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Virgil Spier (born 8 January 1981) is a Dutch athlete who started at the decathlon, but who is currently active mainly as a sprinter and a hurdler.

Biography
Spier was born in Amsterdam, and started his career as an athlete at Sparta Atletiek in The Hague. At this team he showed to be talented, but his performances were not at the top level yet. Due to this there are no notable results of him as a D, C and B-junior. As an A-junior however he qualified himself at the Dutch National Championships for seniors through a fifth position at the decathlon (7164 points) for the Junior World Championships in Santiago. In Santiago he started with 10.54 over 100 metres, which was the fourth Dutch junior time in history. However, due to a hamstring injury he was unable to continue his tournament.

A year later, in 2001 he was able to represent the Netherlands at the decathlon at the European Under-23 Championships that were held in Amsterdam. Also in this tournament he was suffering from an injury, but still managed to achieve a ninth position overall. In 2002 he came in second at the 60 metres indoor held at the Dutch National Championships. At the same event he reached the fourth place at the 60 metres hurdles. With these performances he qualified himself for the European Indoor Championships in Vienna for both distances. He eventually was eliminated in the first round series in both occasions.

The 4×100 metres relay team consisting of Caimin Douglas, Maarten Heisen, Patrick van Luijk and Guus Hoogmoed, with Gregory Sedoc and Virgil Spier as reserves, did qualify for the Olympics. Initially they finished in 17th position during the qualification process while only the first 16 teams would qualify, but due to the cancellation of the Australian team they were allowed to start in Beijing. In their qualification heat Heisen, Hoogmoed, Van Luijk and Douglas placed third behind Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, but in front of Brazil. Their time of 38.87 was the fifth fastest out of all sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. In the final, the second baton change between Hoogmoed and Van Luijk failed, resulting in a slow time. They still finished the race to place seventh, before the disqualified Chinese team. Spier himself did not participate.

Personal bests
Outdoor
100 metres - 10.48 (2001, Hoorn)
200 metres - 21.17 (2001, Beijing)
110 metres hurdles - 13.79 (2003, Bydgoszcz)
long jump - 5.87 metres (2000, Santiago)
shot put - 12.46 metres (2000, Santiago)
decathlon - 7469 points (2001, Amsterdam)

Indoor
50 metres - 5.87 (2003, Zuidbroek)
60 metres - 6.70 (2002, Ghent)
50 metres hurdles - 6.77 (2004, Zuidbroek)
60 metres hurdles - 7.76 (2002, Ghent)
heptathlon - 5459 points (2001, Prague)

Honours
 60 metres (indoor) - Dutch National Championships, 2002

References

External links

Sabine Verbeek en Virgil Spier in Oranje
Virgil Spier meerkamptroef op EK < 23 jaar

1981 births
Living people
Dutch male sprinters
Dutch decathletes
Dutch male hurdlers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
Athletes from Amsterdam
The Last Supper (1983) is the fourth book in the Paul Christopher series by American espionage novelist Charles McCarry.

Plot 

The Last Supper relates, in episodic fashion, the multi-generational saga of Paul Christopher's family. The opening chapters tell of the courtship and marriage of his father and mother: blue-blooded American writer Hubbard Christopher and the Baronesse Hannelore von Beucheler, a daughter of Prussian aristocracy. 

Christopher's childhood is spent on the island of Rügen in the Baltic as Weimar Germany gives way to the rise of the Third Reich, and the boy is sent to a Francophone school in Switzerland for his own good. 

Ultimately, after a series of inconclusive but icy encounters with the Gestapo, the Christophers in the summer of 1939 determine to quietly flee to Paris, but are intercepted; father and son, as U.S. citizens, are beaten and expelled from the country, but Lori (as she is known) is forced to remain behind as a subject of the Reich. As war erupts, Hannelore Christopher vanishes without a trace. Her disappearance will haunt both her husband and the adult Paul Christopher throughout the coming decades.

