John Collier Jr. (May 22, 1913 – February 25, 1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology.  His emphasis on analysis and use of still photographs in ethnography led him to significant contributions in other subfields of anthropology, especially the applied anthropology of education. His book, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (1967) is one of the earliest textbooks in the field and is still (revised 1986) in use today. He is also notable as someone who overcame significant learning and hearing impairments to succeed on a larger stage.

Early life and family
John Collier Jr., born May 22, 1913, in Sparkill, New York, was the son of Lucy Wood Collier and sociologist John Collier.  His father was the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the New Deal.  John Jr. grew up largely in Taos, New Mexico and the San Francisco Bay Area in California.  While living in Mill Valley, California, John suffered injuries in a car accident at age 8 that resulted in major brain injuries and associated learning disabilities and hearing loss that prevented him from successfully completing schooling beyond a third grade level, although he attended school sporadically into his teens. When it became evident that he could not perform in school, his family permitted to him spend considerable time, when in New Mexico, living with family friends in the Taos Indian Pueblo. During the periods he was in California, he came under the influence of Capt. Leighton Robinson, a retired English master in sail, who provided seamanship training to John.

He was also informally apprenticed to the Western painter, Maynard Dixon, who was then married to the photographer Dorothea Lange. He spent considerable time in the Dixon / Lange household in San Francisco during his early and mid teens and was trained in a wide range of painting techniques and skills. When in Taos he also received informal training from the artist Nicolai Fechin. This training largely ended in 1930, when he signed on as seaman in the four masted bark Abraham Rydberg for a voyage from San Francisco around Cape Horn to Dublin, Ireland, an experience arranged by Capt. Robinson. On his return from the voyage he continued to divide his time between Taos and the Bay Area, and in 1934 he established a home in Talpa, New Mexico, which would remain an important anchor place throughout his life.

In 1943, he married Mary Elizabeth Trumbull, who became a long-term partner in his photographic and anthropological work.  Their son Malcolm Collier (not to be confused with the anthropologist Malcolm Carr Collier, born 1908) also became an anthropologist who eventually collaborated with his father on a new edition of Visual Anthropology (1986). Other sons include Robin Collier, Vian Collier, and Aran Collier.

Career and professional development
In the early 1930s he served as an informal guide to the photographer Paul Strand while Strand was in the Taos region but he continued to attempt a career in painting and writing through the mid-1930s. Only after a brief, unproductive enrollment at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), where he took more painting classes, did he turn to photography. He was largely self trained, except for some instruction in studio techniques from Sara Higgins Mack. In 1939, after working for a period in San Francisco, he opened a photographic studio in Taos, using what had been Paul Strand's darkroom and studio.

The studio was not successful financially but his photographic skill increased significantly and in 1940 he returned to San Francisco, where he worked both independently and for a number of commercial photographic studios. In 1941, probably through the influence of Dorothea Lange, some of his work from New Mexico came to the attention of Roy Emerson Stryker who hired him to work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) as a photographer. Collier's 1941 employment by the Farm Security Administration under Roy Emerson Stryker established his career in photography, and he continued with the photographic unit when it was transferred to the Office of War Information (OWI). Between the years 1941 and 1946 Collier Jr. made a series of photographic works of impressive narrative quality, depicting life in New England, in particular the lives of Portuguese immigrants living in the Massachusetts. The aesthetic and scientific value of this series of photographs from his fieldwork is later recognized as the first academic work on Visual Anthropology.

In mid 1943 he left the OWI and served in the Merchant Marine until late 1944, when Stryker hired him to work as a photographer for the Standard Oil Company in the Canadian Arctic and later in Latin America. While in Latin America in 1946, he took leave from Sryker's employment to collaborate with his wife, Mary E. T. Collier and with the Ecuadorian anthropologist Anibal Buitron on an ethnographic study of Otavalo, Ecuador.

After leaving Standard Oil at the end of 1946, Collier worked as a freelance photographer in New Mexico and New York. In 1950 he was hired by Alexander H. Leighton of Cornell University as part of a multi-disciplinary team investigation of community mental health in the Maritimes of Canada. Leighton challenged Collier to formalize methodologies for the use of photography in social science research. Collier's efforts in this arena were in fact a collaborative production with Mary E. T. Collier, without whose translation of Collier's insights and discoveries into standard academic language would have been impossible. The work with Leighton laid the intellectual foundation for the later development of the methodologies for visual anthropology for which Collier is known.

Collier later worked for Cornell in the Southwest and independently recorded the Cornell Vicos project in Peru during 1954 and 1955. He then freelanced out of New Mexico before moving to California in 1959, where he began a long career as a teacher at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art institute.

Collier's work in the field of visual anthropology was influenced by Roy Stryker and Alexander H. Leighton. George Spindler, the founder of educational anthropology, chose Collier's book Visual Anthropology (discussed below) for early inclusion in his series of basic books in anthropology. Collier spent a great deal of his professional life giving workshops on the use of photography in visual anthropology, in speeches and professional presentations, as well as in more traditional forms of anthropological writing. Although widely recognized as a fine photographer, his major accomplishment was developing and documenting methodologies for visual anthropology.

Major projects, contributions to visual and applied anthropology
Starting with the work for Leighton in the Maritimes of Canada, Collier worked on a series of important projects. One of his more important efforts, still largely unpublished, was documentation of the still controversial "Cornell/Vicos Project." Directed by Alan Homberg of Cornell and Mario Vasquez of the Universidad de San Marcos, this project aimed to prepare the Indian community of Hacienda Vicos in the central highlands of Peru to survive successfully as a free and independent community. Collier carried out a complete visual ethnography of the community while also recording the operation of the applied project, making use of the full range of visual research methods he and Mary Collier had been developing since their first ethnographic effort with Anibal Buiton in 1946. These methods were further refined in the years following and finally published in 1967 as Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method.  Generally recognized as the first published use of the term 'visual anthropology', this book and its second edition (co-authored with Malcolm Collier) have remained important references in the field. As Edward T. Hall writes in the introduction to the later edition of the text, the two Colliers (John Jr. and Malcolm) almost singlehandedly established visual anthropology as an observational science in its own right.

Collier's own non-traditional education led him to an analysis and criticism of schooling in the United States, especially regarding the education of disabled children, Native American children and others outside the mainstream. Recognition of his insights in this arena led to his joint appointment as a professor of both anthropology and education at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). In 1969, he turned to motion picture film to explore cultural conflicts in schools for Native students in Alaska as part of a major national study of American Indian Education. In this and later film based research carried out in Arizona and California, he articulated fresh perspectives toward these groups which emphasized the positive importance of cultural diversity and approaches to schooling that would build on children's own cultural origins and energy.

In the fields of visual anthropology and visual sociology Collier is recognized as a major methodological pioneer, in particular for the development of "photo-elicitation" techniques in which photographs are used systematically in interviews to elicit information and insight. In the revised version (1986) of Visual Anthropology he argues that many, including other cultural anthropologists, have been "blind" to what can be "seen" within the nonverbal sensibility. His chief contributions to anthropology include this view that seeing and representing the visual is as important as speaking or writing words. He challenged modern anthropological viewpoints that regard theory or conceptualization as the endpoint of ethnography or anthropological analysis. Instead, he believed that the very energy of a culture could be seen. Some have theorized that, due to his deafness, he developed his visual skills to a very high degree, as is reflected in his photography as well as in his writings. He was also not afraid to use anthropology to make recommendations, especially when asked to do so by study participants. His work has been referenced and his methods used, not only in visual anthropology and sociology but also in psychiatric and educational anthropology.

Legacy

His theoretical and methodological contributions were many.  While some visual anthropologists and semioticians, like Erving Goffman, wanted to reject such forms of visual data as posed photographs, Collier cogently argued that all visual materials, snapshots of any kind, still reveal the something of the kinesthetics and the culture that produced them.  So, an anthropologist might look at dozens of posed photographs to understand what constitutes "posing" in that time period and culture, as opposed to rejecting them.  Collier also pioneered the use of the camera, in itself, as a method of entry into the field.

Today, his photographs are archived at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque.

Death
Collier died on February 25, 1992, aged 78, while on vacation in San José, Costa Rica, of internal bleeding following surgery.  At the time of his death, he had homes in Muir Beach, California, and Talpa, New Mexico.

References

External links

 John Collier (anthropologist)'s photographs, on Flickr
 Maxwell Museum's article, with a collection of Collier's photographs

1913 births
1992 deaths
Visual anthropologists
People from Sparkill, New York
San Francisco State University faculty
People of the United States Office of War Information
United States Merchant Mariners
20th-century American anthropologists


Since the end of the year 2000 Paraguay has required its residents to register their motor vehicles with the National Register of Vehicles (Registro Nacional de Automotores) and to display vehicle registration plates; this system has replaced the former one whereby plates were issued by municipal authorities, who also kept local registers.

In Paraguay basically three registration systems have been used: municipal patents, national patents and Mercosur patents. The former was used for much of the 20th century until the year 2000, the latter has been in use since the end of the year 2000, and the latter has been in use since the middle of the year 2019. These last two systems currently co-exist.

2019 Mercosur standard
In October 2014 the design of the new license plate to be used by all Mercosur countries was officially presented. This consists of a plate of , with a white background, the characters and frame in black and a blue band at the top that shows the name of the country, its flag and the Mercosur logo. The typeface used is FE-Schrift. On July 1, 2019, the Mercosur standard license plate was adopted in Paraguay.

Municipal License Plates (20th century)
Previously, Paraguayan patents were issued by the respective municipalities. The last format (used between 1982 and 2000) was A 123456, where the letter represented the department (with the exception of those patented in Asunción, which consisted only of numbers). The design varied according to the area, although they were generally on a white background with red characters for the municipalities of the interior, and a blue background with white characters for Asunción.

