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# If Trees Could Talk

If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods is a non-fiction book by American author and podcaster, Holly Worton that offers spirituality and self-help through making contact with nature and talking to trees.

## Summary

Part self-help and part spiritual, Worton's If Trees Could Talk is a guide to taking time out to connect with nature, talk to trees, and to live a happier and more fulfilled life. The author, who lives in England, believes that "all trees are living, breathing organisms that humans can connect with and talk to on a deeper level through silent, telepathic communication."
A druid, coach and healer, Worton writes about the individual trees she has encountered on her many nature walks – each with their own history, character, personality, and story; and she describes the different species of trees, and their place and reverence in pagan ways, such as that of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and the ancient alphabet, the ogham which ascribes a tree to each letter. The book is structured around this description, the stories that each individual tree has to tell, and the advice they have to offer.

## Interviews

On 6 May 2019, Worton was interviewed on ITV's programme This Morning by television presenters Eamonn Holmes and Rochelle Humes, to talk about her new book. In a garden outside the television studios, she also gave the presenters a practical demonstration of how she communicates with trees, with the aid of a sound engineer.
On 26 February 2020, Worton was again interviewed on This Morning, by Alison Hammond and Phillip Schofield, discussing the Allerton Oak, the UK's nomination for the European Tree of the Year competition, and communicating with it.

## Reception

The televised item on This Morning attracted a largely humorous and dismissive response in the social media, and was reported in several newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, the Birmingham Mail, and Entertainment Daily.
Writing in the Daily Express on 13 May 2019, life coach and columnist, Carole Ann Rice is, however, more positive about the book. She describes If Trees Could Talk as "a wise and beautiful book coming at the right time for many of us." "Stop rushing, be patient, respect nature, stray from your normal path, be mindful, ask permission [to communicate with the trees]" – these, the reviewer says, are a few of the things that we can learn from the trees, and she advises the reader to "show love and respect to what grows around you" and to "learn some true lessons from the wild side of life."

## About the author

Originally from California in the United States, Worton has lived in Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico and Chile before moving to England. She is an author and podcaster, as well as a druid, coach and healer.
# Winnipeg Velodrome

The Winnipeg Velodrome was a cycling facility built in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the 1967 Pan-American Games and managed by Winnipeg Enterprises. The facility was a banked short-track oval with a cement surface. The velodrome was located near the Winnipeg Arena and Winnipeg Stadium. Notable athletes to compete here include Jocelyn Lovell.
The infield was large enough to accommodate a Canadian football-sized field, and indeed, the Velodrome was an important venue for high-school football in the city. It was planned as a facility that could relieve the larger Winnipeg Stadium from the duty of hosting amateur football, which was taking a serious toll on the grass field and making it unsuitable for professional play. Following the installation of artificial turf at Winnipeg Stadium in 1987, amateur teams resumed playing in the larger facility and football activity at the Velodrome declined sharply. Starting in 1994, the Velodrome was occasionally used as a practice facility by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League on days when the Winnipeg Goldeyes were using the Stadium.
By the 1990s, the facility had become functionally obsolete for competitive cycling, and its use by cyclists had all but ceased. In light of the facility's deterioration, a decision was made to build a temporary velodrome for the 1999 Pan-American Games at the Red River Exhibition Park. The Winnipeg Velodrome was demolished in 1998 and the site is now occupied by retail stores. The temporary facility built to replace the Winnipeg Velodrome was itself disassembled and sold to a group in the Netherlands shortly after the 1999 Pan-American Games, leaving Manitoba without a velodrome facility.
# Georgios Dimizas

Georgios Dimizas (Greek: Γεώργιος Δήμιζας; born 24 July 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

## Honours

MEAP Nisou
* Cypriot Fourth Division: 2012–13
Kavala
* Gamma Ethniki: 2018–19
# Hama-Taura Station

Hama-Taura Station (浜田浦駅, Hama-Taura eki) was a railway station on the Hidaka Main Line in Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).
Some trains pass through this station, but a total of 12 trains stop here each day.
2021 In July, JR Hokkaido notified Mukawa Town of its intention to abolish this station. , agreed with the residents to abolish this station. According to a JR survey, the average number of passengers per day at the station was 2 from 2016 to 2020, and 1 in 2021. According to Mukawa Mayor Yoshiyuki Takenaka, he revealed at the regular town assembly that JR Hokkaido told him that the station was scheduled to be abolished on April 1, 2023.
# Georgios Makris

Giorgos Makris (Greek: Γιώργος Μακρής, born 15 November 1984) is a Greek professional footballer, who plays for Pierikos.

