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25612684#0 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi arrived in Egypt around 720, in the company of his brother, Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, who had been appointed governor of Egypt by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid II. Hahdhala came as chief magistrate ("sahib al-shurta"). When Bishr was appointed to take up the government of Ifriqiya in Kairouan in 721, Handhala was designated his successor in Egypt. Handhala continued as governor of Egypt until 724, when the new caliph Hisham arose to the throne and appointed his own brother, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan as governor. |
25612684#1 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | After a series of failed Egyptian governors, Caliph Hisham decided to restore Handhala ibn Safwan as governor of Egypt in 737, replacing Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid al-Fahmi. |
25612684#2 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Handhalah succeeded in crushing the Coptic revolts in Alexandria and Upper Egypt then he,according to Lane's "The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians" pp. 554, caused the hand of every Copt to be branded with an iron stamp bearing the figure of a lion, and greatly aggravated their misery ; so that many of those residing in the provinces again rebelled, and had recourse to arms; but in vain; and a terrible persecution followed. |
25612684#3 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | In October, 741, in the course of the Great Berber Revolt in the Maghreb, the Ifriqiyan army, along with a Syrian force dispatched by the caliph, was destroyed by the Berbers at the Battle of Bagdoura. The governor Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi perished in the field, his nephew and successor Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri was holed up with the remnant of the army in Spain, leaving the whole of Ifriqiya open to the advance of the Berber rebels. |
25612684#4 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Not having any more forces at his disposal, the Umayyad Caliph Hisham quickly appointed Handhala ibn Safwan as governor of Ifriqiya, with supervisory authority over all the Maghreb (North Africa west of Egypt) and al-Andalus (Spain), and instructed him to take whatever forces he could gather to defend Ifriqiya and quash the Berber rebellion. Leaving Egypt in the hand of Hafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami, Handhala set out westwards in February 742, picking up additional forces from Barqa (Cyrenaica) and Tripoli (Tripolitana). He arrived in Kairouan around April, 742. |
25612684#5 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | The qadi of Ifriqiya, Abd al-Rahman ibn Oqba al-Ghaffari, had been managing the defense of Kairouan, and succeeded in fending off an attack by the Berber rebel army raised in southern Tunisia by the Sufrite leader Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari. Handhala ibn Safwan arrived in Kairouan just as Oqasha was said to be mounting a new attack, in coordination with another large Berber army coming in from the west, led by Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid al-Hawwari. The Berber rebel armies were to make junction in front of Kairouan, before launching their final attack on the city. |
25612684#6 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Wasting no time, Handhala dispatched a cavalry force to slow down Abd al-Wahid's progress, and threw the bulk of his forces south, defeating Oqasha in a bloody battle at El-Qarn and taking him prisoner. But Handhala had taken a lot of losses himself, and now faced the unhappy prospect of Abd al-Wahid's gigantic army, said to be some 300,000, ostensibly the largest Berber army ever seen. Hurrying back, Handhala is said to have put the entire population of Kairouan under arms to bolster his ranks, before setting out again. In perhaps the bloodiest encounter in the Berber wars, Handhala ibn Safwan defeated the great Berber army of Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid at El-Asnam in May 742 (perhaps a little later), just three miles outside of Kairouan. Some 120,000-180,000 Berbers, including Abd al-Wahid, fell in the field of battle in that single encounter. |
25612684#7 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Having saved Ifriqiya from the Berber rebellion, Handhala focused his attentions on al-Andalus (Spain), where a veritable intercenine war was raging between Andalusian Arabs and the newly arrived 'Syrian' "junds" (the remnant of the military force Caliph Hisham had dispatched to Ifriqiya in 741). In early 743, Handhala ibn Safwan dispatched his cousin Abu al-Khattar ibn Darar al-Kalbi as his deputy to Córdoba, taking over the government of al-Andalus and settling the quarrel. |
25612684#8 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | In 743–44, Handhala was kept busy putting out sporadic revolts in the hinterlands of Ifriqiya, and had little or no time to concentrate on recovering the westerly provinces of Morocco and bringing the Berber back under Umayyad rule. It is possible he may have succeeded in recovering some of the coastal cities, like Tangiers, for the Caliphate, but the bulk of Morocco and western Algeria remained under the sway of autonomous Berber tribal rulers. In 744, the Masmuda Berber tribes openly erected an independent state in 744, the Berghwata confederation, with their own 'prophet' and syncretist beliefs. |
