Sookie learns that other shifters and were-animals are being shot throughout Louisiana. Calvin suspects Jason, based on the theory that Jason is angry at weres for turning him into a werepanther. Known for dispensing their own kind of justice, the real shooter needs to be found before the werepanthers turn on Jason. Colonel Flood, leader of the Long Tooth pack of Shreveport, is hit by a car and dies, so the pack needs a new leader. Alcide's father throws his hat into the ring, and Alcide manipulates Sookie into helping his father by reading the minds of others in the pack. Bill begins to date Selah Pumphrey, a real estate agent, from the nearby town of Clarice. Someone tries to burn down Sookie's house, but she is saved by her fairy godmother, Claudine. A dead man (killed by Charles Twining during the fire) is found outside her house, covered in gasoline, with a Fellowship of the Sun card in his wallet, so he is blamed for the arson.

Sookie is then shot while leaving the library, presumably because she associates with shifters. Ballistics says that her bullet matches the bullets of all the others who were shot, except Sam's. Later, Sookie is in an alley with Sam (in his dog form) trying to find the killer, when Sweetie Des Arts, Merlotte's cook, comes at her with a gun. Sweetie explains that she was bitten by a werewolf, and has become part shifter. As an act of revenge, she now kills any shifter she comes in contact with. Tray Dawson, a werewolf who was sent to protect Sookie by Calvin Norris, is shot in this confrontation, and Sweetie is shot and killed by Andy Bellefleur, when he arrives on the scene. Thinking that the problem has been solved, Sookie returns to work at Merlotte's.  The befuddled Bubba shows up at the back door to tell Sookie Eric has been trying to reach her, and adds he sent him over to tell Sookie that someone is a hit man. She is then attacked by Charles Twining. It is revealed that Charles was sent by Hot Rain, Longshadow's "maker", to hurt Eric, who had killed Longshadow (Dead Until Dark). Although Eric had paid restitution for the killing, Hot Rain felt that Eric's penalty was not sufficient, and wanted to take something Eric held dear, and therefore chooses Sookie. It becomes apparent that Twining is the one who shot Sam, knowing that Sookie would come looking for a replacement bartender, and that he is also the one who set fire to Sookie's house, then framed an innocent man for it.

In a subplot, Tara Thorton has been dumped by vampire Franklin Mott, whom she dated in Club Dead, and is now under the thumb of one of Franklin's associates, the vampire Mickey.  It turns out that Franklin Mott gave her to Mickey as part of a debt payment. It was once common for vampires to trade around their groupies, draining them to death when they grew bored. Sookie appeals to Eric, who arranges to have Mickey free Tara. Mickey becomes enraged, attacks Tara, wounds Eric, and tries to kill Sookie.  In exchange for his help, Sookie must tell Eric what happened during the days he cannot remember (in Dead to the World). Sookie tells him about their passionate sexual relationship, as well as how she killed Debbie Pelt.

The competition for wolfpack leader takes place and there are different rounds to test the werewolves' strength. Sookie discovers that Patrick is cheating in the endurance test. She tells everyone, and as punishment the judges make the final test one that must be done until grievous injury or death. Patrick wins, and after he is declared victor, kills Alcide's father regardless. It is at this event that Sookie makes her first acquaintance with the were tiger, Quinn.

See also

Characters of The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Characters of True Blood
True Blood: The Fifth Season
True Blood

References

2005 American novels
2005 fantasy novels
American vampire novels
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Novels set in Louisiana
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Keith Fink is an American attorney, author, and academic. He represented a business in a contract dispute with Ellen DeGeneres dubbed by the media as "Iggygate".

In 2017, Fink became embroiled in a dispute with the University of California at Los Angeles regarding the importance of free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity in the collegiate setting.

Fink is the author of two books: Free Speech in the Workplace and Sex, Politics, and Race: Free Speech on Campus.

Biography

Keith Fink was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Bel Air, California. He attended University High School and then went to college at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fink won dozens of debate tournaments throughout the country. Fink and his debate partner Lisa Allred set the single season college debate record for most tournament wins in a year while juniors.

After college, Fink taught debate at the Harvard School while also editing a college debate handbook called Fink's Files, which provided analysis and arguments on the yearly college debate topic. Fink also taught Speech at Stephen S. Wise Temple.

Fink subsequently earned a Juris Doctor degree Southwestern Law School and was admitted to the State Bar of California.

Legal career
Fink began his legal career as an associate attorney at Cotkin, Collins & Franscell. He subsequently joined Kindel & Anderson. Fink later joined Baker & Hostetler. During Fink's early years as an attorney, he successfully litigated numerous 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, leading to one that was heard by the Supreme Court of California in which Fink's client prevailed.

Fink's focus expanded to labor, employment, business, and commercial litigation. In March 1997, Fink founded Keith A. Fink & Associates, a boutique litigation firm that primarily handles employment discrimination law, labor, business, civil rights, and entertainment law matters. Fink litigates cases in both state and federal courts throughout California.

Teaching
Fink began teaching as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School in 1993. He taught Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Labor Law, Employment Discrimination, and Pretrial Civil Practice.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, Fink stopped teaching at Southwestern Law School and began teaching at UCLA, his alma mater. For the next decade, Fink's teaching focused on the First Amendment, freedom of speech, employment law, entertainment law, and debate. Fink designed and taught four courses: Race, Sex & Politics: Free Speech on Campus; Free Speech in the Workplace; Entertainment Law; and Abortion, Gun Control, and the Death Penalty: Arguing Contemporary Social Issues.

Fink's classes were generally well-received by students; with some describing his classes as among the "most influential and developmentally-important classes they've taken at UCLA."

Throughout the first half of 2017, Fink was engaged in an academic freedom dispute with UCLA administrators, leading  to Laura E. Gómez (the former Dean of Social Sciences) opting not to promote him to Continuing Lecturer, effectively ending his employment with the Department of Communication Studies on June 30, 2017.

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This is a complete list of animated films released theatrically starring Felix the Cat.

Short films

Silent films

Paramount Pictures (1919–1921)
The first 25 Felix cartoons were distributed to theaters by Paramount Pictures. The character was named "Master Tom" until The Adventures of Felix.

Margaret J. Winkler (1922–1925)
64 cartoons

General Electric (ca. 1925 commercial for Mazda Lamps)

Educational Pictures (1925–1928)
78 cartoons.

Sound films

Copley Pictures (1929–1930)
Copley Pictures was the first distributor to issue Felix cartoons with sound. There were 12 originally with sound, and 16 reissues, for a total of 28 cartoons.

Sound reissues
A number of silent Felix cartoons were also re-issued by Copley at this time, with their intertitles removed and sound added. Newer simple titles were also inserted in most reissues and the lines of the characters were cut, which removed signs of Educational Pictures copyrights. Jacques Kopfstein was hired by Pat Sullivan to add sound to the film. This was done via the "goat gland" system of adding sound. All Felix shorts that were re-issued in sound have Post-synchronized soundtracks. (The soundtrack was made to match the already-existing film.) As a result, the synchronization is not perfect, and there is occasionally an audible delay between the action and the sound effect.

New releases
Copley also distributed 12 cartoons originally with sound.

Van Beuren Studios (1936)

This short revival of Felix (as a more childlike character, similar to his later 1959 incarnation) was produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures. All of these cartoons were the first to be produced in three-strip Technicolor.

Television

Feature length films
More than five decades following the last theatrical shorts, a Felix feature film was produced. Although originally intended to be released theatrically, it was released as a direct-to-video feature instead.

In Felix the Cat Saves Christmas, Felix along with his magic bag of tricks must stop the Professor and Rock Bottom from ruining Christmas. The Professor plans to use his diabolical snow-making machine to create the biggest blizzard the world has ever seen. If his scheme works, Christmas will be canceled for sure. Felix heroically sets off for the North Pole to help Santa - but Felix will need every trick in his magic bag.

References

Sources

External links

 Bold King Cole at the TCM Movie Database

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Hurry Down Sunshine is a best-selling 2008 memoir by nonfiction writer Michael Greenberg.  The book tells the story of the author's daughter and her battle with mental illness.

Reception

The book received attention for both its literary style and its provocative content.  In The New York Times, Rachel Donadio's review focussed on Greenberg's attention to New York City, writing that the work was "filled with the kind of characters increasingly rare in a city where real kooks can no longer afford to live."  Cultural critic Jacob Appel praised the memoir "one of those extremely rare works of literature that operates well as both a love story and a social indictment—without either aspect interfering with the dramatic force of the other."