## Club career

Makris started his playing career with PAOK. On 6 July 2010, he signed an annual contract with Kerkyra. In May 2011 he signed for Atromitos. On 28 January 2012, Makris was loaned out to Anorthosis Famagusta of the Cypriot First Division. He was released from Atromitos in December 2012. Shortly afterwards, in January 2013, he signed for OFI Crete. He left OFI in January 2015, due to the club's financial difficulties. On 24 July 2015, Makris signed an annual contract with Greek Superleague side Iraklis. After being released by Iraklis in late 2015, he signed a 1,5 years' contract with Italian Lega Pro club Pisa. On 12 June 2016 Pisa gained promotion to Serie B after seven years by defeating Maceratese (3–1), Pordenone (3–0 on aggregate) and Foggia in the two-legged play-off final (5–3 on aggregate), while Makris had a substantial contribution.

## Honours
### Club

PAOK
* Greek Cup: 2003
# Ruthville, Virginia

Ruthville is an unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia, United States.
The community was the central point of the county's free African American population for many years, even before the Civil War (1861–1865). Following Emancipation, the crossroads community included the Mercantile Cooperative Company and Ruthville Training School. The United Sorghum Growers Club also met here.
Earlier known by several other names, the name "Ruthville" recalls local resident Ruth Brown. Her name was selected when the Post Office was established there in 1880.
# Irreconcilable (album)

Irreconcilable (Chinese: 勢不兩立; Jyutping: Sai Bat Leung Laap) is the first Cantonese studio album recorded by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng, released via Polydor Records on December 18, 1980. The album was supported with the single "Forget Him" (Chinese: 忘記他; Jyutping: Mong Gei Taa), which was written by Hong Kong media personality James Wong Jim.

## Reception

Irreconcilable was commercially successful after its release, receiving a platinum certification by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Hong Kong (IFPIHK) in 1981. That same year, James Wong won the Best Chinese Pop Song Award at the 4th Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards for the album's title track.

## Promotion and live performances

Since then, "Forget Him" has become one of Teng's most popular Cantonese singles. She has performed it during the Teresa Teng Concert in Singapore National Theater in April 1981, and at her concerts at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong in 1982 and 1983. It was also performed during her 15th Anniversary Asian Tour Concert in Hong Kong at the end of 1983.

## Covers

Fifteen years later, the "Forget Him" was covered by Shirley Kwan, as part of her 1995 tribute album EX All Time Favourites. This new Dream pop version was featured in Wong Kar-wai's art house movie Fallen Angels (1995) as the Jukebox song number "1818." As the title suggested, the hitman played by Leon Lai wanted his accomplice, Michelle Reis, to forget him.

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong) | Platinum | 50,000$^*$ |
| $^*$ Sales figures based on certification alone. |||
# Rwakitura

Rwakitura is the personal country home of the president of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Apart from being his personal home, it is also the site of selected official meetings with Ugandan and foreign visitors. The late John Garang, former Vice President of Sudan, had just left Rwakitura on his way back to Sudan when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed in the hills of Southern Sudan.
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# Georgios Vasiliadis

Georgios Vasiliadis (Greek: Γεώργιος Βασιλειάδης; born 10 June 1996) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Super League 2 club Apollon Larissa.
# Highfield Road

Highfield Road was a football stadium in the city of Coventry, England. It was the home ground for Coventry City for 106 years.