In the early days, there was no defined standard for automobile license plates, especially for the interior, as the size and font type (inscriptions) of the license plate varied from municipality to municipality, and from year to year. Some municipalities kept the same plate series (or number) for a vehicle, while other municipalities changed the plate series every year for the same vehicle. The first license plates throughout the country were made up of only numbers (between two and five figures). At the beginning the blue background and the inscriptions in white. The name of the municipality where it was issued, and the year of the patent (last two digits) were inscribed on the license plate.

The registrations were both for motor vehicles, as well as carts by blood traction (generally drawn by horses). In the late 1950s, license plates began to be classified according to the type of vehicle category (e.g., the letter "P" was for private motor vehicles, "O" for buses, "C" for commercial uses, etc.). Some municipalities of the Interior inscribed their coat of arms and/or "motto" on the license plate (e.g.: "Capital of Energy" for the district of Hernandarias, Alto Paraná). The format changed over the years.

The license plates for special vehicles both in the interior and in the capital (e.g., state, municipal, diplomatic, judicial or other authorities) were of a different format than the general one. (e.g.: blue background for vehicles of municipal authorities -in the case of license plates for the interior-, etc.)

Asuncion (capital)
In the case of Asunción, for private vehicles the plate format only had numbers inscribed in white, and the background was blue; in addition to including the name of the municipality with the country and the last two digits of the year of the patent (sometimes registered by the license plate itself, or otherwise affixed by seal). The last serial for Asunción was 218 030, from 1999.

Asunción used the license plate classification format according to vehicle category (letters: P, O, C, etc.) in force from the end of the 1950s to 1984.

For special vehicles (tax-exempt, e.g. state), the background was usually yellow. Public transport vehicles (collective) and taxis had red bottom plates with white numbers. Vehicles intended for municipal use (garbage collector, municipal police, street repair machine, etc.) had pink bottom plates with black numbers.

Interior (departmental)

No fixed system
From the first license plates for vehicles in the country, until the end of the 1950s, the license plates did not have a fixed design, they simply had two or three serial numbers and the last digits of the year.

System C 1234 (by category)
Since the late 1950s, license plates were classified according to the type of vehicle category (letters: P, O, C, etc.).
In the early 1960s, the interior license plates changed the background to white with red inscriptions (used until today), as they previously had no fixed design. However, for special vehicles they had a different format/design (e.g.: municipal authority license plates had a blue background, etc.)

System C 1–1234 (by category and department)
In 1967, interior license plates began to be classified by department, according to the first number followed by a hyphen and then the license plate serial number. For example, the case of the license plate issued in Fernando de la Mora: C 11–3726. (Being "C" the category of the vehicle, "11" the department number by order -in this case corresponding to the Central department-, and 3726 the serial of the lock). This departmental number format was used until 1979, as was vehicle categorization.

System A 123456 (by department)
Between 1980 and 1982 the license plates for the interior returned to the blue background, to change again to the white background with red inscriptions in 1983, until today. Until 1981 only numbers were used in the license plate serial number.

From the years 1982 (1983 already with red characters and a white background), until almost the end of the year 2000, the latest format of the municipal plates was used, in which the interior license plates had a "letter" at the beginning, followed by several numbers (serial). The letters stood for the departments the badges were issued from:.
 A – Conception
 B – Saint Peter
 C – Mountain Range
 D – Guaira
 E – Caaguazu
 F – Caazapa
 G – Itapua
 H – Missions
 I – Paraguayan
 J – Upper Parana
 K – Center
 L – Ñeembucú
 M – Amambay
 N – Canindeyu
 Q – President Hayes
 R – Upper Paraguay
 S – Chaco -used since 1992, equivalent to the current Boquerón-
 T – Nueva Asunción -used until 1992–
 U – Anchovy -used until 1992–

National License Plates (2000–2019; in force)

Background
To put an end to the business of "mau" cars (smuggling) -under pressure from its Mercosur partners-, and unify at the national level in a single system the vehicles registered in the country, since previously was registered by each municipality, in the 1990s a new, safer and more permanent patenting system began to be projected (until the end of the vehicle's useful life).

Also taking into account that the Paraguayan vehicle fleet was increasing, since at the end of the 20th century there were around 500,000 vehicles registered at that time out of a total of 5,000,000 inhabitants; During the presidency of Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Law No. 608/95 came to light, creating the "Automotive Registration and Identification System", which came into effect at the end of the 1990s. re-registration began only at the end of the year 2000, after several postponements, and lasted until approximately two years later.

Since October 2, 2000, Paraguay has required its residents to register their vehicles at the Motor Vehicle Registry Directorate (dependent on the Supreme Court of Justice), to carry the new license plates. registration or plates, as it is colloquially called. This system has replaced the previous format, in which the plates were issued by the municipal authorities, but which still maintain local records and collect the respective taxes.

However, several extensions were issued in 2001 and 2002 for those who had not yet registered their vehicles in the Motor Vehicle Registry, or had problems in the process of legalizing their vehicles. For the year 2004, the vast majority of vehicles had already adopted the current system, however there were still vehicles registered in the Special and Transitory Registry of the Automotive Registry computer system. These vehicles, instead of having been granted the 'green card' (under normal conditions), were given the 'brown card', which was only useful within the national territory while the legal procedures of the vehicle were regularized (whether it was mau or No). Therefore, Law 2405/04 was issued, which allowed the aforementioned vehicles to be regularized, if the vehicles were not subject to "claim action or theft complaint".

Features and special uses
The plates or "plates" present a combination of three letters and three numbers -inscribed in red- ('ABC 123' for vehicles in general, '123 ABC' for motorcycles); with the flag of Paraguay in the upper left, the denomination "PARAGUAY" in the upper center, and the national symbol in the upper right; and remain with the vehicle for the remainder of its useful life.

Its dimensions are 320mm x 150mm for vehicle license plates in general, and 200mm x 130mm for motorcycles. For lost or stolen license plates, the letters "D" (duplicate) and "T" (triplicate) are stamped within a circle in the middle of the series of letters and numbers.

The series "Axx nnn" and "Bxx nnn" have been used mainly by the Registry's central office in Asunción, while series beginning with other letters have been used by Registry offices in the interior of the country. . The "Exx nnn" series is (originally) reserved for public (state) vehicles that are exempt from taxes (although these can be sold to private individuals and cease to be state-owned). The "Txx nnn" series is for tractores and agricultural machinery, the "Vxx nnn" series is for vintage cars (and "VAP nnn" for those belonging to the Vehicle Circle members Ancients of Paraguay). License plates for individuals can be personalized, as long as it is not restricted by law and at an additional cost (for example: 108 is not allowed, among other examples).

There are also plates inscribed in black for people elected to government positions, such as "SEN nnn" for Senatores, "DIP nnn" for Representatives (Deputys), "JMx nnn" for members of the Municipal Board, and the plates "PJx nnn" for official vehicles of the judges. License plates for diplomats have another format different from the general one, with a black background and white inscriptions, made up of letters and 6 numbers. These letters are: CD (Diplomatic Corps); CC (Consular Corps); MOE (Foreign Official Mission).

Provisionally, newly registered vehicles obtain plates with a series beginning with P (from "PRx"), which is changed to the formal plate, once registration is completed, valid for twenty days from issue.

Mercosur license plates (in implementation since 2019)

In October 2014, in the Salón Libertador of the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires, the new Unique Mercosur Patent was presented. On that date, the States Parties to Mercosur approved Resolution 033/14, which established its mandatory use as of January 1, 2016. The first country to implement its use was Uruguay, in March 2015 , Argentina in April 2016 and Brazil in October 2018. First it would be mandatory only for 0 km vehicles, and then gradually for all.

Paraguay began to adopt this system on July 1, 2019, under the format "AAAA nnn" (A: Letters – n: Numbers) for vehicles in general; and "nnn AAAA" for motorcycles, firstly for patent pending vehicles, 0 km vehicles and patented vehicles from the year 2016 onwards (the latter optional, through exchanges). In Paraguay, the registration of 0 km vehicles should have been mandatory since the beginning of 2016, while the reregistration of used cars would be progressive but initially optional, but it was postponed on several occasions.

Specific data
This new license plate, which will be used in the member countries of MERCOSUR, will have the following common characteristics:
 Dimensions: 400 mm x 130 mm and a thickness of 1 mm (European standard size).
 Official emblem of the bloc and identification with the name and flag of each country, on a strip of blue color Pantone 286.
 Security measures: watermark, hot stamping with security foil with diffractive and sine wave effect.
 Typographic font: FE Engschrift in black on a white background.