25612684#9 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | The disorder following the death of caliph Hisham in 743 prevented Handhala receiving more assistance from the east. Sensing an opportunity to seize more power for themselves, local Ifriqiyan nobles raised mutinies in the Ifriqiyan garrisons against the Umayyad governor. In late 744 or early 745, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, scion of the illustrious Fihrid dynasty, raised a revolt in Tunis and proclaimed himself ruler of Ifriqiya. Although urged to fight the pretender, Handhala ibn Safwan decided that North Africa had seen enough war and bloodshed, and opted to abdicate rather than put up a fight. He returned to Damascus in February, 745, leaving Ibn Habib to usurp the government in Kairouan. |
25612684#10 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | Some chroniclers report that, at his departure, Handhala ibn Safwan laid a curse upon Ifriqiya, expressing his hope that the land which had treated him so ungratefully would be possessed by pestilence, famine and war. Ifriqiya did indeed experience a severe drought not long after and would descend into violent disorder for the next couple of decades. |
25612688#0 | Runaway Papoose | Runaway Papoose is a children's novel by Grace Moon. It is a contemporary story of Native American children from the southwestern United States. Illustrated by the author's husband, Carl Moon, the novel was first published in 1928 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1929. |
25612688#1 | Runaway Papoose | Nah-tee, a Native American girl about four years old, runs away from her family's day-camp when a visiting stranger frightens her. She meets a Navajo shepherd boy named Moyo, who agrees to help her find her family; after many adventures, they arrive at a large regional powwow where Nah-tee is reunited with her family. |
25612693#0 | Dekalog: Six | Dekalog: Six (Polish: Dekalog, sześć) is the sixth part of the television series "Dekalog" by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, possibly connected to the tenth imperative of the Ten Commandments: ""Thou shalt not commit adultery."" |
25612693#1 | Dekalog: Six | A naive young man, Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko), spies on a woman, Magda (Grażyna Szapołowska), and falls in love with her. An extended 86-minute feature version of this film is called "Krótki film o miłości" ("A Short Film About Love"). |
25612693#2 | Dekalog: Six | Along with "", the film screened in the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. |
25612693#3 | Dekalog: Six | Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) is a nineteen-year-old orphan, living with the mother of a friend and working at the local post office. He has been observing an attractive woman in her thirties, Magda (Grażyna Szapołowska), and fallen in love with her. He sends false notices from the post office to her, calling her to pick up money which does not exist, just to see her. In the evenings, he spies on her through a telescope, as she lives in an apartment opposite his, and calls her frequently. Magda sees many men in her apartment and Tomek manages to ruin her dates by calling the gas service to check a leak. |
25612693#4 | Dekalog: Six | Tomek wants to see Magda, so he takes an extra job delivering milk in the mornings. Magda goes to the post office to collect a new note that Tomek sent her and is accused by the office manager of trying to rob the office by presenting false notes. Magda storms out of the post office; Tomek follows her and confesses to his peeping. She initially does not believe him, but when he says that she was weeping last night she becomes angry, because it was true. |
25612693#5 | Dekalog: Six | That night Magda spots Tomek peeping again and makes signs that he should call her. He does so and she tells him to watch closely. She receives her current lover and, just as they are about to begin having sex, she stops and tells him of the peeping going on. He becomes angry, goes to Tomek's building and demands to speak with him; Tomek comes out and is beaten up by Magda's boyfriend. |
25612693#6 | Dekalog: Six | The next day Magda opens the door as Tomek is delivering milk; he declares his love to her. After inquiring as to what he wants from her, which he cannot answer, she accepts a date to have ice cream. After the ice cream she engages in a little game: If they reach the bus home before it leaves, he shall go to her apartment, if not, he shall go home. Back at her apartment, she takes his hands and places them on her almost naked body. He is very excited and ejaculates before he can even touch anything other than her thighs. After this, she says that this is love and that's all there is to it; if he wants to clean up there are towels in the bathroom. Tomek is shattered and storms out of her place. Magda then feels badly and puts a sign in her window saying' ""Sorry, please come back"". He does not and tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists. He is taken to hospital. Magda does not see him for a long time and becomes worried. |
25612693#7 | Dekalog: Six | She recognizes that it is now she who is obsessed with him and tries to do everything to see him, talk to him, and explain everything. Some time later, Tomek is back from hospital and working again at the post office. Magda comes to see him there. Tomek says "I am no longer spying on you, madam." |
25612702#0 | Tod of the Fens | Tod of the Fens is a children's historical novel by Elinor Whitney Field. Set in Boston, England, in the fifteenth century, it is a light-hearted adventure about Tod, a boy who lives with a band of men outside town, and Prince Hal, the heir to the throne, who disguises himself so he can move among the people incognito. The novel, illustrated by Warwick Goble, was first published in 1928 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1929. |
25612702#1 | Tod of the Fens | A public domain online edition of "Tod of the Fens", a 1929 Newbery Honor Book, is available at A Celebration of Women Writers. |
