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England versus New Zealand scorecard, 1931
This scorecard records New Zealand's first official 'away' test, against England at Lord's in June 1931. It was a marvellous game. After a meagre total New Zealand had England seven for 190 in their innings before Ames and Allen combined in a partnership of 246, giving England a lead of 230. In its second innings centuries by Dempster and Page set England 224 to win. When play ended they were 78 runs short, but had only five wickets in hand. In three days 1,293 runs had been scored, 420 overs had been bowled and 34 wickets had fallen. The English were enthusiastic about the New Zealanders' performance and two additional tests were hastily arranged. New Zealand lost the second test, but drew the third when two days were washed out. In the scorecard those English players with initials were amateurs; those with surname only were professionals.
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Centuries by Dempster and Mills, 1930
Charles Stewart (Stewie) Dempster
Don Neely, 'Cricket - International cricket before the Second World War', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/zoomify/38300/england-versus-new-zealand-scorecard-1931 (accessed 23 January 2020)
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The 2016 Strickland Stakes is a Group 3 race that takes place at Belmont racecourse in Perth during June each year. Run over a distance of 2,000 metres, the Strickland Stakes is held as part of the Perth Racing Carnival. The Strickland Stakes is run under weight-for-age conditions and is worth a total of $150,000 in prize money.
The Strickland Stakes was first run in 1985 when it was won by Bungling. The race was originally run at Ascot Racecourse over 1,800 metres, however, was moved to Belmont Racecourse from 2010 and is now run over 2,000 metres. The Strickland Stakes also took place at Belmont Racecourse for one year in 2005.
The Strickland Stakes is often contested by horses that have come via races such as the Group 3 Hyperion Stakes the month before. This race is held under the same conditions and over 1,600 metres at Belmont Racecourse. The Strickland Stakes typically attracts a predominantly local field, with not many horses venturing to Western Australia from the eastern states to run in the race.
As soon as it becomes available, the 2016 Strickland Stakes field will be published here.
Notable Strickland Stakes winners include Perfect Answer (1988), Acquired (1990), Prime Again (1994), Finito (2001-2002), True Steel (2005), Action Pak (2008), Marasco (2009-2010) and God Has Spoken (2011).
Here you will find a list of Strickland Stakes winners and results since the year 2000.