Chronology

Total enrollment by department
As of May 31, 2019, 2,326,335 vehicles of all kinds have been registered. (61.85% belong to automobiles, 35.66% to motorcycles, and 2.49% other types of vehicles)

Updated as of May 31, 2019.
{| class="wikitable"
|-----
! #
Department
! Patents
|-----
| align="right" | 1 || Central
| align="right" | 670,709
|-----
| align="right" | 2 || Asunción (capital)
| align="right" | 429,475
|-----
| align="right" | 3
|Upper Parana
| align="right" | 388,416
|-----
| align="right" | 4
| Itapua
| align="right" | 204,850
|-----
| align="right" | 5
| Caaguazú
| align="right" | 125,359
|-----
| align="right" | 6
| Cordillera
| align="right" | 59,108
|-----
| align="right" | 7
| Amambay
| align="right" | 57,131
|-----
| align="right" | 8
| San Pedro
| align="right" | 55,896
|-----
| align="right" | 9
| Guaira
| align="right" | 55,536
|-----
| align="right" | 10 || Canindeyu || align="right" | 46,984
|-----
| align="right" | 11 || Paraguarí || align="right" | 46,492
|-----
| align="right" | 12 || Anchovy
| align="right" | 45,185
|-----
| align="right" | 13 || Concepción || align="right" | 38,564
|-----
| align="right" | 14
| Missions
| align="right" | 28,815
|-----
| align="right" | 15 || Caazapa
| align="right" | 25,716
|-----
| align="right" | 16 || Ñeembucú || align="right" | 23,158
|-----
| align="right" | 17 || President Hayes
| align="right" | 21,074
|-----
| align="right" | 18 || Upper Paraguay
| align="right" | 985
|-----
| align="right" | – || No data
| align="right" | 2,909
|-----
|
 || Paraguay || align="right" | 2,326,335
|}

References

 Matrículas de Paraguay
 Datos y fotos de matrículas de Paraguay (en español)

Paraguay
Paraguay transport-related lists
Vehicle registration plates


Well Armed (foaled April 4, 2003 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2009 Dubai World Cup.

Background
Well Armed was sired by Tiznow out of the stakes-winning mare Well-Dressed, which places Seattle Slew on the top and bottom of his pedigree. Bred and owned by WinStar Farm, he was trained by Eoin Harty.

Racing career
Well Armed raced in England but was laid up with a fractured pelvis after finishing eleventh in the 2006 UAE Derby in Dubai.  He did not race again until the fall of 2007 when he finished fourth in his American debut in an allowance race at California's Santa Anita Park.

His most important win to date came on March 28, 2009, at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse when he won the Grade 1 $6 Million Dollar Dubai World Cup by a record 14 lengths over Gloria De Campeao. Well Armed has been ridden in all of his starts in the United States by Aaron Gryder.

In the San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on August 2, 2009, Well Armed made his first appearance since the Dubai World Cup in March. Informed ran down a loose-on-the-lead Mast Track in the final strides to win by a nose in the Grade 2, $250,000 race. Well Armed finished last and was found to have a small chip in his left front ankle. Surgery was performed, and he was sent to the Alamo Pintado Clinic near Solvang, California, where the chip was discovered.

Well Armed is behind the current earnings of John Henry and Lava Man and may be the second gelding to surpass the $6 million zone.

References

2003 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Dubai World Cup winners
Thoroughbred family 8-h
Godolphin Arabian sire line


The Bourbre () is a  long river in the Isère and Rhône departments in central eastern France. Its source is in Burcin. It flows generally north-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Rhône, into which it flows at Chavanoz.

Departments and communes along its course
This list is ordered from source to mouth:
Isère: Burcin, Châbons, Virieu, Blandin, Panissage, Chélieu, Chassignieu, Le Passage, Saint-Ondras, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Les Abrets-en-Dauphiné, La Bâtie-Montgascon, Saint-Didier-de-la-Tour, Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-Jean-de-Soudain, Rochetoirin, Cessieu, Sérézin-de-la-Tour, Ruy, Nivolas-Vermelle, Bourgoin-Jallieu, L'Isle-d'Abeau, Vaulx-Milieu, Villefontaine, La Verpillière, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Chamagnieu, Satolas-et-Bonce
Rhône: Colombier-Saugnieu
Isère: Tignieu-Jameyzieu, Charvieu-Chavagneux, Pont-de-Chéruy, Chavanoz,

References

Rivers of France
Rivers of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Rivers of Isère
Rivers of Rhône (department)


John F. Smith (born c. 1921) was an English footballer who played for Port Vale, before transferrring to Chelsea just before the outbreak of World War II.

Career
Smith joined Port Vale in September 1938. He scored on his debut at inside-right in a 4–0 win over Walsall in a first round Southern Section Cup match at The Old Recreation Ground on 26 September. He made 13 Third Division South and five cup appearances in 1938–39, before he transferred to Chelsea in May 1939.

Career statistics
Source:

References

Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Port Vale F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
Brentford F.C. wartime guest players
English Football League players
1920s births
Year of death missing


The Unseen Bean is a coffee roasting company
and café in Boulder, Colorado. Gerry Leary, blind since birth, started selling roasted coffee in 2004,
and opened the retail café in March, 2007.
Leary, who is also an advocate for the disabled,
advertises "blind roasted coffee" to rouse interest in prospective customers.
Leary runs the business and roasts coffee with the help of a guide dog, who is also featured on the coffee's packaging; talking thermometers; and timers. He gauges when the coffee beans are roasted by smell and hearing.
The Unseen Bean was featured in the 2008 Top of the Town issue of Denver magazine 5280.
Leary received training and certification in roasting coffee from the Coffee Training Institute and West Coast Specialty Coffee Company in San Francisco, California.

References

External links

American companies established in 2007
Coffeehouses and cafés in the United States
Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
Restaurants established in 2007
Restaurants in Colorado


Chandrasekaran Mohan is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India. After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for graduate studies, naturalizing in 2007. In June 2020, he retired from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California) after working at IBM Research for 38.5 years. Currently, he is a visiting professor at China's Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Advisor at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) in Chennai and an advisor at the Kerala Blockchain Academy in Kerala.

Education

Mohan received his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. He received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from IIT Madras in 1977. He had his pre-college education in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

Career
After finishing his PhD in the database area in December 1981, Mohan joined IBM Research in San Jose, working on projects like R*, Starburst, Exotica, and DBCache. He subsequently worked as a visiting scientist at INRIA Rocquencourt in 1998–1999, then returned to IBM. From June 2006 until January 2009, he worked as the IBM India Chief Scientist, based in Bangalore.

After his return to IBM Almaden Research Center at the end of his India assignment, Mohan worked on projects relating to Storage Class Memories,  Big Data, Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) enhancements to IBM Db2 and Apache Spark, and Blockchain and Distributed ledger technologies. He gave numerous keynotes and other talks on NoSQL, NewSQL, modern enhancements to classic RDBMSs and Big Data.

Since 2017, he has lectured on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, co-organizing seminars and giving a keynote on the topic. In August 2016, Mohan was named a visiting professor in the School of Software of China's Tsinghua University.

Mohan has published numerous conference and journal papers in the areas of database, workflow and transaction management, and blockchain technologies. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 68 and his i10-index is 141.  He is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, and the industry-standard (e.g., X/Open XA) Presumed Abort commit protocol. His journal papers on ARIES and Presumed Abort are considered classic papers in the areas of transactions, recovery, distributed commit and locking, and are included in a collection of database papers, informally called the "Red Book", edited by ACM Turing Award winner Prof. Michael Stonebraker and others under a section titled Techniques Everyone Should Know. In the introduction to that section, one of the editors of the Red Book, Peter Bailis, while discussing the ARIES paper, has said "In graduate database courses, this paper is a rite of passage. However, this material is fundamental, so it is important to understand." In the ACM SIGMOD Record series called Reminiscences on Influential Papers, with reference to the ARIES paper, Prof. Betty Salzberg of Northeastern University has said: "The ARIES paper was important for me because it enabled me to envision the mechanisms of recovery in database systems clearly. ... Reading the ARIES paper influenced much of my subsequent research. ... Now it is almost impossible for me to imagine thinking of a database system without ARIES style recovery." Prof. Alan Fekete of University of Sydney, as part of the abstract of a keynote talk by him in February 1993 said the following: "In the past few years, there have been several exciting advances in transaction management that seem certain to influence future commercial systems. One is the invention and publication of improved techniques for implementation of transaction management. In particular, an exciting series of papers have come from the ARIES project led by C. Mohan at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory. There are new algorithms which provide concurrency control for B-tree indices, recovery compatible with fine-grained locking, and concurrency control allowing long-running audits."

Mohan has worked closely with many IBM product groups worldwide and his research results have been implemented in numerous IBM and non-IBM prototypes, and products like IBM Db2, MQSeries, IBM WebSphere, Informix, Cloudscape, IBM Notes, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM System z Parallel Sysplex.

In a 2003 interview conducted by Marianne Winslett as part of the ACM SIGMOD "Distinguished Database Profiles" series, Mohan discussed the first 20 years of his IBM career. Video and audio recordings, and the textual transcript of that interview were published. That interview provides a historical perspective on the state of the database research and products landscape then and also on Computer Science work in India. It also discusses Mohan's most important research results and how they came about. A Chinese translation of this interview's transcript is also available.

Mohan worked as a technologist during his entire 38.5 years professional career at IBM and avoided becoming a manager! He has often talked about the importance of long-term technical careers with sustained focus in one area to attain excellence and to be effective in innovation.  Especially in a developing country like India, during his IBM India Chief Scientist assignment as well as at other times, he has often emphasized the need for good technical people to stay technical and not be too attracted by a management career path. In a front-page story back in August 2007, Business Standard, one of India's leading newspapers, discussed Mohan's senior most technical position at IBM and elaborated on his patenting activities.

Awards

Mohan's research, publications, inventions and technology transfer contributions have been well appreciated both inside and outside IBM over the decades via numerous awards and other recognition.

In February 2009, Mohan was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) "for contributions to locking and recovery algorithms for database systems". During the same year, he was also elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). He received the 1996 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. He was the first non-American and the fifth person ever to receive that award. The first 4 winners in chronological order were Michael Stonebraker, Jim Gray, Phil Bernstein and David DeWitt. Later, the first two won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award.

In 2002, Mohan was named an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. At the 1999 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), he was honored with the 10 Year Best Paper Award for the widespread commercial and research impact of his ARIES work which has been widely covered in textbooks and university courses.