Critical reception 

Comparing the author favorably to British espionage novelist John le Carré, reviewer Jacob Heilbrunn writes in The New York Times that McCarry, "a former American intelligence officer who did tours of duty in Europe, Africa, and Asia [has mined] his experiences in The Last Supper… Written in spare, biting prose, [the novel] traverses much of the past century, from Weimar Germany to Burma during World War II, from Vietnam in the '50s and '60s to Mao Zedong's China… McCarry is the genuine article. This is a blazingly good read that is almost impossible to put down."

In a wide-ranging review of McCarry's fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda of The Washington Post observes that the character of Barnabas (Barney) Wolkowicz, Paul Christopher's dogged mentor in espionage work, "steals the show in The Last Supper. In an intelligence community dominated by blond Ivy League graduates, and in particular by the ultra WASPy Hubbard-Christopher clan, Barney is an outsider, the son of a steelworker from Youngstown, a graduate of Kent State, unkempt, overweight, almost buffoonish. He is also, according to an implacable enemy, the most brilliant spy of his generation."

References 

1983 American novels
The 2023 NHL Heritage Classic (branded as the 2023 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic for sponsorship reasons) is an upcoming outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game. The seventh game in the Heritage Classic series, it is scheduled to take place on October 29, 2023, at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, with the Edmonton Oilers hosting the Calgary Flames. It will be the first outdoor game in the Battle of Alberta rivalry.

Background
During the "31 Thoughts" segment on the December 10, 2022, broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada, Elliotte Friedman initially reported that the NHL was planning a Heritage Classic game between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames during the 2023–24 season, marking the 20th anniversary of the first Heritage Classic between the Montreal Canadiens and the Oilers at Commonwealth Stadium. While the 2003 game was held in November, Friedman stated that the league was aiming for October so the weather would be a little warmer. The league announced the game on December 31, 2022.

While this will be the first outdoor game in the Battle of Alberta rivalry, this will be the third one for each team.

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NHL Heritage Classic, 2023
NHL Heritage Classic
Heritage Classic
Calgary Flames games
Edmonton Oilers games
Ice hockey competitions in Edmonton
2000s in Edmonton
Calliopsis hesperia is a species of bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America.

Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Calliopsis hesperia:
 Calliopsis hesperia equina (Cockerell, 1925)
 Calliopsis hesperia hesperia

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Andrenidae
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Insects described in 1907
The Union and Advertiser, also known as the Daily Union and Advertiser was a newspaper in Rochester, New York. It was published by Curtis, Butts & Co. from 1856 until at least 1886.  For at least part of its history it was a daily. Several volumes are part of the Library of Congress' collection. It was succeeded in 1918 by the Rochester Times-Union.

Papers it competed with over the years included the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

History
The Rochester Daily Advertiser was published from 1826.

The New York Times reported on the paper's American Civil War era coverage in 1863.

The paper covered the National Convention of Spiritualists in Rochester August 26-28 1868.

Artist Harvey Ellis had a work published in the paper in 1895. It is now held by the Boston Public Library.

In 1908, the Union and Advertiser press was used to publish a publication on the origin and development of Rochester's park system.

March 9, 1911 the paper ran an obituary on William Webster, landscape artist at the Glen Iris Estate,  home to the William Pryor Letchworth's residence that became the Glen Iris Inn and the land that is now part of Letchworth State Park.

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Newspapers published in Rochester, New York
History of Rochester, New York
Daily newspapers published in New York (state)
Defunct newspapers published in New York (state)
1856 establishments in New York (state)
1886 disestablishments in the United States
Shelley's crimsonwing (Cryptospiza shelleyi) is a vulnerable species of estrildid finch found in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and western Uganda in Africa. It has shown population decline over the past few decades, with a current population estimate of 2,500–9,999. This is possibly related to uncontrolled deforestation.

Identification
It is a brightly coloured finch found at low levels. It is approximately  long. The male Shelley's crimson-wing has bright red crown, face and back, with contrasting black wings and tail, as well as olive-yellow underparts with warmer tones on flanks and belly. The female is drabber with an olive head and some red on the mantle and rump. Both sexes have bright red bills.

