"Fakin' It" is a song recorded by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel for their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). The song was initially released only as a single on July 7, 1967 through Columbia Records. It was later compiled into the second half of Bookends.

The song's lyrics stem from Simon wondering about his occupation and life had he been born a century earlier as well as reflection on his insecurities, facing a situation akin to impostor syndrome. All the same, the dramatic interplay between the burden of said insecurities and a simultaneous air of outwardly cool confidence generate significant interest for the listener. Even after numerous listenings, due to the concealment of specifics the fertile ambiguity that permeates "Fakin' It" allows for both of the two competing interpretations (faking contentment with a mediocre situation, or faking competence in order to hold down a more favorable one?) to be plausible, probably even as disparate aspects of the same situation.

Musically, it features a spoken word piece by musician Beverley Martyn as a sort of cameo appearance. The song was a minor hit in the United States, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background
Shortly before production began in earnest on Simon & Garfunkel's fourth LP, Bookends, Paul Simon hit a dry spell in his writing. Amid concerns for Simon's idleness, Columbia Records chairman Clive Davis arranged for up-and-coming record producer John Simon to kick-start the recording.

His first session with the group was for "Fakin' It" in June 1967. The duo were signed under an older contract that specified the label pay for sessions ("As a folk duo, how much could recording costs be?" said John Simon). Simon & Garfunkel took advantage of this indulgence, hiring viola and brass players, as well as percussionists. When the viola players arrived, the duo were so taken with the sound of the musicians tuning their instruments before recording that they spent nearly all night (at Columbia's expense) trying to find the random sound.

Composition

In "Fakin' It", melodies are occasionally deleted to suit lyrics, but the song generally follows a similar chord structure and melodic outline over a "funky rock beat" that sonically references the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows". It opens with an "unearthly rhythmic sound" (that some critics felt owed a debt to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever") that was an example of Simon & Garfunkel's desire to push the limits of studio recording.

The central finger-style riff deftly toys with whether or not the home key of A could modulate from a sturdy, relaxed mixolydian modal foundation into a decidedly somber aeolian melancholy. This deceptively nonchalant musical decision reminiscent of "Ode to Billie Joe" (1967) by Bobbie Gentry and even "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" (1967) by Peter, Paul and Mary underscores both the charm and vulnerability inherent in Simon's message of uncertain self confidence.

The lyrics find the protagonist mulling over his insecurities and shortcomings. It has been suggested that "Fakin' It" may be an allegory for Simon's relationship with Art Garfunkel.

Near the middle of the song there is a brief spoken word vignette featuring a British woman entering a tailor shop and greeting the owner: "Good morning, Mr. Leitch. Have you had a busy day?" The woman performing was singer Beverley Martyn, who was friends with singer-songwriter Donovan. Donovan's last name is Leitch, hence the name's use in the song. Simon knew Martyn from his days living in England, and she was often around the duo's circle of friends at the time of recording.

The lines about being a tailor arose from an occasion when Simon was wondering what his occupation would be had he been born a century earlier. "During some hashish reverie I was thinking to myself, 'I'm really in a weird position. I earn my living by writing songs and singing songs. It's only today that this could happen,'" he explained. He settled on the idea that he may have been a tailor, and likely from Vienna or Hungary, as that is where his ancestors migrated from. Simon's father revealed to him later that, coincidentally, his grandfather was a tailor also named Paul from Vienna.

Release

"Fakin' It" was issued as a single that summer and found only modest success on AM radio; the duo were much more focused on the rising FM format, which played album cuts and treated their music with respect. The running time of the song was actually 3 minutes and 14 seconds. Radio stations at the time resisted playing songs lasting longer than three minutes, so Paul Simon had the time "faked" to read 2:74 on the label. Simon preferred the album version of "Fakin' It" to its single release. He felt the stereo remix "greatly improved" the original mix, which he considered to be "sloppy."  On the other hand, Billboard particularly praised the production of the single version.

The single's B-side "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" is the duo's only non-album B-side.  Dana Valery recorded a version which was released as a single in January 1967. Valery's version became a massive song on the Northern Soul scene, having been a popular spin at Wigan Casino in the mid-1970s.

It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US at number 81 in the issue dated July 29, 1967, rising over the course of five weeks to its peak of position 23 on September 2, 1967. It last appeared on the chart September 16, 1967 at position 65, before dropping out.

Reception
Billboard predicted it might reach the top 20 of its chart in its review, calling it an "intriguing folk rocker" and praising John Simon's "exceptional" production work.  Cash Box said that it has "good literary copy, and a very fine musical backing."  Record World called it a "strange, compelling John Simon production." Mojo called "Fakin' It" a "dope-induced contemplation on an earlier life."

Charts

Weekly charts

Notes

References

Sources

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WBIG (1280 kHz; "The Big One") is an AM radio station broadcasting a mixed-format of talk, home shopping, and sports.  Licensed to Aurora, Illinois, it serves the Fox Valley. The station is currently owned by Auril Broadcasting LLC.

History
The station signed on December 13, 1938, as WMRO, a 500-watt daytimer owned by Martin O'Brien and operating at 1250 kHz; the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved the station to 1280 in 1941. The station's programming was predominantly local, with a full service format being in place in the late 1940s. Among WMRO's on-air staff during this time was a young John Drury.

Vincent Cofey and Benjamin Oswalt purchased the station in 1957; three years later, the station was granted night authorization and implemented its current power levels. A separately-programmed FM sister station at 107.9 (now WLEY-FM) was added on September 1, 1964.  Cofey and Oswalt sold WMRO to Dale Stevens in June 1969 to fund television station WLXT (channel 60; now occupied by WXFT-DT), which had signed on May 18, and to a lesser extent an upgrade to WMRO-FM, renamed WAUR.  WLXT shut down July 17, 1970; two years later, Stevens purchased WAUR from Cofey and Oswalt.

Beasley Broadcast Group bought WMRO and WAUR in 1986.  Beasley placed its focus on WAUR, which would eventually be relaunched as adult contemporary station WYSY-FM, and showed little interest in WMRO; this culminated in 1989 with the dismissal of the station's entire on-air staff and a callsign change to WYSY, reflecting its conversion to a simulcast of the FM station. WYSY-FM subsequently moved its studios from Aurora to Chicago; at that time, Beasley opted to completely shut down the Aurora facility, which also housed the AM station's transmitter, and with little fanfare signed the station off. The callsign was changed to the current WBIG in 1991; two years later, Big Broadcasting Company, Inc. purchased the license from Beasley, and brought WBIG back on the air in November 1993. An agreement was signed October 26, 2016, to sell WBIG, along with commonly-owned stations KSHP and WRMN to Pollack Broadcasting for $2 million. The sale was consummated on January 31, 2017.

On November 9, 1993, The WMRO call sign was retained to a Radio Station in Gallatin, Tennessee, owned by Classic Broadcasting, Inc. (Timothy "Scott" Bailey). Its former call sign was WWGM.

Programming
Much of WBIG's current daytime schedule is devoted to The Big Radio Shopping Show, a home shopping program that airs during much of the daytime hours.  The station does air an interview program, The Big Wake Up Call hosted by Ryan Gatenby.  Fox Sports Radio programming is aired during most of the nighttime hours; weekend programming is also largely provided by Fox Sports Radio, except for At Home with Gary Sullivan and The Big Radio Shopping Show on Saturday mornings and religious programming on Sunday mornings.

WBIG is the flagship station for Kane County Cougars baseball.  It also carries Chicago White Sox baseball, Chicago Bears football, Chicago Bulls basketball, and local sports.

References

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Boggs v. Boggs, 520 U.S. 833 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a spouse that is not a participant in an ERISA account cannot will part or all of it before distribution of the pension plan.

Background
Isaac Boggs worked for South Central Bell for 36 years. He was married to Dorothy Boggs until she died in 1979.  Dorothy and Isaac had three sons together. A year after Dorothy's death, Isaac remarried to Sandra, and they stayed married until Isaac's death in 1989.

When Isaac retired in 1985 from South Central Bell he was given several benefits from his employer.  Among the benefits were a lump-sum distribution from the Bell System Savings Plan for Salaried employees (in the amount of $151,628.94); the amount was rolled over in to an Individual Retirement Account which was untouched during Isaac's lifetime, and at Issac's death was worth $180,778.05.  Isaac also was given at retirement 96 shares of AT&T stock.

In her will Dorothy left her sons an usufruct (which is similar to a common-law life estate; the Boggs lived in Louisiana which recognizes the concept) to 2/3 of Isaac's life-estate.  However Dorothy's will was based on Isaac's will; after Dorothy's death Isaac changed his will, giving everything to Sandra.

Two of his sons filed a complaint in United States District Court to seek a declaratory judgment.

See also
 List of United States Supreme Court cases
 Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
 List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

References

External links

 DOJ link

United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court
1997 in United States case law
Wills and trusts
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974


Jimmy Connors was the defending champion but did not compete that year.

John McEnroe won in the final 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 against Johan Kriek.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

  John McEnroe (champion)
  Roscoe Tanner (semifinals)

Draw

References
1981 World Championship Tennis Finals Draw

Singles


The Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO)  is an orchestra based in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1997 and operates under the auspices of the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra Association, a corporation limited by guarantee  and Irish charity, The former Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra was active from the 18th century to the 1930s. The famous violinist, conductor and impresario Pierre Van Maldere conducting from 1751.  The present music director and conductor is Derek Gleeson.