In 2003, Mohan was named a Distinguished Alumnus of his undergraduate alma mater IIT Madras. In discussing Mohan's accomplishments, that award citation says: "He has played a key role in establishing the foundations of database systems, which are at the core of modern information infrastructure, that support modern society. His work is among the lessons taught to students of database systems across the world. He has won numerous awards and holds key patents. It is rare for the work of one person to have had such a significant research, commercial and societal impact".

From IBM, Mohan has received 2 Corporate and 8 Outstanding Innovation/Technical Achievement Awards. He is an inventor on 50 issued/pending patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997.

Professional contributions
Mohan has discussed his IBM and non-IBM professional activities in and outside Silicon Valley in a short video. He is a frequent speaker in North America, Western Europe and India, and has given talks in 40 countries.

Mohan has been on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum and an editor of VLDB Journal, and Distributed and Parallel Databases. He was a Steering Council member of IBM's Software Group Architecture Board, and a member of IBM's Technical Leadership Team (TLT), IBM Academy of Technology, and Information Management Architecture Board. In the past, he has also been a member of IBM's Research Management Council (RMC), IBM India's Senior Leadership Team, the IBM Asset Architecture Board, and the Bharti and Vodafone Technical Advisory Councils. He also served on the academic senate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bangalore.

References

External links
 Resume of C. Mohan

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ARLENE GRASTON (born France, 1946) is an American artist and author.

Illustrated books include
"Special Friends: Tales of Saints and Animals" 1981
"Thumbelina" 1997, text by Hans Christian Andersen Translator-Erik Christian Haugaard
"In Every Moon There Is Face" 2003, Text by Charles Mathes (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year)
"Do You Remember? Whispers From A Spiritual World" 2012

Original Broadway Show posters:
Bubbling Brown Sugar 1976;
Eubie 1978

References

New York Times review of Thumbelina

Arlene Graston books at Worldcat

The Hammersteins of New York - Catalogue for show at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, designed and illustrated by Arlene Graston

External links
 Artist's website
 Fine Art Publisher info

American artists
Living people
1946 births
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women


William Leonard (14 February 1887 – 14 October 1969) was a Labour and Co-operative politician in Scotland. He served as the member of parliament for Glasgow St. Rollox from 1931 to 1950.

The St. Rollox constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election. He contested the new Glasgow Woodside constituency, where he lost by 1,109 votes to the Unionist Party candidate. He did not stand in 1951.

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Morris Jones may refer to:

Morris Jones (television journalist), American television journalist
Morris Jones (footballer) (1919–1993), English footballer

See also
Henry Morris-Jones (1884–1972), Welsh doctor, soldier, politician
John Morris-Jones (1864–1929), Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet
Maurice Jones (disambiguation)


Khalil Abdel-Karim (خليل عبد الكريم Arabic) (born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt) was an Egyptian writer, scholar and lawyer.

Early life
Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth. After attaining his high school diploma he traveled to Cairo to study Law and he graduated from Cairo University (then, Fouad the First University).

Career
Mr. Abdul-Karim started his law-practice office where he was the head of the defense team (Primary and Appeal Courts) in the case of Professor Nasr Abu Zayd who was sued for ridda (apostasy from Islam) and for separation from his wife.

Books
Books of Khalil Abdel-Karim: All in Arabic with some translations:

"For Applying Shari'a not for Governing"
"Man-women Relationship during the prophetic and caliphate periods the soiciety of yathrib"
"The Historical roots of Islamic shari'a"
"qurayish: from tribe to state"
"Islam between  the civil and islamic state"
"Shadou Rababa bi ahwal mujtama'al-sahaba"
"The Arabs and the women"
"The state of yathreb The year of Delegates"
"Against the fundamentalism of Islamists"
"The Eslabished period of Mohamed"
"The Founding Concepts of the Islamic Left"

References

External links
Cairo Times banned for carrying interview with Khalil Abdel Karim
The Red Sheikh teaches a mixture of social justice and liberal Islam

People from Aswan
2003 deaths
Egyptian academics
Islamic scholars
Muslim reformers
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
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20th-century Egyptian lawyers


Chantry Island may refer to:

Chantry Island, Hertfordshire,  a small piece of land in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Canada
Chantry Island Lightstation Tower, a small island on Lake Huron containing the Chantry Island Lighthouse and Bird Sanctuary.
Chantry Island (Ontario), a small island in Lake Huron
Chantry Island (Nunavut), a small island in Dolphin and Union Strait, near Victoria Island


Harry Davies was an English footballer who played as a forward for Chorley, Port Vale, and Bacup Borough.

Career
Davies played for local club Chorley before he joined Port Vale in June 1922. He played twelve Second Division games during the 1922–23 season and scored his only goal in the Football League in a 3–0 Christmas Day victory over South Shields at The Old Recreation Ground. He was released in the summer and headed back to Chorley. After a spell at Bacup Borough, he returned to Chorley for a third time.

Career statistics
Source:

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Sant Carles de Peralta () is a village in the north east of Ibiza (), Spain. The village is in the municipality of Santa Eulària des Riu and is located on the designated road PM 810. The village is  North East of Ibiza Town and  of Ibiza Airport.  to the South east of the village is the coastal resort of Es Canar.

Locations
To the south of the village are chimneys and ruined buildings, the remains of lead mines first exploited by the Carthaginians.
The Church of Sant Carles is noted to have an arcaded entrance. Next to it is the famous and historic Bar Anita, the original gathering place for hippies in the 1960s.

References

Populated places in Ibiza


Arthur Wesley Nienhuis (August 9, 1941 – February 3, 2021) was an American physician who served as fourth director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 1993 to 2004. Prior to joining St. Jude, Nienhuis was chief of the Clinical Hematology Branch and deputy clinical director at the National Institutes of Health's Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. His research interests and expertise in bone marrow transplant, gene therapy and genetic testing paved the way for many advances at St. Jude, including breakthroughs in sickle cell disease and other hematological disorders. Nienhuis also made significant achievements in the fields of cell therapy, HIV/AIDS research and inherited immunodeficiencies. Under his leadership, the hospital completed a $1 billion expansion, which included the addition of a Children's GMP, LLC facility. Additionally, Nienhuis oversaw the creation of the Departments of Developmental Neurobiology and Structural Biology.

Nienhuis received numerous awards, including being named by former president Bill Clinton to the National Cancer Advisory Board in 1998. That same year, he was awarded the Stratton Medal by the American Society of Hematology, one of the society's highest honors for an outstanding body of work in hematology. Additionally, Nienhuis was inducted into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.

After completing his tenure at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Nienhuis returned to the laboratory, where he continued with his research which included the development of gene transfer for the treatment of hemophilia. He went to emeritus faculty status in 2016.

Education

He received his M.D. degree in 1968 from the UCLA School of Medicine.

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Uchipuli or Uchippuli is a locality in the Mandapam block of Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a major source of water supply for the Ramanathapuram town. An Indian Navy air station, INS Parundu, is located near Uchipuli.

Transport

Uchipuli is located on the National Highway 49 (NH 49)or 85 that connects Kochi to Rameswaram. The Uchippuli Railway Station (code UCP) is located on the Rameshwaram-Ramanathapuram route. Madurai Airport (140 km) is the nearest airport.

Naval air station
An Indian naval air station located near Uchipuli has been in operation since 1982 at the site of the abandoned Ramnad Civil Aerodrome. Initially known as INS Rajali II, it was formally recommissioned as "INS Parundu" on 26 March 2009 by the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta.

INS Parundu is used primarily as a reconnaissance station to monitor the South East Bay of Bengal, the Palk Strait, and the Gulf of Mannar. A number of naval air squadrons operating Dornier 228 and Britten-Norman Islander aircraft, HAL Chetak helicopters and UAV squadrons are based here.

In 2007, Tamil Nadu Police recovered 1950 detonators hidden in a coconut grove at Uchipuli. They were suspected to have been stashed there by the LTTE for use against Sri Lankan Military.

References

External links
 INS Parindh

Cities and towns in Ramanathapuram district


John Wilson, DL (1837 – 5 January 1928) was a Liberal Unionist Party politician in Scotland.  He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow St. Rollox from 1900 to 1906.

He was a deputy lieutenant of Stirlingshire from 17 March 1902.

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David Foster Pratt (11 January 1918 – 21 November 2010) was an American artist, art instructor and designer.  He was best known for his watercolor and oil landscapes.  Pratt served as the director of the Art Institute of Buffalo in the late 1940s and early 1950s.  During his tenure at the institute, he worked closely with Charles Burchfield.  He lived and worked most of his life in western New York.  His works have been exhibited in many northeastern and mid-west states.

Life

He was born 11 January 1918 in Ithaca, New York.  As a young boy, Pratt watched an artist set up his easel and begin painting the New York countryside.  He was curious and stopped to talk.  The artist was Carl Bredemeier.  That was Pratt's introduction to art.  It also began a lifelong friendship between Pratt and Bredemeier.

In 1934, Pratt began working in Bredemeier's gallery in Buffalo, New York.  Pratt worked with Bredemeier as an art restorer, carver, and framer for the next fourteen years.  During that time, Pratt studied with painter William B. Rowe and sculptor William Ehrich at the Art Institute of Buffalo.  In 1939, he won the Best Landscape award at the Western New York Exhibition hosted by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

In 1940, Pratt enlisted in the United States Army.  During World War II, Pratt was stationed in California, Hawaii, and the south Pacific.  After the war, he returned to Buffalo and taught creative painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo.  While a member of the Institute's faculty, Pratt assisted the well known artist Charles Burchfield, and worked closely with painter William B. Rowe.  Pratt served as the Institute's director from 1949 to 1952.  During his tenure at the institute, he earned a reputation as one of the best artists in western New York.

