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SS Francis Asbury
SS "Francis Asbury" was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
She was named after Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
Ashbury traveled thousands of miles those living on the frontier to deliver hundreds of sermons each year.
"Francis Asbury" was laid down on 12 September 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1195, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Benjamin F. Crowles, the wife of one of the vice presidents of the St. John's River SB Co., she was launched on 17 April 1943.
She was allocated to A.H. Bull & Co., Inc., on 5 June.
On 3 December 1944, she was mined off Ostend, Belgium, while steaming from New York to Ostend, with war supplies.
She was beached off Blankenberge, and declared a Constructive Total Loss (CTL).
She was sold for scrapping, on 6 April 1953, to Hydraulica, for $2000.
She was delivered, 28 April 1953.
Wreck location:
Crackin' Down Hard
Crackin' Down Hard is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Mike Clattenburg and released in 2012.
The films stars Nicolas Wright as a man trying to relax in isolation California's Joshua Tree National Park, when another man (Yoursie Thomas) shows up to offer him a prostitute.
The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury.
In December 2012, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.
Pyrrhus and Demetrius
Pyrrhus and Demetrius was a 1708 adaptation for the London stage of the 1694 opera "Il Pirro e Demetrio" by Alessandro Scarlatti with a libretto by Adriano Morselli, first performed at the .
"Pyrrhus and Demetrius" was the second most successful opera in early 18th century London, after "Camilla".
It had 58 or 59 performances between 1708 and 1717.
The opera marked the London debut of the castrato Nicolò Grimaldi (Nicolini).
The London version was prepared by Nicola Haym, who composed a new overture and 24 new arias, retaining only 14 of Scarlatti’s original arias.
Haym also inserted an aria by Handel from Agrippina: "Ho un non so che nel cor".
The English libretto was created by Owen Swiny.
In January 1709 Walsh, Randall, and Hare printed the overture and 54 arias in "Songs in the Opera Call'd Pyrrhus and Demetrius".
In May 1709 a different edition of "The Songs in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius" was published by John Cullen.
The roles in the opera are:
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus; Demetrius king of Macedonia; Climene, daughter of King Lysimachus, enemy of Demetrius; Climene, sister of Pyrrhus; Clearte, lover of Deidamia; Arbante, a knight; Marius, son of Arbante; Breno, servant of Deidamia.
The action is set in ancient Macedonia.
Demetrius has seized the throne after having murdered Alexander, himself the murderer of his mother Thessalonice.
He then wants to invade Asia, but Ptolemy, Seleucus and Lysimachus join forces against him, joined by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
Pyrrhus succeeds in driving out Demetrius and replacing him on the throne, before himself being driven away by Lysimachus.
The opera opened at the Queen's Theatre on December 14, 1708, with the castrato Nicolò Grimaldi (Nicolini) starring as Pyrrhus, who had sung in the original 1694 production in Naples; another castrato Valentino Urbani, (Valentini) in the role of Demetrius, Littleton Ramondon (Cleartes), Purbeck Turner (Arbantes), Margherita de L’Epine (Marius), Cook (Brennus), Catherine Tofts (Climene), Joanna Maria Lindelheim (Deidamia).
The two castrati sang in Italian, the other singers in English.
The sets for the first production were created by Marco Ricci and Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.
The opera had a significant impact on the business of running an opera house in England.
Nicolini brought with him a detailed account of the economics of Venetian opera houses, and the management of the Queen’s Theatre adapted its business model accordingly.
In accordance with Nicolini’s advice a subscription of 1000 guineas was raised from Queen Anne and both subscriptions and ticket prices were increased.
Richard Steele described the opera as 'a noble entertainment,' and praised Nicolini who, ‘by the grace and propriety of his action and gesture, does honour to an human figure.’ The author of "A Critical Discourse" stated that the opera was considered to be the best Scarlatti ever wrote, having achieved universal applause wherever it was performed.
He also praised the judicious composition and addition of new material in the Lindon adaptation, which he contrasted with the incoherent efforts of earlier ventures such as "Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus".
CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science
The CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science is an annual award presented by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA).
The Hebb award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to Canadian psychology as a scientific discipline (as a researcher, teacher, theorist, spokesperson, or public policy developer).
Recipients are nominated by their peers and selected by a committee of CPA Fellows.
The prize was originally named the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Canadian Psychology as a Science when it was presented to its first recipient, Donald O. Hebb, in 1980.
The 1986 award was the first to carry Hebb's name in its title.
This award is not to be confused with other awards also named after Hebb.
The American Psychological Association's Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology (SBNCP) presents the D.O.
Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award for research in behavioral neuroscience and/or comparative psychology.
The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) presents the Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award for contributions to the science of the brain, behaviour, and cognition.
Roman Sorkin
Roman Sorkin (; born August 11, 1996) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Premier League.
He played college basketball for the University of Oregon before playing professionally in Israel.