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Santiago is one of three parishes in Sariego, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The parish church is the Iglesia de Santiago el Mayor (Sariego).

It is  in size, with a population of 694 (INE 2005).

Villages and hamlets
 Berros
 La Carcavá
 La Cuesta
 Llamasanti
 Moral
 Ñora
 Pedrosa
 El Rebollal
 Santianes
 La Vega

Parishes in Sariego


Sergei Valeryevich Sokolov (; born 23 September 1980) is a former Russian professional footballer.

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2002 for FC Shinnik Yaroslavl.

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Mahalakshmi Sreenivasan, better known by her stage name Mohini, is an Indian former actress who has acted in South Indian  Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films.

Personal life
Mohini was born as Mahalakshmi in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. She attended Children's Garden Higher Secondary School, Chennai.

Mohini converted to Christianity in 2006.

Career

Mohini was a child actress. She acted in the movie Koottu Puzhukkal (1987), starring Raghuvaran and Amala, as the hero's little sister. Mohini made her adult debut as a heroine with Eeramana Rojave and then was selected to act alongside Akshay Kumar in the 1991 Hindi film Dancer, the only hindi film in her career. She has acted in over 100 movies in all South Indian languages, working with directors like Hariharan, Kamal and Singeetham Srinivasa Rao.

Filmography

Television
 1996 - Kadhal Pagadai (Sun TV) as Sithara
1998- Oru Pennin Kathai (Pothigai TV)
Sherlock Mami (DD podhigai) as Janani
Comedy Utsavam
Chinna Chinna Aasai - Butterflies (also director)
 2006 - Raja Rajeshwari (Sun TV)
 2007-Kathanar Kadamattathu Kathanar (Jaihind TV)
 Krishna
 Neelakkurinji Veendum Pookkunnu

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Newlands of Geise is a  scattered hamlet. It lies to the south west of Thurso in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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Populated places in Caithness


A Schubertiade (also spelled Schubertiad) is an event held to celebrate the music of Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Modern Schubertiades also include concert series and festivals, such as the Schubertiade Vorarlberg.

History

During Schubert's lifetime, these events were generally informal, unadvertised gatherings, held at private homes. Schubertiades in early 19th-century Vienna were typically sponsored by wealthier friends or aficionados of Schubert's music. Numerous such concerts were organised from 1815 onwards in the large apartment of the Austrian jurist and patron Ignaz von Sonnleithner in the Gundelhof (Brandstätte 5, Vienna), later also by Franz von Schober, Eduard von Bauernfeld and many others. Schubert's friend Leopold Kupelwieser claimed to hold them on his own, writing, "I treat myself to a Schubertiade now and again".

While in those years many Schubertiades included the composer's participation, accompanying notable baritones like Johann Michael Vogl on the piano, this was not necessary; they were sometimes held in places other than Vienna, where Schubert spent most of his life, and assumed the character of a literary-musical salon. In addition to Schubert's music, they often also featured poetry readings, dancing, and other sociable pastimes. Attendees numbered from a handful to over one hundred. Notable guests were Joseph Sonnleithner, Leopold von Sonnleithner, Anton von Doblhoff-Dier, Johann Baptist Jenger, Moritz von Schwind, Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Wilhelm August Rieder, Johann Mayrhofer, Johann Gabriel Seidl, Franz Lachner, Joseph von Spaun and even Ludwig van Beethoven.

Modern Schubertiades are more likely to be formal affairs, presented as concerts or festivals devoted to Schubert's music. Since 1976 the annual Schubertiade Vorarlberg has been held in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, initiated by the German baritone Hermann Prey. Other Schubertiades are staged in Ettlingen, Dörzbach and Schnackenburg, in Luxembourg, Biel/Bienne, and at the Vilabertran monastery in Spain.

Depictions

There are two famous depictions of Schubertiades. The first is an 1868 sepia drawing made "from memory" by Moritz von Schwind, which shows a relatively intimate scene. The drawing shows Schubert at the piano, with Johann Michael Vogl and a circle of friends surrounding them. The woman in the painting on the wall is Schubert's alleged, unrequited love, the Countess Karoline Esterházy.

In contrast, the 1897 depiction by Julius Schmid is a somewhat more formal affair, and the people in the painting are not recognizably Schubert's friends.

Schubertiade today

Since the 20th century, larger music festivals, which are mainly concerned with Schubert's work are called by the name "Schubertiade", including in particular the Schubertiade Vorarlberg founded by Hermann Prey and Gerd Nachbauer in 1976 which is held regularly in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.

The Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems is one of the biggest Schubert festivals with around 80 events and between 35.000 and 40.000 visitors each year. Chamber concerts, piano recitals as well as orchestral concerts, readings and lectures, as well as master classes by renowned artists are part of the event.

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External links
Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems (Vorarlberg)
Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
Schubertiade im Ettlinger Schloss - Forum für Liedkunst
Schubertiade Schloss Eyb
http://www.schubertiade-zuerich.ch / Schubertiade Zuerich
Schubertiade Vilabertran
Pasadena Schubertiade

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Holger "Holgi" Höhne (born 6 May 1970 in Füssen) is a German curler. He was a longtime member of the Andy Kapp rink. Currently, he coaches the German national women's team.

Höhne has been playing with Kapp since 1992. However, he was only the team's alternate until joining the team as a regular thrower in 1995 at the lead position. Höhne's first tournament as lead was the 1995 Ford World Curling Championships, were the team won a bronze medal. This was added to Höhne's bronze medal at the 1994 Worlds as an alternate and a gold at the 1992 European Curling Championships.

While playing lead for the team, Höhne won silver at the 1997 Ford World Curling Championships, a gold at the 1997 European Championships and a bronze at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. He was also a member of the German team that finished eighth at the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Beginning in 2005, the German team experimented with a 5-player team where the three front-end players would alternate in games. This proved to be successful somewhat successful, winning a silver medal at the 2007 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. While Höhne was officially listed as the team's alternate, he did play 10 matches. This team format was only used again the following season, with less success. They finished in 5th at the 2007 European Curling Championships and 8th place at the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship.  After the 2008 Worlds, the team reverted to the normal four-player team.  Höhne was back as the team's lead for the 2008 European Championships, where he won a bronze medal. He played second for the team at the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in the absence of third Uli Kapp.

Personal life
Höhne is employed as an optometrist and is married. He coaches his daughter Mia Höhne on the German National Women's Team.

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Sharada Srinivasan (born 16 January 1966) is an archaeologist specializing in the scientific study of art, archaeology, archaemetallurgy and culture. She is associated with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, and an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Srinivasan is also an exponent of classical Bharata Natyam dance. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2019.

Early life and education
The younger of two siblings, Srinivasan was born on 16 January 1966 in Bangalore to M. R. Srinivasan and Geetha Srinivasan. Her father is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer and her mother is nature conservationist and a wild life activist.  Sharada received her Higher Secondary Certificate from Jai Hind College, Mumbai in 1983 and obtained her BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1987. In 1986, Sharada along with four IIT batchmates codirected, acted in and choreographed for the English feature film, Nuclear Winter which won the Cannes Award in the Special Category for 1988. The movie was produced by Homi Sethna and directed by Zul Vellani. The starcast included Vijay Crishna and Mishu Vellani. The movie was shot in the IIT Powai campus and marked the launch of a successful dance career for Sharda. After completing her master's degree at the University of London in 1989, she continued to research South Indian bronze sculptures during her PhD at University College London, which she completed in 1996.

Career
Sharada Srinivasan is a Professor in the Programme of Heritage and Society in the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India since 2012. Srinivasan started her journey as NIAS as a Fellow (2004-2006), became Assistant Professor in 2006 and served in the role till 2012.

She is first author of the book 'India's Legendary Wootz Steel: An advanced material of the ancient world'. Prof. Sharada Srinivasan is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and World Academy of Art and Science.

[A Comment:

Prof Srinivasan promotes Wootz steel as a product of metallurgical skills of ancient Indian artisans.

But it turns out that the high quality steel was not alao the result of chance impurities in the ore used..

It is true that Wootz steel has remarkable strength and corrosion resistance. It was in demand in Europe during the Crusades, as 'Damascus steel, for making swords. The centuries-old, but rust-free 'Iron Pillar' at Kutub Minar, near Delhi, is made of Wootz steel.

