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# Kjetil Siem

Kjetil Person Siem (born 29 September 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson, journalist, author and sports official.

## Early life and education

Siem was born on a small farm in Gjerdset in Rauma, Norway. His father was a farmer and his family was involved in sheep-raising and forestry. Siem was educated as a drama-teacher specializing in theater. In 1998, Siem helped start the local annual Mountain Festival in Rauma.

## Professional career
### Sports journalist

Siem started out as a sports journalist, first in Aftenposten and later as a reporter covering sports for TV 2.
In 1997, Siem founded the website-based company Sportsprofiler (later Icons), who at one time developed web-pages up to 80 percent of top football players in Norway, England and Germany. The same year he authored the football books Proff i England ("Professional in England"), and Æ, a biography of Ole Gunnar Solskjær, in 1998.

### Norwegian soccer

In 2001, Siem was hired as director of football in the Oslo club Vålerenga Fotball, and from 2003 to 2005 he worked as the managing director. During his tenure with the club Vålerenga won both silver and gold medals as well as making economic profit. Siem was director in Norsk Toppfotball from 2006 to 2007.

### South African soccer

Siem started in 1994 the Soccer against crime project in Cape Town, South Africa and has since been involved in helping deprived communities.
Siem was hired as chief executive of the South African Premier Soccer League in 2007. His tenure coincided with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and he was among other things responsible for the opening match at Soccer City stadium. In 2012 he was appointed Secretary-General for the Football Association of Norway, replacing Paul Glomsaker. He immediately began a campaign to improve fair-play within Norwegian football, he introduced the Handshake for peace in which the two teams captains makes an obligatory handshake at the final whistle, this was in cooperation with the Nobel Peace Center.

### Norway football presidency

Between 2012 and 2016, Siem was Secretary-general of the Football Association of Norway. This ended in 2016 after the association had publicized the excessive amount of travel expenses Siem had caused the organization.

### FIFA advisor

Along with Zvonimir Boban, Siem was hired by FIFA in May of 2016 to join president Gianni Infantino's management team, specifically to become strategy advisor. This ended in 2019.

### Back in Norwegian affairs

In 2019, Siem joined the commercial TV 2 Group as advisor.
In 2023, Siem became director of the executive board of the afore mentioned Vålerenga Fotball soccer team in Oslo, which was subsequently relegated from the Eliteserien.
# Zardab (city)

40°13′06″N 47°42′30″E﻿ / ﻿40.21833°N 47.70833°E﻿ / 40.21833; 47.70833
Zərdab (Zardab) is a city in and the capital of the Zardab District of Azerbaijan.

## Notable natives

* Hasan bey Zardabi — publicist, founder of the first Azeri-language newspaper.
# Pat Taaffe

Patrick Taaffe (9 March 1930, Dublin - 7 July 1992, Dublin) was an Irish National Hunt jockey who is best remembered as the jockey of Arkle. The pair dominated National Hunt racing in the mid-sixties, winning the Irish Grand National, the King George VI Chase, two Hennessy Gold Cups, three Cheltenham Gold Cups and the Whitbread Cup.
Taaffe was born into a racing family. His father, Tom Taaffe, was a trainer who saddled the winner of the 1958 Grand National, Mr. What.$^{:34}$ A brother, Tos Taaffe, would become a leading jumps jockey. Taaffe started riding at an early age and won his first point-to-point in 1946 while still at school. In 1950, by this time a professional jockey, he joined the yard of trainer Tom Dreaper, where he remained as a stable jockey until his retirement in 1970.$^{:34}$
Taaffe secured the first of two Grand National wins in 1955, riding the Vincent O'Brien trained Quare Times. The second was in 1970, when he rode Gay Trip, trained by Fred Rimell. There were also six victories in the Irish Grand National (1954 Royal Approach, 1955 Umm, 1959 Zonda, 1961 Fortria, 1964 Arkle, 1966 Flyingbolt).
Taaffe rode Arkle, who was trained by Dreaper, for the first time in a race at Naas on 10 March 1962. Arkle started favourite in the Rathconnel Handicap Hurdle over two miles and won by four lengths.$^{:31}$ Taaffe would go on to ride Arkle in all his 27 steeplechases, with 23 wins including the Irish Grand National, the King George VI Chase, two Hennessy Gold Cup|Hennessy Gold Cups, three Cheltenham Gold Cups and the Whitbread Cup. After Arkle's injury and retirement, Taaffe partnered his stablemate Fort Leney to victory in the 1968 Cheltenham Gold Cup.
After retiring as a jockey in 1970, Taaffe went on to train Captain Christy, the 1974 Gold Cup winner. Although a brilliant horseman, the business side of training did not come naturally to him and his training career did not flourish.
In 1955, Taaffe married Molly Lyons, sister of a veterinary surgeon. The couple had four daughters and two sons. Son Tom Taaffe became a jockey and trainer; grandson Pat Taaffe is an amateur jockey.
Taaffe died in 1992 in Dublin Hospital, aged 62, of a heart condition, having previously undergone only the third heart transplant operation in Ireland (in 1989).
# 1683 Trent flood

