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Christian Veterinary Mission

Christian Veterinary Mission is a missionary sending organization founded by Leroy Dorminy in 1979 and based in Seattle, Washington.

As stated on their website, "Christian Veterinary Mission seeks to help veterinarians serve others and live out their Christian faith through their profession. We seek to change lives and communities by improving the care of livestock and other animals."

There are many different aspects to the organization's ministry, each supporting its purpose in a different way.  Its primary activities involve sending and supporting veterinary missionaries both overseas and within the United States.  These missionaries participate in various ministries depending on their location and personal gifts, including: livestock development, evangelism, ethno-veterinary medicine, church planting, and capacity building of local communities.  Missionaries may participate in both long term or short term opportunities and Christian Veterinary Mission currently supports 36 veterinarians in long-term missions in 17 different countries.

Other Christian Veterinary Mission ministries include professional outreach and student outreach.  The mission supports a Christian Veterinary fellowship student chapter at each of the 28 veterinary colleges in the United States.

Effective June 30, 2021, CVM separated from CRISTA Ministries to become an independent non-profit organization.

References

External links

Religious charities based in the United States
Veterinary organizations
Veterinary medicine in the United States
Peculiar Chris

Peculiar Chris is a novel which deals with gay themes by Johann S. Lee, published in Singapore by Cannon International in 1992.

Lee wrote the book, his first novel, while doing his National Service in Singapore at the age of 19. It was published a year later. The book recounts the coming of age, and coming out, of Chris through his experience with the deaths of his father and his lover Samuel, the latter from AIDS. Chris meets his first lover, Kenneth, in Singapore, where Kenneth has traveled from Indonesia to study; he meets his second lover, Jack, in Sydney after he travels to Australia to come out, and leaves for London, the birthplace of Maurice, after Samuel's death. It is also noteworthy for documenting how the military bureaucracy reacts when a soldier comes out in Singapore.

The book was translated into Italian in 1997, under the shortened title of 'Chris'.

Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa'at adapted the novel into the play Happy Endings: Asian Boys Vol. 3. It was staged by W!LD RICE, a Singapore theatre company, from 11 to 29 July 2007.

It was reprinted in 2008.

References 

Novels with gay themes
Singaporean novels
1992 novels
LGBT culture in Singapore
Novels set in Singapore
1990s LGBT novels
Mallwyd

Mallwyd () is a small village at the most southern end of Gwynedd, Wales in the Dinas Mawddwy community, in the valley of the River Dyfi. It lies on the A470 approximately halfway between Dolgellau and Machynlleth, and forms the junction of the A458 towards Welshpool. The nearest villages are Dinas Mawddwy, two miles to the north, and Aberangell a similar distance to the south. The River Dugoed flows into the River Dyfi near the village.

History
The village is situated near the boundary between the historic counties of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire. The village is situated in the parish of Mallwyd in the district of Mawddwy. This was the region of the Red Bandits of Mawddwy, which is remembered in the village pub, The Brigands.

Railway
In 1867, the Mawddwy Railway was opened, connecting Dinas Mawddwy with Cemmaes Road. A small station was provided to serve Mallwyd, though it was nearly a mile from the village. Passenger services on the railway were withdrawn in 1931, and the railway closed and was lifted in 1952.

The Church

According to tradition, Mallwyd church was founded in the 6th century by Saint Tydecho after he came to the area from Cornwall. The present building dates from the 14th century and is unusual in form, being long and narrow with a balcony at each end. There are many wooden fixtures dating from the 17th century. The scholar John Davies was rector of Mallwyd for 40 years at the beginning of the 17th century. There is a memorial to him in the church which was put up to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. Outside the church are several great yew trees.

The timber bell tower of the church is inscribed: SOLI DEO SACRUM ANNI CHRISTI MDCXL. It formerly also read VENITE CANTEM[us domino] A.D.1640 HONOR DEO IN EXCELSIS. The portals of the church, found between the church and the river, are decorated with fossil mammal bones. The black marble, octagonal font, dated below the bowl 1734, was a gift of Sir John Mytton of Dinas Mawddwy

Notable people
 John Davies (ca.1567–1644), scholar, Rector of Mallwyd 1604-44 
 Robert Foulkes (ca.1633 Mallwyd–1679), clergyman and murderer.
 John Rice Jones (1759 Mallwyd–1824), American jurist and politician 
 Rowland Williams (177 Mallwyd–1854), Welsh Anglican priest and writer 
 Robert Vaughn (1836–1918), Montana Rancher

References

External links

www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Mallwyd and surrounding area

Villages in Gwynedd
Villages in Snowdonia
Mawddwy
Tripartite Alliance

The Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The ANC holds a majority in the South African parliament, while the SACP and COSATU have not contested any democratic election in South Africa.