But it is now shown that the strength and corrosion resistance are the result of serendipitous trace elements found in the ore used in South India at the time. When the strains of ore ran out, so did Wootz steel. Do see an article, which cites a paper in the journal, Nature, at : http://www.simplescience.in/SciencePDF/061121.NanotechInAncientIndia.pdf  ]

Srinivasan was awarded a Homi Bhabha Fellowship, during which time she visited the UK and USA as a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian, the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Museum of Applied Sciences Centre for Archaeology (MASCA), University of Pennsylvania, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian & Conservation Department, Freer & Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, and presented papers at a Conference on Indus Archaeology, University of Wisconsin Madison and The Cost Committee Meeting on Ion Beam analysis in Art and Archaeology at Oxford organised by European Commission.

She was co-recipient (with Exeter University) of a British Council funded UKEIRI research awards (2009-2011), of a Royal Society-DST award, as well as an ongoing UKIERI-II Award related to developing joint PhD. Programmes in intangible histories including archaeology and performance studies.

In 2009, Srinivasan co-chaired the seventh Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys (BUMA) international conference in Bangalore. The proceedings were published in 2015 in the volume Metals and Civilizations, of which Srinivasan was co-editor.

Srinivasan was co-investigator on a 2010 UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) funded project with Professor S. Ranganathan and the University of Exeter's Dr Gill Juleff. The project was titled Pioneering Metallurgy: Origins of Steel Making in the Southern Indian Subcontinent. She undertook further research on technical evidence for high carbon steel by ancient crucible processes and ancient high-tin Bronzes and the surviving groups in Kerala for manufacture of high-tin bronze vessels and mirrors and lost wax casting. Sharada was recently featured in this site Trowel blazers of University College London on women archaeologists.

Dance
In the International Year of Astronomy photo-montage exhibition 'Danse e-Toile: Nataraja et le Cosmos' curated by Sharada Srinivasan, scientist-dancer is featured at Alliance Française Bangalore Atrium. It explores cosmic sensibilities and the art, metallurgy and science of the Nataraja bronze and from the evocative lens of both the Bharata Natyam and French contemporary dance forms. It will be at Cité De L'Espace, Toulouse for the Festival La Novela as a prelude to an internet-streamed dance event between Sharada Srinivasan and K.Danse, France.

She is also a performing artist specialising in the South Indian classical dance of Bharatanatyam. She has performed and lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Academy of Arts, for the Chola exhibition, the International Academy of Astronautics, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, INTACH-Belgium, Nehru Centre, London, China Conservatory of Music, National History of Science Seminar, Hyderabad, University of Toyoma, Japan and others. She had a photo-exhibition in June 2008 at Alliance Française Bangalore entitled 'Cosmic Dance of Shiva' on art-science-dance perspectives related to South Indian bronzes and the Nataraja.

Danse e-Toile: Nata-raja et le Cosmos (Dance of stars: Nataraja and the Cosmos) was the first ever live, internet-streamed interactive dance and music programme between India and Europe. The event was held in Bangalore on 17 October 2009 as part of the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. What made it more noteworthy were the creative choreography and the amazing synthesis of art, science and advanced technology.

Sharada Srinivasan was conferred with the Dr. Kalpana Chawla State Award for Women Scientists 2011 instituted by the Government of Karnataka.

Honors
 Dr. Kalpana Chawla State Award for Women Scientists 2011.
 Chairperson, Regional Sessions, Indian subcontinent, World of Iron Conference, London; 16–20 February 2009
 'Les pierre chantantes' 28 Feb 2009, a classical south Indian dance performance and talk on the theme of the stone 'musical' pillars in some south Indian temples such as Hampi and the scientific and artistic aspects by Sharada Srinivasan in Haber Poche, France.
 Materials Research Society of India Medal 2006
 Malti B. Nagar Ethnoarchaeology Award
 Indian representative for project for UNESCO Chair in History of Science
 Member, International Committee, Conference of Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys
 Junior Research Fellow, Ministry of Culture (1999–2000)
 Forbes Fellowship 1999
 Post-Doctoral Smithsonian Fellowship ( April 1999– September 1999)
 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award 1996
 Homi Bhabha Fellowship (1996–98)
 Petrie Award (1989)
 JN Tata Endowment(1988)

Quotes
 ...Talking about cosmic dance she said: "It is a metaphor of movement. There is also a personal metaphor – creation emerging out of destruction. I use the dance of the cosmos or the dance of science to discover aspects of ancient art that art historians have not been able to find ..
 ...There are fascinating interfaces between art and science. I returned to dance because of science. Dance injects an element of normalcy where I can enjoy contact with human emotions while science has an alienating quality. Bharatanatya is liberating and constricting at the same time because of its set forms and structure. I would have found it very limiting had it not been for science. Now I see the dance form as an element of movement of art forms..
 ...Capra was certainly not the first in portraying the Nataraja as a universal metaphor for the interface between science,spirituality, dance and art. But he definitely helped the idea to catch on.
 ...There is also something a bit Jungian in the Nataraja imagery that it somehow holds out a positive message of hope for coming to terms with loss through artistic endeavours or through acts of dedication.

References

Indian women archaeologists
Indian art historians
Living people
IIT Bombay alumni
Indian women historians
20th-century Indian archaeologists
20th-century Indian women scientists
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian writers
Indian women science writers
Indian social sciences writers
21st-century Indian archaeologists
21st-century Indian women scientists
21st-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian writers
Recipients of the Padma Shri in other fields
1966 births


John Allen Wakefield (February 11, 1797 – June 18, 1873) was an American historian, politician, soldier, physician, and lawyer.

Born in Pendleton, South Carolina, Wakefield moved with his family to Tennessee, Kentucky, and then to Illinois, where they settled. During the War of 1812, Wakefield served in the Illinois militia as a scout. He later studied medicine and became a physician. He then studied law and was admitted to the Illinois Bar. Wakefield served in the Illinois House of Representatives as well.

In 1832, Wakefield took part in the Black Hawk War and wrote a book discussing the war, especially the Bad Axe massacre, near present-day Victory, Wisconsin.
Wakefield moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1849, where he owned the Tremont House and became the first justice of the peace.

After living for a time in Iowa, John Wakefield moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he took part in the Bleeding Kansas events. In 1864, Wakefield served in the Kansas House of Representatives. He died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1873.

References

Further reading

 Wakefield, John A. and Frank E. Stevens. Wakefield's History of the Black Hawk War. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1908.

1797 births
1873 deaths
American militiamen in the War of 1812
People from Pendleton, South Carolina
Politicians from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Politicians from Lawrence, Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
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Members of the Kansas House of Representatives
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19th-century American politicians


Newton of Ferintosh is a scattered crofting township on the Black Isle in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is between the villages of Tore and Maryburgh, alongside the A835 road.

References

Populated places on the Black Isle


Lovato is a surname of northern Italian and Spanish origin. It derives from the Late Latin personal name Lupatus, derivative of Latin lupus, meaning "wolf".

People with the name include:
Demi Lovato (born 1992), American singer and actor
Frank Lovato Jr. (born 1963), American jockey
Franz Lovato (1923-2018), Austrian field hockey player
Lovato Lovati (1241–1309), Italian scholar, judge, and humanist
Matteo Lovato (born 2000), Italian footballer
Rafael Lovato Jr. (born 1983), American jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
Rick Lovato (born 1992), American football long snapper
Roberto Lovato (born 1963), American journalist and commentator
Tony Lovato (born 1980), American singer and guitarist with the band Mest

Surnames of Italian origin
Italian-language surnames


Definitely Dead is the sixth book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Plot summary
After surviving a Were attack while attending a play in Shreveport with her new boyfriend John Quinn, Sookie Stackhouse goes to New Orleans to sort out the affairs of her cousin Hadley, a vampire who was murdered. When she arrives, she finds Hadley's apartment under a stasis spell that was placed there by the talented and helpful young witch Amelia Broadway, Hadley's landlady. When the spell is removed, Sookie and Amelia are attacked by a newly turned vampire (later revealed to be a Were named Jake Purifoy) whose rising was delayed due to Amelia's stasis spell. Sookie and Amelia are taken to the emergency room after this attack and it is here that Bill, due to Eric interfering, tells Sookie the truth behind his move to Bon Temps.