Activities
The new Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra gave its premier concert during the 1997 Kilkenny Arts Festival at the 13th century Norman cathedral, "St. Canices", in the ancient city of Kilkenny. In addition to performing a repertoire of standard classical masterworks, the orchestra gives a voice to Ireland's contemporary composers. The orchestra has recorded classical and contemporary repertoire for commercial record companies, including Albany Records (U.S.A.), BMG/Windham Hill Records, and in 2006 was featured on the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland's "Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Six" CD in a recording of Baginbun 1170 by the composer Vincent Kennedy. Additionally, the orchestra has recorded film scores for motion pictures and television.

In 2008, the DPO performed at "The World Fleadh", Ireland's largest Celtic music festival with Frankie Gavin & De Dannan, Moya Brennan, Brian Kennedy and Anthony Kearns of the Three Irish Tenors.

In 2009, it undertook its inaugural tour of the United States of America with 49-concert dates across 24 states, under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management Inc., In 2010 it toured China, performing at the official Shanghai Grand Theatre World Expo 2010 program. It also opened the Beijing Summer Festival, Roam about the Classics, with concerts broadcast from the National Centre for the Performing Arts at the Opera House,(NCPA) Beijing, on TV, Radio and the Internet to over 400 million people.

The Hong Kong-based, Phoenix Television Station, made a documentary about the Orchestra's China Tour of 2010.

In 2010, the DPO teamed up with Samuel L. Jackson, the Samuel Jackson Foundation and Dionne Warwick in presenting a gala fundraising event for Irish Autism Action at the O'Reilly Hall at University College Dublin.

In January 2016 the Dublin Philharmonic made its second tour of China.

Composition and membership
The DPO is an International Orchestra drawing its orchestral players principally from the RTE National Symphony Orchestra (the orchestra of the Irish national radio network), the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, as well as select players from the pool of Dublin-based freelance musicians. The musicians pursue parallel careers as international soloists, members of eminent chamber groups, and as tutors and professors of music. Its Founder, Music Director and Conductor is Derek Gleeson.

Chamber music instrumentalists of the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra also perform as the "Irish Chamber Ensemble" under DPO's associate conductor Malcolm Yuen.

References

External links

 Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra's YouTube Channel
 Music Director Website

Irish orchestras
Musical groups established in 1997
Symphony orchestras


Portrait of the Infante Don Carlos is a 1626/27 oil painting of Don Carlos of Spain (brother to Philip IV of Spain), produced by Diego Velázquez as one of the first paintings he produced during his stay in Madrid. It is now in the Prado.

Its subject is in a relaxed and elegant pose, wearing a black costume with grey braids and a thick gold shoulder chain with the Order of the Golden Fleece and holding a hat in his left hand and a glove in his right. The figure appears in the darkest point of the space and the artist added a 4 cm strip on each side to add to its sense of authoritarianism.

See also
 List of works by Diego Velázquez

External links
Velázquez , exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this portrait (see index)

Don Carlos
Don Carlos
1626 paintings
Don Carlos
1620s in Spain
Don Carlos


Stuart Pflaum, better known as DJ Xplosive is an American music industry figure and digital music pioneer. Pflaum was born on June 29, 1981, in Nashville, Tennessee, (age 35). Based in New York City, Pflaum previously worked as consultant to street teams and lifestyle promotions at Asylum Records and Warner Music Group.

Pflaum founded the Element 9 company in 2005 to assist in the development of independent musicians.

In 2007, Pflaum began working with teen hip-hop sensation, Soulja Boy Tell'em as his music publisher and head of online promotions.

Pflaum published The Hip-Hop Stimulus Plan in February 2009, a series of writings that explore the role of the internet in the modern music industry.

In November 2009, the Element 9 company partnered with Fontana Distribution, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group, to release albums from artists signed to the company's record label. Pflaum will serve as Vice President for the label.

In 2010, Element 9 announced a deal with Blacksmith Records to release a series of albums with the label headed by Talib Kweli. Their first release is scheduled to be the album Arms & Hammers by West Coast hip hop trio Strong Arm Steady and released in February 2011.

References

Evans, Brenda (February 3, 2011). " Alum’s label poised for big hip-hop release". The Athens News. Retrieved on February 3, 2011.
Freeman, Laura (February 6, 2008). "Former Resident Nominated for Grammy". The Hudson Hub-Times. Retrieved on March 12, 2009.

External links
Element 9 Muzik
Xplosive World

Living people
American music industry executives
Year of birth missing (living people)


Sandoz is a Swiss watch brand, originally established in the late 19th century by Henri Sandoz near Tavannes, Switzerland. There are now many variations of the Sandoz name which are used by at least four different companies around the world.

History

Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851, was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma. In 1890, in partnership with two families named Schwob, Sandoz established a watchmaking firm at Malleray, near Tavannes, in the French-speaking Bernese Jura of Switzerland. Their new business was known as Tavannes Watch Co. By the time of the death of Sandoz on 18 March 1913, many watches were made under the name of Henri Sandoz & Fils. The enterprise occupied a 'model factory' employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day. Sandoz was reported to have a paternalistic policy towards his workforce, exercising a fierce social control.

Other names used by the Tavannes company at various times include Tavannes-Cyma, Bijou Watch Co., Tacy Watch Co., and Lisca. After the death of Sandoz, the company he founded went on growing. By 1938, it was manufacturing four thousand items a day.

Present day
Since 1971 the Sandoz brand name has been split into four main areas of production, due to its licences being leased or sold. This has led to four separate brands, Sandoz Singapore, Sandoz Hong Kong, Sandoz Swiss, and Sandoz Spain (Munreco). All of these produce watches under the Sandoz name, but each production company has its own line of products. Sandoz Swiss manufactures high quality watches, while Sandoz Hong Kong and Sandoz Singapore manufacture cheaper watches of lower quality.  Sandoz Hong Kong products are assembled in Hong Kong using Swiss movements from ETA SA.

See also
List of watch manufacturers

Notes

External links
Gary M. Frazier, A Review of the Sandoz Explorer III, The Rolex That Never Was at manthanein.com

Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland
Swiss watch brands
Swiss companies established in 1888
Manufacturing companies established in 1888


Stefan Kiedrzyński (1888–1943) was a Polish writer and essayist. He has published several novels and screenplays, mainly comedies.

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1943 deaths
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The 1982 World Championship Tennis Spring Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 12th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit since World Championship Tennis had split from the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was played at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was held from April 20 through April 26, 1982. Second-seeded Ivan Lendl won the title.

Final

Singles

 Ivan Lendl defeated  John McEnroe 6–2, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3
 It was Lendl's 7th singles title of the year and the 24th of his career.

References

External links
 ITF – Dallas WCT tournament edition details

World Championship Tennis Finals
WCT Finals


The Giving Tree Band is a rock & roll band from Yorkville, Illinois. The band is known for their live shows, which cover a vast array of genres. The current lineup consists of brothers Eric "E" (Guitars/Lead Vocals) and Todd Fink (Banjos/Guitars/Lead Vocals), Karl "Charlie Karls" Kieser (Bass/Vocals), Zachariah "Z" Oostema (Percussion/Vocals), and Erik "Norm" Norman (Keys/Mandolin/Guitars/Vocals) who is recognized for adding elaborate solos. Though the group uses an instrumentation largely associated with bluegrass and Americana, their sound often drums up comparisons to such classic rock icons as The Band, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and The Beatles.

History
The Giving Tree Band was started by brothers Todd and Eric Fink in 2004. They released their first full-length album - a double disc, entitled Unified Folk Theory - in 2007. The album features 33 songs of original material. In 2008, the band set out to record a carbon-neutral album, which was done at the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The album was released in 2009, and was entitled Great Possessions, which was the working title of conservationist Aldo Leopold's book, A Sand County Almanac. It was recorded with 100% solar energy at the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center in Baraboo, WI.

On September 21, 2010, the band released their third full-length album, The Joke, The Threat & The Obvious. The album spent multiple weeks on various Americana radio charts, peaking at number 15 on the Roots Music Report and number 40 on the Americana Airplay Chart. The album also received critical acclaim, including a spot on Acoustic Guitar Magazines "Best Acoustic Albums of 2010" list, as well as garnering positive reviews from such publications as Relix Magazine, The Huffington Post, and American Songwriter.

The group toured extensively in 2010, playing such notable festivals as South by Southwest, Wakarusa, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Forecastle Festival, along with such venues as The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Millennium Park and the House of Blues in Chicago. When not touring, the band members all live together at a house in Yorkville, where they also record their albums.

Instrumentation and sound
The band uses a multitude of acoustic instruments, including guitar, banjo, upright bass, violin, mandolin, slide guitar, and drums. During their November 3, 2008 appearance on WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, host Michael Johnathon described them as having "the spirit of Pete Seeger with the musical abilities of The Band." Reviewers have referred to their songwriting as having "Dylanesque imagery, John Prine-like aphorisms and Abbey Road-era Beatles overtones" and being "reminiscent of Bob Dylan and Neil Young". A review from the Nashville Metromix described The Giving Tree Band as being "a neo-retro take on The Band or the American answer to Mumford & Sons".

They're known to dress in costumes and perform sets as a range of classic acts around Halloween each year. On October 28, 2016, at a costume party at The Law Office Pub & Music Hall in The Giving Tree Band's hometown of Yorkville, they dressed and performed an entire set as The Band.