The River Trent valley in Nottinghamshire, England, suffered from a major flood in 1683. The floods followed a lengthy cold period and were formed from melting snow and broken river ice. The ice floes swept away much of Hethbeth or Trent Bridge at Nottingham and the Town Bridge at Newark-on-Trent.

## Description

The floods followed a lengthy cold period with freezing weather lasting from September 1682 until February 1683. Nottinghamshire suffered regular and heavy snowfalls during this period. The thawing of snow and breaking up of river ice caused significant flooding on 5 and 6 February, affecting the entire Trent valley.
At this time the Hethbeth or Trent Bridge at Nottingham consisted of more than twenty stone piers covered by a wooden deck. The bridge was badly damaged by ice floes moving down the river and much of the northern half was swept away.
Downstream at Newark-on-Trent the Town Bridge was also swept away and the riverside fields flooded. The damage at nearby Holme, Nottinghamshire, and North Muskham, Lincolnshire, was witnessed by Thomas Winnard who composed a poem beginning "when heirs and widows hoarding fresh supplies/Bottle up tears wrung from St. Swithin's eyes", Swithin being the patron saint of weather.

## Aftermath

The Nottingham Corporation appointed a committee to rebuild the bridge. The work, carried out in 1684, installed stone arches. The number of spans in the river was reduced to 15, over a distance of around 538 feet (164 m); when taken with an adjacent roadway support structure and two flood-relief arches the overall length was 205 metres (673 ft), somewhat shorter than the structure it replaced. . The piers of the first five arches, and possibly a further two, were rebuilt completely as part of the works. The remaining piers, which had been rebuilt around the time of the English Civil Wars, were judged to be in satisfactory condition. Two arches from the 1683 reconstruction survive in a modern traffic island near the bridge, which was demolished and rebuilt from 1871.
Newark's Town Bridge had been rebuilt by 1700 with a wooden deck spanning the surviving stone piers.
# 31st Illinois Infantry Regiment

The 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Dirty-First," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

## Service

The 31st Illinois Infantry was organized at Jacksonville, Illinois and mustered into Federal service at Cairo, Illinois, on September 18, 1861. Among the early officers was Major Andrew J. Kuykendall, later a U.S. Representative and Illinois State Senator.
The regiment was mustered out on July 19, 1865, and discharged at Springfield, Illinois, on July 31, 1865.

## Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 9 officers and 166 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 293 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 471 fatalities.

## Commanders

* Colonel John A. Logan
* Colonel Lindorf Osborn
* Colonel Edwin S. McCook - Mustered out with the regiment.
# Monastir Synagogue (Thessaloniki)

The Monastir Synagogue (Hebrew: קהל קדוש מונאסטירליס; Judaeo-Spanish: Kal de los Monastirlis) is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue of the once vibrant Jewish community in Thessaloniki, Greece.