The following night, Sookie calls on the Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne Leclerq, and her new husband, the vampire king of Arkansas, Peter Threadgill. Their conversation eventually leads to the revelation that Amelia and some of her peers plan to magically reconstruct the events of the night of Jake Purifoy's turning. Sophie-Anne decides that this is something she would like to see, so she, her entourage, and Sookie go back to Hadley's together where they find the witches ready to perform the ectoplasmic reconstruction spell. Once the spell runs its course, Sophie-Anne, Andre, and Sookie go into Hadley's apartment for a private conversation where, among other things (such as Sookie being told that she has fairy blood and therefore attracts supernaturals), Sophie-Anne asks Sookie to look carefully through Hadley's things and locate a missing diamond bracelet that was given to the queen by Threadgill; the discovery that this bracelet is missing would mean political disaster for Sophie-Anne.

Quinn is also in New Orleans on business, and so the couple is together when a group of Weres break into Hadley's apartment to kidnap Sookie and transport her to the Pelt family. With cunning on their part, and help from Eric and the vampire Rasul, Sookie is able to resolve her differences with the Pelts.

Sookie and Quinn attend the party Sophie-Anne and Peter throw in celebration of their new union. The night ends in violence. Events that take place once the fighting breaks out directly influence the events of the seventh book, "All Together Dead." Sookie and a wounded Quinn make it back to Hadley's apartment. The next day, Sookie, Amelia, Bob the cat, and Everett (the young man Mr. Cataliades sends to help Sookie with Hadley's apartment) make their way back to Bon Temps.

See also

Characters of The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Characters of True Blood
True Blood
Audio Book

American vampire novels
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
2006 American novels
2006 fantasy novels
Novels set in New Orleans


Alfred Herman Arndt (born July 15, 1911 – June 6, 1969) was a professional American football guard and halfback in the National Football League.

External links
NFL.com profile

1911 births
People from Brown County, Minnesota
Players of American football from Minnesota
American football offensive linemen
American football running backs
Pittsburgh Steelers players
South Dakota State Jackrabbits football players
South Dakota State University alumni
1969 deaths


Theodore W. Ullyot is an American lawyer and former government official. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, leading the firm's policy and regulatory affairs group.

Ullyot served as Facebook's General Counsel from September 2008 until July 2013.

Education
Ullyot graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1990. He studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris from 1990 through 1991. Ullyot attended the University of Chicago Law School, receiving a J.D. with honors in 1994. After graduation, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig.

Career

Early legal career
Ullyot was a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., specializing in telecommunications and appellate law. In October 2000, Ullyot joined the legal department of America Online. After the merger of AOL and Time Warner, he worked for AOL Time Warner from January 2001 to January 2003. After starting in New York City as vice president and associate general counsel of AOL Time Warner, he was appointed senior vice president and general counsel for AOL Time Warner Europe in January 2002.

Bush Administration
From January 2003 to January 2005, Ullyot worked in the White House as associate counsel and as a deputy assistant to President George W. Bush. He then served as chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, and was involved with the approval of the Torture Memos. In October 2005, he left the administration to join ESL Investments, Inc. as executive vice president and general counsel.

Facebook
Ullyot then returned to Kirkland & Ellis until being recruited to join Facebook in the fall of 2008. In September 2008, Ullyot was hired as Facebook's general counsel. At the time, the site had more than 100 million members and was valued at $15 billion. Ullyot was tasked with addressing the complicated privacy issues that Facebook faces due to its wealth of user data.
In the ensuing years, Ullyot advised Facebook through litigation involving the Winklevoss twins, a patent battle with Yahoo! Inc., and the controversy surrounding its May 2012 initial public offering. In May 2013, Ullyot left his post after five years with Facebook. Colin Stretch, who had served as Deputy General Counsel under Ullyot, replaced him. Ullyot also served on the board of directors for AutoZone, Inc. from 2006 to 2011.

Post-Facebook career
In April 2015, Ullyot joined the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz to build out the firm's network of policy experts. In 2022, it was reported that Ullyot and former Attorney General William Barr would launch a law and consulting firm.

See also
 List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)

References

Facebook employees
Harvard College alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
University of Chicago Law School alumni
1960s births
Living people
People associated with Kirkland & Ellis
Law clerks of J. Michael Luttig
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers


The Damani is a thin-tail, meat and wool breed of sheep which is found in the Dera Ismail Khan district and part of Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Characteristics
They are small to medium with a white body coat with a black or tan head and camel colored legs. The wool yield is  with coarse fiber (44 micrometres diameter). They have small ears. The udder and teats are well developed.

At maturity, rams grow to  at the withers and weigh  while ewes grow to  at the withers and weigh .  On average and at birth, rams weigh  and ewes weigh .  Average litter size is one.  Average milk production during lactation is  over about 120 days with 5.8% fat.  The number of members of the Damani has decreased from over one million in 1986 to approximately 600,000 in 2006.

References

Sheep breeds originating in Pakistan
Sheep breeds


Cathy Kelly (born September 12, 1966) is an Irish former journalist and writer of women's fiction. In 2001, her novel Someone Like You won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award granted by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

Early life and career
Born in Belfast but raised in Dublin, Kelly studied at a convent school. She worked as a journalist for the Sunday World, where she published an advice column and film criticism.

Kelly published her first international bestseller, Woman To Woman, in 1997. She published two more books, She’s The One and Never Too Late, before retiring from journalism in 2001.

Someone Like You, What She Wants, Just Between Us and Best of Friends followed in successive years. Always and Forever was her first hardback number one and then topped the overall UK bestseller list in October 2005.

Her books—Lessons in Heartbreak and Homecoming—were shortlisted for the Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Once in a Lifetime topped the UK bestsellers for Kelly again for multiple weeks. In March 2011, Homecoming achieved the same feat. Her recent short story collection, Christmas Magic, was Christmas number one in Ireland. She is popular around the world: a number one bestseller in Australia and New Zealand, where she tours annually, and published in many different languages.

Kelly is involved with many charities and had been an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland since 2005.

In 2022, Kelly appeared on the fifth series of the Irish version of Dancing With the Stars.

Bibliography

Novels
Woman to Woman (1997)
She's the One (1998)
Never Too Late (1999)
Someone Like You (2000)
What She Wants (2001)
Just Between Us (2002)
Best of Friends (2003)
Always and Forever (2005)
Past Secrets (2006)
Lessons in Heartbreak (2008)
Once in a Lifetime (2009)
The Perfect Holiday (2010)
Homecoming (2010)
The House on Willow Street (2012)
The Honey Queen (2013)
It Started With Paris (2014)
Between Sisters (2015)
Secrets of a Happy Marriage (2017)

Novellas
Letter from Chicago (2002)

Collections
Christmas Magic (2011)

References and sources

External links
 Official website
 Cathy's Official Facebook Page
 Cathy's Twitter Page
 Cathy Kelly on Fantasticfiction.com
 Cathy Kelly's author profile on Simon & Schuster
 BBC raw Quick Reads – The Perfect Holiday by Cathy Kelly

1966 births
Living people
Irish film critics
Irish women critics
Irish women novelists
Journalists from Belfast
RoNA Award winners
20th-century Irish novelists
21st-century Irish novelists
20th-century Irish women writers
21st-century Irish women writers
Women romantic fiction writers
Women film critics
Women journalists from Northern Ireland


Newton of Ardtoe is a scattered crofting hamlet near Acharacle in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland.

Populated places in Lochaber


Common modeling infrastructure refers to software libraries that can be shared across multiple institutions in order to increase software reuse and interoperability in complex modeling systems.  Early initiatives were in the climate and weather domain, where software components representing distinct physical domains (for example, ocean or atmosphere) tended to be developed by domain specialists, often at different organizations.  In order to create complete applications, these needed to be combined, using for instance a general circulation model, that transfers data between different components. An additional challenge is that these models generally require supercomputers to run, to account for the collected data and for data analyses. Thus, it was important to provide an efficient massively parallel computer system, and the processing hardware and software, to account for all the different workloads and communication channels.

General
Common modeling infrastructure projects include the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) library, the Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP), the Flexible Modeling System (FMS), the OASIS coupler developed at CERFACS, and the multi-agency Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF).

The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is considered a technical layer, integrated into a common modeling infrastructure. Other aspects of interoperability and shared infrastructure include: common experimental protocols, common analytic methods, common documentation standards for data and data provenance, shared workflow, and shared model components.

History
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of journal papers and government reports described common modeling infrastructure as necessary to the competitiveness and evolution of the U.S. Earth science modeling community.  These reports resulted in a number of new community projects.  The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and the Earth System Modeling (ESM) are two of the largest modeling approaches.  Similar projects were initiated in related domains, including the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF/CESM), to study conditions including the Sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that potentially can influence performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems or can endanger human life or health.

