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# Salifu Yakubu

Salifu Yakubu was a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. He was the member of parliament for the Savelugu constituency from 1956 to 1966. While in parliament, he doubled as Ghana's ambassador to Mali from 1961 until 1968.

## Early life and career

Yakubu had his early education at Tamale Government School from 1929 to 1938. He continued at Achimota College where he pursued a course in Arts and Crafts, graduating in 1940.

## Career

Yakubu joined the teaching staff of Tamale Middle School in 1940 and taught there for a year before joining the Police Force of the Gold Coast. He served as a police officer rising to the rank of a sergeant until his retirement on 12 July 1956.

## Politics and ambassadorial appointment

Following his retirement from the Police Force, Yakubu ventured politics. He stood for the Savelugu parliamentary seat on the ticket of the Northern People's Party and won in 1956. He remained a member of the Northern People's Party until 1958 when he crossed carpets in parliament to join the Convention People's Party.
In 1961, Yakubu was appointed Ghana's ambassador to Mali. He served in that capacity until his wrongful imprisonment on 30 December 1968 on two counts of embezzlement. While serving as Ghana's ambassador, Yakubu remained a member of parliament for Savelugu until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown.
He died at the Tamale Teaching Hospital due to an illness.
# Keith Furphy

Keith Furphy (born 30 July 1958) is an English-American former professional footballer who played forward or winger, spending most of his career in the United States. He played four seasons in the North American Soccer League, seven in the Major Indoor Soccer League and one each in the American Soccer League and the National Professional Soccer League. Furphy also made six appearances in the Football League for Plymouth Argyle. He is the son of Ken Furphy, a former footballer and coach.

## Career

In 1978, Furphy moved to the United States where he signed with the Detroit Express of the North American Soccer League. At the time the Express was coached by his father. On 3 May 1980, the Express sent Furphy to the Atlanta Chiefs for cash and the Chiefs' first-round pick in the 1981 NASL Draft. The Express made the move as a result of fan dissatisfaction with Furphy playing for his father in Detroit. He spent two seasons with the Chiefs. In the fall of 1981, he signed with the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League and immediately established himself as a high-scoring indoor soccer striker. On 2 July 1983, Furphy signed with the Detroit Express, now playing in the second-division American Soccer League. He scored two goals in his debut the next day.
He returned to the Force in the fall and played with them through the 1984–85 season. However, tensions between him and coach Timo Liekoski came to a head that year and Furphy demanded to be traded. On 24 October 1985, the Force sent Furphy to the Kansas City Comets in exchange for the Comets' next three first-round draft choices. Furphy began the season with Kansas City, but was traded to the Tacoma Stars in exchange for Dale Mitchell on 6 February 1986. By this time, Furphy had become a naturalized U.S. citizen. Furphy finished the season in Tacoma, but was released by the team at the end of the season and signed with the Baltimore Blast. In 1987, Furphy returned to England to sign with Plymouth Argyle. He made six appearances in the Second Division of the Football League over a three-week period on the left wing and scored one goal. In the fall of 1988, he signed with Bath City and played one game, a 2–0 victory over Merthyr Tydfil in a November 1988 Westgate Insurance Cup game. On 22 February 1992, the Detroit Rockers of the National Professional Soccer League signed Furphy to a ten-day contract.
# Keith McCord

Keith Rennae McCord (born June 22, 1957) is an American former basketball player. He played college basketball at the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A tenth-round draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers, McCord played two games in the National Basketball Association (NBA), scoring four total points.
# Paul Blanchette

Paul Angelo Blanchette (born April 16, 1994) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Oakland Roots SC in the USL Championship.

## Career
### College

Blanchette played four years of college soccer at Loyola Marymount University between 2012 and 2015.

### Semi-professional

While at college, Blanchette appeared for USL PDL sides Portland Timbers U23s and Des Moines Menace.
Following college, Blanchette continued in the PDL with Burlingame Dragons for their 2016 season, before transferring to Finnish Kakkonen side PEPO Lappeenranta in January 2017.
In 2018, Blanchette returned to the PDL again, playing with Santa Cruz Breakers.
Blanchette spent 2019 with NPSL side New York Cosmos.

### Professional

On March 7, 2020, Blanchette signed for USL Championship side Rio Grande Valley FC. He made his debut the following day, starting in a 1–5 loss to LA Galaxy II. RGVFC opted to decline their contact option on Blanchette following the 2020 season.
On July 6, 2021, Blanchette joined Oakland Roots SC.
In the 2023 Season, Blanchette earned 2nd Team All League honors as well as Oakland Roots SC Player of the Year.
# Ken Strongman

Kenneth Thomas Strongman (2 December 1940 – 29 December 2019) was a New Zealand psychologist and academic, and was a professor of psychology at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the field of emotion. He was also a short-story writer, book and television reviewer, and newspaper columnist.