25612713#0 | Minuscule 534 | Minuscule 534 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), 547 (Scrivener's numbering), ε 333 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It is lacunose. |
25612713#1 | Minuscule 534 | The codex contains an incomplete text of the four Gospels on 270 paper leaves (size ) with some lacunae (Luke 1:25-42; 20:37-21:24). It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page. |
25612713#2 | Minuscule 534 | The text is divided according to the ("chapters"), whose numerals are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι ("titles of chapters") at the top and foot. There is no division according to the Ammonian Sections or Eusebian Canons. |
25612713#3 | Minuscule 534 | The tables of the ("tables of contents") are placed before each Gospel. It contains a lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, αναγνωσεως ("lessons"), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures. |
25612713#4 | Minuscule 534 | It has on the cover "a curious metal tablet adorned with figures and superscriptions" (as codex 536). |
25612713#5 | Minuscule 534 | The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to A, related to the Antiocheian commentated text (along with 546, 558, 573, 715). Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20 (fragmentary in Luke 1 and 20). |
25612713#6 | Minuscule 534 | The manuscript is dated by the INTF on the palaeographical ground to the 13th century. |
25612713#7 | Minuscule 534 | The manuscript was written by Marcus in the 13th century. In 1864 it was purchased from a dealer at Janina in Epeiros, by Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532-546). They were transported to England in 1870-1871. All collection was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School. |
25612713#8 | Minuscule 534 | The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (547) and C. R. Gregory (534). Gregory saw it in 1883. |
25612713#9 | Minuscule 534 | The manuscript was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts 1. 7), in London. It was examined and collated by Scrivener. |
25612713#10 | Minuscule 534 | It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 26) in Ann Arbor. |
25612717#0 | The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo | The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes is a children's book written and illustrated by John Bennett. This is a collection of fairy tales and short stories, some in verse, which take place variously in China, Persia, Europe, and America. Some of the pieces were first published in "St. Nicholas Magazine" before being collected here. The book was first published in 1928 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1929. |
25612729#0 | Lola Hoffmann | Lola Hoffmann (Helena Jacoby) (March 19, 1904 in Riga, Latvia – April 30, 1988 in Santiago, Chile) was a physiologist and psychiatrist. |
25612729#1 | Lola Hoffmann | Lola (Helena) was born into a well-to-do, German-speaking family of Jewish origin, which professed the Lutheran religion. The family environment, which was warm and intellectual, had a strong influence on her personal development. When she was 15, her family moved to Freiburg, in Breisgau (Germany) because her father, as a member of the movement led by Alexander Kerenski, was being persecuted by the Bolsheviks, who had occupied Latvia following the First World War. |
25612729#2 | Lola Hoffmann | Lola enrolled in the School of Medicine of Freiburg and remained there when her family decided to return to Riga. Her life changed dramatically, she joined a group of Baltic students, made new friends and devoted herself to her studies. At this time Freiburg was bristling with intellectual activity. Husserl and Heidegger were among the philosophers at University of Freiburg, as were Richard Wilhelm and Carl Gustav Jung. She went to their lectures without imagining that these same men would become so important in her life thirty years later. |
25612729#3 | Lola Hoffmann | Once she finished her thesis on the suprarenal glands of rats, she left Freiburg and moved to Berlin, where she became an assistant to Paul Trendelenburg, the main specialist in hormones. In Berlin she was exposed to the cultural upheaval of those years: she attended the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" of Stravinsky, "The Threepenny Opera" of Bertolt Brecht, and was drawn to Dadaism, the Bauhaus movement and the painter Kurt Schwitters. |
25612729#4 | Lola Hoffmann | While conducting research, she met a Chilean doctor, Franz Hoffmann, who was doing post-doctoral work there in Physiology. They worked together and fell in love. When it came time for Franz to return to Chile in 1931, they decided that she would accompany him. |
25612729#5 | Lola Hoffmann | In retrospect, this decision most likely saved her life and the lives of her immediate family—her parents and her brothers and sisters—who also came to Chile in 1934 with her. Had they remained in Germany, their fate might well have been one of detention and death in the Nazi concentration camps. |
25612729#6 | Lola Hoffmann | During her first year in Chile she dedicated herself to learning Spanish and to immersing herself in Chilean culture. She dedicated herself to becoming familiar with the geography and the people of Chile. Once she felt confident with the language, she set to work: first, at the Bacteriological Institute, and in 1938, as her husband's assistant at the newly founded Institute of Physiology of the University of Chile. They did research together, published papers together and traveled together. She worked in the Institute of Physiology from 1938 to 1951, but was never paid for her work. She explained that professors were not allowed to hire relatives, let alone wives, and in any case, it was quite strange to see a woman slicing up animals. |