## History

Commenced in 1925, the synagogue was completed in 1927. The funding was provided by Jews from Monastir in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, chiefly by Ida Aroesti, in the memory of her late husband Isaac, and the families Camhi, Joseph Nahmias, Massot, Barouch, Halevi, Israel, Calderon, Faradji, and Meir. The synagogue was designed by Ernst Loewy (1878-1943) from Buchau, in Austria-Hungary. Loewye was based in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, visiting Thessaloniki often as the engineer for the Austrian company that built that railway line between Thessaloniki and Vienna. Loewy moved to Thessaloniki in 1938. The consecration by the locum tenens Chief Rabbi of Thessaloniki, Haim Raphael Habib, took place on September 24, 1927 (Eloul 27, 5687).
Families fled Monastir during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and World War I and established themselves in Thessaloniki creating their own kehila (community) within the greater Jewish Community.
The Monastir synagogue is the last traditional synagogue of Thessaloniki in the great tradition of Salonican synagogues bearing in their name the place of origin of the congregation members (Ashkenaz 1376, Majorka 1391, Provincia 1394, Italia Yashan 1423, Guerush Sefarad 1492, Kastilia 1492–3, Aragon 1492–3, Katalan Yashan 1492, Kalabria Yashan 1497, Sicilia Yashan 1497, Apulia 1502, Lisbon Yashan 1510. Portugal 1525, Evora 1535, Lisbon Hadash 1536, Otranto 1537, Ishmael 1537, Sicilia Hadash 1562, Italia Hadash 1582, Majorka Sheni 16th cent., Katalan Hadash 16th cent., Italia Sheni, 1606, Mograbis 17th cent.)
During World War II, the synagogue was saved by being requisitioned by the Red Cross. In June 1978, the structure of the building was severely damaged by an earthquake. It was restored by the Greek government and today is used primarily during the high holidays.
In 2016 the historic restoration of the synagogue was completed by architect Elias Messinas and KARD Architects, Dimitris Raidis and Alexandros Kouloukouris. The restoration project was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany.
The synagogue is no longer in regular function. There is a new synagogue shared with the Rabbinate and the offices of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki at Tsimiski Street downtown. The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki is also near the Tsimiski Street location.
# 1798 Batavian Republic constitutional referendum

A constitutional referendum was held in the Batavian Republic in 1798. After a previous referendum in 1797 resulted in a coup d'état, a new constitution was written. On 23 April 1798, a referendum was held about the new constitution. Only opponents of the federalists were allowed to vote.
After the referendum, a new coup d'état was done by the Unitarians, and the constitution became effective in July 1798. The French, who had a big influence in the Batavian Republic, were not satisfied with the 1798 constitution, so a new constitution was written, for which a referendum in 1801 was organized.

## Results

| Choice | Votes | % |
| For | 153,913 | 92.99 |
| Against | 11,597 | 7.01 |
| Total | 165,510 | 100 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 400,000 | – |
| Source: Direct Democracy |||
# Tatsuya Mitsuhashi

Tatsuya Mitsuhashi (born 14 January 1973) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Mitsuhashi played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning once.

## Professional wins (1)
### Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
| 1 | 23 May 2004 | Munsingwear Open KSB Cup | −18 (66-71-63-70=270) | 2 strokes | Shingo Katayama, Nobuhiro Masuda, Jeev Milkha Singh |
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
| 1 | 2000 | PGA Philanthropy Tournament | Masashi Shimada, Tatsuhiko Takahashi | Shimada won with birdie on fourth extra hole Takahashi eliminated by birdie on first hole |
# Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro

The Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Уставна повеља Србије и Црне Горе, Ustavna povelja Srbije i Crne Gore) came into force on 4 February 2003, creating a confederacy between Serbia and Montenegro under one government, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro amending the earlier Federal Constitution.
As a result, the name Yugoslavia was consigned to history after 74 years.
# Tsuyoshi Ogata

Tsuyoshi Ogata (尾方 剛, Ogata Tsuyoshi, born May 11, 1973) is a Japanese long-distance athlete competing mainly in the marathon.
Ogata was born in Kumano, Hiroshima. In August 2003 he came twelfth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. In August 2005 he won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. He then finished fifth at the 2007 World Championships.