In the 1950s, Pratt began to actively exhibit his work.  This expanded his following in the art world, especially in western New York and the mid-west.  In 1992, Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College put together a special retrospective highlighting Pratt's works from 1939 to 1991.  In 2007, the Burchfield Nature and Art Center Gallery in West Seneca, New York, hosted a special exhibited entitled The Vision of Watercolor with works by Pratt and three members of his family (Michael Pratt, Sarah Tobin, and Susan Rudnicky).  Pratt died in Holland, New York on 21 November 2010.

Art work

Pratt was a painter, draftsman, designer, and art instructor.  He was especially well known for his modern urban and rural landscapes.  His oil painting and watercolors are very accomplished.  He also did work in charcoal, conté crayon, and pencil.

Pratt's paintings and drawings present an imaginary world that is both fanciful and foreboding.  He used movement and skewed perspective to dissolve images and suggest a fantasy portrayal of his subject.

Pratt won several prestigious awards including Best Landscape in Oil at the 1939 Western New York Exhibition hosted by the Albright Art Gallery and the 1941 New York State Fair Purchase Award in Syracuse, New York.  He also won the Watercolor Purchase Award at the Butler Museum of American Art National Exhibition in 1954.

Pratt's paintings have been exhibited in the mid-west and throughout the northeastern United States.  In addition to the Albright Art Gallery, his works have been included in major shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.  The Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Butler Institute of American Art exhibit Pratt's works in their permanent collections.

Exhibitions

His works have been displayed in numerous one-man gallery shows and special exhibits including:

 Twentieth Century Club in Buffalo (1940)
 Art Institute of Buffalo (1948)
 The Artist's Gallery in Buffalo (1981)
 The Barbara Schuller Gallery in Buffalo (1990)
 Anderson Gallery in Buffalo (1991)
 Pratt retrospective exhibit at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (1992)
 Special exhibit, “David Pratt: A Portfolio” at the Norberg's Art Gallery in East Aurora, New York (1999)
 Rural and Urban Morphology Gallery in Buffalo (2003)
 Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (2004)
 Richmond Memorial Library Gallery in Batavia, New York (2004)
 Watercolor Synergy GoArt Gallery in Batavia (2004)
 Norberg's Art Gallery in East Aurora (2005)
 Special exhibit, “A Life in the Arts” series at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (2006)
 Special exhibit, “The Vision of Watercolor” with works by Pratt and his family at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center Gallery in West Seneca, New York (2007)

References

External links
AskART – David Foster Pratt
 Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Butler Institute of American Art
Meibohm Fine Arts

1918 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
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Artists from New York (state)
20th-century American male artists


The 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision involved the collision of two Northwest Airlines jetliners at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on December 3, 1990. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport. One member of the crew and seven passengers of the DC-9 were killed.

Accident
Northwest Airlines Flight 1482, a Douglas DC-9-14, was cleared from the gate toward Runway 03C, but it missed turning onto Taxiway Oscar6 and instead entered the outer taxiway. To correct the error, the crew was instructed to turn right onto Taxiway X-ray, but they instead turned onto the active runway, 03C. They realized the mistake and contacted air traffic control, which instructed them to leave the runway immediately.

Five seconds later (at 13:45 EST), the crew saw the Boeing 727, Northwest Flight 299 to Memphis, heading toward them on its takeoff roll. The 727's wing cut through the right side of the DC-9's fuselage just below the windows, then continued aft, finally cutting off the DC-9's right side (#2) engine. The DC-9 caught fire and was destroyed.

The captain of the DC-9 escaped from the aircraft through the left sliding window. Eighteen people escaped the plane from the left overwing exit, 13 people escaped through the left main boarding door and four people jumped from the right service door. The rear jumpseat flight attendant and a passenger died from smoke inhalation in the DC-9's tail cone; the tail cone release was not activated. Later, an investigation determined that the release mechanism was mechanically inoperable.

Of the surviving passengers, the NTSB stated that 10 received serious injuries and 23 received minor or no injuries. The three surviving crew members received minor or no injuries. The NTSB added that it did not receive medical records for three passengers who were admitted to a burn center; for purposes of the report, the NTSB labeled their injuries as serious. The NTSB also did not receive medical records for the copilot and six passengers who were treated and released from area hospitals; for the purposes of the report, the NTSB assumed that they had received minor injuries.

After the collision, the 727 flight crew immediately initiated a rejected takeoff and was able to stop the aircraft safely on the remaining runway. The captain then shut down all three engines and ascertained that no one on board had been injured and that the aircraft was only lightly damaged. Deciding that no immediate danger existed, he did not order an emergency evacuation, and the passengers and crew deplaned using the rear airstair after the aircraft was sprayed with fire retardant foam as a precaution. The 727 sustained a damaged wing and was later repaired.

Aircraft and crew
The DC-9 operating Flight 1482, registered N3313L, was built in 1966 and had a total of 62,253 operating hours. The plane was delivered new to Delta, which sold it to Southern Airways in 1973. It became part of Northwest's fleet after the 1986 acquisition of Southern's successor, Republic Airlines. It was declared a total loss and scrapped following this incident. The crew consisted of Captain William Lovelace (52), who had 23,000 flight hours with 4,000 hours in the DC-9, and First Officer James Schifferns (43), who had 4,685 flight hours with 185 hours in the DC-9.

The Boeing 727 operating Flight 299 was registered N278US and had been purchased by Northwest in 1975. It had 37,310 operating hours. The aircraft was repaired and continued in service for Northwest until 1995. N278US was flown by Kitty Hawk Aircargo before being scrapped in 2011. The crew consisted of Captain Robert Ouellette (42), who had 10,400 flight hours with 5,400 hours on the 727, First Officer William Hagedorn (37), who had 5,400 flight hours with 2,350 hours on the 727, and Flight Engineer Darren Owen (31), who had 3,300 flight hours with 900 hours on the 727.

Investigation
The accident was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, which determined the probable cause of the accident to be:

In popular culture
The accident is featured in the fourth episode of Season 20 of Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation. The episode is titled "Taxiway Turmoil."

See also

 Tenerife airport disaster – 1977 runway incursion in dense fog involving two Boeing 747s, which is the deadliest accident in aviation history
 Madrid runway disaster – 1983 fatal takeoff accident also involving a DC-9 taxiing incorrectly in dense fog and being struck by a 727 taking off
 Air Canada Flight 759 - 2017 near miss involving an Airbus A320-211 nearly landing on a taxiway occupied by four aircraft
 Los Angeles runway disaster – 1991 fatal accident in which a Boeing 737 landed on a runway occupied by a Fairchild Metroliner
 Linate Airport disaster - 2001 fatal accident in which a Cessna Citation CJ2 taxied in front of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 taking off in dense fog
 1983 Anchorage runway collision - a nonfatal accident in which a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 attempted to take off from partway down a runway occupied by a Piper PA-31 in dense fog
TWA Flight 427
United Express Flight 5925

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Laleh Khorramian (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist. She works in printmaking, collage, video art and animation, and as a clothing designer. Khorramian is based in upstate New York, where she also runs her clothing company LALOON Studios.

Biography
Laleh Khorramian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She was raised in Orlando, Florida. Khorramian studied at the Rhode Island School of Design; followed by study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she earned a BFA degree in 1997. She earned her MFA degree in 2004, from Columbia University, School of Visual Arts.

Animation, digital media and found footage supplements use of traditional artistic media in her practice, like collage, mono-typing and drawing. In a vacillating process between them, Khorramian integrates fiction with spectacle and theatre constructions to explore the discarded and chance outcomes as a creative strategy.

Khorramian is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Gottlieb Foundation Grant.

Filmography
 SOPHIE AND GOYA, 2004, 10:54 min, Color w/ sound
 CHOPPERLADY, 2005, 9:35 min, Color w/ sound
 I WITHOUT END, 2008, 6:45 min, Color w/ sound
 I WITHOUT END… MEANWHILE, 2008, 4:20 min, Color w/ sound
 LIUTO GOLIS, 2010, 5:36 min, Color w/ sound
 WATER PANICS IN THE SEA, 2011, 12:45 min, Color w/ sound
 SKIN, 2011, 43:37 min, Color/silent

References

External links
 "Swirl World" - The Village Voice - Jerry Saltz
 "Worlds Within Worlds" - New York Foundation for the Arts - Fionn Meade (registration required)
 "I Without End"- ArtsAsiaPacific Magazine - Murtaza Vali

Living people
American artists
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Artists from New York (state)
Artists from Orlando, Florida
American artists of Iranian descent
1974 births


Christopher Patrick Maloney is an American singer-songwriter, bass guitarist and music educator. He is widely known for his work with instrumental hard rock band Cosmosquad, his stints in Hardline and with Dweezil Zappa, as an independent solo artist, an instructor at the Musicians Institute, the co-owner of Absolute Music Studios and the co-creator of the online music education site Practice Warriors.

Biography

Early life and education
Christopher Maloney was born in Syracuse, New York on March 22, 1969. Both his father and mother were from families of Irish descent, the former from Limerick and the latter from Kilkenny. After failed attempts at the recorder and drums, Christopher discovered the bass guitar at age 13 and began performing in local bars and clubs. While attending East Syracuse-Minoa High School, he won a citation from the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, and performed for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush. He attended Oswego State University from 1987 until 1991 graduating with a double major in Music and Broadcasting. It was here that he was mentored by jazz composer Stan Gosek, who helped shape Maloney's skills in composition, odd meter, reading, performing and music business.

Maloney relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 to attend the Musicians Institute. He studied with many notable musicians, including Jeff Berlin, Steve Bailey, Scott Henderson, Joe Diorio and visiting artists Victor Wooten, Gary Willis and many others. He graduated with Vocational Honors in 1994 as the bass program's Outstanding Student of the Year.