See also

 Climate model
 Earth System Modeling Framework

References

Computer libraries
Numerical climate and weather models


Ewen Maclean, 9th Laird of Ardgour was the son of John 'Crubach' Maclean, 8th Laird of Ardgour and his first wife, Anne, daughter of Angus Campbell, Captain of Dunstaffnage.

Biography
He married Mary, daughter of Lachlan MacLean of Lochbuie, and had by her:
Allan Maclean, 10th Laird of Ardgour, born in 1668
Donald Maclean, who married Janet, daughter of Lachlan MacLean of Calgary
Charles Maclean
John Maclean
Lachlan Maclean who was a lieutenant in the Spanish service, and was killed in a duel at Madrid.
Ewen was succeeded in the estates by his son, Allan.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Ewen
Lairds of Ardgour


Newton of Kinkell is a scattered crofting township, along with Newton of Ferintosh in Dingwall, Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Newton of Ferintosh is another crofting township, which lies directly to the east of Newton of Kinkell. The village of Conon Bridge is 2 miles northwest of Newton of Kinkell and 2 miles northeast of Muir of Ord.

Populated places on the Black Isle


George S. Phalen (2 December 1911, Peoria, Illinois – 14 April 1998, Dallas) was an American hand surgeon remembered for his work on carpal tunnel syndrome including his description of Phalen's maneuver.

Biography
George Phalen graduated from Bradley University in 1932, and gained his M.D. from Northwestern University in 1937. He undertook his residency at the Mayo Clinic before joining the Army in 1942. He was a Lieutenant Colonel and chief of orthopedic surgery at the O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, an Army hand center, and then chief of hand surgery at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center. After the Second World War he worked at the Cleveland Clinic, becoming chief of hand surgery. He helped to found the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1946, and was president during the 1960s. He was also president of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons in 1965. He moved to the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic in 1970, remaining there until his retirement in 1980.

He described the carpal tunnel syndrome in 1950, and although it had been described previously by James Paget in 1854 and James Jackson Putman in 1880, amongst others, Phalen improved the understanding of the aetiology of the condition with his experience of several hundred  patients during the 1950s and 1960s.

References

1911 births
1998 deaths
Bradley University alumni
Feinberg School of Medicine alumni
American orthopedic surgeons
People from Peoria, Illinois
20th-century American physicians
20th-century surgeons


Richard Lee Arndt (born March 12, 1944) is a former professional American football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Born and raised in northern Idaho, Arndt graduated from Sandpoint High School in 1962 and played college football at Stanford and Idaho.  A future pick in the 1966 NFL Draft, he was selected in fifth round (77th overall) by the Los Angeles Rams, but stayed in college and turned pro after the 1966 season.

The Rams traded the rights to Arndt along with quarterback Ron Smith and a second round draft pick to the Green Bay Packers for running back Tom Moore.  Arndt worked out at offensive guard and tackle before switching to defensive tackle in the Packers' 1967 training camp before the Packers traded Arndt to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a fourth round draft pick prior to the start of the 1967 season.  For the Steelers, Arndt played in all 14 games in '67, three in '68 and '69 and all 14 games again in 1970.  Cut in 1971, Arndt tried out for the Washington Redskins that season and New England Patriots the following season before retiring from the NFL.

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The Rescission Act of 1946 (, codified at ) is a law of the United States reducing (rescinding) the amounts of certain funds already designated for specific government programs, much of it for the U.S. military, after World War II concluded and as American military and public works spending diminished.

Among its provisions was the option for transferring $200 million previously appropriated to the U.S. Army for ordnance service and supplies to the Army of the Philippines, with the proviso that military service for the Philippines during World War II, while it was in service of the United States Army Forces in the Far East pursuant to the presidential Military Order of July 26, 1941, would not be considered to be military service for the United States.

The effect was to retroactively annul benefits to Filipino troops for their military service under the auspices of the United States while the Philippines was a U.S. unincorporated territory and Filipinos were U.S. nationals.

Text of the act relevant to Filipino troops

TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS

In addition to the transfers authorized by section 3 of the Military Appropriation Act, 1946, transfers of not to exceed the amounts hereinafter set forth may be made, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, from the appropriation "Ordnance Service and Supplies, Army", to the following appropriations:

...

Army of the Philippines, $200,000,000 : Provided, That service in the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while such forces were in the service of the armed forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President of the United States dated July 26, 1941, shall not be deemed to be or to have been service in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof for the purposes of any law of the United States conferring rights, privileges, or benefits upon any person by reason of the service of such person or the service of any other person in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof, except benefits under (1) the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, under contracts heretofore entered into, and (2) laws administered by the Veterans' Administration providing for the payment of pensions on account of service-connected disability or death : Provided further, That such pensions shall be paid at the rate of one Philippine peso for each dollar authorized to be paid under the laws providing for such pensions : Provided further, That any payments heretofore made under any such law to or with respect to any member of the military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines who served in the service of the armed forces of the United States shall not be deemed to be invalid by reason of the circumstances that his service was not service in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof within the meaning of such law.

Background

In July 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt federalized forces in the Philippines into service. During World War II, over 200,000 Filipinos fought in defense of the United States against the Japanese in the Pacific theater of military operations. As a commonwealth of the United States before and during the war, Filipinos were legally American nationals. With American nationality, Filipinos were promised all the benefits afforded to those serving in the armed forces of the United States.

History
Efforts to end spending on Filipino veterans who served the Commonwealth of the Philippines, an American sub-national government, were pushed forward by Senators Carl Hayden and Richard Russell Jr. after being informed that the veteran benefit costs were projected to be $3 billion ($ billion, adjusted for inflation); Resident Commissioner Carlos P. Romulo spoke out against the legislation. In 1946, Congress passed the Rescission Act, stripping Filipinos of the benefits they were promised, replacing the estimated $3 billion in benefits with a single $200 million direct payment to the Philippine government. The Philippine Commonwealth President, Sergio Osmeña, wrote that the allocated $200 million was "inadequate for the payment of the benefits it intends to confer", and it was rejected by the Philippine government. Of the 66 countries allied with the United States during the war, only Filipinos were denied military benefits.

Between 1946 and 2009, other benefits for Filipino veterans of World War II were enacted. These include the construction of Veterans Memorial Medical Center, and some funds for its operation and equipping. Other benefits include educational benefit extended to spouse and children, funding of assisted living care, as well as death benefits. In 1990, Filipino veterans gained the right to naturalize due to their military service, resulting in the naturalization of over 20,000 Filipino veterans. In 2003, Veteran Affairs health benefits were extended to Filipino American World War II veterans.

In 2009, Section 1002 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided for a one-time $15,000 lump sum for the surviving veterans who are US Citizens, and a $9,000 lump sum settlement for non-citizens. Acceptance of the payment would deny the payer any future benefits. By February 2016, more than $225 million had been paid out through 18,960 individual claims that had been granted, which make up a minority of 42,755 total claims made for the one-time payment. By August 2018, the number of claims granted increased to over 22,000.

See also
Attempts to overturn Rescission Act of 1946
Filipino Veterans Fairness Act
Filipino Americans during World War II
Military history of the Philippines during World War II
Resistance against Japanese occupation during World War II

References

Further reading

1946 in American law
1946 in the United States
United States federal veterans' affairs legislation
History of the Philippines (1898–1946)


Diosdado González Marrero is a Cuban dissident.

Diosdado was a member of the Peace, Democracy and Liberty Party. He was imprisoned during the Black Spring crackdown on dissidents in 2003, and named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

González Marrero's wife Alejandrina García de la Riva reports that she been harassed:

References

Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Cuba
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Enes Kanter Freedom (; born Enes Kanter; May 20, 1992) is an Turkish-American professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also had a brief professional wrestling career, where he is a former WWE 24/7 Champion. Born in Switzerland to Turkish parents, he was raised in Turkey and moved to the United States as a teenager. Freedom was selected as the third overall pick of the 2011 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. A center, Freedom played for five NBA teams during his eleven year career. Between 2008 and 2015, he represented the Turkish national team in international play.

Early years
Enes Kanter Freedom was born on May 20, 1992, in Zürich, Switzerland as Enes Kanter. Kanter's parents are Turkish. His father, Mehmet Kanter, received his M.D. from the University of Zurich. The family then returned to Turkey, where Kanter grew up. Mehmet Kanter became a professor of histology and genetics at Trakya University. Kanter's mother, Gülsüm Kanter, is a nurse. Kanter has three younger siblings: two brothers (including basketball player Kerem Kanter) and one sister.