## Achievements

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Japan ||||||
| 1999 | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 24th | Marathon | 2:15:22 |
| 2000 | Rotterdam Marathon | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 16th | Marathon | 2:11:43 |
| 2001 | Berlin Marathon | Berlin, Germany | 4th | Marathon | 2:10:06 |
| 2002 | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 2nd | Marathon | 2:09:15 |
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 12th | Marathon | 2:10:39 |
| 2003 | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 6th | Marathon | 2:08:37 |
| 2004 | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 1st | Marathon | 2:09:10 |
| 2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | Marathon | 2:11:16 |
| 2006 | Fukuoka Marathon | Fukuoka, Japan | 6th | Marathon | 2:10:48 |
| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 5th | Marathon | 2:17:42 |
| 2008 | Beijing Summer Olympics | Beijing, China | 13th | Marathon | 2:13:26 |
| 2012 | Ehime Marathon | Matsuyama, Japan | 2nd | Marathon | 2:17:53 |

## Personal bests

* 3000 metres - 8:01.86 min (2004)
* 5000 metres - 13:31.46 min (2003)
* 10,000 metres - 28:05.76 min (2004)
* Half marathon - 1:01:50 hrs (2002)
* Marathon - 2:08:37 hrs (2003)
# Yoshinori Sakai

Yoshinori Sakai (坂井 義則, Sakai Yoshinori, August 6, 1945 – September 10, 2014) was the Olympic flame torchbearer who lit the cauldron at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

## Biography

Sakai was born on the day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He was chosen for the role to symbolize Japan's postwar reconstruction and peace. An enthusiastic part-time athlete, at the time of the 1964 Olympics he was a member of Waseda University's running club. The nineteen-year-old was coached in the ceremonial duty by Teruji Kogake, a triple jump world record-holder turned coach. He never actually competed in any events at the Olympics.
Two years after the Olympics, he won a gold medal in the 4 × 400 m relay and a silver in the 400 m at the 1966 Asian Games. He joined Fuji Television in 1968 as a journalist and worked mainly in the fields of news and sports.
He died of cerebral bleeding in Tokyo at age 69, on September 10, 2014.
# Ichiro Hatta

Ichiro Hatta (八田一朗, Hatta Ichirō, June 3, 1906 – April 15, 1983) was a Japanese judoka and wrestler. He was instrumental in founding the Japanese Amateur Wrestling Association and bringing the 1964 Olympics to Japan.

## Biography

Originally a judo specialist and a secretary to Kanō Jigorō he helped popularize judo in the United States and Europe. He later received the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee for his contributions to judo and the Olympics. In 1929 Hatta held 4th dan in judo, and by 1952 progressed to the 7th dan. Judo became an Olympic sport only in 1964, and therefore at the 1932 Olympics Hatta competed in freestyle wrestling. After that he helped establish the Japanese Amateur Wrestling Association, and at the 1936 Olympics was the head coach of the national wrestling team. Later he served in the House of Councillors, the Japanese upper house of the legislature.
In 1965, Hatta also helped Victor Koga to form the Japanese Sambo Federation. His sons Tadaaki Hatta and Masaaki Hatta were accomplished wrestlers at Oklahoma State. Tadaaki was a 1965 NCAA champion, two-time All-American, and coached Olympic and world teams for Japan, USA, and Mexico for 50 years starting in 1968. Maasaki was an NCAA championship in 1962, placed second in freestyle at that year's world championships, three-time NCAA All-American, AAU All-American, and later coached Olympic gold medalist Steve Fraser.
# Yoshiyuki Iwamoto

Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (岩本 義行, Iwamoto Yoshiyuki, March 11, 1912 – September 26, 2008) was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

## Biography

Iwamuto was born in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. He took part in the National High School Baseball Championship in 1931, but his team was defeated by a team of Masao Yoshida (who was also later inducted to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame).
He joined the Nankai Baseball Club in 1938, but he was forced to take part in World War II, so his professional debut didn't occur until 1940. The quality of baseballs was low due to the war, so it was difficult for hitters to hit home runs, but Iwamuto hit three home runs in one game on July 11, 1942, the Japanese record at that time. He retired once in 1942 and went to war again.
Iwamoto returned to baseball in 1949, joining the Taiyo Robins. On March 11, 1950, he hit the first home run in the history of the Central League, a grand slam home run. That same year, he hit three home runs in the first Japan Series, which his team lost to the Mainichi Orions, 4 games to 2. On August 1, 1951, he hit four home runs in one game, becoming the first professional hitter in Japan to achieve that feat. He retired again in 1953.
He signed with Toei Flyers and returned to the field again as a playing manager in 1956. On August 18, 1957, he hit his final home run, at the age of 45, which is the Japanese age record.
As manager of the Toei Flyers from 1956 to 1960, Iwamoto compiled a record of 290–376, with 17 ties, for a winning percentage of .435.
Iwamoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
# Graham Beale

Graham John Beale CBE (born 19 October 1958) and former Chief executive of the Nationwide Building Society.