The Alliance was forged in 1990 after the release of Nelson Mandela. The movements were opposed to white minority rule by the apartheid government. The Tripartite Alliance is also known as the Revolutionary Alliance or just the Alliance.

Constituent parties
The NPF is currently composed of the following political parties:

See also 
 Congress Alliance

References

External links
The ANC now at a fork in the road
How the Tripartite Alliance works
COSATU and the Tripartite Alliance since 1994
The ideological differences within the Tripartite Alliance: What now for the left?
 Statement of the Alliance Political Council

 
Politics of South Africa
Popular fronts
Frederick Hayday

Sir Frederick Hayday, CBE (26 June 1912 – 26 February 1990) was a British trade unionist who served on many public bodies.

The son of Arthur Hayday, trade unionist and Labour Member of Parliament, Frederick Hayday was born in Nottingham. He joined the Labour Party at 16 years old.

He was elected District Organiser of his father's union, the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, dealing with gas, iron ore, gypsum mining, road haulage, brick making, and public services and as a member of Regional and National Joint Industrial Councils for many industries, serving in some instances as secretary to the JIC.

During World War II, Hayday was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the North Midlands Aliens Tribunal and served as a member of Labour Supply Committee for the Chemical Industry, and on many wartime panels dealing with labour problems, military hardships’ committee, etc.

Soon after the war he was appointed by the Minister of Works to serve as member of the Brick Amenities Committee to investigate conditions in the brick industry and made visits to many brickworks in the UK and in Belgium and the Netherlands.

In December 1946, Hayday was appointed Industrial Officer of National Union of General and Municipal Workers and in 1950 he was elected to the Trades Union Congress General Council.
In October 1960 he was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Commission for Malta in place of Sir Alfred Roberts who had been taken ill.

He was also a member of Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee and of the Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee. He led a team of European trade unionists to the United States to study radiation problems.

In September 1962, Hayday became Chairman of the TUC General Council.

In December 1962 he was appointed as a part-time member of the British Railways Board.

In January 1965 he became a member of Energy Advisory Council and in May 1965 a member of the Gas Advisory Council.

In 1966 he visited South Africa on a fact-finding mission for the TUC and in 1967 and 1968 he visited the Middle East (both Israel and Arab countries) to investigate the trade union situation following the Six-Day War.

In June 1963, Hayday was awarded the CBE for work as the National Industrial Officer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers and as Chairman General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
In January 1968 he was knighted in the New Year Honours.

References

1912 births
1990 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Presidents of the Trades Union Congress
People from Nottingham
British Rail people
Commins Coch

Commins Coch is a small village on the A470 in the county of Powys in Wales. It is part of the Glantwymyn community.

Commins Coch is notable for the narrow bridge set at right angles that crosses the Afon Twymyn. The size and angle of the bridge restricts all traffic to crossing one vehicle at a time and it can be a serious problem for articulated lorries to cross.

Commins Coch is also the site of one of the 1970s holiday cottages allegedly burnt down by Meibion Glyndŵr during its campaign against English incomers. The cottage, now restored, can be seen on the right when leaving the village travelling East.

Previously served by Commins Coch Halt railway station on the Cambrian Line.

External links 
Photos of Commins Coch and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk

Villages in Powys
Edward Bentall

Edward Bentall may refer to:
 Edward Bentall, chairman of Bentalls department store
 Edward Bentall (footballer) (1923–1947), English footballer
 Edward Hammond Bentall (1814–1898), English manufacturer and politician
Magodro (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Magodro Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity).  Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.  It was located in Ba Province, in the west of the main island of Viti Levu.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results 
In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast.  The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

In the 2001 election, Gyan Singh won with more than 50 percent of the primary vote; therefore, there was no redistribution of preferences.

1999

2001

2006

Sources 
 Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
Sassolite

Sassolite is a borate mineral, specifically the mineral form of boric acid. It is usually white to gray, and colourless in transmitted light.  It can also take on a yellow colour from sulfur impurities, or brown from iron oxides.

History and occurrence

Its mineral form was first described in 1800, and was named after Sasso Pisano, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy where it was found. The mineral may be found in lagoons throughout Tuscany and Sasso. It is also found in the Lipari Islands and the US state of Nevada.  It occurs in volcanic fumaroles and hot springs, deposited from steam, as well as in bedded sedimentary evaporite deposits.

See also

 List of minerals
 Borax

References

External links

Borate minerals
Triclinic minerals
Luminescent minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Thomas Bezucha

Thomas Gordon Bezucha (; born March 8, 1964) is an American filmmaker.

Life and career
Bezucha was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1982.

Bezucha graduated in fashion design from the Parsons School of Design, and worked as a creative services executive for Polo Ralph Lauren and Coach.

He wrote and directed the films Big Eden (2000), The Family Stone (2005), Monte Carlo (2011), and Let Him Go (2020).  He also co-wrote the films The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and The Good House (2021).