Environmental initiatives
The Giving Tree Band is also known for its great environmental stewardship and eco-friendly music production. They use a number of instruments that were handmade from naturally fallen trees and reclaimed woods. By 2010, all members of the band were vegetarians. They have recorded with renewable energy and package all their CDs with 100% recycled materials. During the recording session of the 2009 album Great Possessions, the band camped in a nearby state park and commuted over 500 miles by bicycle. As a result of this, the Chicago Sun-Times called it the "greenest of albums." National and international environmental media, such as The Sierra Club, The Discovery Channel and Mother Earth News, have also highlighted the band's activism, with the latter referring to them as "the greenest band in the land".

Following the release of Great Possessions, the band began receiving international recognition, as news sources in countries as diverse as Mexico, France, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, China, and Ecuador reported on the making of the album and the band's other environmental initiatives. These international sources put the group's environmental efforts as being on par with those of popular rock artists Radiohead and Kings of Leon.

In 2016, the group appeared on a compilation album entitled Home on the Range alongside Moby, Matisyahu, Nellie McKay and others. The compilation album is the project of the Compassionate Farming Education Initiative, and proceeds from the album will benefit farm animal sanctuaries.

 Discography Studio AlbumsUnified Folk Theory (2007)
Great Possessions (2009)
The Joke, The Threat & The Obvious (2010)
Vacilador (2012)
Frequency of Love (2017)Live AlbumsLike a Freight Train (2015)EPs Bring It Back Home For Christmas (2008)SinglesGlow (2015)Compilation Albums'''Home On The Range (2016)''

References

External links
Official Site
Facebook Site
Crooked Creek Records Site

American alternative country groups
American folk rock groups
Folk musicians from Chicago
Indie rock musical groups from Illinois
Musical groups from Chicago
Musical groups established in 2004


The Infante Carlos of Spain, also known as The Infante Charles of Spain (15 September 1607 – 30 July 1632), was an infante of Spain, the second son of King Felipe III of Spain and Margaret of Austria.

Life
The Infante Carlos was the younger brother of Felipe IV, and, as long as the King remained childless, was heir to the Spanish throne. Carlos was never a friend of Felipe's favourite and prime minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares, and though he was uninterested in politics, he was used by various nobles in attempts to overthrow Olivares.

During his brother's severest illness, Carlos was on the point of ascending the throne, but Felipe recovered and in 1629 finally fathered a son, Balthasar Carlos. This dissipated Carlos's political importance completely.

Contemporaries described him as prudent and liberal and he seemed to have been a "vigilant observer of royal customs". Other than his brother Fernando, who was assigned a role at an early age, he remained in a child-like position until his mid-twenties. Although he received official visits and expressed political opinions, he remained without an own household, remaining in the household of the king.

He died in 1632, aged 24. Francisco de Quevedo dedicated a sonnet entitled The Burial of the Most Serene Infante Don Carlos to this event.

Ancestry

Male-line family tree

References

1607 births
1632 deaths
17th-century House of Habsburg
17th-century Spanish nobility
Burials in the Pantheon of Infantes at El Escorial
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The Canton of Fraize is a French former administrative and electoral grouping of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 12,304 inhabitants (2012).

Positioned within the Arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, the canton had its administrative centre at Fraize.

Composition
The Canton of Fraize comprised the following 9 communes:

 Anould
 Ban-sur-Meurthe-Clefcy
 La Croix-aux-Mines
 Entre-deux-Eaux
 Fraize
 Mandray
 Plainfaing
 Saint-Léonard
 Le Valtin

References

Fraize
2015 disestablishments in France
States and territories disestablished in 2015


Penrhos is an area or hamlet at the top of the hill east of Kington, Herefordshire near the Welsh border. The name is derived from the Welsh words pen and rhos and means "head (top) of the moor". In the area there are a small number of buildings including Penrhos Farm and Penrhos Court.

History
Penrhos Court originated around the late 13th century with a large cruck dwelling. Generations of owners have added more buildings and at one stage it became a small hamlet of half a dozen dwellings. Farm barns were added which formed a squared of ancient farm building surrounding a courtyard with a puddle duck pond and a well in the middle.  Records of 1752 refer to the area as Penrose, in 1841 as Penrhose, in 1850 again as Penrose being a farm of , then 1880 as the first reference to the Welsh name of Penrhos which it is still now known by.

Many famous people have stayed at Penrhos Court including Queen, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield and Terry Jones of Monty Python.

Queen stayed there for a couple of weeks in August 1975 to rehearse their album A Night at the Opera (which features the hit "You're My Best Friend" and the legendary "Bohemian Rhapsody") before embarking to Rockfield Studios in Monmouth.

References

External links

Villages in Herefordshire


The 1990 Esso RAC British Touring Car Championship season was the 33rd British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season and marked the last year of the Group A era. It was also the final year of the multi-class format.

Changes for 1990
Classes changed from four to two. Group A cars now ran alongside the all new 2 litre Touring Car Formula, with a view to a single class formula for 1991. This was to encourage new manufacturers to enter the series, with a more even field of cars and cheaper running costs. BMW and Vauxhall already entered works teams this year, with other manufacturers showing interest for future seasons.
One hour endurance races increased from one to two.

Season summary
The first race was won by Andy Rouse in his Ford Sierra RS500. He also won the first 1 Hour endurance race at Donington Park GP with David Sears. The next race at Thruxton was won by Robb Gravett. Gravett also won the next six races including the second 1 Hour endurance race at Brands Hatch with Mike Smith. Rouse won the Birmingham Superprix. This would be best remembered for the last lap accident between Frank Sytner and John Cleland. It would be the last time that the BTCC would race on the track.
Gravett then won at Donington. The last two races, at Thruxton and Silverstone, were won by Rouse and Gravett.
It was Gravett who won the championship, despite the team's struggle to run through the season on a low budget with no main sponsor.

Teams and drivers


Cool Earth is a UK-based international NGO that funds Indigenous communities to protect endangered rainforests in order to combat the climate crisis and protect ecosystems.

The charity is associated with long term partnerships with Indigenous villages, unconditional cash transfers and advocating for basic income as an effective conservation strategy. It shares many of its methods and values with organisations and networks like Give Directly and the Basic Income Earth Network.

It is supported by Professor James Lovelock and Professor Johan Rockstrom and a number of celebrities including the late Dame Vivienne Westwood, Pamela Anderson and Ricky Gervais. Professor James Lovelock, was quoted in the Guardian saying, “You're far better off giving to the charity Cool Earth, which gives the money to the Indigenous peoples to not take down their forests.”. Professor Johan Rockström, a world leading climate scientist, and Cool Earth Trustee has also shared his opinions on the charity, “Cool Earth has one of the most effective means of showing that conservation of rainforests can go hand in hand with community development.”and “I would put rainforests right there at the top of humanity’s to-do list. Cool Earth has one of the most effective means of conservation.”.

In 2016, a detailed external evaluation of Cool Earth undertaken by Giving What We Can found Cool Earth to be the most cost-effective charity working on mitigating climate change through direct action. The report concluded: "Cool Earth is overall the most cost-effective climate change charity which can reliably reduce emissions without risk". Awards made to the charity include Charity of the Year Civil Society Media Charity Awards and best International NGO at the PEA Awards.

The organisation is funded by over 70,000 individuals as well as foundations and businesses in the USA, UK and Europe. Moreover, Cool Earth is ranked “highly effective” by multiple charity evaluators. For example, it has received a top rating from GiveWell, which is a leading independent evaluator of charities.

History

Cool Earth was founded in 2007 by entrepreneur Johan Eliasch and MP Frank Field out of their common interest in protecting the rainforest. They argued that it was unacceptable that the 20% of carbon emissions created by tropical deforestation were ignored by the Kyoto protocol and that urgent, direct action was needed to put a stop to deforestation, lest it take up to twenty years to get an idea adopted by the political bureaucracy.

Activities
Cool Earth's ethos is that the most effective custodians of rainforests are the people who have lived there for generations as they have the most to lose from its destruction. Their approach is to work with Indigenous and rainforest-based communities to secure threatened rainforest. The charity provides local people with the support they need to keep their rainforests standing. This is done by concentrating on three key areas, these are:

 Cash Transfers
 Local Economies
 Forest Data

The provision of resources for these areas enables the building of sustainable livelihoods, better schools, better clinics and the empowerment of partner villages to monitor their forest and secure it from illegal logging. This basic model used by Cool Earth has been described as "simple but so intelligent" by the Times journalist Deborah Ross.
Cool Earth is currently working alongside 13 partners to protect nearly 100,000 hectares of rainforest across 3 continents. The organisation is currently active in Papua New Guinea, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon; and has previously finished work in Brazil and Ecuador.

In Peru the charity is working with two Indigenous communities at the frontline of deforestation, the Ashaninka and the Awajún.

Cool Earth has been partnered with villages in the Asháninka community since 2008, after they contacted the charity desperate to be able to turn loggers away despite living below the poverty line. The project has expanded to 14 other Asháninka villages and the support from Cool Earth has enabled the villages to carry out activities such as strengthen register community associations, demarcate their community borders, carry out voluntary patrols, enable emergency evacuations, establish a cacao and coffee producers association, provide mosquito nets for every villager, build medical outposts and improve primary schools.
The partnership with the Awajún villages in Northern Peru, near the Ecuadorian border is aiming to protect 56,000 acres of forest. The key activities being supported are the development of cacao production, fish farms and traditional jewellery. The jewellery producers use seeds harvested from the rainforest and their work has inspired Vivienne Westwood’s Gold Label Collection and featured in her Paris fashion show.