Bass career
Maloney spent much of the mid to late 1990s working as a freelance bass player in Los Angeles. His first major label recording was with drum prodigy Jacob Armen on his Drum Fever CD, which was released on Prince's NPG Records/Warner Bros. label. In 1996, after a lengthy audition process, he was asked to join brothers Dweezil Zappa and Ahmet Zappa in their band "Z" to promote the album Music For Pets. Maloney spent much of 1997 recording dozens of songs for a Dweezil solo album. From those sessions, only "Automatic" (featuring Blues Saraceno) and "Dick Cinnamon's Office" (featuring Lisa Loeb) were included on the Favored Nations release, Automatic. He concluded the 90's by doing recording and performing with Jon Stevens (INXS), Donnie Vie (Enuff Z'Nuff), and jazz keyboardist Lao Tizer.

Maloney's recording and performing career continued to rise in the 2000s. He performed or recorded with Hardline, featuring Journey guitarist Neal Schon, Gilli Moon, Chieli Minucci, UFO singer Phil Mogg (in the band $ign of 4), Lao Tizer, New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre, Jack Avalon, and Cosmosquad among others. Maloney's work with Lao Tizer netted two albums (to which he is credited as co-writer) and numerous US festival tours, including shows with Wayne Shorter, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Spyrogyra, Chris Botti, The Rippingtons, Average White Band, Jethro Tull, Tom Scott and others. His work with Cosmosquad, and its guitarist Jeff Kollman, brought him to Europe and Japan and produced three albums. Cosmosquad released their first live DVD Light...Camera...Squad! in 2008, with Maloney also handling all the video editing duties. During this time, he continued to record and perform as a sideman to independent artists in Los Angeles. Over the years, Maloney has been endorsed by Linc Luthier, Carvin and Fender Basses, Trace Elliot and SWR amplifiers, and Dean Markley and D'Addario Strings.

Solo career
In 2000, Maloney decided to begin to make a solo album that would not feature his bass playing, but his voice and song writing skills. Although joined by his friends, drummer Shane Gaalaas and guitarist Brett Garsed, Maloney played most of the instruments himself. The result was the CD Control, released in 2002 on Sunset Records. Spending much of 2002 on the road with Lao Tizer, Cosmosquad and $ign of Four, Maloney had to wait until 2003 to promote the album. He did so mostly by performing solo acoustic shows in coffeehouses throughout Southern California.

In 2004, Maloney continued to promote Control while writing songs for a new album, entitled The Terrors of Intimacy. The album was released in March 2005 on Sunset Records, and Maloney promoted it by doing a solo acoustic tour of the southwest US and full band shows in Southern California.

In addition to writing songs for his solo albums, Maloney has made three production music CDs for De Wolfe Music in England: Rock Styles (2003), Rock Styles 2 (2005) and Indie Rock Chart (2008). Songs from these CD has been placed in television and films in over 50 countries, with US usage including Saturday Night Live, CNN, biography, NBC Sports and more.  He is also a three-time ASCAP award-winner songwriter. Maloney's writing of his third CD, tentatively titled Lost And Found, has been interrupted by his work with De Wolfe Music, tours and recording with Cosmosquad, producing the television pilot Backstage Pass, running a music school in south Florida and starting his online music education site Practice Warriors.

Education career
In addition to his work as a bassist and singer-songwriter, Maloney has been very passionate about music education. Upon his graduation from Musicians Institute, he was immediately invited to join the faculty at the school. Maloney's long affiliation with MI has included him teaching bass, songwriting, music theory and vocal classes as well as being the head of the school's Encore Program. He has also traveled internationally to promote the school through concerts and clinics. Maloney's outgoing personality and music education experience helped him to develop a strong interviewing style, which he took advantage of at MI. His Q&A session with Duran Duran bassist John Taylor during an MI event was so engaging that Taylor included it as part of his solo album MetaFour in 2002. Maloney also interviewed his friend Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) as part of an interview-style television pilot called Backstage Pass in 2007.

Maloney has toured as a clinician for many of his endorsing companies, including Fender and Linc Luthier basses. He created the Interactive Band Workshop in 2004, which was an interactive educational experience he conducted at music stores throughout south Florida. Maloney has also written an instructional book for Hal Leonard Publishing entitled Progressive Rock Bass, which was released in January 2010.

In September 2008, Maloney wanted to expand his knowledge of music and education, and he once again enrolled full-time at the Musicians Institute. He spent nine months studying his fellow instructors' teaching methods in voice, keyboards, drums and guitar. In doing so, Maloney has the unique distinction in being the only person in MI history to be a full-time student and full-time instructor simultaneously.

In August 2009, Maloney and his fiancee (now wife) Kristina opened Absolute Music Studios, a state-of-the-art music lesson facility in Jupiter, Florida. The studio focused on modern teaching techniques with an emphasis on contemporary music, as well as recording commercial albums for many of their students. Notable former students include The Voice and American Idol contestant Allegra Miles and Nashville bassist Morgan Beers. One former teacher, Chris Condon, moved on to be musical director for Billy Ray Cyrus. Many famous musicians have endorsed Absolute Music Studios, including members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Tears For Fears, Korn, Alan Parsons and many others. The Maloneys closed the studio in March 2022 to focus on their online music education site Practice Warriors.

Charity Work
Maloney is the vice president of the charity Peace, Love & Music, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization founded by his wife, Kristina. In addition to offering scholarships for private music lessons, the charity provides educational clinics and instruments to public school music programs, after-school programs, summer camps and other organization that work with those underserved in their community.

Practice Warriors
In 2022, Christopher and Kristina Maloney launched their music education site Practice Warriors. The site includes a Masterclass on How To Practice Music, hundreds of video lessons covering essential musical skills, interviews with top session players (who have worked with everyone from Thelonious Monk to Katy Perry), interactive Q&A sessions and a membership forum.

Musical equipment

Basses/Guitars
Maloney had a long affiliation with Linc Luthier Basses, being one of the more high profile bassists to play the unique, high-end instruments. In 2000, Maloney started working with SWR amplifiers after playing through the company's 6x10 Goliath Senior cabinet at the LA jazz club The Baked Potato. In 2007, he started endorsing a variety of Carvin products, including the B5 Bass, mixing board, PA systems and power conditioners. In 2008, Maloney started his affiliation with Fender Musical Instruments by conducting clinics around the US with Cosmosquad, playing at Fender University and performing two years in a row at the annual Bass Bash. In 2009, Maloney switched to D'Addario Strings. For his solo acoustic shows, Maloney has exclusively used his Martin JC16-GTE acoustic guitar.

 Fender – Deluxe V
 Carvin – B5
 Linc Luthier – 4 and 5 string fretted and fretless bass
 Yamaha Electric Guitar
 Martin Acoustic Guitar – JC16-GTE

Effects
 Digitech – Whammy Pedal
 Digitech – Digital Delay
 Boss – RC-20 Loop Station
 Tech 21 – Sansamp Bass Driver

Amplifiers
 SWR Goliath SR 6x10
 SWR 350 watt head
 SWR 2x10 extension cabinet
 Fender – Deluxe Reverb

Discography

Solo work
 Control – 2002
 The Terrors of Intimacy – 2005
 Indie Rock Chart (with Evan Beigel) – 2008

with Jeff Kollman/Cosmosquad
 Bleeding The Soul – 2004
 Guitar Screams Live – 2006
 Acid Test – 2007
 Lights...Camera...SQUAD!! (Live DVD) – 2008

Selected discography with other artists
 Jacob Armen – Drum Fever – 1994
 Jacob Armen – Breakthrough – 1998
 Jack Avalon – Headnoise – 1999
 Gilli Moon – Temperamental Angel – 2000
 Dweezil Zappa – Automatic – 2000
 Lao Tizer – Golden Soul – 2000
 Jack Avalon – Strange Kind of Light – 2001
 Hardline – II – 2002
 John Taylor – MetaFour – 2002
 Donnie Vie – Just Enough! – 2003
 Lao Tizer – Diversify – 2006
 Debbie Hennessey – Good As Gone – 2006
 Jack Avalon – Six of the Best – 2008
 Arlene Kole – One Day – 2008
 Jami Lula – There's a Healin Goin On – 2009
 Lucero Almazan – One Day – 2018
 Allison Valentine Fernandes - Beacon Of Light - 2020
 Sally Fox Maple - Upswell - 2021
 Keith Calveric - Untold - 2022

References

External links
Christopher Maloney's website
Practice Warriors website
Maloney at Musicians Institute

1969 births
American male singer-songwriters
Living people
State University of New York at Oswego alumni
Musicians Institute alumni
20th-century American bass guitarists


Great Connection is a 1974 album by Oscar Peterson.

Track listing
 "Younger Than Springtime" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:24
 "Where Do I Go from Here?" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 5:53
 "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) – 3:59
 "Soft Winds" (Fletcher Henderson, Fred Royal) – 6:44
 "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 7:28
 "On the Trail" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) – 5:51
 "Wheatland" (Oscar Peterson) – 7:11

Personnel

Performance
 Oscar Peterson – piano
 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass
 Louis Hayes – drums

References

1971 albums
Oscar Peterson albums
MPS Records albums


Peng Weiguo (; born October 3, 1971, in Guangzhou) is a Chinese football coach and a former international player.

As a player he represented Guangzhou Apollo, Chongqing Longxin and Shenzhen Pingan while internationally he represented the Chinese national team at the 1992 and 1996 AFC Asian Cup. After retiring he moved into coaching and became the assistant coach at Shenzhen Pingan before gaining his first Head coaching position at Shanghai Stars. He has continued with coaching as an assistant with Hangzhou Greentown and China U22 or a reserve team coach with Guangzhou Evergrande.