25612729#7 | Lola Hoffmann | After more than 20 years of experimental work in physiology, at 46 years of age, Lola started losing enthusiasm for her work, eventually falling into depression. She relates that during this time she had a dream to which she gave great import and which little by little helped her to take account of her life and assess her needs. |
25612729#8 | Lola Hoffmann | In the dream she saw herself in the laboratory, cutting opening the sternum of a dog; she opened the thorax of the dog and observed the rhythmical beating of its heart and the inflating and deflating action of the lungs. Unexpectedly, from the interior of the dog the arms of a woman emerged, moving with desperation; then a head protruded and she could see the bloodstained face of her husband’s secretary, Margarita Engel. In her dream she thought she had killed Margarita, who was very dear friend of hers. She thought that she had become a murderer and she vowed not to kill any more animals. |
25612729#9 | Lola Hoffmann | Deeply depressed and having lost interest in everything, her husband proposed a trip to Europe. She accepted. While she was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, waiting for the departure of the ship, she was drawn to a book, The Psychology of C. G. Jung, by Jolande Jacoby. The title evoked those incomprehensible lectures she had attended in Berlin, and she noticed the coincidence of the surname of the author, Jacoby, with her maiden name. She bought the book and read it during the ocean voyage. That reading proved key in giving her some clues about what was happening with her. |
25612729#10 | Lola Hoffmann | She interpreted her dream as an analogy of what she was doing with her life: the murder of Margarita Engel was really her own murder. "Engel" in German means "angel"; she was killing her angel. After arriving in Zurich, she contacted the author of the book, Yolanda Jacoby. Their talks, along with other experiences, led her to make a decision to abandon physiology and become a psychiatrist. |
25612729#11 | Lola Hoffmann | When she returned to Chile she threw herself into achieving her goal of becoming a psychiatrist. At first she worked alone, annotating and analyzing her dreams. Then she started working at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Chile, where she told the Director, Ignacio Matte Blanco, of her interest in finding links between psychiatry and physiology. In her explorative studies she started practising “autogenic training,” a method of self-hypnosis developed by the German neurologist, Johannes Heinrich Schultz. This training consisted of a series of physiological exercises through which a person could achieve a state of consciousness similar to that obtained in exogenous hypnosis. Another neurologist that interested her was Ernst Kretschmer. Like Schultz, he had rediscovered the value of attaining prehypnotic states for psychiatric therapy. |
25612729#12 | Lola Hoffmann | After 5 years working in the Psychiatric Clinic, she felt the need for more in-depth study. She applied for a fellowship in the Psychiatric Clinic of Tübingen, Germany, where Ernst Kretschmer was the director and where Eugene Bleuler, while living in Zurich, was one of the guiding forces. She remained in Tübingen for one year and then moved to Zurich for another year, where she attended the last conferences given by an elderly Jung. The ideas she picked up during these conferences would be key to her later work as a psychoterapist. |
25612729#13 | Lola Hoffmann | After returning to Chile in 1959, she returned to the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Chile, where she joined one of the first trials of group therapy and a controlled group experimentation with LSD and marijuana. |
25612729#14 | Lola Hoffmann | Her new career necessarily meant that she spent more and more time away from her husband., widening her circle of friends and colleagues. The Chilean sculptor and poet, Totila Albert, helped Lola during her transition, as she made the dramatic break with her former scientific world of physiology and moved into the world of psychiatry. They became close friends and lovers for 17 years, until his death in 1967. |
25612729#15 | Lola Hoffmann | However, Lola did not break off her marriage. She still considered Franz to be her lifemate, but she had become convinced that exclusive pair relationships were a hypocritical custom imposed upon society. She thought that parallel relationships contributed to the proper growth of the couple. |
25612729#16 | Lola Hoffmann | She and Franz continued living together on the same family property on North Pedro de Valdivia Street, but with each one occupying their own house, while staying in constant communication and sharing many meals. Franz also began to explore new worlds—studying anthropology and taking up painting. He, too, had several relationships with other women, but he never really had a stable, long-lasting companion. |
25612729#17 | Lola Hoffmann | Lola advocated the dismantling of the patriarchal system that dominated society. She felt this was necessary to do in order for men and women to become fulfilled human beings. Totila Albert had influenced in this regard, and she felt indebted to him for this perspective on male-female relationships. She was convinced that the patriarchal system prevented free and fully rewarding relationships. |
25612729#18 | Lola Hoffmann | Totila Albert died in 1967 and a few months later her husband, Franz Hoffman, suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on the right side. Later he became totally paralyzed, and Lola took care of him for the rest of his life, until his death 13 years later in 1981. |