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Man who killed Alma nun in hit-and-run sent to prison
Justin Thomas Fell, 33, was sentenced to 18 months to 15 years in prison.
Man who killed Alma nun in hit-and-run sent to prison Justin Thomas Fell, 33, was sentenced to 18 months to 15 years in prison. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2nxhqJB
Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press Published 6:25 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017 | Updated 7:23 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2017
Sister Joseph Marie Ruessmann(Photo: Lux Funeral Homes)
A man who pleaded no contest to killing a popular nun in a hit-and-run accident in mid-Michigan was sentenced Monday to 18 months to 15 years in prison.
Justin Thomas Fell, 33, apologized in court to the family of Sister Joseph Marie (Madeleine) Ruessmann and to Ruessmann's order, the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Gratiot County Prosecutor Keith Kushion said.
Ruessmann, 64, died Aug. 17 after a vehicle struck the bicycle she was riding on Michigan Avenue in Alma. A broken bug shield helped lead investigators to Fell.
"It's an unfortunate situation for everyone involved," Kushion said. "Sister Joseph Marie was an attorney, as well as being someone very involved in our community here. It's a tremendous loss to our community.
"By the same token, Mr. Fell was someone with no prior criminal history, and was raising his family and working, but made a series of bad decisions that had very serious consequences."
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Ruessmann's death stunned Alma. Police offered a $500 reward for information leading to the person who hit her.
Investigators received a tip about a man who had a damaged vehicle with a missing bug shield, Alma Interim Public Safety Director Mark Williams previously told the Free Press. A piece of a vehicle's bug shield was found at the accident scene.
The man, who was identified as Fell, reported a car-deer accident to the Gratiot County Sheriff's Office on the same day Ruessmann was killed.
Investigators searched Fell's garage and found a broken bug shield that matched the piece of shield found at the scene, Williams said.
Fell pleaded no contest to the 15-year felony charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident when at fault, resulting in death. He also pleaded no contest to a 1-year misdemeanor charge of a moving violation causing death. A charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed.
A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. Judge Randy Tahvonen of the 29th Circuit Court presided over the sentencing.
Fell's attorney, Zack Everitt, said his client is deeply remorseful. Fell is a married machine operator with a young child, he said.
"He's been pretty squeaky (clean) his whole life," Everitt said. "This was a bad thing that happened, and his actions afterward made it so much worse than it needed to be. It's terrible for everybody."
Ruessmann was in her late 40s when she joined the conservative Religious Sisters of Mercy on Sept. 1, 2000.
She was both a civil lawyer and a Catholic canon lawyer. She also had a master's degree in business.
"She was an invaluable assistant to the community in financial, legal, and immigration issues as well as an assistant to many other religious communities," her obituary read.
Ruessmann wore a ring engraved with the motto: "Greater love no man hath."
Contact staff writer Ann Zaniewski at 313-222-6594 or azaniewski@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter: @AnnZaniewski.
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The CATHOLICISM Adult Study Program presents the strong, ecclesial dimension of the Catholic Faith – God's revelation through Jesus Christ and His Church. It is comprehensive and faithful, appropriate for: * RCIA * Adult lay formation * Training adult catechists * Diaconate and other ministerial training * Mature high school or college/university coursework The CATHOLICISM Study Program Leader's Kit includes:
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"That's what friends are for"
This time it was rage. No melancholy insomnia, just a big fat stick of fury ready to explode, the fuse much too short. I had been so livid that I walked around wanting to headbutt people, especially myself for being… well, not wise, to put it mildly. A volatile state. And once again Jack arrived, all in black, mattress-pressed, and ready for another clandestine rescue mission. He has a knack for showing up when most needed. Ryno sent him. A clandestine mission expert himself, Ryno is my publicist and friend, aka Work Husband, and he knew how much I coveted Reacher #21, Night School. When the proof copies arrived in his office, one was rushed off to me. And so I went back to night school with Jack and learned some valuable lessons about his rules. Recently, I had failed to follow one, and paid dearly for disobeying. Jack knows how to trust his gut feelings, follow his instincts, analyse, predict, outsmart, wait – patiently – and strike when least expected. Night School is vintage Reacher, all tension, wits and charm. Frances Neagley is back at his side. And oh, that crisp writing which seduces me every time. Yes, all men want to be like him, all women want to… Obviously! Because:
"…her hands flat and open, her palms close to the bed, hovering, skimming a cushion of air, as if she was balancing."
In September, Andy Martin, the "gonzo academic", author of the must-read Reacher Said Nothing, is one of the international Open Book Festival participants in Cape Town. If you are a Reacher fan, or a surfer, come and listen to him talk about both.
In October, the second Jack Reacher film is released, based on Never Go Back.
Night School will be published on 8 November 2016.
This entry was posted in Events, Memories, What I've Read and tagged Andy Martin, film, Frances Neagley, Jack Reacher, Jack Reacher film, Lee Child, Never Go Back, Night School, Open Book Festival, Reacher 21, Reacher Said Nothing, Ryno Posthumus, surfing on August 1, 2016 by Karina.
Book review: I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjørk
Despite my irredeemable addiction to Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, I do not often turn to thrillers or crime fiction for entertainment. But Night School, the next Reacher adventure, is coming out only in September, and since the nights are getting longer, it is nice to have a few good stand-ins in the meantime. Locally, I really enjoyed the recently published Sweet Paradise by Joanne Hichens: tight plotting, great writing, a scary villainess, and a heroine with balls. It surprised me, and that is a quality I truly appreciate in genre fiction.