Sorkin was born in Minsk, Belarus.
He lived his first two years in Belarus before growing up in Ashdod, Israel.
Sorkin played four years of college basketball at the University of Oregon.
On November 10, 2017, Sorkin recorded a career-high 23 points and seven rebounds in his career start, while shooting 8-of-9 from the field, in a 70–54 win over Coppin State.
On April 28, 2018, Sorkin started his professional career with Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Premier League, signing a three-year deal.
That season, Haifa finished the season in the last place out of 12 teams and was relegated to the Israeli National League (the second-tier league in Israel).
On April 12, 2019, Sorkin recorded a career-high 19 points, while shooting 7-of-11 from the field, along with eight rebounds in a 77–79 loss to Hapoel Afula.
In 30 games played during the 2018–19 season, he averaged 8.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.
Sorkin won the 2019 Israeli National League Championship title with Haifa, earning a promotion back to the Israeli Premier League.
On December 8, 2019, Sorkin scored a game-winner shot with 1.6 seconds left, giving Haifa a 77–75 win over Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
On December 15, 2019, Sorkin recorded a season-high 17 points, while shooting 5-of-6 from the field, along with six rebounds in an 81–95 loss to Hapoel Jerusalem.
Sorkin was a member of the Israeli under-18 and under-20 national teams.
In August 2014, Sorkin participated in the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B, where he averaged 14.1 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team
The 1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team was an American football team that represented Prairie View A&M University in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1947 college football season.
In their third season under head coach Billy Nicks, the team compiled a 6–6 record, lost to Wilberforce State in the Fruit Bowl and to in the Prairie View Bowl, and was outscored by a total of 137 to 89.
Prairie View ranked No.
17 among the nation's black college football teams according to the "Pittsburgh Courier" and its Dickinson Rating System.
Ian Coutts (bishop)
Ian Alexander Coutts (born 1956) has been Anglican Bishop of Bunbury since 2018.
He was educated at the University of Warwick (BA, 1977), Jesus College, Oxford (MSc, 1980), King's College London and Charles Sturt University, Sydney (PhD, 2015).
Patriots Point Soccer Complex
Patriots Point Soccer Complex is a soccer venue located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
It has been home to the College of Charleston Cougars soccer teams, member of the Division I Colonial Athletic Association, since its opening in fall 2000.
Beginning in 2020, the venue will also host Charleston Battery of the USL Championship.
The venue is located across Charleston Harbor from the campus of the college.
The field was dedicated as Ralph Lundy Field on September 28, 2019 to honor long-time Cougars head coach Ralph Lundy.
In conjunction with the arrival of USL Championship club Charleston Battery to the facility for the 2020 season, the stadium is currently undergoing a renovation which will initially increase capacity to 3,900.
Bernice Kentner
Bernice Kentner was an American cosmetologist, author, and color theorist.
Bernice Kentner was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and later moved to North Platte, Nebraska.
In the 1980s, Kentner relocated to Concord, California.
Bernice Kentner was a leading proponent of seasonal color analysis in the 1970s and 1980s.
By the 1990s, Jo Peddicord still considered Kentner's philosophy of color to be one of the most prominent color analysis systems in the United States, and Peddicord acknowledged that Kentner had an international following.
In 2003, The Register-Guard stated that Kentner's book "Color Me a Season" "helped spur the 1980s boom in color analysis."
In the 2010s, some authors argued that Kentner's system had become outdated, such as June McLeod, who wrote in 2016 that "today there are few people in the colour world who still follow her work by using the four season system"
The color analysis system developed by Bernice Kentner differs from the other notable system that Carole Jackson developed in the 1973 publication "Color Me Beautiful"; Kentner's system focuses more specifically on skin color, while hair color is considered secondary.
In the book "Going Gray", Anne Kreamer dedicates an entire chapter to apparel called "It's Not The Gray, It's the Clothes."
Kreamer states that the seasonal metaphors of the cosmetologist Bernice Kentner's "Color Me a Season" system have allowed beauticians "to find the best tone and hue for clients' particular complexions and coloring and hair."
Kreamer also discusses her surprise when she discovered that she herself is a Summer according to Kentner's system.
In 2011, Jules Standish wrote that Pat Scott Vincent's color analysis system "Colourflair" was "based on Bernice Kentner's methods"
In their article "Color Analysis in the Marketplace," Jo Ann Hilliker and Jean Rogers also wrote that Bernice Kentner's system "classifies individuals similar to the "Color Me Beautiful" approach, but she also recommends examining the iris of the eye to determine the right season.
The Summer eye has a 'cracked glass' pattern.
The Winter eye has 'spokes' from the pupil to the edge of the iris.
A 'sunburst' surrounds the pupil of the Spring eye and the Autumn eye is distinguished by a ring of gold or brown around the pupil and brown flecks in the iris."
Bernice Kentner was a member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She married Dean Kentner in the Spring of 1948.