Starting in second grade, Kanter attended Hizmet-affiliated schools, part of the Gülen movement in Turkey. He lived in Ankara and then moved to Istanbul to play professional basketball as a teen.

At the age of 17, Kanter moved to the United States to play basketball. He attended Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada, and then Mountain State Academy in Beckley, West Virginia; neither school allowed him to play high school basketball because of his contract with Nike while he played basketball professionally. Kanter then attended Stoneridge Preparatory School in Simi Valley, California, where he was able to play basketball for a season.

Professional career

Fenerbahçe (2008–2009)
Before moving to the United States, Kanter played under Serdar Apaydın's management for the Fenerbahçe youth squad between 2006 and 2008 and then, during the 2008–09 season, Kanter was a seldom-used reserve for the Fenerbahçe senior team. He played in at least nine games with the team: four in the EuroLeague and five in the Turkish Super League. Fenerbahçe and the Greek League basketball team Olympiacos both offered Kanter professional contracts, but he declined because he wanted to play high school and college basketball in the United States.

In 2009, Kanter moved to the United States, where he enrolled at Stoneridge Preparatory School in Simi Valley, California, and played for the basketball team in 2009–10. At the 2010 Nike Hoop Summit, Kanter played for the international team, recording 34 points and 13 rebounds. His point total was a record for the event, breaking Dirk Nowitzki's record set in the 1998 game. Both Rivals.com and Scout.com (now known as 247Sports.com) rated Kanter as a five-star prospect, the highest possible rating.

On November 23, 2009, Kanter verbally committed to play for the Washington Huskies. Kanter chose Washington over UCLA, USC, Indiana and UNLV. However, he re-opened his recruitment in February 2010, and on April 14, Kanter signed a National Letter of Intent to play college basketball for Kentucky.

However, despite signing with the Kentucky Wildcats, the NCAA declared him permanently ineligible as a collegiate athlete because he received approximately $33,000 from Fenerbahçe in excess benefits. The NCAA ruled that this amount was above and beyond what was considered acceptable. On January 7, 2011, the NCAA rejected Kentucky's appeal, upholding that Kanter was permanently ineligible.

Utah Jazz (2011–2015)

Kanter, a center, was drafted third overall by the Utah Jazz in the 2011 NBA draft. Upon being drafted, he said "I'm so happy, I'm so excited. I know the Utah Jazz fans are crazy and I love them. I will bring the team toughness and post moves, rebounding, everything. I will try to do everything to make the playoffs." On December 9, 2011, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Jazz following the conclusion of the NBA lockout. In 2011–12, he became the 10th Jazz rookie in franchise history to appear in every regular-season game. He also recorded the most rebounds for a Jazz rookie in debut with 11 against the Los Angeles Lakers on December 27. In the season, he averaged 4.6 points and 4.2 rebounds in 66 games.

In 2012–13, Kanter improved his averages in every major statistical category, led the team in scoring three times and rebounding four times, and scored in double-figures 22 times. In 70 games (two starts), he averaged 7.2 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. On March 1, 2013, Kanter had the first 20-20 game of his career with career-highs of 23 points and 22 rebounds to lead the Jazz to a 98–68 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats. He later missed the final 10 games of the season due to a dislocated left shoulder.

In 2013–14, Kanter appeared in 80 games (37 starts), averaging 12.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. On March 3, 2014, he scored a then career-high 27 points in a 114–88 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.

On December 16, 2014, Kanter scored a then career-high 29 points in a 119–111 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.

Oklahoma City Thunder (2015–2017)
On February 19, 2015, Kanter was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in a three-team deal that involved the Detroit Pistons. Two days later, he made his debut for the Thunder, recording a double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds in a 110–103 win over the Charlotte Hornets. On April 1, 2015, he scored a then career-high 30 points in a 135–131 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

After the 2014–15 season, Kanter became a restricted free agent. On July 9, 2015, he received a four-year, $70 million offer sheet from the Portland Trail Blazers. However, three days later, the Thunder exercised their right of first refusal and matched the offer sheet extended to Kanter by the Trail Blazers. On March 14, 2016, he scored a then season-high 26 points in a 128–94 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. On April 6, he recorded a career-high 33 points and 20 rebounds in a 120–115 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, becoming the first player in Thunder history to score at least 30 points and grab 20 rebounds in a game. In Game 3 of the Thunder's first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, Kanter recorded a playoff career-high 21 points and a game-high eight rebounds in a 131–102 win, claiming a 2–1 series lead. In Game 4 of the series, Kanter helped the Thunder go up 3–1 with 28 points on 12-of-13 shooting, setting a playoff career high for the second straight game.

On November 28, 2016, Kanter recorded a season-high 27 points and 10 rebounds in a 112–103 win over the New York Knicks. On January 26, 2017, he sustained a fractured forearm after punching a chair on the Thunder's bench during their game against the Dallas Mavericks. He was subsequently ruled out for six to eight weeks. He returned to action on February 24, 2017, against the Los Angeles Lakers after missing nine games. He finished with four points on 2-for-12 shooting.

When Kanter lost his passport and faced being trapped abroad his teammates, Russell Westbrook and Steven Adams, reached out to him to make sure he was okay.

New York Knicks (2017–2019)
On September 25, 2017, Kanter was traded, along with Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round pick, to the New York Knicks in exchange for Carmelo Anthony. In his debut for the Knicks in their season opener on October 19, 2017, Kanter had 10 points and seven rebounds in a 105–84 loss to his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Five days later, he recorded 16 points and 19 rebounds in a 110–89 loss to the Boston Celtics. On November 29, 2017, after missing three games with back spasms, Kanter had 22 points and 14 rebounds in a 115–86 win over the Miami Heat. On December 25, 2017, he had a season-high 31 points and tied a career best with 22 rebounds in a 105–98 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. He joined Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Bob Lanier as the only players with a 30-20 game on Christmas. On January 30, 2018, he recorded 20 points, 20 rebounds and five assists in a 111–95 win over the Brooklyn Nets. On February 6, 2018, in a 103–89 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, Kanter recorded 19 points and 16 rebounds for his sixth consecutive double-double, marking the longest streak by any Knick since David Lee had seven straight from February 9–26, 2010. On March 6, 2018, he had 18 points and 11 rebounds in a 111–87 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. It was Kanter’s 32nd double-double of the season, a career high.

On October 19, 2018, Kanter scored 29 points in a 107–105 loss to the Nets. A day later, he recorded 17 points and 15 rebounds in a 103–101 loss to the Celtics, becoming the first Knick since Zach Randolph (2007–08) to start the season with three straight double-doubles. On November 5 he recorded 23 points and 24 rebounds in a 116–115 double-overtime loss to the Chicago Bulls. On November 11, he notched his fifth straight double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds in a 115–89 loss to the Orlando Magic. On November 25, recorded 21 points and a career-high 26 rebounds in a 103–98 win over the Memphis Grizzlies. In late December, Kanter was demoted to a reduced role off the bench. Kanter was waived by the Knicks on February 7, 2019. During his last game at Madison Square Garden, Kanter ran out and kissed the court goodbye.

Portland Trail Blazers (2019)
On February 13, 2019, Kanter signed with the Portland Trail Blazers. He made his debut for the Trail Blazers on February 21, recording 18 points and nine rebounds off the bench in a 113–99 win over the Brooklyn Nets. In game one of the Trail Blazers' first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kanter had 20 points and a career playoff-high 18 rebounds in a 104–99 win, becoming just the third player in team history with at least 20 points and 18 rebounds in playoff game: Bill Walton did it three times and LaMarcus Aldridge once.

Boston Celtics (2019–2020)
When free agency opened on July 1, 2019, Kanter and the Boston Celtics agreed to a two-year, $10 million contract. He was officially signed on July 17. With the Celtics, Kanter averaged 8.1 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1 assist. His season highs were 22 points, 6 blocks, and 19 rebounds. In the playoffs, he scored a total of 50 points in 11 games, averaging 4.5 points per game.

Return to Portland (2020–2021)
On November 20, 2020, Kanter was traded back to the Portland Trail Blazers in a three-team trade that also included the Memphis Grizzlies. On April 10, 2021, in a 118–103 win over the Detroit Pistons, Kanter set a career high and franchise record 30 rebounds, breaking Sidney Wicks record of 27 which he set in 1975. He also scored 24 points in the game, in which he became just the third player in the past 20 years to deliver a 20-point, 30-rebound performance.