I remember picking up Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing and realising how it would end just after a hundred pages. For the rest of the book, I had hoped the author would astonish me, but he didn't. That kind of disappointment is not easily forgiven. But Scandinavian crime and thriller authors have been making huge waves on the international literary scene in the last decade or so. I devoured Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and like millions of readers around the world could not get enough of its intriguing main characters, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.
It seems that there is a new kid on the Scandinavian crime block, Samuel Bjørk (pen name of the Norwegian writer and musician Frode Sander Øien). His I'm Travelling Alone is making international headlines, reaching the prestigious German magazine Der Spiegel's number one bestselling spot and selling TV series rights to ITV. It comes with a quote on the cover, warning his compatriot Jo Nesbø to "watch out". Being unfamiliar with Nesbø's work, I cannot compare, but judged solely on its own terms, I'm Travelling Alone is a spine-chilling, page-turning novel.
In 2006, a baby disappears from the maternity unit of Ringerike Hospital in Hønefoss in the south of Norway. Half a dozen years later, a six-year-old girl is found dead hanging from a tree. Dressed like a doll with an airline tag which reads "I'm travelling alone" around her neck, the girl is soon believed to be the first victim of a serial killer about to strike again. A race against time begins. Holger Munch is put in charge of finding and bringing the killer to justice. Despite, or precisely because of, being the typical middle-aged, overweight, chain-smoking, sadly divorced, veteran police investigator, Holger is instantly endearing. As is his partner, the deeply disturbed but fascinating, thirty-something Mia Krüger.
In the beginning of the book, Mia is living in complete solitude on an island, drugged and drunk, mourning her beloved sister and awaiting her own death. It takes some persuading from Holger to sway her to postpone her suicide in order to help him solve the case. They both have a troubled past to atone for, and have no clue how it is about to surface to haunt them.
The next girl is found murdered and two more go missing. But then the ruthless killer changes his (or her? the police are uncertain) MO and contacts a journalist writing for a daily, placing him and his editorial team in front of an impossible choice: Who dies next? And when Mia and Holger discover that the next intended victim is someone they both know and care about, the urgency to track down the perpetrator intensifies unbearably. The hunt leads them to a mysterious sect and an old-age home where Holger's mother lives. What at first seems a dead end reveals itself as a deadly possibility. And the murderer is always a step ahead.
The two investigators, the police squad, and family and friends around them are all well-drawn characters one takes immediate interest in and liking to. They propel the story forward. Additionally, to a certain extent, I'm Travelling Alone felt like armchair travel. I have a very soft spot for Norway, having travelled the country, loved its landscape, read some of its brilliant classics, and made a few Norwegian friends for life. I actually visited some of the places mentioned in the novel, have experienced the weather and tasted the food. Reading all the everyday details of the characters' lives has brought back many great memories. I couldn't resist and had some herring again while reading.
I was spellbound almost to the end. However, the last twenty pages let me down. To be honest, I am not sure that I understood how all the puzzle pieces of the story fit together or whether the author managed to tie up all the loose ends, yet it somehow did not matter. I found the ride as far as the last four or five chapters exhilarating and the strangely abrupt ending did not spoil the fun. I sincerely hope that Mia and Holger will return and I look forward to the next Samuel Bjørk crime novel with great anticipation.
Review first published in the Cape Times, 4 March 2016.
I'm Travelling Alone
by Samuel Bjørk
Doubleday, 2016
This entry was posted in What I've Read, What I've Written and tagged Cape Times, crime fiction, Doubleday, Frode Sander Øien, Henning Mankell, Holger Munch, I'm Travelling Alone, Jack Reacher, Jo Nesbo, Joanne Hichens, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Karina Szczurek, Lee Child, Lisbeth Salander, Mia Krüger, Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium trilogy, Night School, Norway, Norwegian, review, Samuel Bjork, Stieg Larsson, Sweet Paradise, The Man from Beijing, thriller on March 4, 2016 by Karina.
Rambling on about books: Reacher Said Nothing by Andy Martin
It's not often that you get to star in a Fairytale where you are The Princess and a real Hero comes to save you, but that's the story of my Christmas Miracle.
To say that last year was rough for me would be a bit of an understatement. Yet being a glass-half-full kind of person, I will not deny that magic and beauty did not abandon me when all else seemed lost. Both continued flowing not only from the hearts of the amazing people who love me but also from complete strangers.
One of the most magical moments of last year was encountering Jack Reacher, my Hero. Falling in love – fictional or otherwise – is a beautiful gift. When that love allows you to reclaim something as precious as reading is to me, then you let your long braid hang out the window and hope that your Knight In Mattress-Pressed Armour holds on tight. Nearly twenty books later – i.e. approximately 2 000 000 words – he still does! (In my book, that's a miracle in itself.) I am almost finished with Personal – the last of the existing Jack Reachers for me – trying to make it last by reading only for comfort when Dragon Insomnia rears her ugly head, but soon that adventure will also come to an end and I will have to join the rest of the Reacher Creatures who are counting the days until September when Night School, Reacher No. 21, is published. As a reader, I ask myself what are all the other months in the year for? But I suppose Lee Child should be allowed to sleep at some stage. And I need to get my act together and follow Jack's example by simply sleeping when I want to. Perhaps I must see whether headbutting works on dragons…?
Having become one of Jack's greatest fans, you can imagine my excitement when I found out about the publication of Andy Martin's Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me. It appeared towards the end of last year and before it became available in South Africa (still waiting for it to arrive on our shores, so that I can share it with friends who love Jack as much as I do), I tweeted about it, saying something like, "What could possibly make me happy for Christmas?", and adding, "Karina said nothing." At that stage, I hadn't clicked that Andy Martin and I were actually following each other on Twitter. My friend Helen Moffett, whom I'd infected with Reacher Fever, saw my tweet, and kindly offered to get me a copy of Reacher Said Nothing as at the time she was staying in the U.S. where the book was already in the bookshops. Lo and behold, Andy Martin saw our Twitter exchange and generously offered not only to send Helen a book for me, but to sign it, get Lee Child to sign it, and to add a second signed copy for her into the parcel. There are moments in life when it is easy to believe in fairytale miracles. And this was only the beginning!