25612729#19 | Lola Hoffmann | At 60 years of age, Lola became increasingly involved in Eastern meditation techniques and philosophy. She began practicing Hatha yoga, t'ai chi and psychodance. Although she had attended conferences given by Richard Wilhelm when she was 20 years old, she had not grasped the full significance of his work. But while studying the Jung's Synchronicity Principle, she became increasingly drawn to Wilhelm's ideas. She was enthralled by his German translation of the classic Chinese text, "I Ching, the Book of Changes", and she decided to do a Spanish translation of the "I Ching". She spent several years on this project, finally finishing in 1971. |
25612729#20 | Lola Hoffmann | Over time she became a well-known and well-loved figure in Chile. Her reputation continued to grow until her death. More than just a therapist, she was considered a master of personal development and realization. She contributed to the formation of a generation of young psychiatrists, many of whom considered themselves her disciples. During the last 14 years of her life, she organized study and experimentation groups that worked with dreams, the I Ching, and symbols. |
25612729#21 | Lola Hoffmann | Although Lola believed in individual change, most of her life she avoided political action. However, she decided to join "the Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose" when it came to Chile in 1983. In fact, she was the main speaker at the first session held in Chile. During the final years of her life, she participated in several collective actions and she became a founding member of "La Casa de la Paz" in 1985. |
25612729#22 | Lola Hoffmann | When she was 60 years old she began to suffer from glaucoma. After many operations, her right eye had to be removed. Later glaucoma also developed in her healthy eye, and soon she was almost blind, although she continued to read by using a magnifying glass. |
25612729#23 | Lola Hoffmann | Her last four years were spent in Peñalolén, a suburb of Santiago, on land belonging to her daughter, renowned botanist Adriana Hoffmann. There they build a near exact replica of her house, placing her books on the same shelves as before. All of her possessions—her photos, sculptures and artifacts—were located exactly as they had been in her old house. |
25612729#24 | Lola Hoffmann | Some five years before she died, in 1983, she became gravely ill. She did not recognize anyone; she was delirious; she fought with everyone; she thought she was living with her Russian parents in another time. |
25612729#25 | Lola Hoffmann | She tells the story that one night she was awoken by a hard blow to her body. The pain ran down her spinal column and she bent backwards in an arch. She felt an immense, warm caress massaging her entire body. She went back to sleep, but then experienced a second, even stronger, blow. She felt as if her heart had stopped, then she felt as if she was flying above the planet. She could see herself lying on a bed and she felt the presence of something at her side emanating an ever-increasing, overwhelming love. She asked herself if this intense presence could be God. During the course of her life she had questioned the existence of God on many occasions. Suddenly she heard herself asking God, “Do you forgive me?” Then, from deep inside her, all the most important events of her life passed before her, as if they were pearls strung together side by side on a necklace. She understood the meaning of these events and how they had changed her life. She felt complete bliss. When this experience finished, she got up from her bed as if she had never been ill. She was “reborn”. |
25612729#26 | Lola Hoffmann | In her final years she frequently experienced altered states of consciousness. The last months of her life she was very weak, but continued seeing her patients, students and friends, up until a week before she died. Upon getting up one night, she fell and broke her hip. A few days later, at 84 years of age, she died, leaving behind her many disciples. |
25612766#0 | Can't Even Get the Blues | "Can't Even Get the Blues" is a song written by Tom Damphier and Rick Carnes, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in September 1982 as the second single from the album "Unlimited". "Can't Even Get the Blues" was Reba McEntire's fourteenth country hit and her first number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. |
25612766#1 | Can't Even Get the Blues | She performed the song on the 1982 Country Music Association Awards (CMA Awards). |
25612784#0 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | Valley View Public School is located in the community of Greenwood within Pickering, Ontario. Notable for a rich rural and traditional history, and the new residential developments, are bringing students from many diverse ethnic backgrounds to Valley View. The staff at valley view is very kind to new students and welcomes everyone with open arms. |
25612784#1 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | The school has students in grades JK-8 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. In addition to the Academic focus, students are actively involved in Athletics and Arts. Intermediate students often become involved in student council to establish leadership opportunities. |
25612784#2 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | Monthly assemblies are held to focus on character education and anti-bullying, as well as to celebrate students' success. |
25612784#3 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | Other characteristics of Valley View Public School are typical of small schools: staff collegiality, significant parental involvement with an energetic SCC and dedicated volunteers, and well-established traditions.