Bezucha is openly gay.

Filmography

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American screenwriters
American film directors
American gay writers
American male screenwriters
American film producers
English-language film directors
Film directors from Massachusetts
Film producers from Massachusetts
American LGBT film directors
American LGBT screenwriters
Parsons School of Design alumni
Screenwriters from Massachusetts
Writers from Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst Regional High School (Massachusetts) alumni
Jaja Uma Grooming Up!

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 1994 to September 2000, and compiled into 26 tankōbon volumes.

Plot
Jaja Uma Grooming Up! depicts the story of Shunpei Kuze, a high-school student unsure of the future until he takes a motorcycle ride to Hokkaidō. When his motorbike runs out of fuel, Shunpei is stranded on a country road; to make matters worse, he loses his wallet. He is found and taken in by the daughter of a local rancher named Hibiki Watarai. Shunpei begins a new life on the Watarai horse-breeding ranch, learning about the horses and the ranch's lively family and workers.

Publication
Jaja Uma Grooming Up! is written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. The series started its serialization in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday on October 19, 1994, and finished on September 27, 2000. Shogakukan compiled the series into twenty-six individual tankōbon volumes, which were published between March 18, 1995, and November 18, 2000. Shogakukan re-released the series into a 14-volume bunkoban edition from December 13, 2003, to December 15, 2004.

References

Further reading

External links
 Entry at Masami Yuki's official site 
 

Horse racing in anime and manga
Masami Yuki
Shogakukan manga
Shōnen manga
SKATS

SKATS stands for Standard Korean Alphabet Transliteration System. It is also known as Korean Morse equivalents. Despite the name, SKATS is not a true transliteration system. SKATS maps the Hangul characters through Korean Morse code to the same codes in Morse code and back to their equivalents in the Latin script. Any phonetic correspondence between the Korean and Roman letters would be purely coincidental.

If a Korean Morse code operator were to transmit a Korean message in Morse, and an English-speaking Morse code operator heard the message, what they would write down is SKATS.
The advantage of SKATS is the letter-perfect accuracy in conveying the Korean message, something that would be lost with romanisations such as RR or McCune-Reischauer used. SKATS dates back to the days before Korean keyboards gained widespread acceptance, so it was a way for Westerners who knew Korean to accurately produce the Korean language on a typewriter or keyboard. The primary users of SKATS are government departments who are interested in letter-to-letter accuracy.

SKATS is not a cipher. When using SKATS it is important to remember not to read the letters as they sound in English, but to read them as its original sound in SKATS.

The letters are written left to right as in standard written English. The correct form is to put one space between syllables and two spaces between words, but this often varies from one user to another. Without the double spaces between words, word breaks are ambiguous. If the rules are strictly observed, a Korean text written in SKATS could be perfectly recovered.

Double consonants and double or triple vowels are written the same way – each letter in the same order as if it were written in Hangul.

Sample sentence 

Morse:

 .-.. ..-  --   -.-. ..-   .-.. .     -- . --.   -.- ..- --. --.   -... . 

SKATS:

LUM CU LE  MEG KUGG BE

Letter-by-letter equivalent:

Hangul:

Revised romanisation:
Kimchiga masitta.

English:
The kimchi is delicious.

References

External links 
http://www.mykit.com/kor/ele/morse.htm

Hangul
Romanization of Korean
Morse code
Standards of South Korea
John Belluso

John Belluso (November 13, 1969 – February 10, 2006) was an American playwright best known for his works focusing on the lives of disabled people. He also directed a writing program for disabled people.

Early life and education 
Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, he began using a wheelchair at the age of 13 due to a bone disease, Camurati-Engelmann syndrome. He completed both Bachelors and Masters degrees at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing program.

Career 
In 2001, he wrote The Body of Bourne, based on the life of Randolph Bourne, a World War I pacifist and author. It was produced in Los Angeles by the Mark Taper Forum. He also directed the Forum's Other Voices program for writers with a disability. After that, he wrote Pyretown, which criticises America's managed care health system through a romance between a divorced mother and a young, wheelchair-using man.

Belluso joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a writer for the first season in 2004, writing "The Trial of Jack McCall".

Selected work 

The Rules of Charity, in which the resentful caregiver adult daughter of a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy tries to rebel against the care-giving, and pursue her own desires, with variously disastrous consequences;
 Gretty Good Time, about a 32-year-old disabled woman living in a nursing home;
 Travelling Skin, about a waitress with cerebral palsy;
 Henry Flamethrowa, about a comatose woman who is believed to cause miracles; and
 A Nervous Smile, about the parents of a severely disabled child who consider abandoning her.

Death 
He died in February 2006 in New York City, where he was writing a play for New York's Public Theater about a disabled veteran returning from Iraq. In March 2008, the show was directed by his friend Lisa Peterson as an unfinished work in the Public's "Lab" series.