In the Congo Basin, the charity has been partnering with local charities including OELO, CCREAD and GCE to help local communities protect their rainforest. So far Cool Earth has helped improve the villages rights over their forest through training of local people in GPS mapping and plotting 600,000 acres of community forest.[16]

Cool Earth's youngest project is in Papua New Guinea and was launched in September 2015. It is working with three Indigenous and rainforest coastal villages on the edge of the palm plantation frontier. They are aiming to build sustainable livelihoods to enable the villagers to halt the advance of the palm plantations from the east and protect the pristine rainforest behind.

One of Cool Earth’s most recent campaign was supporting The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy, a project launched in 2015 to preserve and promote forested areas throughout the Commonwealth.

Recognition

Cool Earth has been supported by notable people and ambassadors including Professor James Lovelock, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Pamela Anderson, Kate Moss, Professor Lord Stern, Dr Tony Juniper, Kelly Hoppen, Leah Wood, Nick Baker, Gillian Burke and Dr John Hemming.

In 2015, it was named Charity of the Year in its category at the Civil Society Media Charity Awards and best International NGO at the PEA Awards.

In 2016, a detailed external evaluation of Cool Earth undertaken by Giving What We Can found Cool Earth to be the most cost-effective charity working on mitigating climate change through direct action. The report concluded: "Cool Earth is overall the most cost-effective climate change charity which can reliably reduce emissions without risk."

See also

 Eden Reforestation Projects

References

External links
 Cool Earth

Charities based in Cornwall
Climate change organisations based in the United Kingdom
Forest conservation organizations
Foreign charities operating in Peru
Foreign charities operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Foreign charities operating in Papua New Guinea


Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is a professor emerita of anthropology. She taught at Smith College in Massachusetts.

Life
Apffel-Marglin finished high school at the Lycée Regnault, Tangier, Morocco. She received both her B.A. (Mediterranean Studies, 1973) and her Ph.D. (Anthropology, 1980) from Brandeis University.

Apffel-Marglin lived in India for several years. She was first a student of Indian Classical Dance (Odissi style) and later did her first field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple in Orissa in the mid-1970s. Her later fieldwork was among agricultural communities in coastal Orissa. Since 1994, she has engaged in collaborative work with non-governmental organizations in Peru and Bolivia. She taught in graduate courses that those organizations offered from 1994 until 2005. She was the coordinator of Centers for Mutual Learning in Peru and Bolivia during that period. This project was funded by a MacArthur grant until 1999. In 2009 she founded a non-profit organization in the Peruvian High Amazon called Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration (SCBR) that she directs. SCBR collaborates with local indigenous communities on the re-creation of a pre-Columbian anthropogenic soil of millenarian fertility discovered by archaeologists. She also directs summer study abroad programs for US undergraduates at SCBR.

She was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki, an affiliate of the United Nations University, from 1985 until 1991. As part of that endeavor, she and Harvard economist Stephen Marglin formed an interdisciplinary and international collaborative team that has produced three books on critical approaches to development and globalization. She has published over 55 articles and 13 books.

She was one of the associate editors of the journal INTERculture.

Writings (selection)
As author
Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.
Rhythms of Life: Enacting the World with the Goddesses of Orissa, Oxford University Press, 2008, .
The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development, Palgrave 1998, .
Smallpox in Two Systems of Knowledge, Helsinki: WIDER, 1987 - also in: Dominating Knowledge, pp. 120–144.
Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri, Oxford University Press, 1985.

as editor
(with Sanjay Kumar) Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins,  Oxford University Press, Delhi, India, Fall 2010.
(with Stephen A. Marglin): Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, Reprint 2007.
(with Tariq Banuri): Who Will Save the Forests?: Knowledge, Power and Environmental Destruction, Delhi: Zed Boks 1993.
(with Stephen A. Marglin): Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue; A Study Prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
(with John A. Grim): Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, Harvard University Press, 2000.
Défaire le développement, refaire le monde  [L'Association la Ligne d'Horizon - Les Amis de François Partant], Paris: Parangon, 2003.
(with C. A. Bowers): Re-Thinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004,
(with John Carman) Purity and Auspiciousness in Indian Society, Brill Leiden, 1985.

References

External links
Apffel-Marglin's Smith College staff page
INTERculture
Sachamama

21st-century American anthropologists
American women anthropologists
Brandeis University alumni
Smith College faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


A bone cyst or geode is a cyst that forms in bone.

Types include:
 Unicameral bone cyst (simple or solidary bone cyst)
 Aneurysmal bone cyst
 Traumatic bone cyst

Diagnosis
On CT scans, bone cysts that have a radiodensity of 20 Hounsfield units (HU) or less, and are osteolytic, tend to be aneurysmal bone cysts.

In contrast, intraosseous lipomas have a lower radiodensity of -40 to -60 HU.

Treatment and Prevention

Simple (Unicameral) Bone Cyst
Some unicameral bone cysts may spontaneously resolve without medical intervention. Specific treatments are determined based on the size of the cyst, the strength of the bone, medical history, extent of the disease, activity level, symptoms an  individual is experiencing, and  tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies. The types of methods used to treat this type of cyst are curettage and bone grafting, aspiration, steroid injections, and bone marrow injections. Watchful waiting and activity modifications are the most common nonsurgical treatments that will help resolve and help prevent unicameral bone cysts from occurring and reoccurring.

Aneurysmal Bone Cyst
Aneurysmal bone cysts can be treated with a variety of different methods. These methods include open curettage and bone grafting with or without adjuvant therapy, cryotherapy, sclerotherapy, ethibloc injections, radionuclide ablation, and selective arterial embolization. En bloc resection and reconstruction with strut grafting are the most common treatments and procedures that prevent recurrences of this type of cyst.

Traumatic Bone Cyst
The traumatic bone cyst treatment consists of surgical exploration, curettage of the osseous socket and bony walls, subsequent filling with blood, and intralesional steroid injections. Young athletes can reduce their risk of traumatic bone cyst by wearing protective mouth wear or protective headgear.

History

Aneurysmal bone cysts are benign neoformations which can affect any bone. More than half occur in the metaphysis of long bones (especially femur and tibia) and between 12 and 30% in the spine. They were described in 1893 by Van Arsdale, who called these lesions "homerus ossifying haematoma". In 1940 Ewing used the term "aneurismal" to describe these lesions. Jaffé and Lichtenstein first coined the term "aneurismal cyst" in 1942 In 1950 they modified this term to "aneurismal bone cyst". They may be associated with bone tumors.

The simple bone cyst is a common, benign, fluid-containing lesion, most commonly found in the metaphysis of long bones, typically the proximal humerus or femur. Pathologic fractures are common, often with minor trauma. These cysts typically resolve after skeletal maturity and are not typically associated with bone tumors. The cause  is unknown. These were first recognised as a distinct entity in 1910. Jaffe and Lichtenstein provided a detailed discussion of simple bone cysts in 1942.

The traumatic bone cyst, also referred to as a simple bone cyst or hemorrhagic cyst, is a pseudocyst that most commonly affects the mandible of young individuals. It is a benign empty or fluid-containing cavity within the mandible body that does not have evidence of a true epithelial lining. This type of bone cyst is a condition found in the long bones and jaws. There is no definitive cause, though it relates to trauma in the oral region. The likelihood of males being affected by this condition is frequently greater than in females. It appears on radiographs as a unilocular radiolucent area with an irregular but well-defined outline. This term was first described by Lucas in 1929.

References

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Musculoskeletal disorders


John McEnroe was the defending champion but lost in the final 6–2, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 to Ivan Lendl.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

  John McEnroe (final)
  Ivan Lendl (champion)

Draw

References
1982 World Championship Tennis Finals Draw (Archived 2009-05-07)

Singles


Oskars Aleksandrs Johans Bārs   (17 October 1848, in Dobele – 9 January 1914, in Riga) was a Latvian architect.
He is most noted for his work in Jelgava. From 1875 to 1879 he designed and constructed the Jelgavas Synagogue in the city.

References

1848 births
1914 deaths
Latvian architects
People from Dobele


The American Ecclesiastical Review was the first American Roman Catholic journal dedicated to theological scholarship.

History
The journal was established in 1889 and published in Philadelphia until 1927. It was then housed at the Catholic University of America until it ceased publication in 1975. It was edited by Joseph Clifford Fenton, a peritus at the Second Vatican Council.

References

Catholic studies journals
Publications established in 1889
Catholic University of America academic journals
Publications disestablished in 1975


Kurt Douglas Volker (born December 27, 1964) is an American diplomat who served as George W. Bush's last U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Later he served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership and in a volunteer capacity as Donald J. Trump's U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine until his resignation on September 27, 2019.

Background
Kurt Volker was born in 1964 in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, to Benjamin and Thelma (Rowdon) Volker. After graduating from Hatboro-Horsham Senior High School, Volker graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in International Affairs in 1984. He was awarded an M.A. in International Relations from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs in 1987.

Career

Public service
After a short tenure as a CIA analyst, in 1988, Volker joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service. While in the Foreign Service, he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997). Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke.

Volker served as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator John McCain from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he became first secretary of the US mission to NATO, and in 1999 he was sent to deputy director of NATO Secretary-General George Robertson's private office, serving in that position until 2001.