EQAO Literacy and Numeracy results have demonstrated the success of these methods. |
25612784#4 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | The school is under the Durham District School Board (DDSB). |
25612784#5 | Valley View Public School (Pickering, Ontario) | "Celebrating our strength and achieving our potential."
This mission is reached by "recognizing academic excellence, outstanding behavior, and responsible citizenship". Furthermore, Valley View seeks to build a community of respectful learners who are prepared to meet the lifelong challenges which lie ahead of them. |
25612798#0 | Bob Steele (baseball) | Robert Wesley (Bob) Steele (March 29, 1894 in Cassburn, Ontario – January 27, 1962 in Ocala, Florida) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 4 seasons. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1916–1917, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1917–1918 and the New York Giants in 1918–1919. |
25612798#1 | Bob Steele (baseball) | He is buried in Burlington, Wisconsin. |
25612801#0 | Assault on Cádiz | The Assault on Cadiz was a part of a protracted naval blockade of the Spanish port of Cadiz by the Royal Navy, which comprised the siege and the shelling of the city as well as an amphibious assault on the port itself from June to July 1797. After the battle of Cape Saint Vincent the British fleet led by Lord Jervis and Sir Horatio Nelson had appeared in the Gulf of Cadiz. During the first days of June the city was bombarded, but causing slight damage to the Spanish batteries, navy and city. Nelson's objective was to force the Spanish admiral Jose Mazarredo to leave the harbour with the Spanish fleet. Mazarredo prepared an intelligent response and the Spaniards began to build gunboats and small ships to protect the entrance of the harbour from the British. By the first days of July, after a series of failed attacks led by Rear-Admiral Nelson, and with the British ships taking huge fire from the Spanish forts and batteries, the British withdraw and the siege was lifted. The naval blockade, however, lasted until 1802. |
25612801#1 | Assault on Cádiz | In February 1797 the British routed a Spanish fleet near Cape St. Vincent but failed to strike a solid blow against the Spanish Navy in the uneven struggle. Admiral Sir John Jervis sailed for Lisbon after the engagement, frustrated at the escape of several valuable prizes including . New orders from the Admiralty demanded him to blockade and subdue the Spanish port of Cádiz, where much of the battered Spanish fleet had sought shelter. The First Sea Lord thought that the ease of Jervis' victory over José de Córdoba y Ramos guaranteed a successful attack on that strategic harbour. Events proved otherwise. |
25612801#2 | Assault on Cádiz | The blockade of Cadiz, which had been begun by Sir John Jervis in 1797, had no intermission from that time until the peace of Amiens, and on the renewal of the war it was recommenced with all its former rigour. The fleet was distant from the town about 15 miles; the Spanish fleet within the harbour, and the British in-shore squadron under the command of Rear-admiral Thomas Louis, closely watching their movements, and reporting every indication of their disposition to come to sea. Two frigates were at the mouth of the harbour, for the purpose of intercepting any supply of provisions for the enemy. Nelson said he knew no more certain means of bringing them out than starvation. |
25612801#3 | Assault on Cádiz | Having completed these arrangements, the admiral retired with the body of the fleet to the neighbourhood of Cape St. Mary's between 50 and 60 miles west of Cadiz, establishing a line of communication between himself and his advanced squadron, by means of three or four intermediate ships. By keeping at this distance from Cadiz, Nelson prevented the enemy from acquiring any accurate knowledge of his force. |
25612801#4 | Assault on Cádiz | Nelson was appointed to the command of the inshore squadron blockading Cadiz. An order from Sir John Jervis directed the launches and barges of two divisions of the fleet to assemble on board , between 9 and 10 o'clock every night, armed with carronades, spikes, cutlasses, broad axes, and chopping knives, a lamp in each boat with spikes, a sledge-hammer, and a coil of small rope, to tow off any armed brig, mortar or gun-boat, that should be carrier, and to follow the directions of Nelson for the night. |