Season 1, episode 17, of Ghost Whisperer is dedicated to his memory.

References

Further reading
 Associated Press Ohmynews "Disabled LA Playwright and Activist John Belluso dies" February 15, 2006
 New dramatists John Belluso

20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
2006 deaths
1969 births
People from Warwick, Rhode Island
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Gratin dauphinois

Gratin dauphinois ( ) is a French gratin of sliced raw potatoes baked in cream, from the Dauphiné region in south-eastern France. There are many variants of the name of the dish, including pommes de terre dauphinoise, potatoes à la dauphinoise and gratin de pommes à la dauphinoise. It is distinguished from ordinary gratin potatoes (potatoes au gratin) by the use of raw rather than boiled potatoes. It is a quite different dish from pommes dauphine.

History 

The first mention of the dish is from 12 July 1788. It was served with ortolans at a dinner given by Charles-Henri, Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre and Lieutenant-general of the Dauphiné, for the municipal officials of the town of Gap, now in the département of Hautes-Alpes.

Preparation 

Gratin dauphinois is made with thinly sliced raw potatoes and cream, cooked in a buttered dish rubbed with garlic; cheese is sometimes added. The potatoes are peeled and sliced to the thickness of a coin, usually with a mandoline; they are layered in a shallow earthenware or glass baking dish and cooked in a slow oven; the heat is raised for the last 10 minutes of the cooking time.

By tradition, the gratin dauphinois does not include cheese, which would make it more similar to a gratin savoyard (which does not include cream). Recipes given by many chefs – including Auguste Escoffier, Austin de Croze and Constance Spry – call for cheese and eggs; others such as Robert Carrier specify cheese but no egg.

The gratin dauphinois is distinguished from ordinary gratin potatoes by the use of raw rather than boiled potatoes. It is a quite different dish from pommes dauphine.

See also 
 List of casserole dishes

References 

French cuisine
Potato dishes
Casserole dishes
Nausori Naitasiri (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Nausori Naitasiri Open is supposedly a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity).  Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.  It was located to the north of Suva.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results 
In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast.  The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

1999

2001

2006

Sources 
 Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
Cedar Creek (James River tributary)

Cedar Creek is a  tributary of the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is notable for flowing through the Natural Bridge rock formation, a National Historic Landmark.

Course
The creek rises at the Rockbridge-Botetourt County line near the crest of the Short Hills within the Short Hills Wildlife Management Area, and flows northeast for  along the ridgecrest before dropping off the mountain to the east.  Upon reaching the base of the mountain ridge, Cedar Creek turns south, then southeast, flowing under Interstate 81, then flowing under the Natural Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 11.  The creek continues south  farther, reaching the James River at Gilmore Mills.

Cedar Creek Trail
The Cedar Creek Trail runs alongside Cedar Creek for , allowing visitors to see the bridge and other places of interest, including a Native American village, Saltpeter Cave, the Lost River, and Lace Falls.

See also
List of rivers of Virginia

References

Rivers of Virginia
Tributaries of the James River
Rivers of Rockbridge County, Virginia
Richard Cobbold

Richard Cobbold (1797 – 5 January 1877) was a British writer.

Life 
Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John (1746–1835) and the poet and writer Elizabeth (née Knipe) Cobbold (1764–1824). The Cobbolds were a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry. 

Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, Cobbold entered the church, starting at St Mary-le-Tower in Ipswich before moving to Wortham in 1825 with his wife and three sons.  
He remained there until his death on 5 January 1877.

Cobbold is best known as the author of the History of Margaret Catchpole, a novel based on the romantic adventures of a woman living in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, in whom Cobbold's father had taken a kindly interest. For the copyright of this book he is said to have received £1,000. However Cobbold did not make much money by his other literary ventures, which were mostly undertaken for charitable purposes. Thus his account of Mary Ann Wellington brought in no less than £600, much of it in small gifts, for the subject of the book, who was afterwards placed in an almshouse by Cobbold's exertions.

Family
In 1822, he married the only daughter of Jeptha Waller, by whom he had three sons.
One of the sons, Edward Augustus (born 1825), became vicar of the neighbouring parish of Yaxley, and another Thomas Spencer, a leading parasitologist.

Legacy
During his time at Wortham, more significantly, he recorded the daily lives of his various parishioners, both in words and pictures. His four volumes eventually found a home at the Suffolk Record Office, and have become an invaluable source of information about everyday life in the countryside at that time. In 1977 a book entitled The Biography of a Victorian Village was published, in which Ronald Fletcher presents Richard Cobbold's account of 1860s Wortham.