He then became acting director for European and Eurasian Affairs for the National Security Council. In that capacity he was in charge of US preparations for 2004 Istanbul summit of NATO members and the 2002 Prague summit. In July 2005, Volker became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, serving in that position until he was appointed United States Permanent Representative to NATO in July 2008 by President George W. Bush. Volker served as Ambassador in that position from July 2, 2008, to May 15, 2009.

Private sector
Volker went into the private sector in 2009, becoming an independent director at The Wall Street Fund Inc, where he worked until 2012. He was a member of the board of directors at Capital Guardian Funds Trust beginning in 2013. Volker was also an independent director at Evercore Wealth Management Macro Opportunity Fund until 2012.

Volker served as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, a global consulting firm from 2010 to 2011.

In 2011, he joined BGR Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm and investment bank, where he currently serves as a managing director in the firm's international group.

He then became executive director of Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership when it was launched in 2012. He resigned in 2019.

He has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies since September 2009, and a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council since October 2009. Volker is currently listed as a trustee at the CG Funds Trust, and a member of the board of trustees at The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM), an American-style degree-granting institution in Aix-en-Provence, France. As an undergraduate, he was enrolled at ACM's study abroad institute, IAU College. He is also a member of the board of directors at The Hungary Initiatives Foundation. In addition, Volker is a member of the Atlantic Partnership.

Ukrainian media reported in June 2021 that Kurt Volker represents US investors that co-founded American University Kyiv in partnership with Arizona State University.

Special Representative for Ukraine

On July 7, 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appointed Ambassador Kurt Volker as the US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations. Volker accompanied Tillerson on his trip to Ukraine two days later.  On September 27, 2019, Volker resigned from this official, yet volunteer, position.

Trump–Ukraine

In mid-September 2019, reports began to surface suggesting that a whistleblower complaint had been submitted to Michael K. Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, which he found to be credible and a matter of "urgent concern". Subsequently, claims were advanced by various chairmen of U.S. House committees that Kurt Volker, while acting in his official capacity as US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, had been told by the White House "to intercede with President Zelensky" about investigations regarding Joe Biden and Paul Manafort. Volker met with Zelensky the day after President Trump spoke by phone with the Ukrainian president, a call which would later reportedly result in a whistleblower complaint. Two days after Volker's meeting, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats resigned, resulting in a stand-off regarding whether the new acting DNI would share the complaint with Congress.

On September 26, 2019, the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the unclassified text of this whistleblower complaint regarding the interactions between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In this document, Volker, along with US Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, were described as having "provided advice to the Ukrainian leadership about how to 'navigate' the request that the President had made of Mr. Zelensky".

That same day Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani posted on Twitter a screenshot that purported to be a text message from Volker to Giuliani, stating, "Mr. Mayor -- really enjoyed breakfast this morning. As discussed, connecting you here with , who is very close to President Zelensky. I suggest we schedule a call together on Monday -- maybe 10am or 11am Washington time? Kurt".

NBC News has reported, in regard to the Volker text that Giuliani allegedly received, "Whether Volker was acting on orders from Trump is unclear, and the State Department hasn't said why Volker made the introduction, other than that the Ukrainian aide requested it. But the introduction ultimately led to a meeting between Yermak and Giuliani in Spain that the whistleblower wrote was a 'direct follow-up' to Trump's call."

In the White House memorandum of the July 25 telephone call between the two presidents, President Zelensky is quoted as saying, "I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine." Notably, the date on the screenshot of the purported text message from Volker to Giuliani is July 19, six days earlier.

On September 27, 2019, Volker resigned hours after congressional Democrats announced he would be called to provide a deposition.

Volker was interviewed in a closed session of the House committees leading the Trump impeachment inquiry on October 3, 2019, and his prepared statement was made public on October 4, 2019. The Washington Post reported that he asserted he had warned Giuliani that he (Giulani) was receiving untrustworthy information about the Bidens from Ukrainian political figures.

On November 19, 2019, Volker testified before the U.S. House of Representatives during a public hearing, during which he corrected or reversed statements made in his closed hearing, regarding mention of investigations, stating instead that Sondland "made a generic comment about investigations," which Volker and others found "inappropriate." He had previously said that he was not aware of any link between investigations and a White House visit. On November 21, 2019, David Holmes, who serves as head of political affairs in the US Embassy in Ukraine, described Volker, as well as Sondland and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry as "The Three Amigos" who ran the Ukraine campaign with Trump and Giulani.

Personal life
In June 2019, Volker married Georgian journalist for Voice of America Ia Meurmishvili. He was previously married to Karen Volker, with whom he had two sons. He speaks English, Hungarian, Swedish, and French.

References

External links

 Kurt Volker at the team of McCain Institute, biography

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1964 births
Living people
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
People of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Permanent Representatives of the United States to NATO
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Temple University alumni
Trump–Ukraine scandal
United States Foreign Service personnel
United States National Security Council staffers
United States Special Envoys


Walter, Walt, or Walley Barnes may refer to:

 Walley Barnes (1920–1975), Welsh footballer and broadcaster
 Walt Barnes (1918–1998), American football player and character actor
 Walt Barnes (defensive lineman) (born 1944), American football player
 Walter Barnes (musician) (1905–1940), American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader
 Walter Barnes (politician) (1858–1933), Australian parliamentarian in Queensland
 Walter Barnes (sportswriter) (1860–1940), American sportswriter and sports editor in Boston

See also
 Walter S. and Melissa E. Barnes House, Somerville, Massachusetts


William Downes may refer to:

William Downes, 1st Baron Downes (1751–1826), Irish judge
William Downes (cricketer) (1843–1896), New Zealand cricketer
William F. Downes (born 1946), U.S. federal judge


The Association of communes of the Upper Meurthe (French: Communauté de communes de la Haute Meurthe) is a former administrative association of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and on the eastern side of the region of Lorraine. It was merged into the Communauté de communes de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in January 2014, which was merged into the new Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in January 2017. The name is a reference to the upper reaches of the river Meurthe. Created in 1996, the association had its administrative offices at Fraize.

The Communauté de communes comprised the following communes:
 Ban-sur-Meurthe-Clefcy
 Fraize
 Mandray (only since April 2006)
 Plainfaing

References

Upper Meurthe


National Insurance Corporation Limited, commonly referred to as National Insurance Corporation (NIC), is an insurance company in Uganda. The company is a leading provider of insurance and risk management services in the country.

Overview
NIC, one of the licensed insurance companies in the country, is a medium-sized insurance services provider in Uganda. , the company's total assets were valued at USh 108 billion (approximately US$30 million). During the year that ended December 2017, the company realized USh 1.9 billion (approximately US$520,000) in after-tax  profit. At that time, shareholders' equity was calculated at USh 38 billion (approximately US$10.5 million).

History
NIC was established by an Act of Parliament in 1964. Before 2005, all of the company was owned by the Ugandan government. In June 2005, the government divested 60 percent of its shares in NIC. These shares were acquired by Industrial and General Insurance Company Limited of Nigeria. In December 2009, the government began the process of divesting entirely from the company by floating its 40 percent shareholding on the Uganda Securities Exchange.

Subsidiaries
As December 2013, the company had the following subsidiaries:
 NIC (South Sudan) Limited - Juba, South Sudan - 100 percent shareholding
 Capital Assets Investment Limited - Kampala, Uganda - 100 percent shareholding
 Premium Trust Investment (Uganda) Limited - Kampala, Uganda - 100 percent shareholding
 NIC Trustees and Investment Limited - Kampala, Uganda - 100 percent shareholding

Ownership
Until December 2009, 60 percent of NIC was owned by a consortium called Corporate Holdings Limited. The consortium was owned jointly by Industrial and General Insurance Company Plc (IGI), a Nigerian insurance company (85 percent), and by local businessmen Patrick Bitature and Erik van Veen (15 percent). The remaining 40 percent of NIC, was owned by the government of Uganda.

On 31 December 2009, the Ugandan government started the process to list on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) the 161.6 million shares of NIC that it owned. That process concluded on 25 March 2010, when active trading of NIC began on the USE under the symbol NIC. As of 31 December 2017, the ownership of the company was as depicted in the table below:

Branch network
The company has branches in the following Ugandan towns: Arua, Busia, Fort Portal, Gulu, Jinja, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Lira, Mbarara, Malaba, Masaka, Masindi, and Mbale. In addition, NIC has a branch in Juba, South Sudan.

Products and services
NIC's products and services list includes the following:

Governance
The governing body of the company is the nine-member board of directors. Martin Aliker, one of the non-executive board members, is the acting chairman. The chief executive officer in acting capacity, is Elias Edu, following the promotion of Bayo Folayan, the previous managing director to Group Managing Director.

See also
 Banking in Uganda
 Economy of Uganda
 List of wealthiest people in Uganda
 List of insurance companies in Uganda

References

External links
    NIC Website
 Licensed Insurance Companies In Uganda
  NIC To Get UGX:8.4 Billion (US$3.3 Million) From Rights Issue In 2013
 Uganda's NIC Seeks Approval To Cross-List Shares

Financial services companies established in 1964
1964 establishments in Uganda
Insurance companies of Uganda
Companies listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange


Robert Rudolph may refer to:

 Robert Knight Rudolph (1906–1986), American Reformed Episcopal minister and theologian
 Robert Livingston Rudolph (1865–1930), American bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church


Maud Van Cortlandt Oakes (1903–1990) was an ethnologist, artist and writer who published her research into the cultures of indigenous tribes in the Americas, including the Navajo of the American Southwest and the Mam of Guatemala. She is best known for her books recording these tribes' ceremonies, art and stories.