## History

It was built in 1899 in the Hillfields district, close to the city centre, and staged its final game on 30 April 2005 when Coventry City beat Derby County 6–2 in the Football League Championship with the last goal appropriately being scored by Andy Whing, a product of Coventry City's youth academy. A concert by pop star Elton John was held at the stadium afterwards. The club then moved to the Ricoh Arena, at Foleshill in the north of the city.
Highfield Road had one of the largest playing surfaces in the English leagues and was the English league's first all-seater stadium (the first all-seater in the UK was Clydebank's Kilbowie Park). The all-seater policy introduced by Jimmy Hill was later abandoned when Leeds United fans tore-out several hundred seats after losing their First Division game to Coventry City 4–0 in 1981, only months after the seats had been installed.
Standing accommodation returned to Highfield Road in 1983, but it became all-seater once again eleven years later when all top division clubs were required to have all-seater stadiums as a result of the Taylor Report, which was the response to the Hillsborough disaster of 1989.
The stadium's record attendance was 51,455 when Coventry City played their West Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Football League Division 2 game in 1967. However, after it was converted to an all-seater stadium for the second time in the mid-1990s, its maximum capacity was 23,489 at the time of its closure, and all of the pre-1990 seats had been replaced in 1995. The stadium had by then been well-developed with one corner filled to provide a more modern look and feel.
However, it lacked facilities compared to the new stadia of similar-sized clubs, which was one of the main causes of the move to the Ricoh Arena. Another reason for relocation was that parking facilities in the local area were inadequate. When the stadium was first given the go-ahead in 1999, it had been planned to build a 45,000-seat stadium as part of England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. However, England's failure to win the bid to host the tournament – combined with Coventry's relegation in 2001 – saw the stadium's capacity scaled down.
Demolition work began in February 2006 and was completed by the end of the following month.

## Post-stadium housing development

The site of the stadium was regenerated by George Wimpey plc to provide housing on the areas which were originally the car parks and stands. The area which was the playing surface was relaid with grass so that the local children can continue the tradition of playing football on that space.
* Redevelopment
* New buildings around the site of the former football pitch. (photo April 2007)
* View eastward along Thackhall Street in April 2007; the stadium was on the right and a car park was on the left.
# Greatest Hits (KC and the Sunshine Band album)

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
Greatest Hits is the first official compilation album by KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was released in February 1980 on the TK label.

## History

The album contained two newly recorded tracks, "All I Want" and "Let's Go Rock and Roll". The latter was released as a moderately successful single to promote the compilation.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch

## Personnel

* Harry Wayne Casey – keyboards, vocal
* Jerome Smith – guitar
* Richard Finch – bass guitar, drum, percussion
* Robert Johnson – drums
* Fermin Goytisolo – percussion

## Charts

Chart performance for Greatest Hits :
| Chart (1980) | Peak position |
| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) | 3 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) | 3 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 10 |
| US Billboard 200 | 132 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) | 62 |

## Certifications

Certifications for Greatest Hits :
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Australia (ARIA) | Platinum | 50,000$^^$ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ) | Gold | 7,500$^^$ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | Silver | 60,000$^^$ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |||
# Fair Park Coliseum (Beaumont, Texas)

Fair Park Coliseum was a 7,200-seat, covered, open-sided, multi-purpose arena in Beaumont, Texas. It hosted local sporting events and concerts. It was opened in 1978. At the time of its opening the Fair Park Coliseum was the primary concert venue in the Beaumont area; within a decade, however, demand for concert tickets proved so high that the much larger Montagne Center was built in 1984, only six years after the Coliseum had opened. The Coliseum would then become the Beaumont home of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice, and Champions on Ice until Ford Arena was built. After significant damage to the coliseum from Hurricane Rita and acquisition of the surrounding property by the Beaumont Housing Authority, the coliseum was demolished. The City of Beaumont awarded a contract for demolition on November 6, 2007.
# Giannis Taralidis

Giannis Taralidis (Greek: Γιάννης Ταραλίδης; born 17 May 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