## Early life

Beale's father was a former coal miner, who became a maintenance engineer at British Steel and his mother was a nurse. He has a brother, David, and grew up in Scunthorpe.

## Education and training

He attended the High Ridge School in Scunthorpe, which had been Scunthorpe Grammar School two years earlier.
After the John Leggott College from 1975-77, Beale went to Leicester University to read psychology. He said, "I was interested in marketing and advertising and thought psychology would take me in the right direction".
However, he began training as an accountant at Thomson McLintock, now part of KPMG. Thomson McLintock's biggest client was Leicester Building Society (which merged with Alliance in 1987 to form Alliance & Leicester and then acquired by Santander in 2010) and gave Beale an insight into mutuals. He said, "My time at Leicester was quite influential. I liked what mutuals stood for".

## Career

Beale joined Anglia Building Society in 1985, as a chartered accountant in the internal audit function.
Anglia Building Society merged with Nationwide Building Society in 1987. At Nationwide Building Society, he was involved in a number of major transactions, including the buying and selling of subsidiary businesses. This included the sale of Nationwide Estate Agents in 1994 and the acquisition of UCB Home Loans in 1995.
Beale was appointed managing director of a Glasgow subsidiary in 1997.
In 2002, he became Divisional Director, Commercial and then joined the Board in 2003 as Group Finance Director. He was appointed Chief executive on 1 April 2007.
In his first year as Chief executive, Beale oversaw the successful merger of the Portman Building Society – the largest merger the mutual sector had ever seen.
During the financial crisis, Beale also oversaw mergers with three smaller building societies; the Derbyshire Building Society and Cheshire Building Society in 2008 and the Dunfermline Building Society in 2009. In 2012, plans were announced to integrate these three brand names into one 'Nationwide' brand.
Beale has been a member of the FCA Practitioner Panel – representing Building Societies – since 1 August 2011. He was appointed Chairman of the FCA Practitioner Panel from 1 April 2013.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the financial services sector.
On 22 May 2015, it was announced that Graham Beale intended to retire as CEO of Nationwide. He stepped down as Chief executive on 4 April 2016. Joe Garner, formerly CEO of Openreach, joined the Society as Chief executive on 5 April 2016.

## Interests

He is interested in wildlife photography, renovating his Georgian townhouse in Bath, travel and walking the dog.

## Personal life

Beale met his wife at the university at Leicester and married her on graduating; they have two children. He lives in the Vale of White Horse.
# Kayo Sugihara

Kayo Sugihara (杉原 加代, Sugihara Kayo, born 24 February 1983 in Shimane Prefecture) is a Japanese athlete who specialises in long-distance events. She represented her country at the 2007 and 2011 World Championships. In addition, she won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games.

## Competition record

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Japan ||||||
| 2003 | Asian Championships | Manila, Philippines | 6th | 1500 m | 4:30.24 |
| 2005 | Asian Championships | Incheon, South Korea | 4th | 5000 m | 15:50.75 |
| 2006 | Asian Games | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 5000 m | 15:40.87 |
| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 17th (h) | 5000 m | 15:31.44 |
| 2009 | East Asian Games | Hong Kong, China | 1st | 10,000 m | 33:55.43 |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 18th (h) | 5000 m | 15:41.78 |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 15th | 10,000 m | 32:53.89 |
| 2012 | World Half Marathon Championships | Kavarna, Bulgaria | 19th | 5000 m | 1:13:36 |

## Personal bests

Outdoor
* 1500 metres – 4:17.41 (Yokohama 2003)
* 3000 metres – 8:56.89 (Rovereto 2006)
* 5000 metres – 15:15.34 (Nobeoka 2007)
* 10,000 metres – 31:34.35 (Palo Alto 2011)
* 15 kilometres – 50:59 (Miyazaki 2007)
* 20 kilometres – 1:08:01 (Miyazaki 2007)
* Half marathon – 1:11:35 (Miyazaki 2007)