Return to Boston (2021–2022)
On August 13, 2021, Freedom signed a one-year, worth $2.7 million veteran's minimum contract with the Boston Celtics.

On February 10, 2022, Freedom was traded, along with Dennis Schröder and Bruno Fernando, to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Daniel Theis. On February 14, the Rockets waived Freedom. Freedom believed he was waived because of his views about the Chinese government. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver denied this claim saying “I made it absolutely clear to [Kanter] that it was completely within his right to speak out on issues that he was passionate about.”

National team career
Kanter made his debut for the Turkish national basketball team at the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Italy. He dominated throughout the tournament, averaging 22.9 points, 16.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 34.6 minutes per game. However, Jonas Valančiūnas was chosen as the MVP after he averaged 14.3 points, 11.1 rebounds and 2.3 blocks in 23.5 minutes. Kanter went on to earn MVP honors at the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship after averaging 18.6 points and 16.4 rebounds while leading Turkey's junior national team to the bronze medal. He declined to play for the senior national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship which was being held in Turkey as the team went on to win the silver medal. His father claimed he did this in order not to miss the first month of classes at Kentucky.

Kanter played with the Turkish senior team for the first time at the 2011 EuroBasket where he was the youngest player to make the team. He appeared in eight games and averaged 9.6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game. Kanter was left off the team's roster for EuroBasket 2015. Kanter alleged that the omission was due to his relationship with Fethullah Gülen and his support of the Gülen movement while coach Ergin Ataman said that Kanter was excluded because "he did not apologize to teammates for past incidents." Kanter also believes that if he were to go to Turkey to play he would end up in jail, killed by the national government, and a fake poisoning incident would be created.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Utah
| style="background:#cfecec;"|  66* || 0 || 13.2 || .496 || .000 || .667 || 4.2 || .1 || .3 || .3 || 4.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Utah
| 70 || 2 || 15.4 || .544 || 1.000 || .795 || 4.3 || .4 || .4 || .5 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Utah
| 80 || 37 || 26.7 || .491 || .000 || .730 || 7.5 || .9 || .4 || .5 ||  12.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Utah
| 49 || 48 || 27.1 || .491 || .317 || .788 || 7.8 || .5 || .5 || .3 || 13.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 26 || 26 || 31.1 || .566 || .750 || .776 || 11.0 || 1.1 || .5 || .5 || 18.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| style="background:#cfecec;"|  82* || 1 || 21.0 || .576 || .476 || .797 || 8.1 || .4 || .3 || .4 || 12.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 72 || 0 || 21.3 || .545 || .132 || .786 || 6.7 || .9 || .4 || .5 || 14.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| New York
| 71 || 71 || 25.8 || .592 || .000 || .848 || 11.0 || 1.5 || .5 || .5 || 14.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| New York
| 44 || 23 || 25.6 || .536 || .318 || .814 || 10.5 || 1.9 || .4 || .4 || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 23 || 8 || 22.3 || .577 || .250 || .735 || 8.6 || 1.4 || .6 || .4 || 13.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Boston
| 58 || 7 || 16.9 || .572 || .143 || .707 || 7.4 || 1.0 || .4 || .7 || 8.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| style="background:#cfecec;"|  72* || 35 || 24.4 || .604 || .250 || .774 || 11.0 || 1.2 || .5 || .7 || 11.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Boston
| 35 || 1 || 11.7 || .526 || .400 || .857 || 4.6 || .2 || .1 || .4 || 3.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 748 || 259 || 21.5 || .548 || .289 || .777 || 7.8 || .9 || .4 || .5 || 11.2

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2012
| style="text-align:left;"| Utah
| 4 || 0 || 10.8 || .438 || — || .000 || 4.0 || .3 || .0 || 1.0 || 3.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2016
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 18 || 0 || 18.0 || .551 || .143 || .844 || 6.2 || .3 || .3 || .6 || 9.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 5 || 0 || 9.1 || .385 || — || 1.000 || 1.8 || .2 || .0 || .8 || 4.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 16 || 14 || 28.8 || .514 || .250 || .756 || 9.7 || 1.2 || .7 || .6 || 11.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| Boston
| 11 || 0 || 9.3 || .524 || 1.000 || .500 || 3.9 || .6 || .0 || .0 || 4.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 5 || 0 || 11.2 || .500 || — || 1.000 || 2.6 || .0 || .0 || .4 || 2.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 59 || 14 || 17.5 || .514 || .211 || .777 || 5.9 || .6 || .3 || .5 || 7.6

EuroLeague

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2008–09
| style="text-align:left;"| Fenerbahçe
| 4 || 0 || 7.8 || .429 || .000 || .667 || 1.5 || .0 || .3 || .0 || 2.0 || 1.8

Professional wrestling involvement
Kanter is a professional wrestling fan and has previously expressed interest in pursuing a professional wrestling career. Kanter has had online feuds with professional wrestlers including All Elite Wrestling's MJF.

On September 9, 2019, Kanter made a special appearance at a WWE Monday Night Raw event at Madison Square Garden, where prior to Raw going on the air he defeated WWE 24/7 Champion R-Truth to win the title, though he would lose it back to R-Truth moments later (all of which was shown later during the Raw broadcast). Kanter established himself as a heel during the segment, when he revealed his Celtics jersey to the New York City crowd.

Championships and accomplishments
WWE
 WWE 24/7 Championship (1 time)

Politics and activism

Turkey
Kanter received primary and secondary education at Hizmet schools in Turkey and reconnected with the movement's volunteers when Kanter arrived in the United States, even forming a personal relationship with the movement's founder, Fethullah Gülen. With regard to Gülen, Kanter has said, "His views on my religion, as well as ways to solve today's problems, were attractive to me. Gülen is promoting an Islam that highlights justice, respect and love for those who aren't like us. He believes that being a Muslim comes with some kind of duty, and that is to help others. These are principles that I feel strongly about."

Kanter said he became publicly critical of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2013 due to the corruption scandal in Turkey. After the failed 2016 coup d'état attempt, Kanter criticised Turkish president Erdoğan on Twitter, calling him the "Hitler of our century". Soon after the coup attempt in July, his father and his family publicly disowned him due to his political views and his support for Gülen, imploring him to change his surname, on August 8. Kanter stated that he loves Gülen "more than his family", informally changing his name to Enes Gülen. His father was dismissed from his university position a few weeks later, via government decree numbered 272 on September 1, as part of the 2016–17 Turkish purges. Kanter also received backlash from former NBA player Hedo Türkoğlu. Turkoglu called Kanter's comments "irrational".

In Turkey, Kanter's father was charged as a member of a terrorist group in 2018. He was arrested, then was released after being detained for five days. Kanter believed his father was targeted by the Turkish government and could face many years in prison. Kanter was unable to contact his friends and family back in Turkey because he feared the conversations will be taped and they will be harmed. Six days after the cancellation of his passport, the Turkish government issued an arrest warrant for Kanter due to his membership in Hizmet, an Islamist fraternal movement. Turkey said that charged citizens who fail to come to Turkey during September 2017 face revocation of citizenship; in September 2017, Kanter described himself as stateless. According to Sports Illustrated, "Although Kanter might dismiss the Turkish arrest warrant as toothless, he faces the more impactful problem of being a man without a country." In December 2017, the Associated Press reported that Turkish prosecutors were seeking more than four years in prison for Kanter, who would be tried in absentia.

Also in January 2019, Turkey put an extradition request on Kanter and requested that Interpol put a red notice for his arrest. However, according to Interpol's website, no red notice was issued. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon took up Kanter's cause, stating "The United States must not stay silent in the face of such a blatant attack on free thought and expression." Kanter later credited the bond he and Wyden had forged as part of the reason he sacrificed salary to facilitate a trade back to Portland in 2020.

It was reported on January 19, 2023, the Turkish government placed a $26,600 bounty on Enes Kanter and his name was added to the Grey Tier of Turkey's terrorist list.