Work 
Cobbold achieved considerable success with his popular historical novels which include:

The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl (1845)
Mary Anne Wellington: The Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow (1846)
Zenon The Martyr: A Record of the Piety, Patience and Persecution of the Early Christian Nobles (1847)
Freston Tower: A Tale of the Times of Cardinal Wolsey (1850)
The Young Man's Home (1848)
JH Stegall, a Real History of a Suffolk Man (1851)
The Biography Of A Victorian Village  – Wortham (1860)
Cobbold's Wortham - The Portrait of a Victorian Village (2019) Edited by Sue Heaser - Publication of Cobbold's watercolours and notes of Wortham 1860.

Adaptations
The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl became the 1887 play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger, which formed the basis for the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912)

References

Attribution

External links 
 
 
 Richard Cobbold: The Character of Woman, London 1848, PDF
 

1797 births
1877 deaths
Writers from Ipswich
Richard Cobbold
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
English male novelists
19th-century English novelists
19th-century English male writers
Ann Jungman

Ann Jungman (born 1938) is an author of children's literature. She was born in Highgate, North London of German Jewish refugees. She studied Law at Exeter University before training as a primary school teacher.

Professional life
She founded Barn Owl Books in 1999, an independent publishing company that re-releases out-of-print children's books, publishing 8 books a year. 

Her first book, Fang the Fiery Dragon, was published in 1972. She is probably best known for her series of books about Vlad the Drac. She wrote her 2004 book The Most Magnificent Mosque, set in Medieval Spain, because she "wanted to show that there had been a tolerant society in Europe a long time ago, and that the Muslims had been in Europe for a long time and had left a great legacy. There is no reason why Jews, Christians and Muslims can’t live side by side".

Campaigning
She is a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians and the Independent Jewish Voices Steering Committee.

References

External links

 

British children's writers
1938 births
British Jews
Living people
People from Highgate
Alumni of the University of Exeter
British Jewish writers
New College, Pontefract

New College is a coeducational, sixth form college in Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England. It acquired academy status in 2017, forming a trust to open colleges in other areas, called the New Collaborative Learning Trust. At its Ofsted inspection in 2014 it was rated outstanding. In 2023 it was again rated outstanding.

History
The school on the site was originally built in the Victorian era as a slaughter house before being demolished, later it became the Pontefract Girls' High School, before finally opening as the college in 1987. In 1987 it became north east Wakefield's sixth form college known as NEW college. Previously the Motto of the college was nos excellentia per nostrum discipulus primoris ('We achieve excellence by putting our students first').

The college is now part of an academies trust named the New Collaborative Learning Trust. The CEO, Richard Fletcher, was previously the Principal at the college.

In 2014, colleges in the New Collaborative Learning Trust gave 'academic scholarship' to students to attend their school if they achieved more than 5 A grades at GCSE. They would give £500 to any student that applied for it with these said grades. Fletcher, the then vice principal, said all eligible students would be paid the £500, but 'we wouldn't know how many students would receive this until we opened.' This was labelled 'bribery’ by critics, and not an ‘ethical’ use of public funds, as it was widely reported that New College was the first free school to offer public money in this way.

Academics
In the academic year 2013–14 NEW College Pontefract was Ofsted Outstanding, with inspectors highlighting their heightened success rates, the development of students skills, regular rigorous assessment, and a successful management that create a culture of high expectations. They were encouraged to continue with high standards, and introduce more opportunities to look at the world of work.

In September 2016 a new New College Doncaster was opened by the NCLT with New College Bradford opened in September 2019.

In October 2020 it won the sixth-form college of the year at the Tes FE Awards 2020, achieving top in the country. The college was praised for its 100% pass rate and high grades making up 60% at A-level and 90% in BTEC courses. It was also praised by the judges for its employability training and training for progression to higher education, and its wide range on extracurricular and supercurricular activities.

Notable alumni
Tim Bresnan – England international cricketer.
Tom Briscoe – Rugby league player for Super League side Leeds Rhinos, who graduated in 2008
Rich Johnston – Cartoonist, writer and journalist.
Gill Isles – TV producer.
Ryan Hall – Rugby League player for Super League side Leeds Rhinos
Cameron Smith – Rugby League player for Super League side Leeds Rhinos
Jake Johnson – Gymnast
Danny Kirmond plays rugby league for Wakefield Trinity

References

External links
New College website

1987 establishments in England
Educational institutions established in 1987
Buildings and structures in the City of Wakefield
Sixth form colleges in West Yorkshire
Education in the City of Wakefield
Pontefract
Easy (Kelly Willis album)

Easy is the fifth album by Kelly Willis. It was released on Rykodisc in 2002. The album went to number 29 on Top Country Albums.

Critical reception
Soon after Easy was released, NPR's Meredith Ochs said that Willis "has found her true style" on the album. Richard Harrington, a music critic for the Washington Post, ranked Easy as his 9th favorite album of 2002, writing that "Willis's originals, including the hurtin' anthems "If I Left You" and "Easy (As Falling Apart)," are among her best yet."