Its voice is sharp and high-pitched with tit tit tit call. Rising and falling series of high-pitched tu tutu ti ti ti.

Habitat
Shelley's crimsonwing inhabits the closed-canopy moist forest, often in lush valley bottoms near water, as well as low secondary growth at forest edges, forest clearings and glades dominated by large herbs, bamboo thickets and the upper forest/moorland ecotone.

It can be found at some parts of the Albertine Rift Mountains, including the Itombwe Mountain, Kahuzi-Biéga National Park and mountains at the west of Lake Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nyungwe Forest, Gishwati, Makwa and Mukura Forest in Rwanda, Bururi Forest and elsewhere in Burundi, the Rwenzori Mountains and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda, as well as the Virunga Mountain. It is generally rare, only being common in a few threatened forests, which shows unexplained fluctuations in abundance.

Conservation measures
The IUCN has proposed that researchers investigate declines and fluctuations in Shelley's crimsonwing population, in order to assess threats of extinction. This includes surveying the extent of its habitat. The species is currently being researched in low density areas and of recent there was a very clear sighting of this bird in Ruhijja still part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest as it was seen feeding from the ground for more than 3 minutes before it flew off, including the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nyungwe Forest Reserve in Rwanda, and Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.

References

External links
 Rare Finch Conservation Group official blog
 Rare Finch Conservation Group official website

Shelley's crimsonwing
Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Shelley's crimsonwing
Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver.

Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon, after Mignard, now become very scarce. He engraved also several of the plates for Descamps' Vie des Peintres Flamands et Hollandais, of which those of Rubens and Van Dyck are very highly finished. He died in Paris in 1794.

Works
Françoise d'Aubigné; after P. Mignard.
J. de La Fontaine; after Rigaud.
J. F. Regnard; after the same.
J. J. Rousseau; after De La Tour. 1763.
F. M. Arouet de Voltaire; after the same. 1762.
Pierre Corneille; after Le Brun.
J. de Crébillon; after Aved.
J. B. P. de Molière; after Coypel.
René Descartes; after F. Hals.
M. Montaigne; after Dumonstier. 1772.
De La Mothe Le Vayer; after Nanteuil.
F. de La Mothe Fénélon; after Vivien.
J. J . Vadé; after Richard.
P. P. Rubens; after Van Dyck.
Anton Van Dyck; after the same.

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1719 births
1794 deaths
18th-century engravers
Engravers from Paris
Portrait engravers
Edwin Alfred Britt (11 November 1926 – 6 December 2013) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Willoughby in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1981.

Britt was born in Narrandera. In 1942 he moved from Narrandera to Sydney and worked in the state public service in technical education. He enlisted as ground staff in the RAAF in 1944. In 1950 he was transferred to the Lotteries Office, and settled in Willoughby. In 1956 he joined the Labor Party, in which he was active for the rest of his life. He was elected to Willoughby Council in 1965, serving until 1968 and again from 1975 to 1995. He married Mary Hayes on 14 August 1976.

He unsuccessfully contested the state seat of Willoughby for Labor in 1976. In 1978, sitting Liberal member Laurie McGinty lost preselection to future Premier Nick Greiner and contested the seat as an independent. The split in the conservative vote allowed Britt to win narrowly in this normally comfortably safe Liberal seat. However, a redistribution ahead of the 1981 state election erased Britt's majority and made Willoughby notionally Liberal. Despite this, Britt nominated for another term, and was narrowly defeated by Liberal challenger Peter Collins. He tried to regain the seat in 1984, and was heavily defeated, taking only 34 percent of the two-party vote.

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2013 deaths
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Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II
Thonnance-lès-Joinville (, literally Thonnance near Joinville) is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.

In literature 

In Ken Follett's historical novel A Column of Fire, 16th century Thonnance-lès-Joinville is the birthplace of the character Pierre Aumande, depicted as having been born there as the bastard son of a parish priest and in later life trying to escape this humble origin and forge for himself a position at the Royal Court in Paris.