Travel disruptions
In May 2017, while on a tour hosting basketball camps in Hong Kong and Japan and other parts of Asia, Kanter was in Jakarta, Indonesia. At 2:30 am, Kanter's manager knocked on his door with alarming information. He was told that two men identifying themselves as Indonesian government officials had visited the camp and wanted to find out if Kanter was sleeping at the camp, which he often did. Kanter, staying at a hotel with his manager, instead immediately left Indonesia, traveling to Singapore, then Bucharest, Romania via Frankfurt, Germany. On May 20, 2017, when trying to fly into Romaniawhere another camp was planned to be heldKanter was not allowed into the country and was told by officials there that his passport had been cancelled by the Turkish embassy. Kanter was temporarily stranded in Romania, but eventually flew to London and then back to the United States. While stuck in Romania, Kanter took to Twitter to explain his situation and the hashtag #FreeEnes went viral. Upon landing in the US, Kanter said the first thing he did was pray.

In January 2019, he decided against travelling to London with the Knicks, fearing that his life could be in danger if he traveled to Europe. Kanter did not travel to Toronto with the Portland Trail Blazers in March 2019 for the same reason. According to a 2019 ESPN story, FBI agents issued him a communications device that allows him to contact the organization at a moment's notice due to credible threats against his life.

China
In 2019, Kanter was the subject of an E:60 ESPN documentary called Enemy of the State. In October 2021, he condemned Xi Jinping, the Chinese paramount leader, as a "brutal dictator" and expressed his support for the Free Tibet movement on Twitter. In retaliation, the Chinese government stopped streaming all Boston Celtics games. Also in October, he led a rally in Washington, D.C., urging the U.S. Congress to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a law that would limit imports from the alleged areas where China has oppressed Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz minorities.

In November 2021, Kanter appeared in interviews on Fox News and CNN advocating for the boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China. On December 6, 2021, the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the games, meaning that athletes may still participate but no "diplomatic or official representation" will be sent from the United States government.

After Kanter was waived out of his most recent contract, he claimed he was pushed out of the NBA to appease the Chinese state. Adam Silver and the NBA have denied that Kanter's activism led to him being blackballed.

In June 2022, Kanter took part in a press conference with Canadian Senator Leo Housakos and Canadian MP Garnett Genuis. In this press conference, Kanter spoke about how his interest in the Uighurs in China began. The Canadian Government was called upon to halt the importation of goods that were made with forced labor from the province of Xinjiang.

On January 2023, Kanter sat down with journalist John Stossel in an interview titled, "The FULL Enes Kanter Freedom: On China, NBA Hypocrisy, LeBron & Cena", where he summarized his experiences pushing back against countries, including China, that don't allow freedom of speech for their citizens, and criticized LeBron James and John Cena for their China ties.

Personal life
In 2019, he wrote in The Washington Post about the challenge of observing Ramadan during the NBA playoffs, which includes daytime fasting while still playing NBA basketball games.

He has said that he learned English during college by watching SpongeBob SquarePants and Jersey Shore.

From 2018 to 2019, Kanter dated professional wrestler Dana Brooke. He began dating fashion designer and amateur equestrian Ariana Rockefeller in 2020.

He began following a plant-based diet in 2020, with the goal of switching to a vegan lifestyle.

Kanter became an American citizen on November 29, 2021, and also legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom at the same time to mark the occasion.

Philanthropy
During the summer of 2018, Kanter held 16 free basketball camps in the United States. Also in the same year, Kanter started a fundraiser for wildfire victims in Greece. In the summer of 2019, 40 free basketball camps were initially scheduled, but he ultimately hosted 50. Another 50 free camps were planned for the summer of 2020.

Works and publications

See also
 List of youngest EuroLeague players

References

Further information

External links

 Enes Kanter at FIBA

1992 births
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Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes ( araya səllase yohannəs; "horse name" Abba Deblaq) (1869/70 – 10 June 1888) was a son of atse Yohannes IV from his wife Masitire Selassie, a daughter of a Muslim Afar chieftain whom he married after she was Christened. Araya was nominated Crown Prince.

Araya was the first husband of Zewditu (later Empress), the daughter of atse Menelik II, having married her in January 1883. He was given the command of Wollo province at the time of his wedding. Because of a revolt raised in Wollo due to the death of dejazmach Amda Sadiq, chief of Tekaledere, in a quarrel with Araya's followers, Yohannes IV decided to appoint ras Mikael Ali, the traditional claimant to the lordship of Wollo. Ras Araya was transferred to Begemder and Dembaya in May 1886. In 1887–88, when the country was facing the Italian threat, he was commander of 40,000 troops near Adwa.

Araya died in his youth from smallpox, when the Emperor was returning from a campaign against the Italians at Seati (Battle of Dogali). His only son, by a weyzero Negesit, a lady from Wollo, was leul ras Gugsa Araya.

Biography

Early life
Leul Araya Selassie Yohannes was born in Enderta, a part of Tigray in Ethiopia in 1869/70, the legitimate son of Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia.  Mengesha Yohannes was his illegitimate half brother. He was granted the title of Ras in 1872 and was the governor of Enderta from 1872 to 1882.

Rise to Power

On 24 October 1882, the fifteen-year-old Leul Araya Selassie Yohannes married six-year-old Leult Zewditu, eldest daughter of Negus Menelik of Shewa. The marriage was political, having been arranged when Menelik agreed to submit to Yohannes' rule. In 1882  Ras Araya was granted the title of Negus of Tigray and Wollo. In 1883, Araya Selassie Yohannes was made Shum of Wollo Province and, in 1886, he was made Shum of Begemder and Dembiya.

In 1885, Araya Selassie Yohannes fathered a son, Gugsa Araya Selassie.  The mother's identity is unknown.

Death
On 10 June 1888, while in Mek'ele gathering an army for his father, Araya Selassie Yohannes died of smallpox. He was buried at Medhane Alem Church.

Honors
 Grand Collar of the Order of the Seal of Solomon (1875)

Legacy
Familial rivalry between the two lines of descent from Emperor Yohannes IV proved to be a difficult issue for Emperor Menelik II and his successors.  Tigray Province was divided between Ras Gugsa Araya Selassie, the son of Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes, and Ras Seyum Mangasha, the son of Ras Mangasha Yohannes. Gugsa Araya Selassie ruled the eastern half of Tigray and Seyum Mangasha ruled the western half.

See also
 Monarchies of Ethiopia
 Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles
 Mangasha Yohannes - Half brother of Araya Selassie Yohannes

Notes
Footnotes

Citations

References

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1888 deaths
People from Tigray Region
Ethiopian military personnel
Ethiopian nobility
Ethiopian princes
Ethiopian Royal Family
19th-century Ethiopian people
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Heirs apparent who never acceded


Ivano Ghirardini (born 1 May 1953) is a French mountaineer.

Early life
He was born in Montefiorino in Emilia-Romagna. He left Italy with his family in 1954 and was naturalized in 1972.

He attended school in Marseille, earning a Baccalaureate in mathematics. He learned to climb in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban and at Sisteron.

North face trilogy
In 1975, he made his first solo winter ascent of the north face of the Grandes Jorasses via the Shroud (Le Linceul). In January 1977, he attempted a winter solo ascent of the Matterhorn, but failed due to a storm. However, he was successful on his second attempt in December of the same year. He soloed the Grandes Jorasses again in January 1978 (the Croz Spur), and then the north face of Eiger in March 1978, thereby becoming the first mountaineer to solo all three of the "trilogy" (the north faces of the Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses and Eiger) in winter.

K2
He attempted K2 twice in 1979, both times having to give up due to stormy conditions. He made a solo bivouac without oxygen at 8,300m.

Mitre Peak
In 1980, Ghirardini climbed Mitre Peak in the Karakoram in Pakistan, again solo. He is the only mountaineer  to date to have done so.

Aconcagua
First solo climb of the south wall, in four days, following the French Route-1954 and taking the Messner's variation, reached the summit in January 1981 making this remarkable first.

Reve Ephemere D’Alpiniste, Grandes Jorasses
Ghirardini, 1994, V 5, 6a, A2, 65°, 800m, between pt Margarita and pt Young, ephemeral couloir. The first part was climbed with Slavko Sveticic, then Ghirardini soloed the last section.

New routes
Aig.Pierre André, Three super "dirictissimes" on East, North and South Face, all ED.
Aiguille de Saussure, "Vacances d'alpinistes", with Joshua Geetter.
Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, Hard route on NE face, ED, with Joshua Geetter.
Grandes Jorasses, Pointe Young, "Cristal Palace", a solo ascent.
Pointe Durier, Hard new route on SW face, with Franck and Philippe Henry.

References

Ivano Ghirardini website in French:

Ivano Ghirardini press book:

1953 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Marseille
French mountain climbers