Helen received the promised gifts, but resisted the temptation to read the book until her return to South Africa in mid-December when she delivered my copy to me and we began our Christmas tandem reading of Reacher Said Nothing. And what a joy it has been! The book is everything that a Reacher fan might have wished for, and more.
Reacher Said Nothing is dedicated to "all those loyal readers of Lee Child who may have bought this book by mistake" and opens with two epigraphs: a quote from James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, and one from one of my absolute favourites, Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading in which the author writes about the different ways of reading – for the action and characters of the story, and for the detailed exploration of the texture of the narrative. Andy Martin's ensuing analysis of Lee Child's creative process is both.
Martin approached Child with the idea for the project in 2014, only days before 1 September when Child traditionally begins writing his next Reacher novel. It was to be the twentieth in the series, Make Me. In an email of 22 August, Martin proposed "a kind of literary criticism but in the moment, in real time, rather than picking it up afterwards…trying to capture the very moment of creation…you would have someone (i.e. me) looking over your shoulder as you are typing the words." Five days before the first word of Make Me appeared on Child's computer screen, he said yes. And off they went.
Writing a book as great as Reacher wasn't easy.
Reacher Said Nothing takes us not only behind the scenes of Make Me's genesis, but also to the day in 1994 when Child bought the paper and pencil with which he wrote Killing Floor, the first in the Reacher series, and explores much of the before and in-between from uncertain beginnings to stratospheric success. More importantly, it throws light on the magic that happens whenever any writer picks up a pen and begins dreaming. In this respect it is as much a book for readers as for writers. When writing, Child thinks like a reader; that's his thing. But there is no magic formula. Only a lot of doubt, hard work, and hope. Trust. And when you are lucky, a good story to tell.
Andy Martin has a great story to tell. Reacher Said Nothing itself reads like a thriller. Like a master of the genre, Martin builds up the tension to the moment when Child sits down to write the first sentence. From there, he continues about the power of storytelling – the written word's extraordinary potentials for both, writers and readers. After all, one particular book Child read as a kid led him to the life he has today. His own books have entertained millions of readers around the world for two decades. Even though I am not particularly fond of crime fiction or thrillers, Child's books have changed my life, and I am grateful. It is all about the "[h]ope of a hero coming to save you. Hope of becoming a hero."
"He would have been good around the campfire, Lee – he would definitely make you forget about the wolves or the saber-tooth", Martin writes.
Yes. And about the pain of grief…
From the start when I began reading Killing Floor, I recognised and was captivated by a quality in the novels that intrigued me: an attention to word choice, syntax, punctuation – a kind of poetry that I now realise is fully conscious, intentional. "It all mattered, linguistically", Martin writes. It's about noticing things. And to see the process unfold is fascinating. Child writes only one draft, but the meticulousness with which he constructs the narrative allows him to.
I loved the humour of Reacher Said Nothing, the banter between the two authors, and Martin's often hilarious commentary. An early scene:
"'It's reverse Freudian,' Lee said. 'You're on the couch and you are analyzing me.'
I said nothing.
He flexed his fingers. 'Naturally I'm going to start, like all good writers, by…checking my email!'"
There are numerous smileys in the margins of my copy of the book. I have scribbled, underlined, single and double, all over.
Martin and his subject emerge from Reacher Said Nothing as two people who are really passionate about what they are doing, are prepared to work their fingers to the bone in pursuit of their visions, and know how to have fun while doing it: "I live in a permanent daydream. I get paid to daydream narratives", Child says.
It pleased me no end to discover that they both eat cheese and marmalade sandwiches. And to read about "the grape in the fridge".
Lee Child's relationship to his fictional hero is highly interesting. Anyone who has non-existent people – I am hesitant to write – living in their heads, knows what it's like. Creation is a thrill. All of us, readers and writers alike, are junkies.
My final verdict on Reacher Said Nothing? Allow me to quote:
"'Outstanding,' said Lee. He pointed out that it was one of Reacher's favorite words."
Completely unrelated to me, the name 'Karina' is mentioned in Reacher Said Nothing. It made me smile. A Karina is rumoured to appear in Andy Martin's next book, Reacher Said Something, but that's another story about writing about writing about writing… Another daydream.
In Make Me, Reacher is concussed. "He's rambling on about books. A bit like you," Child says to Martin when writing the scene.
And I am about to headbutt a dragon, and live happily ever after.
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Self Determination: There Is No Basis For Nigeria Continued Existence, We want Yoruba Nation —Sunday Igboho
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Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has declared his support for the establishment of the Yoruba nation. Captured speaking in a viral video, Igboho, who gained prominence following an ultimatum he issued to criminal herdsmen in the South-West, expressed the determination to defend Yoruba land. According to him, "Starting from now, we don't want herdsmen in our land to disturb our farms again. If we meet any killer herdsmen, we are going to face and destroy them.
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The back to the 80's themed Indofest Music Night at the Estonian Cultural Centre on Saturday 22 July, 2017 was a huge success. Wigs, shiny jackets, big earrings and leg warmers were everywhere and people danced to 80's pop and Indonesian dangdut music. Huge thanks to the talented musicians who performed live and Mas Arief and his team of helpers for a fantastic night of music, fun, food and fab fashion!