## Early life and family

Born on 2 December 1940 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, Strongman was the son of Grace Mary Strongman (née Dew) and Alfred Thomas Strongman. He grew up in a terrace house in Highbury, North London, and was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School where his contemporaries included John Broadhurst. Strongman then studied at University College London, from where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1962, and PhD in 1964. The title of his doctoral thesis was An investigation of experimentally induced anxiety in the rat.
In 1964, Strongman married Thelma Madeline Francis, and they went on to have two children, including art curator, writer, and film and television critic Lara Strongman. The couple later divorced, and Strongman remarried.

## Academic career

Strongman began his academic career in 1964 as a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Exeter. He moved to New Zealand in 1979 when he was appointed professor and head of department of psychology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where he remained for the rest of his career. He served 15 years as head of department, and later held managerial roles at Canterbury, including as assistant vice-chancellor (government and community relations) and pro-vice-chancellor arts. Following his retirement in 2010, Strongman was conferred with the title of professor emeritus. Notable students of Strongman include Tracy Berno.
Strongman was regarded as an international expert on emotion, and his research covered both theoretical and empirical aspects of the subject. He wrote one of the standard texts, The Psychology of Emotion, first published in 1973, and in its sixth edition in 2003. In 2003, Strongman was one of 140 prominent New Zealanders who signed a petition that was presented to Parliament, seeking a royal commission into the Christchurch Civic Crèche abuse case.

## Other activities

Strongman was a long-time television and film reviewer for The Press newspaper in Christchurch, from the 1980s until a few months before his death. In 2013, he began writing a fortnightly column on retirement and ageing for The Press, titled Over the Hill. He also wrote several short stories.
Strongman was a member of the Film Censorship Board of Review in New Zealand between 1984 and 1986. He also served as a member of the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Board.

## Honours

Strongman was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society in 1982, and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1990. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994.

## Death

Strongman died at his home in Christchurch on 29 December 2019.
# New England Telephone and Telegraph Company

The first incarnation of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was a short-lived company set up to develop the then-new telephone. New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation, now part of Verizon.

## History

The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was formed February 12, 1878, by investors in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the behest of an agent of Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the father-in-law of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
New England Telephone and Telegraph merged with the Bell Telephone Company (which was started on the basis of holding "potentially valuable patents"), on February 17, 1879, to form the National Bell Telephone Company, at which time Theodore Vail took over its operations. The National Bell Telephone Company merged with others on March 20, 1880, to form the American Bell Telephone Company.

## Later acquisition of American Bell by AT&T

The American Bell Telephone Company was later purchased by its own subsidiary, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) on December 30, 1899. Thus share ownership of New England Telephone and Telegraph evolved into ownership of AT&T. AT&T would later undergo mergers with SBC Communications and BellSouth to become The New AT&T.
# Mitchell Butler

Mitchell Leon Butler (born December 15, 1970) is an American sports agent and former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1993 to 2004.
The 6' 5" (1.96 m) shooting guard signed undrafted with the Washington Bullets in 1993 after a collegiate career at UCLA in which he played in more career games than any other Bruin and swiped the seventh-most steals in UCLA history. After three seasons in Washington, Butler was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers along with Rasheed Wallace in exchange for Rod Strickland and Harvey Grant. Following his stint playing for the Blazers, he signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Following the 1999 season, Butler did not play in the NBA for two years. In 2001–02, Butler signed with the Trail Blazers, marking his second stint with the franchise. Mitchell's last year in the league was in the 2003–04 season, when he once again played for the D.C. franchise, now renamed the Washington Wizards. Butler played in a total of 362 NBA games with 33 starts. He owns career averages of 5.2 points, 2 rebounds, and 1 assist.
Butler appeared in the 1994 movie Blue Chips.
Butler worked as NBA sports agent with Lagardère Unlimited before joining Rival Sports Group as president of basketball.
# Pythium myriotylum

Pythium myriotylum is a soil-borne oomycete necrotroph that has a broad host range, this means that it can infect a wide range of plants.

## Hosts and symptoms

Pythium myriotylum is a causal agent of soft root rot in economically important crops including peanuts, tomato, rye, wheat, oats, cucumber, soybean, sorghum, tobacco, cabbage, and maize. Pythium myriotylum causes pre-emergence damping off, it infects the seed and causes it to rot before plant growth. This causes the plant seedling to become shriveled, soft, and brown. In a study done on soybeans, some symptoms that were seen were rotting of roots, diseased seedlings in the field, plus rotting and blight of seedlings. Pythium myriotylum can also cause post-emergence damping off in peanuts, resulting in discoloration of the seedlings and roots along with a water-soaked appearance in certain areas, these symptoms usually result in the death of the seedlings.