Track listing
"If I Left You" (Kelly Willis) – 3:09
"Easy (as Falling Apart)" (Willis) – 4:12
"What Did You Think" (Bruce Robison) – 3:34
"You Can't Take It with You" (Paul Kelly) – 3:03
"Getting to Me" (Willis, Gary Louris) – 4:32
"Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!" (Kirsty MacColl) – 3:57
"Wait Until Dark" (Willis, John Leventhal) – 3:41
"Find Another Fool" (Marcia Ball) – 3:14
"Not What I Had in Mind" (Willis) – 4:07
"Reason to Believe" (Willis) – 3:17

Personnel 

Chris Burns – assistant engineer
Floyd Domino – piano
Tony Edwards – glockenspiel
Amy Farris – violin, viola, background vocals
Rafael Gayol – drums
Vince Gill – background vocals
Paul Glasse – mandolin
Robert Hadley – mastering
Thomas Johnson – assistant engineer
Steven Jurgensmeyer – design
Alison Krauss – background vocals
John Ludwick – bass guitar
Lloyd Maines – electric guitar, steel guitar
Ian McLagan – piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer
Gary Paczosa – producer, engineer, mixing
Chuck Prophet – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, wurlitzer
Bruce Robison – background vocals
Doug Sax – mastering
Mellissa Schleicher – make-up, hair stylist
Rolf Sieker – banjo
Mark Spencer – acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, bonang, national steel guitar, baritone guitar
Chris Thile – mandolin
Geoff Travis – executive producer
Dan Tyminski – background vocals
Dana Tynan – photography
Kelly Willis – lead vocals, producer, background vocals

Chart performance

References

Kelly Willis albums
2002 albums
Rykodisc albums
Alex Downie

Alexander Frank Downie, OBE, MLC (born 1945, Douglas) is a Manx politician and former marine engineer. He is a member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man and a former Trade and Industry Minister of the Government.  He was a Member of the House of Keys from 1991 until his election to the Legislative Council in 2005.  Before going into politics, he was marine seagoing engineer for various companies and self-employed in the heating maintenance business.

Personal life
Downie was born in 1945 in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Downie is a freemason. As of April 2017, he is the Deputy Provincial Grand Master for the Isle of Man.

Ministerial positions
Minister of Trade and Industry, 2002–2006
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, 1999–2002

References

External links
Alex Downie on MHKstheyworkforyou.org

Members of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man
Members of the House of Keys 1991–1996
Members of the House of Keys 1996–2001
Members of the House of Keys 2001–2006
Living people
Manx Freemasons
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1945 births
Streethay

Streethay is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Fradley and Streethay, in the Lichfield district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, adjoining the city of Lichfield, on the east side of the West Coast Main Line railway. In 2001 the parish had a population of 1111.

Village amenities
Streethay is a small village and has no shops. The main road in Streethay is the Old Burton Road (A5127 road), which starts at the A38 road junction and the road used to be the main route into Birmingham before the A38 was constructed. There was a former  public house called 'The Anchor' which has been converted into flats and business premises. There is a children's play park on the A5127 Burton Road. There is a bus service that stops in Streethay, which continues onto Lichfield and Burton Upon Trent, calling at the villages of Fradley and Alrewas.

Further up the A5127 road to Lichfield there is Lichfield Trent Valley railway station which is on the West Coast Mainline and has direct links to Birmingham, Northern England, Scotland, and London. The northern spur of phase 1 of HS2 rail line will run just east of the village, linking with the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre.

Plans for 750 new houses was granted in 2012 by Lichfield District Council and is now near completion in 2020. The estate is known as Roman Heights and Cathedral View. There is a community association which supports residents on the estate.

Streethay is less than one mile from the city of Lichfield.

History 
The name "Streethay" means 'Roman road enclosure'. Fradley was formerly a township in the parish of St. Michael, from 1866 Streethay was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 2009 the parish was abolished to form "Fradley and Streethay".

See also
Listed buildings in Fradley and Streethay

References

External links

 British History Online: Streethay with Fulfen.
 Staffordshire Online Gazetteer: Fisherwick and Streethay
https://www.rhcv.org.uk Roman Heights & Cathedral View Community Association

Villages in Staffordshire
Former civil parishes in Staffordshire
Lichfield District
Lists of useful plants

This article contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need.  Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead collects the lists and categories for the different ways in which a plant can be used; some plants may fall into several of the categories or lists below, and some lists overlap (for example, the term "crop" covers both edible and non-edible agricultural products).