Building parsers for Nanohistory has involved quite a bit of thinking about what's in a name. I'm going to leave organizations, places, and things and outline how I've approached the issue for prosopographical data.
Let's get some basics out of the way first - just so we're clear on what's going on. A "name" is essentially a label; whether it as attached to anything in particular is secondary in practical terms. In short, a name is a descriptor for something that can exist in reality or be completely fictive. This is important to note because unlike a cataloguer in a repository, historical scholars are interested in the movement and shaping of identities: names are the lynchpins, but do not need to be associated, necessarily, with an *actual* human being who has lived, breathed, had emotions and experiences, and passed away. In this respect a name, then, is a construct, and whether or not someone was alive, or is a fictitious individual in a novel or comic book, is a moot point for Nanohistory. There's a record; there's a name. It's the job of the scholar to know and discern what that means, but from the point of view of data, they're the same.
affiliation: contains an informal description of a person's present or past affiliation with some organization, for example an employer or sponsor.
forename: contains a forename, given or baptismal name.
genName: (generational name component) contains a name component used to distinguish otherwise similar names on the basis of the relative ages or generations of the persons named.
nameLink: (name link) contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as van der or of.
orgName: (organization name) contains an organizational name.
persName: (personal name) contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including one or more of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc.
roleName: contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.
surname: contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name.
The person class is not as robust as TEI, but has been widely used for a number of years in Linked Open Data contexts, and served as the basis for thinking through RDF-based semantic web processes and schemes.
familyName: The family name of some person. The familyName property is provided (alongside givenName) for use when describing parts of people's names. Although these concepts do not capture the full range of personal naming styles found world-wide, they are commonly used and have some value.
firstName: The first name of a person. The firstName property is provided (alongside lastName) as a mechanism to support legacy data that cannot be easily interpreted in terms of the (otherwise preferred) familyName and givenName properties. The concepts of 'first' and 'last' names do not work well across cultural and linguistic boundaries; however they are widely used in addressbooks and databases.
lastName: The last name of a person. The lastName property is provided (alongside firstName) as a mechanism to support legacy data that cannot be easily interpreted in terms of the (otherwise preferred) familyName and givenName properties. The concepts of 'first' and 'last' names do not work well across cultural and linguistic boundaries; however they are widely used in addressbooks and databases.
givenName: The given name of some person. The givenName property is provided (alongside familyName) for use when describing parts of people's names. Although these concepts do not capture the full range of personal naming styles found world-wide, they are commonly used and have some value.
name: A name for some thing. FOAF provides some other naming constructs. While foaf:name does not explicitly represent name substructure (family vs given etc.) it does provide a basic level of interoperability.
surname (Archaic): The surname of some person.
nick: A short informal nickname characterising an agent (includes login identifiers, IRC and other chat nicknames). The nick property relates a Person to a short (often abbreviated) nickname, such as those use in IRC chat, online accounts, and computer logins. This property is necessarily vague, because it does not indicate any particular naming control authority, and so cannot distinguish a person's login from their (possibly various) IRC nicknames or other similar identifiers. However it has some utility, since many people use the same string (or slight variants) across a variety of such environments.
title: Title (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr. etc). This property is a candidate for deprecation in favour of 'honorificPrefix' following Portable Contacts usage.
additionalName: An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
affiliation: An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
familyName: Family name. In the U.S., the last name of an Person. This can be used along with givenName instead of the name property.
givenName: Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person. This can be used along with familyName instead of the name property.
honorificPrefix: An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr.
honorificSuffix: An honorific suffix preceding a Person's name such as M.D. /PhD/MSCSW.
jobTitle: The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager).
memberOf: An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. Inverse property: member.
name (from thing): The name of the item.
Established personal name used in a name, name/title, or extended subject heading established heading records or an unestablished personal name used in these types of headings a traced or an untraced reference record.
E21 Person: This class comprises real persons who live or are assumed to have lived. Legendary figures that may have existed, such as Ulysses and King Arthur, fall into this class if the documentation refers to them as historical figures. In cases where doubt exists as to whether several persons are in fact identical, multiple instances can be created and linked to indicate their relationship. The CRM does not propose a specific form to support reasoning about possible identity.
E39 Actor: This class comprises people, either individually or in groups, who have the potential to perform intentional actions of kinds for which someone may be held responsible. The CRM does not attempt to model the inadvertent actions of such actors. Individual people should be documented as instances of E21 Person, whereas groups should be documented as instances of either E74 Group or its subclass E40 Legal Body.
E82 Actor Appellation: This class comprises any sort of name, number, code or symbol characteristically used to identify an E39 Actor. An E39 Actor will typically have more than one E82 Actor Appellation, and instances of E82 Actor Appellation in turn may have alternative representations. The distinction between corporate and personal names, which is particularly important in library applications, should be made by explicitly linking the E82 Actor Appellation to an instance of either E21 Person or E74 Group/E40 Legal Body. If this is not possible, the distinction can be made through the use of the P2 has type mechanism.
P2 has type (is type of): This property allows sub typing of CRM entities - a form of specialisation - through the use of a terminological hierarchy, or thesaurus. The CRM is intended to focus on the high-level entities and relationships needed to describe data structures. Consequently, it does not specialise entities any further than is required for this immediate purpose. However, entities in the isA hierarchy of the CRM may by specialised into any number of sub entities, which can be defined in the E55 Type hierarchy. E51 Contact Point, for example, may be specialised into "e-mail address", "telephone number", "post office box", "URL" etc. none of which figures explicitly in the CRM hierarchy. Sub typing obviously requires consistency between the meaning of the terms assigned and the more general intent of the CRM entity in question.
P131 is identified by (identifies): This property identifies a name used specifically to identify an E39 Actor. This property is a specialisation of P1 is identified by (identifies) is identified by.
Of these existing approaches Schema.Org and FOAF come closest to what an historical scholar might actually find useful simply because they are rather simplistic, and because they are constructed with RDF and XML in mind. They're made for sharing, and think of a person as a 'thing' or entity with attributes etc. That said, MARC21 and the CIDOC-CRM are much more extensive and offer considerably more possibilities. TEI lies somewhere in between the two: though it's not XML per se, it shares many characteristics as SGML, but also owes much to the world of cataloguing. Of the five CIDOC-CRM is likely the most flexible (it was designed to be so), as it allows both for the definition of types for attributes and stores string data (it would appear). Yet it doesn't distinguish between name parts like the others do.