25612801#5 | Assault on Cádiz | The Spaniards had equipped a number of gun-boats and large launches, in which they rowed guard during the night, to prevent the near approach of the blockaders. On these a vigorous attack was made in the night of 3 July by the British boats, headed by Nelson himself, which pursued the Spaniards close to the walls of Cadiz, and took two mortar-boats and an armed launch. In this conflict it was the admiral's fortune to encounter the barge of Don Miguel Tregoyen, the commander of the Spanish gun-boats. The struggle that ensued was one of the most perilous in which Nelson had ever been engaged. He fought hand to hand with the Spanish commandant, and it was his own opinion that he must have lost his life but for the devoted attachment of his faithful coxswain, John Sykes. |
25612801#6 | Assault on Cádiz | The Spanish garrison of Cadiz at this time consisted of more than 4,000 men. On the line wall facing the bay were mounted 70 pieces of cannon and eight mortars; near the Alameda were four other mortars; and from the Capuchins, at the back of the city, to the land point were three batteries of four guns each. Such was the strength of the place when Nelson was ordered to bombard it. The first attempt proved ineffective, as the large mortar had been materially damaged in earlier service. The second produced considerable effect in the town and among the shipping, as ten sail of the line, among them the ships carrying the flags of admirals Mazarredo and Gravina, warped out of the range of the shells with much precipitation on the following morning. |
25612801#7 | Assault on Cádiz | On the night of 8 July, Nelson meditated another operation under his own immediate direction; but the wind blew so strong down the bay, that it was found impossible to bring up the bomb vessels to the point of attack in time. On the following day, he informed Earl St. Vincent that, though he hoped enough had been done to force out the Spanish fleet, yet in case there had not, he would try them again. |
25612801#8 | Assault on Cádiz | The continuation of the blockade for most of the following three years, greatly curtailed the operations of the Spanish fleet from Cadiz until the Peace of Amiens in 1802, allowing the Royal Navy to establish its dominance in the Mediterranean. |
25612801#9 | Assault on Cádiz | Nelson had some time before he proposed to the commander-in-chief an expedition against the town of Santa Cruz, in the island of Tenerife. Lord Jervis allowed Sir Horatio to select such ships and officers as he thought proper for this service. The expedition resulted in another defeat for him. |
25612801#10 | Assault on Cádiz | The Spanish citizens of Cadiz composed a song of the victory that became very popular in Spain during the 19th century: |
25612814#0 | The African Queen | The African Queen may refer to: |
25612821#0 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Foster & Smith, Inc. is an American mail order and e-commerce pet supply corporation based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The company funds PetEducation.com, a "resource for any pet owner who is seeking information." |
25612821#1 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Founded in 1983 by veterinarians Race Foster, Rory Foster, and Marty Smith, the company has experienced rapid growth, expanding from 2 employees and $30,000 in sales in 1983 to over 550 employees and $250 million of sales in 2008. The company's first catalog was a 16-page, two-color production selling canine medications. As the company grew, toys, pet furniture, and other products were added. Feline and equine products were added in 1988. The Drs. Foster & Smith line of products launched in 1993 includes products ranging from company formulated brands of cat and dog food to medications and pet furniture. |
25612821#2 | Drs. Foster & Smith | In 1998, the company began taking orders online at DrsFosterSmith.com. Online business grew after the collapse of Pets.com in 2000. A series of mergers in the early 2000s added aquarium, bird, ferret, and other specialty products to the company's catalogs. In 2008, Animal Planet gave Race Foster and Marty Smith a weekly television program, "Doctors Foster and Smith's Faithful Friends", to provide veterinary advice on pet care. |
25612821#3 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Located in Rhinelander, Wisconsin Doctors Foster and Smith is a pet supplies company. , annual sales were estimated at $250 million, while the company was estimated to employ 550 . Through 2003, the company had turned a profit every year of its existence (newer figures not available). It is one of the largest employers in Rhinelander. |
25612821#4 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Drs. Foster and Smith primarily does business through their website, which attracts 1 million unique visitors a month and generates annual sales of $125 million (), and through mail order catalogs, which are mailed to over 50 million addresses annually (). A small amount of additional sales come through online comparison shopping sites Froogle and Yahoo! Shopping. The company occasionally uses eBay to sell off discontinued merchandise. In 2007, Foster & Smith began selling pet food and furniture through Target retail locations. |