## Disease cycle

Pythium myriotylum causes disease through direct penetration of the host with appressoria. The oomycete helps invade and colonize the host by secreting cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) this breaks down the plant cell wall. P. myriotylum has an asexual reproductive cycle that consists of mycelium that produce sporangia. These sporangia germinate by producing zoospores with two flagella that help with zoospore movement. The zoospores are released during wet conditions so that they can move through the soil to infect new hosts. It also has a sexual reproductive system where mating occurs between the oogonium and antheridium. This produces a thick-walled structure called an oospore. Pythium myriotylum has an overwintering stage through the oospore, also known as, the survival structure. This is the initial innoculum that germinates after its resting period. It is difficult to break the dormancy of P. myriotylum oospores.

## Environment

Pythium myriotylum is a soil-borne necrotrophic oomycete. A disease caused by Pythium myriotylum is increased in warm regions, or in summer months. It thrives in high humid conditions. It prefers wet soil conditions in places of low altitude because this is where the water will sit for long periods of time. In lower altitudes, it can also contaminate irrigation water supplies and spread rapidly to other crops, especially hydroponically grown crops.
# Roger James (footballer)

Roger James (born 21 October 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
James debuted during Port Adelaide's inaugural AFL season and made a name for himself as a tough midfielder. The brother of former Adelaide Crows player Brett James, Roger displayed immense talent throughout his career.
After suffering a succession of groin injuries throughout the 2003 AFL season, James returned early in the 2004 AFL season, playing every game from Round Seven onwards, and was one of the best players during Port Adelaide's maiden premiership win that year.
In 2005 things took a turn for the worse though, with James' knee cartilage deteriorating in condition after Round 18, limiting him to only 10 games for the season.
In late August 2005 Port Adelaide announced that due to the condition of the knee they would not be offering James a contract for the 2006 AFL season and on medical advice, James was forced to retire at only 29 years of age – “I’ve spoken to a couple of doctors and they’ve advised me that it is in my best interests to give football away now so that further down the track I’ll be able to live a normal life,” he said.

## Playing statistics

| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) | Averages (per game) |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T |
| 1997 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 147 | 84 | 231 | 49 | 9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 8.6 | 4.9 | 13.6 | 2.9 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 37 | 31 | 68 | 14 | 7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 6.2 | 5.2 | 11.3 | 2.3 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 69 | 40 | 109 | 24 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 6.9 | 4.0 | 10.9 | 2.4 | 0.9 |
| 2000 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 230 | 164 | 394 | 73 | 41 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 11.5 | 8.2 | 19.7 | 3.7 | 2.1 |
| 2001 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 241 | 200 | 441 | 122 | 35 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 10.0 | 8.3 | 18.4 | 5.1 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 244 | 192 | 436 | 86 | 54 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 10.2 | 8.0 | 18.2 | 3.6 | 2.3 |
| 2003 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 219 | 108 | 327 | 76 | 38 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 12.9 | 6.4 | 19.2 | 4.5 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 212 | 141 | 353 | 58 | 52 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 11.2 | 7.4 | 18.6 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
| 2005 | Port Adelaide | 38 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 82 | 47 | 129 | 35 | 19 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 8.2 | 4.7 | 12.9 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
| Career | Career | Career | 147 | 87 | 57 | 1481 | 1007 | 2488 | 537 | 264 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 10.1 | 6.9 | 16.9 | 3.7 | 1.8 |
# Agios Eleftherios metro station

Aghos Eleftherios (Greek: Άγιος Ελευθέριος), also known as Aghios Eleftherios on signage, is a metro station of the Athens Metro, Line 1, Patisia. It was opened by the Hellenic Electric Railways on 4 August 1961, and is 14.668 kilometres (9.114 mi) from Piraeus.

## Station Layout

| Ground/Concourse G/C | Customer service | Tickets/Exits |
| Platforms P | Side platform, doors will open on the right | Side platform, doors will open on the right |
| Platforms P | Platform 1 | ← towards Piraeus (Kato Patisia) |
| Platforms P | Platform 2 | → towards Kifissia (Ano Patisia)→ |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right ||
# Neil McMullin

Neil McMullin (born 11 January 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# John Fleming (Canadian politician)

John Patrick Fleming (June 29, 1819 – January 21, 1877) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Waterloo South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1875 to 1877.
Fleming was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1819 and grew up there, coming to Upper Canada around 1835 with his family. He worked for James Coleman at Dundas and then, in 1846, opened a grocery business in Galt with Andrew Elliott. After Elliott left the partnership, he took on William Robinson as a partner and added a distillery, soap factory and mills to the business. Fleming also opened a book and stationery store with Alexander Elmslie. In 1851, he married Mary Moir. He was president of the Gore District Fire Insurance and also served as town councillor and reeve for Galt. He was warden for Waterloo County in 1869. Fleming died in office in 1877 after suffering a stroke a few days earlier.