See also
Communes of the Haute-Marne department

References

Thonnancelesjoinville
Voganj railway station () is a railway station on Belgrade–Šid railway. Located in Voganj, Ruma, Serbia. Railroad continued to Sremska Mitrovica in one and the other direction to Ruma. Voganj railway station consists of 5 railway track.

See also 
 Serbian Railways

References 

Ruma
Railway stations in Vojvodina
State Bank of Sikkim (SBS) is a state owned banking institution headquartered at Gangtok, Sikkim, India. The Bank operates within the jurisdiction of the State of Sikkim and in addition to banking services, State Bank of Sikkim handles treasury functions of State Government of Sikkim.

An autonomous body under the Government of Sikkim, it is not regulated by Reserve Bank of India unlike other banks in India. However, the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March 2012 has recorded that the performance of State Bank of Sikkim generated 86 percent of the total profit earned by the state owned PSUs during the year.

The State Bank of Sikkim has completed 50 years (1968-2018) of existence during which it has continually worked in partnership with development projects in the state.

History 
State Bank of Sikkim was constituted and established in the year 1968 under the State Bank of Sikkim Proclamation, 1968. State Bank of Sikkim was initially headquartered at MG Marg, Gangtok and was later moved to the present location, where the Bank houses its Head Office as well as Main branch. Initially started with just one branch, today SBS has expanded to 40 branches (as of 2016-2017) in Sikkim. As on 8th Sept' 2018, the State Bank of Sikkim has altogether 46 branch offices and 3 Revenue Counters working on 24 x 7 basis. State Bank of Sikkim has today a branch network of 54 branch offices spread all over Sikkim with Revenue Counters numbering to 6 which includes 3 Counters on 24 x 7 basis.

Core Banking 
State Bank of Sikkim started Core Banking Solution (CBS) in April 2017 with just two branch offices and within a span of a year, all the branch offices are running on CBS platform. On the occasion of Closing Ceremony of a year long Golden Jubilee year celebration of the bank, the Core Banking Solution was formally and officially launched by the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Government of Sikkim on 8 September 2018.

Branches
As of 2022 the Branches of State Bank of Sikkim are as follows:

 Gangtok district: Bojoghari Gangtok, Deorali Gangtok,  Khamdong, Makha,  Manan Kendra Gangtok, Gangtok Head Office, Nandok, Rakdong-Tintek,    Ranipool, Ranka,  Sang, Sichey Gangtok, Singtam, SNT Gangtok, Tadong Gangtok, Tsomgo, Sochakgang Gangtok, Secretariat Gangtok, Gangtok check post, Lal Bazar Gangtok.

 Pakyong district:  Pakyong Bazar, Pakyong DC office, Rangpo Check Post, Mamring East, Parakha, Rorathang, Rongli, Rhenock, Majhitar,  Rangpo Bazaar.

 Mangan district: Chungthang, Mangan, Passingdong, Phodong, Lachen, Lachung, Kabi.

Gyalshing district:  Darap, Legship, Dentam, Gyalshing, Martam, Rinchenpong, Rabdentse, Tashiding, Yuksom.

Namchi district: Jorethang, Kewzing, Melli Bazar, Melli Check Post, Ravangla, Namchi Bazar, Namchi Extension Counter, Namthang, Temi, Yangyang.

Soreng district: Sombaria, Soreng, Chumbong Extension Counter, Nayabazar, Mangalbaria.

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Banks established in 1968
Elaphopsis is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

 Elaphopsis earinus Martins & Napp, 1989
 Elaphopsis rubidus Audinet-Serville, 1834

References

Graciliini
Thomas Ballantyne (1806–1871), was a Scottish journalist.

He was a native of Paisley, where he was born in 1806. Becoming editor of the Bolton Free Press, he at an early period of his life took an active part in advocating social and political reforms. While editor of the Manchester Guardian he became intimately associated with Richard Cobden and John Bright in their agitation against the Corn Laws, and in 1841 he published the Corn Law Repealer's Handbook. Along with Bright he was one of the four original proprietors of the Manchester Examiner, his name appearing as the printer and publisher. After the fusion of the Examiner with the Times, he became editor of the Liverpool Journal, and later of the Mercury. Subsequently he moved to London to edit the Leader, and he was for a time associated with Charles Mackay in the editorial department of the Illustrated London News. He also started the Statesman, which he edited till its close, when he became editor of the Old St. James's Chronicle.