25612821#5 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Foster & Smith stocks more than 20,000 different products, including a Drs. Foster and Smith line of products developed by the company. The company's private label cat and dog foods were formulated by in-house veterinarians. , it operated the United States' two largest pet product catalogs with its main cat and dog book having the widest reach, and its bird, fish, reptile, and small pet catalog ranking second. |
25612821#6 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Drs. Foster and Smith owns a . () warehouse located near the Rhinelander Airport, which houses the vast majority of the company's inventory. They also run a retail outlet store that draws thousands of customers to Rhinelander yearly. |
25612821#7 | Drs. Foster & Smith | The company's large facilities allow it to handle most tasks – including product development, marketing, warehousing, software engineering, building construction and maintenance – in-house. |
25612821#8 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Drs. Foster and Smith aquatics division, LiveAquaria.com, operates the Aquaculture Coral & Marine Life Facility in Rhinelander. The facility breeds aquacultured corals and captive marine species. |
25612821#9 | Drs. Foster & Smith | One focus of Drs. Foster and Smith is providing customer education. The company's catalog features education articles alongside the product. The company's marketing manager, Gordon Magee, credits the focus on education for the company's success. |
25612821#10 | Drs. Foster & Smith | The company's websites contain over 300 educational videos and product reviews produced in-house. Some of the videos are how-to guides, although most are product videos. |
25612821#11 | Drs. Foster & Smith | The company also funds PetEducation.com. The website contains primers on pet care, encyclopedia style articles, a medical dictionary, and technical material aimed at veterinarians. All PetEducation.com materials are written by veterinarians, with a significant portion being contributed by Race Foster or Marty Smith themselves. , PetEducation.com attracted more than a million unique visits a month. |
25612821#12 | Drs. Foster & Smith | In the early 1980s, veterinarians Martin Smith and Rory Foster owned and operated four animal clinics in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The duo was looking for ways to supplement their income in the winter (when business was slow), when a client of Foster asked him for advice on administering vaccinations he had purchased from a mail order catalog. The conversation gave rise to the idea of combining an informational newsletter aimed at "high volume" dog owners (breeders, kennel owners, etc.) interested in home veterinary care with a mail order catalog selling veterinary supplies. By educating their clients, Foster & Smith could allow them to bypass the cost of veterinarian office visits. Foster & Smith were already writing a regular newsletter, so the transition was simple - they just added a sheet of mail-order medications to their existing newsletter. |
25612821#13 | Drs. Foster & Smith | When Foster was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his brother Race joined the practice and took over Rory's clinic duties. In 1983, the trio incorporated Drs. Foster and Smith and produced their first full-fledged catalog. The partners wrote the copy, took the pictures, and did the design work themselves, resulting in a 16-page, two-color production. As Rory's illness worsened and he was limited physically, he continued to write veterinary advice published in the catalog. |
25612821#14 | Drs. Foster & Smith | Aiming for national distribution from day one, the partners searched specialty dog publications, recording the names of potential customers – breeders, kennel owners, hunters, and fellow veterinarians. The first batch of 16,000 catalogs was mailed out in February 1983 using hand typed labels. Two people were hired to answer the phones and handle distribution from the clinics' waiting rooms, which were used to store products. The catalog generated $30,000 of sales during its first year. |
25612821#15 | Drs. Foster & Smith | The catalog business grew quickly as the partners started to advertise and rent third-party mailing lists. Within two years, the mail-order business had outgrown the space available at the doctors' clinics, and a separate warehouse was purchased. Rory Foster died in 1987, but the business continued to expand. |