While each of these solutions works, they present problems when it comes to thinking about the ways names operate in regards to social and cultural relations for collaborative historical scholarship. There needs to be a happy middle ground between the full flexibility of CIDOC-CRM, and FOAF. When it comes to thinking about names and how they express and capture social relationships, we need an approach that allows for tracing of core name elements expressed in TEI, FOAF, Schema.Org, and MARC21. A surname or familyname captures one of the most important concepts - that identity is grounded in familial and kin lines, and that other associations proper to naming are, often, secondary. TEI, FOAF and Schema.Org capture this nicely; MARC21 attempts to do so, while CIDOC-CRM simply doesn't. There's quite a bit of flexibility within TEI's approach to personal names. From a structural point of view however, when it comes to thinking about the interrelation of the components, we find little distinction within types of roles, their association with organizations, and nicknames, epithets etc within . Because TEI referencing is internal to a single XML document, there's no real necessity to build larger relationships within the document should an encoder choose not to. It's about what encoding is necessary for the text. MARC21 is by far the most robust, and is built to encode personal as well as other forms of data, like those connected to authorship, as well as organizations etc., in a single line of text. Understanding MARC21's structure is important for those using Open Data simply because of its dominance in Library science and cataloguing contexts. And finally, despite its richness, the CIDOC CRM notes this about a person: "The CRM does not propose a specific form to support reasoning about possible identity." In short, we have text strings on the one hand, as name components, and on the other, the ability to make links in TEI, FOAF, and Schema.org to other entities like places and organizations, but no effective means for thinking about the temporality of name components, and what those associations mean to the entities from which they derive. Yes, James I was King of England, but he was also King of Scotland, and both Kingdoms, as polities and societies had Kings. Despite James's own theories on monarchy and identity, the kingdoms existed before and after his reign: kingship is therefore an attribute of the social entity of the kingdom. His son lost his head because those in the kingdom thought that this was no longer the case, one might say.
And so, the issues become much more complex when we start thinking of names as temporalized and contextualized, and the degree to which a name is connected to an individual person or derived from their association with other entities. We can think of this in a number of ways. Perhaps the easiest is to suppose that John Edward Smith is an individual we want to document from a Western context. John is born and given a name at birth. He might keep this name for the duration of his life, or he might end up changing it, at which point although he remains the same person, in terms of documentary evidence an historical scholar would have to assert or argue that in fact the change had taken place. All we have from the evidence is text with two separate names. So John Edward Smith could become anything - George Jones, Tommy Lassene, etc. In this respect the degree to which someone embraces a new coherent name determines its importance. These would be pseudonyms or other identities, which in the case of Nanohistory need to be documented as separate individuals and linked as 'sameAs'. It become more nuanced when we think of pen names in the same kind of way - Samuel Clements and Mark Twain are separate persons in terms of documentary evidence, but the same physical person. Both were cultivated by the same person, but are essentially separate entities. The matter becomes to what extent such identities are co-terminous over time. A pen name is obvious co-terminous to a certain degree with the real person. But in the case of an actual name change, perhaps it isn't. John Edward Smith might have ceased to exist when he rename himself George Jones, in which case perhaps the proper relationship is 'became', not 'sameAs'.
The usual situation, though, is for someone like John Edward Smith to acquire additional components to his name. Perhaps these serve to distinguish him from other John Edward Smiths, like his father, so he'd be John Edward Smith, Jr. Which was too awkward, so his family just called him Jack for short. Maybe his father is an aristocrat, or John Edward himself, 'the younger' we could say (using an epithet) gets knighted on his 18th birthday, becoming Sir John Edward. And maybe later at 19, he gets to use one of his father's lesser titles, the Viscount of Sherwick. By the time he's 28 or so, he's managed to earn a PhD in particle physics. And so by 30, the simple John Edward Smith of his birth, is now Sir John Edward Smith, Jr., PhD, the Viscount of Sherwick, that is Jack to his mother and brothers. And for his father, the Sr. epithet appears because there's now a junior to contend with. But before Jack's birth, he was just John Edward too. The point is that throughout all of this John Edward Smith persists, and the others are additions, or secondary names that shape the growing complexity of Jack's identity. They're contextual, and temporal in character, and might not even be coterminous with John Edward's actual life span. Said his father is attained and looses his peerages: there goes the Viscount Sherwick. Or when his father dies, John Edward (Jack that is) becomes the Duke of Gowerton. The Viscount Sherwick isn't lost to him, but it is superseded by the greater title of Duke. Yet John Edward persists.
The reality is that each of these secondary components fall into two categories - alternative names or aliases, and secondary or attribute data that properly describes or belongs to John Edward on account of his actions (such as his PhD) or those given to him by his family or his community, such as Sir and his peerage. While the Sir and Dr. are honorary prefixes, just as secondary as Jr., the peerage is something slightly different.
Forename: A given or individual name, or a single alias phrase, or a single-word name.
Middlenames: where appropriate given names other than the first or forename.
Prefix: any kind of honorific, such as Mrs., Dr., The Rt. Hon., Sir, Lady, Sri, Sister, Pere, etc.
Suffix: by far the most flexible category comprising honorifics for degrees (MA, PhD, Dipl., etc.), epithets ('The Ironmonger', 'The Younger'), generations or numerics (Jr., Sr., III), or nicknames ('Jack', 'Tommy', etc.). Epithets can also include phrases that are like titles, but which have no association with a polity or organization but contain aristocratic ranks, but are in fact nicknames ('Lord of the Blue Sea', 'Red Baron').
Orthographic Variants: Nanohistory permits the documentation of orthographic variants for canonical names of individuals. These should be phonetically related to the canonical name, but can also be used for different transliterations. They do not constitute a new person.
Titles: Titles are properly attributes or events connected to societies or organizations. They can be aristocratic, or not, like the King of France, or the Bishop of Esztergom. Since they are events, technically, they can have start and stop dates like other events. They can also be officers or ranks within organizations like the military or a corporation.
Rather than collapsing distinct names into single identities, Nanohistory allows for the preservation of distinct identities and views their collapse or binding as a matter of scholarly assertion properly designated as a 'sameAs' or 'isAlias' event.
Aliases & Pseudonyms: These are properly distinct separate people in Nanohistory. Our classic example is Mark Twain.
Occupations: Occupations are documented as events using terms - John Edward Smith is printer. There might well be a title called the Printer of Rexton, but that would be in relation to an organization, and might not be necessarily an occupation or profession. Because these are documented as events, we can assign start and end dates for the occupation.