## Electoral history

vte1875 Ontario general election: Waterloo South :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Liberal | John Fleming | Acclaimed |
| Source: Elections Ontario |||||||
# R. Andrew Bassford

R. Andrew Bassford is a brigadier general in the United States Army Reserve and Deputy Commander of the 88th Regional Support Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.

## Career

Bassford originally joined the United States Army in 1986. The following year, he completed the Basic, Airborne and Ranger Courses at the United States Army Infantry School and was assigned to the 7th Infantry Division in Germany. Later, he joined the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment.
In 1998, Bassford transferred to the Army Reserve and was assigned to the 80th Division. Later, he became a battalion commander with the 317th Infantry Regiment and a brigade commander with the 98th Division. In 2013, Bassford was Chief of Staff of the 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training). He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 2014.
Awards he has received include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Army Achievement Medal. In addition, he is authorized to wear the Ranger tab, the Senior Parachutist Badge and the Expert Infantryman Badge.

## Education

* Georgetown University
* University of Virginia School of Law
* United States Army Infantry School
* United States Army War College
* United States Army Jumpmaster School
* United States Army Command and General Staff College
# Bretton, Derbyshire

Bretton, Derbyshire is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. Set on a ridge with a panoramic view, it has few inhabitants but boasts a pub called the Barrel Inn, and the Bretton youth hostel.
The hamlet lies above Bretton Clough, a narrow, steep-sided valley which Bretton Brook runs through. The clough also contains the remnants of five deserted homesteads which once formed part of a small community in the area.
# Portslade railway station

Portslade railway station (in full, Portslade & West Hove station) is a railway station located in Portslade-by-Sea in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, but located on the western fringes of the village of Aldrington (a part commonly known as 'West Hove'). It is 2 miles 73 chains (4.7 km) down the line from Brighton.

## History

Portslade station was constructed by the London and Brighton Railway as one of the original stations on that railway's branchline between Brighton and Shoreham, opening 12 May 1840. The station was closed during July 1847 and did not reopen until after a partial rebuilding in 1857. The station was resited and rebuilt to the east of the level crossing in 1881.

## Operators

In 1846 the London and Brighton Railway became part of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, which continued until the grouping of 1923 and became part of the Southern Railway until nationalisation in 1948 when it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways.

## Services

All services at Portslade are operated by Southern using Class 377 and Class 387 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
* 2 tph to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport
* 4 tph to Brighton (1 of these calls at all stations and 3 do not stop at Aldrington)
* 2 tph to Littlehampton
* 1 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea
* 1 tph to Chichester via Littlehampton
* 2 tph to Southampton Central
During the peak hours, the station is served by a small number of direct trains between Brighton and Littlehampton, as well as a single peak hour service per day between London Bridge and Littlehampton.
| Preceding station | National Rail | National Rail | National Rail | Following station |
| Aldrington or Hove | | Southern West Coastway Line | | Fishersgate or Southwick or Shoreham-by-Sea |

## Gallery

* Southern EMU 377437 arriving with the 1300 Brighton-Littlehampton service on 17 February 2007
* Side view of the main station building on the Down platform; the side entrance is through the wall on the left
* The single-storey building on the Up platform, no longer in use, and the Shere FASTticket self-service ticket machine
* Platform-side view of the main building from rail height, standing on the adjacent level crossing
* South West Trains DMU 170305 passes through the Down platform with the 1257 Brighton-Reading service on 17 February 2007
* South West Trains EMU 450101 passes through the Up platform with the 1124 Basingstoke-Brighton service on 17 February 2007
# Hector the Cat

Hector the Cat (also known as Hector Cat, Hector the Road Safety Cat or simply Hector) is a fictional cat and mascot created to aid the teaching of road safety to children in Australia. Educational material relating to the character was developed by the Australian Department of Transport in association with state and territory road authorities. "Hector's road safety song" became well known in Australia when it was shown as a public service announcement on television. The blue and yellow striped cat first appeared on a school calendar in 1971 with a storyline that he had lost eight of his nine lives due to "ignorance of road safety practices". This was followed by a short instructional film. In subsequent years other characters were introduced in calendars, instructional films, and comic books including Millie, his girlfriend (1973), Uncle Tom (1974), Hector and Millie's three kittens (1975) and his space friend Ding Dong (1982).
A study in 1978 found that, although children enjoyed the characters and stories, the material had a number of inadequacies. It stressed that road safety research findings and child development theory would need to be considered for any future development.
The character is currently used by the Northern Territory Department of Transport to promote road awareness to children. The song "Stop, Look, Listen, Think" is featured in his Road Safety Show.
# Mal Owens

Malcolm James Owens (born 30 January 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
# Stuart Palmer (footballer)

Stuart Palmer was an Australian rules footballer for the South Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL. Palmer holds the games record for South Adelaide.