Early life
Oakes was born May 25, 1903, in Seattle, younger daughter and last of three children, to Mary Beekman (née Taylor) and Walter Oakes (1864–1911), whose  father was Thomas Fletcher Oakes, the president of Northern Pacific Railway from 1888 to 1893. Walter was the co-founder of the Alaska Steamship Company and president of the Roslyn Fuel Company.

As she grew up in Manhattan, her family's prosperity allowed Oakes to travel. She developed an interest in the culture of Native Americans while visiting Washington State and vacationing on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. It was that trip that inspired her to pursue her passion for ethnology, focusing on indigenous tribes of the Americas. Her research included renderings of tribal art and, according to a gallery's biography, "Little is known about her art education, though it can be surmised that this came with her grade school education."

American southwest
In the 1940s, Oakes received a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation (now the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) to study the rituals of the Dine (Navajo) people, which resulted in her first book, Where the Two Came to Their Father, A Navaho War Ceremonial. In that book, she described the Navajo creation story as well as a ceremony by Navajo singer Jeff King that she witnessed while living on the reservation in 1942–1943. Oakes also took that opportunity to replicate the sand paintings used during the ceremony. A series of 18 pochoir stencil prints derived from the original sandpaintings were published in 1943.

Guatemala
On a similar trip, from late 1945 to early 1947, Oakes lived for 17 months in the village of Todos Santos in a remote part of the highlands of Guatemala as the only outsider. She documented the art and spiritual practices of the Mam tribe and their pre-Columbian cultural roots. One of her resulting books, The two crosses of Todos Santos, Oakes described a religious ritual that had survived from Mayan times. In another book, Beyond the Windy Place, Oakes talked about her life in the village.

Her papers were published by Princeton University in the 1940s and '50s and republished as part of a collection in the 1990s.

Later years
Oakes became a student of Carl Jung and made his psychology the subject of her final book, The Stone Speaks, which reflected her personal meditations on a large carved stone located in the garden of Bollingen Tower, the name given to Jung's home on Lake Zürich in Switzerland. Oakes was named an honorary member of the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, and became a close friend of actor and researcher Natacha Rambova when she was studying Egyptian artifacts, and at whose apartment Oakes attended classes "on symbolism, mythology, and comparative religion."

Oakes died in 1990 at her home at Carmel, California, at the age of 87, of Alzheimer's disease. She was survived by a niece and a nephew.

Selected works

 Oakes, Maud. The two crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan religious ritual. 1969
 Oakes, Maud. Stone Speaks: The Memoir of a Personal Transformation, Chiron Publishers, 1987
 Henderson, Joseph Lewis, and Maud Oakes. The wisdom of the serpent: The myths of death, rebirth, and resurrection. Vol. 38. Princeton University Press, 1990.
 King, Jeff, Maud Oakes, and Joseph Campbell. Where the two came to their father: a Navaho war ceremonial given by Jeff King. Princeton University Press, 1991. (With commentary by Joseph Campbell)
 Adams, John, Mark Whitney, Michael Whitney, Suzanne Wagner, Jerome Hill, Maud Oakes, John Freeman, and Joan Bakewell. Matter of Heart. New York, NY: Kino International, 2001.
 Oakes, Maud. Beyond The Windy Place -- Life In The Guatemalan Highlands. Read Books Ltd, 2016.

References

External links
Maud Oakes's Obituary in the New York Times, June 13, 1990
Maud Oakes's page at The Open Library
Maud Oakes interview at the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles

1903 births
1990 deaths
American ethnologists
Women ethnologists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women artists
American illustrators
American women anthropologists
Navajo culture
Navajo history
Guatemalan culture
20th-century American anthropologists


Music hall is a form of British theatre.

Music Hall may also refer to:

United Kingdom
The Music Hall (Aberdeen), Scotland
Music Hall, Shrewsbury

United States
Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit, Michigan
The Music Hall (Portsmouth), New Hampshire
Music Hall (Clinton, New Jersey)
Music Hall (Tarrytown, New York)
Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, Riverhead, New York
Music Hall (Cincinnati), Ohio
Houston Music Hall, Houston, Texas
Music Hall (Boston), Massachusetts
Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, New York

Other countries
The Music Hall (Sydney theatre), a former theatre-restaurant in Australia
The Music Hall (Toronto), Canada
Music Hall (Hanover), Germany
MusicHall (Beirut), Lebanon

Other uses
Music Hall (film), a 1934 British musical drama film

See also

Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York


The 1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the only edition of the World Championship Tennis Fall Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played in Naples in Italy and was held from October 14 through October 17, 1982. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the title.

Final

Singles

 Ivan Lendl defeated  Wojciech Fibak 6–4, 6–2, 6–1
 It was Lendl's 14th singles title of the year and the 30th of his career.

World Championship Tennis Fall Finals
WCT Finals


Murder in the Dark is a collection of short fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1983. Some of the pieces were previously published. The 27 pieces range over a variety of styles, including fictionalized autobiography, parables, travel stories, satires and prose poems. The pieces hold together through their major themes of loss, menace and terror, and men's abuse of power.

The book was republished in 1994, in combination with another Atwood work called Good Bones, as part of the expanded collection Good Bones and Simple Murders.

Contents
 Autobiography
 Raw Materials
 Murder in the Dark
Murder in the Dark refers to a childhood game (also played by adults) in which one person is secretly appointed murderer, another is appointed detective. The detective leaves the room, and in the dark, the murderer "kills" one of the other players, who screams and plays dead. At the sound of the scream, the detective returns to question all the players, in order to determine who is the murderer. All the players must tell the truth, except for the murderer, who must lie. Atwood uses this game to describe the relationship between the author, reader and critic: the writer is the murderer, the critic is the detective, and the reader is the victim.
 Mute
 Making Poison
 Simmering
Simmering is a satire that presents the future as a time when traditional Western gender roles have been reversed: men are housekeepers and women work in offices. Cooking and recipes are status symbols for men, who develop secret societies with handshakes named after culinary dishes. Women suffer kitchen envy, and still dream of freedom.
 She
 The Boys' Own Annual, 1911
 Women's Novels
 Worship
 Before the War
 Happy Endings
 Iconography
 Horror Comics
 Bread
 Liking Men
 Boyfriends
 The Page
This essay explores the significance of the blank page that a writer stares at while waiting for inspiration.
 Strawberries
 The Victory Burlesk
 Him
 Fainting
 Hopeless
 A Parable
 Hand
 Everlasting
 Instructions for the Third Eye
The "third eye" is the eye that sees harsh reality, which most people prefer to leave blind. But the third eye shows the truth. This story is only about a page long and is written as a series of short paragraphs that "instruct" the reader on how to use one's third eye.

References

1983 short story collections
Short story collections by Margaret Atwood
New Canadian Library
Coach House Press books


Stephen Thurston Hayt (June 5, 1822 in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York – August 31, 1907 in Corning, Steuben County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Life
He was the son of John C. Hayt (1787–1854) and Martha (Towner) Hayt. On November 19, 1856, he married Margaret C. Townsend at Palmyra, New York. Their son was Stephen Thurston Hayt, Jr.

He was a delegate to the 1860, 1868 and 1884 Republican National Conventions.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (27th D.) from 1864 to 1866, sitting in the 87th, 88th and 89th New York State Legislatures.

At the New York state election, 1866, he was elected a Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket, and was in office from 1867 to 1869. He was defeated for re-election at the New York state election, 1869 by Democrat William W. Wright.

He was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Corning, NY.

Sources
 Political Graveyard
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 400, 406 and 505)
 Entry at FreePages Genealogy
A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families by David Webster Hoyt (Printed for the author by the Providence Press Co., 1871; page 500)

1822 births
1907 deaths
Politicians from Corning, New York
Erie Canal Commissioners
New York (state) state senators
Politicians from Ithaca, New York
19th-century American politicians


Jack Barnes may refer to:

 Jack Barnes (born 1940), American Communist and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party
 Jack Barnes (association footballer) (1908–2008), English association footballer
 Jack Barnes (Australian footballer) (1905–1999), Australian rules footballer
 Jack Barnes (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s
 Jack Barnes (toxinologist) (1922–1985), Australian toxinologist

See also
 Jock Barnes (1907–2000), New Zealand trade unionist
John Barnes (disambiguation)


Haskell Vaughn Anderson III (born 26 November 1943) is an American film, television and theater actor.  He is most known for his role in the 1989 martial arts film Kickboxer.  He starred in the 1976 film Brotherhood of Death and appeared in the 2007 independent feature Boy and Dog.

Theater
His stage performances include Tracers in New England and Australia. In Lions, a play by Vince Melocchi about the Detroit Lions, Anderson played the role of Bisquit. He is a recipient of the NAACP Image Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the original play Rounds by Sean Michael Rice. In 2010, he appeared as Frank Malgado in the world premier of Vince Melocchi's Julia. In 2011 he played the part again in the off-Broadway production at the 59 East 59th Street Theatre.

He is a company member of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.

Film
In the early 1980s, he was involved with the L.A. Rebellion black film movement at UCLA, appearing in shorts by S. Torriano Berry (Rich, 1982) and Monona Wali (Grey Area, 1982).

Along with screenwriter Mugs Cahill, Anderson developed the story for 40 Days Road and is attached to star in the film project which is currently seeking financing.

Other work
He is a guest artist at Professional Arts Lab, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 2010, Anderson was selected for a two-year term to serve as president of Catholics in Media, based in Los Angeles.