Edible plants
:Category:Edible plants
:Category:Cereals
List of edible flowers
:Category:Forages
:Category:Grains
:Category:Spices
List of culinary herbs and spices

Fruits and vegetables
:Category:Fruit
:Category:Edible nuts and seeds
:Category:Vegetables
:Category:Inflorescence vegetables
:Category:Leaf vegetables
:Category:Root vegetables
:Category:Edible seaweeds
:Category:Stem vegetables

Forestry
:Category:Wood
:Category:Shrubs
:Category:Trees

Medicine, drugs, psychoactives
1.:Category:Medicinal plants
2.:Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi
3.List of Plants Used for Smoking

Other economic purposes
:Category:Crops
:Category:Energy crops
List of beneficial weeds

References

External links
Plants For A Future
Permaculture Information Web
Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)
Handbook of Energy Crops
Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains
Lost Crops of the Incas
Bibliography on underutilized roots and tubers crops
Australian New Crops Web Site
Plant Resources of South East Asia (PROSEA)
Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
UN Centre for the Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops' Development in Asia and the Pacific (UNCAPSA)
Traditional African Vegetables
ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization)

Useful plants
Agriculture-related lists
Stanisław Wygodzki

Stanisław Wygodzki () (13 January 1907 in Będzin, Poland – 9 May 1992 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was a Polish writer of Jewish origin.

Life 
He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen. During the war he was issued Paraguayan passport by Ładoś Group.

His health impacted by his experiences, Wygodzki did not resume publishing until 1947, following which he became a successful writer, publishing poetry, short stories and one novel. Wygodzki, who lost his wife, daughter and parents in Auschwitz, was one of four winners of the 1969 "Remembrance Award", awarded annually by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations for "excellence in literature on the Nazi atrocities against European Jewry". A communist in his youth who was briefly imprisoned in Poland as an adult for his communist activities, Wygodzki resettled in Israel in 1968 in response to antisemitism in the Communist Party in Poland.

See also 
 Socialist realism in Poland

Notes

Sources 
 
 babelfish.yahoo.com
Museum of the History of Polish Jews

External links 
 English
 German
 Polish
 Russian

1907 births
1992 deaths
People from Będzin
People from Piotrków Governorate
20th-century Polish writers
20th-century Israeli Jews
Polish emigrants to Israel
Będzin Ghetto inmates
Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
Dachau concentration camp survivors
Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
Writers from the Province of Silesia
20th-century Polish male writers
Ładoś List
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (Rühmkorff) (15 January 1803 – 20 December 1877) was a German instrument maker who commercialised the induction coil (often referred to as the Ruhmkorff coil).

Ruhmkorff was born in Hanover. He changed the "ü" to "u" in his name when living abroad. After an apprenticeship with a German mechanic, he moved to England. Contemporaneous and extant biographies have made the assertion that he worked with the inventor Joseph Bramah, but this is unlikely since Bramah died in 1814. He may, though, have worked for the Bramah company. In 1855, he set up a shop in Paris, where he gained a reputation for the high quality of his electrical apparatus.

Although Ruhmkorff is often credited with the invention of the induction coil, it was in fact invented by Nicholas Callan in 1836.  Ruhmkorff's first coil, which he patented in 1851, utilized long windings of copper wire to achieve a spark of approximately 2 inches (50 mm) in length. In 1857, after examining a greatly improved version made by an American inventor, Edward Samuel Ritchie, Ruhmkorff improved his design (as did other engineers), using glass insulation and other innovations to allow the production of sparks more than 30 centimetres long.  Ruhmkorff patented the first version of his induction coil in 1851, and its success was such that in 1858 he becomes the first recipient of the Volta Prize, 50,000 French franc award by Napoleon III for one of the most important discoveries in the application of electricity.  He died in Paris in 1877.

The Ruhmkorff lamps or 'Ruhmkorff's apparatus' mentioned in several of Jules Verne's science-fiction novels relied on induction coils but were not developed by Ruhmkorff.

Asteroid
The asteroid 15273 Ruhmkorff, discovered in 1991 by E. W. Elst, is named after Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff.

References

Further reading
H.S. Norrie, Ruhmkorff Induction-Coils, Their Construction, Operation and Application. (New York, New York:  Spon & Chamberlain, 1896).

External links

Biography with photographs accessed April 12, 2006

Spark Museum—Induction coils

1803 births
1877 deaths
19th-century German inventors
Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
Scientists from Hanover
Emigrants from the Kingdom of Hanover
Immigrants to the United Kingdom
Immigrants to France
Lechner