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Izeni Is Now Start Studio
Nine years ago, Izeni launched. Today, it becomes Start Studio.
If you attend Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in January, this is what greeted you:
Hmmm, you must have thought as you scanned the list, what a great list of Utah companies….Pluralsight…Domo…Sorenson Media…START STUDIO?!?!? WHO IS THIS AND WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THEM? WHO ARE THEY?!?!? TELL ME THIS SECOND, I DEMAND IT!
First of all, relax. Second, you are probably familiar with Start Studio, you just knew them by a different name: Izeni. That's correct, the artist formerly known as Izeni is now Start Studio and I spoke with CEO Jordan Gunderson (who also happens to work in the same office as me) to get the inside scoop. In the interest of full disclosure, Jordan and I used to play guitar together in a warehouse in Payson — keep that in mind as you read.
Let's get biblical and trace a little lineage: Izeni was started nine years ago by Jordan and Gabe Gunderson. At the time, the plan was to install Izeni as a parent company that no one would know the name of — instead, both brothers spent almost a decade getting Izeni firmly entrenched as one of Utah's top dev shops. And while people became familiar with the name Izeni, misspellings and mispronunciations were endless.
Three and half years ago, Beehive Startups was launched out of Izeni. I'll let founder Clint Betts explain the connection:
Beehive Startups would not exist without Gabe and Jordan Gunderson. Every meaningful, positive thing Beehive has done for Utah's startup and tech community over the past three and a half years can be credited back to the monumental effort and dedication of the two most fearless, driven, humble, hard-working entrepreneurs I've ever met.
More recently, Izeni and Beehive launched a brand called Start Studio. The idea was to create an early-stage startup studio that works with founders to help develop new products and launch their company. Again, I'll let Betts explain:
Start Studio is an answer to a question we've been asking ourselves for years. What if we could help extraordinarily talented entrepreneurs get off to a better start?
This leads to today's rebrand announcement. At the origin of Izeni, Jordan had always envisioned the company turning into an all-encompassing startup studio, a place that could spin out multiple startups per year. When the Izeni team began exploring options for a rebrand, one option just made sense — proceed as Start Studio, the brand they had helped launch two years ago.
"A startup studio as a concept is an engine that creates startups," said Jordan. "We want to do that for our customers and ourselves. Start Studio is more reflective of what we've wanted to do and the kind of company we are transitioning into. It reflects the focus we have on startups: we are a place you come to start your business."
To be clear, Start Studio will continue doing client work but with plans to explore other untapped areas. A large part of that includes a new concentration on internal projects, and a goal of developing companies in house. This means open access to a wide variety of entrepreneurial skills, and that's exactly what Start Studio plans on having.
"Start Studio will offer all of the same services that Izeni offered, plus we're adding others — video, marketing, finance, and more," said Jordan. "Our goal is to offer everything a startup would need to launch their business."
So to recap, Izeni begat Beehive Startups, which helped beget
Start Studio, which became the name and vision Izeni will use moving
forward. So go home and tell your kids, tell your friends, tell your spouse: Izeni is dead. Long live Start Studio!
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Are you wondering how you can fit in with the cool kids? How to be one of the hip, happening people? Well don't you worry! I got you covered as long as you follow these 10 easy steps!
Getting a nose piercing is a great place to start. Get the piercing as soon as possible because you will have to wear a stud for a while before you can put in a nose ring.
If you want to really live on the edge and have nobody question whether or not you are a hipster ever again, get a septum piercing!
You will also need your ears pierced so that you can wear hoop earrings and other cool dangly earrings that basic girls don't wear. While you're at it, a few more piercings on your ear won't hurt. Remember those huge star shaped earrings you had when you were eight? Those are trendy now for hipsters. The more unconventional, the better.
Next, no acrylic or gel nails. You can paint your nails, but you don't want to be "extra" with fake nails.
Get a tattoo somewhere. Heck! Get a few of them! Only tattoos with a specific look will due…so only get simple and dainty tattoos. Minimalist tattoos are the way to go right now. If you are ever in doubt, just get something face, flower, cherry, or hand related.
Hipsters don't need makeup. They wear almost none, so if you are imagining a girl with thickly lined eyes and dark purple lips…think again! Nobody should be able to tell that you are really wearing any. You want to lightly compliment your features but do not go crazy with the makeup. Go for nice looking skin, a neutral lip color, and very slightly defined eyes.
You can really have any kind of hair if you are a hipster, but it should also be your natural hair. If you will look good with short hair, you should definitely chop it. And if you can pull off blunt bangs, extra hipster points for you!
Hipsters are often spotted with scrunchies in their hair or around their wrist. Make sure you only use scrunchies for your hair, no basic hair bands!
Glasses from the 90s should be your inspiration. The wackier and the stranger the shape…the better! Just type "Brittney Spears 90s Glasses" into google and use that for inspiration. Wearing wacky sunglasses when you are outside will allow people to immediately know of your hipster status as soon as they see you.
Steal your fashion ideas from the French and wear a beret if it's cold out! You will for sure stand out of the crowd with this accessory.
To achieve the hipster look, purchase your clothing at thrift stores or at stores that sell vintage or hipster approved clothing (Urban Outfitters). You should look like you went shopping in your grandmother's closet.
Layer turtlenecks under everything. If it slightly cold outside and your neck is showing, you better put that turtleneck under your sweater!
In cold weather, wear over sized coats and jackets over your tops. A jean jacket in particular is always a safe bet.
Wear cool graphic tees…and layer a turtleneck or fishnet shirt underneath them.
Which brings me to jeans. Your closet will need a couple pairs of unique pants. Distressed jeans with holes, or with fringed, ripped, or cut up ends are your friends. Also, pants that are wide or cropped at an odd place look edgy as well. And don't forget that overalls are considered hipster too! You can do all of this yourself to make your pants look cool, no need to go buy them from expensive stores.
You should also be wearing other cool looking pants in general. Pants with stripes, cool colors, and high waists could be what makes your outfit hipster, so always choose interesting pants over plain ones!
Your hipster look is incomplete without cool shoes. For casual shoes, "mom" shoes such as white sneakers are a hipster favorite as well as any kind of black shoe. The key to making them look extra hipster is by the shoes being worn out or old looking. Vans are also always a good choice! For boots, wear ones that go a little past your ankle and have a unique look to them. Feel free to go crazy with colors for your shoes as well.
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I once knew a boy (I'll call him Zach for the purpose of this post) with autism who was in my fifth grade class. This boy always had issues making friends and connecting with people like the other kids in my class. I remember learning about his autism in class and beginning to understand how he perceives the world.
A few days ago, the seniors at my high school had a special day dedicated to showing off what their post-high school plans are. After listening to multiple presentations and to a motivational speaker, the seniors were invited to go eat in the gym. When we flooded in, we were welcomed with an abundance of catered food and lots of large tables for groups to sit at.
I sat down with a few of my friends at a table and looked around the giant space. As I was scanning the large room and noticing all of the different friend groups sitting at every table, I noticed Zach sitting by himself, looking around the room as if he was looking for someone.
I waited and waited to see if he would find a group of friends to sit by or if a teacher would approach him. Sadly, neither of these things occurred. My first thought was to do something about it since nobody else was doing anything. But like everyone else, I tried to cave to the voice in my head telling me to be like everyone else and ignore Zach. After contemplating what I will do for a little, I finally burst and informed the people sitting closest to me that Zach is sitting alone and looks really lonely.
What I thought would happen is that somebody would suggest to invite him to our table. This is not what happened. Instead, after repeatedly bringing up the fact that Zach was sitting alone, I realized that nobody was going to do anything about it. People tried to justify their lack of responsibility to a fellow classmate with excuses such as Zach got to the gym before everyone else or that Zach could easily go sit with people. After explaining why they could care less, they continued their conversations.
Eventually two of my friends sitting on the other end of the table overheard me and to my relief, they immediately asked where Zach was sitting. Although they asked me a few times if they should invite him now or after we get our food, they decided to get up and invite Zach over to our table. I watched as Zach's desperate expression changed when my two friends approached him and asked if he wants to sit by us. Zach immediately got up and followed the two girls over to our table. I greeted him right away and asked him if he remembered me from fifth grade. To my surprise, he did! There were multiple kids from my fifth grade class that I wasn't friends with who didn't remember me, however Zach did.
Although I felt a lot better that he wasn't sitting or eating alone anymore, I couldn't get over the fact that people just did not care. That is why I am writing this post. To be honest, I am not even any better then my friends who didn't care that Zach was sitting alone because I did not immediately get up and do the right thing by myself. I feel horrible that I sat around and asked others for their opinion before finding two friends who were willing to extend an invitation to Zach.
The lesson I learned from this whole situation is that if you see something and know you should do the right thing, then do it. Not only will you feel good about yourself, but your good deed could brighten someones day or help them somehow. Don't look to others for approval and you shouldn't care if you stand out of the crowd. Be an independent thinker and do what you believe in and what you think is right. Don't rely on others or expect anything of them. If you wait around for others to help you do something good, then the world will never be a better place. Take action, don't just sit quietly and be like everyone else.
I hope you have a great week and find something good that you can do for another person!
While walking around Rome, Florence, Venice, and other beautiful Italian cities I took pictures of these amazing window displays. Enjoy!