References

External links

Haskell Anderson's official website
Video interview

African-American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
1943 births
Living people
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people


Heinrich Fink (31 March 1935 – 1 July 2020) was a German theologian, university professor and politician (Die Linke). In 1991 Fink was dismissed from Humboldt University of Berlin due to allegations against him being a former informer for the East German state security office, the Stasi. Fink denied the allegations.

Biography
Fink was born in Korntal, Bessarabia, Romania (today Cantemir, part of Nădejdea commune, in Sarata Raion) and came from an impoverished Bessarabian German peasant family. The family was resettled to Poland on the basis of Heinrich Himmler's emigration policy.  Heinrich Fink joined the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1954 to 1960, he studied Protestant theology at Berlin's Humboldt University, where he set out his doctoral thesis on Karl Barth and his master dissertation on Friedrich Schleiermacher.

From 1979 to 1992, Fink was Professor of Practical Theology at Humboldt University, of which he was the principal from 1990 to 1992.  He was a member of the Christian Peace Conference wherein he occasionally was East German Regional Committee Chairman, and he was Chairman of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime (Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten).  From 1998 to 2001, Fink was a member of the German Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism.

In November 1991 allegations about his cooperation with the East German state security were leaked to the public. Many academics and artists protested and spoke about a politically motivated procedure.  Nevertheless, Fink was summarily fired. The decision to fire him was later upheld in German courts after he had sued Humboldt University and the administration of the city of Berlin, his former employer.

Selected publications

Books
 (2013) Wie die Humboldt-Universität gewendet wurde. Erinnerungen des ersten frei gewählten Rektors. Hannover, Ossietzky.
 (2011) Einspruch! : antifaschistische Positionen zur Geschichtspolitik, with Cornelia Kerth and VVN-Bund der Antifaschisten VVN-BdA. Köln, PapyRossa.
 (1992) Heinrich Fink : sich der Verantwortung stellen, with Bernhard Maleck. Berlin, Dietz.
 (1992) Politische Kultur im vereinigten Deutschland : der Streit um Heinrich Fink, Rektor der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, Utopie kreativ.
 (1991) Universität Leipzig Arbeitskreis Hochschulpolitische Öffentlichkeit. Heinrich Fink und der Umgang mit unserer Vergangenheit "eine ordinäre politische Massnahme", with Rudolf Bahro. Leipzig Arbeitskreis Hochschulpolitische Öffentlichkeit, 1991.
 (1987) Dietrich Bonhoeffer--gefährdetes Erbe in bedrohter Welt : Beiträge zur Auseinandersetzung um sein Werk, with Carl-Jürgen Kaltenborn and Dieter Kraft. Berlin, Union Verlag, 1987.
 (1985) Zur Geschichte der Theologischen Fakultät Berlins, with Heinrich Fink et al. Berlin, Humboldt-Universität.
 (1978) Karl Barth und die Bewegung Freies Deutschland in der Schweiz. [S.l.], 1978. [Doctoral Dissertation.] Karl Barth und die Bewegung Freies Deutschland in der Schweiz : Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor scientiae theologiae (Dr.sc.theol.), vorgelegt dem Senat des Wissenschaftlichen Rates der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, H. Fink [Selfpublisher], 1978.
 (1969) Von Schleiermacher zu Marx, with Emil Fuchs and Herbert Trebs. Berlin, Union Verlag, 1969.
 [(1968)] Stärker als die Angst; den 6 Millionen, die keinen Retter fanden. Berlin, Union Verlag.
 1966 Begründung der Funktion der Praktischen Theologie bei Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Eine Unters. anhand s. prakt.-theol. Vorlesgn. Berlin, [s.n.], 1966. (Berlin, Humboldt-U., Theol. F., Diss. v. 25. Jan. 1966.) [Master Dissertation.]
 [(1951)] Première Session du Conseil mondial de la paix. Berlin, with Palamede Borsari and Jessie Street. 21-26 février 1951. Compte rendu et documents II. N.l., n.d.

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People from Odesa Oblast
20th-century German Protestant theologians
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Gaspar Aguilar (January 1561 – 25 July 1623) was a Valencian poet and dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. Born in Valencia (Spain) into humble social conditions, he ended up frequenting the nobility as secretary of the Count of Sinarcas, and as steward to the Dukes of Gandia.

His poetry adapted itself to the needs and circumstances of his patrons: for religious festivals, celebrations and official events. He was one of the founders of l’Acadèmia dels Nocturns ("the Academy of Night"), for which he adopted the pen name of Sombra, meaning "Shade". In the Academy proceedings eight of his poems and four of his speeches are to be found.

Aguilar competed in a dozen poetry competitions in Valencia in the years 1592, 1606 and 1619. He is the author of the story Fiestes nuptciales ("Wedding Party", 1599), and of the anti-Moorish poem Expulsion de los moros en España ("Expulsion of the Moors from Spain", 1610).

His "new comedies" including 'La nuera humilde', 'La gitana melancolica' ("The Melancholic Gypsy") and 'Los amantes de Cartago' ("The Lovers of Carthage") stand out for their use of complex scenic resources. 'Les Rimas humanas i divinas' ("Rhymes Human and Divine") compiled well into the 17th century, is a compilation of his most important lyrical works.

Aguilar also wrote, in Valencian a song of praise for the work of Onafre Bartomeu Ginard (1608), and a work to celebrate the beatification of Archbishop Tomas de Villanueva (1619).<Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008>

References

1561 births
1623 deaths
Writers from the Valencian Community


Clacton County High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Clacton-on-Sea, in the county of Essex, England.

There are over 1,700 students attending the school. It specialises in the arts and is situated next to Clacton Leisure Centre, east of the railway station.

The sixth form is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post-16 years education in the Clacton area.

History
The school was opened as a grammar school in September 1928. The official opening was on 28 November 1928 by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (son of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh). Pupils had to pay for the privilege of attending this school, twelve guineas per year (£12.60), as well as buy all their own books, materials and instruments. During the Second World War, a German bomber with sea mines crashed near the school on Victoria Road in April 1940. The crew and two  civilians were killed.

It became a comprehensive school in 1973. In 1998, it became an arts college. It converted to academy status on 1 April 2012. On the 1 September 2016, the school formed the Sigma Trust along with five other schools in the locality.

In 2023 the school was found to have potentially structurally unsound buildings due to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as a building material.

Notable former students
Michael Comber, Essex cricketer
Tom Eastman, footballer
Sade (singer)
Ian Westlake, footballer

References

External links
 Clacton County High School

Clacton-on-Sea
Secondary schools in Essex
Educational institutions established in 1928
1928 establishments in England
Academies in Essex


Barrachois is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County just east of the village of Tatamagouche and is the home of the Barrachois Harbour Yacht Club as well as a fishing wharf and launch ramp for pleasure craft.

References
Barrachois Nova Scotia

Communities in Colchester County


Thomas Mahony (1877-1971) was an Irish sportsperson.  He played hurling with his local club Dungourney and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1902 until 1907.

Playing career

Club

Mahony played his hurling with his local club in Dungourney and enjoyed some success.  He won a county senior championship title in 1902.  Two more county winners’ medals followed for Mahony in 1907 and 1909.

Inter-county

Mahony first came to prominence on the inter-county scene with Cork as part of the Dungourney selection in 1902.  That year he lined out in his first provincial decider with Limerick providing the opposition.  The Shannonsiders failed to test Mahony and at full-time Cork were the champions by 2-9 to 1-5. It was Mahony’s first Munster title.  After a draw and a replay with Dublin in the ‘home’ final, Cork qualified for an All-Ireland final meeting with London.  The game turned into an absolute rout as Cork powered to a 3-13 to 0-0 victory.  It was a fitting opening to the new Cork Athletic Grounds and, more importantly, the victory gave Mahony an All-Ireland winners’ medal.

Mahony was dropped from the Cork team for a number of years as Dungourney lost control of the team selection.  He was back with Cork in 1907 as the team qualified for the Munster decider once again. Tipperary, the reigning All-Ireland champions, provided the opposition on that occasion and a close game ensued.  After a stern test Cork won the game by 1-6 to 1-4 and Mahony added a second Munster winners’ medal to his collection.  Cork subsequently qualified for an All-Ireland final showdown with Kilkenny.  In one of the best exhibitions of hurling seen to date a close game developed between these great rivals. Jimmy Kelly scored three goals for Kilkenny, the first within seconds of the start.  Cork went on several goal hunts at the end of the game, however, Jack Anthony got the winning point for Kilkenny.  At the full-time whistle Mahony’s side were defeated by 3-12 to 4-8.

Sporting ancestry

Mahony’s grandson, Seánie O'Leary, followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as a hurler of renown.  He played with his local club in Youghal and won All-Ireland titles with Cork as part of the three-in-a-row team in the 1970s.  Mahony's granddaughter, Mary O'Leary, won All Ireland medals in 1978, 1980, 1982 (when her last-gasp point secured victory for Cork) and 1983.  She was named B&I Star of the Year award in 1982. Mahony’s great-grandson, Tomás O'Leary, captained Cork to the All-Ireland minor title.  He played rugby with Munster, London Irish, Montpellier and earned 24 caps for Ireland during his career, before retiring from the sport in 2017.

Honours

Dungourney
Cork Senior Hurling Championship:
Winner (3): 1902, 1907, 1909

Cork
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship:
Winner (1): 1902
Munster Senior Hurling Championship:
Winner (2): 1902, 1907

Sources

 Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
 Cronin, Jim, A Rebel Hundred: Cork's 100 All-Ireland Titles.
 Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).
 Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.