Bibliography
Notwithstanding his journalistic duties, he found time to contribute a number of papers on social and political topics to various reviews and magazines, in addition to which he published:

Passages selected from the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a Biographical Memoir, 1855 and 1870.
Prophecy for 1855, selected from Carlyle's Latterday Pamphlets, 1855.
Ideas, Opinions, and Facts, 1865.
Essays in Mosaic, 1870

Regarding his proficiency in this species of compilation, Carlyle himself testifies as follows: "I have long recognised in Mr. Ballantyne a real talent for excerpting significant passages from books, magazines, newspapers (that contain any such), and for presenting them in lucid arrangement, and in their most interesting and readable form". Ballantyne died at London 30 Aug. 1871.

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1806 births
1871 deaths
Journalists from Paisley, Renfrewshire
19th-century British journalists
British male journalists
19th-century British male writers
19th-century British writers
Canyon Blaster may refer to the following:

Canyon Blaster (Adventuredome), a roller coaster at the Adventuredome theme park in Las Vegas, Nevada
Canyon Blaster (Great Escape), a family roller coaster at Great Escape theme park in Queensbury, New York
Canyon Blaster (Six Flags Magic Mountain), a family roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California
Ewald Harold Krolis (16 May 1947 – 22 September 2006) was a Surinamese kaseko-singer and percussionist.

Biography
Krolis started singing at a young age; he formed The Rhythm Makers with Bertje Tjin A Kwie, André Stekkel and producer-to-be Stan Lokhin. Their repertoire of kaseko, calypso, soul, merengue and reggae earned Krolis a residency at the local Torarica Hotel's Saramacca-bar.

In November 1975, he moved to the Netherlands after Surinam became an independent state. Krolis settled in Rotterdam where he formed Caribbean Combo; the other members were his brother Robby, John Kembel, Ricardo Tjon A Kon, Lesley Leeflang, and August Cabenda. They were often joined by Ramon Laparra who went on to lead his own band Master Blaster. Caribbean Combo signed to Unice Records, an independent niche-label, and released their first two singles (Merie Mie and Mie Ne Meri Deng; packed in near-identical sleeveworks) in 1977. A debut-album followed in 1979; Switie Bamaro consisted of ten new recordings including cover-versions of The Blues Busters' Wide Awake In A Dream (translated in Surinamese) and Eddy Grant's Say I Love You.

Throughout the first half of the 1980s, Krolis released 12-inch singles such as 1984's Mie Lobi which came out on Mirza Records; its B-side Mi Kanto Ma Mi De Ete (Fallen But Not Defeated) became one of Krolis' best-known songs. Pop radio-station 3FM took notice by 1985 and invited Caribbean Combo for a live-concert.

In 1986, Krolis got involved in a car crash that left him disabled and practically deaf; he secluded but managed to record one more album; Biegie Famier' Mang, produced by Lesley Leeflang and released in 1995 to positive reviews. Plans for a follow-up album never materialised; Krolis died on 22 September 2006, in a hospital in Rotterdam.

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1947 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Surinamese male singers
People from Paramaribo
Surinamese percussionists
Adam Tandy is a British television producer and director, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Armando Iannucci. As such, he has worked on The Saturday Night Armistice, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Time Trumpet and The Thick of It. In 2009 he moved into film producing with the hit Thick of It adaptation In the Loop. After the 2012 series of The Thick of It, he has produced Catastrophe for Channel 4, as well as Inside No. 9, Come Fly with me and  Detectorists for the BBC.

He attended Latymer Upper School (Class of 1981).
He started studying science and engineering at university, but dropped out before graduation.
After initially working in theatre, he worked at the BBC from 1987, starting as a floor manager. He left the BBC to work as a freelance producer in 1999.

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BAFTA winners (people)
BBC people
British film producers
British television producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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