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Queen Elizabeth High School  (QEHS) is a Canadian public combined junior and senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, which teaches grades 7 through 12. The junior (7–9) and senior high (10–12) programs share a common principal, many teachers, and other resources of the school. It is operated by the Calgary Board of Education. QEHS operates separately from Queen Elizabeth Elementary School, even though the two schools are physically adjacent to each other.

History
The school was founded in 1910 as "Bowview School" which was originally a boarding school. Evidence for this can be found above the south west entrance by the cafeteria, where the previous school name is displayed. It was renamed in 1953 to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
The original three-storey building (which includes the Drama room that was the original auditorium and cafeteria) opened in 1930. A large addition (including the band room, wood shop, north gym, current offices, classrooms) was opened in 1953. The third addition was completed in 1967 and includes the library and science labs.

Academics
QEHS offers special programs for the CBE which are for students throughout the city, not just local students. Those outside the local area are given subsidized bus passes to attend the school.

Advanced Placement Program
QEHS is one of the many high schools in Calgary to offer the Advanced Placement Program, which gives student a chance to enroll in university-level courses of their choice, equivalent to most universities' introductory courses. Depending on their score on the AP Exam, students can receive university credit for the AP course.

As of May 2008, QEHS offers AP courses in the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, English, Calculus AB, Physics and European History.

Gifted students
QEHS is one of the CBE's schools to operate the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program, which assists qualified students with more advanced instruction. GATE compacts and accelerates the typical curriculum. It combines Language Arts and Social Studies into one class (humanities) and it also provides extra experts and mentors. Currently, nine CBE schools offer the GATE program. The school is part of the Action for Bright Children Society.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing students
The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Queen Elizabeth High school is a bilingual and bicultural program that supports Deaf students from grade 7 through 12 to participate in a mainstream environment. Interpreters are also provided, enabling equality and language accessibility. The Deaf students are placed in classrooms among hearing students with an interpreter who facilitates information using American Sign Language.

Alberta Ballet students
Students from across the city who attend The School of Alberta Ballet attend QEHS. Queen Elizabeth makes special accommodations for the students. Even though the Alberta Ballet, not QEHS, actually provides the dance instruction, that instruction can be used to earn credits towards a high school diploma. QEHS is one of just two schools in the city with this special relationship, the other being Bishop Carroll High.

Student body

Mascot
The school's mascot is a knight. A student is usually at pep rally events in the school wearing a suit of armor.

Knight's Fest
Every year the student leadership class hosts an event known as "Knights Fest" where students have a half day, and are able to enjoy activities such as bouncy castles and other various carnival themed activities, and there are stands where students can buy candy and knights themed merchandise. Live bands perform, notable past performers include Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and The Static Shift.

Notable alumni
 Rob Anders – Conservative MP
 Jay Beagle – NHL player
 Rosalind Groenewoud – freeskier
 Nancy Huston – novelist and essayist
 Naheed Nenshi – the 36th Mayor of Calgary
 Sheilagh Ogilvie – Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge
 Ken Read - Olympic alpine skier; International sport leader
 Ted Stenson, film director whose 2020 film Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game was filmed at Queen Elizabeth High School in 2019

References

External links

Official School Website

High schools in Calgary
Middle schools in Calgary
Educational institutions established in 1910
1910 establishments in Alberta

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