## Club career

Taralidis started his career by APS Almopos Arideas. In 1999, at the age of 18 started his professional career with the Paniliakos. He remained in the club until the first half of 2003–04 season. Paniliakos struggled between Super League and Football League during that period.
In January 2004, Taralidis signed with Olympiacos, in which he remained until 2007. During that period, Olympiacos had a squad of renowned players in the same position as Taralidis (Karembeu, Yaya Toure, Ieroklis Stoltidis, Pantelis Kafes) so it was not easy for a young player to get equal opportunities for playing. On 18 February 2005, he made his first appearance with the club in the UEFA Europa League in a victory 1–0 against Sochaux.
After 45 appearances with Olympiacos in all competitions, in the summer of 2007 he signed with OFI made a total of 46 appearances with the club in the next two years in Super League. In 2007, he participated with OFI Crete in UEFA Intertoto Cup. In the summer of 2008 had significant offers to join the two leading Cypriot football clubs Omonia and Anorthosis, but he denied due to family obligations and remained with his club, promoted to third team captain. In 2009, he joined Levadiakos. In his first season, he participated in SuperLeague, but the next season due to relegation played in the Football League. In 2011, due to lack of offers, he signed with Glyfada, in Football League 2. In 2012–13, he played with Doxa Drama, in the Football League where he was also the team captain.
The summer of 2013 he signed a contract with Nea Salamina in the First Division in Cyprus. He was elected team captain. After a half-season in Nea Salamina, Taralidis signed a contract for six months with Ermis Aradippou, and renew his contract for a year.
Ermis Aradippou were crowned Cypriot Super Cup champions after a 95th-minute winner from Taralidis earned them a 2–1 victory over APOEL FC – three minutes after the Nicosia outfit had levelled the match. The historic win, coming just two weeks after Ermis was knocked out of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round by BSC Young Boys, marked their first-ever domestic trophy success. It also meant revenge on the big stage for Ermis, who lost to APOEL in the Cyprus Cup final last May. In summer 2015, he signed a year contract with Kissamikos. On 5 April 2016, he signed a year contract with another Cypriot club Karmiotissa for an undisclosed fee. On 23 June 2017, he returned to Ermis Aradippou signing a two-year contract.

## International career

In 2001, Taralidis participated with Greece U21 in the Mediterranean Games. Additionally, he participated with the Greek Olympic team in the 2004 Olympic Games, playing all the games in the group stage. He scored on a draw play against South Korea, and in the game against Mexico.

## Honours

Olympiacos
* Super League Greece: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07
* Greek Cup: 2004–05, 2005–06,
* Greek Super Cup: 2007
Ermis Aradippou
* Cypriot Super Cup: 2014
# Stadionul Național (1953)

Stadionul Național (Romanian pronunciation:; "The National Stadium") was a multi-purpose stadium in Bucharest, Romania. The stadium held 60,120 people.

## History

It was built in 1953, for the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students. According to the book București published in 1968 by Institutul Proiect București, Complexul Sportiv August 23 was designed by the well known architect Vily Juster.
It was first known as Stadionul August 23, and later on as Stadionul Național. The sports complex that included Național Stadium, is named Lia Manoliu (1932–1998) after the famous Romanian athlete.
It was used mostly for football matches.
It hosted numerous concerts after the 1989 Revolution, including Michael Jackson's Dangerous World Tour concert on October 1, 1992 90,000 Public, as well as the HIStory World Tour concert on September 14, 1996. 70,000 public
In October 2005, it was decided to rebuild the stadium completely; however, initially no funding was found, so some repairs proceeded in lieu of rebuilding. Later, funds became available and the rebuilding is expected to begin in November 2007. The plan calls for completion of a new five-star arena by April 2010. The last football match played was a 6–1 win against Albania on November 21, 2007. After the match, a few seats were removed from the stadium, as a symbolic start of the rebuilding operations. The stadium has subsequently been demolished to make room for a new one.