Club career
Peng Weiguo is of Hakka ethnicity and his father originates from Jiexi, Guangdong. He and his younger brother Peng Weijun showed a lot of sporting potential and both would join then graduate from the Guangzhou Apollo youth team. After breaking into the Guangzhou Apollo senior team, Weiguo would quickly become an integral member of the team and then rise to prominence during the 1994 league season when he was named as their captain then lead them to a runners-up position as well as personally winning the Golden Ball award. Known for his brutal soccer style he controversially fouled and seriously hurt promising soccer star Zhang Haitao, which ultimately caused Zhang Haitao to retire. Peng Weiguo remained with Guangzhou until the 1997 league season when Chongqing Longxin were willing to pay 2,350,000 Renminbi for him, however despite his high transfer he was unable to live up to expectations and would return to the Guangdong province with Shenzhen Pingan where he was also offered a training position.

International career
Originally part of the Chinese youth team he would make the transition to the senior team when he made his debut against Indonesia on April 20, 1992, in an Asian Cup qualifier that China won 2–0. He would immediately become an integral member of the Chinese team and would play in the 1992 AFC Asian Cup where he aided China to a third-place finish as well as also scoring his first goal against Qatar during the tournament. In the 1994 Asian Games he would continue to aid China to this time a runners-up position, however when it came to the 1996 AFC Asian Cup he was unable to help China improve upon their previous results and China were knocked out during the quarter-finals. Unable to help China qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup Peng Weiguo would play his last international game in the final game of qualifying.

International goals

Management career
Peng Weiguo would leave his training position at Shenzhen Pingan in 2001 and move away from football to start several business ventures. He would return to football in July, 2006 when he registered to take a Chinese Soccer association level B training class in management. He would quickly achieve his certificate and on January 5, 2007, he would be offered his first head coach position at the second-tier club Shanghai Stars to replace resigning manager Shen Si, however, he would have a difficult start to his reign and Cao Xiandong was brought into the club as head coach. Peng Weiguo would then move to Hangzhou Greentown on April 29, 2008, as an assistant until September 22, 2009.

On 1 December 2009 top tier football club Guangzhou Pharmaceutical officially announced Peng Weiguo as their caretaker head coach. On 25 March 2010, it was announced that manager Peng had been relieved of his duties, with Korean manager Lee Jang-Soo put in charge. He became the manager of Guangzhou F.C. Youth Team.

On 22 September 2011, Chinese Football Association announced Peng as the assist coach of China U22.

On 21 May 2012, he became the reserve team coach of Guangzhou Evergrande, just a few days after Marcello Lippi took over as the new head coach. Peng announced his resignation on his personal weibo account on 27 May 2013.

Honours

Player

Club
Guangzhou Apollo
Chinese Jia-A League Runner-up(1):1994

International
Asian Games Runner-up(1):1994

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Guangzhou
Hakka sportspeople
People from Jiexi
Chinese football managers
China men's international footballers
Guangzhou F.C. players
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. players
Shenzhen F.C. players
1992 AFC Asian Cup players
1996 AFC Asian Cup players
Guangzhou F.C. managers
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in football
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games


Destot's sign is a clinical sign in which a superficial haematoma is seen above the inguinal ligament in the groin, over the scrotum or perineum, or in the upper thigh. It can occur in patients with pelvic fracture.

References

Emergency medicine


Tempo was a chocolate bar produced by Cadbury South Africa, described as a "Shortcake biscuit and caramel covered in Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate".

About
The chocolate bar was unique to South Africa. Cadbury's South Africa also produces other bars only available in South Africa, such as "P.S", "Astro's" and "Question". The shortcake biscuit is surrounded by smooth, creamy caramel then smothered in Cadbury milk chocolate.
Tempo was developed by Barry Fern and marketed by Lois Wagner in 1986 and was the most successful new product introduction into the snack market that decade. The Tempo was superseded by a bar called 5 Star in 2017.

References

External links
Cadbury South Africa

Chocolate bars


Joseph Brotherton (22 May 1783 – 7 January 1857) was an English reforming politician, Nonconformist minister, Swedenborgian and pioneering vegetarian. He has been described as the first vegetarian member of parliament.

Biography
Brotherton was born in Whittington, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and was the son of John Brotherton, an excise collector, and his wife Mary. In 1789 the family moved to Salford, Lancashire, where his father established a cotton and silk mill.

Brotherton received no formal education, instead joining the family firm, of which he became a partner in 1802. On the death of his father in 1809, he went into partnership with his cousin William Harvey. In 1806 he married his business partner's sister, Martha Harvey (–1861).

Bible Christian Church
In 1805 he joined the Salford Swedenborgian Church. The church, led by William Cowherd, was renamed the Bible Christian Church in 1809. In 1816 Cowherd died, and Brotherton became a minister. The church required abstention from the eating of meat or drinking of alcohol. In 1812, his wife Martha authored Vegetable Cookery, the first vegetarian cookbook.

In 1819, aged 36, Brotherton retired from the family business in order to devote his energy to his ministry. He used his position to actively improve the conditions of workers and campaign for reforms. Among his achievements were the building of schools, the opening of a lending library and the establishment of a fund to support the victims of the Peterloo Massacre. He was a member of the Portico Library, an overseer of the poor and a justice of the peace.

Membership of the Little Circle

From 1815 Brotherton was a member of a group of Nonconformist Liberals, meeting in the Manchester home of John Potter, termed the Little Circle. Other members of the group included: John Edward Taylor (founder of The Manchester Guardian), Archibald Prentice (later editor of the Manchester Times), John Shuttleworth (industrialist and municipal reformer), Absalom Watkin (parliamentary reformer and anti corn law campaigner), William Cowdray Jnr (editor of the Manchester Gazette), Thomas Potter (later first mayor of Manchester) and Richard Potter (later MP for Wigan). In 1820 Brotherton, Shuttleworth and Thomas Potter founded the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

In 1821, after the Peterloo Massacre and the government-led closure of the Manchester Observer, the group without Cowdroy backed John Edward Taylor in founding the Manchester Guardian newspaper.

After the death of John Potter, the Potter brothers formed a second Little Circle group, to begin a campaign for parliamentary reform. This called for the better proportional representation in the Houses of Parliament from the rotten boroughs towards the fast-growing industrialised towns of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Salford. After the petition raised on behalf of the group by Absalom Watkin, Parliament passed the Reform Act 1832.

Salford's first member of parliament
The group's aims were achieved with the passing of the Reform Act 1832. Brotherton was elected as Salford's first Member of Parliament at the ensuing general election. He was re-elected five times, unopposed on two occasions. In parliament he campaigned against the death penalty, for the abolition of slavery and for free non-denominational education. He actively supported the Municipal Corporations Bill, which led to Manchester and Salford having democratically elected councils. He took an interest in the facilities provided by the new municipalities, and was largely responsible for the opening of Peel Park, Salford and Weaste Cemetery.

Death and legacy

Brotherton died suddenly from a heart attack aged 73 in January 1857, while travelling to a meeting in Manchester. He was buried on 14 January in the new Weaste municipal cemetery, Salford, the first interment at the cemetery he campaigned for, following a two and a half mile long funeral procession. A Joseph Brotherton Memorial Fund was established, and a statue of Brotherton was erected in Peel Park in 1858. The statue was dismantled in 1954 and sold into private ownership in 1969. At the time Salford City Council were looking for any additional revenue and it sold the statue to a scrap metal merchant. He was aware of the rivalry between the two cities so he approached Manchester with the suggestion they might buy it. It was purchased by Manchester City Council in 1986, and was resited at Riverside Walk, overlooking the River Irwell and facing towards Salford. The effect was that he was looking balefully at the city that thought so little of him as to sell his statue. It is currently being relocated onto the Salford bank of the Irwell to make way for a new footbridge linking Salford to the Spinningfield development.

References

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1783 births
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British vegetarianism activists
Christian vegetarianism
English reformers
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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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People from Old Whittington
People from Salford
UK MPs 1832–1835
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UK MPs 1837–1841
UK MPs 1841–1847
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Victor Vincent Fuentes (born February 10, 1983) is an American musician. He is the co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, which he founded with his brother Mike Fuentes in 2006.

Biography
Fuentes was born on February 10, 1983, in San Diego, California, to Vivian K. Fuentes and Victor Gamboa Fuentes, a painter and former jazz musician. He has a younger brother, Mike Fuentes, two half-brothers, and one half-sister. He is related to Nick Martin, who currently plays in Sleeping with Sirens, and Coal Flower, a lesser-known independent artist.

At age 7, Fuentes learned to play guitar. After attending Mission Bay High School, he attended San Diego State University, where he studied graphic design. He quit studying after his former band Before Today was signed to Equal Vision Records.

He wrote the song "A Match Into Water" on their third album, Collide with the Sky, for his former girlfriend who was suffering from breast cancer.

He is friends with Curtis Peoples, who was co-writer of the single "King for a Day". They played together in a band called 3 Simple Words while attending high school.

Musical career

During his time at Mission Bay High School Fuentes played in a local punk band called 3 Simple Words alongside Curtis Peoples, who later worked together with Pierce the Veil on some songs, including "King for a Day".

In 1998 he formed a band called Early Times with his younger brother Mike. After releasing three EPs the band was forced to rename due to copyright violation. The group changed their name to "Before Today". After signing a recording contract with Equal Vision Records the band released their only album, A Celebration of an Ending, in 2004 before breaking up two years later.