References

1877 births
1971 deaths
Dungourney hurlers
Cork inter-county hurlers
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners


Joseph Pappio (October 1, 1902 – August 22, 1971) was a member of the Chippewa. Pappio attended and played college football at the Haskell Indian Nations University.

He was a professional football player in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians, a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. In 1924, Pappio played football for the Hominy Indians, an independent team from Hominy, Oklahoma, that too was composed entirely of Native Americans. In 1927 the Indians defeated the 1927 NFL champions, the New York Giants, 13–6. In 1930, Pappio returned to the NFL to play the 1930 season with the Chicago Cardinals.

References

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

Notes

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Native American players of American football
Players of American football from California
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1971 deaths
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George Adam Herman Jr. (April 12, 1928 – June 22, 2019) was an American playwright and writer.

Biography

Early years and Education
George Adam Herman Jr. was born in Norfolk, Virginia on April 12, 2018. He attended a parochial school and High School in Maryland, and then earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Loyola College.  From 1947 to 1949, Herman also spent three summers at the Boston College School of Expressional Art on a playwrighting scholarship.  In 1954, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from Catholic University of America.

Career
Herman taught playwrighting and was artist-in-residence at numerous American universities. For 16 years he lived and worked in Hawaii on the staff of the State Superintendent of Education. He directed over 200 plays for numerous schools and theaters, served as the Artistic Director for at least one theatre (the Commedia Repertory Theatre in Hawaii), and designed sets and lighting for more than 40 productions.

While in Hawaii, Herman also worked for as a theater columnist and drama critic. He turned to writing novels at age 65, and published seven novels and one children's book.

As a playwright, Herman won numerous awards from 1953. His best known play is "A Company of Wayward Saints", which has been in print continuously since it was first published in 1963. His plays for radio, television, and the stage have been produced around the world. He had five published plays, and a number of his award-winning unpublished plays are also available through his website. Herman received more than 30 awards for his writing.

Personal life and death
George Herman was married three times and had nine children. He latterly resided in Portland, Oregon, where he died on June 22, 2019, at the age of 91.

Awards
 1953 Hartke Playwrighting Award - "The Pygmalion Effect"
 1963 McKnight Foundation Humanities Award - "A Company of Wayward Saints"
 1974 Julie Harris-Beverly Hills Theatre Award - "The Man in the Cordoban Hat"
 1976 Ayling Foundation Awards for new plays for children - "Nine Dragons"
 1980 Ayling Foundation Awards for new plays for children - "The Hidden Place"
 1985 Roberts Theatre Institute Award - "The King Has Gone to Tenebrae"
 1993 Julie Harris-Beverly Hills Theatre Award - "Pious Nine is Falling Down"

Work

Published Plays

A Company of Wayward Saints (1963)
A Smell of Cinnamon
Devil of the Second Stairs
Nine Dragons (1977)
The Hidden Place (1978)
Little Rome - Iowa (2003) ,

Books

Carnival of Saints (1994)  ,
A Comedy of Murders (The first adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo de Pavia) (1994)  ,
The Tears of the Madonna (Second Adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo de Pavia) (1996)  ,
The Florentine Mourners (Third Adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo de Pavia) (1999)  ,
The Toys of War  (Fourth Adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo de Pavia) (2001)  , #
Necromancer: The fifth adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo da Pavia (2003)
The Arno Serpent: The sixth adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo da Pavia (2007)  , #
Nine Dragons (2003)  , Cardinal Virtues (Seventh Adventure of Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo da Pavia) (2012)

References

External links

 George Herman on Playscripts.com
 Official website

1928 births
2019 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Portland, Oregon
Catholic University of America alumni
Loyola University Maryland alumni
Boston College alumni


Giusto Pio (11 January 1926 – 12 February 2017) was an Italian conductor, composer, violinist, music educator and songwriter.

Born at Castelfranco Veneto, he studied music in Venice. Later he was engaged as violinist in the RAI orchestra of Milan.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s he became popular as a long-standing collaborator of singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, by whom he was initially hired as violin teacher. Apart from working as a producer and musician on several successful albums with Battiato (including L'era del cinghiale bianco and La voce del padrone), Pio also collaborated with him as a producer for several singers such as Milva, Alice and Giuni Russo.

In 1984 Pio, Battiato and lyricist Rosario "Saro" Cosentino penned the Eurovision Song Contest entry "I treni di Tozeur", performed by Battiato and Alice, which finished 5th in the contest and became a considerable commercial success in Continental Europe and Scandinavia. Pio also released two instrumental LPs (also in collaboration with Battiato) under his own name, entitled Legione straniera (1982) and Restoration (1983).

Discography
Motore immobile (1978)
Legione straniera (1982)
Restoration (1983)
Note (1987)
Alla corte di Nefertiti (1988)
Attraverso i cieli  (1990)
Utopie (1990)
Missa populi (1995)
Le vie dell'oro (2000)

References

External links
Official website

1926 births
2017 deaths
People from Castelfranco Veneto
Italian male composers
Italian male songwriters
Italian songwriters
Male songwriters
Italian violinists
Male violinists
Eurovision Song Contest conductors


Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis (or Johann Friedrich Baumann, May 23, 1834, Riga – March 19, 1891, Riga) was a Latvian, Baltic German architect. He was first professional Latvian architect. Baumanis designed the Riga Circus in 1888. He was responsible for a number of important public buildings of eclectic design constructed in the second half of the 19th century in Riga.

Biography

Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis was born in 1834 in Riga, the son of a ferryman. In his youth he started work as a carpenter. In Riga he was spotted by the St. Petersburg architect Ludvig Bohnstedt. With his support Baumanis undertook studies in the Bauakademie in Berlin (1860–62) and in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1862–65). After that he was a government architect in Livland (now Vidzeme) until he established his own practice in Riga.

Baumanis also played an important role in Latvian cultural history. In 1862 he helped to establish the first union of Russian architects in St. Petersburg. In 1879 he was involved in establishing the Union of Riga Architects (Rigaer Architekten=Verein). Further, in 1868, he helped to establish the Latvian union in Riga.

His main professional activity was in relation to the former defensive walls of Riga. The walls, built of sand, were demolished in the mid-19th century and a new string of boulevards was planned. He designed 40% of the buildings in this area. His buildings were mostly eclectic (a combination of Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Gothic elements) in design, with refined details and well-executed plastic forms.

He also designed the Alexanders Gymnasium (a secondary school) in Riga, now the Latvian Academy of Music, in 1870-75.

From 1887 to 1888 Baumanis was responsible for the building of the Riga Regional Court at 34 Brīvības Blvd. In its construction Baumanis drew on both Classical and Baroque influences for the façades. The structure won him considerable acclaim not only for the exterior but also for the interior design.

Altogether he designed 17 Orthodox churches in the southern part of Estonia and Vidzeme and more than 150 buildings in Riga.

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1834 births
1891 deaths
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Ivan Lendl won in the final 6–4, 6–2, 6–1 against Wojciech Fibak.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

Draw

References
1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals Draw (Archived 2009-05-07)

Singles


George Barrington (1755–1804) was an Irish pickpocket and later a policeman.

George Barrington may also refer to:
George Barrington (cricketer) (1857–1942), English cricketer
George Barrington (Royal Navy officer) (1794–1835), British naval officer and Whig politician
George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (1761–1829), British minister and aristocrat
George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington (1824–1886), British Conservative politician


Mount Denson is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  The Municipality of the District of West Hants in Hants County. The community is named after Mount Denson; the mid-eighteenth-century estate of Henry Denny Denson.

The area first became known to Europeans in the sixteenth century as the river now known as the Avon appears on maps from this period. By 1686 Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's map of Acadia/Nova Scotia defines the area, showing the local tributaries flowing into the Avon River.  One of these tributaries, the Cacaquit or modern day Halfway River, which now forms the northern boundary of the community, is indicated on the map.  By 1680 Acadian farmers had migrated out of the Port Royal area and began settling the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley including the lands about Mount Denson, then known as Pisiquit. Census records indicate Etienne Rivet was one of the first settlers to establish a farm. He and his progeny farmed the nearby marshlands south of Mitchener's Point as well as those in the Cacaquit River valley.  His son, Etienne, operated a mill on the Cacaquit near where the river meets the uplands, just beyond the southern boundary of today's town of Hantsport.  By the 1690s Mount Denson was incorporated into the Acadian parish of Paroisse de Sainte Famille (established in 1698).   When the Expulsion of the Acadians began in 1755 the area's male residents were detained at Fort Edward and later in the fall deported along with their families from the province.

After the deportation of the Acadians, Nova Scotia's fine farmlands in the Bay of Fundy region remained empty and in an effort to repopulate the country the British government offered the recently vacated lands in grant to Protestants who wished to move to the colony. In 1760, Henry Denson acquired for himself 4000 acres in the new township of Falmouth and acting for the government began distributing the remaining tracts of land to New England Planters. Many families living in Mount Denson today descend from these settlers.

Sources
Mount Denson on Destination Nova Scotia

References

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


Streblus pendulinus, commonly known as Hawai'i roughbush or aiai (Hawaiian language), is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, Moraceae, that is native to eastern Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It is usually a small tree or shrub, reaching a height of  with a trunk diameter of . In Hawaii, it inhabits dry, coastal mesic, mixed mesic and wet forests from sea level to an altitude of .

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