## Attendance

List of matches of Romania national football team on National Stadium (former August 23), with more than 50,000 persons.
| Date | Home team | Score | Away team | Attendance |
| September 28, 1955 | Romania | 1–0 | Belgium | 90.000 |
| October 26, 1958 | Romania | 1–2 | Hungary | 90.000 |
| September 18, 1955 | Romania | 2–3 | East Germany | 90.000 |
| November 16, 1969 | Romania | 1–1 | Greece | 62.577 |
| October 25, 1953 | Romania | 0–1 | Czechoslovakia | 90.000 |
| May 29, 1955 | Romania | 2–2 | Poland | 80.000 |
| November 25, 1962 | Romania | 3–1 | Spain | 72.762 |
| May 30, 1965 | Romania | 1–0 | Czechoslovakia | 80.000 |
| May 12, 1963 | Romania | 3–2 | East Germany | 80.000 |
| May 22, 1960 | Romania | 0–2 | Czechoslovakia | 80.000 |
| May 14, 1972 | Romania | 2–2 | Hungary | 60.300 |
| April 16, 1983 | Romania | 1–0 | Italy | 80.000 |
| June 1, 1975 | Romania | 2–2 | Scotland | 52.203 |
| October 15, 1980 | Romania | 2–1 | England | 80.000 |
| November 3, 1957 | Romania | 3–0 | Greece | 54.465 |
| September 29, 1957 | Romania | 1–1 | Yugoslavia | 68.758 |
| November 8, 1959 | Romania | 1–0 | Bulgaria | 80.000 |
| August 2, 1959 | Romania | 0–0 | Soviet Union | 80.000 |
| November 2, 1958 | Romania | 3–0 | Turkey | 70.000 |
| October 9, 1955 | Romania | 1–1 | Bulgaria | 70.000 |
| October 12, 1969 | Romania | 1–0 | Portugal | 58.573 |
# Ipswich Racecourse

The Ipswich Racecourse is an area of Ipswich in Suffolk, England, that was formerly a racecourse from 1710 to 1911.

## The racecourse 1710–1911

The course was on what was part of the then Nacton Heath which at the time was just east of Ipswich, now in Priory Heath Ward, Ipswich. It was 1 mile and 7 furlongs in circumference and ran along the line of the modern Lindberg Road, Cobham Road, parallel to Felixstowe Road as far the modern Hatfield Road before a six furlong finish straight running parallel to Nacton Road to complete the loop.
The earliest mention of annual race meetings in Ipswich was 1710 when a Town Purse was run for by "high mettled racers".
A Royal Plate provided as a prize from 1727 which gave the meetings good support for the next half a century, with the Ipswich Journal running an advertisement for:
    "A new stand on the race ground. Having been requested by several Gentlemen to erect a covered stand for the accommodation of gentleman attending the races, the public are hereby respectfully informed that a complete and elegant stand is now finished, with an inscription against it in golden letters, "The Gentleman's Stand" where gentlemen may have places at two shillings and sixpence each.
Popularity declined slightly until the garrison came to Ipswich in the early 19th century where the officers brought their support to the races.
The course ran a mix of flat and hunt racing, although the last flat race was in 1884 following the withdrawal of the Queen's Plate. From then, it became exclusively a National Hunt course.
The hurdles were unpopular with jockeys and horses alike which, although built to National Hunt rules, lacked wings, which increased the risk of the horses running out unless the jockey approached the centre of the hurdle.
The last race meeting was 29 March 1911 after support had fallen steadily.

## Contemporary site

The area is now part of a large 1930s housing estate. The Racecourse Recreation Ground comprises a sports area, children's play area and public toilets.
The Racecourse Pub (on Nacton Road) reputedly stood on the site of the finishing line. In 2009 the Racecourse went bankrupt and was demolished later in the year. A Tesco Express and five homes now occupy the site, which was completed in early 2010.
# Landscape with a Cottage and Trees

Landscape with a Cottage and Trees (1646) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
The painting shows a landscape near the dunes, with a modest cottage and a derelict shed, amidst dense vegetation. The people do not take centre stage; nature does.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "806. LANDSCAPE WITH A COTTAGE. In front of the cottage is a herdsman with cows, pigs, and other animals. To the right is a tree stripped of its bark. On a sheet of water near it are ducks. Sunlight falls on the trees in the left distance. The figures, which are highly finished and prominent, are by Berchem. Signed in full, and dated 1646; panel, 281/2 inches by 44 inches. In the collection of J. Amsinck, Hamburg, bequeathed to the Kunsthalle, 1879."
This work is one of the earliest known Ruisdaels. He was only a teenager when he created it. Art historian Seymour Slive attributes the staffage to the hand of Ruisdael himself, though Hofstede de Groot attributed the staffage to the hand of Nicolaes Berchem. The painting is catalogue number 569 in Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonne of Ruisdael.