People
Lechner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alfred James Lechner Jr. (born 1955), American judge
Anton Lechner (1907–1975), German SS officer
Auguste Lechner (1905–2000), Austrian writer
Bernard J. Lechner (1932–2014), American electronics engineer
Corinna Lechner (born 1994), German cyclist
Cornelia Lechner (born 1966), German tennis player
Ed Lechner (1919–2015), American football player
Elisabeth Adele Allram-Lechner (1824–1861), Czech stage actress
Emilio Lechner (born 1940), Italian luger
Erika Lechner (born 1947), Italian luger
Eva Lechner (born 1985), Italian cyclist
Florian Lechner (born 1981), German footballer
Franco Lechner, known as Bombolo (1931 - 1987), Italian comedian 
Gustav Lechner (1913–1987), Croatian footballer
Harald Lechner (born 1982), Austrian football referee
Heinz Lechner (1928–2020), Austrian fencer
Johnny Lechner, American actor
Kerim Lechner (born 1989), Austrian musician
Kurt Lechner (born 1942), German CDU politician
Leonhard Lechner (1553–1606), German composer
Matthias Lechner (born 1970), German set designer
Maximilian Lechner (born 1990), Austrian pool player
Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921), Austrian violist
Patrick Lechner (born 1988), German cyclist
Peter Lechner (born 1966), Austrian luger
Ödön Lechner (1845–1914), Hungarian architect
Otto Lechner (born 1964), Austrian accordionist
Robert Lechner (born 1967), German cyclist
Walter Lechner (1949–2020), Austrian racing driver

Other
Mount Lechner, Antarctica
Lechner (windsurf board)

German-language surnames
Rik Daems

Hendrik Jules Joseph "Rik" Daems (born 18 August 1959) is a Belgian painter, wine trader and politician who served as the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2020 to 2022, a 70-year-old body bringing together parliamentarians from 47 nations of the Council of Europe. He is a former member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) and member of the city council of Leuven.

Early life and education
Rik Daems' father, , was a senator and Secretary of State for the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV). Rik Daems studied Latin and mathematics at the Keerbergen high school (1977). Afterwards he studied at the Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Political career
In addition to his role in national politics, Daems has been a member of the Belgian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2007, and led the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe – the third largest of the assembly's five political groups –- from 2017 until his election as president. In 2019, he was the assembly's rapporteur on the activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as well as on minimum standards for electoral systems.

Recognition 
 2014 : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II.

References

External links

 "PROFILE: Rik Dames" at European Voice
 Profile on the website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

1959 births
Living people
People from Aarschot
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats politicians
Members of the Belgian Federal Parliament
Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni
Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
21st-century Belgian politicians
Nadi (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Nadi Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity).  Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. It was located in the western part of the main island of Viti Levu.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results 
In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast. The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

1999

2001 

Note: On 8 February 2002 the High Court ruled that more than a thousand votes, most of them for Prasad, had been wrongly invalidated, and awarded the seat to Prasad.

2006

Sources 
 Psephos – Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space

FACTS or F.A.C.T.S. (Fantasy Animation Comics Toys Sciencefiction) is a Belgian speculative fiction convention.

Launched in 1993 in Ghent, it has grown over the years and now welcomes over 30,000 visitors at each edition. From 1998 until 2008 the F.A.C.T.S. convention was held in the I.C.C. in Ghent, Belgium. The 2009 edition took place in Flanders Expo for the first time and has been expending there ever since. The convention currently covers more than 24,000 sq. m.. FACTS has been created by Emmanuel Van Melkebeke and 3 of his friends.

References

External links
 Official FACTS website
 Review of FACTS 2004 @ Rebelscum

Comics conventions
Multigenre conventions
Recurring events established in 1993
Electoral district of Ballarat East

Ballarat East (initially spelt Ballaarat East) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. Prior to its abolition, it was a 3,323 km² part-urban and part-rural electorate covering areas to the east of the regional centre of Ballarat. It included the Ballarat suburbs of Ballarat East, Bakery Hill, Golden Point, Eureka, Canadian, Mount Pleasant, Mount Clear, Mount Helen and Warrenheip, and the rural towns of Ballan, Buninyong, Bungaree, Creswick, Daylesford, Dunnstown, Hepburn Springs, Kyneton, Lal Lal, Malmsbury, Meredith and Steiglitz. The electorate had a population of 54,127 as of the 2006 census, with 40,578 enrolled electors at the 2010 state election.

Ballarat East was one of the earliest districts of the Legislative Assembly, having been created for the second Assembly election in 1859. It was initially a two-member seat, and as with the rest of the Assembly, was largely non-partisan until 1889, when it became a one-member electorate and began to be held by more partisan figures. It was held by successive early liberal parties until they merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia in the late 1910s, but fell to the Labor Party in 1924, one term before being abolished in 1927. It was recreated as a marginal seat in 1992, when it was won by Liberal Barry Traynor, but was regained for Labor by Geoff Howard when the party won office at the 1999 election. Howard was re-elected at the 2002 election, 2006 election and 2010 election.

Ballarat East was abolished in 2014 after a redistribution of Victoria's electoral boundaries, with much of its territory going to the new district of Buninyong.

Members for Ballarat East

McAdam went on to represent the new Electoral district of Ballarat from 1927.

Election results

References

 District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission
 District map from the Victorian Electoral Commission (PDF)

Ballarat
Former electoral districts of Victoria (state)
1859 establishments in Australia
1927 disestablishments in Australia
1992 establishments in Australia
2014 disestablishments in Australia