In 2007 the duo released their debut record, A Flair for the Dramatic, with the newformed band called Pierce the Veil. With this band Fuentes released three more albums, Selfish Machines, Collide with the Sky, and Misadventures after integrating bassist Jaime Preciado and guitarist, Tony Perry. He toured in North America, South America, Australia, Asia and Europe several times, played at big music festivals such as Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Reading and Leeds, Warped Tour, Soundwave Festival and Slam Dunk Festival. On concert tours Fuentes shared stage with acts including Bring Me the Horizon, All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, Tonight Alive and A Day to Remember.

Alongside his brother, he was involved in the short-lived supergroup Isles & Glaciers with musicians including Jonny Craig, Craig Owens, Brian Southall, Nick Martin and Matt Goddard. After playing only one show at SXSW 2009 and releasing only one EP (The Hearts of Lonely People) in 2010, the band broke up.

Fuentes was also a session guitarist for a short North American tour with the short-lived pop punk band Cinematic Sunrise.

In November 2022, Fuentes was featured on Cavetown's album worm food on track 4, titled "a kind thing to do".

Songwriting
Fuentes has written songs with the likes of Tom Denney, Curtis Peoples and Dave Yaden. He doesn't have a concept for writing his songs but gains inspiration from familiar situations, personal experiences in relationships, touring and friends.

He has written songs inspired by fans, such as "Bulls in the Bronx", on the album Collide with the Sky. This was written for young Australian, Olivia Penpraze, who committed suicide in April 2012. Her friends wrote a letter to the band about what had happened. Penpraze had been a fan of Pierce the Veil.

"I Don't Care If You Are Contagious", from the second album, Selfish Machines, was also a fan-inspired song. The musicians said in an interview with music magazine Alternative Press that a young girl had contacted the band, writing that her boyfriend had died in a car accident, and that they had met for the first time during a Pierce the Veil concert. Fuentes wrote this song as a present for her.

"Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)" from the same record is dedicated to his parents. The song is about their parents, who never separated even in a time when the family had almost nothing.

Many fans thanked the band for the songs they wrote. They certify their lyrics would have a "healing effect". Some listeners prevented self-harm while listening to his lyrics.

Vocals
Vic Fuentes is well known for his high vocal range, which was compared to Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria by Elmar Salmutter, writing for the German Metal Hammer magazine.

Equipment
Fuentes is known for his mainstay Gibson Explorer, with a finish reminiscent of the EVH 'Eruption' finish. Another notable guitar of Fuentes' is his 'Slimer' Taylor SB1-X, which he used in the King for a Day music video, and while touring in support of their 2012 album Collide with the Sky.

Recently, Fuentes has been using a white-on-white Fender Custom Shop Telecaster while performing Hold On Till May live, often giving a Squier look alike of it to a fan he brings up on stage to sing Lindsey Stamey's lines.

Personal life
In 2012, Fuentes met actress and model Danielle Victoria during the filming of the music video for "King for a Day". The two began a relationship sometime in 2014 and became engaged in 2021. The couple married on April 2 the following year. On September 13, 2022, Vic and Danielle announced that they were expecting their first child together. They welcomed a daughter, Violet Valentine, on February 9, 2023.

Accolades
 Alternative Press Music Awards
 2014: Best vocalist (nominated)
 2015: Best vocalist (nominated)

Discography

Before Today
A Celebration of an Ending (2004)

Pierce the Veil

A Flair for the Dramatic (2007)
Selfish Machines (2010)
Collide with the Sky (2012)
 Misadventures (2016)
 The Jaws of Life (2023)

Isles & Glaciers
 The Hearts of Lonely People (2010)

Guest appearances

References

External links

1983 births
Living people
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American male singers
American rock singers
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Musicians from San Diego
American musicians of Mexican descent
Pierce the Veil members
Guitarists from California
21st-century American singers
Isles & Glaciers members
Metalcore singers
People from Pacific Beach, San Diego


Charles Mathes (born 1949) is an American author of mystery novels.

His books include:

"Spirit of America, A State by State Celebration" 1990 (Introduction by Bob Hope)
"Treasures of American Museums" 1991
"The Girl With The Phony Name" 1992
"The Girl Who Remembered Snow" 1996
"The Girl At The End of the Line" 1999
"The Girl in the Face of the Clock" 2001
"In Every Moon There Is A Face" 2003 (Illustrated by Arlene Graston).

References

Books by Charles Mathes (WorldCat)

External links
Author's website
Macmillan
Author's Papers at Dept. of Special Collections, Olin Library, Washington University in St Louis, MO

20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American mystery writers
Novelists from Ohio
1949 births
Living people
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers


John Wilson (born 1830, year of death unknown) was a politician in Scotland.  He was member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Central from 1885 to 1886, having been elected as an "Independent Liberal".

He lost his seat in 1886, standing as a Liberal Unionist.

References

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1830 births
UK MPs 1885–1886
Year of death unknown
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies
Liberal Unionist Party MPs for Scottish constituencies
Independent politicians in Scotland
Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom


This article lists the presidents of the Assembly of Madrid, the regional legislature of the Community of Madrid.

Presidents

References

Madrid
Presidents of the Assembly of Madrid


Apostolos Kontos (Greek: Απόστολος Κόντος) (born on November 22, 1947) is a Greek former professional basketball player and coach. He is considered to be one of the great players in Panathinaikos Athens history, and is the club's all-time leading scorer. He was also a long-time member of the Greece men's national basketball team. He played at the shooting guard and small forward positions, with small forward being his main position.

Professional career
Kontos began his club playing career with Ionikos NF. With his next club, Panathinaikos Athens, he won 9 Greek League championships (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982) and 3 Greek Cups (1979, 1982, 1983). He finished his playing career with AEK Athens.

In the top-tier level Greek League, he scored a total of 8,712 points, which is the 4th most total points scored in the competition, since the 1963–64 season.

National team career
As a member of the Greek Under-18 junior national team, Kontos won the silver medal at the 1970 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.

Kontos also played in 114 games with the Greek men's national basketball team, scoring a total of 1,114 points. He played at the 1972 Pre-Olympic Tournament, the 1973 EuroBasket, and the 1975 EuroBasket with Greece's senior national team. He also won the bronze medal at the 1971 Mediterranean Games.

Coaching career
After his playing career ended, Kontos became a basketball coach. He was the head coach of AEK Athens during the 1993–94 season.

Awards and accomplishments

Playing career
9× Greek League Champion: (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982)
3× Greek Cup Winner: (1979, 1982, 1983)
 4th all-time leading scorer of the Greek Basketball Championship, with 8,712 total points scored in the Greek A National League (1963–64 season to present).

References

External links
FIBA Profile
Hellenic Basketball Federation Profile
Τα “κανόνια” του ελληνικού Πρωταθλήματος: Απόστολος Κόντος

1947 births
Living people
AEK B.C. coaches
AEK B.C. players
Basketball players from Athens
Competitors at the 1971 Mediterranean Games
Dafni B.C. coaches
Greek basketball coaches
Greek Basket League players
Greek men's basketball players
Ionikos N.F. B.C. players
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Milon B.C. coaches
Pagrati B.C. coaches
Panathinaikos B.C. players
Shooting guards
Small forwards


The table below lists the largest municipalities in Colombia by population, using data from the most recent population census of Colombia in 2005.

Municipalities by population
 Population
Municipalities by population


National sports teams of England is an incomplete list of sports teams representing England.

English representative teams

Multi-sport events

Commonwealth Games
The team is sent by the Commonwealth Games Council for England to represent England in Commonwealth Games multiple times:
2010,
2006,
2002,
1998,
1994 and in
1962 (event known as British Empire and Commonwealth Games).

A similar team has sent by the Commonwealth Games Council for England to represent England at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

Football codes
Australian rules football, England National Australian Rules team
Futsal, England national futsal team

Association football
England men's national football team
England women's national football team
England national under-21 football team
England national under-19 football team
England B national football team
England C national football team

Rugby league
 England national rugby league team
 England women's national rugby league team

Rugby union
England national rugby union team
England women's national rugby union team

Rugby sevens
England national rugby sevens team
England women's national rugby sevens team

Beach Soccer
England national beach soccer team
England women's national beach soccer team

Batting sport
Badminton, England national badminton team
Baseball, England national baseball team

Cricket
England national cricket team
England national women's cricket team
England U19 cricket team
England Lions cricket team
England national blind cricket team
England national deaf cricket team

Racquet sport
 Tennis, England national tennis team

Squash
England men's national squash team
England women's national squash team

Stick sport
Bandy, England national bandy team
Roller hockey, England national roller hockey team
Shinty, English national shinty team

Field hockey
England men's national field hockey team
England women's national field hockey team

Lacrosse
England men's national lacrosse team
England women's national lacrosse team

Other sport
Cycling, England national cycling team
Kabaddi, England national kabaddi team
Korfball, England national korfball team
Netball, England national netball team
Quadball, England national quadball team
Roller derby, Team England (roller derby)

Basketball
England national basketball team
England women's national basketball team

Curling
England men's national curling team
England women's national curling team

See also
 Sport in England
 Great Britain at the Olympics

References

 List
England sport-related lists
Sport


Andrew Gilzean OBE (3 December 1877 – 6 July 1957) was a Labour Party politician in Scotland.  He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Central from 1945 to 1951.

Initially a member of the Independent Labour Party, Gilzean joined the Scottish Socialist Party split in 1932, and was elected as its vice-chair. This organisation affiliated to the Labour Party, for which he unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh Central at the 1935 general election, winning 41% of the votes. He won the seat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election with majority of 4,220 votes, becoming an MP for first time at the age of 67.

His majority was slightly reduced to 2,937 at the 1950 general election, and he stood down at the 1951 general election.

Andrew was married to Annie Thomson (1877-1965). Both were cremated at Warriston Crematorium and a plaque to their memory exists in the southern arcade.

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1877 births
1957 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1950–1951
Scottish Labour MPs